"Please tell me what the characters of this signature seal are, and preferably the source. Thank you"
Hello, the characters of this signature seal are: Peijing . The calligraphy signature "written by Liu Peijing" can be corroborated.
As for Liu Peijing, see Li You's article "A Brief Introduction to Calligraphers and Painters in Changshu before the Anti-Japanese War", "My brother-in-law Liu Peijing is good at painting figures and ladies, and is quite neat and elegant." Although there are only a few words, it can be seen that she is a person. , is a lady who specializes in painting figures. That's all I can provide, and you can continue to look for relevant information. See this paragraph:
Twenty, Li Zhong, Li Shao, Ding Yi
My uncle Li Zhong, also known as Yu Zhang, also known as Gu Yu, was known as Dongpu Old Man in his later years. . He is a scholar, the second generation of calligraphers in my family. The first generation is my grandfather Bakun, whose courtesy name is Jian Ting, who was the first calligrapher in Tongguang era in Changshu. My father doesn't like writing very much but loves painting. So the writing profession fell to my uncle. He wrote mainly with Han official scripts. When he saw the Han Dynasty steles carved by Qian Zhenxi, he would definitely curse, thinking that most of them were written in vulgar styles. That is, the official scripts of Xiling Bajia and Zhu Yizun. He didn't seem to care much about the old man. All his efforts were devoted to Han monuments. It can be said that everyone unearthed in front of Tongguang has not used kung fu. In his later years, he devoted himself to three poems (Ode to Shimen, Ode to Yingge, and Ode to Xizhao) and wrote eight-character poems for others. Such a large official script is strong but not bad, powerful but not vulgar. It's an amazing piece of work, and I love it the most. What I want to learn, what I want to ask. They all taught me tirelessly. His study is my library. I saw him taking the white folds from the Qing Dynasty and writing thirty or forty kinds of Han steles, all of which conveyed their own characteristics. His seal is also a Han seal. He is the first disciple of Mr. Wu Changshuo. He is not very famous because he lives in his hometown. Zhao Shi was my uncle's student. Later, Zhao Shi's engraving became famous and he tended to surpass my uncle. But Zhao Shi was still very respectful to my uncle. Every time in a big occasion, he shouts "Sir" from a distance, which shows that the old ways are still fashionable. My uncle did not become an official. However, in order to help his friend Xu Yuanshou, he also served as the magistrate of Pinghu County and worked as a curtainman for a period of time. Immediately he went home, fed birds, planted flowers, burned incense, and learned Taoism. When I was young, I loved writing lyrics and imitated Jiang Baishi. He doesn't go to teahouses. He has a study behind his bedroom at home. After being around him all day long, I have learned a lot about his skills and learned a lot from him. It wasn't until the Anti-Japanese War that his brother helped him escape to the countryside. Died of illness at the age of seventy-five. It was the winter of the 26th year of the Republic of China, when I was in Hankou. He also composed nine poems called Five Ancients to cry for him. Since the Li chaos, even the poem manuscripts are gone, which is sad and sad. My father's nickname was Lengzhuang, also Lengjia, and his later nickname was Old Man Jiachan. He is a rare and interesting person. He is capable of so many things and has a wide range of hobbies that have never been seen before. He is a fair gentleman in the local area and is an internal medicine and surgery doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Is a horticulturist. Is a photographer. Be a collector. It's a restaurant. Is a painter. Although his paintings are famous for flowers, insects, feathers, and animals, they are also all about human figures and landscapes. He and Li Xishan are the best. Sha Shanchun is also an acquaintance, but he is better with Ni Baotian, Mo Geng and Ren Yulifan. Because my great-uncle Mr. Sang Lümei was a wealthy man who liked painting and had great skills in landscape painting. I saw a lot of them in my hometown when I was young. The Sang family invited many painting friends, so my late father got close to him. So he took advantage of everyone's strengths. Painting at home, always late at night. Therefore, we have never seen him put his pen to paper. After he spread to various factions, he allied himself with Jiang Nansha. When I was in my twenties, I borrowed Jiang Nansha's Hundred Flowers Hand Scroll from Sang's collection to see it. It was originally an ink pen, but my late father used it with color. After the roll was completed, Wu Honglun, an elder in the village, was named Ruqin. I took it to Weng Wengong and asked him to read it. At that time, I wrote the four words "Qingtong Yiyun" at the end of the volume. He also wrote two poems about Qijue. Now the volume is no longer available, but I can still recite these two poems. The poem says:
Why not ink and wash become Dansha. Nong Yan and Xiao Shu belong to the same family.
I envy the peace and quiet vegetation. There is no overseas mandala flower.
The end of the pen is full of gloom and pavilion. A roll will fill your sleeves.
The little poem on the painting also has a harmonious rhyme. The wax drums on the partition wall are happy to listen to together.
This hand scroll has dozens of poems written by it, making it difficult to list them all at the moment. When I lived in the north in the 36th year of the Republic of China, I compiled the inscriptions and postscripts of this volume into a volume. He also wrote a preface, saying that in case there was another war, he added an inscription and postscript and lost it. He also asked Zhang Yi, the Taishi of Shanshui, to write a supplement, with the four words "Qingtong Yiyun". It is really sad that this book has been lost so far. My late father painted a lot between the 20th and 26th years of the Republic of China. He once painted four screens for Mr. Jin Songcen.
They were all flowers, trees and animals. At that time, I was learning poetry and prose from Mr. Jin, and my late father worked hard to do it because of his love for me. Later, Mr. Jin composed a seven-character ancient poem in Bailiang style, narrating the scenery in the four screen strips one by one, which was widely recited at that time. Bing Qian was a ghostwriter (Mr. Jin was too short-sighted to write large characters) and wrote a stand-up banner as a gift to his late father. Later, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, I accompanied my late father to stay in Hankou for a while. After half a year, he was sent back to Shanghai. Later, I was going to Chongqing. One morning, while my late father was still sleeping in his bedroom, he said goodbye and went out, and then he never saw me again. Alas. My late father's paintings are beautiful but not thin, gorgeous but not vulgar, thin but not soft. Strong but not rough. Sha Fu Zhang Xiong cannot have the tranquility of his late father's writing. Nor can I have the beauty of my late father. After my late father passed away, I traveled to Hong Kong and then to Shanghai. I chanted sutras and laid a memorial ceremony at a monk's temple in the French Concession. I exhibited an album of my late father's works and several folding fans together. At that time, many people were envious of him. Unfortunately, in the past 20 to 30 years, after searching everywhere, they could not find even an inch of paper. In his later years, my father accepted a student named Ding Yi, who served him very respectfully. Unfortunately, I did not know him, nor did I see his paintings. Now there are three people in my family who can paint. My wife, Cai Xiangzhi, was taught by my father when I was young. After coming to Taiwan, I learned landscape, orchid and bamboo painting from Mr. Wu Zishen. My younger brother-in-law, Liu Peijing, was good at painting figures and ladies, which was quite neat and elegant. My younger daughter, Li Mei, studied painting in Taiwan from teachers such as Sun Yunsheng, Cheng Jiezi, Wu Yongxiang, and Chen Junfu. She is good at landscapes with figures and ladies, meticulous flowers and birds, and freehand flowers. Ji Dafengtang created a new broken ink painting method, which is quite talented. In recent years, he studied in the United States. When he was in California, he received the encouragement of his teacher Da Qianweng and continued to improve.