Fang Shaowu, the owner of Bie Ju Zhai, was born in July 1935 in Qimen County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province. Good at calligraphy, part-time Chinese painting and light industrial product design. In 1956, he was admitted to the Fine Arts Department of Anhui Art School to study calligraphy from Tong Xuehong. In 1959, he was admitted to the Ceramic Fine Arts Department of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, where he studied under Chen Shuliang. Graduated from Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1963. Since childhood, he studied calligraphy with his father, specializing in regular script, and then studied running script. His calligraphy is rigorous in structure, calm in pen, and unique in hiding cleverness from clumsiness. His works have participated in many exhibitions at home and abroad and won awards, some of which are collected in museums, art galleries, memorial halls and carved into forest of steles.