Cao Yu, male, Han nationality, 1947, a native of Qishan, Shaanxi Province, was nicknamed "Shi Gu Tang Tang Master". Graduated from Xi Academy of Fine Arts and School of Language and Logic, Handu University. He is currently a member of China Calligraphers Association, China Printmakers Association, China Tourism Culture Association, reasonable member of China National Unity and Friendship Association, director of Shaanxi Yellow River Culture Research Association, member of Baoji CPPCC, president of Qiyang Printing Society, visiting professor of Philippine World Art Institute, honorary president of Xiqin Academy of Fine Arts and professor of Xijing University. Editor-in-chief of Shigu magazine and president of Xiputuo Sculpture Painting and Calligraphy Institute. He has created more than 30 works, such as Memories of Yan 'an, Memories of Li Tao in Spring and Beauty of Hometown, which have been exhibited and published all over the country, provinces and cities. Chinese painting "Tiger, Lion and Cow" and "Several Cang Sang" were selected for the 6th and 8th national and provincial art exhibitions and won the Shaanxi Creation Award. Calligraphy and seal cutting works have been selected for book exhibitions at home and abroad for many times, and have been collected and engraved by many forest of steles, museums and fine arts institutes across the country. Sculptures such as Ascension and Shengfeng Mingchun came out. His works were published in People's Daily Calligraphy Art Series. Editor-in-chief published "Young and Middle-aged Calligraphers Talk about Calligraphy" and "Collection of Winning Works of Longquan Celadon Cup National Calligraphy Competition". In recent years, the stone drum culture has been developed, such as the Collection of Joint Exhibition of Seal Carving of National Urban Printing Society and Selected Black and White Woodcuts of Qinchuan. Rebuilding China's Three Levels. He was awarded the title of "Excellent Literary Worker" by Baoji Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. There are more than 20 dictionaries, including China Calligrapher's Dictionary, Who's Who in the World, Biography of Chinese in the World and Who's Who in Contemporary Art in China. His "90% Palace" giant seal is called "the first seal in China". The year of 20 10 was a glorious year for Cao Yu, who compiled five works, such as Paper-cutting and Artistic Creation in Ancient and Modern Times, Linshan Buddhist Temple, and Ming Shi of Liquan in Jiucheng Palace. At the same time, he also planned and directed Scholar on the Mountain, Calligrapher Bai Dehou, Famous Drama Family Banquet Jinlin and Fengyuan.
From 65438 to 0995, Cao Yu presided over the construction of Yan Di Mausoleum, which became a major tourist attraction in Baoji.
I ran the magazine Shigu, collected a lot of information and made a long-term field trip to the land of Shigu. According to Shi Guwen's translation, I created ten poems translated by Shi Guwen and ten paintings by Shi Guwen.
Cao Yu's Map of Shi Guwen was painted on eight-foot rice paper in the form of Chinese painting. After decades of deliberation and revision, ten Pictures of Shi Guwen were finally published in their sixties. Each work is not only a single work, but also interrelated, almost three feet together, which reproduces the political, military and people's life in the pre-Qin period and will play an auxiliary role in people's understanding and research of pre-Qin history. Relevant experts also spoke highly of Cao Yu's Map of Shi Guwen.