Hu Gongshi (1912.5-1997.8), formerly known as Hu Guangli, was born in Zhangben Village, Longgang Town, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. 1935 After graduating from the Chinese Department of Shanghai National Jinan University, he was hired as the personal secretary of Mr. Yu Youren, a veteran of the Kuomintang and a master of calligraphy, the editor-in-chief of Standard Cursive Calligraphy Society, and became a disciple of Yu Xiansheng. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he served as a senator in the Senate of Yanfu District, Jiangsu Province, an anti-Japanese democratic base. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Nanjing Standard Cursive Club to continue his cursive research. From 65438 to 0948, he served as the general affairs chief of the administrative office of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang District Supervision Committee of the State Administration Supervision Institute. Yu Xiansheng has been engaged in the research and arrangement of cursive script for 13 years, and is the only successor of cursive script. After the founding of New China, he served as secretary of the Secretariat of Tianjin Municipal People's Government, secretary of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, employee of Ningshuo County Commercial Bureau of Ningxia, director of China Calligraphers Association, librarian and consultant of Ningxia, president of China Standard Cursive Calligraphy Society, and president of Ningxia Painting and Calligraphy Institute. , a national first-class actor. 1August, 1983 to1991February, he was the director of Ningxia literature and history research museum, and191June, he was transferred to the deputy director of Jiangsu literature and history research museum. He was a member of the 6th and 7th China People's Political Consultative Conference and the 1st and 2nd China Calligraphy Association. Honorary director of China Taibei Standard Cursive Society and honorary professor of China Correspondence College of Painting and Calligraphy.
It is famous for cursive script, especially cursive script. In the early 1930s, together with Liu Yantao, he assisted Mr. Yu Youren in editing and publishing the standard cursive script Thousand Characters. 1June, 984, the standard cursive script society was established in Ningxia, and the standard cursive script vocabulary was compiled and published (1985 edition). 1984 Hu Gongshi's cursive works exhibition was held in Yinchuan in September. 1989165438+10 held a Chinese and foreign cursive exhibition in Yinchuan in October. In February, 1989 and 13 departments, including the standard cursive society, organized a Chinese and foreign cursive exhibition in China Art Museum. In his later years, he went to Japan and Taiwan Province Province to hold joint exhibitions of standard cursive scripts and other art exchange activities. 1997 died in Nanjing on August 25th at the age of 85. 1993 10 published "Yancheng County Records" with the title of Hu Gongshi Calligraphy.