Zhu Yifan (186 1- 1937), whose real name is Ai Qing, was named Dingyuan, the younger brother of Yijun, and was born in Lianhua, Jiangxi. Guangxu Geng Yin Hanlin, the official to Hunan as the examiner, Shaanxi studying politics, the director of the study room, and the minister of marking international students. He is the third headmaster of Peking University and a famous calligrapher. Zhu Yifan's father was a scholar in Xianfeng period (1892). In the 16th year of Guangxu, he won the Gong Shi in Cohen's imperial examination and was awarded the second place in the top prize. In the imperial examination of Baohe Hall, Jishi Shu was appointed as imperial academy. In the twenty-third year of Guangxu, he took the Hanlin exam and won the first place.
After many times, he was released as an examiner and a student. He used to be the examiner of Fengtian Township Examination, the deputy examiner of Hubei Provincial Township Examination, the examiner of Hunan Provincial Township Examination, the examiner of Zhejiang Provincial Township Examination and an official of Shaanxi Province. Xuantong Yuan (1909) was appointed as the official of Zongren Mansion, and Xuantong was appointed as the left deputy envoy of Duchayuan in the second year (19 10).
After the "September 18th Incident", Zhu Yifan "refused, but refused to welcome", with a clear attitude, and Puyi passed. Not only did he have no company, but he had never been to Changchun until his death. Later, forced to make a living, I used to make a living in Beijing Liulichang. Today, the plaque of Xinyuanzhai in Beijing East Liulichang is inscribed by Zhu Yifan.
Zhu Yifan died in Beijing on March 1937. Puyi was very sad after hearing the news. For example, he posthumously presented the "Pacific Insurance of the Qing Dynasty", praised "Wencheng" and awarded 5,000 silver as a token of his mourning. At the same time, Zhu Yifan is good at poetry and proficient in Chinese medicine. Unfortunately, all his poems and prose manuscripts were burned during the Cultural Revolution, and almost none survived. In addition, he attached importance to inheriting predecessors' achievements in calligraphy through copying, diligently studied calligraphy, learned from others' strengths and gradually formed his own style.
Influenced by scholars advocating epigraphy in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yifan's calligraphy gradually embarked on the road of compatible epigraphy in modern times. However, this combination is completed through continuous exploration. On the one hand, many scholars have long been bound by "cabinet style" and cannot let go of their hands and feet to establish new faces; On the other hand, influenced by the atmosphere of respecting historical sites, they have an impulse to break through the barriers of their predecessors.
Zhu Yifan's calligraphy is elegant and vigorous, graceful and harmonious, quiet and elegant, with strict statutes, full of literati temperament and aestheticism. He and others stick to the last position of the pavilion. Outside the palace wall, calligraphy has become the world of stele study.