Guo Moruo (1892-1978), whose original name was Guo Kaizhen, also had the courtesy name Dingtang, nickname Shangwu, nickname Wenbao, pen names Moruo, Mike Aung, Guo Dingtang, Shi Tuo, Gao Ruhong, Yang Yizhi, etc. Born on November 16, 1892 in Shawan, Leshan, Sichuan, he graduated from Kyushu Imperial University in Japan.
Modern writer, historian, one of the founders of new poetry?, the first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the first president of the University of Science and Technology of China?, and a foreign academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Extended information
During the Kuomintang Civil War in 1948, Guo Moruo was elected as the first academician of the Academia Sinica because of his great achievements in archeology and oracle bone inscriptions. He once edited "Manuscripts of Chinese History" and "Collection of Oracle Bone Inscriptions", and all his works were compiled into 38 volumes of "The Complete Works of Guo Moruo".
In the art of calligraphy, Guo Moruo has also made extraordinary achievements and occupies an important position in the history of modern calligraphy. Guo Moruo used "turn back to the front and turn around, go against the grain and come out flat" as the eight-character key to writing a book. His calligraphy style not only emphasizes inheritance from teachers, but also is innovative, showing bold creative spirit and vivid characteristics of the times, and is praised as "Guo style" by the world.
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