A Brief Introduction to the Authors of 5000 Commonly Used Characters in Gu Zhongan Regular Script.

The author of this book, Mr. Gu Zhongan, is the vice chairman of China Hard Pen Calligraphers Association and an adjunct professor of Shanghai TV University. He has won the highest prize in 1982 and 1984 national hard pen calligraphy competition, the first national excellent paper award in pen calligraphy, and the gold medal in 1988 first pen calligraphy classic competition. Mr. Gu Zhongan published more than 0/00 kinds of copybooks and monographs such as Copyright of Common Idioms-Collecting Idioms, which sold well all over the country.

Professor Gu Zhongan has been studying brush calligraphy with his grandfather since he was five years old. He has persisted for more than 30 years and won praises from many experts. His pen calligraphy is full of the spirit of brush calligraphy, bookish, vigorous and durable, convenient, neat and heavy, paying attention to statutes without deliberate artifice, especially regular script and running script; The structure of Chinese characters is broad, steady and natural. Held 30 TV lectures on hard pen calligraphy.