Deng Shiru (1743— 1805) was born in Huaining, Anhui. Seal engraver and calligrapher in Qing Dynasty, founder of seal engraving of Deng School.
At the beginning, Yan's name was stone statue, which avoided the taboo of Emperor Jiaqing, so he used the line character, and later he became more stubborn. Because he lives at the foot of Wangong Mountain, he is also known as Taoist priest, Wanbai Mountain, Feng Shui fisherman and Longshan firewood, and he is not very good at seal cutting. He lived in Jinling Mei's house for eight years, copying rare stone books collected since Qin and Han Dynasties. He studied four-body calligraphy, especially seal script, with Qin Lisi and Tang Liyang Bing as his ancestors and a little Li Yi, so he was called a masterpiece. Honest and clean, travel around famous mountains and rivers, and be self-sufficient in books. There is "Wanbaishan people seal cutting occasionally".