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The Brief Biography of Deng Shiruby Shian

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Deng Shiru(1743-1805) , a great calligrapher and seal carver in the Qing Dynasty（1616-1912） was born in Huaining, Anhui province. His original name was Deng Yan, but he had to change name to Shiru at the age of 53 to avoid Emperor JiaQing\'s Taboos Yan.
Deng has many other literary names including Wanbo, Wanbai Shanren, Longshan Qiaozhang, Guwanzi, Jiyou Daoren, Fengshui Yuzhang etc. All these names posses unique stories or experiences.
Deng Shiru was an artist of profound learning. He was very famous for calligraphy and seal cutting at that time. He is regarded as the founder of Wan School or Deng school in seal cutting field.
【damn man manvswilds3】Deng has a pure heart keen in art and few desires about material life. He was far away from officialdom and lived as an ordinary person throught his life.
Deng Shiru was born of a poor teacher’s family. However, his grandfather and father wereboth good at calligraphy and painting. They regarded nonostentation and hard-working as virtue. Deng Shiru inherited these characters from them.
Deng Shiru was fond of calligraphy and seal cutting. Although he was poor, he was knowledgeable and obtained achievementswhen he was very young.
When Deng Shiru was nine years old, he studied to follow the steps of his father. But he had to give up the study within one year due to poor family condition. He had to farm, gather woodcutters and sell cakes to support his family.
Poverty could not suppress the potential talent. Deng Shiru studied very hard in his spare time. He displayed great interest in ancient culture and art. He read any available books thoroughly but deeplyto seek the truth whenever and wherever possible
Deng often practiced calligraphy on the ground, using reeds as pen brushes He tried hard to learn Seal script Yishan of Qin dynasty, Offical script Shichen, Kongxian of Han dynasty, and studied seal carving works from Qin and Han dynasty. He improved his skills very fast and became famous in his county after some years.
When he was 17 years old, Deng Shiru wrote the famous seal script work "Xue Lang bookroom’s Note and Preface" for Xiaosha, a famous local senior citizen The villagers praised him and called him “ The Rebirth of Two Li l(Li Si and Li Yangbing, two famous ancient calligraphiers). Since then, Deng earned the living by calligraphy and seal carving.
At the age of 20, Deng Shiru worked in a priviatschool. But he left for the mischievous students in no time. Then he went to Shouzhou with his father and opened another private school, which closed the following year because of his wife’s death. Thereafter he stopped being teacher and spared his efforts on traveling around the country for studying art.
when he was 30 years old, Deng got to know the celebrityLiang Yan in Shouzhou. Mr. Liang praised Deng’s calligraphy highly and said that Deng’s powerful calligraphy was better than hisHe ascertained that Deng would become the greatest artist for his amazing talent.
Mr. Liang liked Deng very much, regarding him as a jade hiding in stone. He recommended Deng to Mei Miu in Jiangning (today’s Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). Mei was a great collector from the renowned family in the south of the Yangzi River. The three brothers in the Mei family were all friendly to Dengshowing Deng every piece of great works. Deng studied very hard during the time that he lodged there for eight years. He copywrote those calligraphy or seal works even for a hundred times.”Every morning, I set up very early and make a whole plate of ink, and then I keep on pratising calligraphy until into the midnight. I keep on doing that in the whole year.” Deng Shiru said.
Deng was good at all the four calligraphy scripts like seal script, offical script, regular script, running script with his own style. People appraised his works as superb

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