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Deng was capable of comprehending the same principle between calligrpahy and seal. He applicated to his art practice. So his seal works are natural, full of energy and grace combining the styles of Qin’s seal script and Han’s offical script. Many seal carvers followed Deng Shiru’s style later. People called his unique style “Deng School” or “Wan School”.
The book “Something about Deng Shiru’s seal script calligraphy’s copy” , which was written by Deng’s student Wu Yu, has described Deng’s study experence in calligraphy: “My seal script calligraphy began from Li Yangbing. When I found its disadvantage some years later, I gave it up. Then I studied the works from stone inscriptions, such as TianFaShenCi, SanGongShan, KaiMuShiQue, ZhiFu, ShiGu calligraphy, sacral vessels, Han’s tablet inscription, etc. I study them profoundly and try to copy them diligently.
Deng Shiru was thirty-eight year old in the forty-fifth year of QianLong reign (1780). He bid farewell to Mei brothers, riding a thin donkey, woring old straw hat and awned shoes, and travelled to and from the Yangtze River, Huangshan Mountain, Hui Zhou, Hang Zhou, Xiu Ning, She Xuan and other places. He studied the calligraphy works in the temples, searching and observing the stone tablets in the wilds.
He studied the works very carefully, trying to digest their spirit and combine it into his own works. So his works look very forceful, primitive and crude. Deng became the greatest artist on tablet-calligraphy at that time.
When Deng stayed in Shexian, a county of Anhui province, he met Zhang Huiyan, a private school teacher in the No.1 Scholar Jin Bang’s family. Zhang was astonished to see Deng’s works. He recommended Deng to Jin Bang immediately. So Deng stayed at Jing’s home for over a year. Jin took down all others’ horizontal inscribed boards at home and replaced them with Deng’s works. Deng made friends with many great scholars like Fang Junren, Chen Yaotian, Yao Nai, Cao Wenzhi, Luo Pin, etc. during the period. And he read their collecters and improved his own skills quickly with the help of . these good friends andbecame even more famous than before.
Cao Wenzhi, the minister of works who was an important minister of the dynasty, admired Deng’s calligraphy and praised him as the No.1 calligrapher in the dynasty. He was very kind to Deng and willing to pay heavy rewards to his works often. Deng made a seal work “Yi Ri Zhi Ji” to Cao as souvenir later.
In the fifty-fifth years of Qianlong period (1790), Deng went to Beijing at the invitation from Cao Wenzhi. His calligraphy caused a sensation in the city. Many official ministers like Liu Yong, Lu Xixiong, Ji Xiaolan, etc. praised him highly. They regarded him as a great artist 一who had never been witnessedfor hundreds of years.
But another minister Wen Fanggang didn’t like him and belittled his art. Deng Shiru didn’t want to fawn on him and left the city afterwards He worked as the assistant to the governor of Hunan and Hubei Bi Yuan for three year from 1791 to 1794,but he didn’t like the colleagues scheme against each other, so he decided to leave and move on
When Deng was 52 years old, he went back to homecounty from Wuchang and purchased 40 mu land and built a house. He wrote the inscription "TieYan Shanfang" at the lintel of the door by himself.
Deng Shiru was honest and kindhearted. He liked to help others and had a good reputation in the county. Meanwhile , he liked travelling very much . He travelled to and from Jingkou(today’s Zhengjiang), Jiangning(Today’s Nanjing), Yangzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places. He came across and studied art with his friends. He achieved very high level in arts and became an acknowledge and recognized leader in the field of calligraphy and seal carving.
Deng was 54 years old in 1796. He boarded with Yuan Tingji in Dan Tu county. Yuan presented him a couply of cranes. Deng liked the cranes very much. Unfortunally, the female one died after five years. Sadly, Deng buried it in Jixian temple and wrote “He Zhong” on the stone tablet and set up the male crane in the temple also.

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