Qing · Calligrapher

Deng Shiru 鄧石如

Attested AD 1780 - AD 1805

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Deng Shiru was a Calligrapher.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1780 to AD 1805 石如作書
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 157

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 157
Organization Deng school 鄧氏 · Relation Eponym of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 169

Learning and skills

Skill calligraphy 書 · Level renowned
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passages 157, 168

Events and relationships

Used suspended wrist double hook
Technical · Practitioner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 157

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 503Volume 503 Biographies 290: Yi Shu Er · 5 passages

石如作書，則懸腕雙鉤，管隨指轉，兩家法大殊。 Shiru wrote with suspended wrist and double hook, the shaft turning with the fingers—the two men's methods were utterly opposed.

育篆書尤工，法與石如差近。 Wu Yu was especially accomplished in seal script, his manner close to Shiru's.

篆、隸宗石如，而多自得。 In seal and clerical script he followed Shiru yet achieved much on his own.

嘗曰：「吾書篆、籀，頡頏鄧氏，得意處或過之； He once said, 'In seal and large-seal script I can match the Deng school, and in my best passages may even surpass it;

其筆法兼採同時黃乙生、王良士、吳育、硃昂之、鄧石如諸人之說。 His brush method drew on the teachings of his contemporaries Huang Yisheng, Wang Liangshi, Wu Yu, Zhu Angzhi, Deng Shiru, and others.