Qing · Calligrapher, Painter, and Scholar

Wu Xizai 吳熙載

Died AD 1851

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wu Xizai was a Calligrapher, Painter, and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Changed name	Tingyang	廷颺	Tingyang
Courtesy name	Rangzhi	讓之	Rangzhi

Life and dates

Death

AD 1851 to AD 1861 咸豐中
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 183

Attested activity

AD 1851 to AD 1861 咸豐中卒
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 183

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Wu Minghuang (明煌)
son 子
father 父
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 174

Career and standing

licentiate 諸生
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 175

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 173
At Yizheng, Jiangsu 江蘇儀徵
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 173
At Jiangning 江寧 · Relation Ancestral home
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 174

Learning and skills

Skill seal and clerical script 篆、分 · Level especially-profound
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 181
Skill painting 畫 · Level literati
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 182

Events and relationships

Relation Student of · Person Bao Shichen (包世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 175

Assessments and attributes

Assessment did not dare claim precedence over Mei Zhizhi · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 188

Source notes

From Tingyang 廷颺 · To Xizai 熙載 · went by courtesy name
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 173

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 503Volume 503 Biographies 290: Yi Shu Er · 6 passages

吳熙載，初名廷颺，以字行，後又字讓之，江蘇儀徵人。 Wu Xizai, originally named Tingyang, went by his style name and later also took the style Rangzhi; he came from Yizheng in Jiangsu.

熙載為諸生，博學多能，從包世臣學書。 Xizai was a licentiate, broadly learned and accomplished in many arts, and studied calligraphy under Bao Shichen.

熙載恪守師法，世臣真、行、藁草無不工，嗜篆、分而未致力，熙載篆、分功力尤深。 Xizai adhered strictly to his teacher's method; Shichen excelled in regular, running, and draft-cursive script but, though fond of seal and clerical script, had not devoted himself to them—whereas Xizai's mastery of seal and clerical script was especially profound.

與熙載同受包氏法者，江都梅植之蘊生，甘泉楊亮季子，高涼黃洵修存，餘姚毛長齡仰蘇，旌德姚配中仲虞，松桃楊承汪挹之。 Others who studied under the Bao school alongside Xizai included Mei Zhizhi Yunsheng of Jiangdu, Yang Liang Jizi of Ganquan, Huang Xun Xiucun of Gaoliang, Mao Changling Yangsu of Yuyao, Yao Peizhong Zhongyu of Jingde, and Yang Chengwang Yizhi of Songtao.

謂其跌宕遒麗，段煉舊搨，血脈精氣，奔赴腕下，熙載未之敢先。 He called it bold and graceful, refined stroke by stroke from old rubbings, with vital energy pouring through the wrist—Xizai himself did not dare claim precedence.

書亞於熙載。 His calligraphy ranked just below Xizai's.