A Chronicle of Qing Daoren's Life(Continued)

LI Rui-qing was a famous calligrapher and art educator in late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. After the 1911 Revolution, he called himself Qin Daoren. He was the best friend of the well-known calligrapher ZENG Xi. After the Revolution, they began to sell books and their calligraphic works in Shanghai. Then there was the saying “South ZENG and North LI”. They both started to accept pupils, hence there formed the thriving “Alumni of ZENGs and Lis”. The master of Chinese painting ZHANG Da-qian was once their pupil. This paper has sorted out the main stories of LI Rui-qing(ages 48 – 50)in the form of chronicle