Peng Tao

 Peng Tao, style name Guoxiang, is the head of Shugu Tang, originally from Hubei, currently residing in Beijing. He is a calligrapher, member of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD), and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
       He graduated from the High-Level Training Program for Calligraphy and Painting at the Academy of Arts, Tsinghua University. He is a registered senior calligraphy teacher for standardized Chinese characters, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Chinese Hard Pen Calligraphy Association, a member of the Ouyang Xun Calligraphy Art Research Society, and a researcher at the China Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting Academy. With over thirty years of continuous practice, he has studied various styles including those of Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, and Zhao Mengfu. His main focus is on Ouyang-style regular script, drawing inspiration from ancient masters while developing his own unique style. His regular script incorporates the strengths of many schools, characterized by strict precision, balanced rigor, and elegant strength. Although his characters are slightly elongated vertically, their spacing and layout remain neat and orderly, with tightly packed centers and extended primary strokes, creating a dynamic and vigorous momentum. The arrangement of strokes and structure achieves a harmonious balance between openness and density, with fullness in all directions—eight-sided brilliance—and lively rhythm, perfectly executed. In terms of stroke coordination and structural composition, his work maintains balance while subtly conveying tension; most characters extend to the right, yet their center of gravity remains stable, avoiding any sense of imbalance or tilt, thus achieving the charm of "dangerous stability." His style stands independently, and his works possess significant collectible value.