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Liu ShiYao
Liu ShiYao
Personal Profile
Liu Shiyao, born in December 1948, is a native of Dengzhou City, Henan Province.
Current Positions:
Member of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association;
Director of the Chinese Cadres Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute;
Director of the Luoyang Calligraphers and Painters Association;
President of the Calligraphy and Painting Academy of Chuangye Road Volunteer Community, Luoyang High-Tech Zone.
Influenced by his grandfather from an early age, he began practicing calligraphy as a child. He studied under the late renowned calligrapher Zhang Minggui and has diligently practiced for decades, primarily copying Wang Xizhi’s small regular script works such as “Yue Yi Lun” and “Huangting Jing,” as well as extensively studying the styles of Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Xun, and others, thereby establishing a solid foundation in calligraphy.
After retirement, he devoted himself entirely to public welfare activities in calligraphy and painting, researching Wei stele script, Han clerical script, and seal script, gradually developing his own unique artistic style. His clerical script is vigorous and profound, expressing unrestrained inner spirit with powerful, reserved strength and dynamic brushwork, as if clouds of ink surge from the tip of his brush; his regular script embodies timeless elegance and grace, with balanced strokes swaying in the wind like finely carved lines, achieving perfect harmony in every stroke; his running and cursive scripts feature lively, graceful lines, combining the elegance of the Two Wangs, the solemn beauty of Sun Guoting, and the robustness of Su Shi and Huang Tingjian.
Personal Honors:
His works have been exhibited and awarded in numerous calligraphy and painting exhibitions, included in over thirty published collections, and widely distributed internationally to the United States, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau. Many of his works are collected by domestic institutions and treasured by political figures, entrepreneurs, and art enthusiasts both at home and abroad.
His 20-meter-long clerical script scroll “Ode to Eternal Peace” won a gold medal at the “International Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of China’s Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War,” and is now housed in the Tengwang Pavilion Ci-Fu Research Institute in Nanchang, China;
His eight-foot, sixteen-panel clerical script work “Ode to Runzhi” is permanently collected by the “Peking University Former Site Exhibition Hall” in Liyu Zhou, Nanchang;
His clerical script “World Peace Forever” and running script scroll “Ode to Yellow Crane Tower” are collected by the “Global Artists Alliance” and displayed in global touring exhibitions. His works are also collected by institutions such as the Shandong Yantai Oracle Bone Script Museum, Henan Sanmenxia Yangshao Culture Museum, and Jiangsu Suqian Filial Piety and Benevolence Culture Museum.
On the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening-up and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he was consecutively awarded the honorary titles of “Leading Figure in Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy” and “Practitioner of Chinese Cultural Revival.” His works were twice officially issued by China Post as commemorative stamps—known as “National Name Cards”—and the accompanying stamp albums hold significant collectible value.
In his public welfare endeavors, for many years Liu Shiyao and his team have centered their efforts on filial and benevolent culture, serving the local community offices, the Chuangye Road Volunteer Community Calligraphy and Painting Academy in the High-Tech Zone, and other social organizations, military units, and schools. He voluntarily teaches calligraphy in schools, provides free training for community residents interested in calligraphy and painting, serves elderly community members, writes Spring Festival couplets free of charge, and participates in the construction of filial piety culture.
In recent years, as one of the initiators of the “Filial Culture Project for One Thousand Villages and One Hundred Towns in Henan Province,” his team has participated in dozens of village and town filial culture activities and donated thousands of calligraphy and painting works free of charge. He has been appointed as a specially invited calligrapher by the “Henan Filial Culture Promotion Association.” He actively participates in the “Filial Culture Park Construction Project” in Yijiaogou Village, High-Tech Zone, and contributes to the establishment of the “Exhibition Hall of Filial Saint Wang Xiang.” He has been annually recognized as an outstanding cultural volunteer and honored as a community moral model and the first moral model of the High-Tech Zone.
In 2019, he was awarded “Outstanding Individual for Promoting Filial Piety in Henan Province” by the Henan Filial Culture Promotion Association, and his team was recognized as an “Outstanding Unit for Promoting Filial Piety in Henan Province.”
Media Reviews:
Mr. Liu was born into a scholarly family and was deeply influenced by his grandfather and maternal grandfather from childhood. He has never ceased practicing calligraphy and excels in running script, cursive script, clerical script, and regular script. He reveres calligraphy masters such as Wang Xizhi, Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, and Chu Suiliang. Whenever he has time, he devotes himself to intensive study and meticulous copying, often forgetting meals and sleep when deeply immersed in practice.Whenever he has holidays or travels on business, if passing through Xi’an, he always forgoes sightseeing to immerse himself in the Forest of Steles—a pinnacle of Chinese cultural heritage in calligraphy art—journeying through the Jin and Tang dynasties, freely navigating the ocean of art and passionately absorbing its nourishment.
In terms of artistic expression, Mr. Liu emphasizes tradition while excelling in innovation. He adheres to the principle of “cultivating five virtues and eliminating five vices”: cultivating tranquility to dispel impatience; cultivating elegance to dispel vulgarity; cultivating vitality to dispel lethargy; cultivating righteousness to dispel evil; cultivating courage to dispel timidity. He boldly applies brushstrokes while paying close attention to detail, meticulously studying lines, strokes, techniques, and structure from multiple perspectives. “Hard work never betrays the dedicated.” After decades of diligent practice and research, Mr. Liu now seamlessly integrates clerical script, Wei-style regular script, and Tang-style regular script, innovatively forming his own unique calligraphic style. Grounded in tradition yet harmonized with modern aesthetic preferences, his works feature balanced ink tones, well-composed layouts, appropriate weight distribution, and skillful variation. His calligraphy exhibits strict and orderly structure, ancient charm with graceful fluidity, flowing like clouds and water, completed in one seamless breath.
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