Shan Yong

Single Yong, pen name Xueye, style name Shantao, is a famous Chinese calligrapher and painter. He is also a painter and calligrapher of the China Calligraphy and Painting Academy, a specialist in long scroll fan surfaces, metal and stone, calligraphy and painting, a fan collector, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting, as well as a poet. Born in 1955 in Xinxiang, he holds a postgraduate degree. In 1969, he joined the army and once served as a bodyguard for revolutionary leader Wang Jiagxiang and a cryptographer. He excels in calligraphy, painting, seal carving, and carved letter art, and has held multiple personal fan surface calligraphy and painting exhibitions. He established the "Zhonghua Xueye Fan Shop Museum" (in 2000, it was included among the top 500 private museums in the country by the authoritative domestic collection magazine "Collectibles"). His professional work involves writing on fans, painting on fans, and collecting fans, renowned in Central China for his four distinctive features: "scenic tranquility, elegant events, surname-art integration, unique and novel." The calligraphy and painting scroll fan surface work "The Legend of King Bigan" is hailed as the "rare gem of the academic history of Chinese Bigan calligraphy and painting."