Liu Chunlin's "Ode to the Sound of Autumn" in small regular script
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Liu Chunlin, the last number one scholar
Liu Chunlin (1872-1944), whose courtesy name was Runqin and whose nickname was Shiyun. A native of Suning, Zhili Province, he was the number one scholar in Jiachenke in the 30th year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1904). He was also the last number one scholar in Chinese history. He was the so-called "last among the first". He has extremely high attainments in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and is especially good at small regular script. His small regular script calligraphy has the reputation of "the most popular regular script in the world, and the one who later learned from the sect". To this day, in the calligraphy circle, there are still "big regular scripts learn from Yan (Zhenqing)" and small regular scripts learn from Liu (Chunlin)" said.
