Pan Linggao (1867~1954), whose courtesy name was Xijiu and whose name was Gecheng Jushi, was born in Northwest Village of Anzhou (anciently known as Gecheng) Town, Anxin County, Baoding City, Hebei Province. He was born on February 6, 1867 (the ninth day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty). Born into a scholarly family. He is a patriotic person and a famous calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
Pan Linggao has high attainments in calligraphy, and is good at regular script and running script, especially small characters. The structure is flat and well-proportioned, the writing style is round and smooth, and the style is beautiful and elegant. It is highly praised by calligraphers. It can be said that it is "soft but full of strength, simple but full of depth". He became a famous calligrapher in the north during the Republic of China. At that time, he was as famous as Tan Yankai and was said to be "South Tan and North Pan". At that time, shops in Tianjin, Beijing, Hebei and other places were proud to invite Pan to inscribe plaques. There is also a saying that "Yu Youren wrote Sanyuan in cursive script; Hua Shikui in Tianjin in Bangshu; Pan Linggao in Beijing in walnut regular script". People at that time called the book "Pan style".
