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Ouyang Xue Feng: Xing Shu Short Essays

Dynasty
Modern Era
1912 CE-Present
Author
Ouyang Xue Feng
1890 CE-1960 CE
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Ouyang Xue Feng’s ancestral hometown is Shun De, Guang Dong. He came to Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) at a very young age. Ouyang was a remarkable calligrapher, poet, literary intellectual, painter and seal carving master. He spared no effort to promoting Chinese art and culture in his adopted land, alongside Nanyang Calligraphy and Painting Association. In 1926, together with Xing Bai Hui, Liao Rong Zhi and Zhang Yu Cai, they established Kwong Siew Free School in Kuala Lumpur. Ouyang’s calligraphy bears a resemblance to Su Dong Po’s. His works showcase a clever fusion of brilliant brush wielding, word composition and layout. Fascinating and meaningful; natural and harmonious. One would feel elated having viewed it.
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Amid a trail of red dust the consort smiles; yellow-fleshed durian proves the rarer delicacy.

If this thorny fruit were grown in the Central Plains, it would rival lychee in pleasing beauties.

Its colour and fragrance emerge through a prickly skin, stirring apes to cry and birds to grieve.

Since mouths and tongues all share the same delight, why should only palace maids so often hold the towel?