Peng Shilin, originally from Changsha, Hunan, used the pen name Cuiyuan. He came south in 1950 and served as principal of Perak Girls? National-Type Secondary School in Ipoh for twenty-five years, later teaching calligraphy at the Kaying Association. He excelled in poetry and ci lyrics, served as president of the Ipoh Fufeng Poetry Society, and wrote the classical poetry collection Selected Poems from Jucui Garden and the prose collections Leisure Talk by the Night Window and Notes by the Study Window. He was one of the founders and advisers of the Malaysia Calligraphy Association. In his early years he studied Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang; his structures are compact, reserved, and lively. This work is rounded and elegant, soft outside but strong within, solemn and tranquil.