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BIOGRAPHY ZHAO XUESONG 赵雪松
b. 1963 in Shandong, China; Lives and works in Shandong, China
Zhao Xuesong (formerly used the pen name “Xuesong”), born in 1963, is a poet and calligrapher from Yangxin County, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Shandong University and worked at the Binzhou Television Station in Shandong (now retired). He began writing poetry in the mid-1980s and co-founded the independent literary journal Poetry with friends.
His body of work, spanning more than a million words of poetry, essays, and art criticism, has been featured in literary publications throughout China and abroad. His poetry collections, both solo and in anthologies, include: Wound, Selected Poems of Xuesong, Selected Poems by Seven Poets, The Yellow River Estuary Poets’ Tribe, Ahead Is Just a Place Up Ahead, I Took Part in the Falling of That Leaf, and Striking a Match. His prose collections include Through-Wind, My Tuhai River, and Writing the Earth.
His calligraphy has been exhibited in the 7th and 10th National Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Exhibitions, 2nd and 3rd National Top 100 Calligraphy Exhibitions, 8th National Youth Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition, and the 1st through 4th Chinese Calligraphy Lanting Awards Exhibitions, among others. He was invited to show work in the 1st and 2nd National Young and Middle-Aged Calligraphy Masters Exhibitions and the Origin and Evolution — Jin and Tang Dynasty Regular Script Studies Exhibition.
His calligraphy has received numerous honors: Best Original Couplet Award at the 5th National Couplets Calligraphy Exhibition, First Prize at the 1st National Album Leaf Calligraphy Exhibition, the Shandong Province Calligraphy Contribution Award, and the Taishan Arts Award for Calligraphy, among others. He has published several volumes including Calligraphy Community of the Yellow River Delta — Zhao Xuesong Volume and Zhao Xuesong’s Calligraphy of Ancient Monastic Poetry.
His poetry and prose have earned him awards such as the Qilu Literature Award, Taishan Arts Award for Literature, Qilu Prose Award, Rougang Poetry Award, Poetry Monthly’s Exploratory Poetry Award, the Classic of Poetry Award, the Houtian Poetry Award, and the Shandong Literature Award. He currently lives in Binzhou, Shandong.
海日生殘夜 The sun upon the sea is born within the lingering night; 江春入舊年 The spring upon the river arrives within the passing year, 2025
Ink on xuan paper
86.4 x 25.4 cm | 34 x 10 in each; 34 x 20 in | 86.36 x 50.8 cm overall
23 x 119.38 cm | 9 x 47 in
Framed: 41.9 x 142.2 cm | 16.5 x 56 in
心經 Heart Sutra, 2025
Ink on xuan paper
Detail: 心經 Heart Sutra, 2025
Detail: 心經 Heart Sutra, 2025
徐渭詩蘭亭次韻 Xu Wei’s Poem “Following the Rhymes of ‘Lanting, 2025 Ink on xuan paper
33 x 127 cm | 13 x 50 in
Framed: 45.75 x 141 cm | 18 x 55.5 in
徐渭詩蘭亭次韻 Xu Wei’s Poem “Following the Rhymes of ‘Lanting, 2025
Detail:
Boundless Longevity of Sentient Beings, 2025
Ink on xuan paper
28 x 130.8 cm | 11 x 51.5 in
Framed: 48.3 x 153.6 cm | 19 x 60.5 in
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