Kaiyun Wang's semi-cursive script poetry hanging scroll - 王闓運行書詩軸

Kaiyun Wang, known as Renqiu or Renfu (courtesy names) and Xiangqi (pseudonym), was born in Changsha, China. Wang was a renowned classics researcher, historian, and scholar of Chinese literature. Wang served as a policy adviser to Guofan Zeng (an eminent official and scholar in the late Qing dynasty) and later devoted himself to teaching. He specialized in the study of Gongyang Zhuan (a classic book of ancient Chinese history) and spent a great amount of effort writing poems as well as local chronicles. A book covering Wang’s classics studies and poems was published as “Xiang Qi Lou Quan Ji.”王闓運，字壬秋、壬父，號湘綺，長沙人。清末時期的經學家、史學家和文學家。早年曾為曾國藩幕僚。王闓運博學多聞，擅長經學研究，尤其是公羊學。除了經學，王闓運在史學和文學也頗有成就，其經學著作和詩文，後人合刊為「湘綺樓全書」。感君留別履揮毫，酒陣詩壇意氣高。六一家風似梅叔，九重何日召王褒。湖山舊夢尋香草，桑梓新歸話濁醪。暫習勞塵謝簪組，有人海上釣金鼇。Signature: Kaiyun Wang款識: 王闓運1) Tse Tsung Chow; 2) Xiangqi old man wrote after his eighty-three years old1) 周策縱; 2) 湘绮老人八十三歲以後