In the modern history of China, the Luo Zhenyu family can be said to be an unparalleled and famous family. Three generations of ancestral ancestry have been inherited, and most of them are famous literary and historical figures! According to the public information that can be found, a brief description is as follows.

Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) was a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province in modern times. His ancestral home was Shangyu, Zhejiang Province. He was given the nicknames Shuyan and Shuyun, and his nickname was Xuetang. In his later years, he changed his name to Old Man Zhensong. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was called to Beijing and served as the second-class counselor of the academic department, later as a counselor, and as the agricultural science supervisor of the Capital University. Politically very conservative and always loyal to the Qing Dynasty. After the September 18th Incident, he followed Puyi and served as a counselor in the Manchukuo Senate and president of the Manchuria Cultural Association. He was criticized as a "traitor" by people at the time. He is good at calligraphy in seal, Li, Kai and Xing. He is one of the first to use oracle bone inscriptions to write books. The inscriptions and postscripts written in small regular script are rigorous and stable. He has collected and sorted out archaeological materials such as oracle bones, bronzes, bamboo slips, Ming dynasties, and lost books, all of which have been published in special volumes. He has compiled "Books of Famous People in the Past Dynasties of Zhensongtang", "The Essence of Gaochang Mural Paintings", "The Book Deeds of the Yin Ruins", "The Essence of the Letters of the Yin Ruins", "The Treasures of the Three Dynasties' Auspicious Gold", etc.

Luo Zhenyu was the first scholar to make major progress in the study of oracle bones. He started collecting oracle bones in 1906, with a total of nearly 20,000 pieces, making him the largest collector in the early period. After a personal visit, I found out the real place where the oracle bones were found - Xiaotun. Among oracle bone inscription researchers, Luo Zhenyu occupies an important position. He is one of the "Four Oracle Bone Inscriptions" and the founder of oracle bone inscriptions.

Luo Zhenyu is the founder of Dunhuang Studies. He is a pioneer in the study of Dunhuang documents in China. He started the research with a strong foundation in Chinese studies. In 1914, he and Wang Guowei initiated and advocated the study of bamboo slips, which jointly opened up a new field of "Chinese studies".

Luo Zhenyu is a typical collector. It has a collection of more than 500,000 volumes of "Dayun Wuxiang Sutra" and epitaphs, epigraphs, rubbings, calligraphy and paintings, etc. According to research, there are "20,000 to 30,000 oracle bone fragments" collected before and after the collection, and the number of other collections such as bronzes, ancient Ming dynasties, and tablet inscriptions is also considerable.

Luo Zhenyu also made contributions to the preservation of historical materials in the Cabinet Treasury and the books in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty. The Great Treasury was the place where the Qing Dynasty cabinet stored archives and books. The warehouse was divided into east and west warehouses. The east warehouse stored "Records", "Hadith", "Records of Daily Life", etc., and was managed by the main office of the pavilion. Most of the books in the Xiku are relics from the Wenyuan Pavilion collection of the Ming Dynasty, and the archives include the inscriptions and memorials of ministers and officials inside and outside the Qing Dynasty, and the large volumes of imperial examinations. These are China's precious historical documents and an important cultural heritage.

His younger brother Luo Zhenchang (1875-1942) was a modern scholar and bibliophile. The name is Zijing, also the name is Zijing, and the names are Xinjing and Miaoyuan. A native of Shangyu, Zhejiang, he lived in Huai'an and was the younger brother of Luo Zhenyu, a famous scholar in modern times. He worked hard to study, and worked on poetry and ancient Chinese diction. Later, he devoted himself to education and taught in Liaodong for several years. After returning, he set up a "Yinyin House" to collect books. He lived in the library for 30 years. He collected all the engravers and copyists from the Song and Yuan Dynasty, and he was good at collating. The origins of editions, similarities and differences in writing, and changes in collections are all carefully examined. A catalog of rare books collected by the family is compiled as "Records of Rare Books", which is divided into four volumes: Classics, History, Zi, and Collection. Each book is recorded with the number of volumes, engravings, inscriptions, collection, etc. It was newly edited by his son-in-law Zhou Zimei, with a preface by Liu Chengqian. He is the author of "Two Masters of the Southern Tang Dynasty's Vocabulary Study", "Huanluo's Visit to Ancient Records", "Zhengsheng Ci", "Records of Siam", "Cultivation of Weeds", "Anthology of Poems and Essays of Gucaitang", "New Tang Poetry Romance" "etc.; is engraved with "Miao Yuan Cong Engraving".

Luo Fucheng

The eldest son Luo Fucheng (1885-1960), courtesy name Junmei, was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu. Graduated from the Veterinary Medicine Department of Waseda University in Japan. He is an expert in the study of ancient Chinese characters and a pioneer in the study of Xixia, Khitan and Jurchen scripts and has made contributions. In 1919, he published "A Textual Research and Interpretation of the Lotus Sutra Translated by the Western Xia Dynasty" and "The Collection of Chinese Classics of the Western Xia Dynasty", both of which were published by the Shandong Academic Society. The former examines and interprets the Lotus Sutra in Xixia script, while the latter classifies and arranges some Xixia script words for easy retrieval. In 1924, he copied the full text of "The Pearl in the Palm of Fan Han", which was published by his own Tianjin Yi'antang Bookstore. In 1932, he published "Examples of Rhymes", "Wenhai Miscellaneous Categories", "Miscellaneous Characters", "Juyongguan Stone Carvings", and "Reconstruction" in the "National Peking Library Journal" Volume 4, Issue 3, "Xixia Wen Special Issue" 17 papers including "The Induction Pagoda Monument of Huguo Temple" have been included in this volume. The Lithographic Printing Department of Lushun Library Collection Office published the Dictionary of Xixia Guoshu with the same pronunciation compiled and handwritten by Luo Fucheng. This is another reference book after "The Pearl in the Palm of Fan Han". Since a research monograph has been published on this book (see Li Fanwen's "Homophone Research", published by Ningxia People's Publishing House in 1986), it is not included in this volume.

Luo Fuchang

The third son, Luo Fuchang (1895-1921), was a Chinese ethnographer and expert on Xixia studies. The word is Junchu. In 1914, he wrote the book "A Brief Introduction to the National Script of the Western Xia Dynasty", in which he researched and found 23 radicals in the Western Xia writing contained in "The Pearl in the Palm". In 1932, he published "Records of the Russian Heishui's Visit to Ancient Times", "History of the Redemption of the Sutra of the Western Xia Dynasty", and "Explanation of the Volume 1 of the Dafang Guangfo Huayan Sutra" in the "Journal of the National Peking Library", Volume 4, No. 3 (Special Issue for Xixia) 5 papers including "Explanation of the Preface to the Publication of the Lotus Sutra of Wonderful Dharma", "Collected Notes on the History of Song Dynasty and Xia Guo Zhuan" (Part). Unfortunately, he died young, only 26 years old. Wang Guowei, a master of traditional Chinese culture, once wrote a biography to commemorate his death.

The fourth son, Luo Fubao (1899-1967), was given the courtesy name Junyu. Chinese paleographer, epigrapher, and Xixia scholar.

In 1918, he and his eldest brother Luo Fucheng compiled the seals collected by his father Luo Zhenyu into "The Essence of Ancient Seals of Xiao Penglai Pavilion". In 1924, he compiled "Dunhuang Lingshi" and so on. He was the only son of the Luo family who served as an administrator (head of the Secretariat of the Imperial Palace) in the Puppet Manchukuo regime. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Beijing. Around 1951, he also sold the manuscript of his father Luo Zhenyu's "Explanation of the Yin Ruins Book Deeds", which was discussed as the "Manuscript of King Luo Mai", to Chen Mengjia (after Chen's death, this manuscript was collected by the Institute of Archeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Luo Fuyi

The fifth son, Luo Fuyi (1905-1981), was a paleographist with the pseudonym Zixi and Zixi. He was named Xiweng after his 70s. Lecturer of the institute, associate researcher and business secretary of the Ministry of Culture, member of the Advisory Committee of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, director of the Chinese Archaeological Society, director of the Chinese Ancient Writing Society, director of the Hangzhou Xiling Seal Society, etc. He is very familiar with various ancient writing materials. In terms of research on ancient seals, he collected, identified, and studied a large number of ancient seals. During his research, he discovered that most of the official seals handed down from Qin, Han, Wei, Jin and other dynasties were buried by ancient people rather than worn during their lifetime. On the issue of dating of seals, he advocated combining the history of the official system, using words as a balance, and using the seal system as evidence, and made his own judgment. He also wrote many works on the compilation of ancient books, the copying, recording, and textual research of bronze inscriptions and rubbings. In terms of research on bamboo slips, he wrote "Copy of Bamboo Slips from Yangtian Lake and Yangjiawan Ancient Tombs in Changsha", which was an early work on the study of bamboo slips during the Warring States Period after liberation. He also made many important discoveries in it. When checking and interpreting the contents of the simplified texts, more than 20 ancient books were discovered, such as "Qi Sun Bin's Art of War" (i.e. "Qi Sun Zi"), "Thirteen Chapters of Sun Tzu", "Guan Zi", "Yan Zi", "Mo Zi" and other residual simplified books. Hundreds of pieces. He also discovered the "Calendar of the First Year of Guangyuan of the Han Dynasty", which is complete for the whole year and is the most complete handwritten calendar handed down from generation to generation. In addition, he also wrote the Xixia, Ba Si Ba and Khitan scripts. He has done some collection and research on ancient texts of ethnic minorities such as Chinese and Jurchen texts, and also participated in the compilation of Ming and Qing archives. He has authored 102 monographs and 114 papers. He has published more than 30 monographs and papers. There are nearly 80 articles, and the rest are yet to be published. In addition to devoting his life to the study of ancient seals, he also personally handles seals. He is also a famous seal master in China and has long been respected by scholars. Influenced by his influence, he loved making seals since he was a child. When he was seventeen, he published "Daishixuan Antique Seals"

Luo Jizu

Luo Jizu (1913-2002) was born in 1913. Born in Kyoto, Japan, from Shangyu, Zhejiang Province. He is a retired professor of the Institute of Ancient Books of Jilin University, an expert on Chinese history, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting, and a calligraphy and painting artist. His eldest grandson is Luo Zhenyu. The son of Fucheng, he lived with his grandfather since childhood and received strict court training. He studied ancient books and studied calligraphy and painting from a private school. He never went to school and did not obtain any academic qualifications, but he was familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics. "Donghua Lu" and other classics, he has learned a lot about literature and history, and has made great achievements in history, archaeology, literature, books, calligraphy and other fields. He has made outstanding contributions in philology and Northeastern history research at the age of 18. Assisted his grandfather Luo Zhenyu in compiling and publishing the "Chronology of Zhu Shihe". He wrote the "Collation of Liao History" at the age of 26, which established his academic status by collating the history of the Liao Dynasty based on the epitaphs and inscriptions of the Liao Dynasty. It is still an important reference book for studying the history of the Liao Dynasty. In October 1939, he served as a lecturer of the Chinese language course of the preparatory course of Shenyang Medical University. In 1942, he went to Japan to serve as a lecturer of the Department of Literature of Kyoto University, where he wrote the "Revised and Supplementary List of Liao History" and so on. In 1944, he resigned and returned to China. In 1946, he served as a clerk in Lushun City Education Bureau, responsible for sorting out his family's collection of more than 90,000 books and donating them to the country. In 1949, he served as a researcher at the Shenyang Museum. In 1955, he taught in the History Department of Northeast Renmin University (now Jilin University), and later served as director of the Document Research Office of the Institute of Ancient Books. Luo Jizu is a member of the Jiusan Society, an academic member of the Chinese Historical Literature Research Association, a former member of the Changchun CPPCC, and concurrently deputy director of the Cultural and Historical Committee. He inherited and applied his grandfather's textual research methods of the Qianjia School of the Qing Dynasty, and successively wrote "A Research on the Same Name in Different Places in the Spring and Autumn Period", "Chronology of Zhu Jihe (Zhu Jun)", "Chronology of Cheng Yichou (Cheng Yaotian)", "Chronology of Li Xuanyuan" There are 9 kinds of monographs including "Chronology of Li Tianzhi", "Chronology of Duan Maotang (Duan Yucai)", "Biography of Prime Ministers of the Ming Dynasty", "Biography of Mao Wenlong", "The Legacy of Lao Lian (Chen Hongshou)", and "Genealogy Table of Liao and Han Dynasties". In his later years, he successively wrote and published "Annals of Travels in Yongfeng Township" (Chronicle of Luo Zhenyu), "Memories of the Court - Recalling the Life of Grandfather Luo Zhenyu", "Yuyu in the Fengchuang", "Lu of Yihu", "Liang Qi" "Chronology customized by the owner of the Xuan", "Gan Ru's manuscripts", "The remaining ink in the Xuetang", etc. He also co-authored "Annotations on Yajiang Xingbu Chronicles", "Collection of Xuetang's Academic Treatises", "Supplement to the Complete Works of Mr. Luo Xuetang", "The Death of Wang Guowei" and other works.

Luo Chengzu is the grandson of Luo Zhenyu and the son of Luo Fubao. He returned from studying medicine in Japan and is a famous pediatrician. The wife is a descendant of Prince Aixinjue Luochun of the Qing royal family and the fifth grandson of Emperor Daoguang.

Luo Suizu, courtesy name Muhong, grandson of Luo Zhenyu, Luo Fuyi was born in Beijing in February 1952. He is currently a famous appraisal expert at the China Family Appraisal and Collection Network, an associate researcher at the Forbidden City, a teaching expert at the Training Department of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society, and an appraisal expert at the Beijing Cultural Relics Appraisal Center. He is mainly engaged in research on epigraphic archeology and museum cultural relics.

Influenced by his family since he was a child, he was taught ancient Chinese writing by his mother and uncle at the age of 5, and practiced calligraphy based on calligraphy. As he grew older, he followed his father to learn how to engrave, identify, and copy ancient Chinese characters. When he was just a teenager, he encountered adversity, but he still carried on his family education. In 1979, he completed the book "Supplement to the Collection of Chinese Seal Characters", which was published by Cultural Relics Publishing House. In 1980, he entered the Palace Museum, where he organized and researched ancient seals, and participated in the editing of "Ancient Seals Collection", "Ancient Seals Collection", "Selection of Ancient Seals from the Palace Museum Collection" (Two Types), "Examination of Official Seals of Western Xia", " "Official Seals of the Qin, Han, Southern and Northern Dynasties Zhengcun" and other books, especially the book "Zhengcun", a lot of extremely important and meticulous work was done to improve and publish this book.

Luo Weiguo was born in Dalian, Liaoning in 1954. The son of Luo Chengzu. Luo Weiguo is currently the vice president of Dalian Culture Promotion Association, vice president of Dalian Oracle Bone Literature Association, and Dalian Charity Ambassador. During his calligraphy career, he copied a large number of his great-grandfather's works and famous steles and calligraphy collected by his family. There are oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, stone drum inscriptions, small seal script, official script, running script, etc. His representative works include the Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra, Infinite Life Sutra, Tao Te Ching, etc., which are collected by many monasteries, Taoist temples and people from all walks of life at home and abroad. In the art of oracle bone calligraphy, it not only adheres to the original form and meaning of the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed, but also artistically advances the oracle bone calligraphy with the times, creating its own unique style. In addition, replicating oracle bone fragments and carving oracle bone inscriptions allow more people to intuitively experience the five thousand years of splendid cultural treasures of the Chinese nation.