The Calligrapher — Yú Hé 俞和

Yuan calligrapher of refined regular and running-cursive script.

Yuan calligrapher (), master of regular script/running-cursive — known for 学赵孟頫. Yuan dynasty

Cultural Story

One spring night in Luoyang, Li Bai heard a flute drift from somewhere unseen and asked, shei jia yu di an fei sheng, whose jade flute steals through the dark. The character shei opens the poem like a window, turning a sound into a question of origin and home. Across the tangshi the word keeps that lonely habit of wondering who, among strangers, shares a thought or a grief.

Common words & phrases

• 谁人 who · whom
• 谁家 whose family · who
• 谁料 who would have expected
• 谁边 where · which side

Read the story behind the character

A phone lights up with an unknown caller, and the receiver thinks shei before answering. A child asks shei jia dog barked at the gate, and a friend texts shei liao that the trip would be canceled, who could have guessed. The character shei still opens the everyday gap between a voice and a name, the small puzzle of who stands behind the sound.