BiographyNiu Shuyu: style name: Feishi; sobriquet: Lantian, a native of Wu county of Jiangsu. Well traveled around the Qin (Shanxi), Lu (Shandong), Wu (Jiangsu) and Chu (Hanan-Hubei) areas, Niu pursued textual research on classical texts, taking rubbings of old stone carvings, studying classics, and carving seals.