Qing · Scholar and Student

He Chao 何焯

Attested AD 1662 - AD 1722

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

He Chao was a scholar and Student.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1677 康熙十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 271, passage 90
AD 1709 to AD 1715 康熙間光地客
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passages 32, 36
AD 1662 to AD 1722 明、清之際以後江左書家
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 15

Key source chapters

Career and standing

calligrapher 書人
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Associated
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 15
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Lived under
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
At Jiangzuo (lower Yangtze) 江左 · Relation Active in
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 15

Learning and skills

Skill small regular script 小真書 · Level ranked · Domain calligraphy 書
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

Events and relationships

placed in fine grade, upper rank for small regular script 佳品上，小真書
Critical · Subject · Ranked · With Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
Relation Protege of · Person Li Guangdi (李光地)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 36
Relation Fellow protege with · Person Xu Yongxi (徐用錫)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 36
Relation Stylistic near · Person Wen Zhengming (文徵明)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 16
Relation Student of · Person Weng Shuyuan (翁叔元)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 271, passage 90

Assessments and attributes

fine grade, upper rank: small regular script 佳品上，小真書
Assessment fine grade, upper rank · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 271Volume 271 Biographies 58: Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Gao Shiqi · 2 passages

叔元愛才而褊隘，何焯在門下，初甚賞之； Shuyuan loved talent but was petty; He Chao studied under him and was highly regarded at first;

叔元疎劾湯斌，焯請削門生籍，叔元擯之，竟不得成名。 when Shuyuan impeached Tang Bin, Chao asked to be struck from his register of disciples; Shuyuan cast him out, and he never won recognition.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 503Volume 503 Biographies 290: Yi Shu Er · 4 passages

自明、清之際，工書者，河北以王鐸、傅山為冠，繼則江左王鴻緒、姜宸英、何焯、汪士鋐、張照等，接踵而起，多見他傳。 From the Ming-Qing transition onward, the leading calligraphers of Hebei were Wang Duo and Fu Shan; in the lower Yangtze region Wang Hongxu, Jiang Chenying, He Chao, Wang Shihong, Zhang Zhao, and others followed in quick succession—most of whom are treated in other biographies.

大抵淵源出於明文徵明、董其昌兩家，鴻緒、照為董氏嫡派，焯及澍則於文氏為近。 Their lineages for the most part traced back to the Ming masters Wen Zhengming and Dong Qichang: Hongxu and Zhao were direct heirs of Dong Qichang's tradition, while He Chao and Wang Shu stood closer to Wen Zhengming's.

用錫鄉舉出姜宸英之門，與何焯同為光地客，論書多與二家相出入。 Yongxi had passed the provincial examination under Jiang Chenying; he and He Chao were both protégés of Li Guangdi, and his views on calligraphy largely aligned with, yet sometimes diverged from, those two masters.

佳品上二十二人，沈荃真書，王鴻緒行書，先著行書，查士標行書，汪士鋐真書，何焯小真書，陳奕禧行書，陳鵬年行書，徐良行書，蔣衡真書，於振行書，趙知希草書，孔繼涑行書，稽璜真書，錢澧行書，桂馥分書，翁方綱小真書，張燕昌小真書，康基田行書，錢坫篆書，谷際岐行書，洪梧小真書； Fine grade, upper rank, twenty-two artists: Shen Quan in regular script, Wang Hongxu in running script, Xian Zhu in running script, Zha Shibiao in running script, Wang Shihong in regular script, He Chao in small regular script, Chen Yixi in running script, Chen Pengnian in running script, Xu Liang in running script, Jiang Heng in regular script, Yu Zhen in running script, Zhao Zhixi in cursive script, Kong Jisu in running script, Ji Huang in regular script, Qian Li in running script, Gui Fu in clerical script, Weng Fanggang in small regular script, Zhang Yanchang in small regular script, Kang Jitian in running script, Qian Dian in seal script, Gu Jiqiao in running script, and Hong Wu in small regular script;