After Feng turned 70, he created a new calligraphic form by combining classicism and romanticism, thereby becoming an outstanding master in Chinese calligraphy and painting circles.

Feng once wrote a poem of Li Dongquan from South Korea, including a sentence "Knowledge makes a man elegant and venerable." The sentence not only expressed his expectation of the young learners, but also was a summary of his decades of calligraphic and painting practices.

  Dreaming to Be Like Xu Xiake

Travel is another one of Feng's besides academic studies, calligraphy and. He has been to many places during the past decades, visiting Northwest China's Gansu Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region six and seven times respectively; he even reached the 4,000-5,000-meter Khunjerab Pass at the age of 75. The more rarely visited by human beings the place is, the more excited he gets.

He also wrote many poems on his trips, all of which enjoy good popularity. In one of his poems, Feng expressed his wish to be like Xu Xiake, a famous traveler in ancient China who left footsteps in numerous places throughout 16 provinces in East, North, Southeast, and Southwest China and who kept a travel log during his trips.

As Feng is also interested in many other things, his remarkable achievements in the studies of A Dream of Red Mansions must have been a result of his broad and profound knowledge.

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