Some of the great calligraphers of the past took a different tack, often whipping off works while drinking or drunk.

Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322), great calligrapher in Yuan dynasty.

Wu Changshuo 吴昌硕 (1844-1927), great calligrapher.

Reverend Attaya AlMeqdesi in 1517, a writer and a great calligrapher.

In the area of calligraphy many of the great calligraphers were from the Yuan Dynasty era.

He is a really great calligrapher.

In the year 1058 AD, Ibrahim a great calligrapher who wrote Koran with his own pen, became king.

Zhao Mengfu, a great calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty, engraved the name as it features on the pavilion.

They were originally by the great 17th-century calligrapher Seyyid Kasim Gubari of Diyarbakır but have been repeatedly restored.

And as is the case with all great calligraphers, he remains a living presence in Chinese culture.