For generations, there are numerous accomplished poets, calligraphers and painter. However, it is a rarity , even among ancient masters, for a single intellectual soul to embrace major accomplishments in literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, poems, calligraphy and painting. We could include Su Shi in Song, and Zhao I-jiang and Fang I-che in Ming. In the 20th and 21st Centuries, Professor Jao Tsung-I is the leading figure. This publication combines pictorials with descriptions. More than 100 pieces of the works of Professor Jao are included in the first hand materials are, inter alia, numerous interviews with Professor Jao. The purpose here is to have the accomplishments of Professor Jao Tsung-I properly documented, so that his art will be better understood, and thus appreciated.
