Shen Lao, who studied in Japan for the second time in his early years, taught in Peking University and Beijing Women's Normal University successively after returning home, and worked with Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun and Hu Shi to run New Youth, which was an effective fighter of the New Culture Movement. Chen Duxiu once criticized Shen for being "vulgar in words", so their relationship was not good. 1925, in the "female normal university agitation", Shen Lao, Lu Xun, Qian and others jointly issued a declaration to support the students' just struggle. Recommended by Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng, he became the director of Hebei Education Department and the president of Beiping University. 1932, dissatisfied with the government's crackdown on student movements and expulsion of students, resolutely resigned and went south to Shanghai as the director of the Sino-French Cultural Exchange and Publication Committee. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, at the invitation of Yu Youren, president of the People's Procuratorate, he went to Chongqing as a member of the People's Procuratorate. He tried to impeach Kong Xiangxi and was dissatisfied with the corruption of the government. He resigned after his victory, lived in Shanghai and lived a poor life, which shows Mr. Shen's integrity. 1 971June1day, Shen, a great calligrapher persecuted by the Cultural Revolution, died in Shanghai at the age of 88. Mr. Shen is the first democrat visited by Mr. Chen Yi after he entered the city. He is a member of the first Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the deputy director of the Central Museum of Literature and History appointed by Premier Zhou Enlai, a member of previous Shanghai Municipal People's Committees, a representative of the National People's Congress and a member of the China People's Political Consultative Conference. After 1949, he took part in CPPCC, the Municipal Museum, the Municipal Cultural Management Committee, the China Painting Academy, the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Municipal Museum of Literature and History, and personally founded the first calligraphy organization after the founding of New China, the Shanghai China Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Research Association, which made outstanding contributions to the prosperity of the motherland's cultural undertakings, especially to China's calligraphy art and theory. Chairman Mao once met him and spoke highly of his works and artistic achievements. The first page of Zhongnanhai calligraphy and painting collection is the calligraphy written by Shen Lao to the chairman. The word Shen Lao has been hung in the prime minister's home and office. He is the author of "A restricted view of the calligraphy of the two kings" and "Interpretation of wives and concubines from the experience of famous scholars in previous dynasties". The main calligraphy collections and copybooks published are Shen Calligraphy Collection, Four Drafts of Shen Shoushu Ci, Shen Shu Ci Ink, etc. There are about 20 kinds. His poetry works include Zashi in Tyumen Room, Long and Short Sentences in Tyumen Room, etc.