强芳,是一个看似“不起眼”,实际“有能耐”的年轻后生,我与他接触约莫十年的光景了。他不是我的学生,可算作“门生”。90年代初,在他攻读江苏教育学院美术本科时,经我的好友,他在宜兴家乡的老师许亦华先生引荐,便叩门寒舍,开始向我讨教书法篆刻。说是门生,其实他也不常登门。偶尔上门,因他的禀性木讷近乎“闷罐子”;所以每次接触,都是我对他的习作评头论足,他都一声不吭,令我未置可否。但之后不 Strong Fang, is a seemingly “humble”, the actual “capable” of young afterlife, I contact him for about ten years of the scene. He is not my student, can be counted as “disciple.” In the early 1990s, when he was studying for the undergraduate course of Art Education at Jiangsu Education Institute, after my friend, Mr. Xu Yihua, his teacher in his hometown of Yixing, made a recommendation, he knocked on the door and started to consult with me on calligraphy and seal cutting. That is a disciple, in fact, he does not often come. Occasionally, because of his innocent adolescents almost “boring jar”; so each contact, are my comments on his work, he did not say anything, so I have no alternative. But no later