Jiang Weisong, a famous contemporary philologist and calligrapher, was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1915, graduated from the Chinese Department of the Central University of Nanjing in 1938, and served as an assistant professor at the Central University, a lecturer at the Guangxi University, and an associate professor and professor at the Chinese Department of the Shandong University. He has served as deputy director of the Chinese Department of Shandong University, deputy director of the Institute of Literature, History and Philosophy, member of the Cultural and Historical Museum of Shandong Province, advisor to the Xiling Seal Society, academic member of the Chinese Society of Exegesis, deputy editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of the Chinese Language, vice president of the Linguistic Society of Shandong Province, and chairman of the Calligraphers Association of Shandong Province, etc. He was appointed as a special professor of Shandong University in 2001, and became the supervisor of doctoral students of the School of Literature and Journalism and Communication, specializing in the Chinese Linguistics Program of Characteristics (including Calligraphy). He is the supervisor of doctoral students in the School of Literature and Journalism and Communication. Together with Wei Qihou, Chen Zuohuang, Gao Xiaoyan and Zong Wicheng, he is known as the “Five Elders of Shandong”.