Qi Gong was born to a Manchu family of Aisin Gioro imperial clan, and was a descendant of the Emperor Yongzheng. He followed Chen Yuan, one of the four greatest modern historians, and dedicated his lifetime to research and education of art and literature history, short stories and poetries. Hence Qi worked in the Fujen University, the Chinese Faculty of the Beijing Normal University, the National Palace Museum, the National Museum of China and the Xiling Seal Art Society. He was acclaimed as a modern calligrapher, a connoisseur of ancient paintings and a scholar in stone rubbings. His calligraphy took reference to Liu Gong-Quan with a unique individual style, widely acclaimed as the Qigong Calligraphy. His paintings took reference to traditional methods, specializing in depicting landscape, bamboo and rocks. Blank spaces were used to highlight his influence of the Southern School to accentuate gradiosity of scholarly paintings.