Ma Xiaoping was born in April, 1958 and came from Longqi County, Sichuan province. After graduated from senior high school in 1976, he became a literate youngster in the sixth detachment of the sixth brigade in Xinhua commune in Longchang County, Sichuan Province. Ma Xiaoping joint the PLA in 1978 and served as a secretary in the individual installation company of Army Corps of Engineers of Shenyang military region in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province. Since he loved calligraphy when he was a child, he practiced it when he was free in the army. He felt very pity that the wasted newspaper was used to light a fire by the cookhouse squad, so after asked the commander’s permission, he practiced calligraphy on those newspapers before the cookhouse squad used it to light a fire. His comrade-in-arms couldn’t understand why he did like so. After practicing for a period of time, a calligrapher said that his calligraphy was lack of strength of strokes and he felt very confused at that time. Sometimes later, Ma Xiaoping came across with a piece of finger calligraphy called A Night Anchorage near the Feng Bridge written by a calligrapher in Qing dynasty, which is full of forceful strokes and graceful. Ma was fully enlightened and he thought why I don’t try to practice finger calligraphy? Since then, he began his journey of finger calligraphy.