The peach blossom that opened in the Yuan Dynasty said that Zhao Mengfu had lived a contradictory and glorious life as a calligrapher in reading books and writing words.
Zhao Mengfu was a royal family in the Song Dynasty. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Cheng Jufu was asked by Yuan Shizu to collect the survivors of the Song Dynasty and introduced him to the Dynasty. Finally, he became an official and became a scholar of Hanlin. As a former royal family, his move is naturally contradictory. First, his own contradictions, the scorpion occupies the nest, and the magpie turns to work for the dove, and the suffering in the magpie's heart can be imagined; However, as pointed out by public opinion, Zhao Mengfu's evaluation at that time and later generations was mostly weak, disrespectful and spineless, etc. At that time, his nephew broke up with him, which was even more unbearable than his own contradictions, so he indulged in painting and calligraphy to avoid the condemnation of real life and conscience and tried his best to return to the classical artistic life, which was also a negative confrontation for the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. He once wrote a poem, in which he said, "Give gifts to non-relatives and friends, and vegetables are often not enough to eat." It can be seen that when he was not an official in the DPRK, he was embarrassed when he just changed from a royal family to a common people, and he had no choice but to do so for food and clothing in his life. In the poem, he also said, "It used to be a gull on the water, but now it is a caged bird." This shows the contradiction from the inside out. However, Zhao Mengfu's talents in all aspects are outstanding, and it is impossible to bury them just for a simple "dishonor". He can write, poem, book, paint, music, learn Buddhism and Taoism, and appreciate them well. Personally, I think that it is a great loss for China to lose such a talent in the history of China without becoming an official in the DPRK. So Zhao Mengfu himself is contradictory, the public opinion at that time is contradictory, and the judgment of later generations is also contradictory.