Zheng Banqiao is known as Mr Banqiao, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, and his ancestral home is Suzhou. In the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi (17 16), she married Mrs. Xu. In the seventh year of Yongzheng (1730), at the age of 39, his wife Xu was ill.
After two years in Qianlong (1737), he stayed in Beijing for about a year, trying to be an official, but without success. He returned to Yangzhou in the south and married Rao under the sponsorship of Cheng from Jiangxi. Qianlong nine years (1744), my concubine Rao Sheng. In the 30th year of Qianlong (176565438+1October 22nd), Banqiao died of illness and was buried in Ruanzhuang, Chengguan, xinghua city at the age of 73.
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Zheng Banqiao had two sons who died young, so he adopted his disciple Yantian as his heir.
Zheng Banqiao painted orchids, bamboos and stones all his life. His poems, paintings and calligraphy, known as the "three wonders" in the world, are more representative literati painters in the Qing Dynasty. The representative works include Xiuzhu Niigata Map, Guangqing Photography Map, Zhu Lan Fangxin Map, Gangu Juquan Map, Cong Lan Thorn Map, etc.
Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, which is a mixture of official script and running script, calls itself "six and a half books" and is called "Banqiao Book". The composition of Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy works has its own characteristics, such as size, length, Fiona Fang, fatness and density, such as "paving the way with stones", which contains laws in the vertical arrangement.
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