The stories about Zhao Mengfu are:
1. Spring Titles
During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a man named Zhao in Yangzhou who was wealthy and liked to entertain guests. There is Mingyue Tower in his home. People write Spring Festival couplets for the building, but most of them fail to meet the owner's ideas. One day, Zhao Mengfu passed by Yangzhou. The master knew about it and welcomed him to the Mingyue Tower. He entertained him with a sumptuous banquet with silver utensils.
After half the wine tour, the host took out a pen and paper and asked Zhao Mengfu to write Spring Festival couplets for him. Zhao Mengfu picked up the pen and wrote: "Three thousand guests in Langyuan in the spring breeze, the first floor of Yangzhou in the bright moon." After the owner got the Spring Festival couplets, he was very happy, took off all the wine utensils and gave them to Zhao Mengfu.
2. Clothing event
Zhao Mengfu entered the Yuan Dynasty as a doctor in the Ministry of War on the recommendation of Cheng Jufu. Later, when Cheng Jufu was appointed as a Hanlin scholar, he resigned and returned home. The court ordered Zhao Mengfu to replace him. After Zhao Mengfu took office, he first paid a visit to Cheng Jufu, and then entered the Hanlin Academy to take charge of affairs. This incident was rumored to be a good story among scholar-bureaucrats at the time.
Extended information:
Zhao Mengfu was erudite and versatile, and created a generation of literature and art. He is good at all kinds of paintings, including landscapes based on Dong Yuan and Li Cheng; figures, pommel horses based on Li Gonglin and the Tang Dynasty; ink painting on bamboo, flowers and birds, all of which are famous for their round and green brushwork.
Use the flying white method to draw stone, and use calligraphy to write bamboo with a pen. He advocated reforming the style of the Southern Song Dynasty, claiming that "the most important thing in painting is to have an ancient meaning. If there is no ancient meaning, no matter how precise it is, it will be useless."
Following the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, people at that time praised him for having the "zhi" of the Tang people and the "heroic" of the Northern Song people, and removed the "fineness" and "roughness" in both, creating the Yuan Dynasty. New style of painting. Wang Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty once said: "Literati painting started from the east slope, until the pine and snow opened the door."