The developed economy, the rise of urban culture, developed transportation and cultural exchanges between the East and the West in the Yuan Dynasty made the art of the Yuan Dynasty diversified. In painting, literati painting has become the mainstream, paying attention to personal and calligraphy expression, and its style is quite different from that of court painting which emphasizes decoration in Yuan Dynasty. Zhao Meng in the early Yuan Dynasty? Higher people advocate retro, return to the style of Tang and Northern Song Dynasty, and put calligraphy into painting, creating a Yuan painting style that emphasizes charm, rhythm and subjective lyricism. In the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, four masters of zaju, such as Huang, Wang Meng, Ni Zan and Zhenwu, dominated, with Huang as the crown. They pin their lofty personality on painting, symbolizing seclusion with plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, pine and stone. Huang initiated the "Shallow Descending Landscape", which is based on ink fishhooks and dominated by ochre. Because Yuan people painted on paper with dry pen, it was different from Song people's painting on silk. In addition to painting, landscape painting also adds the effect of rubbings, just like China's calligraphy. In order to make the poem inscribed on the top of the picture, a corner was specially set aside to write the poem written by myself, which made the poem, book and painting integrated and influenced the Chinese painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties to this day. Qian Xuan was the most famous flower and bird in Yuan Dynasty. He studied the painting style of Zhao Chang, a poet of the Song Dynasty, and had a strong taste for elegance. Others such as Zhao Meng, Zhao Yong, Chen Lin and Liu Guandao are also famous for being good at flowers and birds.
The core figure of calligraphy in Yuan Dynasty was Zhao Meng? His calligraphy was deeply influenced by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His regular script "Zhao Ti" is known as the European style, Yan style and Liu style of regular script in Tang Dynasty, which has become the main calligraphy style of later generations, showing the style of "gentle and elegant" and "elegant and elegant". Aesthetics tends to be elegant and detached, which is related to getting a spiritual liberation. Xian Yushu and Zhao Meng? The same name, but slightly less influence, especially good at running script and cursive script. Deng was a calligrapher at that time, good at Cao Zhang, and a rare master who studied this ancient calligraphy style. Li Kang is a little later than Zhao Meng? , also known as cursive script, is a representative figure of minority calligraphers.