Zheng Banqiao was born in the thirty-second year of Kangxi (1693). During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors moved to Xinghua City. His grandfather was an official in charge of education, his grandfather Wang was a wizard and scholar, his father was a disciple at home, and his students were widely distributed all over the world. Therefore, Zheng Banqiao was born in a scholarly family and received a good literary influence from an early age. Even he himself said that "Banqiao is literary, mostly foreign."
Zheng Banqiao's achievements.
Zheng Banqiao's main artistic activity in his life was in Yangzhou. At that time, Yangzhou's economy developed rapidly, and the field of culture and art was prosperous. In the 17 and 18 centuries, a number of anti-traditional heretical painters emerged in Yangzhou, with eight representatives, including Wang and Wang. Their painting style is unique in the whole country, breaking the previous painting style of worshipping flowers and birds and injecting a fresh breath into the painting world in the middle of Qing Dynasty.
Among them, Zheng Banqiao's achievements are particularly outstanding in Yangzhou School of Painting, and his "calligraphy and painting poems" have the reputation of "three musts". At the same time, "three musts have three truths, namely, true spirit, true meaning and true interest." He is especially good at painting orchids, bamboos and stones, and his works are sought after by people.