( 1254~ 1322)? Writers and artists in yuan dynasty. Zi Ziang,no. Song Xuedao. Huzhou (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang) people. Born in the imperial clan of Song Dynasty. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, he joined the army as a secretariat for (now Yizheng, Jiangsu). After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, he lived at home. In the 23rd year of Zhiyuan (1286), Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu sent someone to visit famous people in the south of the Yangtze River in order to win over the landlord class in the south, and Zhao Mengfu called.
To Dadu, he served as a doctor of the Ministry of War and a bachelor of Jixian County, and later served as a local official in Jinan, Fenzhou (now Fenyang, Shanxi) and Taizhou. In his junior year (13 10), he was recalled to Beijing and successively served as a bachelor of Hanlin and a bachelor of Jixian. Yan Chou for three years (13 16), Bachelor of Hanlin (from Grade One). The Yuan Dynasty implemented the four-class system, and Zhao Mengfu was an official for southerners, which was a rare favor at that time. But in fact, he has held some idle positions for a long time and has not played much role in politics.
Zhao Mengfu has made great achievements in poetry, melody, calligraphy, painting and antique appraisal. His poems are fresh and natural and occupy an important position in the Yuan Dynasty. In calligraphy, he advocates retro, learns from others and is unique. He was called "Zhao Ti" and had a great influence on later generations. In painting, Zhao Mengfu is good at landscapes, pommel horses, flowers and birds, and figures. He opposed the courtyard style in the Southern Song Dynasty, initiated a generation of atmosphere and became the leader of the painting circle in the Yuan Dynasty.
There are ten volumes of poetry anthology of Song Xuezhai. Calligraphy novels, poems and literary works handed down from generation to generation include Qiu Ai's Epitaph and Xu Xi's Tombstone. Paintings, novels, poems and literary works include "Quehua Autumn Color Map" and "Drinking Horses in Autumn Suburbs".