Zhao Mengfu Zi 'ang, whose real name is Song Xuedao, is from Huzhou, Zhejiang. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's 1 1 grandson, 14 years old, filled the shadow of the official father. /kloc-When I was 0/9 years old, I tried to be a supervisor in China and noticed that the real national manager joined the army. After Song died, he lived in the village and read angrily. In the 23rd year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286), Cheng Jufu, the platform censor, wrote a letter to search for the legacy of Jiangnan, and Zhao Mengfu was recommended. In the second year, he was awarded a doctor of training and a doctor of the Ministry of War.
In the twenty-seventh year of Zhiyuan, he was promoted to bachelor's degree and doctor's degree in Jixian County. In the 29th year of Zhiyuan (1292), he joined the DPRK as a doctor and was also the general manager of Jinan Road.
Since then, his official career has been flourishing. During the Five Dynasties, he served as an official in Yuan Shizu, Yuan Chengzong, Yuan Wuzong, Yuan Renzong and Yuan Yingzong, and received a bachelor's degree in Hanlin. Although Zhao Mengfu was prominent, he didn't make much achievements in politics, because his position was similar to that of a literary squire.
Zhao Mengfu's achievements:
Zhao Mengfu is not only an official, but also an artist. Zhao Mengfu dabbled in calligraphy, painting, poetry and other fields. In painting, Zhao Mengfu is good at landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, and is the originator of literati painting in Yuan Dynasty. His works handed down from generation to generation include Fu Juan of Luoshen and Pictures of Men and Women.
Zhao Mengfu is good at official script, cursive script, regular script and running script, and created the "Zhao Ti" book, which is called "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan. Works handed down from ancient times include Six-body Thousand-character Works and The Story of Miao Yan Temple. Zhao Mengfu is also good at writing poems, and his main works are Song Xuezhai's Collected Works.
Zhao Mengfu was an influential calligrapher in the early Yuan Dynasty. "Biography of the History of Yuan Dynasty" records: "Meng Yi's calligraphy is the best in the world, so the book is the theme of the world." Praise. According to Song Lian, a scholar, Zhao's calligraphy learned Lingling's Eight Intellectuals in his early years, Zhong You and Fairy in his middle years and books in his later years.
In addition, he also visited Dingding Monument in Yuan and Wei Dynasties, Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang in Tang Dynasty, which was a great achievement of predecessors. As Wen Jia said, "Gong Wei's calligraphy is superior to the ancients, and they are all imitations." Therefore, Zhao's success in calligraphy is inseparable from his ability to learn from other people's long sentences.