Gu Min's introduction

Gu Min was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. He was a famous painter, poet and scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, and had close contacts with celebrities such as Dong Qichang and Chen Jiru. Gu Min was smart and knowledgeable since he was a child. He is good at calligraphy, painting and poetry, especially calligraphy. His calligraphy style was unique, with both the style of Jin and Tang Dynasties and the spirit of Song and Yuan Dynasties, and he enjoyed a high reputation at that time.

Gu Min's calligraphy works are mainly running script and cursive script, as well as regular script and official script. His running script works, such as Moonlit Night on a Spring River and Preface to Lanting Collection, are fluent in font and full of charm, which fully shows his profound calligraphy skills and unique artistic style. Cursive works, such as Autobiographical Notes and Four Ancient Poems, are unrestrained, unpredictable and of high artistic value.

Besides calligraphy, Gu Min's painting achievements can not be ignored. He is good at landscape painting, figures, flowers and birds, and his works have distinct personalities. His landscape paintings are ingenious in composition, dripping with ink and wash, magnificent in picture and with great visual impact. His figure paintings are fluent and vivid, showing the unique temperament and charm of the characters.

As a poet, Gu Min's works are famous for their freshness, refinement and profound artistic conception. Most of his poems are based on landscapes and rural areas, which shows his love for natural beauty and yearning for a quiet life. Among them, The Poems of Junshan is one of his representative works, which contains a large number of pastoral poems created by him and shows his artistic achievements in poetry.

Gu Min is also a famous scholar, who has made great achievements in literature, history, philosophy and other fields. His academic works, Biography of Gu's Family and Ping Yi in the Spring and Autumn Period, have had a far-reaching impact on later generations.

Generally speaking, Gu Min is an outstanding artist and scholar with many talents. His calligraphy, painting and poetry, as well as his academic achievements, left a valuable cultural heritage for future generations.