Xing Wu (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province) was originally from Lanxi, Wuzhou. From the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty, he was an official, calligrapher, painter and poet, his grandson, the direct descendant of Zhao, and the king of Qin.
The main influence of Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu is well-read and versatile, and literature and art create a generation of ethos. He is also good at all kinds of paintings, including landscape paintings by Dong Yuan and Li Cheng. Characters, pommel horse teacher, Li and Tang people; Bamboo, flowers and birds are all known for their mellow and elegant brushwork, painting stones with flying white and writing bamboo with calligraphy.
He strongly advocated changing the style of quadrangles in the Southern Song Dynasty, claiming that "painting is expensive because it has an ancient meaning, even if there is no ancient meaning, it is useless to be meticulous". He was far behind the statutes of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty. People praised him for his "ambition" in the Tang Dynasty and "heroism" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and removed their "slimness" and "preciseness", thus creating a new atmosphere of painting style in the Yuan Dynasty. Amin Wang Shizhen once said: "Scholars painted from Dongpo to Song Xue."
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhao Mengfu