Mi Fu, a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and theorist of calligraphy and painting in the Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Taiyuan and he moved to Xiangyang. He has great talent, poor character, and is obsessed with cleanliness. It was imitated by people from the Tang Dynasty and stored more rare stones. The world name is Midian. Calligraphy and painting are in a class of their own. Good at identification. He once served as school secretary, doctor of calligraphy and painting, and wailang of the Ministry of Etiquette. He is good at poetry and calligraphy, and is good at calligraphy styles such as seal script, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script. He is good at copying ancient calligraphy to the point of imitating the real calligraphy. One of the four families of Song Dynasty.
Mi Youren is the eldest son of Mi Fu, a calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was deeply appreciated by Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty. He inherited and developed Mi Fu's landscape techniques and established the special expression method of "Mi's Cloud Mountain", which is to express The landscape is famous for its hazy, ethereal changes after the rain. The father and son are known as Da and Xiaomi. In his early years, he was well-known for his calligraphy and painting. In the fourth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1122), he was selected to take charge of calligraphy. After moving south, he was favored by Emperor Gaozong. He became Minister of the Ministry of War and a direct bachelor of Fuwen Pavilion. Emperor Zhaogou once ordered him to appraise the law. Book. However, when it comes to identifying calligraphy and painting, "there is often a tendency to cater to those who prefer it." Although he is not as good at calligraphy as his father, he is like a descendant of the Wang and Xie families, but he has his own style.