The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou mainly refer to Zheng Xie, Luo Pin, Huang Shen, Li Fangying, Gao Xiang, Jin Nong, Li Wei and Wang Shishen
Eight Eccentrics" is a sentence Yangzhou slang refers to people or things in daily life that are slightly out of the ordinary but harmless. It is a later thing that the "Eight Eccentrics" were used to refer to a group of calligraphers and painters who were active in Yangzhou in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Personality, this kind of publicity means departure and rebellion from traditional painting and calligraphy. Zheng Banqiao's "Six-and-a-half-point Calligraphy", Jin Dongxin's "Lacquer Calligraphy", Wang Chaolin's "Plum Blossoms", Luo The "ghost pictures" of Liangfeng and so on were always a bit "weird" in the eyes of people at the time. For Yangzhou people who were used to seeing orthodox calligraphy and painting, on the one hand, they had great curiosity and freshness about the heresy. On the other hand, they had to ridicule them from a traditional standpoint because of their psychological stereotypes.