Brief introduction of Zhao Meng, a calligrapher, painter and writer in Yuan Dynasty.

Zhao Meng was a calligrapher, painter and writer in Yuan Dynasty. He is versatile and knows calligraphy, painting, poetry, seal cutting and so on. And has a wide range of influence. Celebrity Shi, whose real name is Zi Ang, was born in Lu and Shuijinggong Road. Huzhou. Zhao Meng began to practice calligraphy at the age of five. For decades, he always got up every morning. After washing, he lit incense and buried himself in writing. Practice hundreds of words a day and write thousands at most. In his early years, he copied thousands of words from the records of Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection in Jin Dynasty gradually reached the point where the fake was confused with the real. According to legend, there was a calligrapher named Tian Liangqing. One day, he bought a roll of thousands of words from the street and took it home to check it carefully. At first, he thought it was the brushwork of the Tang Dynasty, but in the end he found that it was written by Zhao Meng. Yes, he took this book with thousands of words and went to Zhao Meng for an inscription. After reading it carefully, Zhao Meng said with a smile, this is the word I wrote a few years ago. At that time, I copied the Monument to Mencius written by Chu Suiliang, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, so I wrote it this way. Unexpectedly, the words I practiced casually also sold for money. Zhao Meng believes that calligraphy must learn from the ancients before it can be self-sufficient. Therefore, he collected ancient posts extensively and carefully copied the handwriting of many calligraphers. Over time, he can master seal script, official script, regular script, calligraphy and cursive script, and integrate the strengths of various schools to form his own unique calligraphy style. His calligraphy is called Zhao Ti or Zhao Zi. At the age of 20, encouraged by his mother, Zhao Meng went to Aoji, a famous local Confucian scholar, to learn classics and painting from the painter Qian Xuan. After years of hard study, he has made great progress in learning and painting skills. From 65438 to 0986, after Zhao Meng became an official, he never delayed his calligraphy and painting practice, despite his official duties. With the passage of time, his painting style gradually matured. Especially good at drawing pommel horses, he became a famous horse painter after Cao Ba, Han Wo and Li. In his paintings of people riding horses, horses are mainly outlined with ink lines, and the colors are thin and light; People's clothes are heavier in color, while their faces and hands are lighter in color; And don, don't draw the background. His "Drinking Horses and Bathing Horses in Autumn Suburbs" adopts bird's-eye view composition, and only draws the ground scenery, not the sky. Zhao Meng's painting method breaks through the so-called three-stage method of heaven, earth and mountain, and combines light colors with heavy colors, turquoise and light crimson tones to achieve gorgeous but not vulgar, elegant and beautiful, full of interest and artistic conception. Therefore, Zhao Meng's painting skills are highly respected. Besides painting and calligraphy, Zhao Meng is also good at poetry. His poems are comely, gentle in style, and narrative and lyric complement each other. In the process of collecting Song Xuezhai's works, more than 400 poems by Zhao Meng were collected. I know that painting is no joke, and Yunshan is full of my teachers. Most of these poems express his love for the landscape of the motherland and his feelings of pursuing freedom. Zhao Meng also studied Confucian classics. He collected essays, ancient prose and previous notes of the Shang Dynasty, compiled a book "Notes on Modern Prose", and expressed his thought of respecting Confucianism. Zhao Meng is also a master of seal cutting. In seal cutting, he absorbed the simple and elegant style of the Han and Wei Dynasties, integrated the beauty of the popular ten-fold seal script at that time, formed his own round bead style, and occupied a place in the history of Indian studies. Zhao Meng is a versatile calligrapher, painter and writer, which is rare in the literary world since ancient times.