Wang Meng (1308- 1385), a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, was born in,No. Huang Heshan Qiao and Xiangguang lay man. Yuan dynasty painter. Zhao Mengfu's grandson.
At the end of Yuan Dynasty, he abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion in Hangzhou Yellow River Mountain (now Linping, Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Named "Yellow Crane Mountain Chai", he didn't go down the mountain until his later years. In the early Ming Dynasty, he served as the magistrate of Taian, Shandong Province. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385), he died in prison because of the Hu case.
Wang Meng's landscape paintings were directly influenced by Zhao Mengfu, and later imitated Wang Wei, Dong Yuan, Ju Ran and others to form a new style. Wang Meng, Huang, Zhenwu and Ni Zan are collectively called "Yuan Sijia". He also attacked figures and ink bamboo, and was good at writing. The existing works include the seclusion map of Qingbian, the migration map of Ge Zhichuan, the seclusion map of Xiashan, the map of Danshan Yinghai and the map of Taibai Mountain.
Wang mengneng's poems and calligraphy. Especially good at painting landscapes, he got the method of Zhao Mengfu, the ancestor of Dong Yuan and Ju Ran. The scenery is dense, the layout is full of mountains and rivers, and it makes good use of understanding the thirst and thirst, showing the lush and boundless atmosphere of the forest. Beyond mountains and rivers, you can also be a man. It had a great influence on landscape painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties, second only to Huang, and later generations were also called "Yuan Sijia" with Huang, Zhenwu and Ni Zan. It has a great influence on landscape painting in Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times.