19 18 After coming to Shanghai, he and his brother went to Japan to study abroad on a seagoing vessel, to learn painting and dyeing and weaving skills, and returned to China soon. 1920, he went to study with the teacher, and it was at this time that he was renamed Zhang Lin. Later, he was introduced to study calligraphy with Li Ruiqing from Linchuan. He held his first solo exhibition in the Friendship Hall of Ningbo, Shanghai, and 100 works were all sold out. After that, he made a living by selling paintings. At that time, Zhang Daqian was a blockbuster in the Shanghai art world. However, in those years, when the war broke out and his fiancee broke off, Daqian felt extremely depressed. He seemed to see through the secular world, coupled with his love for Buddhism and his desire to be born, so he decided to become a monk in the Zen temple in Songjiang County at that time, from which came the name Daqian. Like a hundred-day master, after more than a hundred days, he returned to the original.