Zhao Mengfu was a native of the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Zhao Mengfu was born in Baodu, Sou
Zhao Mengfu was a native of the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Zhao Mengfu was born in Baodu, Southern Song Dynasty for two years. He is a descendant of Zhao, King of Qin, and the 11th grandson. Zhao Mengfu is well-read and good at writing and poetry. He is famous for his regular script and running script, and he is also known as the "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan.
Brief introduction of Zhao Mengfu's life.
Zhao Mengfu was an official from the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty. He reads widely and is good at poetry and prose. At the age of fourteen, Zhao Mengfu was recruited for family reasons, and passed the official selection examination, and was transferred to Zhou Zhen to join the army. Zhao Mengfu achieved the highest achievement in calligraphy and painting, which created a new situation of painting style in Yuan Dynasty, and was called "the crown of Yuan people".
Zhao Mengfu established the aesthetic standard of painting art thinking in Yuan Dynasty by criticizing "modern times" and advocating "ancient meaning". This standard is not only reflected in painting, but also widely penetrated into poetry, calligraphy, seal cutting and other fields. Zhao Mengfu advocated "ancient meaning" and tried to find a good way to save the nation from extinction from the ancient Enlightenment, so that the two painting traditions of professional formal painting and amateur literati painting, which were originally opposed or parallel, could be exchanged and merged.