Zheng Banqiao (1693- 1765) was an official, painter and writer in the Qing dynasty. Name Xie, word Kerou, Han nationality, Xinghua, Jiangsu. He lived in Yangzhou all his life and made a living by selling paintings. One of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou. His poems, books and paintings are outstanding and unique, and he is known as the "three musts" in the world. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pines, chrysanthemums and other plants, among which bamboo painting has been more than 50 years, with the most outstanding achievements. Author of Complete Works of Banqiao.
Anecdotal allusions
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It is said that Zheng Banqiao studied very hard in his early years and could write all kinds of fonts, but he felt that it was not enough. Once, he scratched his wife's back to find out the strokes and structure of the words. The wife said impatiently, "You have your body and I have mine. What do you always draw on others? "
This unintentional pun made Banqiao suddenly realize that you can't always "follow the rules" in other people's constitutions. Only on the basis of personal feelings can you find another way.
So he scored eight points with Huang Tingjian's long shot and exaggerated his swing. "Shake the waves and stay in the festival", the word is slightly flat, the left is low and the right is high, and the posture is picturesque. He also entered the book with the pen that painted Zhu Lan, seeking the painting significance of calligraphy. Jiang Shiquan, a Qing Dynasty man, said that he was "elegant in writing and elegant in waves", which vividly expressed the characteristics of "Banqiao style".