Dong Qichang's artistic influence

Dong Qichang is one of the most influential calligraphers in the history of China's calligraphy. His calligraphy style and calligraphy theory had a certain influence on later generations. Hundreds of years after Zhao Mengfu's charming and mellow "Song Xue Ti" dominated the book world, Dong Qichang, with its elegant writing style, found a new way to stand on his own feet, which also led the coquettish for a while, so that "pieces of bamboo are simple and people compete for treasures." This is very important in the art history of China. The theory of "North-South School" put forward by him for China's traditional literati painting had a great influence on later generations and became the main guiding ideology of literati painting creation in the past 300 years.

Although Dong Qichang's classification of landscape painting in the Southern and Northern Dynasties provided a philosophical concept for future generations to analyze painting, he advocated that literati painting should use Zen as a metaphor and emphasized the painter's moral cultivation and ideological realm, which had a negative impact on the development of Chinese painting. However, the theory of northern and southern sects has also contributed to the sectarian dispute in painting, which has obvious negative effects.

Famous Ming painters Lan Ying, Wang Jian and Yuan Shu took him as their teacher, and Lan Ying's masterpieces such as White Clouds and Mangroves were collected by the Palace Museum. Yuan Shu's Ten Stones in Pingquan is collected in Guangdong Museum, and boating in Songxi is auctioned in Beijing Guardian on September 13.