Shanren is good at calligraphy. He studied Daling and Lu Gong (Wang Xianzhi, Yan Zhenqing) in regular script, and was able to form his own unique style; his wild cursive writing is very weird and powerful. He also likes to paint bananas, strange rocks, flowers and bamboos, reed geese, and ducks (wild ducks) in ink and wash, freely and not restricted by the painter's rules. When people get his paintings, they rush to collect them and regard them as very valuable. He can't finish two liters of alcohol, but he likes to drink. When poor scholars, ordinary people, livestock butchers, or liquor sellers invited him to drink, he would go. Every time he went to drink, he always got drunk. When I was drunk, I was dripping with ink when creating, and I didn’t care much about (my own works). Bada Shanren went to the monk's house outside the city many times. The young monks pestered him for paintings, and even pulled his sleeves and lapels, but Shanren did not refuse. Even if some of his friends gave him gifts of property, he would not refuse. However, the noble man wanted to exchange a few taels of silver for an ink painting, but he couldn't get it. When someone brought silk, he accepted it directly and said, "I use it as material for making socks." Therefore, the noble man begged him. Instead, they had to buy their paintings and calligraphy from poor scholars, monks, livestock butchers, and wine sellers.