Dong Qichang was born in poverty and became rich after he became famous for his calligraphy and painting. Jie, the recorder of his fellow countryman, lamented himself like this. The greater the fame, the faster the money will come, and once the art is tainted with copper stink, it is not far away to be rich and heartless. Moreover, besides his superb calligraphy and painting, he was also a senior official at that time.
Dong Qichang is extravagant and extravagant, rampant in the countryside, always fishing and robbing cloth clothes, and still has a strong sexual desire in his 60s. He has many wives and concubines who are addicted to secrets at home, and extravagance and waste are the norm.
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Dong Qichang is known as "Zhang Xing Mi Dong" in calligraphy, that is, he is tied with Linyi Xingdong, Zhang Jin Jiang Ruitu and Xu Tianmi; There is a saying in the painting that the south is east and the north is rice. Mo Shilong and Chen Jiru advocated the theory of "North-South School", that is, the landscape paintings of "courtyard style" and "literati painting" were divided into two schools. There are countless paintings and calligraphy works created by Dong Qichang in his life, among which the paintings and poems of recent people are an important part.
"Reading thousands of books" as he said in "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" means that one must learn from tradition and the ancients if he wants to become an artist.
At the age of 65,438+07, he wrote Yan Zhenqing's Many Pagodas when he began to learn calligraphy. At the age of 22, he studied painting with Huang, and later with other painting schools. This practice of learning from the ancients lasted for 80 years and accompanied him all his life. He widely absorbed the strengths of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and learned from others, which made his paintings and calligraphy achieve artistic achievements beyond the ancients.