Who's Zhao Mengfu?

Zhao Mengfu was a famous calligrapher and poet in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. He is well-read and good at poetry and prose. His representative works include Collected Works of Song Xuezhai, Drinking Horses in the Autumn Suburb, Xiushushu, Songshi Laozi and so on. Zhao Mengfu, the author of Zhao Ti, is also known as the "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan. His inscriptions handed down from generation to generation include Ode to Luoshen, Tao Te Ching and Danba Monument.

Brief introduction of Zhao Mengfu

Zhao Mengfu, the 11th grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu, is a calligrapher, painter and poet. In the 23rd year of Zhiyuan (1286), Zhao Mengfu was recommended by Cheng Jufu, an imperial envoy of Taiwan Province, and was respected by Yuan Shizu, Wu Zong, Ren Zong and Ying Zong. He has successively served as Bachelor of Jixian, General Manager of Jinan Road, Confucian scholar in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Bachelor of Hanlin and Doctor Rong Lu.

He gradually retired in his later years and sought help for six years (13 19) due to illness. In the second year of Zhi Zhi (1322), Zhao Mengfu died at the age of 69. He was named "Wen Min" by Pingzhang, Zhongshu Province, Jiangsu Province, posthumous title and Wei Guogong, hence the name "Zhao". He is the author of Song Xuezhai's Anthology and so on.

Zhao Mengfu is good at poetry and prose, and good at calligraphy. His achievements in painting and calligraphy are the highest. In painting, he created a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". Zhao Mengfu is also good at seal script, official script, original works, calligraphy and cursive script, especially regular script and running script. His elegant style of calligraphy, neat structure and skillful brushwork created Zhao Ti Shu, which is called "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan.