Zhu Zhishan (1460- 1526) was a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, whose name was Yunming, and his word was Xizhe. He was born in Changzhou (Suzhou), Jiangsu Province, because he has an extra finger in his right hand.
Zhu Zhishan was born into a Confucian family of seven generations of officials. He has been gifted and studious since childhood. At the age of five, he can write Chinese characters one foot square, and at the age of nine, he is called a "prodigy". /kloc-at the age of 0/0, he is well-read, with magnificent articles and extraordinary intelligence. 17 years old is a scholar and 32 years old is a juror. But it was not until the age of 55 that he got an official position and was awarded the order of Xingning County, Guangdong Province. At the age of 63, he was sentenced by Jingzhao Yingtianfu. Dissatisfied with official corruption, one year later, he used resignation as an excuse to go back to his hometown to spend his old age.
Zhu Zhishan was one of the "Three Masters in the Middle Ming Dynasty" (along with Wen Zhiming and Wang Chong). His calligraphy absorbed the calligraphy of Yu Shinan in Tang Dynasty and Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty, and promoted the cursive scripts of Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Tang Huaisu in Jin Dynasty. It is known as "the first in Ming Dynasty" and "the painting of Tang Bohu, the word of Zhu Zhishan". Zhu Zhishan's Liu Ti Shi Fu Juan, Du Fu Cao Shu, Nineteen Ancient Poems, Tang Cao Shu, Cao Shu and Han Juan are all masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. Although Zhu Yunming has no famous paintings, he can also draw, but he rarely writes, and even fewer works have been handed down from generation to generation. In Zhu Yunming, there are still books handed down from generation to generation, such as Jiang Hai's Warring States Policy, News, Notes of Nine Rulers, Before Shan Zhi, Floating Objects, Old Strange Records, Su Cai's Bian Xiao, Huaixingtang Collection and Xingning County Records.
Zhu Zhishan is funny, unrestrained and talented, and likes to travel around informally. He is always resourceful, talkative and helpful. He appears in many China operas, arts, novels, poems and literary works, such as San Xiao, robbing his parents of their tigers.
In the second year of Jiajing (1523), he returned to Li due to illness, and in the fifth year of Jiajing (1526), he died at the age of 67. After his death, Zhu Yunming was buried in Zhu Zu's grave in Hengshan, a suburb of Suzhou, but the grave has been leveled.
Postscript:
Zhu Zhishan is ten years older than Tang Yin, but they are very close. At that time, Tang Yin, who was full of ambition to take the exam in Beijing, was framed and imprisoned, and even his wife abandoned him. Then he was disheartened and drank all day to drown his sorrows. It was Zhu Yunming's timely persuasion that prompted Tang Yin to study hard again and finally achieve something. However, in fact, Zhu Yun knew that his life was also tragic. At the age of 32, he was in high spirits and thought it was a piece of cake to enroll Gao Di. Unexpectedly, he tried seven times and failed. Frustrated and hit by his official career, his thought changed from the Confucian idea of actively entering the WTO to the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi born passively. In his later years, Tang Yin converted to Buddhism. Zhu Yunming was a Taoist and converted to Taoism. This is the regret of literati in feudal society.
Zhu Zhishan's representative works include Poems of Taihu Lake, Poems, Poems on Red Wall and so on. He is generous, cheerful and unrestrained, which is vividly shown in Weeds. Although he occasionally loses his pen, his writing is relaxed and lively, which is worth learning from later generations.