Zheng Xie is an upright official. Later, due to old illness, he was dismissed from office and lived in Yangzhou. He got nothing, only Liao Liao had a few volumes of books, so he made a living by selling paintings. As one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", his poems, books and paintings are called "Three Wonders" by the world. His poems were written by Tao Yuanming and Lu Fangweng. He painted bamboo on the east slope of Su Like. Zheng Xie's calligraphy is a combination of running script and cursive script, which is called "six and a half books" and later "Banqiao".
His works include Banqiao Poetry Banknotes, Banqiao Ci Banknotes, Banqiao Letters, Banqiao Inscriptions, and Mr. Banqiao Printing Books.
Zheng Banqiao paid attention to the observation of nature and surrounding things and learned from nature. He wrote: "The wind is warm and the day is warm, the frozen flies touch the window paper, and the drums are played in winter and winter. At that time, a bamboo affected chaos, so it was not a natural picture! There is nothing to learn from where I draw bamboo, and there are more middle ears than paper windows and powder walls.
Advocate "intention first"; He wrote an inscription on a painting: "The river pavilion is clear in autumn, the bamboos are seen in the morning, and the smoke and light are exposed, all floating among the sparse branches and dense leaves. All I can think about is paintings. In fact, the bamboo in the chest is not the bamboo in the eye. Therefore, grinding ink to spread paper, putting pen to paper is disguised, and the bamboo in the hand is not the bamboo in the chest. In short, it means to write first, and the rules are also; Those who intentionally stay out of the law will become machines. Draw clouds alone! "