Zhao Mengfu is Zhao Mengfu, a calligrapher, painter, writer, politician and poet in the early Yuan Dynasty. He is a versatile and energetic man. Zhao Mengfu was born in 1254 and died in 1322. He is a Han Chinese, also known as Zhao Ziang, named Song Xuedao.
Zhao Mengfu was born in a prominent family. He is the 11th grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. His father was an assistant minister in the Southern Song Dynasty, a comfort station in Lin 'an and a senior official. After the demise of the Song Dynasty, the Mongols established the Yuan regime, and Zhao Mengfu was elected as an official, which is also a misunderstanding of later generations. Many people think that Zhao Mengfu is a traitor and a traitor. In fact, at that time, if Zhao Mengfu didn't go to be an official, it would bring trouble to the lives of people around him, so it was only the Yuan Dynasty's helpless move for Zhao Mengfu to be an official. Besides, being an official in the Yuan Dynasty is not a traitor, and they are all from China, so there is no such thing as a traitor.
When Zhao Mengfu was an official, although his official career was bumpy, he did a lot of useful things for the people, and he was also an honest and clean good official. This is because Zhao Mengfu's achievements in calligraphy and painting are so high that people ignore his achievements in politics. Zhao Mengfu has made great achievements in calligraphy. All-rounder in calligraphy, proficient in cursive script, regular script, running script, official script and a series of mainstream calligraphy fonts.
Calligrapher Zhao Mengfu has also made great achievements in calligraphy. He advocated "retro", praised the calligraphy works of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and paid attention to realism and basic tempering. Therefore, Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy skills are very solid, and each of them has its own characteristics. Therefore, Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy works are highly respected by future generations, and have also become the objects of copying by many calligraphy lovers.
Zhao Mengfu is a great painter and calligrapher. He has experienced a complicated and embarrassing life. As a fugitive from the Southern Song Dynasty, he went to the Yuan Dynasty, which left many controversies in the history books. The fundamental reason for belittling Zhao Mengfu's book style is that he despises Zhao Mengfu. Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry and prose, familiar with economy, industrial calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and appreciation. In particular, calligraphy and painting achieved the highest achievements in the Yuan Dynasty, creating a new style of painting, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". Since the age of five, Zhao Mengfu has been studying for several days. Even before his death, he was still reading and writing. It can be said that his love for calligraphy has reached a soft spot. He is good at seal script, official script, original script, calligraphy and cursive script, especially at regular script and running script. His calligraphy style is elegant, coherent and skillful, and he is known as "Zhao Ti" internationally. With Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Ou Yangxun, they are also called "four masters" of regular script.
Zhao Mengfu's landscape painting is one of the representatives of landscape painting in the early Yuan Dynasty. There are many places to see in his landscape paintings, so the market price of his landscape paintings is relatively high. Zhao Mengfu's landscape paintings, with strong personal characteristics, are rare masterpieces with high collection value.
Zhao Mengfu's paintings are rich in themes and diverse in styles, and he is proficient in flowers and birds, landscapes, figures and pommel horses. Zhao Mengfu's landscape painting techniques are exquisite, and his performances are very rich and varied, and they are all very proficient. At the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu once put forward "the wind of restoring ancient ways", that is, calligraphy and painting pursued the style of predecessors. The style here refers to the paintings of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.
The paintings in the Tang Dynasty paid special attention to the realistic style, and after the Song Dynasty, the style changed greatly. The economic and cultural development in Song Dynasty was very good, which led to the constant changes of calligraphy and painting. The development of business will lead to the enhancement of social utility, and at the same time, there are some exaggerations that do not conform to social characteristics. This also led to the Song Dynasty calligraphy and painting became more grandiose and artificial.
Zhao Mengfu was born in the late Song Dynasty and grew up in the early Yuan Dynasty. Influenced by the painting and calligraphy culture in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, he especially praised realistic painting and calligraphy skills and paid attention to "practical sketching". Therefore, Zhao Mengfu's landscape paintings learn from others and form their own painting characteristics. His landscape paintings are skillful, simple and handsome, especially the scenery of green mountains and green waters, which perfectly combines ink painting with landscape.
There are many representative works of Zhao Mengfu's landscape paintings, among which the Autumn Color Map of Quehua in the National Palace Museum in Taipei and the Water Town Map in the National Palace Museum in Beijing are all representative works.
How did Zhao Mengfu finally die?
In the spring of the second year of Zhi Zhi (1322), Desbarax sent an envoy to Xing Wu to meet Zhao Mengfu and gave him a gift. On June 16th (July 30th), Zhao Mengfu died at the age of sixty-nine. On the day of his death, he was still reading and writing, laughing as usual, and died in Xing Wu at dusk. On September 10, he was buried with Guan Furen in Donghengshan, Qian Qiu Township, Deqing County. After posthumous title, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Zhongshu, Pingzhang, posthumous title, Wei Guogong, and posthumous title were called "Wen Min".