Brief introduction of Zhao Meng, a calligrapher, painter and writer in Yuan Dynasty.

Quotations from celebrities >> I have long known that pictures are no joke, and Yunshan is full of my teachers. & gt& gt—— Collected Works of Song Xuezhai >> Zhao Meng was a calligrapher, painter and writer in Yuan Dynasty. He is versatile and knows calligraphy, painting, poetry and seal cutting, which has a wide influence. & gt& gt History of Celebrities >> Zhao Meng (1254-1322), Zi Zi 'ang, was born in Song Xue Road Water Mirror Palace. Huzhou (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang) people. & gt& gt Zhao Meng began to practice calligraphy at the age of five. For decades, he always got up every morning. After washing, he lit some incense and buried himself in writing. If you practice hundreds of words a day, you have to write thousands more. In his early years, he copied the thousands of words written by Zhiyong in Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Preface to Lanting Collection in Jin Dynasty, and gradually reached the point where the fake was confused with the real. & gt& gt According to legend, there was a calligrapher named Tian Liangqing. One day, he bought a copy of Thousand Characters from the street and took it home to have a closer look. At first, he thought it was the brushwork of the Tang Dynasty, and finally found that it was written by Zhao Meng. So, he took this "Thousand-Character Works" to find Zhao Meng's inscription. After reading it carefully, Zhao Meng said with a smile, "I wrote this a few years ago. At that time, I was copying the calligrapher Chu Suiliang's Monument to Mencius, so I wrote it this way. Unexpectedly, the words I practiced casually were also sold. " & gt& gt Zhao Meng believes that calligraphy must learn from the ancients before it can become self-sufficient. Therefore, he collected ancient posts extensively and carefully copied the handwriting of many calligraphers. Over time, he was able to "seal, official script, regular script and cursive script", and integrated the strengths of various schools to form his own unique calligraphy style. His calligraphy is called "Zhaoti" or "Zhao Zi". & gt& gt20 At the age of 20, encouraged by his mother, he went to Aoji, a famous local Confucian, to study classics and history, and to learn painting from painter Qian Xuan. After years of hard work, he has made great progress in his studies and improved his painting skills quickly. 1286, after Zhao Meng became an official, although he was tied up with official duties, he never delayed his calligraphy and painting practice. With the passage of time, his painting style gradually matured. Especially good at painting pommel horse, he became a famous horse painter after Cao Ba, Han Wo and Li. He drew a picture of a man riding a horse. The horse in the picture was mainly outlined with ink lines, and the color was thin and light. Characters' clothes are heavier, while their faces and hands are lighter. And no background. His paintings "Drinking Horses in Autumn Suburbs" and "Bathing Horses" adopt bird's-eye view composition, drawing only the ground scenery, not the sky. Zhao Meng's painting method broke through the so-called "three-stage method" of mountains and rivers, combining light colors with heavy hues, and combining cyan methods with light crimson methods, so as to be gorgeous but not vulgar, elegant and beautiful, full of interest and artistic conception. Therefore, Zhao Meng's painting skills are highly respected. & gt& gt In addition to painting and calligraphy, Zhao Meng is also good at poetry. His poems are elegant, elegant and graceful, and the notes and lyricism complement each other. In Song Xuezhai's Collected Works, there are more than 400 poems of Zhao Meng collected by * *. "If I had known that painting was no joke, Yunshan was my teacher everywhere." Most of these poems express his love for the landscape of the motherland and his feelings of pursuing freedom. Zhao Meng also studied the classic Book of History. He collected the modern, ancient and prequel annotations of Shangshu, compiled a book Annotations on Modern and Ancient Books, and expressed his thought of respecting Confucianism. Zhao Meng is also a master of seal cutting. In seal cutting, he absorbed the simple and elegant style of the Han and Wei Dynasties, combined the beauty of the popular ten-fold seal script at that time, and formed his own "round bead style" (also known as "Zhu Yuan style"), which occupied a place in the history of Indian studies. Zhao Meng, a versatile calligrapher, painter and writer, is rare in the literary world since ancient times.