Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry, proficient in Confucian classics and learning, good at calligraphy, good at painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and strong in appreciation, especially calligraphy and painting. 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.
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Zhao Mengfu is well-read and versatile, and literature and art create a generation of ethos. He is also good at all kinds of paintings, including landscape paintings by Dong Yuan and Li Cheng. Characters, pommel horse teacher, Li and Tang people; Bamboo, flowers and birds are famous for their mellow brushwork, stone painting is flying white, and calligraphy writes bamboo with a pen. He advocated changing the style of quadrangles in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Claiming that "painting is precious because of its ancient meaning, even if it has no ancient meaning" can be traced back to the testimonies of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty. People praised him for having the ambition of the Tang Dynasty and the hero of the Northern Song Dynasty, and removed the "fiber" and "essence" of both, thus creating a new painting style in the Yuan Dynasty. Amin Wang Shizhen once said: "Scholars painted from Dongpo to Song Xue."
If the interest of Tang and Song painting lies in creating a literary environment, then Zhao Mengfu played a bridge role in it. If the literati painting movement before the Yuan Dynasty was mainly manifested in the preparation of public opinion, and the literati painting movement after the Yuan Dynasty gradually replaced formal painting with its successful practice and became the mainstream of painting, it was Zhao Mengfu who caused this change.