Zheng Banqiao only painted orchids, bamboos and stones in his life, which is known as "orchids that never fade in four seasons, bamboos that never fall for a hundred days, and invincible stones that never change". His poems, paintings and calligraphy, known as the "three wonders" in the world, are more representative literati painters in the Qing Dynasty. His representative works include Zhuxiu Novelty, Guangqing Liu Zhao, Zhu Lan Fang Xin, Gangu Juquan, Cong Lan Ci, and Zheng Banqiao Collection.
His paintings are mainly bamboo, stone and orchid, and his brushwork is smart and natural, with many but not chaotic, few but not sparse, fragrant and orchid clusters, thick ink and flowers, elegant and colorful; Dense and dense, dripping with ink, full of interest and full of spirit. He advocated "not sticking to the ancient method" and attached importance to artistic originality. Pay attention to go deep into life and observe sketches.
Calligraphy is a mixture of seal script, official script, running script and official script, and it is mainly official script, which is unique and unique. It is called "six-and-a-half-book method" and "littering the streets" style. There is also a long seal cutting, simple and good. Ding Jing, Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Xi Gang, Jiang Renhe and Chen Hongshou, the author of Telephone, compiled the inscriptions and suffixes of their seals as "Postscript of Seven Stamps".
Judging from his 23-year-old Ode to Autumn Songs by Ouyang Xiu and his 30-year-old Poem of Xiao Zhuan, Banqiao learned books from Ou Yangxun in his early years. Its font is neat and beautiful, but slightly stiff: this is related to the neat and charming pavilion style prevailing in the book world at that time, and it is the standard font for selecting candidates in the imperial examination. In this regard, Zheng Banqiao once said: "The flies stop too evenly, fearing that the book will damage the spirit." After becoming a scholar at the age of 40, I seldom write again. Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy is most praised as "six methods and half a book", that is, "Banqiao style" with "eight-part essay" (a kind of official script) as its unique style.
Officials in Fan County and Wei County of Shandong Province have a political voice, "Please ask for help for people who are hungry at the age of 20, become a big official, and then ask for illness." Before and after he became an official, he lived in Yangzhou and made a living by painting and calligraphy. Poetry, words, good books and good paintings. Poetry despises idioms. He is good at drawing flowers, wood and stones, especially orchids and bamboo. The beauty of orchid leaves is reflected in Jiao Mo's brushwork. The cursive script stands upright and has a long fortune. More without chaos, less without sparseness, and getting rid of habits, showing great strength. Books are also unique, with mixed official texts and sample books, calling themselves "six and a half books". Sometimes it is done through painting. The brushwork of the seal is simple and ancient. As a free and uninhibited person, he chose the county magistrate by Jinshi, made poetry and wine for daily affairs, and transferred to Wei County. At the age of 20, he sought help for the people because of hunger, returned to his hometown and lived in Yangzhou, which made him famous. Indulge in the mountains and rivers and have a drunken hometown tour with poets and savages. When writing about the thin stone of the jungle and the monk wall in the lounge, the viewer will sigh. The Complete Works of Banqiao is written in calligraphy. The paintings he sold were polished and circulated for a while. As one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", his poems, books and paintings are praised as "three unique" and he is good at painting Zhu Lan. Zheng Xie painted bamboo the most in his life, followed by orchids and stones, but he also painted pines and chrysanthemums. He is a representative literati painter in Qing Dynasty. At the age of 73.
Zheng Banqiao is good at painting bamboo, orchids, stones, pines and chrysanthemums. , and is famous for its elegant appearance and strong style. He advocated that the ancient law should not be ignored, and the law should be natural and enjoyable. He put forward a three-stage painting theory of "having bamboo in the eye", "having bamboo in the chest" and "having bamboo in the hand". He combined thoughtful thoughts with skillful pen and ink skills, and Banqiao took cursive script as the backbone to draw bamboo, which received the artistic effect of "not being chaotic and sparse, getting rid of the habits of the times and having great power". The bamboo painted by Banqiao is lifelike, with both form and spirit. The intention is to write first, and the interests are outside the law. Banqiao painted orchids, mostly orchids from Shan Ye, with strong cursive brushwork, to write the brilliant nature of orchids. Banqiao painted stone, and the bone method used a pen. First, the outline of the stone was drawn, and sometimes Lanzhu was used, which was very harmonious and unified. Zheng Banqiao's paintings brought fresh vitality to the book circle of the Qing Dynasty at that time. Intellectuals and working people regard it as a treasure, and they pay a lot of money to buy it, which is widely circulated. According to legend, Zheng Banqiao Painting Fan, Zheng Banqiao was appointed as the county magistrate of Wei County in his later years in Qing Dynasty. One day in autumn, he went to the market incognito and saw an old lady selling fans staring blankly on a pile of unattended fans. Zheng Banqiao caught up with him and picked up a fan, which was as white as snow without words or pictures. Now that we have missed the season of using fans, naturally no one will buy them. Zheng Banqiao learned from the investigation that the old lady's family was poor and decided to help her. So Zheng Banqiao borrowed a pen, ink and inkstone from a shop and splashed ink with a pen. I saw bamboo in Ran Ran, vanilla, autumn chrysanthemum in Ao Shuang, falling snow and cold plum dancing on the fan, which was poetic and picturesque, making the poems and paintings on the fan set each other off. The spectators around rushed to buy, and soon, a bunch of fans sold out.