What are the biographies of Zhu Da?

Zhu Da (1626~ 1705), a native of Badashan, Nanchang, Jiangxi, was a giant in painting since Ming and Qing Dynasties. He is descended from the royal family of the Ming Dynasty. At the age of 20, he abandoned his family to avoid the disaster in the mountains. At the age of 23, he shaved his hair and became a monk. He gave his name and used it as a blade temple. In middle age, he pretended to be crazy because he avoided the recruitment of the Qing government. In the 19th year of Kangxi (1680), he returned to the secular world. Since then, he devoted himself to poetry and painting in his hometown until his death. Zhu Da is one of the most accomplished and influential painters in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in recent thirty years. His paintings have been cut to the limit, returning to simplicity and clear brushwork. With exquisite, colorful and exciting artistic language, he has created an unprecedented pure and hearty realm, and is worthy of being a leader in painting for 30 years. His calligraphy is plain and natural, clever in hiding, simple and unpretentious in brushwork, without a trace of human dust, and his artistic achievements are very high. The works handed down from generation to generation include Snow Clear Picture, Flower Picture on the River, Four Proverbs in Running Script, Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra and so on.