Yan Hui, Yan Zong, Yan Shigu, Yan Zhaofu, Yan Bowen, Yan Zhizhi, etc.
1. Yan Hui: a native of Luling (now Ji'an, Jiangxi Province), a painter of the Yuan Dynasty. He is good at painting figures, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as ghosts and monsters. His shapes are unique. Although the brush is slightly exposed, his brushwork is unique and has the interest of eight-sided business. Wu Wei was the first to paint in the early Ming Dynasty. There are "Hunting Pictures of Zhongshan" and "Statue of Li Tieguai" handed down from generation to generation.
2. Yan Zong: a native of Nanhai, Guangdong Province, a painter of the Ming Dynasty. Born in Juren, he served as magistrate of Shaowu County and later served as Wailang, a member of the Ministry of War. He is good at painting landscapes, integrating northern landscape painting styles into southern landscape paintings. He mostly writes flat and distant scenery, which is vigorous, vigorous and unique in style. There is a "Picture of Lakes and Mountains in the Distance" left in the world.
3. Yan Shigu: A native of Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), he was a scholar and exegesis expert in the Tang Dynasty. He was a member of the official Zhongshushe family. He is the author of the "Five Classics" and so on.
4. Yan Zhaofu: an official and scholar in the Tang Dynasty, a minister of various official positions, and the governor of Huazhou. He is as famous as his brother-in-law Yin Zhongrong in seal script, 瀱, and cursive calligraphy, but he is more powerful than him and was highly praised by his uncle Shigu.
5. Yan Bowen: a native of Dezhou (now part of Shandong Province), a painter and poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the reign of Huizong, he was a Jinshi and served as Zuolang. He is good at figures and also good at ink painting of flowers. The paintings left behind include "Arhat Picture", "Idle Clouds Emerging from Xiu", "Wild Water Picture" and so on.
6. Yan Zhizhi: A native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), a painter of the Song Dynasty. He was good at painting figures and was good at small seal script. He wrote "Collection of Ancient Seal Script Rhymes" and became a middle-ranking official. His son Yan Ruxun, who was invited by the government to be an official, was also a craftsman of seal script.