1. The author of "Painting Chicken" is Tang Yin of the Ming Dynasty.
2. "Painting Chicken" is a poem about painting. The poet uses description and color contrast to outline a majestic and majestic rooster with a red crown and white feathers, which expresses the poet's high-spirited character that is unwilling to be restrained.
3. Tang Yin (1470-1524), named Bohu and Ziwei, also known as Liuru Jushi, Taohua Temple Master, Fugitive Immortal Official, etc., was a native of Wuxian County (now part of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) ), one of the Four Talents in Wuzhong, a famous painter and writer in the Ming Dynasty.
4. Tang Yin was born in a business family, with one sister and one brother. His father, Tang Guangde, runs a Tangji Hotel. In the 21st year of Chenghua (1485), Tang Yin ranked first in the Suzhou Prefecture Examination and entered the Fu School; in the 11th year of Hongzhi (1498), he ranked first in the Yingtianfu Township Examination (Jie Yuan) and entered Beijing to study. In the 12th year of Hongzhi (1499), he was involved in the Xu Jing examination fraud case, was convicted and imprisoned, and was demoted to a minor official in Zhejiang. From then on, Tang Yin lost his ambition in the academic field and wandered around the world, buried in poetry and painting, and eventually became a famous painter. Tang Yin lived in poverty in his later years and relied on friends for financial support. He died of illness in the second year of Jiajing (1524) at the age of fifty-four.
5. In the history of painting, Tang Yin, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying are collectively known as the "Four Ming Schools" or the "Four Wu Schools". In poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing, he is known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong". Li Tang and Liu Songnian, the patriarchs of Tang Yin's landscape paintings, integrated the northern and southern painting schools, with delicate brushwork, sparse layout, and elegant and elegant style. The figure painter inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, graceful posture and accurate modeling; he also used freehand brushwork of figures with concise and comprehensive brushwork, which is full of interest. His flower and bird paintings are good at freehand ink painting, free and elegant. The calligraphy is unique and handsome, and is modeled after Zhao Mengfu. Tang Yin's works are world-famous for his landscape paintings and figure paintings, and the many erotic paintings he created also added to his personal reputation as a "romantic talent".