Zhao Mengfu (1254101October 20-1322 July 30) was born in Song Xue Road, Han nationality, also known as the Taoist of Crystal Palace (speaking of Taoist of Shuijing Palace), Ou Bo. I worked for the Mengfu in middle age. Xing Wu (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province) was originally from Lanxi, Wuzhou. From the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty, he was an official, calligrapher, painter and poet, his grandson, the direct descendant of Zhao, and the king of Qin.
Zhao Mengfu joined the army at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. After Song died, he went into seclusion. In the 23rd year of Zhiyuan (1286), Zhao Mengfu went to Dadu under the recommendation of Cheng Jufu, an ancient imperial doctor, and was appreciated by Yuan Shizu, who awarded him the rank of doctor of the Ministry of War. Since then, he has successively served as Bachelor of Jixian County, General Manager of Jinan Road, Confucian scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Bachelor of Hanlin and Doctor Rong Lu.
From sai-jo to Wu zong, ren zong and ying zong, courtesy is still exchanged. He gradually retired in his later years and sought help for six years (13 19) due to illness. In the second year of Zhi Zhi (1322), Zhao Mengfu died at the age of 69. He was named "Wen Min" by Pingzhang, Zhongshu Province, Jiangsu Province, posthumous title and Wei Guogong, hence the name "Zhao". He is the author of Song Xuezhai's Anthology and so on.
Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry, proficient in Confucian classics and learning, good at calligraphy, good at painting, good at epigraphy, good at temperament, and good at understanding and appreciation. In painting, he created a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". His paintings have a wide range of materials and comprehensive techniques, and he is good at landscapes, figures and flowers and birds. Zhao Mengfu advocated learning from the ancients, emphasizing "the same origin of calligraphy and painting".
Impact:
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 the courtyard style of the Southern Song Dynasty, and advocated that "painting is expensive because of the ancient meaning, even if there is no ancient meaning, even meticulous painting is useless", and he also stayed away from the statutes of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, people praised him for his "ambition" in the Tang Dynasty and "heroism" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and removed their "slimness" and "preciseness", thus creating a new situation of painting style in the Yuan Dynasty. Amin Wang Shizhen once said: "Scholars painted from Dongpo to Song Xue."