Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy is called "six and a half books". He combined Kai, Li, Xing and Cao, and added the brushwork of painting bamboo and orchid, which created an unprecedented new book style. In particular, his writing style is elegant, simple and vigorous, large and small, dense and set each other off, and the square garden is interesting. The arrangement is flawless and very harmonious. At first glance, it looks like a stone on the park path. So some people compare Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy to "paving the road with stones". Appreciating Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, I often feel that I am not looking at words, but standing in front of Zheng Banqiao. "Words are like people" has a deeper understanding here. What is strange is the loveliness of Banqiao. In my opinion, there are four eccentricities in Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy: it is a strange phenomenon that the integrity, the grass, the official and the line are integrated in one furnace, and the rigidity and softness are combined, fresh and peculiar; Combining the brushwork of painting Lanzhu with calligraphy, "Banqiao writes like a orchid", these two strange things; Like to use archaic characters, and make these archaic characters varied, these three strange; In a word, supporting the old and carrying the young, intricately interspersed, novel and unique, these four are strange. From these strange things, Zheng Banqiao's extraordinary originality has been fully demonstrated.
It must also be pointed out that Banqiao style is the product of the times, and it is the product of mutual influence, mutual reference, mutual consideration and mutual promotion of the excellent group of "Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics". Zheng Banqiao, Li Futang and Jin Dongxin are good friends, and Jin Dongxin's Lacquer Book is simple and unique.
Zheng Banqiao deserves to be regarded as an outstanding artist, and his calligraphy has shone brilliantly throughout the ages.