Song Huizong was a controversial emperor. Although he has no great ambition in governing the country, his achievements in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs are immeasurable. In calligraphy, he created a thin gold body, with erratic and clever brushwork, thin and vigorous, and simple steel front. His brushwork is quick and rigorous, and his style is consistent, giving people a refreshing and beautiful feeling. Especially in ci and painting, Song Huizong likes flowers and birds, figures and rocks, all of which are wonderful.
Song Huizong's flower-and-bird paintings can be said to be superb, such as Hui Zong's Dream in a City in the Palace Museum, Lotus and Golden Rooster, Bamboo and Two Birds in the Metropolitan Museum of America, Ruihe in the Liaoning Museum, and Liu Ti and Four Birds in the Shanghai Museum. In terms of poetry, it is a new style, from big to small, which describes rejuvenation, resentment, anxiety, resentment and powerlessness in the heart.
Huizong Zhao Ji loves art and is not only good at painting, but also has high attainments in calligraphy. On the basis of studying Huang Tingjian, Xue Yao and Chu Suiliang, he invented a unique "thin gold body". Zhao Ji has many calligraphy works handed down from generation to generation. All kinds of calligraphy, such as Kai, Xing and Cao, are handed down to future generations with their sharp brushwork, natural brushwork, thin and cold front shape and magnificent and graceful ups and downs. Among them, The Postscript of the Poem of the Square Calyx is a big block letter, which is a masterpiece in the calligraphy of thin gold and is imitated by later generations.
Among Song Huizong's poems, books, paintings and prints, his flower-and-bird paintings are the highest among the literati of all ages, with their originality, both form and spirit, and agility. There is a compliment: Evonne's paintings, regardless of landscapes, flowers, birds and figures, can be "shaped by objects, obtained at will, made by pens, and developed to the extreme, and everything has its own physiology". It can be said that he is the only emperor in history who really has high artistic accomplishment and painting talent and can be called a painter.