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Zheng Xie (1693 ~ 1765) was a painter and calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty in China. One of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou. Zheng Xie was born in Xinghua, Jiangsu. He was born in a poor intellectual family. He lost his mother since childhood and was raised by his stepmother. When I was a teenager, I studied with my hometown father Lu Zhen. In my twenties, I was a scholar. In the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), he took part in the provincial examination and was a scholar in the first year of Qianlong (1736). For seven years, he served as the magistrate of Fanxian County, Shandong Province. A year later, he was transferred to Wei County. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong, Li Hongdong traveled to Mount Tai. He is the history of calligraphy and painting. /kloc-in 0/8, he offended officials by asking for relief and was dismissed from office. Influenced by the Confucian thought of "cultivating one's morality, governing the country and calming the world", Zheng Xie asked himself to "be a good person first" and be an official to "contribute to the world and save the people". In literary creation, he also advocates that "reason must be attributed to sages, and writing must be cut to daily use" and "be a master's article, not a slave's article". Many of his poems depict the lives of the poor and expose the cruelty and greed of the rich and the petty officials. In painting and calligraphy, he deeply felt that it was a shameful "vulgar thing" to let people play well with pen and ink, and proposed: "All my paintings of orchids, bamboos and stones are used to comfort the working people all over the world, not for the people all over the world to enjoy." Try your best to make your works have ethical and moral education significance in creation. In dealing with tradition and the success of predecessors, we advocate "learning half, leaving half" and "learning the meaning is not between the signs". That is, "don't stick to the ancient law, don't stick to your own opinions, and live." Pay attention to your creativity and "refuse sales promotion from people". He attached great importance to the direct observation of nature and sprouted paintings with true feelings. He once said, "There is nothing I can learn from where I draw bamboo, and there are more middle ears than paper windows and powder walls." He advocated the creative method of "having nothing in mind", pointed out the connection and difference between "having a bamboo in mind", "having a bamboo in mind" and "having a bamboo in hand", and described in detail the creative process from observation and feeling, conception and brewing to writing, with unique views that were unknown to previous generations. Many of his creative feelings and experiences can be found in inscriptions and poems, such as "being redundant and painting is familiar", which are very valuable aesthetic viewpoints. Zheng Xie is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pines and chrysanthemums. Occasionally, I also write plums, and the brushwork is directly based on Fa Shitao, and I also got ideas from Xu Wei and senior painters. Writing cuts advocate simplicity, and the brushwork is relaxed, free and easy, and vigorous. Although its theme is limited to the traditional literati painting "Four Gentlemen", it can integrate social ethics education into painting through poems and inscriptions, thus making some innovations. His calligraphy is a brushwork, which compromises between running script and official script and calls himself "six and a half books". Staggered vertically and horizontally, the overall oblique, such as paving stones, does not fall behind the previous pattern, which has a unique flavor. Later generations also called the calligraphy style Banqiao style. Zheng Xie (1693- 1765) was a famous painter in Qing dynasty. The word kerou,no. Banqiao. Xinghua, Jiangsu Kangxi scholar, Yongzheng juren, Ganweilong Jinshi. He used to be the county magistrate of Fan County and Wei County in Shandong Province. During his tenure as an official, he refused to please his boss and was quite concerned about the sufferings of the people. He was convicted and dismissed for opening a warehouse for disaster relief and withdrawing disaster relief funds without authorization. Later, he sold paintings in Yangzhou for a long time for a living.