In the late Qing Dynasty, Changshu painting circle took "Yushan Painting School" as its orthodoxy, but Cheng Lian broke away from the old pattern and created a simple and simple style. This painting has a magnificent landscape and bold brushwork, which highlights the grand momentum at close range. Panasonic Gao Shi sat on a stone and watched the clouds of mountains and streams. The pine forest is silent and the autumn water is quiet. Only flowing spring water, wrapped in clouds, gurgles down, washing away the noise of the world and making it cool. Xiao Ping, a famous painter in Jiangsu, commented that Cheng Lian's paintings are "extensive and simple, with a unique Shanghai style, and won the appreciation of Wu Changshuo and others."
According to the China Dictionary of Artists' Surnames, Cheng Lian's disciple Shen Ruke and another disciple Shen Zhongyan both recorded it. Unfortunately, Cheng Lian's painting style was too high and was lost. The following supplementary introduction: Cheng Lian (1851-1896), a landscape painter in Changshu in the late Qing Dynasty. In the Republic of China, "Rebuilding Chang Zhao Hezhi" notes: "The word Lian Yusheng, number, has a long taste. Few people like to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and almost all of them have been there. Try to use the big idiot as the method to explore all the victories in the sea of clouds in Huangshan, and the brushwork is bold and unrestrained. Dropping water and splashing ink, strange spirit and escape, knowing people like Ishida Weng Yan. " Compared with this fan, it is really a comment.
Zheng Ren's calligraphy, Zheng Meili is a good calligrapher, which has won him a good reputation. This piece records Li Bai's two poems "Farewell Time" and "Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran's trip to Yangzhou" in cursive script. The brushwork is round, the structure is rigorous and measured, and the spirit is full and high-spirited, which reflects a profound knowledge that is obsessed with learning. Judging from the opening "The Pen of the Seventy", it is an outstanding structure on the eve of his death.
Zheng Renzhi (1826-1895), whose real name is Ruqin, was a juren in Xianfeng nine years, and wrote "Storing Manuscripts in the Garden". "I was instructed by the government to dredge the Tang Meili River and Hupu Tanghe River. Good calligraphy, many people seek books. " (Mei) But so far, his calligraphy is rare.