The rice of rice millet in painting history refers to

Rice refers to Mi Fei? .

rice and millet, a special language for calligraphy. It refers to Mi Fei, a great calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, and his son Mi Youren, namely "Mi's father and son". Because father and son have made outstanding contributions to calligraphy, people respectfully call them "rice millet".

Mi Youren (174-1153) (Southern Song Dynasty) was a Yin Ren, whose nickname was Yin Ge and Ao Er. Huang Tingjian jokingly called him "Tiger Er" and gave him an ancient seal and a poem: "I have an ancient seal of Yuanhui, so I can't bear to seal it with Zhulang, and Tiger Er can carry the tripod with his pen, and teach the character Hui to follow Ah Zhang." Late lazy old man, whose ancestral home is Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, moved to Xiangyang (now Hubei Province) and settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province), is the eldest son of Mi Fei, known as "Xiaomi" in the world. Calligraphy and painting are all inherited from family learning, so they are called "big and small meters" in the world.