The pinyin of Zheng Xie is zhèng, xiè.
Zheng Banqiao's original name is Zheng Xie, the pinyin is zhèng, xiè, the word is Kerou, his name is Li'an, also known as Banqiao, he is known as Mr. Banqiao, he is a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, and his ancestral home is Suzhou. Calligraphers, painters, and writers of the Qing Dynasty. He was a scholar in Kangxi, a scholar in the tenth year of Yongzheng, and a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong. He was the magistrate of Fan County and Weixian County in Shandong Province. He had outstanding political achievements. He later lived in Yangzhou and made a living by selling paintings. He was an important representative of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". Zheng Banqiao is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pine, chrysanthemums, etc., and he has made the most outstanding achievements in painting orchids and bamboos for more than 50 years.
Based on the methods of Xu Wei, Shi Tao and Bada, and developed his own method, with sparse appearance and vigorous style. Gong calligraphy uses Han Bafen mixed with regular cursive and calls itself Six and a Half Fen calligraphy. And integrate calligraphy into painting. He advocated inheriting the tradition and learning seven out of ten, discarding three, not adhering to ancient methods, and paying attention to the originality of art and the diversity of styles. The saying is that before painting, do not establish a frame, and after painting, do not leave a frame, which still has reference for today. significance. The poems are sincere and interesting, and are loved by the people. It can also cure seals.
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Zheng Banqiao’s calligraphy uses official script mixed with regular script. He calls himself “six-and-a-half-point calligraphy” and is known as “Banqiao style”. Most of his paintings are based on orchids, grass, bamboo and stones. Orchid and bamboo are almost part of his soul. Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy art is unique in the history of Chinese calligraphy. Banqiao started learning from Ouyang Xun in his early years. The font is neat and elegant, but a little restrained. This is related to the neat and elegant Guange style that was prevalent in the calligraphy world at that time and which was used as the standard font for imperial examinations.
The composition of Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy works is also very distinctive. He can intersperse the size, length, square and circle, fatness and thinness, and density, like "streets paved with random stones", with rules contained in the indulgence. It seems to be a casual stroke, but when viewed as a whole, it produces a jumping and lively rhythm. For example, the banner of "On Running Script" was painted in the 27th year of Qianlong's reign. He was already seventy years old and is a masterpiece in his later years. The general idea is that Su Dongpo liked to use Xuancheng Zhuge's Qifeng pen, and he wrote very well. Later, when he switched to other pens, his palms did not respond.
Banqiao himself likes to use Taizhou Deng's brush pen, which makes his writing graceful and flying, which is always satisfactory. Zheng Banqiao was born in a scholarly family. He was a scholar in the last years of Kangxi, a scholar in the tenth year of Yongzheng, and a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong. From the age of fifty, he served as magistrate of Fan County and Weixian County in Shandong Province for twelve years. The idea of ??"achieving ambition and benefiting the people" led him to take measures such as "opening warehouses to provide loans" and "donating money instead of losing money" to the common people who suffered from years of famine during his official career. This aroused the dissatisfaction of corrupt officials, evil tyrants and evil gentry. Demoted.
After that, he made a living by selling paintings. Zheng Banqiao experienced ups and downs in his life, experienced ups and downs, and saw through the harshness of the world. He dared to incorporate all of this into his works. Zheng Banqiao's poems on paintings have broken away from the traditional stereotype of simply using poems to compose paintings or painting to compose poems. Every painting he paints must be inscribed with a poem, and the title must be good, achieving "the image of a painting like a painting" and "the meaning of poetry is difficult to paint" , reflecting poetry and painting, infinitely expanding the breadth of the picture. Zheng Banqiao's painting poems focus on real life and have profound ideological content.