Calligrapher.
At the beginning, Zheng Ming was his character, and later he changed his name to Zheng Zhong, nicknamed Hengshan, calling himself a layman in Hengshan. A native of Changzhou (now Suzhou) became a junior official in the Imperial Academy at the age of 54. In his early years, he was not allowed to take the provincial examination because of his poor handwriting, so he became angry and tried to be strong, and finally became an all-rounder in poetry, literature and painting. In painting, he became a "Wu Sect" with his disciples; Also known as "Ming Sijia" with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Chou Ying; Calligraphy is excellent in all aspects, especially in running script and regular script, which was famous at home and abroad at that time, and because he died at a high age (nearly 9 years old) and had many students, it had a great influence on later generations; His sons Wen Peng and Wen Jia also made great achievements in calligraphy, among which Wen Peng was a master of seal cutting in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Wen Zhiming's small letters are particularly fine and neat, mainly from Zhong You, Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Ou Yangxun. They are strict in statutes, elegant in style and elegant in style, especially in small letters after 8 years old. The running script mainly learned from Huai Ren's collection of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Sacred Religion and Zhiyong, and his writing style was vigorous and fluent. In his later years, he learned Huang Tingjian's big characters and his style became vigorous and elegant. There are a lot of ink handed down from ancient times, including "Before and After Red Cliff Fu", "Gu Chun's Hidden Picture Axis" and "Nine Songs of Lisao Classic". The running script includes the early South Window, the middle Five Poems, and the late Xiyuan Poetry. All his works are neatly written, even when he is nearly ninety years old, which is extremely rare among Chinese calligraphers.