There was a great calligrapher in history, Zhao Mengfu.
Zhao Mengfu (f incarnation) (1254, 10,1October 20th [1]-1322, July 30th [1]), with the word ang. Xing Wu, Zhejiang (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) people. Famous calligrapher, painter and poet in the early Yuan Dynasty, his grandson, his grandson, Zhao's grandson; His fathers, Zhao and Chen, served as assistant ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, and also served as the prefect of Lin 'an and the envoy of western Zhejiang.
In the 23rd year of Zhiyuan (1286), Taiwan Province's imperial envoy Cheng Jufu introduced Zhao Mengfu to Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu. Kublai Khan admired his talent and appearance. Two years later, he became a straight bachelor in Jixian County. In the 29th year of Zhiyuan (1292), he became the general manager of Jinan Road. Zhen Yuannian (1295) returned to Beijing to study Shi Zu Shi Lu. In view of the internal contradictions in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu begged. A tired official, a bachelor of Hanlin and a doctor of Rong Lu, is famous all over the world. Zhi Zhi died in the second year (1322) at the age of 69. He was given a gift of Pingzhang politics, Wei Guogong and Shi in Zhongshu Province of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so he was called "Zhao". He is the author of Song Xuezhai's Anthology and so on.
Zhao Mengfu is well-read, good at poetry and prose, familiar with economy, industrial calligraphy, fine painting, good at epigraphy, fluent in temperament and appreciation. In particular, calligraphy and painting achieved the highest achievements in the Yuan Dynasty, creating a new style of painting, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". Good at seal cutting, official script, authentic works, calligraphy and cursive script, especially regular script and calligraphy. His elegant style of calligraphy, neat structure and skillful brushwork created Zhao Ti Shu, which is called "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan.
Zhao Mengfu's books, paintings, poems and seals were famous at home and abroad at that time, and even Japanese and Indians attached great importance to his works, which contributed to the cultural exchange between China and foreign countries at that time.
There are many books handed down from ancient times in Zhao Mengfu, such as Luo Shen Fu, Tao Te Ching, Danba Monument, Three Stories of Rebuilding the Xuandian, Huanglin Pavilion Classic, Eleven Postscripts of Lanting, Four-body Thousand-character Writing and so on. In the seventh year of Dade (1303), Yuan Zhen (1295) wrote the volume "Autumn Colors in Quehua", which was published in "Three Hundred Famous Paintings in the Forbidden City". Drinking Horses in Autumn Suburbs, written in Huang Qingyuan (13 12), is now in the Palace Museum. He is the author of ten volumes of Song Xuezhai's Collected Works (another volume is attached).