Are there really four great talents in Jiangnan in history?

Yes, the four talented people, also known as the "four talented people in Wumen", refer to four talented and free-spirited intellectuals who lived in Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, it refers to Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing.

Tang Yin, a native of Jinchang, was located in Jincheng, Shanxi after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, in his calligraphy and painting, the word "Jinchang Tang Yin" is often written. He is good at landscapes, figures, flowers and birds. His landscape painting was studied by Zhou Chen in his early years, and later by Li Tang and Liu Songnian. His brushwork is exquisite, his layout is sparse and his style is elegant and handsome.

Wen Zhiming, formerly known as the Great Wall, has a distinct personality. At the age of forty-two, I began to use line words, and line words were less important. Because there were Hengshan people in the past, it was named Hengshan laity, known as "Wenhengshan" in the world, and was an official Hanlin and a Changzhou native. Li Yingzhen, his first teacher of calligraphy, has extensively studied the marks of famous artists in the previous generation, and has his own attainments in seal script, official script, regular script and cursive script. Especially good at running script and small letters, warm and beautiful, rigorous statutes and vivid ideas.

Zhu Zhishan, whose real name is Xizhe, was born with six fingers on his left hand, so he was called Shan Zhi and Zhisheng, and the world also called Zhu Zhishan and Zhu Jingzhao. Cheung Chau people.

Xu Zhenqing, whose real name is Changgu and whose real name is Guo Chang, was born in Meili Town, Changshu, and later moved to Wuxian, a writer in the Ming Dynasty. He was praised for the quatrain "The article is on the left side of the river, flowers on the trees in Yangzhou on a foggy month".