◆ Lu Tanwei (? Wu, a native of Suzhou, was a valet of Wen Dihe in the Southern Dynasties. His paintings were rated as the most contemporary by Chief Nanqi. But none of his paintings have been handed down. Today, we can only know his true colors from the literature. According to the records, the characters he painted are thin, which accords with the effect of "vigorous and sharp, like a sharp knife" and is the feeling of "showing the ancient and clear images". It is also mentioned that his thread is "continuous", so there is a saying of "one stroke". Later generations called him and Gu Kaizhi the representative painters of "dense body".
◆ Zhang Sengyou and Wu (Suzhou). In prison, Tian Liang served as assistant minister of Wuling King, took charge of painting in secret cabinet, and was the right general and magistrate of Xing Wu. He studied hard and became a talent. He is good at portrait painting, painting Buddha statues, dragons and eagles, scroll painting and mural painting. The story of this idiom comes from the legend about him. It is recorded that he painted "convex and concave flowers" in Yicheng Temple in Jinling with the method of "contrast between light and shade", which has a three-dimensional effect, indicating that he accepted foreign painting techniques. According to the literature, his painting is "only a little pen, the image is right", which is very similar to the current sketch and is called "sparse body". Today, the original "Five Stars and Twenty-eight Hostels" copied by Liang Lingzan in the Tang Dynasty has been handed down from generation to generation and has been exported to Japan, but the pen and record of this painting are different. He had a great influence on later generations, and painters Yan and Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty were far away from him. In addition, he is also good at sculpture and is known as the "Zhang Family".
◆ Xiao Yi (508-554), the fifth son of Liang Wudi ZSZSZSZ, named Emperor Liang Yuan, was born in Shicheng and Nanlanling (now Wujin, Jiangsu). According to records, he is good at drawing Buddhist paintings, deer cranes and landscape sketches, with comprehensive skills, especially good at drawing outsiders. The Palace Map was handed down from generation to generation and copied in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although incomplete, we can still see the characteristics of the Six Dynasties, with simple techniques and vivid characters. This painting is of great significance for us to understand the style of figure painting in the Southern Dynasties. ◆ Cao was originally from the Western Region, Cao Guo, and was a doctor in the Northern Qi Dynasty. According to records, he is good at drawing Buddhist paintings and clay sculptures. In the Tang Dynasty, his Buddhist paintings were called "Cao Jia's style" and "Zhang Jia's style", characterized by "a grass comes out of the water", which means that his clothes are narrow and tight, as if they had just come out of the water. There are no handed down works.
◆ Yang Zihua was a general of Zhige when he was a sai-jo of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He was riding a horse and served as a constant attendant. According to records, he painted many murals in Chang 'an and other places, but there is no trace of them today. Only a scroll of Painting School of Northern Qi Dynasty handed down by Song Lin (now in Boston Museum) is the only scroll painting of Yang that we can see today. This painting depicts the story of Wen Xuandi Levin ordering Fan Xun and others to publish the History of the Five Classics in the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty (556). The characters in the painting are different from Gu, Zhang and others, and the faces of the characters are all oval-shaped, which is consistent with the murals of the unearthed buildings and tombs. Because he is good at painting murals, some people speculate that the mural of Loucuo Tomb unearthed in 1979 is his handwriting.