Zheng Banqiao only painted orchids, bamboos and stones in his life, which is known as "orchids that never fade in four seasons, bamboos that never fall for a hundred days, and invincible stones that never change". His poems, paintings and calligraphy, known as the "three wonders" in the world, are more representative literati painters in the Qing Dynasty. Representative works include Zhuxiu Novelty, Guangqing Liu Zhao, Zhu Lan Fang Xin, Gangu Juquan, Cong Lan Ci, and Zheng Banqiao Collection.
Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, which is a mixture of official script and running script, calls itself "six and a half books" and is called "Banqiao Book". Most of his paintings are bluegrass and bamboo stones, and Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy art with bluegrass and bamboo as its soul is unique in the history of China's calligraphy.
Judging from his 23-year-old Ode to Autumn Songs by Ouyang Xiu and his 30-year-old Poem of Xiao Zhuan, Banqiao learned books from Ou Yangxun in his early years. Its font is neat and beautiful, but slightly stiff: this is related to the neat and charming pavilion style prevailing in the book world at that time, and it is the standard font for selecting candidates in the imperial examination. In this regard, Zheng Banqiao once said: "The flies stop too evenly, fearing that the book will damage the spirit." After becoming a scholar at the age of 40, I seldom write again. Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy is most praised as "six methods and half a book", that is, "Banqiao style" with "eight-part essay" (a kind of official script) as its unique style.
The composition of Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy works is also very distinctive. He can insert the size, length, Fiona Fang, size and density, such as "paving the road with stones", which contains rules in vertical placement. It seems to follow the flow of the pen, but the holistic view produces a sense of rhythm of jumping and agility. For example, it was written in the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong, and he was seventy years old, which was his masterpiece in his later years. Su Dongpo likes to use the Qifeng pen of Xuancheng Zhuge, which is very satisfying to write. Later, when he changed another pen, his palm didn't correspond. Banqiao himself likes to use Taizhou Deng's sheep hair, and it is satisfactory to write it tactfully. So he compared Taizhou Deng's wool to Zhuge Qifeng in Xuancheng, and finally said, "How dare you imitate Dongpo?" Moreover, writing a book with a pen loves fat rather than thin, and it also means slope. "The whole work is characterized by big summary, thick and thin pen, oblique posture, stippling and lifting pressure, which makes it like the joy in the ear, the bird in the air and the fish in the water, expressing strength and spirit with arbitrary rhythm: how can people say that his words are" blue and bamboo, especially interesting "? From the composition, structure and strokes of this crystal, we can't see his "quaint and graceful" Zhu Lan Lou God.