There are four Wumen families: Shen Zhou, Tang Bohu, Chou Ying and Wen Zhiming.
Shen Zhou: It has played a connecting role in the field of literati painting since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher, is particularly accomplished in painting. He also works in landscapes, flowers and birds, and can also draw figures, with outstanding achievements in landscapes and flowers and birds. Some of his landscape paintings describe mountains and rivers and show the three distant views of traditional landscape paintings. However, most of the works describe the southern landscape and garden scenery, showing the leisure and interest of the literati life at that time. In terms of painting methods, Shen Zhou inherited his family studies in his early years and studied with Du Qiong. Later, he learned from other schools in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and mainly inherited the light crimson ink painting system of Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, Yuan Sijia Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng and Zhen Wu. In addition, he participated in the pen and ink of Li, Liu, Ma and Xia Jinjian in the Southern Song Dynasty, and integrated them, using both rigidity and softness, forming a new style of rough ink and wash, and becoming a family of his own. Handed down from ancient times, the works include The High Map of Lushan Mountain, The Old Map of Lin Qiu, and The Interesting Map of Cangzhou. Tang Yin, who is the author of Stone Field Collection and Guest News, is good at landscapes, figures and flowers and birds. His landscapes were studied by Zhou Chen in his early years, and later he learned from Li Tang and Liu Songnian. He changed them, painting mountains and mountains, chopping with a small axe, majestic and steep, with fine brushwork, sparse layout and elegant style. Most of the figure paintings are ladies and historical stories, inheriting the tradition of Tang Dynasty, with clear lines, gorgeous and elegant colors, beautiful posture and accurate modeling; He is also a freehand brushwork figure, and his pen is concise and interesting. His flower-and-bird paintings are freehand, free and easy, and elegant in style. In addition to painting, Tang Yin also works in calligraphy, learning from Zhao Mengfu, and his calligraphy style is fantastic and handsome. There are some paintings handed down from generation to generation, such as Riding an Donkey to Homecoming, Mountain Road to Pine Sound, Ming Ming, Wang Shu Palace Prostitute, Li Duanduan's Residence, Autumn Wind Fan, Baimeitu, Kucha Hutu, and Cross-Strait Peak and Green Map.
Chou Ying: The painting method is mainly inherited from Zhao Boju and the Southern Song Dynasty's "courtyard style" paintings, green landscapes and people's story paintings. The images are accurate, exquisite and elegant, with bright colors and subtle connotations. The colors are elegant and beautiful, and they are integrated into the themes and pen and ink interests advocated by literati paintings.
at the same time, he is particularly good at copying, and can almost confuse the fake with the real, but everything he copies is fine.
Wen Zhiming: Wen Zhiming's paintings are good at landscapes, orchids, figures and flowers, especially landscapes. In his early years, he studied under Shen Zhou, and later devoted himself to Zhao Mengfu, Wang Meng and Zhen Wu, forming his own style. The style of painting is thick and thin. The rough brush originated from Shen Zhou and Zhen Wu, and adopted the ancient wood and bamboo stone method in Zhao Mengfu. The brush and ink are vigorous and dripping, with dry brush rubbing and calligraphy flying white, which shows the hierarchy and charm in the rough bamboo slips; Zhao Mengfu and Wang Meng are used in fine brushwork. The scenery is dense, with little space and depth, and the shape is regular, with edges and corners and deformation at times. The brushwork is fine and slightly rough, which is childish in be adept at. The colors are green and heavy, with light crimson between them, and elegance is seen in the freshness. This road of fine brushwork landscape is a true color painting, which has the characteristics of decoration, lyricism, childishness and family-friendliness, and has also laid the basic characteristics of "Wu Pai". Handed down books include Zuiwengting Ji, Preface to Tengwangge, Fu on the Red Wall, Pipa Xing, Poem of Xiyuan, Poem of Fisherman, Lisao, and The Translation of Northern Mountain.