The representative work of Dong Qichang, a calligrapher in Ming Dynasty.

Dong Qichang, whose real name is Xuanzai, was born in Huating, Songjiang (now Maqiao, Minhang District, Shanghai), and was a painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. In the seventeenth year of Wanli, he was a scholar and was awarded editing by the Hanlin Academy. He became an official of Nanjing Ritual Department, and changed his name to "Wen Min" after his death.

Dong Qichang is good at painting mountains and rivers, learning from Dong Yuan, Huang and Ni Zan, and his brushwork is delicate and neutral, quiet and elegant; Clean and bright with ink fragrance, gentle and plain; Green, simple and generous. He is an outstanding representative of Huating School of Painting and has the beauty of "Yan Gu Zhao Zi". His painting and painting theory had a great influence on the painting world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Calligraphy in and out of the Jin and Tang dynasties, sui generis, can make poetry.

His painting style is leisurely, gentle, fresh and beautiful. He advocates imitating the ancients rather than creating. Through the comparison between painting and Zen North-South School, it is also called "North-South School". He is a "Zhejiang school" who worships the south and suppresses the north, raises the status of literati painting and cracks down on repression.

Dong Qichang is a very learned man, proficient in Zen, fine collection, poetry and works, good at painting and calligraphy and theory. He was an outstanding and influential painter and calligrapher in the late Ming Dynasty. Dong Qichang's paintings are good at landscapes, and the characters pay attention to imitating other people's traditional techniques, pursuing a simple and naive style, and paying attention to the ink and rhyme. The ink color is clear, and my humble person is beautiful and elegant.