Mi Fei (Fú) (1051~1107) was a calligrapher, painter and painting theorist in the Northern Song Dynasty in China. First named Kun, later changed to Fu, the word stamp, Xiangyang lay man, Haiyue Mountain people and so on. Originally from Taiyuan, Shanxi, he moved to Xiangyang, Hubei, and lived in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) for a long time. Mi Fei's fifth ancestor was Mi Xin, a scholar in the early Song Dynasty. His great-grandfather and great-grandfather were mostly Wu Zhi officials. His father's name is Zuo, the word Guangfu, and the official is Wuwei. His mother Yan is the wet nurse of Queen Gao. He used to be a school book lang, a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites. Good at poetry and calligraphy, good at seal script, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script and so on. And he is good at copying ancient calligraphy, reaching a chaotic level. At first, he was a scholar at that time, then Ou Yangxun and Liu Gongquan, with tight fonts and strong strokes. Later, he moved to Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. His posture was enlarged, his brushwork was vigorous and refreshing. He called himself "Calligraphy", and he was also called the four great calligraphers in Song Dynasty with Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Cai Xiang. His paintings are good at dead wood and bamboo stones, especially ink and wash landscapes. It is very creative to express the changes of mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River with brush strokes, which is called the Yunshan of rice. Mi Fei's calligraphy ink handed down from generation to generation includes Mourning the Empress Dowager, Shu Su Tie, Tiaoxi Iron Stone, Bai Zhong Yue Ming Tie, Hong Xian Shi Juan, Cao Shu Jiu Tie, Duojing Lou Iron Stone and so on, but no paintings have been handed down from generation to generation. The book Mountain Forest Collection has been lost. His theory of calligraphy and painting has been dabbled and recorded in books such as History of Calligraphy, History of Painting and Zhang Bao.
Mi Fei's calligraphy has been admired by later generations since the Song Dynasty. His calligraphy is called "writing brush", which means that his writing method is different from that of his predecessors.
Song Shizhai: "Mi Yuanzhang first saw Hui Zong, and the life letter" Zhou Guan "was written on the imperial screen. When he finished writing, he threw his pen on the ground and said,' Wash away the bad letters of the two kings and shine on the emperor and the Song Dynasty forever.' Huizong stood behind the screen and sniffed, but he went out to have a look. "1 107, Mi Fei died at the age of 57.