Qing Dynasty: Zheng Xie (Zheng Banqiao)
For forty years, I painted bamboo branches during the day and wrote my thoughts at night.
Redundant and thin, painting is born and familiar.
Zheng Banqiao (1693— 1765) was an official, painter and writer in the Qing dynasty. Name Xie, word Kerou, Han nationality, Xinghua, Jiangsu. He lived in Yangzhou all his life and made a living by selling paintings. One of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou. His poems, books and paintings are outstanding and unique, and he is known as the "three musts" in the world. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pines, chrysanthemums and other plants, among which bamboo painting has been more than 50 years, with the most outstanding achievements. Author of Complete Works of Banqiao. Kangxi scholar, Yongzheng juren, the first year of Qianlong Jinshi. After learning, he worked as an official in Fanxian County, Henan Province and wei county City, Shandong Province. In order to ask the hungry people to be big officials and beg for illness.