What are the characteristics of Zheng Banqiao's poetry, calligraphy and painting?

Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" in Qing Dynasty, was a "romantic gentleman", cynical and eccentric. What he has gone through in his life is a unique artistic road that transcends his predecessors. His poems, books and paintings are called "three wonders" by the world. There was a poem that said, "Banqiao writes words like orchids, and waves are strange and graceful." Banqiao writes orchids like words, and the leaves are sparse and beautiful. "(Qing Jiang Xinyu). The characteristics of Banqiao calligraphy and painting have been accurately summarized in art. Let's talk about his unique skill-Banqiao painting. Zheng Banqiao painted all his life. "For more than fifty years, he painted nothing but orchids and bamboos. He left us a series of "orchids": "You" and "Cong Tu" ... The orchids in his works are either vigorous and stand proudly, just like disdaining the powerful and disloyal; Or elegant and leisurely, as if far away from the world, carefree. Banqiao's highest achievement is his ink bamboo painting, which can best reflect his "strangeness". He once wrote an inscription in "Zhu Mo Map": "In the past, Dongpo lay people with dead wood and bamboo stones, and without bamboo, they were dull and colorless. I can't get anything from rotten wood. It means painting bamboo mainly, supplemented by stone. Today, stone is bigger than bamboo, and it is also for special reasons. It doesn't stick to the ancient law, it doesn't hold its own opinions, it just lives. " It can be seen that Banqiao painting does not stick to tradition and ancient law, but dares to innovate and pays attention to creation. Therefore, his ink bamboo paintings are often "different". Big bamboo, small bamboo, old bamboo, clear bamboo, rain bamboo, phoenix bamboo and Buddha bamboo ... all have different verve and charm. After reading his ink bamboo, you seem to be in a bamboo kingdom, dazzled and enjoying the beautiful scenery. After painting, let's talk about Banqiao's calligraphy. "Banqiao's words are like writing blue", and its words are picturesque and unique, which is called "Banqiao style". The ancients wrote, or ran script, or official script, or cursive script, or regular script, and used one font to the end, never giving up halfway; Banqiao is different. Although a word is mainly based on behavior, it is mixed with various fonts such as Kai, Cao, Li and Zhuan, which is his strangeness. In addition, Banqiao writes with large and small fonts, thick and light fonts, long and flat fonts, right and crooked fonts, which is another of his quirks. You say strange but not strange, it looks chaotic, but orderly; It looks crooked, but it is actually positive. Their words are related and harmonious. Throughout the whole article, people feel harmonious and far-reaching. Let's talk about his last skill-poetry. Banqiao writes poems mostly on paintings. He doesn't care about sculpture, but he pays great attention to the creation and self-expression of artistic conception. He often expresses his feelings with poems, and he is cynical. There was once such a poem about his paintings: "Spring breeze and spring rain write a wonderful face, lingering and falling into the world." Who is a bosom friend now, a broken bird basin is even deeper. "After reading this poem, it is not difficult for us to understand the author's sigh about the lack of bosom friends in the world, and we can also see the author's characteristics of being detached from the secular, arrogant and confident. Zheng Banqiao is really a master. However, people in our time can't objectively evaluate the strangeness of Banqiao from the artistic point of view, but should appreciate it in combination with the social background at that time in order to understand the strangeness.