Qian Du (1764-1845), originally known as Yu, Zi Shu Ming, renamed Du, Zi Shu Mei, Song Ju Xiao Yin, also known as Song Ju, also known as Hu Gong, No. Ju Shi, Qiantang people. Qian Du was born as a eunuch, Qian Shudi, Jiaqing five years (1800) jinshi, official to the chief. Sex is idle and free, easy to travel, and has traveled through Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi and other places in his life. In the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804), he lived in Jiading (now part of Shanghai), and in the twenty-second year of Daoguang (1842), the British army attacked Zhejiang, avoided Yangzhou, and died in Kexiang.
Gong poetry, good at calligraphy and painting. Qian Du composed the poems of The Tang Dynasty Cen Shan and Wei Yingwu, and the poetry is clear. Calligraphy Tang Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan, have a gentle atmosphere of Qingjun. The flower master Yun Shouping, the characters and ladies are all exquisite. Good at painting landscapes, patriarchal Zhao Lingyong, Zhao Mengfu, Wang Meng, etc., especially thanks to Wen Zhengming, with fine pens and light colors, the pen is loose and meticulous, and it becomes its own face. The painted mountain stones and human figures can be ingenuity in simplicity, which is quite decorative. Especially love to paint mountain temples, Buddha statues, or apply heavy colors, golden splendor, meteorological solemnity, solemnity. Zhao Mengjian, the painter of plums, was evacuated in the cold and was on a par with Jin Nong and Luo Ping. He is the author of "Pine Pot Painting", "Pine Pot Painting Memories" and so on.
