Zheng Banqiao (1693-1766), formerly known as Zheng Xie, character Kerou, number Li'an, also known as Banqiao, known as Mr. Banqiao, Jiangsu Xinghua people, ancestral home suzhou. Qing Dynasty calligrapher and painter, writer.
Kangxi Xiucai, Yongzheng Ten Years Raised, Qianlong First Year (1736) Jinshi. Guanshan Dongfan County, Weixian County Ling, with remarkable political achievements, later lived in Yangzhou, sold paintings for a living, and was an important representative of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou".
In his lifetime, Zheng Banqiao only painted orchids, bamboo, and stones, and called himself "the orchid of the four hours, the bamboo of a hundred festivals of evergreen, the undefeated stone of eternity, and the unchangeable person of thousands of autumns." His poetry, calligraphy and painting, known as the "Three Absolutes", was a representative literati painter of the Qing Dynasty. Representative works include "Xiuzhu XinhuangTu", "Qingguang Photography", "Lanzhu FangxinTu", "Gangu chrysanthemum spring map", "Cong lan thorn map", etc., and authored "Zheng Banqiao Collection".
Seal: Zheng Xie, Ke Rou, Bing Chen Jinshi, Banqiao
Explanation: Endure the frost to wait for spring, the more stiff and thinner the more spirited. Redeem He Zhen Yuanyun and pay with Peach Blossom Yan yeren. Written with pine bamboo and plum blossoms, a kind of clear ink dot credit. If you want to dye rouge autumn ochre green, I am afraid that he is not Gu Yanxia. Lake and sea Yingliu Li Futang, old pine cang bamboo old villa. Ink pond waves warm plum blossom smile, eternal spring light around the pen bed. Years of cold three friends figure. Futang old friend painting. Itabashi Zheng Xie question.