The idiom of "late success of the big instrument" is most appropriately used in Wen Zhengming, and when the student (Xiucai) was tested, he took the exam until he was 53 years old, and failed to win, which can be described as a white teenager's head. At the age of 53, he had not yet passed the Examination for Xiucai, and at the age of 54, he was recommended and assessed by the officials and was awarded the position of a low-ranking Hanlin Yuan to be commanded.
Born in 1470 and died in 1559, Wen Zhengming was the longest-lived of the four talents of Wumen, with a high life expectancy of 90. Wen Zhengming was originally named Bi, the character Zhengming, and later the character Zhengzhong, the number stopped cloud, alias Hengshan Resident, known as Wenheng Mountain, Changzhou (now Suzhou) people.
Since the ancient Jiangnan multi-talented son, Wen Zhengming was born in Xiangmendi, and his grandfather and father were both literary scholars. But when he was young, he was not intelligent, slightly older, studied literature in Wu Kuan, studied in Li Yingzhen, and studied painting in Shen Zhou, and finally "became a great instrument late".
Wen Zhengming was an influential artist in the Suzhou painting circle in the middle of the 16th century Ming Dynasty, and he made a lot of efforts in appreciating and studying ancient calligraphy, and gained new creative power from it.
Wen Zhengming is good at landscapes, flowers and figures, and his painting style is delicate in his early years, his middle age is more extensive, and his later years are gradually mellow. At the same time, he worked in cursive writing, especially xiaokai, seal, subordinate, positive, and grass.
Together with Zhu Yunming and Wang Pet, he was known as the "Three Masters" of ming dynasty or calligraphy. The four-body thousand-character text he wrote became a model for posterity to copy. This "Lotus Society" volume was composed by Wen Zhengming in 1530, when he was just 60 years old.
Admire Wen Zhengming's calligraphy works, xiao kai strokes are gentle, the rhythm is gentle, and the words reveal a kind of immortal-like pursuit that does not eat fireworks in the world, and the texture of ice and jade bones.
Wen Zhengming's Xiao Kai is gentle and vigorous, the law is rigorous and the mood is vivid. Although it does not have a majestic momentum, it has the style of Jin and Tang dynasty calligraphy, and it also has its own certain style. His Xiao Kai harmonized with his painting style and was known as the "first of the Ming Dynasty".
Wen Zhengming's Xiaokai "Lotus Society"