Dong Qichang, character Xuanzai. In the seventeenth year of Wanli (1589), he was a jinshi, a deputy envoy of the Liguan Huguangti School, a tai chang shaoqing, an attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and a shangshu of the Ministry of Rites in the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625). He set calligraphy and painting creation, criticism, theory, collection, identification, and writing, and was an influential artist in the late Ming Dynasty. Dong Qichang first learned calligraphy Yan Zhenqing, Zhong Xiu, Wang Xizhi, after middle age, he searched widely and collected the specialties of the ancients, and in his later years, he even integrated the penmanship of the Jin, Tang and Song dynasties with his own intentions. This painting was written at the age of seventy-eight, with a well-rounded pen and a well-proportioned arrangement between the lines, which was intended in his later years.
Dong Qichangxing's book "Antarctic Old Man Star Fu" shaft, on paper, 299.3x172 cm, Taipei National Palace Museum.
