Du Dacheng (year of birth and death unknown)
Du Dacheng (year of birth and death unknown). From the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, the character Yunxiu, the number three mountains crazy life, one mountain crazy life. Su Nanjing people. Voracious poetry, gong music rhythm, good at painting birds, insects, flowers and trees, Yan Xiu vivid. His works include "Atlas of Flowers and Grass Insects", on paper, ink and pencil, which is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. The art activities are about between Jiajing and Wanli. The famous painter Du Dacheng's "Figure of Character Grass Worms" has only a few strokes, which seems to be inadvertent, while the flowers and leaves and grass worms are full of business and lifelike. Grass worms are one of the favorite materials of painters in the past generations, and grass worm paintings belong to the flower and bird family, and it involves a wide range of aspects. As early as the Neolithic Age, certain small creatures have been painted as ornaments on pottery and carved on jade. Lacquerware of the Qin Dynasty also has traces of them. Grass worms are not limited to insects, such as some soft snails, river mussels, crustacean lake crabs, river shrimp, reptile lizards, turtles, amphibian frogs, toads, and even aquatic small animals in inland rivers and oceans, which are also materials for the application of grass worm painting. Grass worm painting can be used as a form of expression of painting art, and it has been prosperous for a long time and has continued to develop, which is inseparable from the hard work of successive generations of painters.
