Fan Zeng, an 85-year-old well-known painter in the mainland, announced his remarriage late at night yesterday (10), and his new wife is named Xu Meng. His wife passed away more than 2 years ago, and suffered from a slight cerebral infarction, "Ms. Xu Meng's meticulous care made me fully recovered", and he is known as a giant of Chinese painting and calligraphy, the highest price of the painting auction market exceeded 100 million yuan, and the value of the painting was as high as 1 billion yuan.
Fan Zeng posted a letter of calligraphy at the same time, his beloved wife Nan Li was sad and lonely after her death, and because she suffered from a slight cerebral infarction, her artistic career was difficult, because of Xu Meng's meticulous care, he was fully recovered, and the two were willing to tie the knot bravely, and officially registered their marriage. He had three marriages before this, his first wife Lin Xiu was a famous poet who was also proficient in calligraphy and divorced during the Cultural Revolution, and his second wife Bian Baohua was a calligrapher and painter, and the two were classmates. He accepted relief from actor friend Xu Zunde when he was down, but fell in love with his friend's wife Zhang Guiyun, 5 years after Zhang Guiyun's divorce, he divorced Bian Baohua and married Zhang Guiyun, the woman later changed her name to Nan Li, and the third wife passed away on November 9, 2021.
Fan Zeng announced his remarriage and posted a painting photo at the same time, in which his newlywed wife Xu Meng stood beside her, and his wife had long black hair and looked quite young. Netizens immediately searched for his wife's identity, and a few netizens wrote PO articles, speculating that Xu Meng was suspected of being the model Shang Ai Zhen, because Xu Meng was Ai Shangzhen's real name. She was born on September 9, 1988, and won the third place in the 2008 Miss International Chinese pageant, with the title of "China's No. 1 Golden Ratio", but Ai Shangzhen did not announce the news about marriage.
Fan Zeng is good at figure painting, and his paintings have been collected by many international art museums, and have been auctioned for 1.05 million yuan in Taiwan. His paintings have repeatedly set sky-high prices in the auction market, among which "Bamboo Bird" was sold for 40.55 million Hong Kong dollars at an autumn auction in Hong Kong, and the market value of the painting is amazing.