Ren Xun (1133~1204) [Jin] word Jun Mo, a Jun Mou, Mr. Nanlu, Yizhou (now Yi County, Hebei) military city, his father Ren Gui, talented, good at painting, Song Huizong Xuanhe, Zhenghe years, left his hometown to travel to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, born in Qianzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi). In the second year of Zhenglong (1157), he was appointed to consult Jinshi and the first, and he was the governor of the province, the general curtain of the daimyo and the judge of Yidu, and the salt envoy of Beijing. The hall of the class, demoted to the Taizhou Festival Hall. If there is no borrowing power, so they can't even move forward. Sixty-four years of Zhishi, you travel to the township, in his later years, hundreds of calligraphy paintings in his family collection, day and night exhibition, all lost. Died at the age of seventy.
Consult poetry, calligraphy and painting. The real cursive is fluent and vigorous, and it does not let the two kings. Landscape masters Wang Tingyun and Zhang Cai have their samadhi. It is recorded in the "Supplement to Zhongzhou Collection": "He is a man with many talents, his paintings are higher than books, books are higher than poems, poems are higher than literature, books are into energy, and paintings are into gods." "Jin Shi Ren Xun Biography" said that he was "generous and generous, and calligraphy was the first at that time", which shows that his calligraphy had a certain influence at that time. There are countless waves in his life, but the works handed down after his death are rare, only a handful, only a few fine works such as "Gu Bai Xing" and "Lu Zheng's Tomb Table" are seen by today's people. For deeds, see "Jin Shiben Biography", "Baoding Chronicles", "Yongping Mansion Chronicles", "Mochi Yuanhai", and "Painting History Huiyao".
Ren Xun enjoyed a great reputation in the early Jin Dynasty and was known as the first, but the problem of his works still being ancient and unified. In fact, later critics also pointed out the problems in Ren Xun's calligraphy. For example, Yuan Haowen thinks that "learning from Dongpo is slightly restrained" ("The Complete Works of Yuan Haowen"), and Wang Yun also has the view that "his big books are often dignified and stagnant" ("Mr. Qiujian Daquan Collection"), etc., have clearly pointed out the shortcomings of Ren Xun.
As far as Ren Xun himself is concerned, the history of calligraphy is definitely not a first-class calligrapher, and even in the Jin Dynasty, it is not satisfactory. However, in the early Jin Dynasty, even compared with the Southern Song Dynasty calligraphy, the momentum of Ren Xun's calligraphy was still considerable, which was the success of Ren Xun and the significance of his calligraphy.