Yang Wujiao (1097-1169) was a painter of the Southern Song Dynasty. The word complements, the old man who escaped from Zen and the elder of Qingyi, claimed to be a descendant of Han Yangxiong, so his surname was not from "wood". A native of Qingjiang (now Jiangxi), Yuyuzhang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi). Shaoxing Jian (1131-1162) was dissatisfied with Zhao Gou and Qin Hui's compromise with the outside world, and repeatedly resigned from his official position. Poetry, calligraphy and painting are famous, calligraphy Ouyang Xun, the pen gesture is sharp, and the small characters are clear. can also write words, write more about the feelings of men and women, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the description is delicate. There is "Escape Zen Words".
Yang Wuyi is especially good at painting plums, and the next pen is better than Huaguang. Ink plum bamboo, turquoise, narcissus brushwork is light and wild, especially good at painting huge pieces, the branches are old like iron stone, its leaves are fragrant, such as jade snow, Yuzhang people regard it as an arch wall. Taste the beginning of the Linjiang River to break the branches and plum in the low wall of the music work, which is appreciated by the people of the time. In the courtyard where he lives, "there are plum trees as big as a few houses, with green bark and moss spots, and flowers like clusters", which is very interesting. The method of delimiting the petals with ink lines was created, and the predecessors painted plum with ink or colored petals to express the flowers, and also showed the characteristics of plum blossoms that were light and elegant. Yang Wuyi painted plum blossoms with profound skills, unique for a while, it is said that between the plum blossoms he painted, there are "bees and butterflies gathered on it".
Yang Wuji was born in Qingjiang in 1097 and was mainly active during the Gaozong and Xiaozong periods of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Yang is not to blame, he is not interested in fame and fortune, and he is not good when he is pitched, so his paintings have the style of "lonely standard elegant rhyme". Legend has it that Huizong saw his painting of plums, and jokingly said that the plum he painted was "village plum". Because it signed itself on the picture scroll "Fengyi Village Mei", hence the name. He can also paint ink figures, and learn from Li Gonglin. Nephew Yang Jiheng, nephew Tang Zhengzhong, and disciple Liu Mengliang all passed on his method.
The hand-me-down works include the volume of "Four Plum Pictures" and the volume of "Snow Plum Pictures" in the first year of the Dry Road (1165). At the end of the volume, there are poems inscribed by the old peasants of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the two paintings are now in the Palace Museum; He is the author of a volume of "Escape Zen Words".