Famous Artists of the Past - Qing - Zheng Xie (Zheng Banqiao)

Zheng Xie (1693~1765) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher and writer of the Qing Dynasty. Zi Kerou, No. Banqiao, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, born in 1693, died in 1765, Kangxi Xiucai, Yongzheng Juren, Qianlong Jinshi. Living in Yangzhou, he made a living selling paintings. As one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou", his poems, books and paintings are called "three absolutes", and he is good at painting orchids and bamboo.

Itabashi's ancestors, three generations are all readers, great-grandfather Xinwan, Xiang (庠) born; grandfather Qingzhi, Confucian official, father Liben, Zi Li'an, 廪 (lin) born.

In 1693, Kangxi was born on October 25, 1693 at the East Gate of Xinghua City. At the age of 4, his mother, Lady Wang, died; at the age of 5, his father succeeded Lady Juhao. His stepmother, Lady Hao, died at the age of 14. When I was a teenager, I read Zhenzhou Maojiaqiao about then, and at the age of 20, I wrote lyrics from Mr. Lu Zhongyuan, a predecessor of Xinghua. At the age of 23, he married the Xu clan of ZhouYi, and at the age of 24, He Xiucai began teaching at the age of 26. At the age of 30, his father Zheng Li'an died, and at the age of 31, he sold paintings in Yangzhou about this year, and lasted for about ten years. His son also died around the same year. At the age of 39, in 1731, in the ninth year of Xinhai Yongzheng, his wife Xu Shi died. At the age of 40, in 1732, in the tenth year of Yongzheng, he went to Nanjing in the autumn to participate in the township examination, and he wrote "Denan Jieyin", at the age of 43, in February, the northern suburbs of Yangzhou made love with Rao Wu girl, and the title "Xijiang Yue" was a que.

44 years old, 1736 Chengchen, Qianlong first year, February to March, in Beijing to take the exam, the eighth eighty-eighth jinshi of the second class. 45 years old, nursing mother Fei Shi died, fu cheng Yuchen funded, Na Rao clan. 50 years old, 1742 Nongji, Qianlong seven years, spring for Fan County Order, and summer Chaocheng County. The 52-year-old concubine Rao had a son. At the age of 54, he was re-elected from Fan County to Wei County and was re-elected for seven consecutive years. At the end of 60 years old, he stepped down from his position as a county official.

At the age of 63, he cooperated with Li Chan and Li Fangbin in "Three Friends Map".

At the age of 73, he made "Bamboo Stone Diagram" in April, and on May 3, he made "Repairing Bamboo New HuangTu". On December 12, 1765, in the year of Yi You (the 30th year of Qianlong), he died of illness in the green garden of Shengxian Dang in Xinghua City, with no children behind him, and was succeeded by Zheng Mo's son Zheng Tian and buried the son of Ruan Zhuang (present-day Guan Ruan Village, Daduo Town).

Itabashi "Idle House" Cloud: "Jing's wife wiped the new ink, and the weak woman held a note to learn the book". Legend has it that itabashi learned to study books, and at night it was mistakenly referred to the practice of Bi Gongbi on xu's body skin, Xu Shiyun: "Everyone has a body." This sentence touched Itabashi, so he learned half of the ancient people's book, skimmed half, and created the "Six-and-a-Half Book".

He once served as Zhi County of Fan County, Shandong Province, and then transferred to Wei County. In order for the officials to sympathize with the common people and suppress the rich, when they first arrived in Weixian County, they opened a warehouse to give a loan; in the eighteenth year of Qianlong, he resigned because he asked for relief to touch the big official. On the day of the official's visit, the people covered the way and set up a shrine.

Zheng Xie has many literary and artistic talents, and is good at painting bamboo, orchid and stone. He also works calligraphy, and uses the affiliation to participate in the line of letters. His poems, books, and paintings are known as the "Three Absolutes", and his life is wild and uninhibited, and he is known as one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou". The end of Yangzhou. Zheng Xie's poems, such as "Weixian Bureau's Painting of Bamboo in the Middle Age" (潍县署中画竹成年伯包大中丞括)," "Humble Officials," "Lynching Evil," "Escape from the Wilderness Line," "Returning Home Line," "Orphan Line," and "Gu Evil," reflect the darkness of society, sympathize with the people's suffering, and are of great practical significance. "Humble Official", "Lynching Evil", "Escape from the Wilderness", and "Gu Evil" are particularly written profoundly and vividly, which is shocking to the eye. It is written in the "Humble Official": "The jackal has been everywhere, and it is constantly slashing at people's eyes. "Lynching Evil" wrote: "Search for every grain, but be strict with the skin and bone." Others, such as "Yangzhou", "Shaoxing", "Yanjing Miscellaneous Poems" (part 1), "Self-Dispatch", "You Jiaoshan", "Wild Old", etc., can also be seen by themselves. Expressing the true temperament, a large number of inscriptions and poems have sustenance. The characteristics of his poetry are that they do not look at the ancients, use more white paintings, understand smoothly, and are easy to understand.

Zheng Xie's words are mostly written about scenery and reward works, and there are also some good works, such as [Man Jiang Hong] "Tian Jia Four Hours Bittersweet Song", [Rui Hexian] "Fisherman", [Rui He Xian] "Tian Jia", etc., more writing and the suffering of the people, the language style is close to his poems. His prose style is frank and natural, full of humor, and the "Family Letter" is especially widely recited.

Zheng Banqiao of the Qing Dynasty was an outstanding celebrity in history, the main representative of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou", and a calligrapher and painter and writer known for his "Three Absolute Poems and Paintings". His life can be divided into five stages: "reading and teaching", "selling paintings in Yangzhou", "lifting people, entering the army and eunuchs", "being a bureaucrat in Shandong" and "selling paintings in Yangzhou again".

He is good at painting orchids, bamboo, stones, pines, chrysanthemums, etc., and has painted orchids and bamboo for more than 50 years, and his achievements are the most prominent. Taken from Xu Wei, Shi Tao, and the Eight Greats, and the self-made family law, the physique is sparse, and the style is strong. Gong calligraphy, with Han eight points mixed into the kaixing grass, called itself "six and a half points book". And the calligraphy is integrated into the painting with a pen. Advocating the inheritance of the tradition of "learning seven to throw three", "not muddying the ancient law", attaching importance to the originality of art and the diversification of styles, the so-called "before painting, not establishing a grid, after painting, leaving no frame", still has reference significance for today. The poems are sincere and funny, and are recited by the people. It can also cure the seal, "close to Wen He". There are "The Complete Works of Zheng Banqiao" and "The Printed Album of Mr. Itabashi" and so on.