The "Huangshan Atlas" has a total of sixty openings, framed into six volumes, and there is another volume of inscriptions. It can be said that Hongren is the most concentrated display of Jiyou sketching in Huangshan, and the place names of Jiyou sketches are inscribed on each of his works, the famous ones are Tiandu Peak, Lotus Temple, Careful Slope, Guanyin Rock, Yixian Tian, Guangming Peak, Bailongtan, Ciguang Temple, Wenshu Monastery, Taohuagou and so on.
Among the sixty paintings, almost one picture and one method, fifty-one colors, nine ink pens, including the traditional composition of the method, some depict the vision, some depict the close-up scene, more inspiration is still from the real scene of Huangshan Mountain. It can be said that Hongren has reconceived, refined, and integrated his own feelings into the scenery on the basis of respecting the actual scenic spots (all albums use the "Hongren" round seal, the position of the plutonium cover is also carefully designed, and the round red small print not only plays a pivotal role in the balance and symmetry of the composition, but also plays a pivotal role in the image, and some of the images are like sunrise, some like sunset, some like the sun in the sky, which plays a finishing role in the frame).
The monk Hongmei of Ciguang Temple revised the "Huangshan Zhi" three years after Hongren's death, which recorded: "(Hongren) Changqi Jing Huangshan, walking on the path of the staff, making a small map, the layers are towering, the light and distant, the family system is prepared, and there is an interest in transcendent dust." This is a true record of Hongren's painting "Huangshan Atlas".
At the end of the book, there are eight inscriptions by Zha Shibiao, Tang Yunjia, Xiao Yuncong, Yang Spontaneous, Wang Zihao, Rao Jing, Wang Jiazhen, Cheng Yi, etc., who evaluate Hongren's artistic style and character, which is a very precious historical material for studying Hongren.
Hongren (1610-1664), a native of Jiangjiawu, Shexian County, Huizhou, was a wuzhi character and a gradual river. Commonly known as Jiang, the name Tao, the word Daqi, also known as Fang, the word Ou Meng. The late Ming Dynasty. When he was young, he was lonely and poor, and he supported his mother with the income from the proofreading. After the death of his mother, he was determined to enter the mantle pavilion in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, and became a monk from Jianyang Ancient Navigation Zen Master.
In the thirteenth year of Shunzhi (1656), he returned from Min to She, to Xigan Wuming Temple. In the winter of the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1662), he traveled to Lushan Mountain, full of star frost, and went all over the residence. Returned in 1663. Three years (1664) December 22, Yuan lonely Hexi Wuming Temple, buried at the foot of The Cloud Peak.
Hongren was good at poetry and painting, and was the founder of the Xin'an school of painting. Together with the Li people Cha Shibiao, Sun Yi, and Wang Zhirui, they are also called "Xin'an Four Greats" (also known as the "Four Houses of Haiyang").
After Hongren returned to the city, he had to visit Huangshan Every year, taking the "True Landscape of Jiangnan as a manuscript", and once made 50 real scenes of Huangshan Mountain, and his pen and ink were vigorous and clean. Rich in elegance, giving people a sense of freshness.