Xiao Yuncong (1596~1673), the character ruler wood, the number of the lake old man, the no stuffy Road people, meditation. A native of Wuhu, Anhui, he was a famous painter in Wuhu in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the founder of the Gushu School. His father, Xiao Shenyu, was a mingxiang drinker and knew how to paint. Yun is eager to learn from a young age, "Tu Zhi paints things, cold and summer do not waste".
In 1638, Yuncong and his brother Yunqian joined the Fu Society, echoing the Donglin Party and fighting against Wei Zhongxian's castrated party Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng. In 1644, the Ming court fell. In 1645, the Qing army captured Yangzhou, and in March occupied Wuhu; the worried country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, and he was neither Ming Nords, and now he is even more reluctant to cooperate with the Qing, or he reads and paints behind closed doors, or travels to the famous mountains and rivers, poetry and painting talents, and achievements in Daily writing. The poems inherit Du Fu, most of which are the works of the time of worry, majestic and unrestrained, the sound rhymes sonorously, and the authors of "Easy Existence", "Rhyme Tong", "Du Luxian" and so on. His works have paintings in poetry and poems in paintings, and with handsome and sprinkled calligraphy, they have reached the realm of unity and harmony of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and are known as "divine products".
Yun from the Chinese painting, the ancient and the ancient and innovative, the teacher created and unique. Landscape painting, integrating the pen and ink of the Song and Yuan dynasties and the hills and ravines, "with the thin trees and mountain stones of Huang Gongwang as the vertical and horizontal, and the method of splashing ink from Ma Yuan", can be composed into volumes at will. In the meantime, the arrangement of hills and ravines is ever-changing, endless, making people look tireless; the performance of rocks and trees, deep and solid, interspersed; regardless of ink coloring, rubbing and dyeing, they are vigorous and beautiful, showing the depth of space; the dot scene characters, natural and vivid, houses, boats, cars, and horses are properly arranged. In the early days, he composed the "Autumn Mountain Travel Map Scroll", revealing his talent, and after reading the Qianlong Inscript poem, "A few points of Xiao Xiao Tree, sparse light mountain." The origin of the victory of the will, all in the world of God. Autumn scenery should be silhouetted, and guests return to their own. Thick and meticulous, the language is broken." Later, at the request of Wanxuan, he drew the "Taiping Landscape Map" for the "Three Books of Taiping", and drew 43 landscapes in the area of Taiping Prefecture, including: one Taiping Landscape Map, 15 Dangtu Landscapes, 14 Wuhu Landscapes, and 13 Fanchang Landscapes, each with an ancient poem inscribed, indicating that the paintings of imitating an ancient person have no similarities and have their own characteristics. There are also "Closed Door Refusal Map", "Ximen Weeping Map", "Autumn Mountain Visiting Friends Map", "Jiangshan Lansheng Picture Volume", "Guiyu One Yuan Picture Volume", "Deep Scroll of The Valley", "Cui Hua Poetic Volume" and so on. Figure painting, inheriting and carrying forward Li Gonglin's white painting technique, representing as "Leaving the Riot Map", the character shape is accurate, the demeanor is moving, the scenery is embellished, and it is endowed with life, Yun Cong's deep feeling for "Leaving the Sorrow", making the illustration of "Heavenly Question", drawing the "Nine Song Diagram", after the Qing Gaozong Dezhimu "Departure From the Sorrow Map", ordered the attendant to make up the engraving, and titled the "Landscape Map Scroll" Cloud "Four Libraries Present the "Departure from the Sorrow Map", the first zhiyun from its people also ,...... Looking at the long scroll for more than four years, I don't get tired of it."
Yun congregated from the deep evil bureaucracy, the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, restrained and conservative, refused to submit to affairs, and did not marry the powerful. In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), Hu Jiying, the prefect of Taiping, asked for painting and disagreement. In 1662, the Great Self-Building was rebuilt, so it was forced to paint the Mural of the Taibai Building. Out of love for Da zi, "painting the four famous mountains of Kuanglu, Emei, Taidai and Hengyue, all seven days away, the pen is finished." "Lofty in spirit and admired by others." The master of the Xin'an School of Painting, Gradually Jiang, once taught him, and the descendants copied more and more people. Shunzhi 5th Year Pengzi (1648), "Taiping Landscape Map" engraving, Shunzhi 2nd year Ethyl Unitary (1645), "Departure map" engraving, once circulated in Japan. The "Taiping Landscape Map" is collected by Osaka Kanedo, and the "Departure Map" is published by the Japanese art historian Omura Nishiya in the "Atlas Series". The Akiyama Tour Scroll, collected by the Imperial Museum in Tokyo, has played a role in promoting the rise of Japanese southern painting. Yun became acquainted with the blacksmith Tang Tianchi from his later years, and instructed Tianchi to paint with iron and create iron paintings.
In 1673, Yun Cong "took the hands of his comrades and said: 'The Tao is in the Six Classics, the Five Luns are practiced, and there is nothing to ask for, but still derive its purpose.' Fu Shi Bi, Go Away", died at the age of seventy-eight, and was buried in Yanjia Mountain, west of Wuhu City. His poems were compiled by Hou Xue into the "Meihuatang Testament", and later, Huang Yu compiled the poems of Yun Cong and Tang Yansheng into the "Co-editing of the Remains of Xiao and Tang Er". His paintings are treasured by the Palace Museum and the Anhui Provincial Museum. In 1986, the Wuhu Municipal People's Government built a "ruler wooden pavilion" on the bank of Jinghu Lake, and cast its full body sitting statue in copper on the side of the pavilion for people to admire.
Xiao Yun from (section) snow mountain map