Gu Kaizhi, Long Kang, Little Tiger Head, Han nationality, Wuxi people, Jinling people. Outstanding painter, calligrapher, painting theorist and poet. Gu Kaizhi is well-read and good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting. Gu Kaizhi has also made outstanding achievements in painting theory. There are three painting theories today: Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise, On Painting and Painting Yuntai Mountain.

Gu Kaizhi put forward the theory of vivid expression, viewing God with form and thinking wonderfully, and advocated that painting should show the mental state and personality characteristics of characters, attach importance to the experience and observation of objects, grasp the internal essence of objects through thinking wonderfully, and write God with form on the basis of shape. Gu Kaizhi's painting and his theory laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.

2. Mimi

Mi Fei, whose real name is Kun, was later changed to Fu, whose name is Zhong, and whose name is Mi or Qian, was born in Xiangyang, Hubei. He was named Haiyue Waishi at that time, and was also named the descendant of Kuaixiong and Huozheng. Calligrapher, painter and painting theorist in Northern Song Dynasty, together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, are also called "Song Sijia".

Mi Fei began to learn calligraphy from the Tang Dynasty. Mi Fei did not reflect on the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty until he deeply studied it. He found that the calligraphy of Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Chu Suiliang and others in the Tang Dynasty was too rigid in regular script, and the aesthetic taste of calligraphy could not be reflected, so he began to have the consciousness of criticizing the Tang Dynasty.

3. Zhao Mengfu

Zhao Mengfu, the word Ang, Han nationality, was born in Daoism, also known as Taoist Crystal Palace and Goulpeau, and worked as Meng Qian in middle age. Zhejiang Wuxing people. A famous calligrapher, painter and poet at the end of Southern Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, his grandson, a descendant of Qin Wang Zhao.

Zhao Mengfu has a wide range of friends, learning from Gao, Qian Xuan, Li Li and Guo Youzhi. Chen Lin, Tang Di, Zhu Derun, Ke, Huang, Wang Meng, etc. He is good at seal cutting and is known as "Round Zhu Wen".

4. Evonne

Evonne, the owner of Xuanhe, was the eighth emperor of Song Dynasty, a calligrapher and painter. Song Shenzong's 11th son and Song Zhezong's younger brother. Under the decadent rule of Song Huizong Group, internal peasant uprisings surged, Liangshan Uprising and Fang La Uprising broke out one after another, and the Northern Song Dynasty was in danger. But Song Huizong's artistic attainments are very high.

Song Huizong and Evonne's love for painting is very sincere. He used imperial power to promote painting, which made the painting art in Song Dynasty develop unprecedentedly. He also created his own calligraphy font, which was called "thin gold body" by later generations. He loves painting flowers and birds and has formed his own "courtyard". He is a rare and accomplished artistic emperor in ancient times.

5. Wei Xu

Xu Wei was a famous writer, painter, dramatist and strategist in Ming Dynasty. Xu Wei is versatile and unique in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting. He is also known as "the three gifted scholars of Ming Dynasty" with Jie Jin and Yang Shen.

He is the founder of "splash-ink freehand brushwork" and the originator of "Ivy League" in China. His paintings can absorb the essence of predecessors and be thoroughly remoulded, without looking like a god. Mountains and rivers, figures, flowers and birds, bamboo and stones are all around, with flowers as the most prominent, which created a generation of painting style and had a great influence on later painting circles. The book is good at cursive writing and has written many poems, which is known as "the next generation of talents".

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