At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he was an official, a calligrapher, painter and poet. He was born in (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province) and his ancestral home was Lanxi, Wuzhou.

Zhao Mengfu put forward the slogan "Calligraphy and painting are of the same origin", and painted with calligraphy, which enriched the literati temperament of painting and enhanced the charm of painting.

Artistic achievements:

Zhao Mengfu is well-read and versatile, and literature and art create a generation of ethos. He is also good at all kinds of paintings, including landscape paintings by Dong Yuan and Li Cheng. Characters, pommel horse teacher, Li and Tang people; Bamboo, flowers and birds are famous for their mellow brushwork, stone painting is flying white, and calligraphy writes bamboo with a pen.

He urged to change the style of quadrangles in the Southern Song Dynasty, claiming that "painting is expensive in ancient times. Without it, it is useless to be meticulous. " He pursued the statutes of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, and people praised him for his "ambition" in the Tang Dynasty and "heroism" in the Northern Song Dynasty.

And removed the "fiber" and "essence" of the two, creating a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty.