At that time, the imperial court really didn't respond to this matter, but Zheng Banqiao couldn't bear to see the miserable life of the people at dawn, so he made his own decision and opened the granary to help the victims. Later, he was dismissed for this matter.
Zheng Banqiao has the qualities of honest and frank. At the beginning of a senior official's appointment as a county magistrate, he lied about the information obtained from the folk investigation in order to have a good political performance. Zheng Banqiao knew the truth and immediately reflected it. His timely reflection solved the existing problems, but it also made him marginalized everywhere in his later career.
Major achievements
Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, which is a mixture of official script and running script, calls itself "six and a half methods" and is called "Banqiao Calligraphy". Most of his paintings are bluegrass and bamboo stones, and Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy art with bluegrass and bamboo as its soul is unique in the history of China's calligraphy.
Judging from his 23-year-old Ode to Autumn Songs by Ouyang Xiu and his 30-year-old Poem of Xiao Zhuan, Banqiao learned books from Ou Yangxun in his early years. Its font is neat and beautiful, but slightly stiff: this is related to the neat and charming pavilion style prevailing in the book world at that time, which was used as the standard font for taking the imperial examination at that time. Zheng Banqiao seldom wrote after taking the imperial examination at the age of 40.
Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy is most praised as "six methods and half a book", that is, "Banqiao style" with "eight-part essay" (a kind of official script) as its unique style.