Ming Dong Qichang's "Painting Intention" says that "the painter's six methods are vivid". Qiyun' can't be learned, it is born with knowledge, and it is naturally gifted. However, there are also places where you can learn. You can read thousands of books, take the Wan Li Road, get rid of the dust and turbidity in your chest, and naturally camp in the hills and valleys. "I wrote it casually when I set up the cymbals. It's all vivid and vivid.

Dong Qichang (1555-1636), whose name was Xuanzai, was a lay man who thought white and was fragrant. Han nationality, a native of Huating, Songjiang (now Maqiao, Minhang District, Shanghai), was a painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. In the seventeenth year of Wanli, he was a scholar, and was awarded editing by the Hanlin Academy. He became the official of the Nanjing Ritual Department, and died as "Wen Min".

Dong Qichang is good at painting landscapes, learning from Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan, and his brushwork is delicate, peaceful and spacious. Clean and bright with ink, gentle and dull; Green color, simple and elegant. Buddhist Zen is a metaphor for painting and advocates the theory of "Southern and Northern Schools". He is an outstanding representative of "Huating Painting School" and has the beauty of "Yan Gu Zhao Zi". His painting and painting theory had a great influence on the painting world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Calligraphy in and out of Jin and Tang dynasties, sui generis, can poetry.

His surviving works include Rock House Map, Eight Scenes in Autumn, Zhou Jintang Map, Bai Juyi's Pipa Journey, the Imperial edict of the Third World, a cursive book of poems, and a postscript to the stacked pictures of the Yanjiang River. He is the author of Essays on Painting Zen Rooms, Collected Works of Rongtai, and Notes on Xihongtang (engraved).