Wang Meng, together with Huang Gongwang, Zhen Wu and Ni Zan, was a famous painter in Yuan Dynasty. In 138, Wang Meng was born into a scholarly family. His grandfather Zhao Meng, grandmother Guan Daosheng, uncle Zhao Yong and cousin Zhao Yanzheng were all famous painters in the Yuan Dynasty. Influenced by the origin of his family, Wang Meng studied calligraphy and painting since childhood, studied hard and practiced hard, and finally achieved something.

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Name: Wang Meng

Word: Shu Ming

No.: Huang Heshan Qiao

Alias: Wang Shuming, Yellow River Mountain firewood

Country: China

Nationality: Han nationality

Time: Yuan Dynasty

Place of birth: Xing Wu, Zhejiang

Date of birth: 138

Date of death: 1385

Occupation: painter

Representative works: Qingbian's seclusion map, < In particular, Zhao Meng, Wang Meng's grandfather, has a direct influence on Wang Meng's landscape paintings.

It was not until later that Wang Meng began to come into contact with the works of Wang Wei, Dong Yuan, Ju Ran and others that Wang Meng's painting method was gradually separated from Zhao Meng. Until the end, Wang Meng's painting skills were perfect, and he gradually began to form his own style, which was a new chapter.

at the end of the yuan dynasty, the rulers of the dynasty were corrupt and heartless, and the people were seriously exploited. In the torrent of the double contradiction between ethnic contradictions and class contradictions, peasant uprising regimes have sprung up everywhere. One of them, a rebel army led by Zhang Shicheng, the leader of the uprising, occupied the west of Zhejiang, and Wang Meng was hired as Li Wen and Chang Shi at the beginning. Later, Wang Meng abandoned his official position and lived in Linping.

when Wang Meng was young, he didn't pursue worldly life, official career, fame and fortune, so he began to live in seclusion very early. When he was young, he lived in seclusion in the Yellow River Mountain, calling himself Yellow River Mountain firewood. I have lived for decades, living a leisurely life like "lying on the green hills and looking at the white clouds" and floating clouds and wild cranes.

In the end, the regime of the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the peasant uprising army. Among many uprising troops, the rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang won, established the Ming Dynasty, and unified China.

in the early Ming dynasty, Wang Meng became the magistrate of Tai 'an. Later, he was implicated in the famous Hu Weiyong case in history, and was finally arrested and imprisoned, and died in prison.

Wang Mengneng writes poems and works in calligraphy. Especially good at painting landscapes, he won the ancestor Zhao Mengfa, and took Dong Yuan and Ju Ran as his ancestors. The scenery is dense, the layout is full of mountains and rivers, and the Jie Suocun and thirsty spots are well used to show the lush and boundless atmosphere of the forest.

In The Outline of Painting History, it is said: "Ju Ran, a landscape master of Wang Meng, has to use ink painting", and Yun Nantian even said that he "lived in a remote place". This is Wang Meng's own creation of a painting method called "water faint ink seal", which enriches the national reply skills and becomes an example for painters to follow after the Qing Dynasty. ?