How did the name "Badashanren" come from? Who is the Badashanren?

Many people have heard of the name "Badashanren", but more often it is related to calligraphy and painting. Indeed, Badashanren was a famous painter and calligrapher in ancient China, but he also had another little-known identity-he was a descendant of Zhu Quan, King Ning Xian of the Ming Dynasty. Badashan, whose real name is Zhu Da, 1626, was born in the territory of Ning, which is now Nanchang, Jiangxi. Zhu Da lived in the courtyard of the palace since he was a child, and lived a rich and well-fed life as a prince. Of course, Zhu Da, who grew up in a royal family, also read many books. Under the guidance of a famous teacher, he can write poetry at the age of eight and draw at the age of eleven. At the same time, his fine print is very neat.

1644, Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, and the Ming Dynasty perished. As the saying goes, "the tree fell apart". When the big tree fell down in the Ming Dynasty, as a descendant of Zhu's royal family, it naturally ended his royal life and became a civilian. However, as a descendant of the royal family, it is not easy for Zhu Da to live a harmonious life with ordinary people. In order to avoid the liquidation of the Qing dynasty, he traveled all over the world, hiding his name, and successively gave himself many aliases, including a mountain, a human house and a well-known Badashan man.

Of all the names used by Zhu Da, the name "Badashanren" is the most familiar. This name was given to himself when he lived in seclusion in Xinjian and Fengxin Bashan. When the ancients painted their own handwriting, they all wrote it vertically. When the words "Eighth National Congress" and "Mountain Man" are written vertically and compactly together, they look like "crying" and "laughing", expressing Zhu Da's inner distress and distress.

As a descendant of the Ming Dynasty royal family, Zhu Da, a native of Badashan, has a strong sense of identity. Although he was unable to organize the armed forces to "fight against the Qing Dynasty and regain sight", he spent his whole life expressing the pain of national subjugation with his own pen. Over time, Badashan people concentrated their inner sadness and desolation into their works. His works are extremely brilliant, and he is famous for "no ink and more tears", which has a lot to do with his experience and heart mirror.

For the Manchu dynasty, Badashan people had a very strong national hatred. He didn't want to be a citizen of the Great Qing Dynasty, so he fled into an empty net, lived in seclusion in the mountains and became a monk. For religion, it is just an empty shell on which Badashan people live. He has made no achievements in religion all his life, but with this shell, he can calm down, send his feelings to calligraphy and painting, pin his grief and vent his feelings.

Badashanren is a talented artist, and his artistic attainments come from his profound understanding and feelings about life. It is this unique experience that has formed his unique painting and calligraphy characteristics.