My family has a teapot with four characters and eight mountain people on the lid.

Badashan was originally named Zhu Da (1626-175). He was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, and was the sixteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the ninth grandson of Zhu Quan, the king of Xining, Jiangxi Province. After entering the Qing Dynasty, he lived in seclusion for a long time as a Taoist priest in Qingyunpu Scenic Resort Daoyuan. Badashanren was a famous painter and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, and also one of the four painting monks [Hong Ren, Shi Tao, Shixi and Badashanren] in the early Qing Dynasty. Badashan people specialize in ink painting, good at calligraphy and poetry. His landscape and flower-and-bird paintings are magnificent and meaningful, and they are unique. Flower-and-bird painting is based on freehand brushwork in ink and wash, with unrestrained brushwork, unrestrained and unrestrained, vigorous and graceful, and easy to escape. It often personifies objects, entrusts personal feelings or endows them with meanings, with distinctive personality and extraordinary brushwork. Dong Qichang, the master of landscape painting, is concise in brushwork, with quiet interest, and lonely in silence, which reveals the heroic and simple momentum in the desolate and silent realm, reflecting his lonely and angry mood and determined personality. Its donation is "Eight Mountain People", and the couplet looks like "crying" or "laughing". Poetry and postscript are subtle, painful and wild, and sent on paper. The flower-and-bird painting style of Badashan people can be divided into three periods. Before the age of 5, it was the early period, and it was the early period. It paid for "biography", "mountain", "donkey" and "human house", and painted more fruits and vegetables, flowers and pine plums, and most of them were books. The picture is more elaborate and powerful. From 5 to 65 years old, the painting style gradually changed, and I liked to paint fish, birds, grass insects and animals. The image was exaggerated, and the mouths and eyes of animals and birds were mostly square, with oval faces, big and small, and endangered. Birds lived on one foot and hung on one foot. After the age of 65, it is late, and the art is becoming more and more mature. The brushwork became Park Mao-hsiung-wei, and the shape was extremely exaggerated. The eyes of fish and birds circled a little, their eyes were against the rim of their eyes, and they looked "supercilious". Wang Xianzhi, a calligrapher from Badashan, has a unique style, lofty artistic conception, concise meaning and high generalization ability. There are often some unexpected structural shapes in his works. Later generations commented on Badashan people: "The ink paintings written are out of the box, and the natural posture is super-step, so they can be unprecedented for a generation."

Qingyunpu Scenic Resort Daoyuan, the former residence of Badashanren, is located on the bank of Dingshan Bridge in the southern suburb of Nanchang. The Taoist temple has a history of more than 2,5 years, and was built in the Western Han Dynasty, and is called Meixian Temple. In the 12th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty [641], Zhou Xun, the secretariat of the Tang Dynasty, was named "Tianning View". In the fifth year of Daiwa (831), it was renamed as "Da Yi Guan", and was taught here by Taoist Tianshi Wan Yuanzhen. From the Northern Song Dynasty to the second year of Daiwa (155), it was established as "Tianning Guan". Successive dynasties have repeatedly abandoned and built. In the 18th year of Qing Shunzhi (1661), it was renamed Qingyunpu Scenic Resort, which means "the sky is as high as a cloud". At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Da joined his brother Zhu Qiuyue (Niu Shihui), changed his name and surname, divided Zhu into Ba and Niu, hated secular seclusion here, became a monk, concentrated on painting and calligraphy, and made great artistic achievements, becoming a master of painting and calligraphy.

There are three halls in Qingyunpu Scenic Resort Taoist Garden: the front, the middle and the back. The front hall is dedicated to Guan Yu, the middle hall to Lv Dongbin and the back hall to Xu Xun. There are several branches of osmanthus trees in the back courtyard, which is said to be planted by Wan Zhenyuan. Every mid-autumn, Gui Xiang overflows and is very quiet. The whole garden is towering with ancient trees, winding paths and exquisite pavilions. Surrounded by clear springs outside, there are exotic flowers and exotic grasses inside, which make you quiet and carefree. The new statue of Badashanren stands in the courtyard.

After restoration, Qingyunpu Scenic Resort Daoyuan has been turned into Badashanren Memorial Hall for visitors. There are more than 1 original paintings and calligraphy by Badashanren and Niu Shi Hui in the museum, with vivid brushes and profound attainments, which are the favorite treasures of Chinese and foreign painters. These collections have high reference value for studying the painting art of Qing Dynasty.

I didn't see the photo, so I don't know if it's true or not.