Thank you, Great Xia, for Zhao Mengfu's explanation of the word "painting and calligraphy are homologous".

China's terminology of calligraphy and painting. China's paintings are closely related to China's calligraphy, and their emergence and development complement each other.

As a master in the period of transformation, he put forward the slogan that painting is expensive and has ancient meaning, which reversed the decline of painting circles since the Northern Song Dynasty.

Turning painting from gaudy and trivial style to simple and natural style, he put forward the slogan "Yunshan is my teacher everywhere", emphasizing the painter's realistic basic skills and practical skills; He put forward the slogan of "painting and calligraphy are the same" and painted with calligraphy, making the painting more literati.

He has made great achievements in various painting themes, and his painting techniques are completely innovative. His paintings have the beauty of poems, books and seals, which complement each other. Under the political situation of the reunification of the North and the South and Mongolia's entry into the Central Plains, he absorbed the strengths of the North and South paintings and revived the traditional painting skills of the Central Plains.

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In fact, Zhao Mengfu is not only a painter, but also a rare all-round artist in history. Good at poetry, economy, calligraphy, painting, epigraphy, temperament and appreciation.

His painting achievements created a new painting style in Yuan Dynasty, which was called "the crown of Yuan people". His calligraphy is beautiful and powerful, solemn and rigorous, vivid and correct, combining rigidity with softness.

Xian Yushu, a calligrapher at that time, said in the Collection of Xue Kunzhai: Zhao Mengfu's seal script, running script, regular script and official script were all first at that time, among which lower case script was the most famous.

In his later years, he also created a calligraphy style called "Zhao Ti", which had a great influence on later generations. ?

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhao Mengfu