What are the eight eccentrics in the south of the Yangtze River?

Also known as the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, it is the general name of a generation of painting schools and painters with similar styles who were active in Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River from the middle of Kangxi to the end of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. It is called "Yangzhou Painting School" in art history. The more recognized ones are: Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Shan Li, Li, Wang, Gao Xiang.

Eight painters of Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics were famous before their death. Shan Li, Li, Gao and Li Mian were summoned by emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong respectively, or tried to draw or entrusted them. In the eighth year of Qianlong, Li Hong read Zheng Banqiao's Picture of Cherry Blossoms and Bamboo Shoots, and recited Zhu Wen's Oval Seal, which made him a treasure of imperial travel. In the 13th year of Qianlong, when Li Hong made a southern tour, he named Zheng Xie "History of Calligraphy and Painting".

It has been nearly a hundred years since the rise of Emperor Kangxi in the last years to the death of Luo Pin, the youngest painter among the Eight Eccentrics in Jiaqing four years. Their paintings are numerous, widely circulated and immeasurable. According to the catalogue of Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics compiled by modern people, more than 8,000 paintings have been collected by more than 200 museums, art galleries and research units at home and abroad.

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An anecdote about Zheng Xie, one of the eight eccentrics in the south of the Yangtze River.

1, Zheng Xie was influenced by the Confucian thought of "cultivating oneself, governing the country and calming the world", and asked himself to "be a good person first" and be an official to "contribute to the world and save the people". In literary creation, he also advocated that "reason must be attributed to sages, and writing must be cut to daily use".

2. In calligraphy and painting, he deeply felt that it was a shameful "vulgar thing" to let people play with pen and ink, and proposed: "All my paintings of orchids, bamboos and stones are used to comfort the working people all over the world, not to enjoy them."

3. Zheng Xie advocated the creative method of "having nothing in mind", pointed out the connection and difference between "having something in mind", "having something in mind" and "having something in hand", and described in detail the creative process from observing the situation, conceiving, brewing to writing, which has unique insights unknown to predecessors.

4. Zheng Xie is also quite accomplished in poetry. Most of his poems depict the lives of the poor and expose the cruelty and greed of the rich and the petty officials. In his creation, he tried to make his works have ethical and moral education significance.

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