Introduction to Mi Fu

Mi Fu (1051-1107), whose first name was Fu, was changed to Fu after the age of 41, with the courtesy name Yuanzhang. He lived in Taiyuan for a long time, later moved to Xiangyang and settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang). During the reign of Emperor Huizong, he was a doctor of calligraphy and painting, and later served as a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wai Lang. Mi Fu was a famous calligrapher, painter, collector and connoisseur of calligraphy and painting in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was good at painting landscapes. He was innovative in calligraphy and painting. He believed that landscape painting, which had developed to the Song Dynasty, had been constrained by the methods of predecessors and lacked originality. He created "Landscape with Rice Points". But the original work has not been handed down. His calligraphy has the highest achievement in cursive writing. His calligraphy style is free and easy, mellow and vigorous, familiar but not vulgar, dangerous but not strange, strange and right complement each other, and his strokes are natural. The main handed down works include: "Tiaoxi Poetry Post", "Eighty-one Character Praise", "Duojinglou Poetry Post", "Wuhu County Academic Notes", "Chu Lanting Postscript", etc.