Wang Shishen bought a thatched hut by Yangzhou City and wrote "Immigration Picture". Jin Nong and others wrote poems to congratulate him. Jin Nong wrote "Seven-character Regular Poetry Scroll".

1745, Qianlong 10th year, Yichou, 59 years old

1746, the 11th year of Qianlong’s reign, Bingyin, 60 years old

On the third day of the leap month of March, E Min, the prefect of Hangzhou, planned to 63 people to study West Lake. Jin Nong participated. He began to learn how to draw bamboo. He was happy to plant bamboo forests everywhere on the left and right of the house, and used bamboo as his teacher. He wrote four poems in March to congratulate himself on his 60th birthday, and Wang Tushen wrote "The First Departure of the Sixty in the Heart of Winter". In July, he arrived in Xiuning, Xin'an, passed Jinling, and returned to Yangzhou.

1747, the 12th year of Qianlong’s reign, Dingmao, 61 years old

In March, I wrote the seal of "Bamboo Master" and wrote the "Five-character Couplet of Lishu".

1748, the 13th year of Qianlong, Wuchen, 62 years old

He moved to He's bookstore in the south of the city. He bought monk bamboos in Longjing Mountain and planted them next to him. Jiang Ren was the seal of "a hundred and two rich man in inkstone fields" and Ding Jing was the seal of "not without this king for a day".

1749, the 14th year of Qianlong's reign, Ji Si, 63 years old

In autumn, I live on the Qiantang River and form a chrysanthemum club with my neighbors. In spring, I sleep on the river. In winter, I visit Guangling, pass by Wang Shishen's Caotang, and appreciate each other's calligraphy.

1750 Gengwu, Gengwu, 15th year of Qianlong's reign, 64 years old

In April, he traveled to Shanzhong, passed Wuxing, went to Jingkou, and then went to Guangling. He lived in Sanzhu'an, Yangzhou. In June, he visited Wuxing, went to Wumen, and returned to Yangzhou. "Inscription on Mr. Dongxin's Bamboo Painting" 58 was engraved in this year. He began to learn how to paint bamboo in the preface 60.

1751 Qianlong 16th year of Xinwei                                                        

At the beginning of the year, I wrote a lacquer book scroll to my old friend Bian Shoumin. The books include "Eight Chapters of the Luxury Scroll of Tong Meng in the Lacquer Book" and "Collection of Lotus on the Fan of Regular Script".

1752, the 17th year of Qianlong's reign, Renshen, 66 years old

Chun wrote the preface to "Sequel to Mr. Dong Xin" and the preface to "Senior Du Xin's Three-Body Poems". He wrote the "Five-character Couplet of Lishu". The books include "Seven-character Couplet of Split Flowers on the Lacquer Book", "Suanhe Sutra of the Lacquer Book", "Suanhe Sutra of Running Script to Fang Fu", and "Suanhe and Wu Nanzhuang".

1753, Guiyou, the 18th year of Qianlong, 67 years old

In the spring, he returned to his hometown in Hangzhou and asked Ding Jing to write a preface to "The Sequel to Mr. Dongxin". He lived in the Chen family in Yangzhou in autumn. He wrote a small portrait and sent it to Zheng Xie. He was written by Wang Shishen's eyes and was written in a large cursive script.

1755, the 20th year of Qianlong’s reign, Yihai, 69 years old

Lu Yayu invited more than 20 celebrities to build a red bridge for the first time, and Jin Nong listed it among them. He wrote an inscription on Li Fangying's "Ink Plum Picture" with Zheng Xie, Yuan Mei and others.

1756, the 21st year of Qianlong’s reign, Bingzi, 70 years old

In autumn, he lived in the Western Temple in Yangzhou. The calligraphy includes "The 'Understanding' Scroll of Lacquer Book" (the signature says that the calligraphy was written after seventy and the "Eight Fen of Thirsty Pen") and "The Book of Poems of the Evil Lu in Regular Script in the Past Evil Lu".

1757, the 22nd year of Qianlong’s reign, Ding Chou, 71 years old

On March 3rd, Lu Yayu made a second Hongqiao Commitment, and Jin Nong participated. He engraved the seal of "Hundred and Two Inkstones Fields" and collected Luo Pin as a disciple of poetry. The books include "Qi Shu Gao Xuan Qing Fu Seven-character Couplet", "Qi Shu Ancient Robbery Scroll", and "Qi Shu Xianghe Sutra".

1758, the 23rd year of Qianlong, Wuyin, 72 years old

In spring, Ding Jing engraved and wrote a seal for Jin Nong that "only send a little lovesickness". The book contains "The citrus scroll of the temple of Huashan Temple in Xiyue in the West".

1759, the 24th year of Qianlong’s reign, Jimao, 73 years old

All the disciples collected were disciples. They wrote many small portraits and gave them to Ding Jing, Luo Pin, Xiang Jun and others.

1760 Gengchen in the 25th year of Qianlong’s reign, 74 years old

"Self-Du Song" was drawn by Luo Pin and Yang Jue. The books include "Preface to the Rectangular Poems of Qinghan in Regular Script" and "Notes on the Manuscript of Running Script Poems".

1761 Qianlong 26th year of Xinsi    75 years old

He wrote an article to comment on Zheng Xie's painting of bamboo. He wrote a seven-character couplet in the official script. He wrote a poem in "The Ink Plum Picture", "In his later years, he was terrible and had only one person with plum and cranes, and he was sick and hungry and accompanied by hunger."

1762, the 27th year of Qianlong's reign, Renwu, 76 years old

Qianlong traveled south to Yangzhou and presented his poems. He wrote an inscription on official scripts and calligraphy, paintings and Buddhas. The book contains "The Poems of the Evil Book on the Wall of the House of Past Evils".

1763, the 28th year of Qianlong’s reign, Guiwei, 77 years old

In September of the autumn, he died in the Buddhist temple in Yangzhou. In the 29th year of Qianlong, Hang Shijun raised funds and Luo Bing took the coffin and buried it in Huanghe Mountain, Linping, Hangzhou.

The common sayings of the "Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou" are Li Qi (Futang), Wang Shishen (Chaolin), Gao Xiang (Western Tang), Jin Nong (Dong Xin), Huang Shen (Yingpiao), Zheng Xie (Banqiao), Li Fangying (Qiuzhong), and Luo Pin (Liangfeng). In addition, there are at least five more statements, involving more than a dozen painters, but no matter which statement, Jin Nong is included, which shows that he is one of the core figures of the "Eight Eccentrics". Why do people call "weird"? In what aspects are "weird" and "weird"?

This "weird" first refers to the unconventional style of the work. After Jin Nong and others put the crown of "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", they were both recognized by society and talked about by people and widely spread. In addition to the reasons for their artistic style, they also include various factors that are different from normal emotions such as personal behavior, thinking style, and concept of life. No wonder their friend Quan Zuwang called him "Damn Scholar".

Jinnong made a wide range of friends, from famous officials, wealthy and tycoons to poor people selling pulp and attracting carts, and there were all kinds of people in all walks of life. He also had a strange temper when making friends. People he looked down on not only did not speak a lot of words but also rolled his eyes on them, and did not want to find his poems, writings and paintings. He never took good friends by being poor, rich and humble.

The calligraphy world in Kangxi and Qianlong era was the "Secretology" that unified the world. Jin Nong and Zheng Xie and others set up the banner of rebellion and became the leader in the revival of calligraphy in the Qing Dynasty. Jin Nong's calligraphy art, like his paintings, was ancient and thick, and had the artistic characteristics of "seeking clumsy to be beautiful". Judging from the calligraphy works of history, his official script was ancient and elegant, his regular script was simple and thick, and his running script was vigorous and elegant. The most influential was the "lacquer script" he created. The source of the word "lacquer script" cannot be performed, so the head was thick and thin, and his shape and ears were similar to his ears." Second, Mi Fu, a great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, said when commenting on his calligraphy: "I wrote a calligraphy." It can be seen that "lacquer script" refers to a kind of

A special method of using brush and ink. The ink used by Jinnong to write lacquer books is "five hundred kilograms of oil" made by self-selected ink smoke. "Jinnong ink" is thick like lacquer. "When you look at it carefully, there seems to be hairs at the intersection of paper and ink, and the words written are convex on the surface of the paper and are dyed with ink at a glance. The brush used is "cutting the end of the hair", flat like a brush, dipped in thick ink, and the pen is folded but not turned, like the operation of a lacquer brush. The characters written in this method seem vulgar and simple, with no structure, but in fact they are focused on the big picture, eliminate details, and take the majestic aura. The steep and majestic structure and the simple and dull metal and stone taste are all integrated into the black, thick, heavy, and condensing style.
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