Biography of Dong Qichang Author: Sun Wei Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

This is a panoramic biography of the art master Dong Qichang. After years of study, analysis and research, the author Sun Wei has comprehensively described and interpreted this landmark art master who lived nearly four hundred years ago.

This book takes Dong Qichang's life experience as the main line, starting from his difficult official career in his youth, and tells the many ups and downs of his "drifting in Beijing" experience. From being poor and down and out to being a scholar who "wins three top honors in a row", and then becoming the teacher of the emperor's eldest son, Dong Qichang became the mainstay of the late Ming literary world with his extraordinary talent and unremitting efforts. After that, in the complex political affairs of the late Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang experienced several ups and downs, and experienced quite difficult ups and downs in the officialdom. Finally, relying on artistic creation and business, he became rich and became a Da Zongbo, a first-rank official in the late Ming Dynasty...

This book not only describes Dong Qichang's life, but also tells his attainments and achievements in calligraphy, painting, art, history, and even his life experiences of ups and downs in officialdom and business, against the political, economic, and cultural background of the time. It closely links the direction of individual destiny with the times, allowing readers to clearly see Dong Qichang's ups and downs in life, presenting readers with a flesh-and-blood calligraphy and painting master.

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