(b Henan Province, 1294; d Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 1365). Chinese painter and calligrapher. He was active in Jiangsu Province and was favoured by the emperors Renzong (reg 1312-21) and Yingzong (reg 1321-3). In calligraphy he followed the Yuan-period (1279-1368) artists Xianyu Shu (1257-1302) and Zhao Mengfu (whose prot?g? he was at court), and in painting Guo Xi of the Northern Song period (960-1127). He formed a close friendship with the leading Koryo-period (918-1392) scholar and poet Yi Che-hyon, who spent many years in Beijing and who was instrumental in the transmission of Neo-Confucianism to Korea.
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