Huang Tingjian
Huang Tingjian | |||||||||
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黃庭堅 | |||||||||
Huang Tingjian. | |||||||||
| Born | August 9, 1045 Xiushui County, Jiangxi, China | ||||||||
| Died | May 24, 1105 (aged 59) Cangnan County, Guangxi, China | ||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Calligrapher, painter, poet | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃庭堅 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄庭坚 | ||||||||
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| Luzhi | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 魯直 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 鲁直 | ||||||||
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| Shangu Daoren | |||||||||
| Chinese | 山谷道人 | ||||||||
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| Peiweng | |||||||||
| Chinese | 涪翁 | ||||||||
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Huang Tingjian (simplified Chinese: 黄庭坚; traditional Chinese: 黃庭堅; Wade–Giles: Huang T'ing-chien; 1045, Jiangxi province, China–1105, Yizhou [now Yishan], Guangxi) was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and poet of the Song dynasty. He is predominantly known as a calligrapher, and is also admired for his painting and poetry. He was one of the Four Masters of the Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋四家), and was a younger friend of Su Shi and influenced by his and his friends' practice of literati painting (simplified Chinese: 文人画; traditional Chinese: 文人畫), calligraphy, and poetry; regarded as the founder of the Jiangxi school of poetry.