Xiao Yuncong (; 1596–1673) was a famed Chinese landscape painter,

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, and poet during the late

Ming The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...

and early

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

dynasties.Cihai: Page 594. Xiao was born in

Wuhu Wuhu () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to the southwest, Hefei city to the northwest, Ma'anshan ...

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province, at that time part of

Taiping Prefecture Taiping Prefecture ( Chinese: , ''Tàipíng Fu'') was an administrative region of China during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) Dynasties that spanned roughly the areas of the modern day cities of Ma'anshan and Wuhu in Anhui Pr ...

. His

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was 'Chimu' () and his

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was 'Wumen Daoren' (). Later in life he acquired the pseudonyms 'Zhongshan Laoren' () and 'Anhui Wuhuren' (). Xiao was known for his landscape paintings such as the ''Taiping shanshui tuhua'' ()* which used dry and twisting brushstrokes called ''gui shu pai'' (). He did not follow any previous artist's style. In calligraphy, he produced the work ''Mei Hua Tang Posthumous manuscript'' (). He remained a lifelong Ming dynasty supporter.Barnhart: Page 271.

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* Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). ''Three thousand years of Chinese painting''. New Haven, Yale University Press. * (In Chinese) Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (). ''Ci Hai Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (), 1979. 1596 births 1673 deaths Ming dynasty landscape painters Qing dynasty landscape painters People from Wuhu Painters from Anhui Ming dynasty calligraphers Qing dynasty calligraphers 17th-century Chinese calligraphers {{China-painter-stub