Product name: Pujiang calligraphy and painting Product origin: Jinhua, Zhejiang Product history: There are 51 calligraphy and painting figures recorded in the text in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Yu Zhengfeng once wrote "Zuoxi Mountain Stele", with a majestic brushstroke, which was comparable to Yan Zhenqing's Yuan Dynasty Liu Guanshan's regular script. His handwriting was collected in "Sanxitang Calligraphy Collection". In the Ming Dynasty, Song Lian's three generations of ancestors and grandchildren were all good at calligraphy. Song Lian's small regular script was upright, and his cursive script was like dragons and phoenixes dancing. He was listed as the "Cursive Saint" of the Ming Dynasty; his second son Song Yan ranked first in the Ming Dynasty in small seal script. Today, the Palace Museum has his cursive "Respectful Reply". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Ni Renji and Jiang Xingchou were the most famous. The talented woman Ni Renji was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting; Jiang Xingchou (Donggao Xinyue) was good at calligraphy, painting and seal carving, and was also proficient in the art of zither. In the 15th year of Kangxi (1676), he went to Japan to teach seal making and calligraphy and painting techniques, and was regarded as the "Father of Japanese Seal Carving". Pujiang, Zhejiang Province is a famous "hometown of calligraphy and painting". It has a long history and has been a county for more than 1,800 years. Its cultural accumulation and artistic contribution are amazing to the world. Pujiang is a small county in central Zhejiang with a population of 380,000 and an area of 920 square kilometers. However, there are thousands of active calligraphers and painters and calligraphy and painting enthusiasts here, and hundreds of new calligraphers and painters are admitted to art colleges across the country every year. It is known as the "hometown of calligraphy and painting" and the "cradle of calligraphers and painters". On May 16, 2000, Pujiang County was officially named the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art (Calligraphy and Painting)" by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Pujiang has formed a unique development trajectory of mutual influence between calligraphy and painting culture and folk crafts for thousands of years. Calligraphy and painting rely on the prosperity of folk crafts to develop, and folk crafts are constantly innovated due to the development of calligraphy and painting. Pujiang County Party Committee and County Government saw and grasped this point, starting from vigorously promoting the construction of calligraphy and painting culture, focusing on the theme of developing folk craft industry, making "calligraphy and painting economy" a highlight of Pujiang's social and economic development. Since 1993, Pujiang County Party Committee and County Government have regarded the development of calligraphy and painting culture as a breakthrough in building a cultural county, and have invested tens of millions of yuan to build a large number of calligraphy and painting venues such as Wu Zhi Memorial Hall, Zhang Shu Memorial Hall, Fang Zengxian Stele Carving Institute, Shanming Fine Arts Academy, Zhang Shijian Chinese Painting Academy, Pujiang Art Museum, etc., and planned and built a calligraphy and painting street with more than 70 stores and a calligraphy and painting antique market with more than 50 stalls and other infrastructure. At the same time, the government art award and Wu Zhi Foundation were established to reward later talents, encourage them to uphold the spirit of "bone of calligraphy and soul of painting" of the predecessors of calligraphy and painting, and carry forward the excellent tradition of "the hometown of calligraphy and painting". Most of the unearthed cultural relics in Pujiang are famous paintings and calligraphy. His artistic attainments are considered the ancestors in the painting and calligraphy circles. The local area has also been praised by the world for its many literati. Pujiang is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province, with beautiful mountains and rivers and a long history. Since the establishment of the county in the second year of Xingping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the literary style has flourished, talents have emerged in large numbers, the style of calligraphy and painting has always been prosperous, and famous calligraphers and painters have emerged. It is a hometown of calligraphy and painting that is famous at home and abroad. According to historical records, since the Song Dynasty, there have been more than 250 calligraphy and painting figures with certain attainments. When Yu Zhengfeng of the Northern Song Dynasty was sealed, his calligraphy was said to be comparable to Yan Zhenqing; Liu Guan of the Yuan Dynasty was good at regular script; Song Lian of the Ming Dynasty had three generations of calligraphy, and his works were collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing; Ni Renji of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was good at calligraphy and painting, and his hair embroidery works were regarded as treasures; Donggao Xinyue, who crossed the sea to Japan in the Qing Dynasty, was good at calligraphy, painting and seal carving, and was called the father of Japanese seal carving. After the 1920s, Zhang Shuqi, Wu Fuzhi, Zhang Zhenduo, Zheng Zuwei and others were famous in the painting world. After the liberation, Fang Zengxian, Wu Shanming, Zhang Shijian, Zhang Yuejian, Liu Cun, Yuan Fei, Hong Rui and others achieved great success. Now there are a large number of young painters active all over the country. After the 1980s, Pujiang was named "Hometown of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy" by the Ministry of Culture.