Zhao Mengfu: One of the Three Great Calligraphers of the Yuan Dynasty

Zhao Mengfu was a descendant of a Song Dynasty imperial family.  He became an official at the age of fourteen.  When the Yuan Dynasty begin he took to calligraphy and literature.  He eventually became an official of the Yuan Dynasty.  His works were of a high artistic level.  The emperor was so impressed with his works that he compared Zhao to a few famous artists from previous dynasties.

Zhao made many great works like “The Annotation of the Collection of Ancient Texts”.  Zhao’s main talent was calligraphy. Seal character, official script, running script and the cursive hand were some of the types of calligraphy that Zhao was skilled in.  In fact, Zhao created his own type of calligraphy called Zhaoti. He eventually became one of the Three Great Calligraphers of the Yuan Dynasty.