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祝枝山

Zhù Zhīshān
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Zhu Zhishan (1460-1526), Ming dynasty calligrapher and poet

Examples

HSK 7-9
祝枝山的草书在明代享有盛名。
Zhù Zhīshān de cǎoshū zài Míng dài xiǎngyǒu shèngmíng.
Zhu Zhishan's cursive script enjoyed great fame in the Ming dynasty.
HSK 7-9
他和唐伯虎、文徵明并称江南才子”。
Tā hé Táng Bóhǔ, Wén Zhēngmíng bìngchēng Jiāngnán cáizǐ ".
Together with Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming, he was known as one of the 'Talents of the Jiangnan.'

Tips

history
Real name 祝允明; 'Zhishan' was his style-name (号), referring to a small extra finger on his hand (枝指) - the nickname literally puns on 'branch-finger mountain'. He is one of the 江南四大才子 (Four Great Talents of Jiangnan) alongside 唐伯虎 (Tang Bohu), 文徵明 (Wen Zhengming) and 徐祯卿 (Xu Zhenqing).
culture
He appears as a comic sidekick to Tang Bohu in countless TV dramas and Stephen Chow's 1993 film 《唐伯虎点秋香》. The historical figure was also one of the Ming era's foremost cursive-script calligraphers.

Stroke Order

祝 zhù
枝 zhī
山 shān