Pupil of 苏轼, later ranked beside him as a poet and as one of the four great Song calligraphers, known for long, sweeping strokes. He called reworking old lines into new ones 点铁成金, 'touching iron into gold'.
Huang Tingjian was a student of Su Shi, and later became as famous as his teacher.
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He is one of the 二十四孝, the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: even as an official he cleaned his mother's chamber pot himself, the story 涤亲溺器. He is often called 黄山谷, after his art name 山谷道人.
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One of the 宋四家 (Four Masters of Song calligraphy) with 苏轼, 米芾 and 蔡襄. The idioms 弄巧成拙 'clever tricks that backfire' and 利欲熏心 'blinded by greed' both come from his writing.
