Huang Tingjian
Chinese Song Dynasty artist and poet
- Lived
- 1045–1105
- Country
- Northern Song dynasty
Updated September 2026
About Huang Tingjian
Huang Tingjian was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and poet of the Song dynasty. He is predominantly known as a calligrapher, and is also admired for his painting and poetry. He was one of the Four Masters of the Song Dynasty, and was a younger friend of Su Shi and influenced by his and his friends' practice of literati painting, calligraphy, and poetry; regarded as the founder of the Jiangxi school of poetry.
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