Jiangsu Zhao Wen (now Changshu) was born in Shanghai. Born in poverty, he began to travel to Suzhou, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Shanghai at the age of 25. He was poor all his life, selling paintings for a living, and his poems and paintings became famous all over the country. Sun Yuanxiang, a poet and painter in the same city, is proud of his personality, praising him as Xin Li, who plays the piano and paints, and Li Shixin, who works in writing, calling him "Three Steps in Yushan". Jiang made many friends and made many poets and painters. Such as painter, Gaiqi, Wang Xuehao, Tang Yifen, Cheng, Fei, Dai, poet, Wang Sanzuo, inkstone collector Jia Xingxue, book collector Shexian Bao Tingbo, collector Haining Jiang Guangxu, etc.

In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), he went to Shanghai and initiated the establishment of the Small Penglai Painting and Calligraphy Society, which was one of the early organizations of the Shanghai Folk Painting Association. Han Xu, a fellow countryman, was a teacher and studied poetry, calligraphy and painting. Wen Zhiming was a beginner in landscape painting, and later he made friends with Du Qian. In his later years, he returned to Dong Yuan and Ju Ran. Good at meticulous landscape, beautiful and harmonious realm, pen and ink can be compatible with all families, and win with lightness. Under the influence of imitating ancient customs in the late Qing Dynasty, it is inevitable that "imitation is deliberate and pen is impetuous."

The eldest son is born, and the word is hedged; The second son; All women can draw, and all students can learn from their families. Disciple has Jiashan guoling (No. Song quan) and Zhen ze Weiwei (no. Hesheng).

In the fourth year of Daoguang (1824), Wang Kun (Xulou) in Baiyangdian, Shaoxing, made the axis of the Full Path Map of Qiu Guang, which was recorded in the Japanese South Painting Supplement of zhina. "Imitation of Wen Zhiming Green Landscape Map" is in Changshu Museum; The Atlas of Guhuyin Society was included in the Book of Don't Write Paintings and Calligraphy; The portrait of Luo Liangfeng is recorded in the Record of Painting and Calligraphy in Dream Garden. 1922 65438+ 10 Photocopy of Sixteen Frames of Scenery published by Shanghai Shenzhou Guoguang Society.

Sun Yuanxiang commented on his poems like Meng Jiao and Jia Dao in the Tang Dynasty. He is the author of 20 volumes of Qin Dongwu Metallurgical Poetry and 18 volumes of Mo Lin Jin dialect. Later, his son wrote a volume of Continued Words, which recorded 1286 painters and calligraphers from the middle period of Qing Qianlong to Daoguang and Xianfeng years, most of whom were known by Jiang and his son, and recorded their official duties, travels, contacts, trivial matters and poems in the form of essays in the second year of Xianfeng (1852). It is a painting history work with great historical value in the late Qing Dynasty.