In the Ming Dynasty, Shen Zhou was 67 years old and wrote a running script called "Night Tour of the Thousand People Stone". Shen Zhou was in the plum rain in the summer of Hongzhi Guichou (1493). Shen Zhou's calligraphy started from his family tradition, and he first learned from Zhao Mengfu. From around the age of 40, he studied various calligraphy schools, and worked most diligently on the four calligraphers of the Song Dynasty. In his later years, he devoted himself to learning from Huang Tingjian.
Shen Zhou (1427-1509), also known as Qinan, Shitian, Baishiweng, Yutiansheng, and the owner of Youzhuju, was a painter of the Ming Dynasty, the founder of Wumen School of Painting, one of the four Ming painters, Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) )people. He was born in the second year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty and died in the fourth year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty. He was eighty-two years old (actually eighty-three years old). He should not take the imperial examination and specialize in poetry, calligraphy and painting. He was the founder of the "Wu School" of literati painting in the mid-Ming Dynasty. Together with Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying, he was known as the "Four Ming Schools". His handed down works include "High Pictures of Mount Lu", "Old Pictures of Qiulin Talk" and "Interesting Pictures of Cangzhou". He is the author of "Ishida Collection", "Guest News", etc.
