八大山人和石涛同为明代皇室后裔,是活跃于康熙时期的遗民画家。明朝灭亡时,八大已是青年,隐匿于南昌周边的山中,成了曹洞宗的僧人。石涛当时只是几岁的儿童,便由家中的一位保护人带出,从此过着漂泊的生活,一生再也没有回到他出生的「清湘」。二人都曾身为佛子,晚年又都离开佛门。八大在世俗中疯疯癫癫,过着凄惨的生活。石涛晚年定居扬州,成了道教中人,但生活困苦到时时有断粒之痛。二人学画都始于幼年,后来成为中国绘画史上两座高峰,八大和石涛代表中国文人画传统的最高成就,对三百多年来中国艺术的发展产生重要影响。 Bada Shanren and Shi Tao, both descendants of the Ming Dynasty, are painters who lived in the Kangxi period. At the time of the Ming dynasty, the Great Eight was already a youth, hiding in the mountains around Nanchang and became a monk of Cao Dongzong. At that time, only a few years old, Shi Tao was taken out by a protector in his family. He lived a wandering life and never returned to his “Qingxiang” where he was born. Both of them used to be Buddhas, and in their later years they left Buddhism. Eight in the world crazy, living a miserable life. Shi Tao settled in Yangzhou in his later years and became a Taoist man, but his life was so painful that he broke the grain. Both began to learn painting at an early age and later became the two highest peaks in the history of Chinese painting. The achievements of the Eighth Congress and Shi Tao in representing the tradition of Chinese literati painting exerted a significant influence on the development of Chinese art in the past three hundred years.