1. Four famous people in Ming Dynasty: Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming, Tang Yin and Chou Ying.

2. Ming Sijia, also known as the Wu family, refers to the four famous painters of the Ming Dynasty: Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and.

3. This name is relative to "Yuan Sijia". Because they are all from Suzhou, South Zhili, and are active in Suzhou today (nicknamed "Wumen"), they are also called "Wumen grandpa four" or "Tianmen grandpa four".

4. Since Shen Zhou, Wu Pai, represented by the four masters, has basically been regarded as a system that inherited the tradition of literati painting, and has become the mainstream of traditional painting in China since the late Ming Dynasty, especially in the landscape painting. Among the four Wu schools, Shen Zhou and Wen Zhiming are the most prominent representatives of Wu Pai literati painting. Their paintings are dominated by mountains and rivers. No matter Shen Xiong and Wen Xiu's elegant turquoise or ink paintings, most of them describe Jiangnan scenery and literati gardens. They express their feelings with the trinity of poetry, painting and calligraphy, and landscape painting attracts attention with pen and ink, both of which have two sides.