Zhang Daqian's birth is quite legendary. 1899 (25th year of Guangxu) May 10 (first day of the fourth lunar month), he was born in a scholarly family in Tang Yan Bay, Xiangbizui, Li Anliang, a suburb of Neijiang County, Sichuan Province. His real name is Zhang Zhengquan, also known as Zhang Quan. Legend has it that before he was born, his mother dreamed that an old man sent an ape into his house, so when he was twenty-one, he changed his name to Lin, also known as Ji. Later, because he became a monk, his dharma number was very large, so the world also called him "the great monk."

His ancestors used to be a county magistrate in Neijiang, and then returned to the fields to study, write poems and paint, leading a leisurely pastoral life. It is the tenth generation to Zhang Daqian. His father Zhang Zhongfa is very loyal, and his mother's name is Zeng Youzhen. Zhang Zhongfa and his wife gave birth to nine men and two women, both of whom are highly educated. His brother Zhang Zhenglan is also a famous modern painter. At the age of six, he read and wrote with his sister and brother. At the age of nine, he began to learn painting and calligraphy under the guidance of his mother and sister. His sister Qiongzhi was good at drawing flowers and birds, which had a great influence on him when he was young. Daqian was very clever since he was a child, so he made rapid progress in painting. 10-year-old children can help their mothers draw patterns, draw more complicated flowers and graphics, and write neatly. His fourth brother, Zhang Wenxiu, teaches in a private school in Zizhong, so Daqian also learns ancient books from his fourth brother, and often visits scenic spots in Zizhong with his brother after school, thus cultivating his aesthetic awareness of nature. A good family cultural atmosphere has played a good role in enlightening him and laid a solid foundation for his Chinese studies.

19 12 He entered Huamei Primary School, a missionary school run by Neijiang Catholic Evangelical Church, and began to receive modern education. At the age of sixteen, he left his hometown Neijiang and went to Chongqing for junior high school. It is worth noting that Liu Bocheng, a famous general at that time, was his PE teacher. 19 17 A strange thing happened on my way back to Neijiang during the summer vacation. He was captured by a gang of robbers. Seeing that he was a scholar, the bandits asked him to stay as a teacher. Although he was in a robber's hole, he often read Reading Poetry and Understanding English, learned some rules and skills of writing poetry, and fled after one hundred days. At the end of the year, he bid farewell to his hometown and arrived in Shanghai via Chongqing, ending his legendary boyhood and truly embarking on an artistic life.

In order to copy the paintings of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Mr. Zhang Daqian specially asked his friends to buy canvases, pens and rubber powder from Ta 'er Temple in Qinghai, transport mineral pigments such as azure, azurite and cinnabar from Tibet (it is said that they were imported from India or Myanmar), and buy daily necessities from Lanzhou and other places in Xining. 78 donkey carts were used to transport them to Dunhuang.

1942 invited lama painters from Ta 'er Temple to Dunhuang to help prepare canvases and pigments. With the help of Tibetan Lama painters, the canvas made by special effects is seamless and smooth, the self-made Buddhist painting pigments are enduring, and the brightness of gold powder is unique.

After arriving at the Mogao Grottoes, Mr. Daqian was in awe of the painted walls and exquisite colored sculptures. He first numbered the grottoes, from south to north, from low to high, from north to south, from bottom to top, just like the English E-shape, which lasted for more than five months and numbered 309 grottoes. Later, on this basis, the 200,000-word Dunhuang Stone Room was completed.

Life in Dunhuang is very hard. Daily necessities need to be purchased from other places. In order to improve the food, he grows vegetables and raises ducks himself. Because of the different eating habits of Tibetans, Hui people and Han people, Mr. Wang opened three stoves. In winter, the temperature in Dunhuang is 20 to 30 degrees below zero. In order to cook and keep warm, they need to go to the desert more than 200 kilometers away to find dead wood. In order to prevent bandits from attacking, Mr. Wang also paid the local garrison to be a guard. In order to maintain the expenses of Dunhuang and his family, Mr. Wang rushed to make paintings late at night and sent them back to friends in Sichuan for sale. After Dunhuang, he was heavily in debt and spent about 5000 taels of gold. He managed to sell more than 200 rare ancient paintings.

The trip to Dunhuang has greatly changed Mr. Zhang Daqian's painting style. From elegance and elegance in his early years to grandeur, ladies have also become elegant and charming, and the pattern of algae wells on the top of Dunhuang Grottoes often appears in his paintings.

Zhang Daqian wrote to the state to protect Dunhuang and set up Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Research Institute. 1949 Zhang Daqian went to India to hold an art exhibition. No matter how much the buyer paid, more than 200 of his Dunhuang paintings were not sold, all of them were donated to the country, and now they are collected in Sichuan Museum.