Wen Zhengming (Wade Giles: Wen Cheng-ming)(文徵明, 1470–1559), leading Ming dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar. Born in Wuxian (present-day Suzhou), he was a descendant of the Song dynasty prime minister and patriot Wen Tianxiang. Wen Zhengming’s family was originally from the Hengyang/Hengshan area of Hukuang (present-day Hunan), where the Wen family had established itself shortly after the year AD 1000. Not until the time of Wen Zhengming's great-grandfather, Wen Hui, a military officer, did the family move to the Suzhou area.
WenZhengming (Wade Giles: Wen Cheng-ming) (文徵明, 1470–1559), a leading Ming dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar.
WenZhengming’s family was originally from the Hengyang/Hengshan area of Hukuang (present-day Hunan), where the Wen family had established itself shortly after the year AD Not until the time of WenZhengming's great-grandfather, Wen Hui, a military officer, did the family move to the Suzhou area.
WenZhengming collaborated in the design of the Humble Administrator's Garden, generally considered one of China's four greatest gardens.
Wen Tianxiang (Wade-Giles: Wen T'ien-hsiang) (文天祥, June 6 1236 – January 9 1283), titled Duke of Xinguo, the last resisting Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was captured by Kublai Khan, and was brought back to Beijing under house arrest, in the company of musicians and female entertainers.
The well-known Ming dynasty painter and calligrapher WenZhengming belonged to the Wen family, and the mother of Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the People's Republic of China, was supposedly a descendant as well.
Wen Tianxiang was born in the Province of Jiangxi.
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