Calligraphy Handwriting Of Dong Qichang，China Editorial Image

Dong Qichang 董其昌, 1555–1636, courtesy name Xuanzai 玄宰, was a Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming Dynasty. Dong Qichang was born to a poor but scholarly family. He passed the jinshi “presented scholar” examination at the age of thirty-five and was appointed to the first of a series of official positions within the Ming government.