High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Song Xu (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Song Xu; Wade–Giles: Sung Hsu, born 1525), was a Chinese landscape painter. His courtesy name was Chuyang (??) and pen name was Shimen (??, "Stone Gate”). Song eventually became a Buddhist priest and adopted various religious names. He was, according to some sources from Jixing in Zhejiang province, but others assert that he was from Huzhou in Zhejiang Province. Song was and extremely well read and well versed individual who was greatly influenced by Zen teaching. He was an expert landscapist, but also excelled at human figures. During the late 16th century, he traveled throughout China. A 1543 scroll shows his study of the Song period painter Xia Gui. He is said to have studied the works of the master artist Shen Zhou. Song's eccentric paintings are often characterized by inscriptions in characters of an archaic style. An extant painting of Buddhist Arhats bears a date of 1605. Other works show a still active...

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