Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren, born Zhu Da. Bada Shanren was a ninth-generation descendant of the Ming-dynasty prince Zhu Quan. After the dynasty's fall, he became a Buddhist monk and adopted the pseudonym Bada Shanren until the end of his life.

Known as one of the "Four Monks" of the early Qing period, Bada Shanren painted landscapes, although he did not create many, and had the mentality of a subject, abandoned by the demised Ming empire. Despite being influenced by Dong Qichang, whose landscapes are pithy and elegant, he painted fractured mountains and rivers, shrouded in a desolate aura to present a broken world and probably express sorrow over the death of the country to which he ...