Zhang Shunzi a native Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

, Zhejiang Province, was a famed Chinese

Chinese people

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 painter, calligrapher, and poet in the Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was a ruling dynasty founded by the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, who ruled most of present-day China, all of modern Mongolia and its surrounding areas, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368. It is considered both as a division of the Mongol Empire and as an...

. His birth and death years are unknown.

His style names were 'Shixie' and 'Shikui', and his sobriquet

Sobriquet

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s were 'Lishan' and 'Zhe Zuiweng'. Zhang specialized in landscape and bamboo painting

Bamboo painting

Works of bamboo painting, usually in ink, are a recognized motif or subgenre of East Asian painting. In a work of bamboo painting in ink, a skilled artist and calligrapher will paint a bamboo stalk or group of stalks with leaves...

s, utilizing steady and bold brushstrokes. He also excelled in calligraphy, poetry and prose.