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[Ching Haozi Haoranhao Hongguzi] (b either Qinshui [nr. modern Jiyuan] or nr. Henei, both Henan Province, c. 855–880 ce; d c. 915–940 ce). Chinese painter. Jing was the foremost of the great monumental monochrome landscape painters of the Five Dynasties period (906–960) in northern China. According to critics he was already recognized as a master among landscape painters at the end of the Tang period (618–907). In Mi Fu’s Hua shi ('History of painting'; preface 1103) it is recorded that Jing taught Guan Tong and that later his work was studied by Li Cheng and Fan Kuan. Jing was a Confucian scholar, well versed in the Chinese classics. He may have been a minor official under Zhaozong (reg 888–904) at Bianliang (modern Kaifeng), Henan Province, or Chang’an (modern Xi’an), Shaanxi Province. However, from about the age of 35, he led a solitary life at Honggu in the Taihang Mountains, Henan, taking refuge from the fighting prior to the collapse of the Tang dynasty. He apparently supported himself there by farming but continued to paint, adopting the literary name (...