郑板桥生于1693年11月22日，逝于1765年1月22日，享年72岁；应科举为康熙秀才，雍正十年举人，乾隆元年（1736）丙辰科二甲进士。官山东范县、潍县县令，有政声“以岁饥为民请赈，忤大吏，遂乞病归。”做官前后，均居扬州， 以书画营生。工诗、词，善书、画。诗词不屑作熟语。画擅花卉木石，尤长兰竹。兰叶之妙以焦墨挥毫，藉草书中之中竖，长撇运之，多不乱，少不疏，脱尽时习，秀劲绝伦。
Zheng Banqiao was born on November 22, 1693 and died on January 22, 1765, at the age of 72; The imperial examination should be Kangxi Xiucai, Yongzheng ten years lifted people, Qianlong first year(1736) Bingchen Branch jinshi. Official Shandong Fanxian and Weixian County orders, there is a political voice "to the old hunger for the people to ask for help, embarrassment, and illness return. "Before and after being an official, they all lived in Yangzhou and lived in calligraphy and painting. Works poetry, words, good books, paintings. Poetry disdains to be a familiar word. Painting good flowers and woodstones, Youchanglanzhu. The beauty of the orchid leaves with coke and ink, by the grass book in the vertical, long transport, more not chaotic, less not sparse, out of time habits, outstanding.
卖画扬州 由于生活困苦，郑板桥在三十岁以后至扬州卖画为生，实救困贫，托名”风雅”。在扬州卖画十年期间，也穿插着一些旅游活动。不幸 的是徐夫人所生之子去世，郑板桥曾作诗以致哀。三十二岁出游江西，于庐山结识无方上人和满洲士人保禄。出游北京，与禅宗尊宿及其门羽林诸子弟交游，放言高论，臧否人物，因而得狂名。在名期间，结织了康熙皇子、慎郡王允禧，即紫琼崖主人。
Selling paintings in Yangzhou due to the hardships of life, Zheng Banqiao went to Yangzhou to sell paintings after the age of 30 to make a living. He actually saved the poor and saved the name "elegant." During the ten years of selling paintings in Yangzhou, some tourist activities were also interspersed. Unfortunately, the son born to Xufuren died. Zheng Banqiao once wrote a poem to pay tribute. At the age of thirty-two, he traveled to Jiangxi and met with Wufang Shangren and Manchu scholar Paul in Lushan. Traveling to Beijing, he toured with the children of Zen Zun Su and his door Yulin. He said that he had no characters and had a wild name. During the name, the prince of Kangxi and Shenjunwangyunxi were woven, that is, the owner of Ziqiongya.
“民于顺处皆成子，官到闲时更读书”。官潍七年，板桥无论是在吏治还是诗文书画方面都达到了新的高峰，吏治文名，为时所重”。板桥居官十年，洞察了*场官**的种种黑暗，立功天地，字养生民”的抱负难以实现，归田之意与日俱增。1753年，郑板桥六十一岁，以为 民请赈忤大吏而去官。去潍之时，百姓遮道挽留，家家画像以祀，并自发于潍城海岛寺为郑板桥建立了生祠。去官以后，板桥卖画为生，往来于扬州、兴化之间，与同道书画往来，诗酒唱和。
"The people are all sons in Shun, and the officials are more read when they are idle." In the seven years of the official residence, Banqiao reached a new peak in both the rule of the government and poetry and calligraphy, and the name of the official rule was heavy. " In the ten years of Banqiao's residence, he saw the darkness of the officialdom, made Meritorious deeds, and raised the people. The ambition of the word was difficult to realize, and the meaning of returning to the field increased day by day. In 1753, Zheng Banqiao was 61 years old and thought that the people had asked him to go to the government. At the time of his visit, the people concealed the road, and the portraits of each family were used to create a memorial service for Zheng Banqiao at the Haidao Temple in Weicheng. After going to the official, Banqiao sold paintings for a living, traveled between Yangzhou and Xinghua, and exchanged paintings and calligraphy with the same road, and sang poetry and wine.
