清初以后,水陆交通便利的江苏扬州成为我国工商业重镇之一,社会经济发达,商贾骚人云集,呈现出一派繁荣昌盛的都会景象。正如清代文学家孔尚任所谓的“东南繁华扬州起,水陆物力盛罗绮”。随着城市生活的不断发展,一些商人开始追求文化情趣,逐渐附庸风雅起来,琴棋书画、歌舞愉悦、休闲雅集,不亦乐乎。人文鼎盛的扬州,因此还活跃着以郑板桥为代表的“扬州八怪”等一批职业画家,艺术氛围颇为浓郁。而堪称清代面坛“界画第一高手”的袁江,当时也活动于这一带。 After the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou, Jiangsu with convenient water and land transportation became one of the most important industrial and commercial cities in our country. With the prosperous economy and the gathering of merchants and merchants, a thriving metropolitan scene emerged. As the Qing Dynasty writer Kong Shang Ren so-called “southeast of Yangzhou flourishing, water and land Sheng Luo Qi ”. With the continuous development of urban life, some businessmen began to pursue the cultural taste, and gradually artwork together, poetry and painting, singing and dancing, casual elegant, enjoy themselves. As a result, a number of professional painters such as Yangzhou Baicai, represented by Zheng Banqiao, are still active in Yangzhou, where the humanities flourished. The artistic atmosphere is rather rich. And called the face of the altar in the Qing Dynasty “boundary painting first master ” Yuan Jiang, was also active in this area.