虚谷是近代海派画坛早期非常重要的一位艺术家,他颇富传奇色彩的经历、高洁的品行以及独特的艺术风格共同构成近代画史上一道亮丽的景观。虚谷本姓朱,名怀仁,安徽歙县人,先为清军参将,后在镇压太平天国起义过程中忽“意有感触,遂披缁为僧”。但是出家后的虚谷既不入寺、也不礼佛, Xu Valley is a very important artist in the early stage of the modern Shanghai Pilipinas. His rather legendary experience, noble character and unique artistic style constitute a beautiful landscape in the history of modern Chinese painting. Xu Valley my name is Zhu, the name of Huai Ren, Anhui Shexian, the first to participate in the Qing army, the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion in the process of the sudden “feeling, then Phi Phi monk.” But after the birth of the virtual Valley neither into the temple, nor etiquette,