Zhao Lingsui (year of birth and death unknown), the word Danian, was a native of Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan) in the Northern Song Dynasty and a painter. The fifth grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty. After the official went to Gwangju to defend the Chongxin Army, he was given the "Kaifu Yi Tong Three Divisions" and posthumously awarded the "Rongguo Gong". His son Zhao Boju was a famous painter in the Song Dynasty, and his official was under the jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang. Zhao Ling's work paints landscapes, flowers and fruits, and feathers, and the brushes are beautiful, especially the golden landscapes. Distant teacher Li Sixun father and son. His representative works include "The Gathering of the Wind and Cloud Period", "Spring Mountain", "A Ge", "Hou Chibi Map", "Wenhui Map", "Bird and Sparrow Map", etc. There are "Han Palace Map", "Age Map", "Wansong Jinque Map" and so on. 
Zhao Lingsui loved calligraphy and painting when he was young, and was rich in literary accomplishment, and his family had a collection of famous paintings of French calligraphy since the Jin and Tang dynasties. He corresponded with painters and literati. When Zhao Ji (Song Huizong) was the king of Duan, he also traveled with him to learn painting skills. 
Zhao Lingsui's paintings mostly depict the scenery of waterfront birds and geese flying around the lake, and the movement is exquisite, beautiful and elegant. Snow scene Wang Wei also learned from Su Shi as a small mountain and bamboo, and was quite praised among scholars. Huang Tingjian inscribed the reed goose clouds he painted: "Wave without making a small pond, the wild geese in the villages of the Ludi River are walking, although there are bead curtain nests and jade, do not forget the smoke and rain cover the mandarin ducks." He also titled his small scene: "The water-colored smoke and light are cold up and down, forgetting the machine, the gulls and birds are flying freely, and they have frequently dreamed of rivers and lakes over the years, and they are suspicious of this in their hometown." "Its river villages, wild geese, flying gulls on the lake, etc., have a remote artistic conception, and the poetic scenery is unique in the landscape paintings of the Song Dynasty. 
Because he is among the royal family, he can't travel far The subject matter of the painting is mostly limited to the suburbs of Liangjing (Kaifeng and Luoyang), so every time he becomes a picture, Su Shi laughed when he saw it: "This must be the mausoleum (worship the imperial mausoleum) to go back!.""The existing "Huzhuang Qingxia Map" depicts the quiet suburban scenery, green trees, banqiao, birds playing in the water, and the artistic conception of Huzhuang Linxia is quite beautiful. 
Brother Ling Songzi Yongnian, Song Shenzong and Song Zhezong (1068-1100) official right Wuwei general, Xizhou regiment training envoy, good at painting flowers and bamboo, ink vegetables and fruits, but also good at landscapes. His representative works include "The Gathering of the Wind and Cloud Period", "Spring Mountain", "A Ge", "Hou Chibi Map", "Wenhui Map", "Bird and Sparrow Map", etc. There are "Han Palace Map", "Age Map", "Wansong Jinque Map" and so on. 
In the third year of Yuan Fu (1100), he made a volume of "Huzhuang Qingxia Tu", silk, colored, signed: "Yuan Fu Gengchen Danian Pen", now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA;The volume of "Autumn Dawn in Jiangcun" is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USAAlbum of "Orange, Yellow, Orange and Green", in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. 