Zhou Zhimian, an outstanding painter in the Ming Dynasty, was a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). He was born in 1521 and was active during the Wanli period, but the exact year of his death is unknown. Zhou Zhimian has superb painting skills, especially good at painting flowers and birds. He pays attention to observing and experiencing the morphology and expression of flowers and birds, as well as various dynamics such as birds drinking and pecking, flying and stopping, which makes his works full of vitality and dynamics. Zhou Zhimian has a unique painting style, he is good at using the outline method to paint flowers, and dyeing the leaves with ink dots, this painting method is called "hooking flowers and dotting leaves". His works are real and vivid, and have high artistic value. His freehand paintings of flowers and birds are even more lifelike, with bright and elegant colors, showing the beauty and vitality of flowers and birds. Since he has many birds in his home, he is able to watch them carefully watch their drinking and pecking, so his work is full of life and realism. In addition to his superb painting skills, Zhou Zhimian is also a calligrapher who specializes in ancient li. Although he was a drunkard and not very well regarded by the world, his work still had a profound impact on the art world. Zhou Zhimian's paintings of flowers and birds were not only highly praised at the time, but also had an important influence on the art of painting in later generations. 
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