“扬州画派”是清代乾隆年间活跃在江苏扬州画坛的一批画家的总称,他们有一个江湖气颇重的称号,叫做“扬州八怪”。顾名思义,扬州八怪应该是指8个人,不过也不一定,就像“八大山人”的别号就只有朱耷一个人。有关扬州八怪究竟有谁,说法不一,就连人数也有不同说法。清朝末年,北京通州有一位学者花了30多年时 “Yangzhou School of Painting” is a general term for a group of painters who were active in the painting circles in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province during the Qianlong reign of Qing dynasty. They had a quite title called “Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou”. As the name implies, Yangzhou eight blame should refer to 8 individuals, but not necessarily, just like “Badashanren” alias to only Zhu Wan alone. Who is strange about Yangzhou eight strange, different opinions, even the number of people have different views. In the late Qing Dynasty, a scholar in Tongzhou, Beijing spent more than 30 years