清代扬州画派画家黄慎,字恭懋,后又改字恭寿,号瘿瓢子,又号东海布衣等,福建宁化人,生于一六八七年(清康熙二十六年),卒于一七六八年(清乾隆三十三年)。他出身平民,父亲是个一直没做过官的普通知识分子,在黄慎幼年时飘零外乡死去。父亲死后,黄慎在母亲的抚育下成长,他少年和青年时期,过着十分贫苦的生活。为了侍养母亲,他放弃了举子业,决心学画, Qing Dynasty Yangzhou painting painter Huang Shen, the word Christine Mao, and later changed the word Gong life, No. 瘿 scoop, also the East China Sea commoner, Fujian Ninghua people, was born in 1887 (Qing Emperor Kangxi twenty-six years ), Died in 1768 (thirty-three years of Qing Emperor Qianlong). He was a civilian and his father was an ordinary intellectual who had never done anything before his death. After his father died, Huang Shen grew up in the mother’s nurture, he was young and youth, lived a very poor life. In order to serve his mother, he gave up his son industry, determined to learn painting,