郑板桥是“扬州八怪”之一,他出生在江苏兴化,名燮,板桥是他的号。因为他在所作的书画下款都题“板桥郑燮”的字样,后来人就逐渐称他为郑板桥。在雍正十年,即公元1732年,郑板桥在朋友们的帮助下,去应乡试,结果中了举人。在乾隆元年即1736年又中了进士,五年之后被任命为山东范县县令。 Zheng Banqiao is one of the “Yangzhou eight strange”, he was born in Jiangsu Xinghua, name Xie, Banqiao is his number. Because he made the title of the painting under the title “Banqiao Zheng Xie ” message, and later people gradually called him Banqiao Ban. In the ten years of the Yongzheng reign, in 1732 AD, Zheng Banqiao, with the help of his friends, should go to the provincial examinations and the result was a lift. In the first year of Qianlong in 1736 and in the Jinshi, five years later was appointed Shandong Fan County magistrate.