Wen Yuan Tu(Zhou Wenju)

[color=#ff00ff]Zhou Wenju [Chou Wen-ch¨¹] [/color](b Jurong, near modern Nanjing, Jiangsu Province; fl AD 942¨C61). Chinese painter. He served as a daizhao (painter in attendance) at the Painting Academy of the Southern Tang court (AD 937¨C75). He may first have become prominent during the reign of the emperor Li Bian (937¨C43), when it is recorded that he was ordered to paint the Nanzhuang (Southern Village), though Guo Ruoxu dates this event to between 961 and 975. He participated in executing a joint work at the banquet held by the ruler, Li Jing (reg 943¨C61), on New Year¡¯s day, 947. He was probably dead before the Song (960¨C1279) conquered the Southern Tang, since he is not recorded among the painters of the Southern Tang entering the Song Painting Academy.