English: Guo Zhongshu, a celebrated figure of the Five Dynasties period and Song Dynasty, is renowned for his multifaceted talents as a jiehua painter, scholar, and philologist. He exhibited remarkable versatility in painting various subjects, including landscapes, architectural structures, and figures. Regarding specifically his jiehua contributions, his works prominently feature palaces, pavilions, and houses. Guo's distinctive style incorporated techniques such as rich structure, center strokes, a seamless flow without sharp corners, bold and expressive lines, and an artful irregular arrangement with a meticulous attention to penmanship, connections, lines, and shading (Li Zhen and Chen Yan, 48). During the Song period, monochrome ink became more and more popular among jiehua artists, of which Guo Zhongshu was no exception.