Ming calligrapher famed for his wild cursive, one of the Four Talents of Jiangnan with 唐伯虎. On screen he is Tang's comic sidekick, as in Stephen Chow's 唐伯虎点秋香.
Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming were all well-known men of letters in Jiangnan.
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枝山, his art name (号), comes from 枝指, an extra finger: he was born with six fingers on his right hand. Besides him and 唐伯虎, the 江南四大才子 were 文徵明 and 徐祯卿.
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A popular saying pairs the two friends by their strengths: 唐伯虎的画，祝枝山的字, 'Tang Bohu's paintings, Zhu Zhishan's calligraphy'. The Ming critic Wang Shizhen ranked him the best calligrapher of the Wu region.
