Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou

Yangzhou painter Zheng Banqiao and other painting friends went to Beijing to sell paintings, and developed a grudge against the royal painter Jin Minzhi. Qianlong admired the rising Yangzhou School of Painting and went south to Yangzhou incognito. During his southern tour, Qianlong was impressed by the character and paintings of Yangzhou painters, and appointed Zheng Banqiao and Jin Nong to take the imperial examination in Beijing, and both of them went to high school. However, due to the obstruction of Jin Minzhi and other sycophants, the two could not enter the court as officials. Fast forward ten years, Zheng Banqiao was appointed magistrate of Weixian County, Shandong Province for deciphering Qianlong's riddle. Qianlong held a banquet for thousands of people to benevolent to celebrities and elegant people all over the world. All the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou were invited to Beijing, but Zheng Banqiao was not seen. Qianlong Longyan was furious! Natural disasters and floods occurred in Weixian County. Zheng Banqiao opened a warehouse to release grain, adding another capital crime to his resistance. Jin Minzhi made further slanders, but Qianlong's thinking in the face of chaos demoted him to a commoner. The officialdom was in turmoil, so Zheng Banqiao thought over it and wrote the four-character "rarely confused" word that will be famous among the people...