Yang Buzhi was born in Qingjiang

Qingjiang

The Qingjiang is a right tributary of the Yangtze Riveroriginating at Tenglong Cave near Lichuan City, Hubei, People's Republic of China. It is 423 kilometers long...

, Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

 Province, in China

China

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He is regarded as a master of ink paintings of plum blossoms in the Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...

, and developed techniques which influenced later painters. He "resolved the depiction of flowering plum into a linear system built from brushstrokes and structures adapted from calligraphy" http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/article.html?section=art.016513.5.3.6.3.4.

Four Stages of Blossoming Plum, circa 1165, is the only surviving work that can be attributed to him with certainty.