sentences:  Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming, Shenzhou and Qiu Ying, these four painters also were regarded as the "Big Four of the Ming Period" in Ming period painting.Xu Wei ()
  
  Chen chun ()
  
  Dong Qichang ()
  
  The core place for this school was in the southern part of Jiangsu Province at that time, but now part of Shanghai.During the late Ming dynasty, the Songjiang School rivaled Wumen, particularly in generating new theories of painting.