Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou

This film (drama)Also known as扬州八怪，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At1999Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin/Cantonese，Current Douban rating6.4(For reference only)。

Yangzhou painter Zheng Banchiao and several painting friends went to Beijing to sell paintings and became enemies with court painter Jin Minzhi. Emperor Qianlong admired the rising Yangzhou painting school and secretly traveled south to Yangzhou. During his southern tour, Qianlong was impressed by the character and artistry of the Yangzhou painters and appointed Zheng Banchiao and Jin Nong to take the imperial examination, both achieving high honors. However, due to the obstruction of sycophants like Jin Minzhi, they were unable to enter the court as officials. Ten years passed, and Zheng Banchiao was appointed as the county magistrate of Weixian, Shandong, after deciphering a riddle issued by Qianlong. Qianlong held a "Qiansou Feast" to bestow grace upon the famous and elegant people, inviting all "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou," but Zheng Banchiao was notably absent, enraging Qianlong! Facing natural disasters and floods in Weixian, Zheng Banchiao opened the granaries to distribute grain, adding another death penalty to his act of defiance. Jin Minzhi slandered him again, but Qianlong, in a moment of confusion, demoted him to commoner status. Amidst the chaos of the officialdom, Zheng Banchiao pondered and wrote the four characters "Difficult to be Confused," leaving a legacy among the people…