[Fang Ts’ung-izi Wuyuhao Fanghu] (b Guixi, Jiangxi Province; fl. c. 1340–1380). Chinese painter who became a Daoist priest in his youth; he joined the Zhengyi sect, whose main temples were situated in the Shangqing Temple (Shangqing si) on Mt. Longhu in his home district, and studied under the priest Jin Pengtou. During the early 1340s, after the death of his teacher, he traveled from Xinzhou to many areas along the River Yangzi and in 1343 visited the capital, Dadu (Khanbaligh, now Beijing), where he became acquainted with many officials and scholarly men and established a reputation as a painter. He is reported to have visited many famous sites along the Great Wall and may have made several trips to the scenic mountains that were considered the home of the Daoist immortals; these included the Taihang range, on the border of Henan and Shanxi provinces, Mt. Heng (Shanxi), Mt. Tai and Mt. Huafouju (Shandong), Mt. Zhong in Nanjing (Jiangsu), Mt. Kuanglu (Jiangxi), and Mt. Wuyi (Fujian). During his time in the capital he seems to have attracted the attention of the Princess of Lu, known as a great patron of art, and of another Daoist painter, Zhang Yanfu (...