“十里长街市井连,月明桥上望神仙。人生只合扬州死,禅智山光好墓田。”张祜《纵游淮南》的一首诗正道出了扬州城内热闹的街市景象。当时的扬州是江南的经济重镇,发达的经济带动了书画市场的繁荣,以郑板桥为代表的一大批画家聚集在这里谋生卖画,由此产生了风格鲜明雅俗共赏的作品,亦形成了一个固定的书画圈子,史称扬州八怪。 “Ten miles long market well, Moon Bridge on the fairy .Life only Yangzhou death, Zen Chi Shan good light cemetery.” “Zhang Huai” Huai Nan Huai Nan, "a poem right out of downtown lively downtown Yangzhou scene. At that time, Yangzhou was the economic center of Jiangnan. Developed economy drove the prosperity of painting and calligraphy market. A large number of painters represented by Zheng Banqiao gathered here to make a living and selling paintings. As a result, they produced works with distinctive elegance and common custom, and formed a fixed Calligraphy and painting circle, known as Yangzhou eight strange.