少孤贫，失学，迨壮始知读书。家无典籍，游文徵明门下，日取架上书读之，以其余功点染水墨，便觉心通。山水爽朗可爱，兰竹兼妙，翩翩不名其师学，而自腾踔于艺苑名公间。手录古文金石书几万卷。善书，行法苏，篆法二李，小楷法虞、欧，每得其妙於法外，识者以为真有渴骥奔猊、漏痕折钗之势。然为画掩，世罕知者。按明史附文徵明传作壬申（一五七二）六十五卒。考故宫博物院藏有万历六年（一五七八）客金陵王氏修竹馆作兰竹卷，时年七十一。

 《冯元成集》、《明史·文徵明传》、《列朝诗集小传》、《苏州府志》、《明画录》、《无声诗史》、《明史·艺文志》。

 Qian Rong (1508-1579) Shubao, a painter of Ming Dynasty, is from Wuxian County (now Jiangsu Suzhou).

Young, lonely, poor, out of school, and strong enough to know how to read. There are no books at home. You can read them on shelves every day and dye ink with the rest of your work. Landscape is bright and lovely, orchid and bamboo are both wonderful, elegant and unknown to its teachers and scholars, and self-reliance in the famous public rooms of the art garden. Handwritten ancient inscriptions and inscriptions are tens of thousands of volumes. Every time a good book, a good book, a good Su, a good seal and two Li, a small Kai Fayu, and a good European script are better than others, the knowledgeable think that they are really thirsty, leaky and creased. But for painting, the world knows very little. According to the appendix to the Ming Dynasty, it was handed down as Renshen (1572) sixty-five soldiers. The Palace Museum has a collection of orchid and bamboo scrolls made by Wang's Xiuzhu Museum of Hakka Jinling in the sixth year of Wanli (1578), which was seventy-one years old.