Cao Buxing Explained

Cao Buxing was a painter of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He lived in Wuxing (in present-day Zhejiang). His name is sometimes written as Cao Fuxing (曹弗興).^[1] He excelled in painting dragons, tigers and human figures.

References

• Chen Shou. Records of Three Kingdoms, Chapter 63.
• Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press.
• Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会). Ci hai (辞海). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (上海辞书出版社), 1979.

Notes and References

1. Cihai: Page 1397.