(b Guilin, Guangxi Province, 1642; d Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, 1707). Chinese painter and calligrapher. He was a descendant of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) imperial Zhu family. In 1645, in the face of invading Manchu troops, a family servant fled with Daoji to nearby Quanzhou, Guangxi Province, and in 1647 they found refuge in Buddhist monastic life. A large number of the many sobriquets Daoji adopted sprang from his connection with Buddhism.

• Daoji
  • China, §IV, 2(vii)(a): Calligraphy: Early Qing
  • China, §V, 1(ii): Painting: Song to Qing
  • China, §V, 3(i)(b): Buddhist painted scrolls, banners and related objects
  • China, §V, 3(iv)(a): Landscape painting: Historical development
  • China, §V, 4(i)(e): Court painters: Qing
  • Nanjing school, §2: Historical development
  • attributions
    • Yangzhou
  • collaboration
    • Mei Qing
    • Wang (ii): (2) Wang Yuanqi
  • groups and movements
    • Yangzhou school
  • works
    • Brushline
    • China, §IV, 2(vii)(a): Calligraphy: Early Qing
    • China, §V, 3(ii)(b): Chan Buddhist painting
    • China, §V, 3(v)(e): Painting: Animals, birds and plants
    • China, §V, 3(viii)(b): Historical development of portrait painting
  • writings
    • China, §V, 3(iv)(b): Landscape painting: Theoretical writings
    • China, §V, 5(ii): Painting theory and criticism: Literati concepts and writings