"Ten Thousand Years of Changchun: A Special Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting Art in Shanghai Dynasties" will close on December 5, 2021. The exhibition selects 146 related calligraphy and paintings (groups), spanning more than 1,000 years from the Three Kingdoms to modern and contemporary times, conducting a more systematic study of Shanghai's historical calligraphy and paintings from an academic perspective, and showing Shanghai's traditional culture and urban spiritual context.
The exhibition specially sorts out the knowledge section related to the art of calligraphy and painting in Shanghai, so that the audience can better understand the exhibits, exhibitions, and the Shanghai art vein behind them. At the end of this exhibition, we have selected a few examples to share with you.
Knowledge Section 1:
Early calligraphy related to Shanghai
"Ancestor of the Fa Ti" - Lu Ji's "Ping Fu Ti"
Lu Ji (261-303), Zi Shiheng, lived in Huating (present-day Songjiang, Shanghai). Lu Ji's surviving inkblot "Ping Fu Ti" is the earliest surviving ink of ancient masters, known as the "Ancestor of the Fa Ti". This post is thick with a thick pen, with the method of seal and chapter grass, which has important reference value for the study of the change of text and calligraphy.
Western Jin Dynasty Lu Ji Cursive Pingfu Poster Volume
(Collection of the Palace Museum)
Ming Dong Qichang Xingshu title Ping Fu Post
"Erlu Wenhan" - Lu Kam's "Wenfu"
Lu Kam Zhi was a native of Wu County, Wu County (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu). After playing for the famous eastern Jin Dynasty minister Lu Play, Lu Play was the nephew of Lu Ji's grandfather Lu Xun. The book "Wen Fu" was written by Lu Ji of the Western Jin Dynasty and is an essay that explores literary creation. The first introduction of this volume is "Erlu Wenhan" inscribed by the Ming Dynasty scholar Li Dongyang, emphasizing the shaping of local cultural memory by different generations of the Lu family.
Tang Lu Kam Zhi's travels are written in volumes
(Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei)
Ming Shen Du Lishu inscription
"First Grass Style" - Imperial Elephant "Hurry to Chapter"
The "Songjiang Ben" "Urgent Chapter" is said to have been written by the Wu dynasty scholar Huang Xiang during the Three Kingdoms period, and in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty (1439), Yang Zheng re-engraved the Book of Ye Mengde in the Northern Song Dynasty, and at the same time put the Song Ke Linben into the stone to fill the defects of Ye Tuo. The stele is now in the Matsue Museum. Zhangcao is the predecessor of Imakusa, popular in the Two Han Dynasties, Wei and Jin, with the emergence of Imakusa, Zhangcao gradually became neglected. At the time of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the retro wave of the book world gradually rose, and Zhang Cao became more and more important. The publication of the "Matsue Ben" "Urgent Chapter" provides a model for future generations to learn Chapter Grass.
The Emperor of the Three Kingdoms Qingtuo Zhangcao hurriedly wrote a book of chapters
(Shanghai Library Collection)
"Matsuemoto" Steep Chapter Monument
(Collection of Matsue Museum)
Knowledge Section 2:
Shanghai "Pioneer of Wumen School/ Qianyuan"
"Wumen Pioneer/Qianyuan" refers to the late Yuan and early Ming dynasty painters who had an influence on the "Wumen School" headed by Shen Zhou, including many artists of the shanghai generation.
The source of the "Wumen School" - Tao Zongyi
Tao Zongyi (1316-1396 later), zi Jiucheng, Zhejiang Huangyan people, to the first year of the first year (1341) tour Songjiang, married Fei Xiong's daughter, first lived in Shanghai, and later moved to the south of Songjiang Phoenix Mountain, north of Sibin, bought land jielu, because of the self-titled "South Village". Dong Qichang and others are known as the minyuan of the Wumen school of painting.
Ming Dong Qichang Title Du Qiongnan Village Villa Atlas
(Shanghai Museum Collection)
Picture note: "Shen Hengji (Shen Heng) learned to paint in Du Dongyuan (Du Qiong), Mr. Ishida (Shen Zhou) painting was transmitted to Hengji, Dongyuan has received Tao Nan Village, and this 'Wumen School' of Min Yuanye." ”
"Ink Flower Ink Bird" - Zhang Zhong
The emergence of the ink flower ink bird in the Yuan Dynasty marks a huge change in the two Song dynasties, with Wang Yuan in Hangzhou as the forerunner, followed by Zhang Zhong in Shanghai, as the "two giants of the Yuan Dynasty", all of which are the key to opening the reform of ming and qing ink flower and bird painting represented by Shen Zhou. Zhang Zhong, who was active between Zhiyuan and Zhizheng (1335-1368), was a native of Wunijing, Songjiang (present-day Xuhui, Shanghai).
Yuan Zhang in the Hibiscus Mandarin Duck Diagram Axis
(Old collection of the Shen Zhou family)
Ming Shen Zhou Peony Chart Axis
"Ishida Gate" – Kim Hyun
Kim Hyun (1360-1436), ziwending, shangsu, Songjiang people. The painting style Yuan four wuzhen, and the shen zhou family iii, the history of painting said that it opened the shen zhou painting style first: "Jin Wending, Yongle zhong with the name of the painting of hai nei, for the ancestors of Wu Song' style master." This volume of ink is full of ink, and it does not reduce the victory of the country. As for his pen power Canggu, it is Mr. Ishida's portal, which is the help of the first to open the wind! ”
Myung Kim Hyun Fishing Boat Sings Evening Picture Page
Wumen pioneer - Ma Yu
Ma Yu, a native of Jiading, Shanghai. Noh Poetry Shanshu, Gong Shanshui, Deng Yipin, the famous court painter Ma Shizi in the early Ming Dynasty. He had three generations of friendship with the Shen Zhou family, and had a direct impact on the Shen family's landscape, and was listed as one of the "pioneers of the Wumen School" by Wen Boren and others.
Ming Wen Bo Ren title Du Qiong Yousong picture scroll
Picture note: "This Wu Xianda Du Dongyuan's pen also." Mr. Qiong's name is Qiong, the word is Jia, there is hidden exercises, good at painting poetry, and the text is called neng, in the Jingtai and Tianshun years to pass on the vein of Swen ... . At the same time, Liu Qiuguan Mingjue (劉珏), Shen Zhengjun (沈贞), Ma Qingyi (马愈), and Chen Xing'an (陈廣) are all good at painting, and the famous works are the same. Those who have Chen Jizhao's name Ofsia (陈暹) are inferior to the dukes. (Wen Boren)
Knowledge Section 3:
Shanghai Nature and Humanities in Calligraphy and Painting
Qingpu District: Dianshan Lake
The "Farewell Map of Dianhu Lake" painted by the Yuan Dynasty painter Li Sheng is the earliest painting depicting the lake view of Qingpu Dianshan Mountain that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Yuan Li Sheng Dian Lake farewell picture roll
Dianshan Lake
Songjiang District: Songjiang Jiufeng
The "Nine Everest CuiTu" painted by Huang Gongwang, the fourth master of the Yuan Dynasty, was created with the Nine Peaks of Songjiang as the background. The nine peaks of Songjiang generally refer to The Gong Mountain, phoenix mountain, Xue Mountain, Sheshan Mountain, Chenshan Mountain, Tianma Mountain, Jishan Mountain, Hengyun Mountain, and Xiaokun Mountain.
Matsue Jiufeng
Yuan Huang Gongwang Nine Everest Cuitu Axis
(National Palace Museum, Taipei)
Huangpu District: Nanxi Caotang
In the picture, nanxi caotang is a garden built by the Gu clan on the sea, and the Gu clan is famous for its collection in the sea. The area around Dapu Road and Luban Road in present-day Huangpu District is the location of Caotang in that year.
Ming Wen Bo Ren Nanxi Caotang Picture Scroll
The location of the old site
Minhang District: Qushui Garden
"Qushui Garden Map" was composed by Wen Jia for his friend Dong Yiyang, depicting the scenery of his rural Industry Qushui Garden, which is titled "above Huangpu". A wisteria tree in the "Ancient Vine Garden" in present-day Minhang District was handed down by Dong Yiyang and has a history of more than 470 years.
Dong Yiyang planted wisteria by hand
Pudong New Area: Zhenjing'an
The Zhenjing Nunnery mentioned in Yang Weizhen's "True Mirror Nunnery Recruitment" is said to be in Gaoxing Town, Pudong, and now it no longer exists, and there is still an ancient ginkgo tree on its former site that has been passed down as a relic of that year.
Yuan Yang Weizhen Xingshu Zhenjing An Fundraising Volume
The old site of the ancient ginkgo tree
Jing'an District: Shifo Floating River
Jing'an Temple, originally known as Hudu Chongxuan Temple. According to legend, in the first year of jianxing in the Western Jin Dynasty (313), two stone Buddhas floated on the Wusong River (present-day Suzhou Creek), and the Buddha statues were once enshrined in Chongxuan Temple. There are still murals of the "Stone Buddha Floating River" in the Dunhuang Grottoes today.
Tang Dynasty Western Jin Dynasty Stone Buddha Floating River Tu Dunhuang Mogao Caves Cave 323 Cave Main Room South Wall
Jing'an Temple
The water system and art veins, wind objects and characters, in the vicissitudes of history, are immersed in the traditional humanistic background of Shanghai. Although the special exhibition is coming to an end, the imprint worth remembering constitutes an "exhibition that does not end".
You can follow the "Shanghai Art Examination Map" (click to enter), personally search for important artistic landmarks in this land, and feel the character of the city by hanging the ancient humanistic and natural features of calligraphy and paintings in the past.
You can use our educational resources with your children to creatively practice the landscape paintings of the past dynasties related to Shanghai in the form of art and handicraft (click to enter "Collage and Installation: Recreating Landscapes"); feel the charm of the Haipai Seal Book in your hands (click to enter the "72 Variations of Chinese Characters & Fun Font Art Tutorial").
You can also treasure a catalogue of special exhibitions, or review special exhibition seminars (click here: "Ten Thousand Years of Changchun - International Symposium on Calligraphy and Painting on the Sea") to gain new inspiration from them.
Tips
From December 6, due to the need to replace the exhibits, the Chinese Calligraphy Museum and the Chinese Dynasty Painting Museum will be temporarily closed for adjustment, and the restoration time will be announced separately. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.