Source: Wenzhou News Network
"Zusun Le" Tudou Fang
Paintings by Zeng Yandong
In the history of Chinese culture, there are many people who have left a history with a wild and uninhibited reputation, and the famous ones such as Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Xu Wei, etc., are all legendary figures whose famous allusions are still being recited thousands of years later. In the Qing Dynasty, there was also a person with a distinct personality, calligraphy and painting articles, and his artistic style influenced many famous modern painters, that is, the "Seven Taoists" Zeng Yandong, who was known as the "forgotten pioneer of comics".
Zeng Yandong was originally from Shandong, and at the age of 65 he was falsely dismissed from his post and sent to Wenzhou. In Wenzhou, he spent the last 10 years of his life and also left a wealth of calligraphy and painting ink treasures. The Wenzhou Museum now houses his "Zusun Le" Tudou Fang. At present, Wenzhou Yanyuan Art Museum is carrying out the "Crazy Strange and Strange Yi - Special Exhibition to Commemorate the 270th Anniversary of Zeng Yandong's Birth". In this issue of Wenzhou Treasure, we tell you the story of this "strange man". □ Evening News reporter Chen Peipei / Wen Zhang Xiaolong / photography, video
He was falsely dismissed from his post and sent to Wenzhou to make a living selling calligraphy and paintings
■ Legends of past lives
To say that this painting of Zeng Yandong's "Zusun Le" is in front of doufang, we still have to get to know Zeng Yandong first.
Zeng Yandong was born in the fifteenth year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1750), the character Qingzhan, the word seven ru, the number seven Taoists, the ancestral home of Jiaxiang, Shandong. According to Jiaxiang's "Genealogy of the Zeng Family", he followed his father from the eunuchs from an early age, personally undertook the court training, and came to prominence in literature and art. In his teens, he was admitted to Xiucai, and at the age of twenty-one, he went with his parents to the Changbai area outside Guanwai, lived for four years, his parents died, and he suffered from typhoid fever and died several times. Feng Zi was buried in his hometown. Since then, he has been a staff member in Shandong, Guangdong, Hubei and other places for more than 20 years, and qianlong in the fifty-seventh year of the Qing Dynasty (1792). In the twentieth year of Qing Jiaqing (1815), during his tenure in Badongzhi County, he offended Han Wei, the governor of Hubei, because of his strengths, and was wrongfully accused of corruption, and was dismissed from his post and sent to Wenzhou.
In the autumn of the twentieth year of Qing Jiaqing (1815), Zeng Yandong dragged his family to Wenzhou. At that time, the folk had the legacy of "the world has never been two", advocating that the world's former surname is a family. The owner of the Jiushan Lake Yilu Garden (later the Yuanyuan Garden) Zeng Liting nian of the friendship of the same clan took in his family. Yilu garden was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, for the wenzhou celebrities Zeng Wei, Zeng Ruzhang brothers private residence, the name of the garden comes from the "famous garden according to green water, wild bamboo on the green xiao" (Du Fu", accompany Zheng Guangwen to visit the general He Mountain Forest), the old Wenzhou people used to call it "ZengZhai Garden", now where the garden is located.
Wu Xianjun, a researcher at the Wenzhou Museum, introduced that Zeng Yandong's family initially temporarily lived in the painting building of The Green Garden. The following year, he built a house next to the nearby Baodi Bridge and took up another house. The grass hut faces the Jiushan River, accompanied by an ancient banyan tree. In front of the door, he wrote a couplet: Hanging the crown has ridden a tiger since the past, and it is good to draw a dragon in the present. In the sparkling water of the river and the color of the Songtai Mountains, Zeng Yandong changed his name to "Seven Daoists" and made a living by selling character paintings. In order not to misunderstand the name of the "Seven Daoists", he also specially wrote the "Taoist Interpretation", indicating that this Daoist is not a Taoist, but the meaning of "having a scholar's ambition to be on the Tao".
Zeng Yandong also once accepted the employment of Wu Jianshan in Yongjiazhi County as a teaching chair. In Wenzhou at that time, his calligraphy and paintings were already quite famous, and there were many painters who sought paintings, and those who got his paintings were very cherished, but Zeng Yandong was not good at selling paintings, saying something like "People ask me to paint, but I don't paint." People don't ask me to paint, I prefer to paint" - I live by selling calligraphy and paintings, but I refuse to sell paintings in the market, you must know that at that time, Zeng Yandong's family of more than ten people were waiting to be fed, according to his personality, life must be very hard. It is said that in those years, he often wore seven official uniforms, carried a vegetable basket to the fuqian vegetable market to buy a few pieces of tofu to improve his life, and was a familiar "strange person" for the people in Wenzhou.
In the twenty-fifth year of Qing Jiaqing (1820), the Qing Daoguang Emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, and Zeng Yandong, who was 69 years old at the time, was also among them. Originally planning to return to his native Shandong, he did not have enough entanglements and lived in Wenzhou until his death.
"Subtract stroke" drawing method
Pioneering The Pioneering Of Modern Chinese Comics
Zeng Yandong's paintings are often organically combined with poetry, calligraphy and seals. His poems are witty and funny, and his skills are profound. Zeng Yandong has visited Jiangxin Island, and has also been to Xianyan, Yandang Mountain and other places. Everywhere I went, there were poems. Works such as "Dumb Verses", "Ancient Rong Miscellaneous", "Seven Daoist Poetry Copies", and "Richang Essays" were all composed when he lived in Wenzhou. "Taoist Interpretation", "Reminiscence of Officials", "Self-Suffering", "Jiangxin Temple", "Taoist Song", "Yarn Hat Line", "Eight Songs of the Eastern Vendors", "Hanging Wen Xinguo", "Painting Friends Xiang Orchard", "Self-Painting Of The River Crossing the River to Wu JianshanJu stop", "Gentle Customs sitting feast", etc., are all portrayals of his daily life in Wenzhou.
Zeng Yandong's paintings have a wide range of themes, such as landscapes, flowers, birds and figures, especially characters. Influenced by the living environment, Zeng Yandong's characters are mostly thick pen characters, butchers, beggars, shaving heads, digging ears, pedicures, bathing, caravans, Zhong Kui and other ghosts and monsters, all of which come to life in his pen. The zhong kui he painted has a strange face and a fierce abnormality; the dragon and tiger he paints have different morphological characteristics from other families. Because of his long time in Wenzhou, he even depicted folk life scenes such as Wenzhou ship docking, fish lantern play, blowing and vaudeville.
Wu Xianjun introduced that Zeng Yandong's life "what people can't do, I prefer to do." What people can't reduce, I prefer to subtract", its flower, bird and landscape character painting, using comic white stroke techniques, letter pen waving, scorched ink grass, painting the world,profound meaning, known as the Qing Dynasty stick figure big freehand representative figure, its "reduced brush" drawing method can be called the first to create Chinese modern comics. The Wenzhou Museum treasures Zeng Yandong's "Eight Juntu", and the horses he painted are strange and colorful, and the "reduced brush" is used to the extreme.
Zeng Yandong's painting style influenced the late Qing dynasty painter Ren Xiong, as well as Feng Zikai, Qi Baishi, Wu Changshuo and other modern maritime painters. In Wu Changshuo's paintings, there have been inscriptions such as "Quasi-Seven Daoist Painting Method".
Zeng Yandong's most famous work should belong to the collection of literary notes and novels "Little Bean Shed" (Xiao Dou Shed is the name of his Shandong living room). The book was written in the sixty years of qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1795), and later generations commented that it was on a par with Yuan Ming's "Zi Bu Yu" and Ji Yun's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang".
■ The story of this life
Wenzhou compatriots in Hong Kong
Donation of "Zusun Le" to Wembo
The Wenzhou Museum's "Zusun Le" painting in the collection of Zeng Yandong is small in size, 26 centimeters in length and 32 centimeters in width, on paper, and colored. On the right side of the picture, a gentle slope, an old willow branch hangs upside down, and the willow leaves fall out; the heart of the painting is an old man with coarse cloth shoes, hunched over his back, his left hand is holding a staff, and his right hand is pulled by a child, and the child is dressed in blue cloth, as if he is excited. The inscription on the left side of the painting heart reads: "The emperor hates the indefinite period, and he is always the people of the world." Or a hundred years away, this old man does not like to hear. Or a thousand years near, to get its deep affection. Everything is shaped, and thought is not gold. It is like laughing, not changing the child's heart. The Seven Daoists zeng Yandong". 钤白文方印 "Zeng Yin Yandong". In the lower right corner, the white text square print "Iron Stone Heart".
Wu Xianjun introduced that this painting depicts the scene of the two grandchildren traveling together in a concise tone. Among them, the branches of the willow tree are painted with scorched ink, and the figures are painted with reduced strokes. There are poems, books, paintings, and prints on the screen, and the four are organically combined. This painting was donated by Wang Guozhen, a well-known Compatriot from Wenzhou in Hong Kong, in 2005. From the perspective of the level of painting art, although this "Zusun Le" picture is relatively small and there are fewer people in the picture, it is a relatively successful work of his.
Wang Guozhen (1909 ~ 2011) is a descendant of yongqiang Yingqiao Wang clan, attended private schools and primary schools in childhood, apprenticed as a teenager, and began to engage in business as a teenager, and successively opened Nanqiang Industrial Company, South China Shipping Commercial Company, Overseas Chinese Federation Trading Company and other enterprises in Fuzhou, becoming a large household in Fuzhou's timber export industry, steamship industry and import and export industry. In 1978, he moved to Hong Kong and was invited by the Wenzhou villagers to initiate the establishment of the Wenzhou Hometown Association in Hong Kong. He was generous with social good.
According to Wu Xianjun, from 2005 to 2008, Wang Guozhen donated calligraphy and paintings to the museum five times, a total of more than 300 paintings, including Dong Qichang, Fu Shan, Wang Yi, Dai Xi, Yao Nai, Lin Shu, Wu Hufan, Huang Ji, Pu Xinshe and other calligraphy and painting works, of which Zheng Banqiao's "Ink Bamboo Stone Axis" signed by Tang Yun is a treasure.
Commemorating the 270th anniversary of Zeng Yandong's birth
Yanyuan Art Museum held a special exhibition
At present, Wenzhou Yanyuan Art Museum is carrying out the "Crazy Strange and Strange Yi - Special Exhibition in Commemoration of the 270th Anniversary of Zeng Yandong's Birth", which will last until October 27. The exhibition is sponsored by wenzhou municipal literary association and propaganda department of Wenzhou lucheng district party committee of the Communist Party of China, organized by lucheng district literary association, Wenzhou Yanyuan art museum, Hua Yazhai, lucheng district art association and chunlan caotang co-organized.
According to the staff of the museum, this exhibition exhibits more than 60 works of Zeng Yandong vertical shafts, lenses, fans, seals, ancient books, etc., showing Zeng Yandong's artistic appearance in an all-round way.
Zeng's calligraphy and painting, in his own words, was forced by life to "have no choice but to smear and smear, to make people's eyes glaze over, to paint a few pictures without a home, to write a few strange and strange words, to exchange some copper coins, and to live a hard time." In fact, his artistic achievements are staggering. He has been proficient in primary school since childhood, familiar with seals, diligent in cursive writing, knowledgeable in ancient Chinese and strange characters, and melted all kinds of bodies into one furnace. Li Shu obtained the essence of the "Tianfa Divine Tablet", and occasionally participated in the golden winter heart, which was thick and clumsy. The writing is mainly composed of loose pens and clumsy pens, and it is directly expressive of the chest, which is very different from the popular Dong style and the pavilion style at that time.
His paintings are unique, taking the freehand path of Xu Wei and Zheng Banqiao. He combines the style of simple and freehand painting with the poetry of Xiao chang and the handsome book style of Jian Jian to form a set of works similar to comics with a unique and distinctive personality, and in terms of character painting, he can be described as a pioneer of Modern Chinese Comics. Feng Zikai and Ren Xiong were obviously affected by it. In landscape painting, he also pioneered the modern painting method of rough and straight sweeping; in flowers, birds, vegetables and fruits, his large brush strokes are the precursors of the modern Jinshi School. Most of its prints are self-engraved. The sword techniques of Qin Han and Pu Maogu, who are between He Zhen and Cheng Yi, also have a variety of bodies from time to time, and they are a family of their own. Zeng engraved a seal with Ming Zhi: "The nephew knows himself in Donglu, and Ah Du really does not let Hangzhou", which shows that he is quite conceited about printing.
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