My hometown of Shangluoshan, Shaanxi, is full of talents, and tonight through the alumnus Zhao Shengli, I finally met Zhang Mingqi, a hometown calligrapher from Heilongkou in Shangzhou District. As a native of the township party, perhaps because in the 1960s and 1970s, the remote and backward Shangluo was too poor, and the cultural celebrities and calligraphy and painting artists of Shangluo mushroomed like mushrooms overnight, and in the 1980s and 1990s, writers, Qin performance artists, and photographers represented by Jia Pingwo, Chen Yan, Ji Fuji, Fang Yingwen, Jingfu, Dong Faliang, Liu Fenglin, etc., rose for a while, and quickly became famous in the north and south of the great river, promoting the "Shaanxi Army Crusade" of Lu Yao, Chen Zhongzhong, and others. Now that twenty years have passed, although the economy of Shangluo cannot be compared with the Guanzhong Plain and the Yulin of Yan'an in northern Shaanxi, the cultural artists of Shangluo are absolutely invincible, and present a rare and beautiful scenery in the whole of China. From "Six Jin County Governor", "Butcher Zhuangyuan", "Wild Mountain", "Impetuous", "Qin Cavity", "Eight Mile Love Feud" to "Loading Stage", "Protagonist", "Mountain Soul", "Nostalgia", there are too many remarkable points, but the literati of Shangluo have never liked to be publicized, so it is not an exaggeration to walk into Shangluo.
No, Zhang Mingqi, born in March 1961, is a member of the Shaanxi Calligraphers Association born in Heilongkou, a member of the Xi'an Calligraphers Association, the vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association, the executive director of the International Federation of Artists, the vice president of the Shaanxi Qinyuan Calligraphy and Painting Institute, the vice president of the Shaanxi Branch of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Painting, and the researcher of the Shaanxi Academy of Calligraphy and Painting. Don't look at him from the military camp, in the Shaanxi Provincial Fire Brigade Hospital political commissar for many years, but because he loved the art of calligraphy since childhood, he has been in the army for more than thirty years without interruption, and has been obsessed with the pursuit of calligraphy art all his life, diligent and studious, tireless, assiduous in practice, and has gradually formed his own unique calligraphy style by posting on Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ouyang Qing, Zhao Mengfu and other famous artists, thanks to the guidance of many famous calligraphers and painters, winning the strengths of all. His calligraphy works are beautiful and free, and are favored by calligraphy lovers. In 2014, he won the first prize of the "Shaanxi Hundred Calligraphers and Painters Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" calligraphy and painting exhibition organized by the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Research Association, and the first prize of the "Silk Road Flower Language Famous Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" in 2015.
Speaking of Chinese calligraphy art, it has a long history, seal, li, kai, xing, grass in the long river of history through continuous evolution and innovation, has formed different genres and systems, eclectic presentation of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending brilliant style. As a result, some people praised Chinese calligraphy as "wordless poetry, no line dance; pictureless painting, silent music." Then, how to inherit and carry forward in continuous innovation, full of vitality, it is not so easy, this is also the dream of many calligraphers, if you can form a system of its own, show a generation of everyone's style, it is even more called a generation of everyone, the style of the times. Therefore, standing in front of Mr. Zhang Mingqi's calligraphy ink treasures, as a calligraphy amateur, I feel that I can take the strengths of ancient and modern calligraphy and display its essence vividly in front of the world, whether his works are superior or not, dare to break the old, it is a kind of responsibility, it requires a lot of courage, and faces competition and challenges among peers, from this point of view, Mr. Zhang Mingqi's spirit is precious, worthy of my more study.
Picking up the tail to be a man, making progress in continuously absorbing the strengths of ancient and modern calligraphers, Zhang Mingqi's hard work is worth learning.
Li Changzheng
2021.11.9 in the ancient city of Xi'an
【About the author】Li Changzheng, a native of Shangzhou, Shaanxi, is a famous brand expert in China, the director of CCTV news advertising program production, a part-time professor of Chinese Min University and South China Normal University, and the screenwriter and general director of the movies "Shaanxi Lengwa Enters the City", "The Call of Chang'an" and "The Young People who Come to the Village in guangdong in the north".