Xu Jiang's name is only twelve short, but the titles that follow his name have a long list, with heavy responsibility.
On December 17, the 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles held its closing meeting in Beijing. At the closing meeting, it was announced that the new leadership team of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles elected at the first national committee of the eleventh session of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles was announced.
Xu Jiang, chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and director of the Academic Committee of the China Academy of Art, was re-elected as vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Back in Hangzhou from Beijing, we met him at the Nanshan campus of the China Academy of Fine Arts.
Every time I interviewed Xu Jiang, I always felt a pang of nervousness in my heart. Because talking to him, no matter what kind of topic he starts with, he can always boil down to some heavy theme and then look at you with a rigorous and cautious look. In his heart, he seems to have always maintained a distance from this fast-paced era, and has a strong sense of distress that his fathers are born with.
For example, he paints sunflowers, these Chinese the sunflowers in their minds, always carrying an upward aura. For him, it was the spiritual image of a generation, with the memory of the times. "I have been painting sunflowers for 18 years, every year I draw sunflowers, visit sunflowers, chase sunflowers, plastic sunflowers, some people do not understand, 'Why do you always make the same thing', I think it is very strange, why do you always ask me this question? My Kwai Garden is not finished, because the artist's feelings are constantly growing, inspiration is constantly growing, which is not endless. ”
Xu Jiang said that the biggest feature of their generation is that it is full of passion for the times, "We cherish the arrival of this era." Therefore, we should uphold this passion and make new contributions to the development of Chinese art. ”
This year is Xu Jiang's fourth participation in the Literary Congress, "We literary and art workers should enhance cultural consciousness, strengthen cultural self-confidence, with a strong spirit of historical initiative, show new responsibilities in casting the soul of Bacon, achieve new deeds in shouzheng innovation, glow with a new style on Mingdexiu, and strive to cast the literary and artistic peak of the great rejuvenation era of the Chinese nation." Xu Jiang said.
Shuttling between the "composite" characters of educators, painters, and writers, his time is divided into small squares after another, but there must be a piece that belongs to him.
Xu Jiang admits that after stepping down as president of the China Academy of Fine Arts in July last year, he was even busier, busy writing, reading and creating a new Zhejiang landscape. Like the NBA game he loves, every stage will continue to exert efforts, "We are a passionate generation, and the passion of the fire will not disappear because of retirement." 」 ”
On the evening of December 31, the live broadcast of Hangzhou's "Twelve Yuè" Reading Cross-Chinese New Year's Eve for All, hosted by Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, and undertaken by City Express and Hangzhou Library, will be broadcast simultaneously on multiple platforms such as Orange Persimmon Interactive App, Official Video Number of City Express, Official Weibo, Douyin Number, and Kuaishou Number. We also invited the big coffee Xu Jiang to recommend the best book of the year in his heart.
In the past, xu Jiang's books were mostly serious, always associated with certain heavy topics related to ethnicity, urban development, education, and art.
Now, he is more of a return to traditional Chinese culture, for example, at the workbench, there is a reference book - the literary and artistic theory work of Lu Ji of the Jin Dynasty, "Wen Fu". "This book provides me with a rich mineral deposit, which is the first systematic creation monograph in the history of Chinese literary criticism, marking a new stage in ancient literary theory, and many contents can be used in my writing."
The other is "An Interpretation of Chinese Cultural Concepts", which is still in the publishing stage. It consists of seven divisions: the first division, the Tendo: Ben and Yi. The second division, Celestial Beings: Mission and Faith. The third division, Human ethics: the ethics of the norm. The fourth division, for the government: to the Taiping. Fifth Division, Self-Cultivation: Personality Formation. The sixth division, Asking and Learning: Applying the Scriptures. Seventh Division, Characters: Life and Grace. This book extracts some of the most important concepts from the vast and vast Chinese culture--these concepts are the spiritual components of the ancient edifice of Chinese culture, the living standards of the permanent residents in the mansion, the cosmology, the outlook on life, and the ethical, ceremonial, and even aesthetic principles that are connected with the way of perching.
"I am very much looking forward to this book, and such a book has played a very good role in our understanding of China's traditional culture today." Xu Jiang said.
Orange Persimmon Interactive City Express reporter Yu Xiwen
Correspondent Liu Yang