Hunan Daily, New Hunan Client, January 3 (He Qinghui) This morning, the "Peking University Founder Cao Junping Small Character Library" press conference and the 8th Cao Junping Teachers and Students Calligraphy Exhibition were held at the Chenzhou Museum of Modern Art on Wenhua Road, Chenzhou City. Ouyang Feng, member of the Standing Committee of the Chenzhou Municipal CPC Committee and director of the United Front Work Department, attended the event.
The Calligraphy Exhibition of Cao Junping's Teachers and Students has been held for eight consecutive years, and this exhibition is more than 200 works exhibited by 180 disciples of Cao Junping and his disciples. The exhibition will run until 7 January and will be free for the public.
In 2018, Peking University Founder signed a contract with Cao Junping to write a set of "Cao Junping Calligraphy Library" (large and small letters), including 7,000 simplified characters, 2662 commonly used traditional characters, and 246 partial symbols. Cao Junping spent 1 year and 9 months writing nearly 60,000 words of calligraphy, which was selected and post-produced by Peking University Founder. Among them, the "Cao Junping Small Letter Library" was launched on July 20, 2021 and can be downloaded online. Based on the Tang Dynasty Ouyang Inquiry Book, the "Cao Junping Xiaokai Character Library" integrates the modesty of the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and the roundness of the Yuan Dynasty calligrapher Zhao Mengfu, which is dignified and elegant. Its mobile version and "Cao Junping Dakai Library" will be launched this year.
Cao Junping, a native of Beihu District, Chenzhou City, has been teaching calligraphy for 28 years, and is currently the deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Cultural Center and the editor-in-chief of Literary and Art Life - Art China magazine. Cao Junping is a scholar, writer, calligrapher and collector, and is a member of the Yangtze River Scholar Jury, a national first-class artist, a researcher of Liu Haisu Art Museum, and a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. He is the author of the four-volume edition of "Embracing Simplicity and Seeking Truth - Cao Junping's Papers seeking verification", and a set of "Introduction to Calligraphy - Cao Junping Calligraphy Classroom"; Published more than 200 cultural relics research and review articles; The "Hunan Centennial Major Historical Theme Art Project Tour Exhibition" presided over by hunan was funded by the National Art Fund; Won the title of "2018 Top Ten People Who Moved Hunan".
Luo Chenghui, secretary of the Beihu District Party Committee, Chen Wenjun, director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio, Film and Television and Sports, Wang Qionghua, chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, and more than 300 calligraphy enthusiasts attended the event.