"Oriental Pen", "First Person in Five Hundred Years" and "Genius" are all labels belonging to Zhang Daqian.
But at the same time, he is also the most controversial master of Chinese painting, "wind and current", "abandoning his wife and children", "falsifying", and one by one, he is a painter whose reputation has resounded throughout the country.
Perhaps most of the people who pursue art are sentimental, so the images left by artists to the world are mostly unbridled and frank, and the same is true of Zhang Daqian's life.
Zhang Daqian
Zhang Daqian's artistic achievements are outstanding, and the degree of fame of his emotional life is no less than the achievements of his works.
A monk's tortuous marriage
Looking at Zhang Daqian's paintings, the most famous are the various female figures he made.
Or quiet and elegant, or romantic and sexy, and with his beauty picture, his understanding of women is also jumping on the paper.
Zhang Daqian female figure
Zhang Daqian's real name is Zhang Zhengquan, and Daqian is his legal name when he became a monk.
As a monk, Zhang Daqian's love history is extremely wonderful, he became a monk for women, and he was also for women.
In 1917, the nineteen-year-old Zhang Daqian and his cousin Xie Shunhua were engaged, and under the arranged marriage was the love affair of two lovers of green plum bamboo horses, and the two agreed that Zhang Daqian would hold a wedding after returning from studying in Japan.
However, before Zhang Daqian returned to China, his green plum bamboo horse died of illness.
It is said that Zhang Daqian was very sad at that time, and not only rushed back from Japan to go home to treat his fiancée, but in the end he was tripped.
Many people sighed at Zhang Daqian's affection for his fiancée, but did not know that his affection was very short-lived.
Immediately, the family set him a family affair, but the girl fell ill shortly after getting engaged, and had to withdraw from the marriage.
It is conceivable that once the two fiancées are killed and injured, there must be rumors and rumors, and if the gender is reversed, it will be difficult for girls to marry.
Even a man, most of the girls of a good family, will certainly not say it to him again, and hate that he has the appearance of a wife.
Maybe he can't stand the rumors, maybe Zhang Daqian thought of his first love who left early, and he was so sad that he couldn't help himself.
So he made a bold decision: to become a monk.
Zhang Daqian vowed not to harm other girls again, and he shaved his hair at the Zen Temple in Songjiang County, with the title of Daqian.
It is said that men's vows cannot be believed, and Zhang Daqian vividly set an example for many people.
Old photos of Zhejiang temples
Zhang Daqian, who vowed not to harm other girls again, later married four wives, one wife and three concubines, and the youngest wife was a classmate of his daughters, who was exactly twenty years younger than him.
Not only that, zhang daqian's outside there are countless confidants with red faces, of course, this is the last word.
At that time, Zhang Daqian's days as a monk were also very exciting.
Buddhism requires monks to be pure and do not ask about the world, in addition to their own requirements for themselves, there are also some rules and regulations.
Old photo of the monk
Breaking off emotions and desperate desires is only basic, and if you want to enter the Buddha's door, you still have to suffer some physical suffering, such as burning scars.
Burning scars is a test of a person's true heart as a Buddha, and it is also a wake-up call for Buddhist disciples to themselves.
However, Zhang Daqian refused, a symbol of declaring that he had completely broken away from the world, and he claimed that burning the scars was contrary to his original intention of renunciation.
Maybe Zhang Daqian didn't really plan to become a monk at all, just to find a clean place and precipitate himself.
Monk with scars
So he worked as a monk in the temple for two months, but because he refused to burn the scars, Zhang Daqian, who did not succeed in entering the Buddhist gate, escaped from the temple and wandered in the West Lake.
But wandering outside requires money, Zhang Daqian went out for a long time, and the money on his body was basically used up. At the beginning, I was bent on running away from my family, how can I go back like this, I need a step.
Zhang Daqian, who was not happy with everything, quarreled with the boatman on the shore of the West Lake, and "happened" to meet the second brother who came to pick him up and take him home.
Old photos of West Lake
The second brother took him to the restaurant next to the West Lake to eat a big meal, which was probably the most abundant meal since he became a monk, and it was also a meal where he cut off the Buddha's edge, and Zhang Daqian, who had finished eating, was "escorted" home.
Maybe he really had no connection with the Buddha Gate, or maybe Zhang Daqian didn't have a Heart of Buddha who broke off his love at all, and soon after, he married Zeng Qingrong.
Zhang Daqian: Three wives bullied me
Zeng Qingrong is the original room under the typical feudal ideology, tolerant and generous. She has been guarding Zhang Daqian from beginning to end, raising the children he and other women have given birth to for him, without a word of complaint.
Zeng Qingrong
At that time, Zhang Daqian's second wife, Huang Ningsu, was arrogant and arrogant, and even did not lie to Zhang Daqian, but the two women got along extremely well and never quarreled, most of which was due to Zeng Qingrong's retreat and tolerance.
Zeng Qingrong is the hardest working of Zhang Daqian's many women, clearly a main room, but doing the work of the old mother, worrying about Zhang Daqian's children.
It was not until eleven years later that Zeng Qingrong and Zhang Daqian gave birth to one of their own daughters.
But at that time, after Zhang Daqian married the original match, he immediately left his hometown.
Zhang Daqian and Li Qiujun
In 1921, he met Li Qiujun, a confidant with whom he had been friends with god for a lifetime.
The same painter, the two people have endless words, but at that time, Father Li wanted to be the master to give his daughter Xu to Zhang Daqian, and Zhang Daqian hurriedly prostrated his head and resigned, declaring that he had married his wife.
Li Qiujun's family conditions were excellent, and Zhang Daqian did not dare to open his mouth to ask others to make him a concubine, so the two people could only be separated namelessly.
However, this Miss Li has never been married, as long as she accompanies Zhang Daqian, she also calls herself Mrs. Zhang, and can only say that this Miss Li is a non-staff member of Zhang Daqian's wife and concubine.
Xanthanol and Zhang Daqian
After rejecting Miss Li, Zhang Daqian quickly married a concubine into the door, and this woman was Huang Nuctin.
According to Zeng Zhengrong, Zhang Daqian was leading Huang Congrin into the door at that time.
At that time, only 15 years old Huang Gelin, sweet-looking, lively personality, the second year of entering the door for Zhang Daqian gave birth to a child, deeply won the zhang family's heart.
Later, huangglutin was even more worthy of expectations, and constantly added imports to Zhang Daqian's family, and huangglutinin was the one that gave birth to the most children for Zhang Daqian, and the two people gave birth to eleven children.
Zhang Daqian friends and children
And because Huang Ningsu is slightly familiar with calligraphy and painting, he can often accompany Zhang Daqian to talk about calligraphy and painting and add fragrance to his red sleeves.
Zhang Daqian also constantly uses yellow agglutinin as a template in the picture of a lady, and the two people love each other for a while.
But even with such a gentle and pleasant second wife, an original match who understands things and constantly worries about his life, and a confidant with a red face who has been friends for a long time, Zhang Daqian still has not stopped exploring the pace of beauty.
In 1927, he went to North Korea to visit and also met a fifteen-year-old Korean dancer, whose beauty and charm once made Zhang Daqian linger, but he returned to China soon after. This transnational love was eventually broken off under the obstruction of Zhang Mu.
Zhang Daqian and North Korean Maiji take a group photo
Although sorry, Zhang Daqian quickly perked up.
In 1935, he brought back a female artist who sang the Big Drum of Jing yun, called Yang Wanjun, who was tall and tall, especially known for her slim hands with a skin like gelatin.
At that time, the second wife did not make any radical reaction, but was very happy to welcome this sister into the door.
Yang Wanjun has the same temper as the eldest wife, but also has the calligraphy and painting qi of the second wife, and was once Zhang Daqian's favorite woman.
Zhang Daqian and Yang Wanjun
The harmony of the three wives seems that Zhang Daqian, a man, is a bit like an outsider.
Zhang Daqian is a flower heart, his red face confidants outside are endless, but he has not been brought home, and the three wives also know it.
But the red face confidant is on the one hand, if you bring back another woman, these three people will not be willing, it is Zhang Daqian in order to hide from Qingjing out, the three wives will join forces to "arrest" him back.
Zhang Daqian, who "begged for a living" under the three wives, was very embarrassed, and he simply did not have the demeanor of a head of the family.
However, the more strictly a man manages, the easier it is to think carefully, and Zhang Daqian's road to marrying a wife has not stopped.
Looking at Zhang Daqian's previous path of marrying wives and concubines and making friends with red faces, he seems to be particularly fond of young and beautiful women, whether the other party is fifteen or sixteen years old or in his early twenties, as long as his appearance is OK, it is within his acceptable range.
At that time, Zhang Daqian took a fancy to his daughter's classmate, that is, the later fourth wife Xu Wenbo, a little girl who was only 14 years old, and the other party was still his daughter's classmate, which could be regarded as stabbing the honeycomb.
When he learned that Zhang Daqian was going to marry another room, the hot-tempered second wife, Huang Congrine, took the other two wives to the study to settle accounts with Zhang Daqian.
Huang Conglutin, Zhang Daqian and Yang Wanjun
Huang Conglutin scolded bitterly, while picking up the copper ring ruler next to him and pumping it into Zhang Daqian's body.
The heavy copper block hit Zhang Daqian's hand that was holding up the shield, and he screamed bitterly, broke the door and fled, and did not return for a night.
Marrying a daughter and classmate, tragically brewing a son's tragic track
In fact, at the beginning of Zhang Daqian and Xu Wenbo's contacts, everyone did not take it seriously at all.
On the one hand, Zhang Daqian was 44 years old at the time, while Xu Wenbo was only 14 years old, and his identity was still his daughter's classmate.
Xu Wenbo was young
Therefore, at that time, Zhang Daqian's three wives only knew how to guard against women outside, and they did not think of being wary of this yellow haired girl at all.
Moreover, probably the wives are still thinking that as a well-known figure, Zhang Daqian will not look for his daughter's classmates even if he wants to find it, he always has to take care of face.
At that time, when Xu Wenbo came in and out of Zhang Daqian's studio every day, everyone thought that Zhang Daqian wanted Xu Wenbo to be his disciple.
Even Xu Wenbo thought so, but after two years with Zhang Daqian, when she proposed to worship the teacher, she was rejected by Zhang Daqian.
Zhang Xinrui and his father Zhang Daqian
Xu Wenbo thought that his level was too poor, and he was really sad and sad for a while. But I didn't expect that the other party didn't want to make himself a disciple, in order to marry himself in the future.
But in the long days of getting along, 18-year-old Xu Wenbo also knew zhang Daqian's meaning, and Xu Wenbo, who was fascinated by the other party's master style and fascinated by his eyes, also moved his mind.
Soon, Xu Wenbo invited Zhang Daqian to his aunt's house to avoid aircraft bombing, and Zhang Daqian gladly went there. When two people live together, the distance between hearts is closer.
In order to get Xu Wenbo's aunt to agree, Zhang Daqian set up a painting table at Xu Wenbo's aunt's house and won the favor of Xu Wenbo's elders by relying on a reliable image.
Zhang Daqian and Xu Wenbo
Soon after, Xu Wenbo announced to her aunt that she was pregnant and had to marry Zhang Daqian.
On the other hand, Zhang Daqian's three wives also learned the news that Zhang Daqian wanted to remarry, remembering that Zhang Daqian had recently returned home to pick his nose and pick his eyes, and the three of them were not angry when they discussed it, and came to Find Zhang Daqian to settle the account.
Zhang Daqian was surrounded by three women, and fled out of the house in a hurry, not wanting to go home, so he ran to a cave and hid.
Soon after, the news came out that Zhang Daqian was going to become a monk, and the three wives panicked and hurriedly sent someone to the mountains to find Zhang Daqian.
When everyone found Zhang Daqian, he was meditating on the wall, and he didn't pay attention to who talked to him, so under the discussion of everyone, it was decided that Huang Ningsu would cry and kneel down to plead guilty, and invite the old man Zhang Daqian to go home.
Originally, Zhang Daqian did not know how to tell several women in the family, but he found an excuse.
Zhang Daqian, who was beaten up, went down the donkey in the reluctant apology of the second wife, and when he arrived home, he directly announced that Xu Wenbo was pregnant and wanted to take the fourth wife.
And Huang Ningsu couldn't sit still this time, thinking that Zhang Daqian was simply inching forward, so she directly announced that she was going to divorce Zhang Daqian.
Flaviculin
Not only that, she also instigated the third wife to divorce Zhang Daqian, but the third wife was timid and thought that she could still have a place in Zhang Daqian's heart, so she refused to divorce.
Seeing that there was going to be a teenage lady entering the door, a half-old Xu Niang, the deceased who had given birth to more than a dozen children, Zhang Daqian did not care, so he gave Huang Ningsu a piece of property and let the other party go.
Huang Tingsu, who left Zhang Daqian, married a card friend and later gave birth to a child, although the marriage did not end well in the end, but her spirit of resistance is still very worthy of our praise.
Soon after, 48-year-old Zhang Daqian married 18-year-old Xu Wenbo.
Since then, Xu Wenbo has been with Zhang Daqian all the time, from home to abroad, and later from Hong Kong to Taiwan, and has been taking care of Zhang Daqian's body.
Xu Wenbo also gave birth to a daughter and two sons for Zhang Daqian, but the eldest daughter died early.
When she went abroad at that time, she gave up the opportunity to take her son, who was only a few months old, abroad, and instead chose to take away Zhang Xinpei, the young daughter of Huang Ningsusheng.
Compared with the second wife, Xu Wenbo is a woman who is very patient, when Zhang Daqian writes love letters to other women, she studies ink next to her, and at the end of the letter, her name often appears after Zhang Daqian's name.
The two people were in agreement, and for a while they were simply envious of others. Unbeknownst to them, the bitter fruit caused between the two men was borne by their son.
At that time, Xu Wenbo entrusted his son Zhang Xinjian to a bell mounting smith, who raised him for three years and gave it back to his eldest wife, Zeng Zhengrong, who grew up safely under the care of Zeng Zhengrong, but was deeply influenced by his parents.
The last photo of Zhang Xinjian and his sister
Rumors crushed him, and 21-year-old Zhang Xinjian chose to commit suicide by lying on the track, and although he did not die at the time, he broke his legs.
Zhang Xinjian, whose wound was seriously infected, said to the daughter born to Zeng Zhengrong: "Sister, my life is too bitter, may I not have an afterlife", and died in pain.
Zhang Daqian and Xu Wenbo, who were idle abroad at that time, did not know that their son had died.
When Zhang Daqian, who finally died in Taiwan, divided his inheritance, he also left a copy for Zhang Xinjian, but Zhang Xinjian had no chance to be taken care of by his father in this life.