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By chance, he was awarded a large bronze medal. The diameter should be more than 80 mm, the shape is simple, and the quality is perfect. One side is coppery black with high-relief flowers; the other side is coppery reddish with a square text in the middle and a circle of lace around it. From the magnifying glass, the text is hand-engraved. It is 12 vertical lines, each line of 12 words, a total of 144 words. The text is transcribed in the horizontal book according to the current custom as follows:
Owner of the Spring Flower House of the 21st year of the Republic of China
Wu Xianglan set Wang Shaojiu Prince Zhen Wang Xuan
Qingzhu Cast Yu Zhu Shi xi Zhu Shou Yi Bing
People Wu Wait Qiu Wu Qu An Wu Zi Shen Wu Bing
Yi Wu Zhensheng Shen Shou Peng Wang Shu Yu Zhou Qiao
Nian Zhou Heting Zhou Youhong yu zhonghe Yao Jun
Yu Yao Xuan Yu Yao Ming Mei Liu Junran FanZi
Ming Chen Jia Luo Chen Zhaoxin Chen Keming Zhang Zhong
Ren Zhang XingJie Ye Yi Wen Wen Zou Jing Yi
An Jiang Qi Fan Jiang Yin Qiu Cai Zhen Yuan Yan Chun
Gu Moqi Gu Yanping is the Shuluo Painting Society
Spring 23 coincided with the second week of this commemoration
The text is "In the spring of the 21st year of the Republic of China, the owner of the Flower House, Wu Xianglan, Wang Shaojiu, Wang Zizhen, Wang Xuanqing, Zhu Zhuyu, Zhu Shixi, Zhu Shouyi, Yu Bingren, Wu Waitqiu, Wu Qu'an, Wu Zishen, Wu Bingyi, Wu Zhensheng, Shen Shoupeng, Wang Shuyu, Zhou Qiaonian, Zhou Heting, Zhou Youhong, Yu Zhonghe, Yao Junyu, Yao Xuanyu, Yao Mingmei, Liu Junran, Fan Ziming, Chen Jiayi, Chen Zhaoxin, Chen Keming, Zhang Zhongren, Zhang Xingjie, Ye Yiwen, Zou Jingyi, Jiang Yi'an, Jiang Qifan, Jiang Yinqiu, Cai Zhenyuan, Yan Chunsheng, Gu Moqi, Gu Yanping is a painting company of Shuluo, and the spring of the 23rd year is suitable for two weeks, casting this memorial. The content of the talk is: In the spring of the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), Wu Shulan, the owner of the Luohua Museum, summoned Wang Shaojiu and a total of 38 other people to initiate the establishment of the Luo Luo Painting Society.
Wu Zhongshan Lingshui Show, humanities gathering. In history, many literati and scholars gathered in associations and exchanged skills, which played a positive role in the prosperity of Wudi culture. Among the many societies, the most influential is the Shuluo Painting Society half a century ago.
Wu Zhensheng's former residence, where the Wu brothers founded the "Shuluo Flower Hall" and the "Shuoluo Painting Society"
In the spring of 1932, Wu Xianglan, a painter of the Wuzhong Wang clan, bought a tree from the Qinghe clan and planted it in the house of Xibaihua Lane. This tree is also known as the Bodhi Tree. Native to the Buddhist country of India, it is not easy to cultivate on the mainland, so it is extremely rare. At the turn of spring and summer, the tree blossoms, is snow blue in color, and is shaped like a lotus seat, which is amazing to the viewer. Attracted Gu Su celebrities to Wu House, poetry and lyrics, painting Fei Xiang, Ya ji under the flowers, sending affection to the ink sea, and later some people proposed, following Gu Heyi's act of creating the "Yiyuan Painting Society" twenty years ago, initiated the establishment of the Shuluo Painting Society.
Because of the purpose of "contacting Wuzhong artists, carrying forward the essence of the country, and exchanging artistic affairs", especially the four miao paintings of Wu's Kun Zhongzi Shen, Bingyi, Zhensheng and Xianglan, Danqing have long been famous in the three Wus, so famous artists have joined the society, collecting the essence of Wumen and converging the current of victory.
Wu Zishen (1893-1972), a native of Wu County, Jiangsu Province, was the chairman of the board of trustees of Suzhou American College in 1928. In 1948, he was appointed as a member of the Art Awards Committee sponsored by the Shanghai Cultural Movement Committee. In the 1930s and 1940s, together with Wu Hufan, Wu Zhiqiu and Feng Chaoran, they were known as "Three Wu and One Feng". In 1966, at the invitation of Zhang Daqianzhi, he went to Taipei to teach at the Chinese Painting Department of the Taiwan Academy of Arts. Good at painting landscapes and bamboo stones, but also able to calligraphy. He is the author of "Guest Window Remnants" and "Wuzi Deep Landscape Bamboo Stone Collection" and so on. Wu's landscape and water yuanzong Dong Yuan, close to the master Dong Qichang, layout rules, pen and ink clear, pure temperament. Bamboo stone master Wen Tong, leaning forward and densely in accordance with the law. Calligraphy first learned Dong Qichang, and then turned to attack Mi Fu, rhymed with Confucianism and elegance.
Wu Xianglan (1908-1964), wu zishen brother, character green field, Qingsheng, good at Chinese painting, trained by Yan Wenliang's father Yan Yuan, that is, the organizer of the Luo Painting Society, was a professor of Chinese painting in Suzhou.
There are dozens of painters of the three generations of old, middle-aged and young painters in the Shuluo Painting Society. The older generation of painters include Liu Linchuan, Jiang Yi'an, Yan Chunsheng and others. They were all of the same generation as Lu Hui and Wu Changshuo, who were more than old at this time. Among them, Liu Linchuan also initiated the establishment of Suzhou's first painting society, Yiyuan Painting Society, together with Gu Heyi, Wu Dahan and Lu Hui. Yan Chunsheng is the father of the famous art educator Yan Wenliang, who is the teacher of Bo Nian, with fresh pen and ink and transcendent. They are highly respected and skilled, and they are the leaders of the painting society. Middle-aged painters such as Chen Jiayi and Fan Shaoyun are not confused at the end of their lives, they are profound in skill, sophisticated and heroic, and they are the backbone of the painting society. The third age level is a group of young people who are just weak crowns, Zhu Shouyi, Wang Jiqian, Zhang Xinyu, Ye Yiwen, Wang Zizhen, Cai Zhenyuan, etc., who have a solid foundation and are full of energy, and are the backbone of the painting society.
In addition to many famous painters in the painting society, there are also calligraphers Yu Jue and Jiang Yinqiu, literary artists Zhang Zhongren and Wu Mei, and Zhu Liangren of jinshi. Some of them were former Qingju people, some were members of the Southern Society, and their poems and articles were very famous.
The activities of the art club can generally be divided into two categories: small and large, and the small activities are diverse and eclectic. Large-scale activities are more solemn, saying that a certain painting album, in addition to sending a special person to send a written notice, is also broadcast to the whole city by the self-run radio station of the Luo Luo Flower Hall or published a statement in the newspaper on the 1 to 3 days before the event. After the event, a series of "Paintings of Shuluo" was also issued.
The painting club also invited celebrities from all over the country to give lectures at the Luo Flower House. On September 14, 1932, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mr. Zhang Taiyan, a master of traditional Chinese studies who came to Suzhou from Hangzhou to give a lecture, accompanied by his old friends Li Gengen and Zhu Liangren, visited the LuoHuaguan, read the calligraphy and paintings, read the ancient and modern, and gladly inscribed the banner "Luo Luo Hua Guan" on the cold gold note, and interpreted the four strokes of "Hong Rong Zhai" and the second volume of "Luo Luo Tree" for the members of the society. At that time, more than a hundred students in Wumen listened to the master's teachings.
The Shuluo Painting Society published the "Shuluo Pictorial Journal", edited by Wu Shulan and edited by Wang Shuyu and Zhang Xingjie, and distributed to the public from time to time. After the establishment of the company, it has held calligraphy and painting exhibitions of various scales, especially in Shanghai. On March 25, 1934, the calligraphy and painting exhibition of the Shuluo Painting Society was grandly opened in hubei auditorium on Beijing Road in Shanghai, and Shanghai painters Wang Yiting, Feng Chaoran, Zheng Mantuo, Chen Zegao, qian Shutie and others visited. The "Wumen School" brings a spring breeze to the Shanghai painting world with its unique elegance. More than a thousand works are dazzling, wei is a grand view, the visitors are a thousand people a day, most of the paintings sold in the five days, and the newspapers in Shanghai have praised the exhibition. As the exhibition of calligraphy and painting shows the fruitful achievements of the painting society since its establishment, six famous painters on the sea, including Zhang Shiyuan, Xiong Songquan and Ma Xiao, have joined the Shuluo Painting Society in Shanghai and opened the Shanghai branch of the Shuluo Flower Museum.
Another reason for the great social impact of the Shuluo Painting Society is that most of the income from the sale of paintings is donated to social charity. By 1948, Suzhou was in decline. The vigorous Shuluo Painting Society gradually came to an end. Looking at such a non-governmental organization as the Shuluo Painting Society, it has contacted so many famous calligraphers and painters in Suhu and Shanghai, and has been active for seventeen years, which is rare in the history of mainland painting. Although the Luo Luo Painting Society has become history, it has left a brilliant page for wudi culture, which is really: "It is rare in the world to have a flower, and it has been a hundred years of mud."
In the text introducing the Shuluo Painting Society on the Internet, it is clearly recorded that there is the following paragraph: "Finely cast bronze medals. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), on the second anniversary of the establishment of the Shuluo Painting Society, a bronze medal with a diameter of 83 mm was cast. The yang side is a relief of the luo luo flower, and the yin side is a list of members, and each member holds one to commemorate it. ”
The content of this passage is completely consistent with the bronze medallion in my hand. I brought the bronze medal to Yunzhou Antique City and invited everyone to enjoy it. None of the people present had ever seen the chapter. Someone picked up the chapter and flicked it gently with his finger, and the voice was very muffled, saying that it was a pity, if it was copper, it would be fine. Someone took a careful look before and after the magnifying glass, and found that there was a seam on the side of the copper medallion, which showed that the bronze medallion was two parts stitched together, and the sound was of course different from the large bronze medallion made of a whole piece of copper. The production process of the high relief side, some people say that it is pressed, some people say that it is poured. I think that the possibility of pouring is great, and with the technical conditions at that time, it is not so easy to suppress such a high relief.
When you have time to carefully admire this bronze medallion, the diameter is 83 mm, there are two parts of the front and back put together, no wonder the high relief one side of the copper color dark, there is the text side of the copper red. The words are carved in lishu, and the writing is pleasing to the eye, it must be the handwriting of the big man; the circle of floral patterns on the side is also all hand-carved. On the side of the high relief, two flowers are carved vividly, but with a strong interest in Chinese ink painting, it is very much to love. Such a commemorative medal made for each member of the Luo Luo Painting Society, the amount of production will certainly not be much, and there can be a few left to the present, and now I have the opportunity to get one of them, and the quality is excellent, I am lucky!
The author of this article poses with the Bodhi tree
I believe in collecting, and in recent years the collection associated with the Buddha has often increased, and it is also a fate. I love the solemn atmosphere of the Lingshan Buddha Kingdom, and everywhere I go, outside the Temple, I must browse the ancient trees and strange trees around me. Bodhi Tree, which I have only seen occasionally in buddhist shrines, thinks that he grew up in a transcendent environment and naturally cultivated a body of Reiki after listening to the chanting of the noble monks for many years. When I visited the Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, I had the opportunity to see a tall and majestic Bodhi tree, gently touching its branches, and felt that under such a big tree, people would abandon all distractions and feel very solid in their hearts. At that time, I did not want to leave for a long time, and I took a picture by the tree.
Later, I asked for a pair of Bodhi seeds in the suburbs of Shanghai, the size and weight of which were like the big walnuts that the old man put on his hand to play fitness. The pair of bodhi seeds have been played with for many years, and the surface has generated a layer of dark red paste, although it is not very round, the feeling of holding it in the hand is very smooth and pleasing. I played it a few times, but I wasn't used to this casual way, so I hid this pair of bodhi seeds in my treasure chest early. Once a Beijing relative and friend came to Shanghai, for a while could not get a suitable small gift, in the cabinet saw this pair of bodhi seeds, light and small, but also able to fitness, so they gave it to each other.
Since receiving the bronze medallion of the Shura Painting Society, he felt that he was related to the Bodhi Tree, and he wanted to find a pair of Bodhi seeds again. One weekend with a slight rain, I went to the suburban shop again to look for treasures, and during the conversation, I listened to the old shop owner: Bodhi zi used to have it in the store, and the small ones were strung into bracelets, and now they are gone.
If you don't get the bodhichitta seed, you feel a little lost in your heart. I feel that this is all fate, it should be yours, he will eventually come to you, once had this fate, maybe the pair of bodhichitta will not be sprinkled out, the flowers will not bloom well, is not the bronze medallion of the Shura Painting Society now lying quietly in my hand.
The official public number of "Shanghai Bank Museum".