(Xinyu Media) When I first met General Huang Hong, who was strong and strong, the first thing that came to mind must be his dragon horse career in the battlefield, and I believe that everyone will be attracted by General Huang's elegant and humorous and wise talk, how many stories and wonderful life are hidden behind it, you must also want to know it. Recommend the following text to readers, so that more people can understand the cultural feelings of General Huang Hong, the hero of the Vietnamese self-defense counterattack, and read the wonderful artistic life of the general.
Acknowledgements: Ms. Hu Agui
Recent photo of General Huang Hong
According to an interview with Xinhua News Agency, this person has three kinds of life: a military life, a theoretical life, and a collector life. From soldier to general; from cadet to professor; from enthusiast to collector, every life has reached a very high level of achievement, which I call "super life". Walk into today's protagonist and listen to his "super" story.
Huang Hong, born in 1946. At the age of 16, he joined the army in Kunming, acting political commissar and party secretary of the main offensive regiment for the reconquest of Laoshan, participated in self-defense counterattack operations three times, and made two third-class battle achievements. With the advent of the peace era, he began to engage in related theoretical research. In 2002, the four headquarters jointly awarded him the Award for Major Contribution to the Professional and Technical Skills of the Whole Army. He was the director of the Institute of Marxism of the former National Defense University, during which time, the responsible unit was awarded the collective second class merit 3 times and the third class merit 1 time, and was awarded the national advanced party organization by the Central Organization Department, and in 2012, the Central Military Commission awarded the collective first class merit. So far, he has written and edited 68 books (sets), published more than 500 theoretical articles and consulting reports, more than 10 have been reprinted by national newspapers and periodicals, and won the national "Five One Project" award for three consecutive times. After his retirement, most of his energy was devoted to the collection and research of ancient art, and his decades of hard work made him a well-known folk collector, who was interviewed by many media and newspapers.
Collection origins
Mr. Huang Hong is talented and strategic, which is inseparable from his family education background. His father graduated from Jinling Agricultural University, served as the first president of Yunnan Agricultural College, and the honorary chairman of Kunming Science and Technology Association; his mother graduated from Southwest United University and has been engaged in education for many years. Such a family atmosphere has created its characteristics of being good at learning knowledge and loving traditional culture. According to his recollection, during his father's tenure as principal, he always received stamps from the former Soviet Union Friendship School. He became extremely interested in those well-organized and highly distinctive "pieces of paper", watched them every day, and loved them so much that they were taken with him when they joined the army, but unfortunately they were accidentally lost later. That's when "collecting" planted its seeds in its heart.
After joining the army, every weekend, he always crossed the army green satchel obliquely, carrying a 6 yuan allowance, walking on the streets of Dali and haunting xinhua bookstores. Two poetry collections, a school bag of Midu small red pears are the regular purchase list for each trip. On an ordinary weekend, he was walking on the way to the bookstore as usual, when he suddenly saw an old man setting up a stall on the side of the road, there were not many things, only two calligraphy works of Zhao Fan. He knew a little about Zhao Fan and was a well-known politician, scholar, poet and calligrapher in modern Chinese history. He once wrote the couplet of the Wuhou Ancestral Hall in Chengdu, "If you can attack the heart, you will disappear on the opposite side, and since ancient times, you know that the soldiers are not belligerent; if you do not judge the situation, you will be lenient and strict, and later you will have to think deeply about Shu." The old man offered 4 yuan, he hesitated slightly, and finally chose the latter between the poetry collection, the Midu little red pear and the calligraphy works of Zhao Fan, which was the first real collection.
In 1984, due to work dispatch, he came to Beijing alone. On weekends, I always hang out in Pan's homestead, and if I have something I like, I will pay for it, and since then I have begun the road to collection. At first, the collection was spontaneous, casual, and over time, it slowly formed a thematic collection. At that time, the price of ancient art was very low, and the ancient stones of the Tang and Song dynasties were only tens of yuan, but he knew that its value was far more than that. In the early days of reform and opening up, when material life was scarce, it was difficult to require the masses to have more spiritual pursuits. How many treasures are scattered in the world, and there are unknown beings? His personal ability is limited, so he often laments that nothing has fallen into mud and dust, and only incense is as it was. So he did his best to pick back the "plum blossoms" that had withered in the mud.
Copper mirror
One of the largest items in its collection is the ancient bronze mirror, which has a total of more than 2,400 faces so far. Bronze mirror is generally a bronze casting with a high tin content, the earliest in the Shang Dynasty to sacrifice ceremonial vessels appeared, in the Spring and Autumn Warring States to Qin is generally the king and nobles to enjoy, to the end of the Western Han Dynasty copper mirror slowly to the folk, is an indispensable living tool for people. The bronze mirror is well-made, beautiful in shape, gorgeous in pattern and rich in inscriptions, and is a treasure in the cultural heritage of ancient Chinese bronze art.
While "taking history as a mirror" and "taking people as a mirror", Tang Taizong often gave bronze mirrors to ministers to commend their officials for their official conduct. According to the New Book of Tang and the Biography of Gao Jifu, "(Ji Fu) was a servant of the bureaucracy, a good character, and Emperor Taizong gave him a golden back mirror. The Old Book of Tang and the Book of Xuanzong reads: "In august (the eighteenth year of the new century), Ding Hai, on the Royal Calyx Building, offered congratulations to the Hundred Officials of the Thousand Autumn Festival, and gave more than four golden mirrors. Emperor Xuanzong also wrote a poem entitled "The Mirror of the Thousand Autumn Festivals to the Qunchen": "Cast a thousand autumn mirrors, and the light gives birth to a hundred alchemical gold." After the division of the group, the encounter saw the pure heart. The ice on the stage is clear, and the moon shadow in the window is coming. More long ribbons, pay attention to touching deeply. ”
After years of collecting and researching, he proposed that the paintings on the bronze mirror have their own blueprints. The beautiful bronze mirror engraving is like a modern printmaking process, and the paintings left on the utensils are of great historical research value, and the history of Chinese art is likely to be rewritten. Nowadays, the works of ancient times can only be seen in national museums and even foreign museums. Such as the paintings of Saint Wu Daozi and Yan Liben, whose paintings are rare in the world, but the patterns on the bronze mirrors are well preserved due to special craftsmanship and materials. How many painters participated in the production of bronze mirrors during this period is still a mystery for eternity. Ruan Yuan, the great Confucian of the Qing Dynasty, believed that the "True Son Flying Frost Mirror" was related to the great painter Dai Kui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and wrote a special book for this purpose.
Many of its bronze mirror collections have rewritten history. At that time, it was believed that the "Golden Mirror of samurai holding a go and fighting with the beast" had been spread overseas and did not exist in China, but in fact, it was not, and there was a hidden side in its hands. The national collection is the mountain, the folk collection is the sea, and the folk collection should pay enough attention to the folk collection, give the relevant identification to the folk collectors, and then better let the whole people participate in promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Today, he has been retired for many years, although he is old, with a strong sense of responsibility, he is still working hard in the collection business and exerting his residual heat. Through its collection and solo exhibitions, ancient artworks that have been sealed for thousands of years can show their prosperous appearance in front of the world, so that the world can marvel at the exquisite skills of the ancients, thereby enhancing the public's national pride and inspiring the public's desire for cultural exploration.
【Samurai Holding Go and Beast Fighting Wrong Golden Mirror】
The folk collection has become quite large, with nearly 100 million people and its peers. However, the relevant policies lagged behind, and then there were problems such as smuggling of cultural relics and then returning, resulting in a large amount of damage to funds. Two of its bronze mirror collections are obtained from the Return of Japan, one of which is on the left side of the bronze mirror, a Rui elephant stepping on a lotus flower, carrying a camel wooden palanquin; in the palanquin sits a monk, holding the car curtain in his hand and looking out; there is a Kunlun nu in front of the Rui elephant; on the right, the cockfighting diagram is vivid; next to it is an official, holding a birdcage in his hand. Another bronze mirror, in the upper area, a mighty samurai sits on a horse, looks back, and shoots arrows with a bow, in a sabbatical manner; in the lower area, a woman sits on a felt, in front of a boy, dancing in a whirling dance. The two bronze mirrors are exquisitely patterned, and the content reflects the culture of the Belt and Road and the situation of Chang'an City, and the historical value is extremely high. The low price of each copper mirror is 1 million, and he is bound to get it, but he is shy. So he came up with a barter method to cut a famous calligraphy and painting worth more than 2 million yuan to a Tibetan friend in Shanghai, and the person paid for the auction on his behalf. In the end, he was successfully photographed. The two bronze mirrors were named respectively: "Chang'an Street City Mirror" and "Sabbath Archery Hu Whirling Dance Mirror".
The collection of 10,000 items is extensive
The collection of decades has more than 10,000 pieces, including bronze mirrors, porcelain pillows, hooks, tea utensils, statues, ancient swords, calligraphy and paintings and other different categories of no less than 20 kinds. There are more than 400 porcelain pillows in its collection, and it is necessary to know that the entire Yunnan Provincial Museum has only one porcelain pillow collection. With the development of history, the porcelain pillow of the Song Dynasty became an essential daily necessities and decorations for every household, and it was also a "cultural textbook" at that time.
As a soldier, he attaches great importance to the collection of ancient weapons, which embodies the martial spirit of the Chinese nation. Throughout the history of Chinese weapons, Wuyue weapons have to be mentioned, yue wang gou jian sword and Wu Wang Fu cha sword is the treasure of the hubei provincial museum and suzhou museum, which shows the high ornamental value of Wuyue weapons and the importance of historical status. Suzhou is a sacred place of Wuyue culture, and it is rumored that the Huqiu Sword Pond once contained more than 1,000 Wuyue weapons in the pool. In the future, specific interviews will be conducted on Other Collections of Mr. Huang Hong, which will not be repeated here.
Give it all
He gave almost everything to collect, and he confessed that in his lifetime, he would never sell the collection for profit. He never considered the collection to be his private property, and after the collections of different categories were exhibited in various places, they were preserved by the pavilion for local experts to investigate and study, and for local people to visit and study. In 2018, after the "Huang Hong Porcelain Pillow Collection Art Exhibition" was held at the Tongji University Museum in Shanghai, all the exhibits were preserved at Tongji University.
Even so, there are countless collections piled up in his home. When it comes to collectibles, the pieces are like a number of family treasures, and when asked about a specific collection, he can quickly find them, which seems messy, but he has a good idea. He laughed and said: Grateful for the blessings of god, although it has passed the ancient age, there are no signs of dementia. Hands and feet are handy, ears are clear, articulate, and clear-headed. And to find out, because each collection is collected by its heart, not only by possession.
Sweat cattle are abundant
After Lao Shan fought against Vietnam, he was mainly engaged in relevant theoretical research work at the National Defense University and the central organs, and in addition to the collection and study reference needs, the largest number of books in the home was in addition to the collection. After many years of collecting experience, he is also constantly enriching himself, and many categories need to be continuously learned and improved. Among them, the picture and text on the ancient sword are very worthy of further investigation, and behind it may be a wonderful story or a gorgeous historical chapter. Bird and insect seals, called bird books or bird and insect books, are variants of the pre-Qin seal book and belong to a special art font in the Jin text. It is a special script that prevailed in the southern countries of Wu, Yue, Chu, Cai, Xu, Song and other southern countries from the middle and late Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States period. This kind of book often appears in the form of wrong gold, noble and gorgeous, rich in decorative effects, unpredictable, and difficult to identify. This knowledge was called a masterpiece by the central leadership. General Huang Hong often got up in the middle of the night to talk with the ancients and learn to study ancient Jinwen.
Bird and insect seal inscriptions on ancient swords
Recently, he has received two bronze swords with gold inscriptions embedded in them, identical to those unearthed in the Zhongshan Kingdom (in present-day Taihang Mountain, central Hebei Province). After the identification of Shanghai experts, it is believed that its inscription is imitation of the Three Instruments of Zhongshan, while Beijing experts believe that the sword is genuine. Upon hearing this news, he did not give up his research and ignored it, but studied Jin Wen, wondering who had imitated this sword, and what he had spent so much effort on. The road to collecting often faces challenges, and learning is the best way to face challenges. It is precisely because of continuous improvement that it is old and brainless.
Solo exhibitions and lectures
In recent years, in response to the call of the state to promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, 22 personal collection exhibitions have been held in museums and art galleries across the country, more than 40 related research articles have been published, the monograph "The Supreme Perfection and Aesthetic Beauty - The Aesthetic Pursuit of Ancient Chinese Artworks" has been published, and a series of lectures on "Traditional Culture Entering Colleges and Universities" has been held in more than ten colleges and universities such as the China Academy of Art.
His bronze mirror collection has been held in many places across the country for personal collection exhibitions: in 2015, the "Tang Mirror Painting Exhibition" was held at the Cangzhou Museum, with a total of more than 300 bronze mirrors on display; in 2016, the "Bronze Mirror and Rubbing Exhibition" was held in The Gongwang Mansion in Beijing to show the beauty of the bronze mirror and the beauty of chuantuo; the "Lacquer Painting Jijin Exhibition" was held in the Fujian Provincial Museum; and the "Great Chinese Craftsman Spirit - Special Craft Mirror Exhibition" was held in Beijing Colorful Yunnan in 2019.
It has also held cross-border exhibitions with other traditional cultural forms, with inscriptions written by the famous calligrapher Lu Di, accompanied by corresponding bronze mirror rubbings, which should be combined with the Mid-Autumn Festival, and during the 2020 Mid-Autumn Festival, the "Tang Shi Mingyue Exhibition" was held at the Luoyang Museum. This exhibition is deeply loved by the people, on the occasion of the traditional festival, reunite with the family, appreciate the beauty of bronze mirrors and calligraphy, and come into contact with China's excellent traditional culture in many aspects. Each exhibition caused a lot of sensations, and the exhibits were made into albums for easy dissemination.
As an expert in the central Marxist research and construction project, he served as the executive director of six national academic organizations such as the World Socialist Research Association, and actively organized exhibitions and lectures in colleges and universities, aiming to respond to the call of the state and enhance the patriotic consciousness and national pride of young people. Many young people in Hong Kong have a weak sense of relevance, and it is precisely because they have been colonized for more than 100 years that their culture has been cut off. He is very satisfied that he can exert his residual heat for socialist construction and realize the value of life.
Future plans
On the occasion of the interview, Mr. Huang Hong revealed that in the future, he plans to prepare more than 200 high-quality copper mirror rubbings, hold a copper mirror rubbing exhibition with inscriptions in Ningbo, and print the copper mirror into a painting through three-dimensional printing technology, so that the viewer can appreciate the beauty of the copper mirror, the beauty of calligraphy, the beauty of rubbing, the beauty of seal carving, and it is convenient to carry and save costs.
In 2021, Yunnan will hold the World Biodiversity International Conference, as the current professor of Kunming University and the acting political commissar of the former Laoshan Main Attack Group, in order to cooperate with the conference, he plans to hold the "Belt and Road Exhibition" and the "Southwest United University Literati Ink Exhibition" in Yunnan. Each exhibition is not to satisfy its own selfish desires, but to shoulder the mission, to promote excellent traditional culture, inherit ancient artworks, innovate and promote crafts, and build a harmonious society.
Sentiment
In order to cooperate with the Convening of the United Nations World Tea Conference, General Huang Hong held the "Ancient Chinese Tea Set Exhibition" at the Pu'er Museum in Yunnan, which was visited by delegations from 34 countries. Among them, the UAE Commerce Minister Prince Abdullah was very excited, saying that he saw his ancestral image in the porcelain of the southern and northern dynasties of ancient China. Therefore, he hopes to pay for the exhibition to be moved to Dubai. However, due to the variety of relevant approval procedures, imperfect policies, and stranded plans, this matter has greatly touched it.
High foot plate with Hu image stacked (Northern Dynasty)
He believes that as a folk collector, his responsibility is not to preserve, but to learn, to develop the spirit of the ancients, to feel the unawareness of others, to show everyone, to promote the power of the continent, to invigorate the heart of the continent, to build the dream of the continent, and to consolidate the soul of the continent. Through unswerving practice, let the culture come alive and tell the Chinese story well. He firmly believes that China's excellent traditional culture will definitely go abroad and go to the world.
Contributed by: International Chinese Poetry Art Festival