□ Shen Zhiquan
Before the Lantern Festival this year, Mr. Tao Xuehua's wife, Teacher Yan Xihua, called me and told me that her husband had created a calligraphy work for me during the Spring Festival and asked me when I would have time to get it. I said how to celebrate the New Year without resting, which really made the old man tired. She said: "He doesn't have the distinction between usual and New Year's Day, anyway, he has to practice writing for a few hours every day." Besides, he, studying calligraphy is happier than the New Year. ”
If someone is obsessed with something, it can be called "a certain idiot", then Tao Xuehua can definitely be called a "book idiot", because he has been working hard and obsessed with the art of calligraphy for 65 spring and autumn.
Tao Xuehua, Zi Tingfei, Tiandaoren, Houlongshan, Shiquan Old Man, etc., the largest descendant of Tao Yuanming in Zhejiang- a native of Tao village, Taoxi Town, Wuyi County, is the 56th grandson of Tao Yuanming. He is currently a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the Chinese Poetry Society and the China Yuelian Society.
Tao Xuehua is writing a list book.
At the age of 8, Xuehua worshiped Mr. Shi Yu, a villager, as a teacher, and began to study books, and since then he has formed an indissoluble relationship with calligraphy. He was intelligent and perceptive, but he was also naughty and greedy, and after being beaten by Mr. Shi Lao's board for a few boards, he only bowed down to practice words hard, and within a few years, he posted all of Mr. Shi Lao's only books. So he went to some ancient buildings in the village to copy the ink of the ancients on the pillars and walls. Once, he went to the Yanfu Temple on the edge of the village to play, and found that the walls inside and outside the main hall of the Yanfu Temple were full of poems, and those inkblots were handsome and flexible, and the momentum was like a rainbow, which deeply shocked him. Since then, as soon as he has free time, he will go to the main hall of Yanfu Temple to copy and understand the calligraphy of those ancients. One day at lunch, my father saw that Xuehua was not at home, so he went out to look for it. The neighbor said that he had seen him go to Yanfu Temple, so he found Yanfu Temple, only to find Xuehuapan sitting in the main hall with his eyes closed, like an old monk settling down. The father chuckled in his heart: This boy will not be a demon, right? He was afraid of frightening his son, and did not dare to rush to call, so he had to wait quietly on the side. After a while, I saw Xuehua suddenly open his eyes, and his eyes shone brightly. Father hurried over and asked worriedly, "Hua, are you okay?" Xuehua shook her head and smiled, "Dad, I'm memorizing the calligraphy on the wall!" ”
After growing up, Xuehua worked as a substitute teacher, a worker, joined the army, and after changing careers, he first worked in the Wuyi branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, and then transferred to the Jinhua branch of the Agricultural Development Bank of China. No matter where he went, no matter what position he was in, he always carried two things in his bag- brush and book stickers, and in his spare time, Linchi studied diligently. For decades, Xuehua has been all over the oracle bone Bell Ding, Qin Seal Han Li, and even wei, Jin, Tang, Song, Ming, Qing, and Ming hundreds of famous scholars, laying a solid foundation in calligraphy. However, he taught the ancients instead of mud, followed the rules and rules and laws and was not subject to the law, dared to innovate the old, in his own words, that is, "the gods travel outside the heavens and the earth, and the law has no middle", forming his own calligraphy art characteristics of being majestic, ethereal, and handsome.
Tao Xuehua's cursive calligraphy works.
Xuehua specialized in calligraphy, involving literature, history, philosophy, art, music, philology, and phonology, while poetry, song, and Yang Lian entered the room, and had already made a small achievement. But what he has been diligently pursuing for more than 60 years is calligraphy, and he has accumulated and refined the knowledge he has learned from the extensive collection of books into the nourishment of calligraphy art, and cultivated his tree of calligraphy art. Therefore, when we appreciate Xuehua's calligraphy works, we can not only see the poet's burning passion, but also feel a strong bookish atmosphere.
Tao Xuehua's calligraphy works.
Xuehua has studied calligraphy for more than 60 years, from the beginning, xiaocheng, to Dacheng, and even the transformation of the environment, step by step, has won more than 20 awards in various book fair competitions in the country, calligraphy works and papers are often published in "Calligraphy Newspaper", "Chinese Collection", "Calligraphy Research" and other newspapers and periodicals, and have been collected by many places in the Forest of Steles and Museums, books and biographies into the compilation of "The Seventh National Calligraphy Seal Engraving Exhibition Collection", "Selected Inkblots of Chinese Contemporary Famous Calligraphers", "Top Ten Famous Artists of Chinese Calligraphy" and other books, published "Tao Xuehua Calligraphy Collection", "Tao Xuehua Calligraphy Collection", "Tao Xuehua Calligraphy Collection", "Tao Xuehua Calligraphy Collection", "Calligraphy Collection", " Monographs such as Tao Xuehua, a collection of calligraphy by famous Chinese modern and contemporary artists, were also selected as recommended artists by the journal "Rong Baozhai" and appeared on the cover, which can be described as a success. However, his original intention has not changed, his obsession has not decreased, and he still insists on practicing pen writing in Linchi every day.
After his retirement, he was even more distracted, immersed in his calligraphy art world every day. Whenever it came time to eat, Mrs. Yan Xihua always had to urge again and again, and he reluctantly walked down the stairs from the study on the third floor. Every time I visited his house, he always worked hard in the study. In the sweltering heat of summer, he did not like to turn on the air conditioner, so he went shirtless and entered the realm of undressing. Seeing that he was so obsessed with calligraphy, I sometimes had to persuade him a few words: "It is an ancient and rare year, leisurely, don't hide in the study all day, pay attention to going out to exercise." But he had a word: "The book's intention is also, the intention is self-qi, the qi is also self-reliant, the concentration and lifting of the spirit, the penetration of qi and blood, the combination of form and meaning, and the wrist and arm waving, is a good exercise." "Writing is still a good exercise!" It seems that I am out.
Tao Xuehua's oracle bone calligraphy works.
In the past few years, the study of calligraphy by the whole people was in the ascendant, and many calligraphers held calligraphy training classes for young people, earning a lot of money, and the small county town of Wuyi was not excluded, but Xuehua's heart was like water. At the beginning, one of his relatives strongly suggested that he also run a calligraphy training class, and the relatives who managed the staff, the venue, the tables and chairs, and the management were all covered, and he only needed to be a mr. hand-thrower, and the income was divided in half, and Xuehua refused without even thinking about it. Relatives are not willing, and so-and-so has bought a luxury car in a calligraphy class, and so-and-so has bought a villa. Unexpectedly, Xuehua narrowed his eyes and said, "I haven't yet obtained the true meaning of calligraphy, how can I mislead people's children!" The relative dropped four words: "Pedantic, stupid hat!" "Never pay attention to Xuehua again."
Celebrities in the calligraphy circle write the inscription for Tao Xuehua's Beijing Book Fair.
Xuehua is obsessed with the art of calligraphy, but is not pedantic and stupid. Although he lives in the dou room and works tirelessly, he is concerned about the world and always resonates with the pulse of the times. Every year, he would put on his books and go to the city and the countryside for a few days with his colleagues to write the Spring Festival For his father and fellow villagers. In 2019, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xuehua was invited to hold the "Xuehua Ink - Tao Xuehua Learning Book 62nd Anniversary Gift Exhibition to the National Day and the Launch Ceremony of "Chinese Modern and Contemporary Famous Calligraphy Collection - Tao Xuehua"" at the Beijing National Cultural Palace, 120 fine calligraphy works, oracle bones, gold texts, seals, li, kai, line, grass and other bodies, blending clumsy, simple, beautiful, thick, majestic, vigorous in one furnace, old books, very visual beauty, It fully demonstrates the full love of a scholar for the great motherland, and his fame moved to Beijing for a while. Quan Xijun, Shen Peng, Su Shishu, Liu Hongbiao, Chen Lianlian, Lin Feng wrote inscriptions for the book fair; Chang Keren, Ji Yongzhong, Quan Xijun, Su Shishu, Zhang Biao, Wang Kuohai, Yu Shuguang, Chen Lianlian, Lu Yiyuan, Peng Liming, etc. attended the opening ceremony, giving high praise to Xuehua's calligraphy artistic achievements; one of the works on display, "Ode to China", was permanently collected by the Beijing National Culture Palace. The organizers said that a calligrapher from a small county town who entered Beijing to hold a book fair could alarm so many beijing calligraphy and cultural celebrities, and Tao Xuehua was still the first person. On the eve of july 1st in 2021, Xuehua held a calligraphy exhibition in Nanjing entitled "Character Art Life, The Soul of Culture - Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China "Xuehua Calligraphy Collection", presenting the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and expressing the love of a veteran party member who won the medal of "Fifty Years of Glory in the Party" to love the party and praise the party.
Tao Xuehua's calligraphy works.
Xuehua is innocent and kind in nature, although he has been obsessed with the art of calligraphy for more than 60 years, he is ancient and warm-hearted, and often has a heart of compassion for heaven and earth. In the face of major disasters, he had to donate calligraphy works to the disaster areas. In the Spring Festival of 2020, the new crown epidemic raged in Wuhan, and all parts of the country rushed to wuhan to fight the epidemic. Xuehua could no longer sit still in the study, he created 20 calligraphy works in a row, launched the "Calligraphy Works Charity Sale to Help Wuhan Fight the Epidemic" activity, and received responses from famous artists such as Zhang Biao, Yu Shuguang, and Chen Lianhe in the calligraphy circle. All the funds raised by this event were specially used by the Beijing Youth Excellence Social Work Development Center (UU Public Welfare) for the procurement of anti-epidemic materials, and sent to the front line of the fight against the epidemic in a timely manner, which became a good story in the book world.
Xuehua's sad nature is compassionate, and sometimes she seems very innocent and cute. In July and August 2020, Wuyi was dry and rainless for many consecutive days, and the farmers were anxious, and Xuehua was also anxious. His "idiot" came up, so he wrote "praying for rain", "rainfall", "rain sound", "listening to rain" and other books with "rain" for three days and three nights, but I hoped that the sky would fall ganlin. Coincidentally, on the night of the third day, it really rained a rain, and he danced with his hands, and most of the night he still sighed in WeChat and prayed for the success of the rain. Seeing this scene, I made a play to send him a couplet. Lian Yue: "Pujiang Ma Liang painting style, the wind rises; Taoyuan Tao Gong writes rain, rain falls." Horizontal batch: "The stroke of God". Xuehua received the couplet and smiled happily, smiling like a child, innocent and brilliant! (The picture of this article is provided by Yan Xihua)
About author: Shen Zhiquan, professor, has published or published more than 2 million words of novels, essays, essays, monographs, and currently lives in Hangzhou.
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