Wu Changshuo is one of the great masters filmed for the calligraphy section of "One Hundred Years of Masters".
Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), Wu Changshuo was a native of Xiaofeng County, Zhejiang Province (present-day Anji County, Huzhou). In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, he was a famous Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal engraver, and representative figure of the "Houhai School". He collected "poems, books, paintings, and seals" into one body, and melted gold stone calligraphy and painting into one furnace, and was praised as "the first person in the stone drum seal book" and "the last peak of literati painting." He enthusiastically promoted Qi Baishi, Pan Tianshou, Chen Banding, Sha Menghai and other master figures. He is the first president of the "world's first society", Hangzhou Xiling Printing Society. In Japan, he is known as the Insan, along with the Book Saint Wang Xizhi, the Painting Saint Wu Daozi, and the Grass Saint Zhang Zhi.
Not long ago, in order to visit Wu Changshuo's life and art in Suzhou, accompanied by Feng Lei, an expert in Suzhou literature and history, I visited this ancient city that is quite elegant, friendly, warm and advocating equality along the imprint of Wu Changshuo's life.
At that time, Wu Changshuo, as a poor rural scribe who "came from the field", came to Suzhou to earn a living and work "Su Drift", and those high-ranking officials and celebrities in Suzhou City, such as Yu Fan, Wu Yun, Pan Zuyin, Wu Dafu, Gu Wenbin, and Zhu Zumou, took care of and promoted him. The Painting Hall In Gusu City, the Famous Garden Gaotang such as Qu Garden, the Listening Maple Garden, the Yi Garden, the Guoyun Lou, the Shu Zhai, the Huan Xi Zhai, the Two Xuan Xuan, etc. all opened their doors to him, making him like a spring breeze and caring for a seed of art. This is the city spirit of an ancient city with a thousand years of culture, and it is also a memorable era of wenxin carving dragons.
Wu Changshuo is one of the ten screens of the "Stone Drum Text" and the collection of the Art Museum
Quyuan - Wu Changshuo's spiritual home
The first stop to visit Wu Changshuo's place of life and art in Suzhou is Quyuan Garden. If it is said that the big is hidden in the city, then the Quyuan Garden located at No. 43 Renmin Road Horse Medical Department is hidden in the alleys of the downtown area. The main door of the pink-walled Dewa house is embedded with a stone plaque written by Yu Yu himself , "Qu Yuan". Because its land is like a curved ruler, it is destined to take Lao Tzu's "qu ze quan". Entering the door is the car hall, in the middle hangs an oil painting portrait of Yu Fan, the old man holding a cane, his face is clear, his eyes are wise, and he has a scholarly demeanor. The horizontal plaque on the top is written by Li Hongzhang: "The Book of Master Yu of Deqing". Folk proverb Yun: "Li Hongzhang only knows how to be an official, and Yu Quyuan only knows how to write books." "Wu Changshuo is fortunate that Yu Fan, an academic giant of the late Qing Dynasty, was his first teacher to officially attend the school. As early as the eighth year of Tongzhi (1869), the 24-year-old Wu Changshuo took a thick mouth of Wuxiangyin to hangzhou's Xizi Lake, and studied at the foot of the Lonely Mountain, where Yu Yu's Jingjing Jingshe specialized in philology, lexicography and calligraphy. Since then, the teacher's wind and knowledge have influenced his life.
Wu Changshuo Lishu Wuyan Lian Zhejiang Provincial Museum Collection
Quyuan is small and simple, but it is elegant and elegant, and contains a high-spirited atmosphere. This was built by Yu Fan in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1876) with the financial support of friends. This is the place where Yu Fan used to collect art friends, literary poetry clubs and lectures. "Spring in the Hall" is written by Zeng Guofan, under which is the "Story of Spring in the Hall" of Wu Da's seal book, and the bamboo leaves outside the window of the flower grid are like the wind whispering in the ears, especially Yu Fan's obedience to his disciple Wu Changshuo. At that time, Wu Changshuo worked as a tutor in the similar Tingfeng Garden, and in the afternoon or evening, he often came to visit mr. Wu and asked him to learn art.
Step into the narrow corridor along the wall, where inscriptions of Yu Fan's calligraphy are displayed on the pink wall, including the famous Fengqiao Night Poem. Out of the promenade is a miniature garden with a unique cave sky, the mountain stone is towering and strange, and the name of the small pond of Doufang is quchi pool. Pure as a mirror, koi playing, above the small pond is built on the mountain rock "TaiFeng Pavilion" half of the pavilion, Yu Fan used to like to be here with Wu Changshuo in summer to smell frogs and drums in autumn to listen to cicadas, spring peony winter snow. A generation of Wenzong cultivated a generation of painting sects, Quyuan, and became the spiritual home of Wu Changshuo.
Wu Changshuo collected "Stone Drum Texts" in the collection of the Tianyi Pavilion Museum
Listen to maple garden - set up an account to teach the en gong
After coming out of Quyuan Garden, turn a corner and enter No. 12 Qingyuanfang next to Jintaishi Lane, which is the Listening Maple Garden of Wu Yun, the prefect of Suzhou. On the Qingdai stone door frame, there is also an engraved plaque "Listening to the Maple Garden", next to which hangs a sign of "Suzhou National Painting Academy", which is not open to the public, but fortunately, Brother Feng Lei is familiar with the painting academy.
In the Yishuang Pavilion, Liu Maoshan and Sun Kuan, the two vice presidents of the Suzhou Chinese Painting Academy, were watching the album, and we faced the shadow of the pine wind and listened to the sound of the piano and birdsong, and jointly remembered the long history of the Wumen school of painting and the Hai school of calligraphy and painting in Jiangnan. Listening to maple garden is now only a corner of the Shuzhai Garden, but it is also the essence of the whole garden.
On the east side of the Fengyuan Pavilion is Wu Yun's study hall "Pingzhai", in front of which there is Qingchi Yihong, abundant water and grass, fish leaping Qingbo, and stacked stone bends up, which is the Moxiang Pavilion where Wu Changshuo lived when he was a tutor. The lower level of the pavilion is hidden among the stones of the pond and water, and the grass and trees are surrounded by ancient vines. The top of the pavilion is connected to the peak of the rockery, and the cascading flowers are layered on top of each other, which is a place of elegant dust. If Yu Fan is Wu Changshuo's benefactor, then Wu Yun is Wu Changshuo's benefactor. When Wu Changshuo first came, he made a living by living in a small hotel in the city and carved a seal in chinese characters, but his situation was depressed and his livelihood was difficult. When Wu Yun learned of this, he immediately extended a helping hand to this small fellow villager and invited him to listen to the Fengyuan tent for lectures. Not only did Wu Changshuo live in Yaju and have a decent career, but more importantly, Wu Yun's collection of gold stone inscriptions, calligraphy and painting ancient seals, all opened up to him, allowing him to observe and study in Liangxuanxuan, so that Wu Changshuo truly had zero-distance contact with these first-class collections for the first time, laying the foundation for his high artistic orientation and unique classic consciousness. To this end, in his later years of fame, Wu Changshuo once said emotionally to Wu Yun's descendants: "Without Pingzhai, there would be no Wu Changshuo." Standing in front of the Ink Fragrance Pavilion now, according to the wind of the stone, it seems that he can smell the faint ink fragrance and cherish infinite thoughts.
Wu Changshuo Shi Guping Collection of Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Due to listening to the identity and status of Wu Yun, the owner of the Maple Garden, and the specifications of the collection, the two Xuanxuan often gathered with high-ranking friends and Tibetan friends, and Wu Changshuo also met the high-ranking officials of the temple, the collectors, the art masters Pan Zuyin and Wu Dafu here, although their status was very different, Pan Zuyin's Huan Xizhai and Wu Dafu's Yi Zhai invited Wu Changshuo to visit and appreciate, thus laying the foundation for the most important artistic resources and connections in Wu Changshuo's life. Nowadays, the two Xuanxuan no longer have the zhai of bell ding yi utensils, inscription rubbings, and ancient seals and Han seals, but the quaint lattice windows still retain the golden stone yayun and Han Mosi love.
Yi Garden - "Seven Sons" meet beautifully
Yiyuan Garden, which is adjacent to Tingfeng Garden, is located at No. 1265 Renmin Road. Enter the unobtrusive garden-shaped cave door, presenting the magnificent scenery in front of you like a picturesque mountain embroidery, and see the atmosphere of elegant scrolls in the exquisite beauty. It's almost step by step, and the scenery moves with the steps. Xiuting Huatang, Mingxuan Accord. Jia shu is famous and has a variety of styles. Imagine how relaxed and pleasant It was to be in the middle of it, and to enjoy the scenery and poetry with his literary friends and friends. Such an elegant and beautiful humanistic environment, such a friendly and warm atmosphere of art, this is a beautiful encounter engraved in the heart of Wu Changshuo, who has a floating fate and a humble attitude.
The Yuyan Pavilion, which has over 10,000 jade rods and sprinkled with fresh wind, is the famous Po Xian Qin Hall in Yi Garden, and the plaque is Wu Yun's inscription. At that time, this room contained Su Dongpo's precious "Yujian Liuquan Qin" and portraits. The other room is the "Stone Listening Piano Room", and the room plaque is inscribed by Weng Fanggang. Outside, there is a lake of stones like an old man bending over to listen to the piano. The name of the Yiyuan Qinhui is Sheng Jiangnan, and Wu Changshuo once made a long inscription on the painting of "Yiyuan Qinhui" to remember its prosperity. Although there is no piano club today, the sound of the wind passing through the lake stone and the jade stream flowing spring is still like the sound of the piano and the sound of silk and bamboo.
Tread in the shade of the trees, accompanied by a quiet pine. The last attraction of Yiyuan is the main hall of the whole garden, Hoe Yue Xuan, which is a rather innovative Mandarin Duck Hall style. The north hall is a lotus champs, the interior is ancient, and the tables and chairs are rooted in boxwood and nan wood. The south hall is hoe moon Xuan, in the old days there were hundreds of plum blossom plants, in winter you can enjoy the plum snow, cold incense flying on the verse. The plaque of "Plum Blossom Hall Affair" in Xuanzhong is engraved with the "Yiyuan Record" written by Yu Fan. From Hemanchi to Xiangxuehai, this is the place where the poems, calligraphy and paintings of Gu Ruobo, Jin Xinlan, Hu Sanqiao, Ni Mogeng, Wu Qiunong, Gu Wenbin, and Wu Changshuo of the famous Zhenshi Lin Yiyuan were collected.
Crossing the Cloud Tower – an encounter between past and present lives
Known as the first library building in Jiangnan, the "Guoyun Building" is located in Tie bottle Lane not far from Yiyuan. It is known as "Jiangnan Collection A World, Cross-Cloud Building Collection Jia Jiangnan". Crossing the Cloud Tower, take Su Dongpo's famous saying: "Calligraphy and painting are only smoke clouds passing through the eyes." ”
The gate of the Cloud Tower is still simple, but it is thick and heavy, and the hard mountain has heavy eaves, which is full of ancient meaning. In the cobbled courtyard, there is an old well of "Trillium Spring", which is still clear in water, the sky is bright and cloudy, and the source of water is drawn. On both sides, the ancient trees are verdant, the bamboo is swaying, and the mountains and stones are standing. A two-story red building is safe and majestic, with carved columns in Zhumen, lattice window ledges, and a plaque of "Over the Cloud Building" hanging high on the lintel, which is a plaque of "net red" in the history of Chinese culture. Stepping into the interior, is the main collection of books in the past generations of the Gu family, Gu generations for more than 150 years, with a deep sense of family and country feelings and cultural responsibility, painstakingly, the blue wisps of the road, with the strength of a family, collecting Song and Yuan ancient slugs, Ming and Qing Dynasty carvings, so that the Cloud Tower has become a treasure house of national culture and art, classic selection, pen and ink passed down to the world.
Climbing up the stairs, under the eaves hangs the original handiwork of the plaque "Crossing the Cloud Building", which is written by Feng Guifen, a Qing thinker and political commentator. In the building, there are some ancient books and rare books collected by Guoyunlou, the "Records of Calligraphy and Paintings of Guoyunlou" compiled by Gu Wenbin, and the "Seven Friends Diagram" inscribed by Wu Changshuo. In that ink rendering, it is the red dust that meets this acquaintance. Wu Changshuo and the Gu family have been friends for three generations, especially with Gu Linshi, who is a confidant, and Gu often invites Wu to stay in the building for a few days and read books.
Most of Wu Changshuo's home places in Suzhou have only remained in the change of time. The vicissitudes of history over the past century, the legend of a generation of masters and the ancient city of a thousand years have interpreted the colorful music of the splendid Wumen and achieved the splendid poems of the south of the yanyu River.
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