368 years ago, The Hidden Zen Master traveled east to Japan and composed a good story of friendly exchanges and mutual learning between the people of China and Japan. This year coincides with the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan and the 350th anniversary of the death of Yinyuan Zen Master, and the calligraphy and painting exhibition "Huang Barberry Wenhuarun Two States - The Zen Ink World of Yinyuan and His Teachers and Disciples" opened at the National Art Museum of China on March 21, focusing on more than 100 exhibits such as calligraphy and painting works of Yinyuan Zen Master and his teachers and disciples, statues of Yinyuan Zen masters and huang barberry culture-related instruments.
Zen Master Yinyuan is a senior monk in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties on the mainland, the founder of the Huang barberry Sect of Japanese Buddhism, and an outstanding representative of Sino-Japanese Buddhism and cultural exchanges. In 1654, at the invitation of the Japanese Buddhist community, the Hidden Zen Master of the Year of Hanajia led his disciples to Dongdu to found the Japanese Buddhist Yellow Barberry Sect, bringing advanced civilization, science and technology and Buddhist scriptures, which had an important impact on Japan's economic and social development at that time. This exhibition brings together more than 100 calligraphy and painting works by Zen masters such as Yinyuan Zen Master and his teacher Fei Yin Tongrong, disciples Mu'an Sex, I.e. Fei Ruyi, Independence Yi and Donggao Xinyue collected by Hangzhou Yongfu Temple, which is a concentrated display of Huang Barberry calligraphy and painting culture and art.
The exhibition also exhibits 9 pieces of Ming Dynasty furniture restorations with the title of "Hidden Yuan" and 1 piece of Ming Dynasty furniture with the title of "Yellow Barberry". The original objects referenced are all Ming Dynasty furniture and Zen tools introduced to Japan by the Hidden Yuan Zen Master, which are now treasured in the Wanfu Temple of Huangbei Mountain in Kyoto, Japan, and are a precious heritage of the Yellow Barberry culture. It is worth mentioning that the sculpture "Portrait of Zen Master Yinyuan" created by Wu Weishan, an internationally renowned sculptor and director of the National Art Museum of China, was also exhibited in this calligraphy and painting exhibition, and another version of the work was inaugurated on November 14, 2021 at the 400-year-old Ancient Temple in Nagasaki, Japan.
Wu Weishan said that this exhibition aims to highlight the era value of The Barberry culture, let the world enter the art world of the Yellow Barberry culture, and feel the benevolence and goodwill of the ancient sages and feel the creation of beauty in the echoes of history, in the brush and ink through time and space, and in the cultural dialogue. The exhibition will be on display until April 13.