Huang Miaozi (1913-2012), real name Huang Zuyao, was a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong. Well-known contemporary cartoonist, art historian, art critic, calligrapher, and writer. Wong attended Chung Chung Secondary School in Hong Kong as a teenager. In the early 1930s, he went to Shanghai in the early 1930s to continue to engage in art comics activities, and became a backbone figure in the shanghai comic industry, successively serving as deputy general manager of Xinmin Bao, deputy director of the exhibition department of ccpit, editor of the People's Fine Arts Publishing House, and director of the China Artists Association. In January 2012, Huang Miaozi, a famous cultural elder, passed away at the age of 100. This year marks the tenth anniversary of Huang Miaozi's death, and The Paper's Art Review hereby publishes a memoirs written by Huang Dagang, the son of Huang Miaozi.
Yellow seedlings
Seventy friendships ninety men,
Junjin flew to a dragon.
I'm a broken car and an old cow,
Hundreds of millions of fans Ding Cong!
This is a poem by my father mourning Uncle Ding. They met in 1935 and didn't know each other until 2009, for 74 years. Because it is a eulogy, it is not written in red.
A young friend asked me: Why do these people have a lifelong friendship? I was really asked at the time.
His father wrote eulogies for Uncle Ding
Complement each other
Father said in the "Little Notes":
As the old saying goes, rely on parents at home, rely on friends when going out, in a very complex modern society, people always have good and bad, but the old man has met many good people and few bad people in his life. Except for a very small number of teachers and friends who are familiar in the old days, who have now avoided the three houses, or who claim to be brothers with the old man and are actually ordinary, the vast majority of them are interesting people, people with personality, talents and literary talents, and they are all good people, strange people, "cool" people, and "absolute" people. Making good friends naturally emphasizes morality, long learning, sees warmth, can help each other, and appeals to the heart. My old man's greatest happiness in life is that at different times and on different occasions, I have the opportunity to know this large group of buddies and friends.
When friends make friends, first of all, they appreciate each other. Father recorded many teachers and friends in the "New Chapters of WorldLy Sayings", no matter how the brushwork changed, my father's appreciation and admiration jumped on the paper:
For example, professor of children's book industry at Shandong University, the spirit of governance and academic achievements; Mr. Lao She's wind and bones - self-esteem, integrity, benevolence and the love of "people's compatriots and things"; Uncle Zhang Zhengyu is "crazy" and lovesy and works hard; Mr. Luo Jimei's academic cultivation, especially in the 1940s and his wife under extremely difficult conditions, took hundreds of extremely precious photos of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (these photos have been published by a foreign publishing company); Uncle Wang Shixiang's old family, Yuye, is a man. The inseparable emotion with Uncle Wang's family...
I think of a quote from Uncle Liao Bing, who won a national award for binding design in the 1980s, and he said: What's that! I "stole" this from Zhang Guangyu.
A "steal" inspired me to think about my father and his friends, which is not "stealing" to "steal" to go? People's learning, conduct, talents, in short, the strengths of others, all look at the heart, remember in the heart, mutual appreciation and mutual inspiration, I don't know when it may be transformed into their own things, can be described as complementary.
In short, my father and his teachers and friends are by no means "hateful", let alone "laughing at people".
First from the left: Huang Miaozi, second from the left: Wang Shixiang, and one from the right.
Everyone knows that Wang Shixiang is "the largest player in Beijing", and the childhood gadgets such as cockroach cans, pigeon whistles, grasshopper gourds and Ming-style furniture were later "played" by Uncle Wang and became "intangible cultural heritage". Uncle Wang was dismissed from the Forbidden City for spurious reasons, and the superior conditions for the original study of cultural relics were gone, and instead studied the Chinese lacquerware process that few people paid attention to. I remember listening to Uncle Wang Shixiang's son Dunhuang said: In 1958 (my family had just moved into Uncle Wang's Fangjiayuan No. 3), in 1959 (Uncle Zhang Guangyu's family also moved in), for a period of time, the adults in our hospital were like "crazy", so that everyone who came to our hospital was "crazy", and my father took the "Records of The Decoration of the Hair" (engraved with wax plates and sealed it himself) to arrest who sent whom. This is too exaggerated, in fact, many friends have heard that Uncle Wang wants to annotate the monograph on the ancient Chinese lacquerware craft of "The Record of The Decoration of Qi", and they have done their best to help Uncle Wang, such as introducing people who may be helpful, their own hands or who know who has relevant information or objects there.
Today, the Commentary has been embraced by lacquerware experts and collectors. The sour, sweet and bitter behind this is known only to himself and his friends.
Photos should be taken by locals in Phoenix, Hunan Province, with captions written.
After his parents were released from prison in 1975, Grandpa Shen "smiled and squinted at the house, silently took a sip of tea and whispered: 'You came out, very good!' Bad things will always pass. His exchanges with his father he did not know when and under what circumstances the results of his research involved the history of Chinese costumes, the history of horse stallion, and the xiongjing bird Shen - Han Dynasty fitness techniques. Grandpa Shen once said to his father: "We have a lot of things to do, one topic at a time, we can't finish it in ten lifetimes, we all come to do it." Grandpa Shen's "Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes" is a series of twists and turns, eighteen years before and after, the materials were destroyed, the manuscripts were burned, but he repeated again and again. There is also a small episode in which the two domestic publishers published the book in cooperation with kodansha in Japan, and Grandpa Shen resolutely withdrew the manuscript, and finally published it by the Hong Kong Commercial Press.
"Mr. Shen Congwen's "Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes" is the pioneering work of the systematic project of ancient Chinese costume research, which proposes a new method of discussing history based on facts for historical research..." (Wang Yarong's "Introduction"), paving the way for the study of Chinese costume history. Once, an elder brother from an archaeological institute said to his father: Seeing Mr. Shen's "Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes", we have no place to look at ourselves, what should have been done by us, but let a literary artist do it...
"Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes" edited by Shen Congwen
"Making good friends naturally emphasizes morality, long learning, sees warmth, can help each other, and appeals to the heart", which is about the father's "secret of friendship", and Uncle Nie's "feeling that these people understand my mood, saying that they can get together" can be mutually corroborated.
In a letter to his father, Uncle Nie said:
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Asking Han Gong (Note: painter Han Yu) to give the painting, it really won my heart. Yin Gong (Note: The painter Yin Shoushi) came and said that Han Gong's paintings were excellent, and he had seen his rainbow Guan Yunyun. Yin Gong Yiyun Han in Baoding, I don't know if he is young and old, do I know it?
Suddenly, it occurred to me that Han Painting Gu Shen. If we ask: Why not paint socialist revolutionary construction, but paint feudal and backward things, how will it serve the economic foundation? This matter is extremely important, even a fatal issue in the literary and artistic circles, and no one has talked about it, and I feel that it is extremely difficult to talk about, because it is difficult to open my mouth because of the vast difficulties. I tasted Gong, I, Zu Guang, Thin (Note: Yin Shoushi), Yi (Note: Chen Yidong) and even Yongyu, all of whom were backward elements, but they were all Kochi, not anti-society, and sometimes could not be sung and not against their hearts. Nowadays, the mainland is a specimen of the Song Society, and the works of the Song Society (not only fine arts) seem to be very few as moving as Korean paintings. Moreover, Korean painting seems to be not popular, and this appreciation of the niche, what you see is not wrong. Come to think of it, I don't know how to be good. When it is in vain, may it be poured out for a great religion.
This ode to Yi Ann
Brother 10.10.1977
At this time, Uncle Nie was still "wearing the body of sin", with only 18 yuan per month living expenses, which was much worse than when my parents were released from prison. A week later, on the 17th, he wrote a letter of complaint to Comrade Deng Xiaoping. Turning his head, the joke was opened, And Wensi continued to write this letter, which should have been an idea of "the fatal problem in the literary and art circles", and it was necessary to spit on his father and inspire each other. Everyone has difficult moments, no matter how difficult and dark, the splendid culture of this land is a lamp in the hearts of fathers and teachers. They explore their pursuits in various ways, whether in the dark night, under the dark clouds, in the shadows, those who know them well know that they are always full of sunshine, so they will never be part of the shadows! Friends are foaming at each other, and it is the lamp oil that the lamp cannot consume.
"Fu Qing's Master Listening to the Book"
Uncle Han Yu composed "Fu Qing's Master Listening to the Book Map", and many literati inscribed poems. Uncle Nie also has an inscription poem, in which he "asks Han Gong to give the painting on his behalf", that is, after the inscription poem, he will never forget the Korean painting.
Centuries-old dreams ancient articles
In 1919, as a victorious power, its territory was traded by the great powers at versailles.
The Japanese invasion made my father full of hatred for the country and the family - my brother Huang Zuxiong (Huang Zhongjian) was sacrificed in the Taihang Mountains, my grandfather Yu Mantuo was assassinated by enemy and pseudo agents in front of the door of Lane 188, Changshu Road, Shanghai, the third grandfather Yu Dafu was killed by The Japanese gendarmes in Indonesia after the victory of the War of Resistance, and my great-grandmother could not bear the bullying of the Japanese army and hid in a cave and starved to death. The tragic scene of flesh and blood on the streets after the bombing of Guangzhou, the bombing of Chongqing that lasted for five years...
However, after all, his father was the son of Huang Lengguan, a member of the League, and Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles of Nationality, Civil Rights, and People's Livelihood grew up with him, and the middle school founded by his grandfather in the British Concession in Hong Kong was named "Zhonghua Middle School"... In particular, the "Mr. De" and "Mr. Sai" of the "May Fourth Movement" have laid a deep imprint on the cultural hearts of their generation.
His father's imitation of Beardsley's "Demon" was published in Shanghai Comics in August 1929. From Hong Kong to Shanghai, it is a place where The Chinese and foreign countries are mixed and the first places to get the atmosphere. National sentiment did not make him xenophobic, but hoped that by learning from foreign countries, he could explore a new path. As Uncle Zhang Guangyu said in an article in Shanghai Comics in October of that year: "... Undoubtedly instilling new ideas as much as possible, no doubt taking away the forces organized by science; and even more so, messing with our Chinese lazy brains that have always stalled! Do you also want him to shout out the 'Cubist' or 'Expressionist' buildings and utensils one by one? For example, some of its more ambitious even the development of 'arts and crafts' in Europe, America or Japan has exceeded! To shock them that we are not relying exclusively on the ancient bottles of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming, or the arts and crafts of Shangding and Hanwa to brag about! ”
It was this kind of worry and ambition that, from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, formed a consensus among most Chinese artists to explore the path of nationalization.
Uncle Zhang Leping's "Sanmao Wandering"
Huang Miaozi's painting of nanjing in the 1930s was the sadness and helplessness of the public. Originally published in the inaugural issue of Manga Circle (April issue).
"Wind Flower Snow Moon" Huang Miaozi painting
His father was not a lofty artist, and like Ye Qianyu and Uncle Zhang Leping, he always paid attention to the "little people" and the bottom of society, and he had similar content in his comics. At the same time, my father is constantly denying himself, constantly learning, exploring and trying new things on the road of art. Although some people classify him as an "aristocrat", in fact, he is not "appreciative", as a fan of "Mr. De" and "Mr. Sai", how can he be a nobleman on a high level? Uncle Ding Cong's "Flower Street" and Uncle Zu Guang's "Return to the People on a Snowy Night", which work is to look at the world with a lofty attitude?
Ding Cong's "Flower Street"
About 1944, after watching Uncle Zu Guang's "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night", my father filled in a poem of "Nian Nu Jiao":
Around the beam lamentation, sighing spirit beads gracefully, only people write words. Who picks up the falling color? Tired of searching diligently. Laughter and weeping, sorrow and joy are faint, and there is no trace of it. A few people secretly swallowed.
From Ymi swear, the galaxy is grumpy, it will be better than goodbye. The lotus mud looked at each other bitterly, and the sandalwood brow was sad. Manga explains the dynasty, poor this night, snow abuse winter wind. Yun Hu returned, and the rivers and lakes were empty.
This is to make a grievance for the "lower nine streams" figures, and it is also a worry and helplessness about the fate of the homeland. In May 1982, my father copied and remembered: "At that time, the land was invaded by the Japanese Emperor, and the rear area was dark, and the language was decadent and mournful, which was also realistic. In the empty rivers and lakes, looking back at the historical traces of 'poor this night', I feel more nostalgic. ”
In that era of war and chaos, people were displaced, thrown up and down, and the fates of this group of literati who were not willing to be humiliated and weak were naturally linked.
His father sent Himian to the Xia Gong Ling Hall. From right: Huang Miaozi, Yu Feng, Shen Yun, Yu Junmin, Shen Ning, Shen Danhua
In 1995, Mr. Xia Yan passed away, and his father wrote a six-foot elegy: "A century-old dream of national shame and national disaster, human rights and human nature!" This is a portrayal of Mr. Xia Yan's lifelong struggle, and it is also the ideal of his father and his teachers and friends, not that the confidant can't think of it!
Ben is not born from the same root, and he Ischi is framed
The Communists gave them too much hope. Not to mention the character and knowledge of Liao Chengzhi, Xia Yan, qiao Guanhua, and other communists, it is said that the Eighth Route Army is constantly recovering lost land, and in order to protect Zhao Cheng's golden treasures, it is very touching to him that eight soldiers who do not know a few words have sacrificed their lives to defend the treasures of Chinese culture. In the Battle of the River Crossing, the People's Liberation Army dared to shell British warships, giving them hope for China. In particular, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea did a miracle that was generally considered impossible -- to beat the Americans back from the Yalu River to the 38th line! The nation, which has been humiliated for more than a hundred years, has finally been able to raise its eyebrows and breathe.
Father was not a god, and there were many confusions, hesitations, and wanderings. Because they knew too much about the ugliness of the old society, they ran to the new society with a beautiful vision, afraid that they would not be able to keep up with the new atmosphere and tarnish their own vision. Whenever he encounters confusion, he first examines himself, in fact, he himself can't figure out what he is wrong with. Uncle Nie was more conscious than his father, but he also considered himself a group of "backward elements".
In 1985, his parents and Uncle Wu Zuguan visited Uncle Nie Bo together, and wrote a sketch and inscription
In the 1980s, Uncle Nie wrote a page of poetry to his father
I vividly remember that on the day my mother was released from prison, I accompanied him to see my father at Fuxing Hospital. Before his release, his father was hospitalized due to surgery and was transferred from the prison ward to the general ward. When the two met, they did not cry with headaches or complain about the world, but they were very excited, after all, from a long distance to a family reunion. However, what surprised me the most was that they actually thought that they were "the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves", and I wanted to laugh when I listened to it: it was really "seven days in the middle of the cave, and the world has been a thousand years." Contradiction between the enemy and us? Who made you enemies? Masses? As soon as your old lady entered the yard, the first person to look at you was my mother niu aunt who sent Xiao Jianmin - a real people's group of people and street activists, when I became an "orphan", she had good food at home, first give it to me to eat, but their monthly per capita income was only 10 yuan.
New Costume of the Evening Yu Feng Sketch by Jin Meisheng Painted in 1957
I really couldn't understand myself at the time. It took me many years to understand that it was the worst outcome they had envisioned. My mother had already thought out the living arrangements after the release, the pioneer of new Chinese clothing design, wanted to be a tailor, and was a tailor who repaired the seams. My father may have been more "idealistic" and wanted to be a proofreader and proofread ancient books (bookstores began to sell parts of the Twenty-Four Histories, I bought the Book of Northern Qi and transferred them to prison, and my father found that there were errors in sentence reading and annotations).
These people are like this, they don't feel that they are great. When they encounter trouble again and again, they want to give up or really give up, but because they love culture and art too deeply, especially Chinese culture and art, they can't help but pick up from another place, and get a kind of enjoyment from it, and share this enjoyment with friends.
A drawing of a woman's costume by her mother, originally published in Fine Arts magazine in April 1956
Writing this, I suddenly realized that the previous "Xiang Fry He Is Too Anxious" was not used correctly, because although my father and Zhang Yihe were both "people who came over", they were not "the same root":
Throughout his life, my father suffered many hardships, but if he had that lamp in his heart, there would always be love and light. Therefore, he likes to stare at the strengths of others and praise the achievements of others; so he can be tortured to death and still live with a smile; so, he "gives up" again and again, and starts again and again; so, his father and mother agreed early on to auction the collection and his own creations and establish a foundation, rather than leaving it to his descendants (the Huang Miaozi Yufeng Charity Foundation has funded hundreds of poor students in art schools and multiple cultural projects since its establishment).
In March 2006, Mr. Shao Yanxiang was invited to gather. From left: Shao Yanxiang, Zhang Yihe, Yang Xianyi, Yu Feng, Huang Miaozi. Three years later, Zhang Yihe framed a friend of a friend and the person who wrote her name
Zhang Yao and her heart are obsessed with redoing the "nobles" who are high above, and the characters in her pen are just foils and stepping stones borrowed by her to satisfy the vanity of the "nobles", for which she can sell anything, as long as she can be "superior". So, it's not surprising that she planted my father's booty. However, the golden age of "nobility" is gone, so Zhang Yihe issued a question, "Will the world be better?" This sound is full of anger and resentment.
Uncle Yang Xianyi's farewell ceremony was reserved for his father
On the right is Professor Yang Minru. It was supposed to be me comforting the teacher, but it became the teacher who comforted me. Photography of Luo Xue Village
On November 29, 2009, the farewell ceremony of Uncle Yang Xianyi's body was held at Babaoshan Funeral Home. I mourn on behalf of my father. On the left side of the door of the main hall, the wreaths sent by various group units are placed, the first wreath on the right is the father's payment, and a separate wreath, and the next wreath is the belt of Yang Dai, Feng Qiyong and several other people. No matter where it starts, the father's wreath should not be placed in front of Mr. Yang Chen's wreath. Obviously, it was reserved for the father.
Uncle Yang's sister, Yang Minru (I took her classical Chinese literature class), took my hand and cried: We all miss your father, and my brother has always thought of him. He is a good person, and Sister Yu, both are good people. Our family has a lot of their books, their calligraphy and paintings. Don't listen to the bad guys. Originally, I had come to mourn, but Teacher Yang came to comfort me.
That night, Uncle Yang's little sister Aunt Yang Came to call: "My brother has been thinking about your father, originally talking about Zhang Yi and we were all angry, but my brother just smiled, Huang Miaozi has such a big skill!" ”
"Come over" with each other, in a word!
Uncle Yang's friends, the father has a large group, Zhang Yi and no!
On the sickbed, the father's sloppy poem manuscript can be seen in his mood at that time
(This article is published with the authorization of the author, the original issue of "Long Talk Ding Cong" public number)