In the ancient town of Yaoba in Luzhou, which is located in the junction of Sichuan, Chongqing and Qian, there is a typical Sichuan-style courtyard, an ancient well of the Ming Dynasty, a theater building, and three exquisite wooden carved boxes, which constitute the former residence of a generation of aesthetic masters Wang Chaowen.
Wang Chaowen, a native of Hejiang, Luzhou, Sichuan, was a pioneer, outstanding sculptor and art educator of Marxist literary and artistic theory and aesthetics in New China.
Yaoba: Former residence of Wang Chaowen
Oil painting character: Dynasty Wen
The master of aesthetics bid farewell to his homeland at a young age and sought higher attainments. Although he has been away from his hometown for many years, like most wanderers, he has always worried about his hometown, the people in his hometown, the scenery of his hometown, and the Qiong Pulp by the Tuojiang River.
In the autumn of 1987, in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Luzhou Laojiao Special Song winning the Panama International Gold Medal, the Luzhou Municipal Government held the first Famous Wine Culture Festival, and a series of activities included "Wine City Chongyang Literature Award" and "Wine City Chongyang Concert". The first famous wine festival attracted more than 7,000 guests from all walks of life, and Wang Chaowen, who had been away from his hometown for many years, participated in this grand event of empty alleys, and he who had a special feeling for Luzhou wine at this time could be described as a victorious friend, guessing the orders, making staggered plans, and mentioning to the close friends who came together that "only when you return to Luzhou can you drink the authentic Luzhou old cellar." ”
In 1988, the second famous wine festival was held in front of the old Luzhou No. 2 Middle School, and Mr. Wang Chaowen also arrived as promised.
In 1987, the first famous wine culture festival
In 1988, the second famous wine culture festival
At the symposium of cultural people held at this famous wine festival, Mr. Wang Chaowen said the most about his nostalgia for Luzhou and his hometown of Hejiang, and said that he was going to go back to his hometown in two days.
Wang Chaowen was indissoluble with Luzhou Laojiao in his youth, and the time goes back to 1926, when Wang Chaowen was studying in Luzhong (a former student of the city's first middle school), he was warned by the school for propagating progressive ideas and was forced to automatically withdraw from school. That is also the year, he left a treasure: "The wisdom on which the Hundred Articles of Fighting Wine depends has nothing to do with me, but I do not dare to ignore the universal law embodied in the old cellar of good wine." ”
Dynasty smell calligraphy
Perhaps it is precisely because he was born in the wine city and heard the charm of Luzhou Old Cellar Brewing from a young age, Wang Chaowen, who was only 17 years old, began to think about a series of principles such as phenomena, laws, laws, aesthetics, etc., and studied the ideas transmitted by the fine wine of Luzhou Old Cellar. Luzhou Laojiao adheres to the original intention of creating beauty through labor and brewing artistic wine, carries forward the spirit of craftsmen in a big country, and inherits the ancient method of brewing and brewing, these "universal laws" coincide with the simple aesthetic ideas of the early dynasties.
From 1927 to 1932, Wang Chaowen studied fine arts at the private Chengdu Art College, Minjiang University, Sichuan Provincial First Normal School, and Hangzhou National Art College.
In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, depicting anti-Japanese propaganda posters, comic strips and comic strips such as "Mu Ma", which were distributed among the masses and published in Wuhan Comic Magazine; in the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1950, a floating statue of Mao Zedong was created for the cover of The Selected Works of Mao Zedong. In 1951, he created the circular sculpture "Statue of Liu Hulan" for the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History, and concurrently served as the editor-in-chief of "People's Fine Arts".
In 1961, he began to edit the college liberal arts textbook "Introduction to Aesthetics", and repeatedly gave lectures and symposiums in Peking University and other universities, focusing on the aesthetic interests and needs of the masses, and since then, the research on aesthetic theory has been more systematic and in-depth.
At that time, Chinese aesthetics was still blank, and Wang Chaowen began to study aesthetics. The Introduction to Aesthetics, published in 1981, became the first aesthetic monograph in New China, and domestic universities used the book as an aesthetic textbook, laying the foundation for the status of the master of aesthetics of Wang Dynasty Wen.
"Freedom, art and beauty" constitute the core content of the Spirit of Chinese Wine, which is in line with the creation of Chinese art. After thousands of years of vicissitudes and great changes, Chinese art has developed to this day, and the charm is still radiant, making people feel that painting is always new, common and new. The main content conveyed in "Introduction to Aesthetics" is beauty, beauty and art, which has a natural connection with Luzhou Old Cellar Wine. The aesthetic object (beauty) can be seen as the medium of Luzhou old cellar wine, the essence of wine, the form of wine, it reflects the spirit of the wine, and the wine has its own qiankun. Aesthetic consciousness (aesthetic sense) is that when different people contact aesthetic objects in different moods, they will have different consciousnesses, likes, loves, thinks, and thinks, and there are eight "wines" in ten. And art, the traditional brewing skills passed down from the old cellar in Luzhou to the present 698 years, the inheritors of 24 generations, the master of winemaking, the master of tasting, all of them are art.
Although the ancestors passed away, they remained in their hearts for a long time, and his spirit and writings continued to influence future generations. Just like Luzhou old cellar wine, in the precipitation of the years, it has become more mellow and fragrant.
Master Wang Chaowen is the pride of Luzhou, the pride of Luzhou Old Cellar, the aesthetic ideas he left behind, and the pride of all mankind.