Caption: Chen Zhifo's "Qiutang Lu Leng" axis
The short essay shared by Qunxue Academy with Zhujun today is the famous lecture "The Human Soul Needs Nourishment" published by Mr. Chen Zhifo (1896-1962), a master of fine arts.
The author says that life must have many interests and multifaceted activities, and a person who has a strong interest in morality, learning, art, and career can naturally find happiness in it, and will never feel the emptiness of life, or even the extinction of the soul.
The human heart needs nourishment
Text | Chen Zhifo
Source | Lansu Radio Gangnam
There is no one who is not proud of all beings. Where is the dignity of man?
The problem is simple, because people are a little different from pigs and dogs. Pigs and dogs live their lives only for material satisfaction, physical enjoyment, and no other ideals. Man, who claims to be the spirit of all things, should live the same life as pigs, dogs, and animals, and in addition to seeking material satisfaction and physical enjoyment, it seems that there should also be spiritual comfort to the enjoyment of the soul.
Of course, we cannot but admit that material is one of the important conditions of life, but we must know that the enjoyment of the flesh is not the highest enjoyment of human beings, the highest enjoyment of human beings, and it is still in the soul. Otherwise, how is life different from animal life, and what reason does man have to be honored as the spirit of all things?
If some of us who are called noble people are all confused by material enjoyment, confused by shallow utilitarianism, trapped in the reins of fame and fortune every day, and unable to extricate ourselves; the sentiments of beauty are mixed, the fun and despicable life is boring, and the soul has no sustenance, then although we are called human beings, we have really lost our humanity. Since human beings have lost their humanity, life has no meaning.
The world is still in turmoil, social disturbances will not see order, tranquility and harmony, and people will sink even more into the abyss of sorrow and boredom. Therefore, we should shout to restore humanity!
Life must be full, life must be rich, life must have many interests and multi-faceted activities, a person who has a strong interest in morality, learning, art, and career, naturally can see and enjoy it, and will never feel the emptiness of life, or even the extinction of the soul. In particular, the effect of art on enriching the inner life is even greater. Because people have feelings, emotions need to be cultivated, cultivated emotions, and mo is good at aesthetic education.
Art can temper emotions and help people find fun in everything. It can improve the interest in life, and a person who really has artistic attainments always has extraordinary and vulgar performances, which is not a pedantic, but the master of his soul. We feel very much that human beings should not continue to sink in this world of fame and profit, vulgarity, and dryness and darkness, but we should quickly seek a way to exalt ourselves and demand a richer and more fulfilling realization of life.
Therefore, our hearts urgently need the sweet spring of art to nourish it and make it beautiful and harmonious!
Mr. Chen Zhifo (1896-1962), one of the most outstanding artists and art educators in China in the 20th century, is famous for his graphic design and brush paintings of flowers and birds. In 1916, he graduated from the Weaving Department of Hangzhou Jiazhong Industrial School and stayed in the school to teach pattern classes. In 1918, he went to Tokyo Art School in Japan to study arts and crafts, and was the first international student to study arts and crafts in Japan, and founded the Shangmei Pattern Museum. He has served as a professor at Shanghai University of the Arts, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and The Department of Art of Nanjing Central University. After 1949, he taught at the Art Department of Nanjing University, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Academy of Arts, and Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting. He has served as a director of the China Artists Association, the vice chairman of the Jiangsu Branch of the China Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature.
Mr. Chen Zhifo is the founder of the emerging arts and crafts, an art theorist who has studied both Chinese and Western art, and an outstanding painter of flowers and birds. His works inherit the traditional techniques of the mainland nationalities, and absorb the decorative nature of the patterns, the shape is beautiful, the image is realistic, the rules are rigorous, the style is fresh and elegant, unique, and he has created more than 500 flower and bird paintings in his lifetime, which has made outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of the traditional flower and bird paintings in the mainland.
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Chen Zhifo, "Four Seasons of Flowers and Birds Screen" (1938)
Chen Zhifo's "Hanmei Su Que" Axis (1941)
Chen Zhifo's "Reed Flowers and Two Geese" Axis (1948)
Chen Zhifo, "Spring of Peace" (1953)
Chen Zhifo, "Spring Dynasty Mingxi" (1955)
A pattern designed by Chen Zhifo