The author of this article, Ye Gongqi (1881-1968), also known as Yufu and Yufu, was born in Beijing. In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), he entered the Tangshi Academy of Beijing Normal University. He has successively served as a teacher in Hubei Agricultural School, a teacher in the Lianghu General Normal School, a deputy director and director of the Department of Undertaking Affairs of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, a promotion and transfer of the General Railway Bureau, and an acting director of the General Railway Bureau. After the Republic of China, he served as the deputy director, chief minister and manager of the Bank of Communications of the Beijing Government, and became an important member of the "Old Transportation Department" of the Beiyang Government. In 1923, Sun Yat-sen established the headquarters of the Marshal of the Navy and Army in Guangzhou, that is, he summoned Ye Shi to the post of Minister of Finance, and concurrently served as the Minister of Construction and the Tax Inspector. In 1931, he became the Minister of Railways of the Nationalist Government, and later retired from politics and settled in Shanghai, devoting himself to cultural activities. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mr. Ye refused to accept a false post and avoided the door to thank guests. After 1949, Mr. Ye served as the deputy director of the Central Museum of Culture and History, the president of the Beijing Academy of Chinese Painting, a member of the Character Reform Committee, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Ye Gongqiu is a famous political figure in modern and contemporary Chinese history, as well as a famous calligrapher, painter, poet, lyricist, collector and connoisseur of the Republic of China period. He came from a family of scholars, and his great-grandfather Ye Yinghua, who worked on poetry, was good at flowers and characters, and wrote "Oblique Moon Apricot Blossom Bookhouse Poetry Copy" and "Flower Shadow Blowing Sheng Dictionary" and so on. His ancestor Ye Yanlan, Xianfeng Sixth Year (1856) Jinshi, officer and military machine Zhang Jing, in his later years to teach at Guangzhou Yuehua Academy, Mao Guangsheng, Pan Feisheng and others were all employed by Ye Yanlan, and forty years devoted themselves to writing "Portrait Biography of Qing Dynasty Scholars", "Qiu Meng'an Ci Banknote", "Haiyunge Poetry Banknote" and so on.
The east side of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing is facing the pavilion. Construction began in 1931 and was completed in 1932, designed by architect Liu Dunzhen and donated by Ye Gongqiu to build it with the admiration and nostalgia for Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In 1968, Ye Gongqiu died and was buried on the west side of the Yangzhi Pavilion in April 1970 with the help of Zhou Enlai and Song Qingling. The inscription on the tombstone reads "Tomb of Mr. Ye Gongqi, the donor of the Yangzhi Pavilion, 1881-1968"
Cultivation of writing
Text | Ye Gongqiu
Those who aspire to writing and want to become a bookmaker are not enough to be skilled. The most important thing is that they are still cultivating. Gai Mainland art emphasizes individuality, and it is necessary to reveal the whole person's concept of life, learning, and mind. This is a special point of mainland art. Also the art of writing should be er also. Therefore, if you want his works to have the spirit of art, they must pay attention to cultivation.
However, how to make each person's spirit upwards and to express their spirit through calligraphy is quite difficult to interpret. Please use the metaphor of brewing Shaoxing wine.
The method of making Shaoxing wine, after steaming rice, absorbs the steam, condenses the vapor into water, and then adds other materials to become wine. The older this wine is, the better it is, and when its impurities are deposited, buried in the place, feel the earth's breath, and clear its fire gas, it becomes pure wine. Cover the raw materials well, work well, still have enough time, wait for its pure fire, before it is considered alcohol. Lavender is infiltrated, accumulated over time, gradually changed, and then succeeded. If you are in a hurry, even if you are a good wine, it is not mellow enough.
The achievement of the husband's art is different from that of the practical one. If you are in a hurry, why not use a typewriter? Today's calligraphers, such as making beer, that is, making it ready to drink, the next year is lost. You join the WTO to do things because of the needs of services, another saying. But it is important not to know the boundaries between art and practicality. Between the two, such as two houses, although they are connected, in fact, they are also separate.
Ye Gongqi's "Shu Huai Er Law Gift to Zhu Qizhao" (1951).
The first way of cultivation is learning. Learning includes all learning and knowledge. Learned scholars have a different attitude from others. His words, movements, and deeds can be seen between the lines. For example, Mr. Zhu Jiujiang, although he does not use the name of the character, but the posterity who sees his character, that is, knows that his person has learned. Conversely, an unlearned person can also be seen in his words.
The second is interest. Lowly interest, greed for money and lust, the influence on cultivation is extremely huge. Gai's opinions are low, his thinking is low, and in fact, he can no longer talk about cultivation. Even if he has worked calligraphy, the expression of his words is still humble and inferior.
The third is character. He is a man of noble character and has considerable writing cultivation, who is admirable, and whose pieces of paper are also respected. Confucius's so-called "sincerity in the middle, shape in the outside", his next stroke, has been added to the first class.
Ye Gongqi "Lanzhu Album"
Chinese painters are the most cultivated. The painter's paintings are known at a glance. Although this may be a psychological effect, those who lack cultivation cannot enter the forest of art, which has become a regular rule in ancient and modern times. Therefore, it can integrate learning, interest, and character into calligraphy, and its artistic success is great. Otherwise, it is only a small achievement, or it is not complete.
From this point of view, it is not easy to become a bookmaker. But neither shall we be afraid of difficulties. There is a necessary procedure for covering any learning, and the same is true for writing, so Yu advocates that writing is called learning. All in all, the cultivator without spirit is not a true art of calligraphy.
Ye Gongqi calligraphy works