From the painter to everyone, he experienced the ups and downs of life, and used strokes to outline the tragedies and joys of the world

In Luzhou, Sichuan, Tuojiang River crossing the river, there is a place called Xiaoshi, the Ming Dynasty called Xiaoshixiang, in the center of Luzhou City peninsula on the other side of the Tuojiang River and the Confluence of the Yangtze River, at that time the population of about 100, sparse households, hundreds of years of vicissitudes, and then once became the largest commercial center and logistics center in southern Sichuan.

In fact, during the Song Dynasty, river transport occupied the convenience of the confluence of the two rivers in Changtuo, which was already a prosperous place for trade and commerce, and during the Ming and Qing dynasties, small cities were very lively.

Yang Shen, the ming dynasty leader, also once wrote a poem: "Yan Yan wants to move home, Dongling learns to plant melons, Dongjin wind cuts, and Nanpu Moon cage yarn." The earth is pure and pitied spring grass, and Jiang Qing loves the sunset. Although Vimal showed illness, he dissolved smallpox. ”

Although he lived in the main city, he envied the human outlook of the small city, which triggered his idea of moving to the small city to grow melons, and even more so, he "pitied the spring grass of the land, and Jiang Qing loved the sunset." "Envious.

When it comes to small cities, Luzhou people will inevitably mention the phrase "Luzhou crossing the river - small city (matter)" after the break in the small city, and they will inevitably be proud of the development of shipping in that year, and they will think of the arrogance of She Ying and other brothers.

But there is another person, worthy of our understanding, he is known as the 20th century Chinese modern ink figure painting generation of grandmasters, The Chinese modern painting world leading the artistic giant - Jiang Zhaohe.

In 1904, in a not luxurious courtyard in Qing Lane, a small city in Luzhou, a dilapidated family of scholars gave birth to a baby boy named Jiang Wansui, which was later Jiang Zhaohe.

Don't look at the Jiang family in Luzhou at that time was also a big family, but Jiang Zhao and his father's family is not bad, the Jiang family was quite famous in Luzhou in the early Qing Dynasty, and there were many branches in the late Qing Dynasty, and Jiang Zhaohe did not inherit the good fortune of the rich and noble Zuyin, although his father was a xiucai at the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was only a teacher in the private school, there were wives and children and a family of six to feed, food could only be fed, and the life was bitter and embarrassing, which was the same as the villagers and neighbors at that time.

The young mother was an ordinary housewife, with a troubled life and a difficult temperament. If Jiang Zhaohe is naughty, it is inevitable that he will be beaten up. What's worse is that the life is simple and hard, but the father smokes opium, which is undoubtedly worse for the family's life. After years of ineffective persuasion, her desperate mother took opium and abandoned the family.

These unbearable encounters in life fell on Jiang Zhaohe, to say that he was originally poor and good, but the family was not yet a farmer's family, when he was a child, he studied gongbi with his father, and he was actually very talented after enlightenment, because he was weak in his young body, and he worshiped the Luzhou guoshu master Yu Liangbi, learning martial arts, although he could not say that he was both literate and martial, but laid a good childhood foundation for him.

The mother is gone, the children have lost their mother's love, and there is no one to take care of them. His father's teaching career did not last long, he lost his job, and he went home bedridden. Jiang Zhaohe is the only male child in the family, and he is the eldest son, and he is undoubtedly going to pick up the burden of the family's life.

No wonder that later, when mentioning his own life upbringing, Jiang Zhaohe wrote out the "three noes" that felt miserable: there was no shade in the family, there was no strict father, and there was no loving mother.

In order to live, he had to leave his homeland and go to Shanghai to start a new chapter in his life.

Don't look at his family in childhood fragmentation, his father's original knowledge was not buried and hidden, in childhood to him as much as possible, with the foundation of traditional culture, but also prompted him to have a greater possibility of progress in painting in the future.

Going out is to make a living, and did not want to become a home, so he began to paint as a craft to eat, in order not to starve, he not only learned Chinese painting, but also learned Western painting, and the two are integrated, in the early years in his hometown also painted portraits to make a living, and later came to Shanghai also made a lot of advertising paintings, not so much as painters, but rather painters and craftsmen, because to live.

But what is deep inside cannot be hidden. In the seven years from his arrival in Shanghai in 1920 until he met Xu Beihong in 1927, Jiang Zhaohe painted portraits in several major department stores in Shanghai, and engaged in practical commercial art advertising, window design and clothing design. Although it is only for the sake of livelihood, fortunately it is a job that he sincerely likes and is good at, he is very diligent, trying to do his best in every work, and does not see the laziness and coping of the teenager.

This also laid a solid foundation for him to draw, and incorporated more techniques. And Shanghai, like the siphon effect of Luzhou people being siphoned by Chengdu today, naturally has more opportunities than in their hometown. Xu Beihong is his Bole, and he did not disappoint Xu Beihong. Xu Beihong has always valued and promoted Jiang Zhaohe, and it is precisely because of his aura and persistence that in the absence of a special teacher and training him, he completely relies on his own continuous absorption and study to have a situation at that time.

However, Jiang Zhaohe, who had eaten a full meal, did not stop thinking of making progress, and was content with pleasure and living in name. China during the Republic of China period was not much better than the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the country was also in turmoil, from the uprooting of the country in youth to the east and west after adulthood, disasters, hunger, oppression, war, massacres, there is no one he has not personally experienced, it is really bitter on the body, in the eyes, in the heart.

He finally sketched these things with his own pen into a shocking "Map of Displaced Persons", which may not be his own willingness, so it has been passed down through the ages, but his compassion for people is indeed deeply moved.

After the founding of New China, Mr. Jiang also painted a large number of portraits of ancient figures, which became the childhood memories of later generations, and Du Fu and others in language textbooks were painted according to his own image. There is also a shadow of himself.

As a native of Luzhou, Mr. Jiang is certainly worthy of our pride, so sometimes you can go to his former residence in Luzhou's small city. Feel the greatness of this painter. From the painter to everyone, he experienced the ups and downs of life, and used strokes to outline the tragedies and joys of the world.