The cultural specialties of Wumen are likely to be literati, especially those who are good at calligraphy and painting.
Three of the "four masters" of Jin and Tang paintings were Wu people, namely Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, and Zhang Shengxuan; after the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Wumen school represented by Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, and Qiu Ying, after Zhao Mengfu and the Yuan Sijia, became the mainstream of traditional literati painting; the Songjiang school represented by Dong Qichang in the late Ming Dynasty and the orthodox school represented by the four kings Wu Yun in the early Qing Dynasty all had a deep relationship with Wumen.
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In the history of calligraphy, Wu Men has never lacked everyone. Before the Jin and Tang Dynasties, there were Lu Ji, Zhang Xu, and Sun Guoting; after the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Ruo Fan Chengda, Zhu Derun, Song Ke, etc. were all Wu Chan, and Ruo Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, etc. were even more specialized masters of the theory.
It can be said that before the Jin and Tang Dynasties, Wumen was the cradle of calligraphy and painting art; after the Ming and Qing dynasties, Wumen was an important town in the art of calligraphy and painting.
Today, the Su Boxi Museum is open, and its general history of calligraphy and painting is selected from the collection of calligraphy and painting in the Su Bo Museum, and according to the historical sequence, 58 pieces/sets of fine calligraphy and painting from the Song Dynasty to the modern era are exhibited, connecting the above-mentioned history of Wumen calligraphy and painting. The exhibition is divided into two main lines, on the one hand, through the ancient and modern, with the Song Dynasty Scriptures, the Yuan Dynasty "Seven Gentlemen's Map", the Ming Dynasty Wumen Four Paintings and Calligraphy, the Qing Dynasty Yangzhou School, the Modern Maritime Painting School and other fine works to trace the development of calligraphy and painting in Suzhou; on the other hand, with "Suzhou" as the foothold, excavate the Jiangnan regional culture presented in calligraphy and painting, and display Suzhou's calligraphy and painting art in multiple dimensions.
It is worth mentioning that in order to enrich the content of the exhibition, Su Boxi Pavilion specially borrowed three rare works from The Near Ink Hall Calligraphy Research Foundation and the Fengjiang Book House Merchants to Wumen Morning, Middle and Evening Xu Youzhen, Wen Zhengming, Wen Jia and so on. As for Xu Wei's wild grass "Yong Jian" and "Yong Mo", it is also the first exhibition of his masterpiece.
Ancient Law and Ancient Meaning: Tang and Song Dynasty Scriptures and Song and Yuan Calligraphy and Painting
Calligraphy is based on the two kings, and writing scriptures is a special category derived from it. The earliest surviving period of ancient Chinese scriptures can be traced back to the Western Jin Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism flourished and became popular, and to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Dunhuang scripture scrolls were originally a large sect. After the song dynasty engraving became popular, the writing of scriptures gradually declined. After the Song Dynasty, with the promotion of literati painting by Su Dongpo and others, calligraphy and painting tended to merge, and literati also became the dominant interest.
Golden Guangming Most Victorious King Sutra Volume Length 26.5 cm Width 630.5 cm On paper
This is a Tang scripture scroll donated by Wu Jiqun, which is the book of the Dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave in Gansu Province, and Wu Hufan commented that this book has obtained the method of wisdom and eternity, which is simple and lush. The contents of the sutra volume are the sixteenth of the Great Auspicious Heavenly Daughters of the Great Auspicious Heavenly Daughters, the seventeenth item of the Great Auspicious Heavenly Daughter' Growth Treasure, the eighteenth of the Firm Divine Product, the nineteenth of the Sangshen Erye Medicine Fork Great General, and the twentieth article of the Wang Fa Zheng Treatise.
It is worth mentioning that the volume begins with the inscription of Wu Hufan, and after the volume there is a long trek of Wuhu Sail. In 1943, Wu Hufan gave Wu Jiqun and Wu Si'ou and his wife Zhenhua.
Northern Song Dynasty Buddha said that the Heaven and Earth Eight Yang Sutra Volume 27.5 centimeters In length and width 384.5 centimeters on paper
This scroll was found in Suzhou Ruiguang Pagoda together with the golden book "Miaofa Lotus Sutra Scroll" and so on. The outer inscription is "Buddha Says the Eight Yang Sutras". The whole volume is bounded by a vermilion fence, one-sided up and down, and a total of eight pieces of paper are connected. 207 lines, ranging from 16 to 18 words.
The scriptures are translated by Tang Sanzang's master Yijing. The whole text is written in ink, the structure is rich, and the scroll is free.
There is no chronicle at the end of the volume, it should be written by the scriptures. The devotee at the beginning of the volume inscribed a wish: "Disciple Lou made this sutra for himself and his family and family security, and he will always be full of offerings." ”
Yuan Seven Gentlemen Figure Volume Length 36 cm Width 1010 cm Ink on paper
Mozhu took the Northern Song Dynasty Wen Tong as the grandmaster, and gathered his great achievements in the Yuan Dynasty. This volume is a collection of ink and bamboo painted by Six people, including Yuan Zhao Tianyu, Ke Jiusi, Zhao Yuan, Gu An, Zhang Shen, and Wu Zhen, in a long volume, of which Ke Jiusi has two frames. Or a bamboo smoke cage, or an old dry oblique out, or a dragon horn, or a bamboo, or a push, or like a phoenix tail, the form is thousands of forms and the pen is horizontal, which can be called a specific and micro history of the ink and bamboo of the Yuan Dynasty.
This volume was once handed over by Xu Shouhe, Zhang Jianyang, Qiao Chongxiu, Jiang Guangxu, Li Hongyi, and Gu Wenbin. In front of the present volume, there are inscriptions by Jiang Guangxu and Wu Dayun, and Qiao Chongxiu, Zhang Tingji, and Wu Changshuo are quoted in three paragraphs. The original volume is back with eight inscriptions, such as Sheng Lin and Ni Zhan, which were later cut and removed (now in the Shanghai Museum). In addition, the original volume still has a painting of Gu An, and Gu Wenbin is assigned to the family collection of Wu Zhen. Miao Rizao's "Allegorical Records" Volume II, Gu Wenbin's "Records of Paintings and Calligraphy of Guoyunlou" Volume VI.
Yuan Qian Liang Right Wu Zhongren and the scribe Wu Zhong sing and poem Volume Length 17.5 cm Width 519.8 cm Paper
This volume is qian liangyou written by Wu Zhongren more than 40 poems, kai, line, grass out of the mix, flowing beauty and beauty, and there are wind rules of pine and snow. Considering his ability, even in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1266), Wu Zhongren visited Wuzhong four times and sang and gathered with his friends. His first trip has a Wu clan order, saying that he and his friends Wang Zizhong and Wang Dong traveled to Tiger Hill, visited the unlicensed monks without encountering, so they visited the scenery, and they walked and chanted, and they got a poem to send no photo, and Wang and Wang Yihe. This tour Qian Liang right did not go due to illness, because of the Wu shown the tour singing and singing, also imagined and endowed. Later, there was a tour chant, and the book was continued, and it was derived into a long scroll.
The first Qing Weng Fang Gang title "Wu Xing Shu Marrow" "dragging the tail and three pieces of paper, in order are the Ming Dynasty connoisseur Du Mu and Du Qiong's son Du QiShibao, Wen Zhengming Xiao Kai Pao and Weng Fang Gang Shi Bao, and the modern connoisseur Yan Shiqing Sanbao. According to the Pai Wen and the Seal, it is known that the volume was once hidden by Xu Yiyu, Tan Zhiyi, Yan Shiqing and others. In modern times, this volume is owned by He Cheng.
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