In history, what is the story of Zhou Zhijiang?

Mr. Zhou Zhijiang is a calligrapher and painter in Japan.

The person in front of him who splashes ink and is good at writing big characters is called Zhou Zhijiang, a famous calligrapher and painter in Japan, who is famous for his neoclassical style. In recent years, his huge landscape painting "Xiangrui Tu" has been made an exception by the permanent collection of the Japanese national treasure temple Tang Zhaoti Temple, shocking the painting world, and his huge calligraphy screen has also been auctioned at high prices in the Chinese auction industry for many times, and has been collected and paid attention by more and more calligraphy lovers at home and abroad. Looking back on Hanmo's life for more than 60 years, Zhou Zhijiang said that he was happy, because he only loved one thing in his life and has always persevered. For example, building a Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai and building a hut are completely different things, and the big work is completely different from the beginning to the end. This is Zhou Zhijiang specially bought from Japan automatic ink grinding machine, behind a good work is often waste painting 3,000, even the ink is too late to grind, Zhou Zhijiang's calligraphy is 50 years of hard practice. Born in Shanghai in 1950 to a wealthy merchant family, he began to learn Chinese at the age of six. When I was born, I had two wet nurses, one of whom had a stutter, so I contracted a stuttering problem, the degree of the problem, my mother told me to buy a bowl of wontons, and I couldn't say the wontons for twelve minutes, and there was a light bulb next to me at that time, and I walked to the door of the alley, and threw the light bulb to the root of the plane tree on the side of the road. So this question often haunts me, how to go on the road of my life today, I want to write calligraphy without talking, painting without talking, then try it, only to go to this road, there is no other way. When he was nine years old, Zhou Zhijiang worshipped the famous calligrapher Hu Wensui as a teacher, visited all kinds of famous monuments, and dabbled in the grass of the past dynasties. The teacher's teeth are gone, he said, the next day you are mentally raised, you come tomorrow, I will find you a copybook, Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace", he said that this calligraphy is the most difficult to write, you are young, this foundation is laid, you will be used endlessly in the future, take the law from the top, get the law of it, take the law of it, get the law of it, get the law of it, so you must start with the most difficult "Jiucheng Palace". In the mid-to-late 60s of the last century, a vigorous tide of intellectual youth going to the mountains and going to the countryside was set off across the country, and Zhou Zhijiang, who was devoted to Hanmo, became a deserter. Basically, everyone signed, I can't see it myself, I found a chance to slip away, and now it seems to be a little embarrassing to talk about it, and I escaped over the wall, and I also wore a pair of Beijing shoes with plastic soles at that time, and made a "boastful" sound on the gravel road, and now I still remember it in my mind. After suspension, Zhou Zhijiang worked in the production team in the alley, earning only eight cents a day, and in those colorless years, black and white paper and ink were all his fun. There are no movies, no books, and "The Sea Sails by the Helmsman" is playing outside, and there is nothing else to do, only these two copybooks, practicing in newspapers and on original paper, and one day is blackened, a newspaper is painted black, and writing on a black dry newspaper with water can save a lot of money. In addition to calligraphy, Zhou Zhijiang's Chinese painting is taught by Mr. Tang Yun, for seven years, Tang Yun carefully taught, never received a penny from him, such a deep friendship between teachers and students, from an accidental and special fate. At that time, I remember very clearly, it was the 26th tram, Zhao Dan was staggering and walking, when he bought a ticket, he took out a ten-yuan to buy a four-point tram ticket, people couldn't find it, at this time he said that he knew him, there was no seat, he was swaying, he had a seat to give him a seat, at that time he seemed to have been greatly devastated in the Cultural Revolution, so I was a little child with such an action, he seemed to be very grateful, asked himself how old he was, what are you doing now, he said that he likes to write, Since then, I have had such a fate with this great artist. This is a very precious photo, in June 1980, he went to Shanghai East China Hospital to visit Zhao Dan, he said that he probably had more than three months to live, helped himself write a word, and then came to the top, after writing, he said that you hurry up and borrow a camera, he remembered very clearly, took six times to finish this photo, he felt that the future world is yours, you should come behind. Three months after this picture was taken, he was gone. In his later years, Zhao Dan was obsessed with calligraphy, and before his death, he entrusted Zhou Zhijiang's apprenticeship with Tang Yun to his wife Huang Zongying. Huang Zongying took himself to Tang Yun's house, and after the two of them climbed up on the third floor, Mr. Tang said that I am too old this year, and I will not accept students, Huang Zongying pushed Tang Yun's shoulder like this, Donald, you can accept another one in the end, and with such a push, he will become Tang Lao's closed disciple. On the wall of Zhou Zhijiang's studio hangs a painting of Tang Yun's inscription "Qujiang Building", for 30 years, Zhou Zhijiang has been carrying this character with him, he said that the teacher has been immortal for many years, but as long as he looks up at this word, his teachings will be remembered for a long time. When he went to his house, he was basically all studying, reading books and Tang poems, and rarely painting. Under the guidance of Hu Wensui, Tang Yun, Qian Juntao, Cheng Shifa and other masters, he gradually comprehended the spiritual realm behind the pen and ink gold and stone, formed his own style, and emerged in the Shanghai calligraphy industry at the age of 25, and won many awards in the national calligraphy and painting competition, and as early as 1978, he also had a wonderful dialogue with Master Liu Haisu. Seeing that he was approaching a four-foot Ming Dynasty painter Xu Wei's "Ink Grapes", he saw himself, pushed his glasses up, and asked himself, what is the name of the child, he said that my name is Zhou Zhijiang, he said you look at my painting, he said that it is very unrestrained, very wild, he said that it is unrestrained, okay, he said that it is very good, he felt that you said that I am not very good, he said, that's it, what is your name, Zhou Zhijiang, I will give you this painting. I also wrote to myself on June 20, 1978, and after I wrote it, I added a line of small characters to myself, called to scare Bai Yang, the great painter of the Ming Dynasty in China, Bai Yang; Laughing at Qingteng, Xu Wei, Xu Qingteng, only Zhijiang, not scared or laughing, Liu Haisu, eighty-three years old, in fact, he was eighty-two years old at this time, he was twenty-eight years old, he didn't say that he was good, now look at a little newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

In 1987, at the age of 36, Zhou Zhijiang went to Japan to study and began a new artistic exploration. When I went to Tokyo and the airport, it was completely two worlds, and the contrast was too strong, too bad and too good, so at this time, I felt very painful in my thoughts. The most difficult time was at 11:45 on Chinese New Year's Eve in 1987, on the subway in Harajuku, the money for the subway was available, and if I took it, the breakfast money and lunch money for tomorrow would be gone, and I walked back and walked from Harajuku to my home for an hour and twenty minutes. In addition, at this time, my health was very bad, my stomach was very painful, sitting at the exit of the subway, I was still looking at the West, thinking that my compatriots in China were celebrating the Spring Festival, and I remembered that there was a person named Fei Xiang who sang at that time, come back, come back, wandering the world, at this time, I thought that I should go back, I should stay, life is very slim. Looking back now, life is sweet and sour, this is a life experience that money can't buy, and I feel that it is very beneficial to my life. Unlike most Japanese artists who specialize in one subject, Zhou Zhijiang, who has three unique skills in calligraphy, painting and printing, quickly opened up the situation locally. In 2011, Zhou Zhijiang, who was already well-known in the Japanese art world, returned to visit his former friends at the Tainan Hotel in Harajuku, Tokyo, and 25 years ago, this discerning boss sold four of Zhou Zhijiang's paintings at a high price of 800,000 yen, achieving his first pot of gold. When I went to play by myself during dinner, the boss asked me what you do, and he said that I just like to paint, he put down the white hat, and said to take the painting to see, and after showing it to him, he immediately said that you paint me four springs, summers, autumns and winters. At that time, I didn't say the money, but after the painting was finished, about four or five days, I showed it to him, and he said that he asked for it, how much it was, and he offered it about 900,000 or 800,000 yen, and he said that why is it so cheap to wash the dishes, how can your painting be sold so expensive, and he said that the painting was not very expensive, and at that time, the price of my painting was at the Shanghai Friendship Store. On the one hand, he sympathized with himself, on the other hand, he felt that the painting was also quite good, he gave himself 800,000 yen, at that time 800,000 yen was equal to 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, at that time 10,000 yuan was already terrible, he earned 50,000 or 60,000 yuan at once, and it took four or five days, and the first pot of gold made a fortune quite powerfully. Zhou Zhijiang was not satisfied with simple further study, he felt that the Japanese did not have a deep understanding of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and the Chinese could not understand the advantages and disadvantages of Japanese calligraphy and painting, and they had to communicate with each other. In 1991, he founded the Sino-Japanese Calligraphy and Painting Seal Carving Association in Osaka, and established a Chinese painting and calligraphy classroom and recruited many disciples, including the famous actor Kurihara Komaki. This is the famous Japanese movie star Kurihara Komaki, after Mr. Huang Zongying opened a letter of introduction to himself, he went to Tokyo to find a lot of actors, she was one of them, she was very busy at that time, she came to meet herself during the recess of the drama, and prepared a gift for herself, and brought a gift for herself, and her gift was "The Clouds Don't Move". Kurihara Komaki, who filmed works such as "Life and Death Love" and "Wangxiang", was famous in China and Japan in the 70s of the last century, and many people know that she has always chosen celibacy for the sake of performing arts, so Zhou Zhijiang's "Slender Clouds Do Not Move and Ten Thousand Sounds of Silence" is the most suitable portrayal of her life. At that time, when she went to Kobe last year to give a speech, she said that she had to do what she liked in life, and she had to live for herself and live herself, so she said that the work "Thin Clouds Do Not Move, Ten Thousand Sounds of Silence" was still hanging in her study. Zhou Zhijiang said that he learned a lot from calligraphy and painting masters and friends, and the most important thing is integrity. In 1996, he returned to Shanghai with Japanese students and asked the teacher for guidance, and the scene in Yu Garden made him unforgettable.

Said that the location is in the Dianchun Hall of Yu Garden in Shanghai, the students who have chartered half of the All Nippon Airplane are here, the tour group is coming, they all said okay, the teacher called, said that the day was stormy, the teacher can not come out today, the age is 78 years old, I was confused, the teacher taught me to go to a foreign country to be honest first, to speak to count, to do what I say, the teacher is sick can not come, I can not account to Japanese friends. When I was confused, a trolley came in the distance, Hu Wensui's son pushed his father over, his wife followed behind, the voice came, the Dianchun Hall in Shanghai Yuyuan Garden has a threshold, one threshold comes, two thresholds come, after three thresholds, the trolley comes, at this time our Japanese students have shed tears of excitement. At this time, my nose was also a little sour, which reminded me of the famous writer Zhu Ziqing's article called "Back", and I felt that it was more tear-jerking than "Back", because "Back" is a relationship between two people and a group of people.