Xinmin Evening News (reporter Jiang Yuezhong intern Chen Hanbing) Tongji University, East China Normal University, Donghua University (old school name: East China Institute of Textile Technology), Shanghai Overseas Chinese University (formerly known as "Shanghai Russian College") ... The names of many colleges and universities in Shanghai were inscribed by Shu Tong, a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation who was praised by Chairman Mao as "a calligrapher of the Red Army" and "a pen in the party." This morning, Shu Tong and his son Shu An's calligraphy and painting tour exhibition, "Forever Long March Shu Tong Shu An Calligraphy and Painting Tour Exhibition", opened at the Museum of East China Normal University.
Pictured: This morning, the "Forever Long March Shu Tong Shu'an Calligraphy and Painting Touring Exhibition" opened at the Museum of East China Normal University. Organizer Courtesy photo
Shu Tong was the first chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association and a master of calligraphy in modern and contemporary Kaizong schools. His original Shu body calligraphy has become the "representative style of the times". Mr. Cao Yu praised him as "a generation of masters, the glory of our party", and Mr. Qi Gong praised him as "a thousand autumns and a thousand autumns and one ink and one shu tong". In 2016, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Academy of Arts, and CCTV jointly produced the large-scale cultural project "Centennial Masters", which gathered many masters and masters who made outstanding contributions to Chinese civilization in the 20th century, and Shu Tong was one of them.
At the beginning of the liberation, Shu Tong served as a member of the Standing Committee and Director of Propaganda of the East China Bureau of the CPC, a member of the East China Military and Political Committee, the director of the East China Cultural and Educational Committee, the president of the East China People's Revolutionary University, and the president of the Party School of the East China Bureau of the CPC. He wrote "Shanghai Railway Station", "Shanghai Exhibition Center", "Shanghai Municipal Party School", "Shanghai Administrative College", "East China Nursery School", "Qingpu Hotel" and other inscriptions are still used today.
Shu An is Shu Tong's concubine, the same age of the Republic, with a sense of mission to inherit the past and create a new culture, and has learned to write and paint since childhood. He graduated from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and while studying and absorbing the essence of his father Shu Tong's book art era, he also innovated and expanded the painting style of the trinity of Eastern and Western culture, tradition and modernity, poetry, calligraphy and painting. Mr. Tong Wei, former consultant of the China Book Association, commented: "In ancient times, there were two kings, and now there are two Shu, and Shu An is creating a new realm of calligraphy and painting. General Chi Haotian commented: "It is really a mountain high and long, dragon and tiger leaping, and the style of Shu Lao's works is in the same line, and later it comes to the top!" ”
Pictured: The scene of the touring exhibition. Organizer Courtesy photo
The opening ceremony was presided over by Gu Hongliang, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president of East China Normal University. Sun Zhenrong, Vice President of East China Normal University, Zhou Zhigao, Honorary Chairman of Shanghai Calligraphers Association and President of Shanghai China Book Court, Liu Jiu and Shu An, Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the first graduates of the Second Affiliated High School of East China Normal University, respectively spoke, and they reviewed Mr. Shu Tong's revolutionary and Hanmo career, as well as his outstanding contributions to the art of Chinese calligraphy. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shu Tong, who served as a member of the Standing Committee and Director of Propaganda of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a member of the East China Military and Political Committee, the director of the East China Cultural and Educational Commission, the president of the East China People's Revolutionary University, and the president of the Party School of the East China Bureau of the CPC, used his Shu style calligraphy, which is known as the "representative of the times", to personally write the name of the school for many colleges and universities in Shanghai. Everyone said: "When red culture enters the campus, we must inherit and carry forward the fine traditions and styles of our revolutionary predecessors, inherit the red gene, and strive to be a new person of the times." ”
After the opening ceremony, the guests watched Shu Tong's Revolution and Hanmo Career Exhibition, the calligraphy and painting works of Shu Tong's son Shu An, and the calligraphy works of Shu Tong's grandson Shu Wan.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Chinese Calligraphers Association, East China Normal University, Shaanxi Shutong Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute, Jiangxi Shutong Calligraphy Art Research Association, Beijing New Fourth Army and Central China Anti-Japanese Base Area Research Association, Shanghai New Fourth Army Historical Research Association Sixth Division (Southern Jiangsu) Branch, Shanghai Antian Industrial Group Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Shu'an Calligraphy and Painting Studio, and has previously toured many places in Beijing, Shandong, Jiangxi and other places. Present at the meeting were Gong Xinhan, former executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee; Wang Ronghua, former vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Education Development Foundation; Sun Jin, former deputy political commissar of the Shanghai Garrison District and president of the Shanghai Municipal Association for National Defense Education; and Liu Jian, former deputy secretary of the party committee of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting and former secretary of the party leading group and director of the Shanghai Municipal Local History Office.