Wu Changshuo is the glorious master of Haipai art, and his artistic achievements and artistic spirit have become a cultural accumulation as an art system, and have become an important component of Jiangnan culture and Haipai culture.
Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Research Association to inherit the spirit of Wu Changshuo art as the purpose, founded 30 years ago, remarkable achievements, a wide range of influence, has become a contemporary Wu Changshuo research can not be ignored backbone. Most of the members of the association are the leaders of today's maritime calligraphy and painting art circle, they learn Wu Changshuo's artistic ideas, absorb the essence of tradition, integrate into the atmosphere of the times, write exquisite ink, and write my mind. The association's public account "Member Style" shows their artistic style, which also reflects the long-standing artistic spirit of Wu Changshuo.
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Artist Profile
Wu Chao was born in Shanghai in 1952. The word Samui, the number of Ding Ding. The fourth grandson of Mr. Wu Changshuo, a master of Haipai art. When he was young, he studied calligraphy under the guidance of his grandfather Wu Dongmai and his father Wu Changye, and in his early years, he practiced the jinwenshi drum calligraphy under the personal instruction of Mr. Wang Geyi. In the past 30 years, Wu Changshuo art lectures and various art exchange exhibitions have been held in Japan, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He participated in the preparation of the Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Research Association and the Shanghai Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall. In the past ten years, he has also founded the Association of Descendants of Famous Artists of Maritime Calligraphy and Painting and the Shanghai Wu Changshuo Culture and Art Foundation. In 2021, he was awarded the non-hereditary heir of the Stone Drum Text by the relevant departments. He is currently a member of China Xiling Printing Society, a member of Shanghai Calligraphers Association, the chairman of Shanghai Wu Changshuo Culture and Art Foundation, the honorary president of the Descendants of Famous Artists of Maritime Calligraphy and Painting, the vice president of Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Research Association, as well as an advisor to the Singapore Literary Association, an art consultant of the Australian Chinese Love Association, a consultant of the Canadian Haipai Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and an advisor to the All Japan Chinese Humanities Federation.
Wu Changshuo and Han San LaoBei
Text / Wu Chao
In front of the Guanle Building on the top of the lonely hill on the shore of West Lake in Hangzhou, there is a small stone chamber, and a horizontal plaque "Han San Lao Stone Room" is suspended on the lintel of the stone room. The stone chamber is not large, but on the middle stone seat is the "Han SanLao Stele", which enjoys a high reputation in the history of Chinese thousand-year steleology and the centennial history of the Xiling Seal Society. Han San Lao Stele, full name "Han San Lao Zi Ji Ri Carved Stone", according to the examination of this stone carving date should be in the early Eastern Han Dynasty Jianwu period (25 AD to 56 AD). It is one of the existing early Eastern Han Stone Inscriptions, which is more precious due to the rare Han stele in Jiangnan, and is known as the "First Stele of Eastern Zhejiang" in history. This stele was excavated by the natives in the Xia May of the second year of Qing Xianfeng (1852) in the Kexing Mountain, northeast of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and was later learned by Zhou Shixiong to be carried back in a small boat overnight, and relocated to the Yanlingwu Jiayuan Mountain Museum under the Kexing Mountain. And specially built bamboo pavilions for placement. The monument is 91 cm high and 45 cm wide. Due to more than a thousand years of wind and rain grinding, the stele no longer exists, the surrounding area has been damaged, the stele Yang calligraphy, a total of 217 words, the word has a bounded box, the box is divided into two columns of left narrow right width and longitudinal direction, and the right column is divided into four equal areas from top to bottom. Because the first line of the inscription is "Three Old Secrets", posterity called it "Three Old Steles". The inscription reads that the grandchildren of the three elders at that time erected to commemorate the names of the three generations of grandchildren and the death of their ancestors and fathers.
Wu Chao's calligraphy works
The three elders were not three old men, but the township officials who were in charge of ideological indoctrination at that time, although the three elders were only moral models of the villagers rather than administrative officials, and they did not have the title of a servant, but they must be the responsibility of the local moral and respected, and their civil law status was very high. During the Warring States period, there were already three elders, the Qin Dynasty set up the "Three Elders of the Township", the Western Han Dynasty added the "Three Elders of the County", and the Eastern Han Dynasty set up the "Three Elders of the County".
The stele posthumously records that "Virtue is heroic, kexing first oneself, juice is carried out..." The third elder has a son and nine grandchildren, and the person who carved the stele is his seventh grandson, named "Handan".
In the 11th year of Qing Xianfeng (1861), the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army captured Yuyao, the Zhou Qingquan mansion was burned, and the stone stele was also moved to the stove stone, although it was blackened, fortunately it did not affect the inscription, so that the first stele in eastern Zhejiang could be passed on. In 1919, 58 years later, zhou's descendants sold the monument to Chen Weiquan, a Shanghai real estate developer. Two years later, in the autumn, the stele was transported to Shanghai, where a foreign merchant wanted to buy it for a large sum of money and ship it overseas. If this plan is allowed to succeed, ren the first stone in eastern Zhejiang will be exiled overseas, which will bring shame to the people of the country. The news did not go away, alarming the Shanghai and Zhejiang art circles, and also alarming Wu Changshuo, the first president of xiling printing society. Everyone agreed: "This is the treasure of our country, and it is not allowed to be lost outside the territory." In order to allow this first monument in eastern Zhejiang to return to Zhejiang, Wu Changshuo and the four founders of the Printing Society appealed from many parties and issued a public announcement of fundraising. The Public Revelation says: "... Wuzhe Han dynasty has the fewest stele. If the three stele of Fei's stele are only in the bibliography, the original stone cannot be seen again; the only ones that still exist today are the "Daji Stele Moya Carved Stone" and this stele ear. And the inscription of this stele is very ancient and complete, if it is allowed to migrate, or it flows outside Yucheng, so that the descendants will not see the remains of the Han people, it will not be the shame of the people of our country. If a husband preserves antiquities, one person keeps them, but it is better to keep them with all others. Now it is planned that the people of our township will return to Chen Jun at the original price, and still return this monument to Zhejiang, and choose the west of the Lingyin Society, and build a stone chamber to restore it. But the people of my country are kings, and the Great Yahongda is a common move..."!
Mr. Pegatron himself took the lead and led by example, painting day and night to donate. Colleagues in the Printing Press and zhejiang counterparts also responded one after another and actively pledged donations. At that time, Lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang, and Zhang Shiming, a huge rich man in Nanxun, donated the most funds, each pledging 2,000 yuan to the ocean. After the collection of The Tenth Month, 65 donors donated a total of 11,270 yuan to the ocean. Among them, 88,000 yuan was used to purchase the monument from Chen Weiquan and transported back to Zhejiang Fengzhong on the top of the Lonely Mountain. The Printing Society will donate the balance of the purchase of the stele to set up a stone seat for the Three Old Monuments and then build a stone room for it. In May 1922, Mr. Wu Changshuo personally wrote and wrote the "Records of the Han Sanlao Stone Chamber" and erected a monument behind the right side of the stone chamber. The "Records of the Three Old Stone Chambers of the Han Dynasty" introduces the history of the Three Old Steles and the process of rescuing the Three Old Steles. For the Zhejiang people's value to the state room, Shi Mu ji made a high evaluation: "The book says: 'Only the earthly things love the heart'. The gentleman of the state is thinking of the countryside, paying attention to the elegance, and his robe is far away, how like a ya! Fu "Three Old Steles" East Sea piece stone ear, still can't bear to fall into a foreign land, and Tu Yong yong preserved it, what millions of People in si shi, and endured to abandon it? Da Lü Chen Yu Yuanying, so Ding returned to the mill room, in the people themselves, not the stone can not be turned. In the mid-autumn of the following year, Feng Xu inscribed "Han Sanlao Stone Room", engraved on the lintel of the stone room. At that time, Mr. Xu Bingxuan once wrote a poem for the return of the Three Old Monuments to Zhejiang: "The Three Old God Monuments are restored, and the Reiki is strong and strong. The rambling stone is not heavy, and the dots still have Hanshi spots. The three elders posthumously remembered by the carved stone once "served as a martyr in virtue" for the purpose of educating the villagers. The feats of Mr. Wu Changshuo and the ancestors of the Zhejiang nationality and the predecessors of the Printing Society to rescue the Three Old Monuments have also been transformed into invisible monuments, forever standing majestically in the forest of Chinese national monuments, and will inspire future generations of Education for Generations in China.
Completed on the night of December 31, 2007
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Source: Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Research Association
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