Humanistic Tongxiang 丨Wu Haishan "Shi Chengshan"

　　Wu Haishan (1910-2002), young name Wu Lutong, self-proclaimed Tongnan Yisuo, Tongnan Tiger Friend. The name of the room is Bai Ninso Cao tang and Yang Xin Zhai . A native of Tongxiang Ling'an (present-day Fengming Subdistrict). Since childhood love calligraphy and painting, in the 1930s, after graduating from the old middle school in Hangzhou, Liangzhe Yanwu, he was admitted to the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and studied in the Department of Chinese Painting. In addition to Zhang Kundi, Liu Haisu, Huang Binhong, Fang Jiekan, Ma Mengrong, Zheng Manqing, Pan Yuliang and other famous artists have gathered here. Wu Haishan can be described as a veritable science class. He also has many contacts with celebrities in the field of calligraphy and painting. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in Fuyang Dayuan and Tang Yun, who later became a famous Chinese painter, the two met again in Shanghai decades later; at the beginning of the liberation, they worked with Han Deng'an, a famous seal engraver who was the director general of the Xiling Printing Society, and knew each other very well.

　　After graduating from the American College, Wu Haishan worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools and normal schools in Tongxiang, Puyuan, Jiaxing and other places, and later went to Shouchang, Tonglu and other places to teach, and successively held solo exhibitions in Tongxiang, Chongde, Fangyan (now Part of Yongkang), Songyang and other places. At this time, just after the "Lugou Bridge Incident", the Japanese army launched an all-out war of aggression against China, with flames in the sky, wolf smoke everywhere, and China's size could not put down a calm painting table. The young Wu Haishan was full of enthusiasm and threw himself into the rolling torrent of national self-help. During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Wu Haishan successively sought posts in the governments of Shouchang, Tiantai, and Songyang County and engaged in anti-war activities. Since then, for decades, he has been unable to maneuver his own ship of destiny.

　　After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he returned to his hometown and from 1946 he was the director of the Tianfu Grain Office in Ling'an District, Chongde County, and resigned two years later. At the beginning of liberation, he taught at Wuzhen Primary School, Wutong Finish Primary School and Tongxiang No. 1 Middle School. Later, he went to Shanghai to teach, and then joined the Shanghai Artists Association.

　　As a disciple of Zhang Shanxiao, Wu Haishan has always been known for his proficiency in drawing tigers. After the 1980s, although the old painter was old and old, he lost his golden age for decades, and his heart was full of regret, because he worked hard and painted every day. And to regard the tiger as a friend, to draw the tiger as the first pleasure of life, then its chest is not lost, it can be imagined. In his pen, the majestic and majestic king of the hundred beasts "jumped" out one after another, or gave gifts, or self-congratulatory, roughly estimated, no less than dozens of paintings. For each tiger painting, he will print a number of prints, one of which is called "Shi Chengshan Xiao", so that although he has experienced decades of ups and downs, he still does not forget the traces of the teacher's teaching. The next paragraph is signed with the figure "'Tongnan Tiger Friend' Wu Haishan". "Angry eyes, mighty mountains". These are the two inscriptions on a tiger painting by Mr. Wu Haishan. Between the scales, but see the peaks undulating, the trees shaded, a colorful tiger standing in the middle, looking into the distance, the empty valley roaring, the wind rises, the clouds rise for it, and it is extremely mighty and magnificent. In addition to painting tigers, whether it is feathers, flowers, landscapes, there is no one who can do it, and excellent works are produced one after another.

　　After decades of ups and downs, after reading all kinds of things in the world, Wu Haishan's painting style in his later years became more elegant, noble and mellow. He has participated in many exhibitions of paintings in various places and received rave reviews. In 1997, Hong Kong returned to the motherland, and the special work "Ruihe Gao Mingtu" was used to congratulate him. When Macao returned to the motherland, he also painted many paintings.

　　Wu Haishan's family origins. His ancestral home is Hongguang Village, Ling'an Town, south of Tongxiang County, which is called "Tongnan". His grandfather, Lu Munan, was also good at painting, and his work and writing were both long, especially the name of gongbi painting was more important than the times. The paintings of women whose pens and women's works were deeply loved by Japanese merchants, and heavy orderers flocked to him. His father, Lu Jingtang, changed his name to Wu Luchang after entering the Wu family, and was good at walking grass and often wrote fan noodles. Can use the right wrist to write the reverse word, if the backhand word is placed in the daylight to reflect, it becomes a positive character, the stroke is round, natural and smooth, and people sigh as a stunt.

　　Although Wu Haishan has been dead for more than ten years, the painting style of Wu Yimen has been carried forward again by his daughter Wu Dahong. Influenced by his family's studies, Dahong learned Chinese painting at a young age and also loved calligraphy. In 1987, he studied ceramic art at Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute and obtained a bachelor's degree. In 1998, he was admitted to the postgraduate class of flower and bird painting at the China Academy of Art and obtained a master's degree. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting scholar in the comparative study of calligraphy and painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years, the creation and theoretical research of calligraphy and painting have yielded fruitful results. Papers such as "Jinnong Calligraphy and The Spatial Characteristics of Painting" or Chinese painting works have been published in "New Art", "Art Observation", "Chinese Painting", "Chinese Flower and Bird Painting", and edited many sets of flower and bird painting textbooks such as "Children's Art Tutoring Series" and "Chinese Painting Teaching Series for The Elderly University". In 2004, he created "Silence in the Mountains" and won the Excellence Award of Zhejiang Flower and Bird Painting Exhibition. In 2005, works such as "Silent History High Flower Side Evening Wind" and "Banana Forest Qingxia" were included in the "Collection of Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy". In 2012, the painting "Spring Flowers" participated in the "Culture with Roots: Harmonious China" - an art exchange exhibition between Zhejiang Province and Taichung City and won the bronze medal. He is currently an associate professor in the Fine Arts Department of Zhejiang Chinese University of Foreign Languages.

　　Wu Haishan's brother-in-law, Shang Shouzhen (商守箴), whose original name was Youchang (Young Chang), was a native of Shijiaqiao Village, Tongxiang (present-day Shiqiao Village, Fengming Subdistrict). In 1943, he graduated from the Xinhua Art College in Shanghai, and two years later he was admitted to the Suzhou Art College to study watercolor painting with Li Yongsen, and the following year he studied under Professor Hu Chuzhong. Yan Wenliang, the principal at the time, and Zhang Meisun, a master of watercolor painting, were very important to him. In 1947, after graduating from the Department of Western Painting of Suzhou Fine Arts College, he followed Zhang Meisun for decades, obtained his essence, and became a watercolor painter with a good reputation in Shanghai, and before his death, he was a member of the Shanghai Artists Association, a member of the Shanghai Watercolor Research Society, a member of the Xiangshan Painting Society, and a member of the Haoyuan Calligraphy and Painting Research Society.

Source: Tongxiang News Network

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