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In the winter of 1948, Lujiang Liu Tizhi gave Rong Geng the axis of Lin Liang's "Autumn Tree Birds and Birds", Zhang Jinfang's Linhan Zhou Shu Stele, Xiong Fang's Seven Words, and Zhao Ziyong's "Lu Crab" axis, all of whom were famous Cantonese calligraphers and painters. Rong Geng studied the history of painting intensively, paid more attention to the literature of the township, and hoped to find Lin Liang's works in the factory, but "good paintings were rarely circulated, and they could not be obtained for ten years". After returning to the south, he received an old friend to give Lin Liang the axis of "Autumn Tree Birds and Birds", and he was overjoyed, indicating that "friends and friends are jiahui, yongya Fuchen" ("Ode to The Book of Calligraphy and Painting").
△ Lin Liang's "Autumn Trees, Birds and Birds", now in the Guangzhou Museum
Lin Liang (1416-1480) character Yishan, a native of the South China Sea, painted birds in the Ming Dynasty. Gu Qing's "Dongjiang Family Collection" has the saying of "Lin Liang Ling Mao Xia Chang Bamboo, Yue Zheng Grape Ji Li Ju". Xia Chang was a thirteen-year jinshi of Yongle, known as "Xia Qing one bamboo, Xiliang ten ingots of gold"; Yue Zheng was the first of the orthodox thirteen-year examination, the third of the court examination, and the official to the bingbu shilang; ji li was Tianshun six years Xie Yuan, eight years of jinshi.
△ Liu Tizhi to Rong Geng Codex
In contrast, Lin Liang came from a humble background, but was intelligent and studious, and had been a poor listener under Chen Metal, an envoy in Guangdong, and was appreciated for his proficiency in painting feathers. On the recommendation of Chen Jin, he entered the Ministry of Works as a campmaster, and later became the inner court painting academy to be commanded, and was also appointed as the commander of jinyi guards and town care. Specializing in feathered flowers, Denanqi Sheikh painted the "Six Laws", which should be pictographic and lifelike. He is also good at flowers, exquisite coloring, realistic composition, especially good at using ink, and is a representative figure of the Ming Dynasty courtyard flower and bird painting.
Qu Dajun's "Guangdong New Language" said that Xuanzong tried to summon Lin Liang as a waiting edict, and for a time the painting academy was dominant, "If The horse is far away from the landscape, Liu Jian Chen Rui is the pine, and The Zhong Xuefang is the spring grass, all think that they are not enough."
△ Lin Liang's "Goose Swimming Diagram"
In 1960, Li Tianma published a short article "Lin Liang's Flowers and Birds" in the Yangcheng Evening News, and the appendix "Autumn Tree Birds and Birds", stating that "it is a fine collection of Professor Rong Geng's "Song Zhai Calligraphy and Painting Notes", the silk book is lightly colored, four feet five inches and seven minutes high, two feet three inches and two minutes wide, which was donated to the City Museum by Rong Lao the year before." He believes that "Lin Liang's works, which have been passed down for more than five hundred years, are very rare." According to Rong Geng's research, Chen Jin served as an envoy to Guangdong from the sixth year of Ming Jingtai (1455) to the first year of Tianshun (1457), and the year of Lin Liang's death is difficult to determine, but it can be estimated that he was born during the Xuande period of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming. Qu Dajun's "Emperor Zhang's taste of summoning Liang as an edict" may be untrue.
Rong Geng's "Notes on The Painting and Calligraphy of Song Zhai": "In September 1956, lin liang shaft was transferred to the Guangzhou Museum, and zhao ziyong axis was transferred to Sun Yat-sen University. Since then, he has been somewhat estranged from the Guangzhou Museum because of this Lin Liang painting.
At the beginning of 1958, Rong Geng was invited to the Guangzhou Museum of Yuexiu Mountain to identify the calligraphy and paintings in the collection, and the staff moved out of the collection, including three pieces of Rong Geng's old collection, including the "Autumn Tree Bird and Bird" axis. Using the works he donated for his re-identification was obviously suspicious of falsification, which made Rong Geng very angry. When he returned home, he wrote to the museum asking for the collection to be recovered, and the letter contained the phrase "the same soap for cattle and ji", which meant that the museum was not distinguished between good and bad. Guangzhou Museum attaches great importance to this, deputy director Miao Jing replied to express great apologies, saying that the three works have been Xu Bojiao and other products as treasures special collection, but in view of the humid climate in the south, the museum is temporarily included in the Class A Yangjiang suitcase, Rong Geng and others went up the mountain, and the staff mistakenly moved the three pieces out together in the busy chaos, which caused it to misunderstand. Miao Jing implored Rong Geng to cancel the request to withdraw the donation.
This picture (also known as "Autumn Tree Gathering Birds") is now in the Guangzhou Museum of Art, and is the most exquisite one in Lin Liang's surviving works.
Review: Tan Lugang