Shanghai: On October 25, 2021, in Chongming, Shanghai, a non-publicized aesthetic education development seminar was held at the Qianfantang Aesthetic Education Center. After the meeting, the Qian Junzao Art Heritage Museum was unveiled here, and at the same time, the Qian Junzao Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition and the 14th Anniversary Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition of Shanghai Xiangmei Academy were held. The initiator of this activity is Mr. Tang Shengtian, the owner of Qianfan Hall and a famous painter of the Shanghai School.
Twenty years ago, the famous art master Huang Yongyu inscribed the name "Qianfantang" for Mr. Tang Shengtian, saying that there was "Wanhetang" in the north and "Qianfantang" in the south. Tang Shengtian said, "This time, it's a new set sail!" ”
Where did the ship come from? Where is the course? In this big era, at this turning point in history, as an artist, what kind of "career" does Mr. Tang Shengtian really want to do?
An artist's wish
The author has not known Tang Shengtian for a long time, at the beginning, I saw Mr. Tang Shengtian was always smiling, smiling, happy haha, and one of the words often said on his mouth was "Play!" It seems that there has never been anything in his mind that can affect his emotions, even if he encounters a very wronged thing during the period, it will disappear the next day. I often joke: You are almost an enlightened person. In fact, for an artist who has passed the age of flowers and has experienced many ups and downs, what else can not be opened? However, after in-depth exchanges, I obviously felt that Mr. Li had a strong sense of urgency in his heart, "opening his eyes to create, closing his eyes to think about things", this early habit is still lasting in his vigorous life.
Born in Shanghai in 1958, Mr. Tang Shengtian began to study under the famous Shanghai art activist Yuan Songmin at the age of nine, and then successively followed the famous Shanghai calligraphers and painters Liu Haisu, Xie Zhiliu, Xie Zhiguang, Qian Junzao and Shangbo appraisers to inherit their names. Over the years, he has been diligent and diligent in seeking the peak of art, while making extraordinary achievements in many fields such as teaching and educating people, calligraphy and painting appraisal and collection. As a painter, he "inherits the past and the new" and "self-emergence" to form his own unique style, his paintings are evaluated by the famous art critic Wang Shide as "embodying the colorful Chinese aesthetic spirit", and have been evaluated by the industry as the true meaning of the Xinhai school of literati painting; as an appraiser, over the years he has trained a pair of calligraphy and painting appraisal of the golden eye of the fire eye, and led the team to innovate and invent the "Chinese art database intelligent service system", "three-in-one" art factory model, art finance fund hedging and other patents; as a professor, He carried out in-depth research on art theory, published "Inheriting the Past Naxin Pen and Ink ----Wu Lifu Artistic Aesthetic Thought and Water Painting Research", "Wang Lichang Calligraphy Art Analysis", edited "Jude Anthology", "Jude Review" and other works, and created the discipline of "Art Business"; as a businessman, he founded an auction company, established a new auction model, and led the industry fashion with a meager force. Contemporary seal engraver Han Tianheng spoke highly of Mr. Tang Shengtian and praised him as "a master of the sea!" ”。 Today, he is a member of the Shanghai Artists Association, an expert in the appraisal of art in the Shanghai Federation of Literature and Literature, a professor at the Art Research Institute of East China Normal University, a master's and doctoral tutor, a distinguished researcher of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and a discipline leader of the Shanghai Trade Union Management College. From the perspective of personal fame and fortune, he has everything and should be able to let go. But he is an artist, and the charm of art is that it has a never-ending realm worth pursuing, so he still stays up all night, splashing ink tirelessly. And it's much more than that.
Mr. Tang Shengtian grew up in shanghai under the influence of a group of well-known Haipai painters, and his spirit was infiltrated with the wind and bones and feelings of The Haipai painters. The spirit of the Haipai painters can be traced back to the Song and Yuan literati paintings since Su Dongpo, to the Bada Shanren and reached the peak of an era, thus continuing to Hongyi Master and gaining new life, the Haipai master Wu Changshuo pushed the Haipai to a new height, and then Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Pan Tianshou, Liu Haisu, Xie Zhiliu and a number of other masters were able to carry this forward. Mr. Qian Junzao, The most respected and close mentor of Tang Shengtian and known as "a lifetime of three fine arts, ninety peaks", is an important backbone of Haipai art in contemporary times. Passing on the torch, Tang Shengtian inherited the elegance of literati painting and the flexible and colorful style characteristics of the Shanghai school in painting, and culturally inherited the ancient literati's mind of taking the world as their own responsibility, and the two penetrated each other, making his paintings have a magnificent momentum, and making him pay more attention to reality, people's livelihood and the fate of the country in his thinking.
In 2014, leaders of relevant departments called on the art community to attach importance to tradition and the study of the spirit of Chinese art. This made Tang Shengtian see hope. With a strong sense of responsibility and a high degree of self-confidence in Oriental culture, he is determined to work hard to promote the rejuvenation of Chinese culture with his own efforts. He believed that the spark of the stars could certainly ignite the plains, and believed that our great cultural traditions were enough to return to the spiritual world of Chinese, which had been severely eroded by Western commercial culture, a spiritual home. On the basis of painting theory, he put forward the "Chinese realm theory", he believes that the realm created by traditional art is a combination of values, ways of thinking, beliefs, customs, and lifestyles, so it should become a realm and a belief in how to live artistically in the current Chinese. He not only called the trumpet, but also practiced. In the early years, he founded a painter's village in Shanghai, attracting a large number of young painters to discuss the development of the new era of art; later engaged in commercial activities to strive for truth and hold auctions of "authenticity"; academically, he gathered well-known theorists and young and talented students to form an academic team, build a unique theoretical system, and strive to open up the channel between tradition and reality. In terms of life, he strives to practice the life of art, explores the semi-urban, half-farming, half-commercial, and semi-artistic lifestyles, and strives to restore the living conditions of the scholars and doctors of that era.
However, years of practice have made Tang Shengtian deeply aware that the power of the people to follow is too strong, and it is necessary to start from basic education to carry forward traditional culture and truly implant the genes of traditional culture into people's hearts. Therefore, he silently determined the goal of "tongzigong" of starting from children to grasp aesthetic education and let a generation practice traditional culture.
Qianfantang Aesthetic Education Center is a new beginning of his aesthetic education, and it is also another departure in his life in his sixties.
A virgin land of culture
At the mouth of the Yangtze River, between the confluence of the rivers and the sea, there is a silkworm baby-like green island lying quietly for more than 1,400 years. The river gushed, blocking the hurried pedestrians, but also leaving a relatively simple folk custom. The dialect here retains the unique charm of the ancient Wu language; the land, which is made of mud and sand in half of China, is loose and fertile, and grows many unique flavors of agricultural products. Between the spring and autumn seasons, the island is cloudy and misty; in the alternating light and shadow of morning and dusk, the cows and sheep in the countryside are mooing. Although the ancient style of bamboo hedge huts is rare, the heels of the walls of small buildings can often see roses and chrysanthemums, melon vines and bean vines are climbing corridors, and the leisurely scenery of Nanshan mountain everywhere.
After retirement, Tang Shengtian did not want to be re-employed by the school and continue to live a life that was constrained within the previous system. He himself said he was a restless person who loved to "toss and turn". In fact, he is silently brewing his dream of aesthetic education. But in the environment where the roar of the shanghai machines was tightly paced, his dream could not find a place to stay. By chance, he chatted with the taxi driver he was riding, and the "brother" who spoke Mandarin with a Chongming accent heard that he was going to the countryside to find a piece of land to live a farming life, and said, "We have land in Chongming, and I can go back to help you contact immediately." It was such an opportunity that he soon set foot on Chongming Island with Chongming's "brother".
Chongming was transferred from Jiangsu to Shanghai in 1958, becoming a suburb of Shanghai, because the river is separated, culturally has not been integrated with Shanghai, so Chongming people to Shanghai has always said "to Shanghai", Shanghai people from the urban area to Chongming, often like entering another time and space, from air to water, from the environment to humanities, is basically another world. After the opening of the Yangtze River Bridge in 2009, Chongming became a de facto "peninsula", but as the last pure land in Shanghai, Chongming's forest coverage rate has been increasing, the environment is clean and tidy, and the prototype of the 5A-level scenic spot in the whole region has begun to appear. However, due to the inconvenience of transportation, it is difficult for literati and merchants to reach in Chongming history, so there are not many influential celebrities left, and the island culture is relatively weak. Although there is also one of the four major pipa schools, the Yingzhou pipa ancient tune, there is basically no inheritance. In the upsurge of cultural construction in the new era, Chongming has also actively introduced many cultural products, but it has not yet formed a scale, and it will not become a climate after all. Therefore, all townships and departments are also actively looking for and excavating various cultural resources, trying to enrich the cultural life of the countryside. When Tang Shengtian was guided by "Brother" to a village in MiaoZhen, western Chongming, the village cadres were naturally overjoyed and immediately set aside a piece of collective land for his use, without mentioning any conditions.
Tang Shengtian set foot on this land, as a painter with a strong ancient scholar-doctor temperament, he was suddenly attracted by the tranquility of this countryside, chanting poems in the mountains and rivers, farming in the countryside, picking chrysanthemums under the bamboo hedges, enjoying the flowers in the backyard, "chicken, duck, fish, meat and rice do not forget the aroma of vegetable roots, qinqi poetry, calligraphy and painting", which is the ideal life he seeks. He could no longer move his heels for half a step, so he hit it off with the village chief, immediately settled down, planted fences and walls, planted flowers and grass, raised chickens and ducks, built his rural "Thousand Sails Hall", and lived a life of farming and reading. Of course, he had not forgotten his mission. I heard that a painter lived in the village, and the young parents around them tried to send their children to learn painting, and his long march of aesthetic education for teenagers began the first step, and over time, parents who were far away in the city also admired and sent their children. However, unlike the general art training in the workshop, Teacher Tang has a principle, that is, his training is free, and students do not choose good or bad.
One evening in the countryside two years later, Tang Shengtian had dinner and began his reading and painting as he was accustomed, and the rattling of two old geese came from outside the door, and he knew that the director of the district supply and marketing cooperative surnamed Huang, who had made an appointment by telephone in the afternoon, had come. When he opened the door, he saw a gentle middle-aged man standing at the door, and he suddenly accepted the leader from the heart, who had never liked to interact with officials. From the conversation with Director Huang, Tang Shengtian learned that the relevant departments have realized that in the construction of a world-class ecological island, if there is no cultural development, no matter how many trees are planted and the environment is built, it is still a primitive land, and it is not a civilized development, so the district government and relevant departments are eager to develop local culture and actively introduce foreign culture. As a suburb of Greater Shanghai, relying on rich urban cultural resources, Chongming hopes to take the initiative to use the spillover effect of urban culture to truly build Chongming into a cultural back garden of Shanghai city. Director Huang also told Tang Shengtian that with the transformation of the economy and the urbanization of the countryside, the assets of the original supply and marketing cooperatives in many rural areas are currently idle, and the supply and marketing cooperatives hope that the available resources can be converted into cultural facilities to provide a place for the local people to enrich their cultural life. He is also willing to use a whole three-story warehouse in the "Old Winery" Cultural and Creative Park transformed by a winery in the Chengqiao area for Tang Shengtian to use, hoping that Mr. Tang can establish a brand cultural project in the Chengqiao area and expand it to other townships on this basis. Tang Shengtian immediately thought that this was an excellent opportunity for the promotion of his own aesthetic education, and the good resources given by Heaven immediately agreed, and the agreement was identified that night.
In his contacts with huang, director of the supply and marketing cooperative, and later huang, director of the Cultural and Tourism Bureau, and other leaders, Tang Shengtian felt the unique humanistic characteristics of Chongming. First, there are a number of leaders who have feelings and want to be officials, which is a strong backing for the development of his aesthetic education; second, chongming, because the cultural development is still in the initial stage, the cultural circles are not as mountainous as downtown Shanghai and other big cities, which provides a good space for the development of new ideas and new ideas; third, Chongming is a suburb of Shanghai after all, administratively and shanghai urban areas are integrated, and further close connections in future transportation will make Chongming cultural development have huge potential energy. The cultural inheritance of Haipai has a great connection point with the construction of Chongming's world-class ecological island. Chongming, a beautiful island, can become a test field for the comprehensive implementation of aesthetic education.
Standing at the west-facing window on the second floor of the renovated Qianfan Hall of the old winery, the sunset is setting, Tang Shengtian looks at the dusk scenery of the old town area in the distance, "Jackdaw counts, and the flowing water surrounds the isolated village", and conceives a grand vision of future aesthetic education in his heart.
A new aesthetic education concept
Tang Shengtian followed the life education idea put forward by Mr. Tao Xingzhi and put forward the concept of "life aesthetic education", which has three meanings, one is to learn Tao Xingzhi's universal education, to popularize aesthetic education to everyone, including every age, regardless of the elderly and children, need aesthetic education; the second is to learn Tao Xingzhi's practical experience in life education, aesthetic education should be combined with life, experience beauty in life, create beauty, and improve our quality of life from an aesthetic point of view; third, beauty should be combined with the soul. It is necessary to nourish the spirit through aesthetic education, improve personality, enhance morality, and construct lofty ideals of life. In order to remind himself to always keep in mind the educational ideals of his predecessors, on the wall behind his chair in the parlor of QianfanTang, he asked two painters to paint two portraits to hang, one was a martial arts training and the other was Tao Xingzhi. The former is ragged, stubborn and determined; the latter is demure, determined and stubborn. Tao Xingzhi wrote two lines of big peach characters next to him: "Come with a heart, and go without half a blade of grass." "Tang Shengtian is determined to use the will of martial arts to beg to run a school and Tao Xingzhi's feelings of civilian education, go all out to promote his life aesthetic education in Chongming's urban and rural areas, completely change Chongming's humanistic ecology through aesthetic education, inject a strong humanistic atmosphere into Chongming's world-class ecological island, and also establish a model and benchmark for the inheritance of China's traditional aesthetic education culture."
Mr. Wang Binzhi, an art critic, commented on Tang Shengtian on the educational philosophy of Li Ka-shing Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, saying that he was also good at "taking advantage of the momentum", "mingdao" and "excellent skills". In the concept of life aesthetic education, Tang Shengtian has naturally made it clear and does not need to be repeated. In the implementation of life aesthetic education, what kind of potential does he want to take? The greatest trend is, of course, the general trend of development in our country and the major policies of the party and the government, especially the art policy. First of all, he knew that aesthetic education must be the most important promotion content in the second hundred years of national modernization, in addition to scientific and technological progress, because a country's civilization has reached a high level, and it is inseparable from the shaping of the national soul, and the shaping of the soul is inseparable from aesthetic education. Secondly, as a senior cultural worker, he deeply understands that the power of example is infinite in the creation of cultural and artistic atmosphere and the promotion of trends. This year, he thought of his mentor Qian Junzao again, and thought of Qian Junzao's "Long March Seal Spectrum", and he wanted to sort out an example for Chongming Meiyu.
"Long March Seal Notation" is mr. Qian Junzao in the fifties and sixties of the most difficult period, with many years to create a batch of seal carving masterpieces, the seal not only in the art of bringing together from the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties a variety of seal carving styles, set the master's life's work, each can be called a fine product, has a high artistic value, at the same time the content reflects the 100 place names through the Long March, containing the author's high recognition and reverence for the spirit of the great Long March, always remind us not to forget the original heart, keep in mind the mission, Put the interests of the people above the ultimate goal of all our actions. Tang Shengtian realized that this is a cluster of fine art products that integrates patriotic education and traditional culture education, which is of great promotion value.
Tang Shengtian wanted to use the fulcrum of the "Long March Printing Spectrum" to pry the implementation of Chongming's life aesthetic education. This year, the "Long March Printing Spectrum" has begun from Qianfantang, and some universities and enterprises in Shanghai have toured the exhibition, and at present, Ruijin, Zunyi and other cities along the Long March have successively contacted Tang Shengtian and asked for exhibition. On October 25th, he first started to build a "Qian Junkui Art Heritage Museum" on the qianfan hall with half of the floor, on the one hand, to make up for the regret of missing the landing in Huaihai Park one step away from the Qian Junzao Memorial Hall, on the other hand, he wanted to use this place as the starting point of the "Long March Seal" to the whole country, and he believed that the "spark of stars" of aesthetic education would start from here and will definitely go to the trend of the fire. Why the "Heritage Hall"? The role of "Long March Printing Spectrum" is not only an exhibition, in Tang Shengtian's heart, if a work of art is only placed in a museum and only for everyone to observe, it cannot really play its role. In order to truly inherit and develop the artistic and spiritual values of the "Long March Seal Spectrum" in the new era, it is necessary to let the vast number of artists and the masses participate in the creation of art. Starting from Chongming, he planned to mobilize lovers of traditional culture and art such as poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, to retake the Long March Road, to re-experience the glorious course of the Red Army's Long March, to re-experience the spirit of Qian Junzao's painstaking efforts to create the "Long March Seal Spectrum" in the difficult years, and then to carry out creative activities, through collection and selection, put outstanding works together with Qian Junzao's calligraphy and painting works into the heritage hall, thus stimulating people's enthusiasm for artistic creation and the original intention of "art serving the people".
Teacher Tang often said a sentence: "The masters around you, the influence is infinite." The "Qian Junkui Art Heritage Museum" is just the beginning. As mentioned earlier, Tang Shengtian is a famous appraiser and collector in Shanghai, and has collected a large number of fine works of Haipai art masters over the years. The state has recently introduced policies to support private art museums, which are being implemented one after another in various places. She thought of the idle property assets of the supply and marketing cooperatives in various places that the director of the supply and marketing cooperatives talked about, and decided to build a museum group in Chongming, and put all his collections in Chongming to produce a cluster effect, form a cultural influence, and build a good artistic atmosphere for Chongming's aesthetic education.
A yaji story
Yaji has always been a qinghuan affair loved by literati doctors. It is different from the lively parties of young people, and also different from the luxurious gatherings of the dignitaries and nobles, it has the cultural elements of piano, chess, calligraphy, poetry, wine and tea, and the literati feelings of Xiu Qi Zhiping Confucianism and Taoism. In ancient times, there were Lanting Yaji, and now there are enlightened Yaji, and the Yaji of different eras have left romantic and beautiful memories of the literati in the long river of history. The enlightened banquet that began in the enlightened bookstore in the 1930s is an elegant event that cannot be erased in the memory of the Haipai literati. Enlightened Bookstore is a well-known publishing institution opened in Shanghai in the first half of the twentieth century, whose purpose is to create a good cultural atmosphere, advocate new ideas and trends in life, and foster new writers. The publishing house has successively edited a large number of famous scholars such as Xia Junzun, Feng Zikai, Ye Shengtao, Zheng Zhenduo, Qian Junzao, etc., and published a large number of famous books of that era, with a large number of fans. Initiated by Mr. Qian Junzao, the enlightened banquet was elegant for a while, becoming a platform for the famous Shanghai literati Li Shutong, Feng Zikai, Zhou Shuren, Ye Shengtao, Shen Yanbing, etc. to carry out cultural exchanges and practice life aesthetic education, and many of the recipes of the banquet at that time were now collected by Tang Shengtian. Tang Shengtian never forgot the maritime style of that year and hoped to restore this elegant thing.
When designing the blueprint for life aesthetic education, Teacher Tang naturally thought of these recipes. People take food as the sky, eating, is always the most basic daily needs of human beings, starting from eating to promote life aesthetic education is the easiest to get the acceptance of the majority of the people. The sandy land of Chongming produces very unique green agricultural products, and these beautiful ingredients have not yet been widely promoted. Chongming in recent years the development of the homestay industry, with the deepening of the construction of the ecological island and the great improvement of the island environment, Shanghai people into the island leisure fashion is increasingly circulating, the current 90% of Shanghai homestays in Chongming, including many elegant design, the environment is quiet. If the "enlightened recipe" is restored in Chongming, the collection activities are organized in various famous places, and artists from all over the world are invited to gather frequently, on the one hand, to tell the story of the enlightened art collection, so that the Haipai literati style can take root in people's hearts, on the other hand, let the footprints of contemporary celebrities leave their footprints under the waterside forest in Chongming, and write new cultural stories. On the basis of the construction of the museum group aesthetic education form, the literati yaji is undoubtedly a living material created by the cultural atmosphere of Chongming aesthetic education. The development of homestays in our country has gone through several stages, and now people are no longer satisfied with eating and drinking in homestays, pretending to be stupid, the cultivation of 3,0 versions of cultural homestays has arrived at the time, realistically speaking, this is a new direction for the development of Chongming Cultural Tourism, the sooner the better. Relying on the greater Shanghai, Chongming has unique cultural resources and can be one step ahead.
As an art set, eating is just a foundation. Grace is the right thing. Tang Shengtian has set up a number of celebrity studios in his Chongming Qianfan Hall, and a group of painters have often come to Chongming to carry out creative activities. Chongming is the back garden of Shanghai, although there is no mountain, but there is a rich idyllic scenery of the water town, and the relatively primitive peasant life is full of the traditional Chinese concept of the unity of nature and man. Tang Shengtian hopes that more painters can take root in Chongming together, experience life among the peasants, enter the spiritual world of the peasants, generate rich inspiration in the intersection and infiltration of the heart and nature, and the people, combine the Haipai landscape painting style with the Chongming pastoral, and create a number of Pastoral Landscape Painting works of the Houhai School, so that the connotation of the Haipai style can be further expanded in the new era. In line with the purpose of art serving the people, these works will not only be used for exhibition, but will need to stay in Chongming's country house for a long time and become a unique scenery of Chongming cultural cottages.
Painting is a reproduction of nature in the mind, displayed on paper by pen and ink; naturally it can also be beautified by painting in people's minds. Chongming's rural revitalization work is being vigorously promoted, and the transformation of the island landscape road, the roundabout canal, the rural corridor, and the rural community transformation are in full swing. However, due to the limitations of designer resources, the tendency of landscape homogenization is more serious, and the construction of 5A-level scenic spots in the whole region has improved its cultural taste, and there is still a lot of room, which greatly requires the participation of real artists and the injection of cultural concepts. Mr. Tang Shengtian was very concerned about the little changes in Chongming, and he thought of the "Mustard Garden Painting Spectrum".
"Mustard Garden Painting Notation" is a painting textbook compiled by Li Yu in the Ming Dynasty. Just as "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" is the most important model for poets, "Mustard Garden Painting Notation" is a threshold that Chinese painting creators cannot bypass. Li Yu is a standard Chinese literati, he is not only a painter, but also a first-class master in literature and poetry, drama and opera, life aesthetics, design, garden construction, interior furnishings, furniture design, book publishing, Chinese painting and other aspects. The "Mustard Garden Painting Notation" is a monument to the inheritance of Chinese literati painting, which collects the essence of literati painting since the Song and Yuan dynasties, and has had a great influence on the literati paintings of the late Ming dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, especially the later Haipai literati paintings. Therefore, Tang Shengtian believes that the "Mustard Garden Notation" cannot be regarded as just a tool, it should be a cultural precipitation, and the "Mustard Garden Painting Notation" can become one of the most distinctive representatives and symbols of Chinese literati painting.
Tang Shengtian has begun to carefully sort out and design, and he hopes to restore the typical scenes in the paintings into realistic attractions. Chongming is fortunate to be an island, although the island is small but integrated, it is an independent area, and the natural scenery in between can be a book that cannot be read. Chongming Island is properly spread from east to west, and there is enough space to accommodate the many scenes of the painting without being too scattered, and the construction of the green corridor can be just the binding line of the painting. If built, the future Chongming will be a realistic version of the mustard garden painting spectrum, which will surely assume the due role of publicity and promotion for the inheritance of Chinese literati paintings. This is a collection of scenery that will surely attract more literati and scholars to gather here.
An ancient and novel model of education
In modern times, Chen Hengke believes that "literati painting has four elements: character, learning, talent and thought. With these four, it can be perfected." Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, the mainstream of Chinese literati painting, its essence is the literati, the literati have both the dual identity of writing and painting, coupled with the integration of calligraphy and painting pen and ink tools, so that Chinese literati painting and Western painting have a huge difference. The most significant difference is the ubiquitous meaning in painting that is different from the Western sketching tradition, because this meaning can produce the realm that Tang Shengtian often said. It means the soul and ultimate pursuit of painting. Wei Jin main rhyme, Song Yuan idea. This meaning contains the Confucian and Taoist thought of the mature traditional Chinese literati who have penetrated deep into the marrow, and is a kind of value and outlook on life that can enter the world and retreat from the mountains and forests.
In the passage of time, Tang Shengtian in recent years often thinks of the situation when he was a child with Qian Junzao and other teachers to learn to paint mustard garden notation, the teachers' ears are not only the brushwork and layout, but also the etiquette of daily life, is a careful understanding of natural customs, culture and even the fate of human beings, the gentlemen's words and deeds have long built a solid value building in Tang Shengtian's psychology. This value also injected great energy into Tang Shengtian's later painting creation, making his works unique and preserving a good inheritance. Tang Shengtian is very aware that this traditional model of mentoring and discipleship is difficult to continue in today's society, and it is precisely because of this that the inheritance of Haipai culture is particularly difficult. To this end, he tried to revive this tradition at his aesthetic education center.
At present, there are not many students enrolled in the Qianfantang Aesthetic Education Center, although there are dozens of students who want to enroll in the city alone, and there are many local students in Chongming who want to come to school through various greetings, but Teacher Tang first insists on teaching without class, followed by the number of people. On the one hand, this is based on his value orientation, and on the other hand, it is also an experimental need. He hopes that his students are of all kinds, from academic excellence and intelligence, to those who have a certain foundation in painting and want to improve, those who are introverted and reserved, cowardly and timid, and those who are mischievous and difficult to control. Teacher Tang's teaching is first of all with aiyude, he is an old man with a flower armor and a childlike interest with the children, playing together, reading together, drawing together, won the children's love; on the other hand, he also from the choice of class seats, the exchange of works and sitting posture with pens and other daily norms to train children's etiquette of doing things for people. In Mr. Tang's painting class, music, calligraphy and painting are organically integrated, and classic ancient texts, painting theories and current skills are studied in contrast. When painting bamboo plum blossoms, Teacher Tang will ask parents to lead their children to the bamboo forest plum trees to touch the experience, in class, will bring potted bamboo, turn off the lights, use a flashlight to hit the shadow of the bamboo on the wall from all angles, let the children experience how the bamboo is transformed into a flat painting, and then understand how the flat painting shows the three-dimensional bamboo. Teacher Tang told the children that "books are drawn from the heart" and "paintings are born from the heart", to learn to paint, there must be things in the heart, and there must be bamboo in the heart, in order to draw the bamboo out of the flexible artistic conception.
Tang Shengtian knows that this kind of teacher-apprentice teaching is difficult to promote on a larger scale, good at accepting new things and being willing to innovate, he has begun to organize his classroom recording, hoping to form a series of high-quality teaching cases through recording and processing, and invite professors from the Curriculum Research Center of China Normal University to come together, and then restore his teaching practice to the curriculum and promote it everywhere. At the same time, he is contacting high-tech companies, hoping to develop intelligent software to form an intelligent guidance system for his aesthetic education practice in the future, so that more children can benefit.
Tang Shengtian has a strong sense of urgency and responsibility for the revival of traditional culture, and he hopes to spread this responsibility and mobilize people with lofty ideals to take on this macro. In the near future, he hopes to recruit a group of young Chinese teachers and art teachers with such feelings in Chongming, teach his aesthetic education teaching concepts and teaching methods to young teachers in the form of mentoring and apprenticeship, and then carry out aesthetic education training together inside and outside the school through them, so that his life aesthetic education will blossom everywhere in Chongming as soon as possible.
Life aesthetic education comes from life and returns to life practice. Tang Shengtian hopes that under the background of the government's vigorous promotion of labor education, he will further practice the idea of Tao Xingzhi's life education, cooperate with the youth labor bases in various places, establish the Qianfantang aesthetic education practice base, lead parents and children to carry out parent-child labor together, jointly create a beautiful life in labor, participate in labor education with the concept of aesthetic education, guide parents and children to get close to nature, and return to the oriental way of life of "the unity of nature and man" in the fragrance of the earth. Children's education is inseparable from parents, Tang Shengtian also hopes that through the construction of mobile art concepts, the art museum will be run to schools, hospitals, institutions and communities, and at the same time establish a "beauty education lecture hall", convene well-known domestic artists, and regularly carry out aesthetic education lectures in Chongming, form an atmosphere in which the whole society receives aesthetic education, attaches importance to aesthetic education, comprehensively expands the aesthetic education audience population, and also creates a good social atmosphere for the growth of children.
In 2021, Although Mr. Tang Shengtian's experimental concept of aesthetic education is still in its infancy, qianfan will start from here, and the spark can be ignited; it will be the will of the Long March, and the original intention will always be passed on. We believe that the qianfantang aesthetic education rooted in extensive life practice will surely bear fruitful fruits on the vast land, and the traditional Chinese culture will once again shine with brilliant brilliance in the new era, providing endless cultural energy for the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. (Wen Huang Yongcun)