Wang Tongyu (1855~1941) character Shengzhi, the number of the yuan, the garden, Suzhou people. In the fifteenth year of the Qing Dynasty (1889), he entered the priesthood, and served as a former official of the Hanlin Academy, Hubei Xuezheng, and Jiangxi Tixue Official, and in his later years he lived in Nanxiang Town, Jiading (now part of Shanghai). He devoted his life to collecting books and reading, with more than 70,000 volumes, and once lamented: "There is nothing more precious and entertaining in the world than to know the most precious and entertaining thing in the world." "In addition to loving to collect books and read books, calligraphy and painting are also famous, the landscape and water have the rhyme of the four kings, the calligraphy has been inherited by the European heritage, and the work is stable and rigorous." His authors include "Examining Doubts in Speaking Texts" and "Essays on Life". A few years ago, Gu Tinglong, a bibliographer of ancient books, also edited the "Collection of Wang Tongyu" for his uncle and printed it, so that future generations had a historical understanding of Wang Tongyu's life with poetry, calligraphy and painting.
When Wang Tongyu and Feng Chaoran met, Feng Nai spilled a teenager in his arms, and he respected Wang Laobo, a humble elder, and with the increasing contact, the two admired each other, so they became friends for the new year. Wang Tongyu said: "Yu And acquaintance, at the intersection of C (1906) and Wei (1907), spilled his arms on the young man. Shi Fang is committed to the ladies and characters, with Qi qian (Gai Qi) and Xiao Mei (Wang Yun) as the pioneer, the pen and ink are high, the trees and stones are beautiful, there are smoke and clouds, and they know that they will be sung by the mountains and rivers at the time, and read ten words and more than ten words. Genius is rich, knowledge goes hand in hand, and now it is absolutely dusty, which makes people sigh and sigh. ...... After Mr. Yun Hu (Gu Hu) and Lian Fu (Lu Hui), they had a needle and mustard with Yu On paintings, and micro-cleaned them with who they returned to. The appreciation for Feng Chaoran was overflowing. From acquaintance and mutual respect, Feng Chaoran revered Wang Tongyue as a respected predecessor, calling him "Old Uncle", and the next pen was "Wang Xuzhang", "Victory Of The Word", "Chaxi Elder" and so on. When Wang Tongyu was seventy-nine years old, after watching the axis of Feng Chaoran's "Snow Scene of the Valley" that amazed him, he wrote with a stroke of his pen: "Mr. Di Gang Linguo Heyang Valley Map." The snow scene of the cold forest was created from The Maha, and the Songshe Yingqiu was particularly good at winning, and its descendants Huayuan and Heyang were sparse, and the rest of the children were sparse, not enough. There is such a picture, and its path is not something that future generations can do. Shao Hao is salty and extraordinary. "Praising Feng Chaoran's painting skills as something that non-posterity can do is enough to be overwhelmed by his pen and ink." Wang Tongyu's calligraphy and paintings enjoy a high reputation, and there are many contacts in the field of calligraphy and painting with many talents. Lu Yu, a young student who lived with him in Nanxiang, learned poetry from him for a few years, and he also very much wanted to learn painting from his teacher. Wang Tongyu believes that among the famous calligraphers and painters, Feng Chaoran can be called one of the best in the hundreds of character paintings. He personally led Lu Yushao to the Songshan Caotang to worship the master, which showed that he was wise and discerning.
Gu Tinglong edited "Wang Tongyu Collection"
However, what makes Wang Tongyu and Feng Chaoran value each other the most is the national integrity of the other party. In the victorious stream of the Republic of China, Wang Tongyu's personal dignity is worthy of admiration. After the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, he no longer served the Qing government that lost power and humiliated the country. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, puyi, the last emperor, was supported by the Japanese and established the "state of Manchukuo" in the northeast, and some of Wang Tongyu's old friends, such as Luo Zhenyu, also accompanied Puyi into the puppet Manchu court to serve. When Puyi wanted to revive this old minister who had been a counselor in Japan and sent someone to summon Wang Tongyu, the Wang clan despised the behavior of defecting to the puppet regime in order to seek high-ranking officials Houlu. He immediately issued a statement in the newspaper, saying that he had completely broken with Puyi and did not want to have anything to do with Puyi's puppet Manchu court.
Feng Chaoran looked at the paintings made after Wang Tongyu's collection
When Feng Chaoran was young in Songjiang, he made friends with people of insight. Together with famous Hanmo masters and poets in the vicinity, such as Fei Longding, Chen Taoyi, Yang Zhigong, Gao Chuiwan, Wang Nianci, and Jin Zhongbai, he often attacked current politics and lamented the world's style. He deeply resented the Qing government's various despicable deeds of betraying the country and seeking glory and losing power and insulting the country. Huating Gu Yuan'an wrote the "Fourteen Friends of Yiyuan", which is called the Fourteen Friends, namely Yu Sulu, Zhang Mengjie, Yao Ziliang, Jin Songcen, Feng Chaoran, Gao Wangzhi, Gao Chuiwan, Min Ruizhi, Chang Zhixiang, Zhang Boxian, Yao Shizi, Ye Shurun, Fei Longding, and Cai Zhefu, most of whom were "Nanshe" members and Xiangzan revolutionaries. For Wang Tongyu's act of not serving the Qing government that lost power and humiliated the country, Feng Chaoran admired and admired it. In his later years, Wang Tongyu lived in Nanxiang and did not often go out, and Feng Chaoran went to visit. When The old man of Xin Weinian went to the butterfly immortal, the two never had to see each other again, and Feng Chaoran drew a map of the scenery of Nanxiang to make up for the remembrance of the old man for many years. Before Wang's death, he owed some polishing fees to others, and Feng Chaoran and Wu Hufan took the initiative to bear this debt and repaid their own calligraphy and painting works in lieu of repayment, which was passed on as a beautiful talk in the calligraphy and painting circles.
Feng Chaoran recalled the nanxiang scenery map painted by Wang Tongyu
Wang Jingwei was a former student of Wang Tongyu. After the establishment of Wang Jingwei's puppet government during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he sent people to invite Wang Tongyue to take a name in the Wang puppet government several times, but Wang Tongyue sternly refused. At that time, a traitor surnamed Gu took a fancy to Wang Tongyu's house and forcibly wanted to buy it, if Wang Tongyue was a pseudo-member of Wang, or even if the traitor surnamed Gu knew that Wang was Wang's student, then the Nanxiang apartment and library could be preserved. However, Wang Tongyue was resolutely unwilling to have anything to do with the traitors, and finally caused the Nanxiang Courtyard House to fall into the hands of the traitors along with the library, and the precious collection of books did not know the end. For this reason, Wang Tong became more and more depressed, and his health was declining. In 1941, Wang Tongyu recited the poem "Shi'er", "Dead Yuan zhi everything is empty, but sadly does not see Kyushu Tong, Wang Shi Bei Ding Zhongyuan Day, the family sacrifice does not forget to tell Nai Weng." Sentence passed away. Feng Chaoran was overwhelmed and wept uncontrollably, and in the future, he could always see his nostalgia and sadness for Wang Laobo in his paintings and calligraphy.
Source: Five people in the modern maritime painting world: "Three Wu Yi Feng" and "Four Families on the Sea" Art Trivia
Author: Feng Tianqiu
Publisher: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press