Xiao Yin Literature Museum Exhibits Story 11
Xiao Yin's students and friends carved seals for him
Chen Jiaji
The 12 seals of Xiao Yin are exhibited in the Heyuan Xiao Yin Literature Museum
In the Heyuan City Library, there is a display cabinet in the Xiao Yin Literature Museum, exhibiting 12 Xiao Yin seals.
These are part of the seals that Xiao Yin used in his life (some of them were lost for various reasons).
The seals for Xiao Yin were all friends and students of Xiao Yin, including the seal engravings of Hongzheng and Fang Yanning.
Hongzheng
Hongzheng, formerly known as Yang Hengzhong, is a native of Xinhua, Hunan. A member of the Communist Party of China He graduated from Zhuzhou Railway Mechanical and Electrical School in 1955. He has successively served as the editor and deputy director of the literary and art editing office of Hunan People's Publishing House, the deputy editor-in-chief, president and editor-in-chief of Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, and the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Furong Magazine. He is a member of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 4th and 5th Vice Chairman of the Writers Association, a member of the State Council's Ancient Books Collation and Publication Planning Group, and a counselor of the Hunan Provincial People's Government. Librarian of Hunan Provincial Research Museum of Culture and History.
As early as the 1970s, he became famous for his seal engraving, and successively published the "Wangyue Lou Seal Collection" and the "Modern Writers and Artists Seal Collection", as well as the collection "Selected Prints for Calligraphy and Painting" with Xiong Boqi and other six people. Among the people he engraved, there were not only literary giants, such as Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, Ai Qing, Zhang Tianyi, Wang Meng, but also famous artists Liu Haisu, Lin Sanzhi, Xu Linlu, Lai Shaoqi, Fei Xinmei, Guan Shanyue and others, who had a wide influence in the literary and art circles. Hongzheng is well versed in the seal method, pursues the beauty of the artistic conception, and has studied it for decades to reach the realm of "magnificent and more than enough". Hongzheng Zhiyin, often according to the artistic conception contained in the other party's name to cloth white knife, the layout of the plot often breaks the convention, does not fall behind, according to the current popular saying is good at creating visual impact. For example, the seal of the writer Zhang Tianyi, in the chapter method, the "Tian" character is extremely reduced, the proportion of the "wing" word is exaggerated, the two words of "Tianyi" on the knife method are purely round pens, and "Zhang" is mainly square pens, strong and powerful, and the square circles between square inches are both square and clear, and the contrast is clear; when it comes to Ding Lingzhi's seal, when taking materials, it is specially used to use a circular stone, and the structure alone highlights the "Ling" character, and "Ding" cleverly borrows a Xiao-shaped seal, carved into a bell shape, and hangs on both sides of the "Wang" to sway in the wind, which is extremely cute. His seal touched the Taiwanese writer Sanmao, who wrote to him: "Hongzheng, I will not find excuses, nor do I need to be insincere to you, I insist on coming, I want to come, I want to know you..."
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Fang Yaning (real name Liping) is a native of Pingyao, Shanxi. Professor of Nankai University, calligraphy and seal engraving artist. When he was young, he enrolled in a private school, so he had a good foundation in Chinese characters. In the 1940s, he attended middle school in Beijing. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s and worked as an art editor until 1961. He has taught at Xinjiang Academy of Arts and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Since the 1950s, he has been trained under Wu Zuoren, Qi Yanming, and Xiao Jun.
Fang Yanning is a professor at Nankai University, who studied under Wu Zuoren, Qi Yanming and Xiao Jun from the 1960s to the 1980s, and is a well-known calligraphy and seal engraving artist in China.
Fang Yanning (real name Liping) is a native of Pingyao, a famous city in Shanxi. Professor of Nankai University, outstanding contemporary calligraphy and seal engraving artist. When he was young, he enrolled in a private school, so he had a good foundation in Chinese characters. Since the beginning of the year, he has been interested in traditional painting and calligraphy. In the 1940s, he attended high school in Beijing. Zhou Huimin, a Jinghua Indian, became his enlightenment teacher. Zhou was a student of Lu Hejiu, a disciple of the famous seal engraving calligrapher Zhao Zhiqian during the Reign of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Fang Yanning can also be said to be a descendant of Zhao Zhiqian. Zhao's charm can still be glimpsed in his seal engraving works.
Of the 12 remaining seals, 4 are library seals.
Xiao Yin's 4 book seals
Before the "Cultural Revolution", Xiao Yin's family collection was very rich, and there were originally six cabinet books, including world literature masterpieces, including Boccaccio's "Ten Days of Talk", Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Sholokhov's "Quiet Don River", Balzac's "Eugenie Grande", "Chekov Short Story Collection", "Maupassant Short Story Collection" and more than 200 volumes; Chinese literary masterpieces include "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Water Margin", "Lin Hai Snow Field", "Red Rock", "Song of Youth" and "Bitter Cauliflower" There are hundreds of works by famous Russian writers; about 50 literary works donated by contemporary writers (friends), as well as literary publications, photographic magazines, posters, and records from all over the country. As well as Chinese and foreign children's literature books bought for her daughter, such as "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "Andersen's Fairy Tales".
At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Xiao Yin was criticized for raiding his home. In order to avoid the collection of books being put on the line, Xiao Yin burned the precious books in his family in the courtyard one night in July 1966. Guangdong writer Huang Qiuyun recounted Xiao Yin's book burning in an article entitled "Burning Secretaries": "The person who burned the most books in another household was Comrade Xiao Yin, a famous literary critic who had a lot of books, and who was then the director of the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of the Central and Southern Bureau of the CPC, and was naturally a 'key household'. He burned almost all the books, burned them all night, and the next day there was still smoke and wisps. ”
Of the six large bookcases, only about a quarter of the books remained in the upper and lower rows.
After the "Cultural Revolution", Xiao Yin "restored the bookcase", so he specially asked Hongzheng to engrave the book chapter. The side section of the seal tells the reason why Xiao Yin asked Hongzheng to engrave this collection of books.
On the above "Xiao Yin Collection Book" engraved by Hongzheng, Hongzheng has the following side paragraphs:
Yin Shijiu led the literary world works and other body collection of extremely rich four harms rampant pain was lost to the present restoration of the book cabinet to persuade the student carved stone to remember the self-deprecating shallow master's life is difficult to violate when angry and refined his daily republishment to entertain the master also In November 1978, Hongzheng honorific publication
Today, these books, which are stamped with Xiao Yin's name seal and the book seal, are all donated by Xiao Yin's family to the Xiao Yin Literature Museum.