Yan Bolong (1898-1954) was a famous flower and bird painter of the Northern Beijing-Tianjin School during the Republic of China period, working on landscapes, figures, feathers, and animals. Name Yuncheng, the word Yunlin, trumpet long white cloth, Beijinger. In the old days, the ancestors completed the Yan clan for the Great Golden Kingdom, and then in the Qing Dynasty, they inherited the position of blue flag leader, and the Qing Dynasty collapsed in the Xinhai Revolution, and became a cloth cloth overnight, so it was called "long white cloth". The residence is called Tsubaki Grass Hall. Graduated from Beijing Normal School in his early years, he followed up the Chinese Painting Department of Beijing Art College, studied under Mr. Wang Mengbai (Yun), Chen Hengke (Shi Zeng), and after graduation, he was hired as a Chinese painting teacher at Beijing Normal School and Art College, and a member of the Review Committee of the Chinese Painting Research Association. In addition to lecturing and teaching disciples, and looking at the famous deeds of the past, deeply familiar with ancient methods, teaching each other, in the Chinese painting of landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, animals have their own strengths, especially proficient in flowers and birds, on the basis of dedicated research, listen to birds say even more, ask who the flowers laugh at, work and write, and become everyone. It is often said that "Western paintings have figures, still lifes, feathers and other kinds, and the image is real, but it is only a specimen painting, and there are very few scenes." Or flowers and birds appear by chance in landscape paintings." Mr. Bo Long knows that Chinese painting is different from Western painting, and with his strengths, he deeply studies and creates flower and bird paintings, and does his duty to promote the art of Guo painting in the world. (Yan Bolong initially studied at The Beiping Art College, where he studied under Qi Baishi, Chen Banding, Chen Shizeng, Wang Mengbai and other famous teachers, and was Wang Mengbai's disciple.) Literary teachers studied under Lin Qinnan. He is friends with Li Kuchan, Wang Shensheng, Wang Xuetao, and Qiu Shimu. Yan Bolong's early paintings were influenced by Wang Mengbai, and most of them imitated the brushwork of the Silla Mountain people, and there were many relics of the Eight Greats and Silla in the painting style. In the middle period, he gradually got rid of the style of his predecessors, and has incorporated some of his own brushwork into the paintings, such as "pseudo-yuanren brushwork", "imitation Of Lin Liang (Lü Ji) brushwork", "imitation of Li Futang brushwork" and so on. In the process of continuous imitation of the ancient, gradually achieve eclecticism, set the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties of the flower and bird painting method of the culmination, but also continue to integrate their own Danqing interest, and finally into a generation of flowers and birds, the formation of Yan's "part-time work for writing" unique flower and bird painting method. )
