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The Paper learned that the "Ministry of Culture and Tourism 2020 National Fine Arts Collection and Donation Award Project: YouRong Naida - Rong Geng Donation Exhibition" opened at the National Art Museum of China on November 3. The exhibition is jointly organized by the National Art Museum of China, the Palace Museum, the National Museum, the Guangzhou Museum of Art, the Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library and other twelve museums and art galleries, gathering more than 300 pieces of cultural relics donated by Mr. Rong Geng and his family over the years.
The exhibition includes calligraphy, paintings and seal engravings made by the scholar Mr. Rong Geng in various periods, as well as bronzes donated by Mr. Rong Geng and his family, calligraphy and paintings from past dynasties, cong ti, gold and stone rubbings, manuscripts, letters, literary seals, and documents, including the bronze "Luan Shujian", a first-class cultural relics in the National Museum of China, a sketch of "Yunshan Map" in the Southern Song Dynasty, Dong Qichang Xingcao, And Yun Nantian's "Flower Album".
"It's not easy to gather solid, but why is it difficult to disperse?" Instead of being lost behind, it is better to hand it over to the state before death. Moreover, putting it in the national office is also a kind of gathering, as long as it can benefit more people, my decades of hard work will not be in vain. Rong Geng said at a symposium held for him by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture in June 1980.
Mr. Yung Geng (1894-1983)
The exhibition is divided into two parts: Rong Geng's data display and collection display, the latter is divided into four major blocks: "Guanyi Cultural Context Zhangyue Township", "Art Heart Has a Spirit of Self-Appeal", "Jiaozhi Famous Sage Reputation", and "Nazang Zhi zhi to repay the country". "Guanyi Wenmai Zhangyue Township" mainly displays the works of historical celebrities from Guangdong Province and Dongguan, focusing on the calligraphy and painting works of Rong Heling, Rong Zuchun of the Rong family of Dongguan Guancheng and Deng Rongjing of the Deng family, Deng Erya and others, in order to present the cultural atmosphere of Dongguan Chongwen re-education and the gathering of famous scholars. "Art Heart Has a Spirit of Self-Fragrance" mainly shows Rong Geng's achievements in poetry, calligraphy and painting seal carving, philology and calligraphy and painting theory, and cultural relics collection. "Jiaoqi Famous Sages CallEd Fame" mainly displays rong geng's correspondence with Luo Zhenyu, Wang Guowei, Guo Moruo and other academic elites at that time, calligraphy and painting seal engraving exchanges and other works, showing the literati stories and historical details behind the exhibits. "Nazang Xi zhiguobang" displays Rong Geng's collection and donation of national bronzes, gold stone calligraphy and painting works, etc.
Luan Shujian Bronze Warring States
Height 40.8cm Caliber 16.5cm Foot diameter 17cm
Collection of the National Museum
Among the nearly 300 exhibits on display, there are not only the first-class cultural relics bronze "Luan Shuyun" in the Collection of the National Museum of China, the "Eighty-One Moments of Lanting" in the Collection of the Palace Museum, the manuscript of the "Jin Wen Compilation" collected by Sun Yat-sen University, the bronze ware of the first-class cultural relics "Zhonghui Father's Gui" and "Thorn Ding" in the Collection of the Guangzhou Museum, the "Yunshan Map" sketch of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Liang's "Autumn Tree Gathering Bird Chart Axis", Shen Zhou's "Twelve Views of Wumen" album, Wen Zhengming's "Drunken Pavilion Record Calligraphy and Painting Volume", Dong Qichang Xingcao's "Wang WeiShi Two Poems" volume, Dong Qichang's "Jiangnan Landscape Map Axis", Yun Nantian's "Flower Album", Bian Shoumin's "Selected Miscellaneous Albums", and "Guo Moruo's Letter to Rong Geng" collected by the Guangdong Provincial Museum. Mr. Rong Geng is a famous paleographer, educator, antiquities appraiser, collector and seal engraver in China.
Exhibition site
Rong Geng (1894-1983), formerly known as Rong Zhaogeng, the character Xibai, the number Song Zhai, a native of Dongguan, Guangdong, is a famous paleographer and collector. He is good at calligraphy and painting seal carving, and is good at gold stone archaeology and calligraphy and painting collection. In 1922, he entered the Institute of Chinese Studies of Peking University as a graduate student, and after graduation, he successively served as a professor of Yenching University, the editor-in-chief of Yenching Journal and a member of the Appraisal Committee of the Beiping Antiquities Exhibition Institute, a professor and head of the Department of Chinese of Lingnan University, the editor-in-chief of Lingnan Journal, and a professor of the Department of Chinese of Sun Yat-sen University. He is not only a collector, but also an academic titan, who has trained several generations of philology, history and archaeology specialists for the country, and his works such as "Jin Wen Compilation" and "Shang Zhou Yi Instrument Tongkao" are still the classic must-read books for those engaged in the study of ancient characters, as well as the Jijin collection and calligraphy researchers.
Rong Geng specialized in learning, writings, and collected a wealth in his lifetime, and in his later years he donated his life's collection to the state. After Rong Geng's death, his children followed the motto "Scholarship is the public instrument of the world" and successively donated the cultural relics that he had not donated before his death to the state. In 2019, Rong Gengzi donated 177 self-engraved, others- and collected Rong Geng Tibetan seals to the National Art Museum of China. This year, the family once again donated 5 pieces of Rong Geng's calligraphy and painting works, 78 photographic and photo documents, and 4 volumes of the original plutonium seal of Rong Geng's "Song Zhai Tibetan Seal" to the National Art Museum of China.
In his thank-you speech, Rong Pu thanked the National Art Museum of China. She said that since 1956, her father has successively sent a large number of cultural relics purchased through thrift and clothing to the relevant units and departments in a planned and unsparing manner, so that more people can study, study, and do academic research.
Rong Geng, Jin Wen, edited the manuscript
Four volumes of ink and pencil on paper
Collection of the Institute of Paleography, Sun Yat-sen University
"The Rong family in Dongguan is the home of scholars and eunuchs, and people at the time called my father, uncle Zhaozu and their uncle Deng Erya 'one door and three masters.'" Rong Pu said in an interview with Guangming Daily many years ago that the yahao collected by his father after his father was inseparable from his childhood edification and family learning. Rong Pu recalled that his father's collection mainly began after he became a professor at Yenching University, and the source of funds came from his father's monthly salary. "My father was not a big capitalist, he was not rich, and his collection was all about his salary. After the salary, my father would always take half of the collection to buy it, and the other half would be given to my mother to take charge. Every time it was time to pay the tuition, my father would sell his books for gold bars to pay. Rong Pu said. Rong Pu recounts that the bed she slept in as a child was made from a large wooden box on which her father placed bronze objects, and her bed was extremely valuable. "Whenever a guest comes, we have to help remove the mattress and bed board before we can take the bronze out and show it, which is also a way for me to touch the bronze." Rong Pu said.
Poster of the "Rong Geng Donation Exhibition" of the National Art Museum of China
When Rong Geng was teaching at Yenching University, he also served as a member of the appraisal committee of the Beiping Antiquities Exhibition Center, which gave him the opportunity to frequently contact a large number of precious cultural relics, and also allowed him to train a pair of "fire eyes and golden eyes" for identifying collections. Luo Bing, head of the Calligraphy and Painting Research Office of the Guangdong Provincial Museum and Rong Pu's son-in-law, told reporters that many of Rong Geng's collections were regarded as cold and secluded when they were purchased, but he has always insisted that "people give up me to take, people take me to give up", and afterwards often proves rong Geng's unique vision.
"The reason why Mr. Rong Geng wants to collect and study ancient bronzes is to fight for the Chinese." Zeng Xiantong, a disciple of Rong Geng and a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, once said. When compiling the "Shang Zhou Yi Instrument Examination", it was during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Rong Geng studied and wrote day and night, hoping to rely on his own efforts to gradually change the situation that the discourse power of pre-Qin bronze ware research at that time was controlled by Japanese scholars.
According to the incomplete statistics of the donated institutions, Rong Geng and his family have donated more than 200 bronzes, more than 1,200 sets of calligraphy and paintings from past dynasties, more than 10,000 sets of rare books of ancient books, more than 1,000 pieces of gold and stone rubbings, cong posts, and celebrity letters, as well as a large number of manuscripts, engravings, and manuscripts. The essence and quantity of its donations are rare in the world, and it has made great contributions to the collection and accumulation of national culture.
Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, introduced that Rong Geng's collection coincided with the chaotic times, and under the harsh social environment conditions, he poured out his family wealth to preserve a large number of national treasures as a scholar. When the country suffered misfortune, he resolutely undertook the mission of preserving and inheriting the national culture, and on the occasion of the country's peace, he donated his private treasures to the country with the broad mind of the world. In his cross-century ups and downs, and in his academic career, he wrote a cultural chapter of a pure son of the Chinese nation. ”
The exhibition specially borrows the bronze Luan Shujian from the National Museum, and in addition, the manuscript of the "Jin Wen Bian" collected by Sun Yat-sen University, which best represents Mr. Rong Geng's academic achievements, is also unveiled. In terms of the influence of historical and cultural celebrities in Guangdong Province on their growing environment, the works of Lin Liang, Ju Lian, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Guan Shanyue, Huang Junbi, Li Xiongcai and others are exhibited, as well as his correspondence with the academic elites of the time and the exchanges of calligraphy and painting seal engraving, such as Luo Zhenyu, Wang Guowei, Guo Moruo, Gu Jiegang, Luo Fukan, Ma Heng, Qi Gong and others.
"He donated so much, and everything in his collection was based on academic research." Wu Guobao, curator of the exhibition, said that Mr. Rong Geng's donation shows his broad mind, and his patriotic and righteous deeds have a profound impact on helping the public understand history and aesthetic education and patriotic education for the public.
The "National Cultural Heritage Book" "Rong Geng Zang Ti" is also on display. This series of books has been published by Guangdong People's Publishing House, a total of 182 letters, 760 volumes, this batch of tibetan posters preserve the original appearance of Mr. Rong Geng's self-collection of posts, completely present the historical development of Chinese inscription calligraphy, has a high research value.
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Some of the exhibits are cultural relics and paintings
Southern Song Dynasty Anon. "Map of Yunshan"
Ju Lian Lady Picture Group Fan Qing
Lin Liang's "Autumn Tree Gathering Bird Chart Axis"
Kang Youwei's Eight Sayings of the Book of Conduct dates are unknown
148.3×39.4cm×2 Ink and pencil on paper
Collection of Guangzhou Museum of Art
Rong Geng Seal Book Eight Words Lian
Wang Guowei donated ronggeng book in 1927
Guo Moruo to Rong Geng Shujian 1930
Chen Yuan to Rong Geng's book Is of unknown date
Huang Mufu 稺甫清
Changhua Chicken Blood Stone 14×14×40mm
Collection of the National Art Museum of China
The exhibition will be on view until December 5 in Halls 13-17 of the National Art Museum of China (closed on Mondays).
(This article is based on the information provided by the National Art Museum of China and the organizers and related reports)
Editor-in-Charge: Li Mei