It is beneficial to open the scroll, first slowly unfold the scroll, and admire the works of the master——
Unique family roots
Wu Hufan was born into a family of scholars. His grandfather, Wu Dayi, was a major official of the late Qing Dynasty and one of the main commanders of the Sino-Japanese War, and served as the governor of Guanshan, Shaanxi, Lianghe, Hu, and Guangzhou. Shangma Neng, Xia Ma Nengshi, due to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing court, the soldiers were defeated and disarmed, and returned to their hometown Suzhou. He studied appreciative, poetry, calligraphy and painting all over his life, and especially the Great Seal. His father, Wu Benshan, was a cursive writer who was the crown of the locals at that time. The birth mother, Mrs. Shen Jingyan, was the first daughter of Shen Yun, a famous monk in Chuansha, who was trained by the young court, and was familiar with all the sons, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so that her son had been affected by it before entering school.
Since Wu Hufan was four or five years old, he had to be taught by the sage Lu Lianfu in his art. Lu Yuan was a military division under Wu Dayi's curtain, good at painting flowers and fruits, carefully adjusting Hu Fan to read and write, and teaching him to print imitations on his paintings. Coupled with the fact that in his childhood, Wu Hufan's natural love of pen and ink, intelligent and brilliant, so that Wu Dayi looked at his book and sighed with satisfaction: "This son will be successful in the future." In his later years, Wu Da Liang taught him in the name of the treasures of his life in front of his sickbed, and carefully observed his understanding. Grandchildren can learn from each other and cope with it like a stream. Therefore, Wu Dayi sighed indignantly: "If there is such an heir, what a regret to die!" As a result, most of the characters in his collection were left to his grandson, and they became the nourishment for his grandson's future skills.
After finishing primary school, Wu Hufan was introduced to Shanghai by his grandfather's friends. The world is bigger, and the horizons are more open. And through various relationships, I met a group of senior elders.
The following year, the school moved for some reason, he dropped out of school, and he had the opportunity to travel east to Japan with his classmates at the age of 13. It can also be regarded as reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles.
Wise Eye Treasure "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map"
In the history of Chinese painting, Huang Gongwang, a great painter of the Yuan Dynasty nicknamed "The Great Idiot Taoist", once painted a long scroll "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map", which is said to be a masterpiece in the history of traditional landscape painting. It was once collected by Dong Qichang and others, and later attributed to Yixing Wu Zhizhi in the Qing Dynasty. His son was so fond of this figure that before he died, he lit a fire and wanted to burn it for his own burial. When the flame was ignited, it was rescued by others. Unfortunately, a long scroll has been burned into two sections, and the next large section is collected by the Qing Palace, and the previous section has since flown away like a yellow crane, and has disappeared without a trace.
In November 1938, a miracle descended on Wuhu Fanfu, and according to Wuhu Fanri, "Cao Youqing brought with him the fragment of the first section of Huang Dayou's "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", the original, about two feet long and one and a half inches high. There are three traces of the warp fire in the first section, and in the upper corner of the second half there is a white text print of Wu Zhizhi and half square, which is proofread with the shadow book of the scrolls collected by the Forbidden City (Yu Qiannian saw the real handwriting), the Wu Zhizhi seal is not lost in the slightest, and the second half of the fire marks are also connected, and the first half of the Forbidden City is also burned with this, and the traces are gradually reduced, about two or three feet, and it can be known that the first half of this volume is undoubtedly the warp fire... Once you get this, it's a big deal. Although it is only a fragment of a ruler, it is a trace of heavenly drama, which is very precious, and it is fortunate to remember this. ("Diary", November 26, 1938) This landscape painting brought by a friend is the first half of the "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map", and the Tibetan seals and fire marks coincide with the second half of the collection in the Palace Museum at that time, Wu Hufan immediately purchased it, "for great pleasure", and believes that this is a treasure between heaven and earth, that is, "the traces of heaven and earth drama", which is very precious.
Treasures in hand, fame is spread. On New Year's Day of the following year, famous ancestors came to Wu Mansion one after another to explore the treasure: "At the beginning of January, Mao He (Ting) Zhang, Li Ba (Ke) Weng, and Shen Jianzhi came together to see the "Fuchun Map" of the great fool. Yu was ill and had nothing to do, and he used the examination of "Fuchun" as a pastime. This account was made up more than half a month after Wu's illness (Diary, p. 237).
Soon, Liu Haisu also invited a group of friends to come to appreciate the treasure: "Yesterday Liu Haisu, Lin Erqing, Chen Xiaodi, Xu Bangda, Xu Jichuan, Tang Lingze, Zhang Liangyu, etc. all came to see the idiot "Fuchun Tu", and the previous dissent was unanimously dispelled, and they all thought that the original traces of "Fuchun" were exactly unchanging. Haisu also saw Shigu Shigu as Chen Yuanlong's painting of the landscape axis. ("Diary", January 28, 1939) Among them, Xu Bangda and Zhang Liangyu later became connoisseurs. At that time, when everyone watched it, it was unanimously recognized that this work was indeed the original "Fuchun Tu" by Huang Gongwang, a "great idiot Taoist". Liu Haisu also brought a painting of Wang Shigu to ask Wu Hufan for an inscription.
Treasures don't get tired of looking back. After January, Liu Haisu and others came to Wu Mansion again, ostensibly to discuss the "preparation for the painting meeting", but in their hearts they still wanted to see the treasure again: "Jianzhi, Haisu, Zhongming, etc., really want to watch the big idiot "Fuchun" volume. Since the new Zhengzheng, no one has been asking for this volume every day, and the cover is the ear of the four characters of the great idiot Fuchun, and Yu is proud enough. ("Diary", February 26, 1939) Since New Year's Day, friends have come to Wu Mansion every day to enjoy treasures, which makes Wu Hufan deeply proud, and also shows the important position of this work in the history of Chinese landscape painting.
According to the "Wuhufan Chronology", the Fragments of the Fuchun Mountain Jutu were purchased from Wu Hufan by Sha Menghai at the age of 62 in 1955, entrusted by Sha Menghai to Xie Zhiliu and entered the Zhejiang Museum.
The pain of Wu Hufan folding the bird
Wu Hufan's original wife was Pan Jingshu, the daughter of the Suzhou surname Pan, whose ancestor was the Prime Minister of Daoguang Shi, and her father was the Military Minister of Guangxu Shi. Although Pan Jingshu was a famous and talented woman, she used to "wait for the lake sails with a jingbu bun". After marriage, he was of great help to Lake Sail in his career and life. They lived together for more than 20 years, between husband and wife, piano and ming, poetry and painting, extremely compatible, when many people compare them to Liang (Hong), Meng (Guang), Zhao (Mingcheng) Li (Yi An), Zhao (Songxue) Guan (Zhongji). Unexpectedly, in 1939, Pan's acute illness was incurable, and he died suddenly, which gave Wu Hufan great mental stimulation. Wu wrote in the "Tomb of The Late Wife Pan": Whew! The gold skeleton is buried for a long time, the city is closed forever, my heart is broken, does the king know it? In order to show the intention of Qian's wounded god, he changed his name to "Qian" from this time on, and called himself "Qian'an". He also asked Chen Julai to carve more than 10 famous chapters for Pan Jingshu and put them on the relics to show his condolences.
Pan is buried in Hongqiao Cemetery in Western Hu. Wu Hufan specially asked Ye Gong to write the four words "Liang Jing Jia Cheng" in preparation for his joint burial a hundred years later. During this period of time, Wu Hufan was immersed in extreme grief, and he filled in dozens of words successively, mourning and mourning, and Pan's relics almost let him write all over.
In order to alleviate Wu Hufan's sadness, his two sons Wu Meng'ou and Wu Shu'ou specially edited 16-frame photocopied paintings made by their parents, entitled "Liang Jing Shuwu Painting Collection", the cover is Ye Gong's inscription, preceded by Xia Jingguan and The biography by Chen Chen, followed by Pan Jingshu's nephew Pan Boshan. The book is printed for open color, and the first page is wu hufan and Pan Jingshu. The inner page selects 7 paintings of Wu Hufan landscape paintings, all of which are masterpieces, and Pan's 9 spokes of flowers are also representative works selected from more than 160 of her posthumous paintings. After the book was printed, it was sold in major bookstores in Shanghai and was very popular for a while.
Pan Jingshuya is good at filling in words, there is a volume of "Green Grass Words" posthumous, Wu Hufan is grateful to Pan, so he took "Green All Over the Pond Grass" as the title and guangzheng Tuying. He traveled all over the sea, and within a few months, he received a hundred and dozens of works from celebrities in the world, including works by Wu Chunzhai, Xia Yanxiang, Zhao Shuru, Xia Zhaocheng, Zhao Yuncheng, Wu Waitqiu, Feng Chaoran, Mao Heting, Qiu Shu'an, Chen Shutong, Zheng Wuchang, Wang Yachen, Liu Haisu, Pu Xinshe, Zhang Daqian, Ye Gongqi, Shen Yinmo, Ma Gongyu, Zheng Mukang, Lu Yanfei and other famous artists.
Mr. Yi Lixun of Jiangzhou inscription: "The warbler swallows fly back to early spring, and the words and sentences are still new." How to check the makeup table book, the next day double god. "Hangxian Chen Shu Tong title;" Xie Weiqingmen, King of the Winds, Liang Pu Makeup Lou Shi Ze Zun. The green pond can't stop in the spring, and the ring of the ring returns to the soul in a miserable night. Panyu Yegong's epithet says: "Dou Wei is empty of worlds, forever hating the family mountain, Liang Jing is miserable like the next year, and short dreams are old with spring." Tune the bitter song is difficult to end, tears are fragrant, Mo asked him about his life and this life, green all over the pond grass. ”
"Green All Over the Pond Grass" came out in 1940, Wu Hufan personally made the preface, and then painted a frame by himself, and inscribed the word "Golden Wisp Song", which has a sentence: "Counting on the side road of the Hongqiao Bridge, and Qingqing a case of annual sweeping, non-pain device, that is, laughter." ”
The pain of Wu Hufan's folding of the luan lasted for more than 2 years, until 1942, when he and Gu Baozhen were married, they were slowly liberated.