Those calligraphers ~ 516
Text/Lu Xiuhui
Wu Hufan's heir apparent grandfather, Wu Dayi, was an official in Hunan and was a famous scholar, epigrapher, and calligrapher. Good at painting landscapes and flowers, proficient in seal books, thanks to the appreciation and cultivation of gold and stone, very collectible, authored "Collected Poems of Shu Zhai", "Shuowen Ancient Supplement", "Character Sayings", "Ancient Records of Shu Zhai Collection" and more than a dozen kinds, which have a great influence.
Wu Hufan's maternal grandfather was Shen Shuyong, a bibliophile, epigrapher, and official to the cabinet of zhongshu. The collection of secret books, calligraphy and paintings, gold stones, and inscriptions is extremely rich, and Yu Fan said, "The Shen family collects the wealth of gold and stone, and the jia is in Jiangnan." In the family, there are especially many Dong Qichang calligraphy and paintings, and Wu Hufan's uncle Shen Yuqing saw that his nephew liked Dong Qichang and gave them all. Shen Shuyong is the author of the "Catalogue of Hanshi Jingchui Carvings", "Hanshi Jingjing Room" and "Records of The Appreciation of calligraphy and painting hearts", and co-authored with Zhao Zhiqian "Supplementing Huanyu Visiting The Monument".
Wu Hufan's uncle was Yuan Keding, the eldest son of Yuan Shikai, and Fei Shuwei, the cousin of Liu Yazi.
Wu Hufan's biological father, Wu Benshan, was the nephew of Wu Dayang, and because Wu Dayang was childless, he listed his nephew Wu Hufan as a grandson. Wu Benshan is the founder of Suzhou Caoqiao Academy, good at poetry, cursive writing crown in the township. Gu Yanwu's 120-volume manuscript of "Tianxia County's Guoli Illness", which was lost for more than 200 years, was purchased for Wu Benshan and given to the Kunshan literati, who welcomed them back to Kunshan. This incident is considered to be a major event in Shulin and is a sensation.
Wu Hufan's father-in-law is Pan Zunian, Pan Zunian is Pan Zuyin's brother, Pan Zuyin's collection is extremely rich, the Pan family's generations of collection belong to Pan Zuyin, famous collections such as the Western Zhou Kang Dynasty ceremonial instruments Da Lu Ding, Da Ke Ding, bronze, oracle bones, turtle plates, etc., famous at home and abroad. After Pan Zuyin's death, because there was no queen, the collection belonged to Pan Zunian, and Pan Zunian only transported the cultural relics from Beijing back to Suzhou, and installed four major ships. Shipped back to Suzhou only one piece of calligraphy and painting, a large house is not piled up.
Wu Hufan's residence in Suzhou is the "Spring Grass Idle Room" of Jin Junming, a ming dynasty book collector. Shortly after Wu Hufan's birth, Wu Dayi was defeated at Haicheng, and the Xiang army was destroyed. Wu Hufan is the son of Wu Dagen and Wu Daliang, brother and grandson, and co-heir. When Wu Hufan was nine years old, his grandfather Wu Dayi died, so Wu Hufan was personally taught by Wu Dayi.
Wu Hufan's paintings were learned from lu lianfu, an aide to his grandfather Wu Dayu, who was a famous painter in Suzhou. That year, Wu Hufan was only six years old, and it was also that year that he began to start reading. When he was eight years old, on the back of the photo with his second sister Wu Huijing, the inscription read: "Second sister is ten years old, I am eight years old." Someone showed it to Wu Dayi, who was bedridden with a stroke, and Wu Dayi sighed: "This son should be successful in the future." He immediately decided to divide the family property into two, and gave the eight-year-old Wu Hufan as many of the calligraphy and paintings yiding in his life, and the rest to his two daughters.
Every day at the bedside, Wu Dayi personally taught wu Hufan the name of the cultural relics in the collection and the ins and outs of the family. Every time he taught it, he asked it every few days, and the answer was like a stream, which made Wu Dayi, who was dying, feel greatly pleased and trusted. Wu Dayi knew that he had no future, and he did his best to arrange a future growth path for Wu Hufan. Wu Fu duo scribes, these people each have their own three moves and two styles, but also taught Wu Hufan. When Wu Hufan was nine years old, Wu Dayi died. At the age of twelve, according to the arrangement of his grandfather Wu Dayi before his death, he went to Shanghai China Public School to study.
When Chinese public schools migrated for some reason, Wu Hufan returned to Suzhou, and some classmates invited him to study in Japan. He entered the Japanese Chess Dojo to study Go, and inadvertently obtained portraits of Wu Dacheng and Deng Shichang, which Wu Hufan kept in The Meijing Bookstore for the rest of his life and lost them in the "Robbery of The Afternoon Festival". After staying in Japan for nearly three months, Wu Hufan returned to Suzhou and began to study landscape painting and entered the Suzhou Caoqiao School. Among the teachers of Caoqiao School, there are many masters, Hu Shiyu of Kunshan paints Ink Mei, Luo Shumin of Chongming teaches Chinese painting lessons, Hu and Luo are all Danqing masters for a while, and Wu Hufan is taught by two people, and the painting is flourishing.
When Wu Hufan was twenty-two years old, he married Pan Jingshu, the daughter of Pan Zunian, a surnamed Suzhou, and for a while it caused a sensation in Jiangnan, "Fupan" married "Gui Wu", and the marriage of rich and noble, could it not be sensational? When Pan Jingshu passed through the door, the dowry Chinese was not calculated, and there were three copies of Song Tuo's Ouyang Inquiry Post alone: "Huadu Temple Pagoda Inscription", "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming", and "Emperor Fu's Birthday Monument". Coupled with Wu Dayi's old collection of "Yu Gong Gong Monument", the collection of Ouyang Inquiry Song Tuo's four names posted in one room, the whole country, only this one. Wu Hufan then named the hall "Si Ou Tang". His eldest son is Meng Ou, the second son is Shu Ou, the eldest daughter is Si Ou, and the second daughter is Hui Ou, in order to meet the "four Ou".
When Pan Jingshu was thirty years old, Pan Zunian gave Song Jing's engraving of the "Plum Blossom Joy Divine Spectrum" to his daughter as a birthday gift. Wu Hufan also made his apartment "Meijing Book House", and "Meijing" has been famous all over the world ever since. In Pan Jingshu's house, there is also the ancestral imperial gift "Yuhua Yan", which is as clean as snow and as smooth as gelatin, and the husband and wife love the same life, that is, they order their room to be "Yuhua Immortal Hall". From "Si Ou Tang" to "Meijing Bookstore" to "Yuhua Xianguan", "Gui Wu" was shrouded by "FuPan", Pan Zunian only had one daughter, and the Pan family's collection made Wu Hufan. In 1933, Gu Tinglong, the son-in-law of the Pan family, counted in the "Catalogue of the Two Collections of Wu County Pan Gu Lou Wu Clan Wu Family", that there are about 600 pieces of Pan family bronze ware, in China, second only to the Collection of the Forbidden City.
In 1924, the Jiangsu warlord Qi Xieyuan and the Zhejiang warlord Lu Yongxiang went to war, Suzhou fell into war, wu Hufan and his family left Suzhou for Shanghai. Wu Hufan's friend and painter Feng Chaoran rented a small three-story building at No. 88 Songshan Road for him, and Feng Chaoran's family lived in the adjacent No. 86. Since then, Wu Hufan has settled in Shanghai, and the "Meijing Bookstore" has moved to Shanghai. In 1927, Wu Hufan saw the original copy of the "Sui Meiren Dong's Epitaph" at the Xu's Hanmu Chunhua Museum in Shanghai, and after he purchased the "Dong Meiren Epitaph" inscription, he cherished it very much, and specially set up another room to treasure it, named "Bao Dong Room". Usually, he carries this stele with him, and he must not leave it, and even sleeps in the book, and he knows that "dreams with beauty".
Mr. Wu Mei, an opera theorist, educator and poetry writer, was teaching at Guanghua University in Shanghai. Pan Jingshu learned words with Wu Mei, and Wu Hu Fanyi asked Wu Mei for advice, and gradually entered the doorway of leaning. Wu Mei has many students, such as Zhu Ziqing, Tian Han, Zheng Zhenduo, Qi Yanming, Mei Lanfang, Yu Zhenfei and so on. Zhang Dazhuang is Zhang Taiyan's nephew, known as Wu Hufan's approval, Wu Hufan knows that Zhang Dazhuang began to smoke opium in order to reduce his illness and pain, and he was quite worried. Zhang Dazhuang managed calligraphy and painting for the collector Pang Jiyuan "Virtual Zhai", when he left the Virtual Zhai for physical reasons, Wu Hufan admired his talents and invited him to meijing bookstore many times, but he was proud of himself, and at this time, forced to make a living, began to paint himself, Wu Hufan continued to give him direct or indirect financial help in the midst of suffering, and Sun Boyuan bought Zhang Dazhuang's paintings with heavy money.
In 1938, Cao Youqing, the owner of The Ancient Pavilion in Shanghai, asked Wu Hufan to identify it with a worn-out "Map of the Remaining Mountains" he had just purchased. Wu Hufan has the nickname "One Eye" in the identification circle, and he knew at a glance that this painting had an extraordinary origin, and he and Cao Youqing repeatedly negotiated and replaced the fragments with the Shang Yi Zhou Dun bronzes treasured at home. Later, he compared it with the photocopy of the "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" collected by the Palace Museum, and it turned out to be the first paragraph of Huang Gongwang's "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map". Before he could free himself from the joy of collecting "Leftover Mountain Map", Wu Hufan was forty-six years old, and Pan Jingshu, who was forty-eight, died. Wu Hufan is very sad, his wife is not beautiful, but he is indeed a rare confidant. Because he was afraid that other men would see his body, he refused appendicitis surgery and died of pain. Wu Hufan printed the "Meijing Shuya Dictionary", which contains 28 poems of Wu Hufan's "Collection of You Song", 13 poems of Pan Jingshu's "Collection of Green Grass", and 3 poems of the appendix to comfort Pan Jingshu's affection.
After Pan Jingshu's death, Wu Hufan's life has been taken care of by her maid Ah Bao, whose intimate comfort has freed him from his grief. The two fell in love for a long time, and Wu Hufan's second sister Wu Huijing officially announced to relatives and friends that "Ah Bao" would be taken as a continuation. Wu Hufan is 49 years old, Ah Bao is 27 years old, and the difference between the two is 22 years. Ah Bao, whose original husband's surname and name is Gu Baozhen, came from her husband's family to Work as a maid at WuHufan's house in Shanghai. After marrying Wu Hufan, Wu Hufan gave Ah Bao a new name, called "Baozhen", and many of Wu Hufan's painters "poor friends" she helped. She often put "Wu Hufan order" red stripe paper on the exhibitions of these poor painters, and she was very popular.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Hufan was imprisoned by Tang Enbo in the Jinjiang Hotel. After Pan Jingshu's death, Wu Hufan wrote to Wang Jingwei, so he was accused of associating with Wang Jingwei. Fortunately, after many points, the crisis has been turned into safety. In 1949, Wu Hufan's good friend Zhang Daqian sent a letter to him from Hong Kong, asking him to live in Hong Kong temporarily, see the limelight, and then decide to stop. Huang Yanpei came to Shanghai and talked with Wu Hufan, who accepted Huang Yanpei's proposition and decided to stay in China.
In 1950, at the age of 57, Wu Hufan served as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Relics, a member of the Shanghai Cultural Relics Appraisal and Acquisition Committee, a librarian of the Shanghai Municipal Museum of Culture and History, and an advisor to the Suzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Preservation Committee. In 1953, when Wu Hufan was sixty years old, he drew a fire-queen version of the Fuchun Mountain Jutu based on the prints of his collection of "Leftover Mountain Maps" and the "Useless Master Scrolls" in the Qing Palace. In the pre-fire version of "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", Shen Zhou was also sixty years old when he painted it. There is also a banquet "Wanshou Mountain", drinking "Chitose wine", making a commemorative medal, the chapter has a picture and text "Thousand Mile Horse", and the noon year belongs to the horse, which is very ingenious.
In 1953, when the "Traces of Words from the Song Dynasty" came out, Wu Hufan entrusted Ye Gongqi to give a copy to Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. Soon after, he received a photocopy of the manuscript of the poem sent by Chairman Mao Zedong. In the same year, Yuan Qihu, a teacher at Caoqiao Middle School, went to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao and asked Wu Hufan to make a fan frame as a gift. Chairman Mao asked Yuan about Wu Hufan, and immediately invited someone to bring back the "One Mouth Bell" coat and give it back to Wu Hufan. Then Chairman Mao sent five hundred yuan as a runge. Sha Menghai felt that Huang Gongwang's "Fragments of Fuchun Mountain Residence" was not easy to preserve in private hands, and should be preserved most appropriately by the Zhejiang Museum. Several times to Shanghai to negotiate with Wu Hufan, Wu Hufan did not have a first. Sha Menghai also entrusted Xie Zhiliu to do work from it, and Wu Hufan was touched by Sha Menghai's dedication to the country and finally agreed to sell it to the Zhejiang Museum.
In 1957, during the anti-"rightist" struggle, Wu Hufan was censored for his class origin, "Traces of words from the Song Dynasty," and correspondence with Zhang Daqian. After being balanced by the art world, his son Wu Shu'ou wrote an inspection on behalf of his father and became a "rightist". When the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting was established, Wu Hufan, who had been the dean, was replaced by Feng Zikai, who was only an ordinary painter. In 1961, he had a small stroke; in 1962, he had a stroke and was admitted to Huadong Hospital. At the age of seventy, Zhang Daqian created the Lotus Flower Diagram for his seventieth birthday from Paris. The illness began slightly, and a seal was engraved with "made after the seventy days of lake sails". Persecuted in the "Robbery of the First Meridian", the family collection of cultural relics was swept away, the painstaking efforts of several families for generations, and a collection home that will never be found again was destroyed. In 1968, he suffered another stroke, and on July 7, Wu Hufan died naturally at home at the age of seventy-five.
After Wu Hufan's death, the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting sent his student Lu Yifei to the Wu family to take care of the aftermath, Lu Yifei wrote in the testimonial letter: "Teacher Wu's body slept on a small bed, wearing a set of white short shirts and pants, barefoot, and a pipe with juice inserted in the esophagus. Because the tube was to be returned to Huadong Hospital, nanny Fengxian pulled out the tube. Lu Yifei buttoned two buttons on Wu Hufan's jacket, fastened his trouser belts for him, and wanted to put on a pair of gray stockings placed on the side of the bed for him, but the person who transported the body was impatient and did not succeed, and the body was wrapped in a white cloth and transported away. The next day the cremated, the ashes were gone.
Wu Hufan's calligraphy, combining the "thin gold body" of Emperor Huizong of Song and Emperor Zhao of Song Huizong in one furnace, won the elegance of Emperor Huizong of Song and the handsomeness of taking Rice, combined with his own interests, took the gods and abandoned his form, created a new grid, wrote Runlang Jianju, different customs. Combined with his paintings, it appears fresher and clearer, complementing each other perfectly. Among modern painters, his calligraphy is the first person to write a post.
Wu Hufan, (1894, the second day of the seventh lunar month of the lunar calendar – July 7, 1968). The original name of Yi Yan, the character 遹 Jun, later renamed Wan, the word Dongzhuang, also known as Qian, do not sign the ugly fence, the number Qian'an, calligraphy and painting signed Hu Fan. A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
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