Calligraphy posters published by Wenchengtang Bookstore in Beijing, Republic of China
"Lu Runyu West Lake"
Lu Runyu (1841~1915) was a native of Yuanhe (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu). In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), he successively served as the Guozi Supervisor of Wine, Shandong Xuezheng, and guozi Supervisor of Wine. Returned to Suzhou with his mother's illness and ran Suzhou business.
Guangxu Gengzi (1900) Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, Empress Dowager Cixi on the way west, endorsement of grass. Later, he served as a Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, a Shangshu of the Bureaucracy, a scholar of Taibao University, a scholar of Dongge University, and a scholar of Tirenge University.
In the third year of Xuanun (1911), when the imperial cabinet was established, he served as the president of the Tokutoku-in Temple. After Xinhai, he stayed in the Qing Palace and served as Puyi's teacher. He died in the fourth year of the Republic of China and was given the title of Prince Taifu (太傅) and Yuwen Duan (谥文端).
His calligraphy is qinghua and long-running, meaning close to Europe and Yu. However, the atmosphere of the pavilion is slightly heavier.
Lu Runyu can calligraphy, good at calligraphy, Fangzheng smooth, Qinghua Langrun, yi close to Ouyang Inquiry, Yu Shinan penmanship.
It leaves more ink in Suzhou. Taste the Lingering Garden, Lion Grove, Master of Nets Garden and other garden books. For example, for the Humble Administrator's Garden, he wrote seven big characters of "Eighteen Mandala Flower Houses", the next paragraph was signed "Lu Run kuo shu yu Xiao Huai Guo Fang", and he also wrote a 52-character long joint payment for "YuanxiangTang", saying: "The old rain set famous garden, the tea fried before the wind, the gin wine left a title, the princes look back at Yanyun, should be happy to travel to TongmaoYuan; Dexing Linwuhui, stop outside the flowers, Sang Ma idle class, laugh at my disciples looking for Hongxue, and there is no good sentence to continue the plum village." ”
He liked to make art friends, or discuss poetry, or write calligraphy and painting, just like Xu Chen, Wu Yinpei, Ye Changchi, Pan Zunqi, Pan Zengying, and Lu Zengxiang of Taicang in the first year of the reign, and there were contacts from time to time.
Because Lu Runyu came from the imperial examination, from the beginning of Guangxu to the thirty years or so of Guangxu, he repeatedly tried things and served as vice presidents, so the text structure has not changed much over the past few decades, the atmosphere of the pavilion is relatively strong, pay attention to the light and black beauty, uniform and plump, the size of the Ming and Qing official calligraphy jujube, although this kind of book style (pavilion body or called Taige style), is common knowledge of the Ming and Qing supreme rulers. At present, there are many calligraphy arranged or preserved in the Forbidden City.
In her later years, Empress Dowager Cixi liked to paint, and often ordered Lu Runyu and Tongzhi Yuanyuan Xu Gao, Tanhua Li Wentian, and Jinshi Lu Baozhong to write inscriptions for them.
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