Shanghai Baolong Art Museum will present "Avenue — — The exhibition "A Hundred Years of Famous People’s Calligraphy" will gather 103 letters from more than 100 modern intellectual elites, including Sun Yat-sen, Liao Zhongkai, Huang Xing, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Zhang Taiyan, Yan Fu and Hu Shi, many of which are important documents at critical moments in history, and have high historical value and research significance.
According to the organizer, this exhibition brings together more than 100 modern intellectual elites such as Sun Yat-sen, Liao Zhongkai, Huang Xing, Yuan Shikai, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Zhang Taiyan, Yan Fu, Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, Chen Yinque, Wang Guowei, Luo Zhenyu, Zhou Zuoren, Liu Bannong, Qian Xuantong and Guo Moruo.
The 103 letters and handwritten notes presented in the exhibition are all the parts that have flowed out from auction houses in recent years, causing concern. The figures involved are either political yuan in the early Republic of China, or leaders of the May 4th Movement, or those who are well-known at home and abroad, leading the fashion, setting an example to this day, and being promoted as important towns in all walks of life in politics. The time spans the first half of the 20th century.
In the modern history of Sun Wen’s regular script "Infinite Buddha", there are so many public and private files, newspapers and books, and even all kinds of unpublished documents that it is hard to imagine. These objective conditions are extremely beneficial to case study and to reproduce the historical situation in detail, but they increase the difficulty of macro-grasp. At the same time, due to the progress of academic ideas, people pay more and more attention to the study of social history and mass history, especially the study of the lower classes, and many of these studies are in the initial stage, which inevitably increases the weight of "refinement" of research perspectives. In the face of numerous research materials, we should not only have a comprehensive statement and grasp of the historical events involved, but also have a careful examination and revision of the details of the historical events, and we should be able to see the big ones from the small ones. The two complement each other and cannot be neglected.
Du Yuesheng’s Calligraphy A Passage to the Avenue
Fu Sinian’s "The Purport of the Work of the Institute of Historical Languages" said: "A kind of learning can expand the materials it studies and make progress, and if it can’t, it will regress." Letters, diaries, telegrams, and official correspondence of politicians, social influential figures, and senior scholars from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China have gradually found that as historical materials, they have unique values and advantages when used in the study of people’s topics, academic history, ideological history, cultural history, social life history, and even political history, especially in the study of details. Researchers can learn about the life circle, friendship circle, intersection circle, contacts between relatives and friends, return of business letters, upload and release, interpersonal context, and even physical condition, subtle mind and correlation of the object of concern on that day, that is, it is possible to keep the object of concern, the people under study, the historical events involved, phenomena and people in constant daily life, advance and retreat, before and after historical events, cause and effect each other, and connect them. However, the life circle, friendship circle, intersection circle, contacts between relatives and friends, interpersonal context, people’s physical condition, subtle mind, historical events before and after, and related connections that have been "considerate" and generally "restored" will in turn help to enhance the researchers’ sense of history (sense of entering or "historical scene"), so that researchers can know the world and discuss people and "read their articles and want to see them as people"Then, if we have a clear understanding of the ideas, culture, life, circumstances, social politics and interrelationships of the objects we are concerned about and studied, we can achieve the so-called "understanding sympathy" of Chen Yin-lao, and open up a new level of research.
Lao She wrote three poems in regular script, which were inscribed by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata.
For example, in this exhibition, Hu Shi wrote an inscription for Yu Xiaoxian in Berkeley in July 1960, and at the same time, he later wrote an English letter to Henry Ruth, the founder of Time Magazine, Fortune and Life, and the "father of the times", which was of great help to the study of Hu Shi’s situation, mood and situation in his later years. This was Hu Shi’s last trip abroad before his death, and it was also the beginning that bothered him most in his later years. He died suddenly of a heart attack on February 24, 1962, which had a great relationship with this trip.
Hu Shi’s flying praise
Ms. Yu Xiaoxian (b.1927) and Mr. Hu Shi met in 1960 at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and the book of Mr. Yu Xiaoxian has been treasured so far. Ms. Yu Xiaoxian and her husband George Kantor lived in Hong Kong from 1957 to 1958 to collect doctoral thesis materials. During this period, the Kanters traveled a lot and met many diligent students, artists and outstanding local scholars. After returning to the United States, Mr. Kanter received a doctorate in Oriental Languages from Berkeley University in 1961. From 1962 to 1966, he founded the Department of Oriental Languages for the University of Rochester, and then transferred to the University of California, Irvine, to establish the Department of Oriental Languages. This department has developed into today’s Oriental Language and Literature Department and is one of the internationally renowned humanities departments.
Another example is the manuscript of Preface to Science and Outlook on Life written by Chen Duxiu on December 20th, 1923, which is of great significance at that time and today. As far as the day is concerned, Chen did sum up and put an end to the controversy over "science and outlook on life" caused by Zhang Junmai’s speech in Tsinghua at the beginning of that year, hoping to comment on the opportunities of all parties involved in the debate (Zhang Junmai, Ding Wenjiang, Liang Qichao, Ren Hongjuan, Hu Shi, Sun Fuyuan, Lin Zaiping, Zhang Dongsun, Zhang Yanchun, Zhu Jingnong, Tang Yue, Wang Xinggong, Wu Zhi). In his view, "science and outlook on life" is not an "eternal problem", but a problem that has been noticed at a certain stage of historical development and caused people to worry and think.
Ten Notes on Ink and Wash Paper of Chen Duxiu’s Preface Manuscript on Science and Outlook on Life
The "Avenue" exhibition selects and assembles the calligraphy works of "Mr. Da" of an era, with a view to observing these people through these works; Through these people, we can observe the sentient beings in that era and even in the ecology of that era. Of course, for most of them, the artistic value of their calligraphy is far from that of professional painters and calligraphers; But the brush is a tool for them, letters are communication, and calligraphy is communication. However, only in this way can we show the authenticity and return to the original use value of calligraphy, let alone the attached cultural value, historical value and document value. It is reported that this exhibition is jointly organized by Shanghai Mingxuan International Art Co., Ltd. and Baolong Art Museum.
Exhibit selection
One of Hu Shi’s Postscript Textual Research on A Dream of Red Mansions, the ink-and-wash paper version has four pages.
Brief Introduction of Woody, Jiping Liu, Deng Ershu’s Inscription and Postscript on the Old Stone Carvings of Han, Song and Bowang;
Woody Yi (1864-1927), whose name is Yizhuang, was born in Panyu, Guangdong. Disciple of Ju Lian. Good at calligraphy and painting, seal cutting.
Yao Lixiu (1878-1939), also known as Shu Yue, was a native of Panyu, Guangdong Province. He studied in Japan in his early years and was the earliest member of the League and also a member of the Nanshe Society. Good at ink painting, flowers and landscapes, he was a famous painter in Guangdong during the Republic of China.
Jiping Liu (1878-1938), who worked as a self-appointed "Liu San in the South of the Yangtze River", studied the study of Han Confucianism, Runan and Xu Shen in middle age, and became a good antique cultural relic in his later years. In Beijing, I interacted with Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, Shen Yinmo, etc., learned from each other, and sang in harmony. Li Shu has profound skills. The collection is very rich.
Guo Moruo and Wang Bijiang’s four-year brick rubbings
Zhang Taiyan’s seal script 21 words couplet
Mao Dun’s calligraphy
An excerpt from Zhou Zuoren’s running script-a fan of Songzhai’s essays
Yuan Shikai’s essays and manuscripts to North Korean Minister Kim Chang-hee.Collection of Chinese calligraphy of a century-old celebrity
Extension: November 3, 2019 — November 10th.
Venue: Shanghai Baolong Art Museum