Let’s answer a question first-who is the hero of the idiom “Have a plan”?
“Have a plan in mind” comes from Su Dongpo’s famous work “Wen and Can Draw a Bamboo”, which tells the story of the painter Wen Tong drawing bamboo, with the same words and the same words.
Since 1018, Wentong has been born for 1,000 years. Since last year, Zhejiang Museum has been preparing a big exhibition in memory of this master bamboo painter, and the key word is “bamboo”.
In the history of Mohist bamboo in China, Wentong and Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty have the most weight. They pioneered the literati’s freehand brushwork of ink and bamboo, making bamboo writing a noble and elegant thing. Later painters who write ink bamboo are all unaffected.
From October 27th to November 25th, Zhebo will hold “A Thousand Years’ Breeze —— Exhibition of Ancient Mozhu Famous Traces” in the Wulin Hall of West Lake Cultural Square, with 38 pieces (groups) of Mozhu Famous Traces from Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties gathered together. The exhibits come from many important cultural institutions such as the Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Liaoning Museum, Tianjin Museum and Guangdong Museum, all of which are representative works in the history of Mozhu.
Chinese bamboo rhyme, a fascinating famous name.
Fan Jingzhong, a well-known art historian and professor of China Academy of Art, has devoted seven years to writing “Chinese Bamboo Rhyme”. The whole article has only one protagonist-bamboo, and it is surrounded by thousands of years of mighty history and endless masterpieces of celebrities.
“It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.” Our love for bamboo is reflected in the poems and paintings of literati, as well as in the most daily details. Many people may remember that when I was a child, I painted with pen and dipped in ink for the first time. The first thing I painted was the bamboo leaves and orchid leaves in ink. On the thin rice paper, the longest and deepest rhyme in Chinese culture has been passed down to this day in the simplest black and white color and the most handy form.
From this point of view, “A Thousand Years of Breeze-Exhibition of Ancient Mozhu Famous Traces” is undoubtedly a “textbook” exhibition.
Those famous people who have been told for thousands of years, with their names, gathered in Hangzhou and waited for development. Among them, there are a lot of famous marks in the history of mozhu.
Such as Song Sushi (biography), Wen Tong (biography) and other six scholars’ maps, Yuan Li’s Double Hook Bamboo Map Axis, Yuan Zhao Mengfu’s Lanshi Map Axis, Yuan Ke Jiusi’s Qing Dynasty Pavilion Ink Bamboo Map Axis, Yuan Ni Zan’s Qishu Autumn Wind Map Axis, and Ming Wang Bi’s Qiaoke Bamboo Stone.
Let’s cherish this short month and go to the exhibition hall to get close to those meaningful original works.
.Wen Tong Su Shi and Mo Zhu should start with these close friends.
As the forerunner of the literati ink bamboo, Wen Tong compared “ink bamboo” to “Mo Jun” and named his room after bamboo.
Unfortunately, Wen Tong’s ink bamboo works were rare as early as the Yuan Dynasty, and it is difficult to tell the truth from the false. After nearly a thousand years, what is recognized as his original work today is the Ink Bamboo Map (a replica of this exhibition) collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Wen Tong’s influence in the history of Mohist bamboo is closely related to Su Shi’s praise and promotion. Wentong is Su Shi’s best friend. Some scholars once said: “Su Shi’s ink bamboo benefits from Wen Tong, but Wen Tong’s ink bamboo can not be separated from Su Shi’s praise.” Su Shi spread his own thoughts while promoting Wen Tong Mo Zhu.
There are many descriptions related to Wen Tong in Song Tuo’s “Su Tie in the West Building” collected in Tianjin Museum. This set of Song Tuo is almost the same as the original, with 30 volumes, and only six volumes have been seen so far. Fortunately, it contains Wen Tong’s and Su Shi’s knowledge and experience about Mozi Bamboo, Praise for Painting Bamboo, Record of the Dead Wood of Pure Cause Courtyard Literature and Mozi Bamboo, The Theory of Literature and Kezi, Two Poems of Sacrifice and Kewen, and so on, which are extremely valuable materials for studying their “Bamboo Theory”. In Su Shi’s view, apart from painting bamboo vividly, Wen Tong’s personality charm is more valuable.
In the exhibition, you can also see the only “cooperative” work handed down to these two close friends and two “bamboo idiots”-the map of the Six Scholars.
The author of this volume of The Six Scholars in Shanghai Museum spans the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty and contains the handwriting of six painters. There is a piece of upside-down bamboo painted by Wen Tong, and the department pays “and can”; There is also Su Shi’s “Dead Wood and Bamboo Stone Map”. On the rocky slope, an ancient tree is stretched, the branches are twisted, the leaves are taken off, and small bamboos are mixed on the slope. The whole volume is inscribed by Wu Changshuo’s seal script and ordered by Weng Fanggang, which witnessed the inheritance of Wen and Su Fenggu from generation to generation.
The essence of bamboo is written by famous artists of all ages.
After Su Shi and Wen Tong, bamboo painting experts came forth in large numbers.
Zhao Mengfu, who was unavoidable in the painting history of Yuan Dynasty, advocated “the same origin of calligraphy and painting” and made great efforts to show the beauty of brushwork in painting bamboo. Examples of “painting with books” are Zhao Mengfu’s “Lanshi Map” in Shanghai Museum and Ke Jiusi’s “Qing Yue Ge Mo Zhu Map” in Palace Museum.
In the Yuan Dynasty, literati painting flourished, and Mozi bamboo occupied a more and more prominent position-Gao Kegong, Li Li, Zhen Wu, Ni Zan, Gu An and Wang Meng … were all experts.
Especially Li Li, the bamboos he wrote are diverse in appearance: there are several slim bamboos standing upright, and some stand in line with the strange stones of Gaowu. The Palace Museum’s “Double Hook Bamboo Picture Axis” exhibited this time is a painting method with colored double hooks.
Ni Zan’s ink bamboo is ancient and naive, and the painting method is simple. This time, Ni Zan’s “Autumn Wind Map of Qishu” in the Shanghai Museum is his favorite..The mountains and rivers around Taihu Lake-two Qi trees, some bamboo, are born of stones.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a pair of very famous Mozi bamboo masters and apprentices-Wang Bao, who was regarded as the first person who pioneered Mozi bamboo in the Ming Dynasty. Xia Chang, an apprentice of Wang Gu, is known as “Xia Qing is a bamboo, and the west is cool with ten ingots of gold”. At the scene, you can see with your own eyes Wang Gu’s “Mozhu Picture Axis” in the Palace Museum and Xia Chang’s “Jiayu Autumn Sound Picture Axis” in the Shanghai Museum.
With the popularization of ink bamboo painting, more and more people are painting bamboo: Chen Qin, Yao Shou, Wen Zhiming, Zhu Duan, Chen Hongshou, Yun Shouping … These are the most orthodox inheritors of Wensu; In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Chun, Xu Wei, Badashanren, Shi Tao, Jin Nong and Zheng Xie in the Qing Dynasty injected fresh blood into the literati’s freehand brushwork of ink bamboo, and “Mo Jun” also carried more images and higher emotions.
The exhibition presented by Zhejiang Expo also focuses on the same strain: the first part is “Bide is better than bamboo”, the second part is “in the same strain” and the third part is “Shouting and Being Possible”.
On October 29th, an academic seminar will be held in the Painting and Calligraphy Hall on the third floor of Wulin Hall of Zhejiang Museum, which will be attended by many experts and scholars. Our reporter Lin Shaoqing correspondent Ye Ziyue Hu Huimei