Interpretation:The allusion to the word originates from Qi Baishi's five travels in middle age. The painter's experience of collecting and sketching on the way to the distance has led to great changes in his artistic concept, creative style and outlook on life, and it can be said that "five out of five returns" has brought another world and attainments to Qi Baishi.
In 1902, Qi Baishi was 40 years old. On the autumn solstice, a friend Xia Wuyi sent a letter from Xi'an inviting Qi Baishi to teach his wife Ru to learn painting. When Guo Baosheng learned of this, he was worried that Qi Baishi would not go, so he sent a long letter, which prompted Qi Baishi to embark on his first long journey.
In mid-December of the same year, Qi Baishi arrived in Xi'an. At the beginning of March 1903, Qi Baishi entered Beijing with his friend Xia Wuyi, passing through Huayin County on the way, climbing the Long Live Tower, overlooking Huashan Mountain, crossing the Yellow River, and enjoying Song Mountain. In May, Qi Baishi left Beijing and returned home.
On the way home, he departed from Tianjin, passed through Heishuiyang, Shanghai, and Hankou on the way, and returned to his hometown in June. After returning home, Qi Baishi took painting, reciting poems, and carving seals as his daily lessons. Through this travel, Qi Baishi understood that the landscape paintings made by his predecessors were all verified, not out of thin air.
In the spring of 1904, Qi Baishi, Wang Xiangqi and Zhang Zhonghu traveled to Nanchang together, passing through Jiujiang and Lushan during the trip. During the Qixi Festival that year, Xiangqi invited Qi Baishi and his friends to drink, and during the banquet, Xiangqi proposed a couplet, Qi Baishi and his friends thought about it for a long time and did not connect, and felt very undignified. After returning to his hometown, so of the Nanchang couplet, Qi Baishi deleted the word "Yin" in the borrowed mountain pavilion, and only called the borrowed mountain pavilion.
In mid-July 1906, Qi Baishi went to Guilin at the invitation of Wang Songnian. Recalling his experience in Guangxi in the future, Qi Baishi once said: "When I arrived in Guangxi, I opened my eyes!."Qi Baishi still makes a living by selling paintings and engraving in Guilin, Guangxi, and is quite courteous.
In 1906, Qi Baishi was 44 years old, received a letter from his father saying that the fourth brother and the eldest son had joined the army in Guangdong, so he went to Qinzhou to find his fourth brother and eldest son, and met Guo Baosheng, who was also from Xiangtan, Guo Baosheng left Qi Baishi for a few months, and Qi Baishi taught his wife to learn to paint and wrote for Guo.
Qi Baishi benefited a lot from Guo Baosheng's copying of the authentic works of Bada Shanren, Xu Qingteng, Jin Dongxin and others, and got a considerable amount of money. Soon after returning home, Qi Baishi received the funeral news of his mentor Zhou Zhimei, and was so sad that he made a "master craftsman's epitaph" to mourn his mentor.
This time back to his hometown, Qi Baishi's Meigong Ancestral Hall expired, so he bought a new house at the foot of Yuxiafeng Mountain, named "Jiping Hall", and soon after moving, he got an eldest grandson. The neighbors came to congratulate them: "People are prosperous." Qi Baishi felt that his mood was much more relaxed than in previous years.
In 1907, Qi Baishi went to Qinzhou again to renew the previous contract with Guo Baosheng;Passing through Wuzhou, Guangxi, after arriving in Qinzhou, he went to Zhaoqing with Guo Baosheng, visiting Dinghu Mountain and Guanfei Quantan;To Gaoyao County, travel to Duanxi, exhaust the ancestral hall;Later, he went to the border between Qinzhou and Vietnam, visited the Vietnamese landscape on the south bank of the Beilun River, and made the "Green Sky Passerby Map", which was included in the "Borrowing Mountain Picture Scroll".
Back in Qinzhou, Qi Baishi was encountering lychees on the market, and seeing its fruitful results, he also included lychees in the painting. Qi Baishi was homesick, and when it came to the winter moon, he set off to return home.
In 1908, Qi Baishi went to Guangdong to study and envoy Luo Xingwu, who was in charge of the Yamen, to visit Guangzhou. During the period of selling paintings and engraving in Guangzhou for a living, in order to help Luo Xingwu deliver news, Qi Baishi used paintings as a cover for the transmission of information from the revolutionary party. In the autumn, Qi Baishi received a letter from his father urging him to go home, so he set off for Qinzhou, picked up his fourth brother and eldest son, and returned to Guangzhou to stay until the new year.
In 1909, Qi Baishi, his fourth brother and eldest son, embarked on the road home. On the way back, he traveled to Hong Kong via Guangzhou and then to ShanghaiAfter that, take the train to Suzhou and visit Tiger Hill;Starting from Suzhou to Nanjing, visiting old friends, visiting famous places, and finally going to Xiaogu Mountain in Jiangxi, he made "Xiaogu Mountain Map" and included in "Borrowing Mountain Picture Scroll", and returned to his hometown in September.
After returning from the fifth period, Qi Baishi still did not stop painting and learning ancient Chinese poetry, and still insisted on working the foundation, redrawing the landscape paintings he had traveled in the past eight years, and compiling them into the "Borrowing Mountain Picture Scroll".
After returning home, Qi Baishi no longer thinks about traveling, hoping to grow old in his hometown and live in the "Jiping Hall" designed and decorated by himself. During this period, Qi Baishi traveled several times and met many nobles to help, and Qi Baishi truly realized the nature of the teacher while appreciating the beauty of the motherland.
The 60 artists participating in this exhibition: Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Chen Banding, Yu Youren, Zhang Shanzi, Shen Yinmo, Yu Feiyan, He Tianjian, Pan Jingshu, Zhu Qizhan, Guo Moruo, Zheng Wuchang, Wu Hufan, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Pu Ru, Pan Tianshou, Feng Zikai, Huang Junbi, Lin Sanzhi, Li Kuchan, Zhang Daqian, Qian Songzhe, Ma Jin, Sha Menghai, Lin Fengmian, Guan Liang, Fei Xinme, Jiang Zhaohe, Fu Baoshi, Ye Qianyu, Li Keran, Zhao Puchu, Feng Chaoran, He Haixia, Wu Zuoren, Lu Yanshao, Xie Zhiliu, Li Xiongcai, Tang Yun, Qi Gong, Guan Shanyue, Yang Shanshen, Huang Qiuyuan, Lai Shaoqi, Tian Shiguang, Wu Guanzhong, Song Wenzhi, Shi Lu, Cheng Shifa, Ya Ming, Huang Yongyu, Huang Zhou, Liu Danzhai, Fan Zeng, Zhou Sicong, Pan Gongkai, Liu Qinghe, Gao Shiqiang.【Exhibition】 "Sympathetic Time and Space: The Visual Feelings of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in the 20th Century".
Duration: July 17, 2023 to February 25, 2024.
Address] Chengdu Tianfu New District Shuzhou Road No. 2699.
Transportation] Any map to the "Guanghui Art Museum" Exit C.
Metro] Line 1 - Tianfu Park Exit A or Line 6 - Hangzhou Road Exit B1.