Tang Yuanmao's work "Listening to the Waves".
People say: "People who treat hobbies as a career are real life, and most of them are just making a living." Although the words are a bit biased, they are not unreasonable. Take a hobby as a lifelong career - "old friend" Tang Yuanmao is such a person.
Tang Yuanmao, the word Wenfeng, the owner of the number and Lezhai, the ancestral hometown of Hunan Huitong, Huitong County is the hometown of General Su Yu, Zhong Lingyuxiu, outstanding people. The humanistic heritage has endowed him with the inner character of simplicity, perseverance and self-improvement, and has also generated an inexhaustible spiritual power for his more than 30 years of calligraphy exploration.
Family learning enlightenment, continuous inheritance
Tang Yuanmao's grandfather was a primary school teacher, proficient in Chinese language and literature, especially good at writing and ink, highly respected, and respected by the local villagers. According to Tang Yuanmao's recollection, he originally learned from his grandfather, and since he was a child, he was carefully taught by his grandfather and cousin, "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming", "Yan Qinli Tablet", "Duobao Pagoda Tablet" and other ancient tablets, his grandfather and cousin have explained to him one by one, let him read, laid a solid foundation for him calligraphy, and sowed the seeds of interest. During college, in addition to the daily Xi training and student union work, Tang Yuanmao impressed me the most in a small room a few feet square in the student union duty room, set up a table, put pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and insisted on practicing calligraphy every day. He not only continued to study himself, but also paid attention to consulting and communicating with the school's calligraphy teachers and fellow Xi brothers, and thus met his mentor Zhang Qingquan and a group of fellow teachers and brothers. In the exchange Xi, he successively wrote "Huairenji Wang Xi's Book of the Holy Order", Sun Guoting's "Book Pedigree", Zhao Mengfu's "Xingshu Thousand Character Text", "Luo Shenfu", Dong Qichang's "Fangyuan Nunnery", Suo Jing's "Moon Ritual Post", Huangxiang's "Urgent Chapter", Han Li's "Ritual Tablet", "Yiying Tablet", "Zhang Qian Tablet", "Ode to Shimen", Da Seal's "Sanshi Pan", "Mao Gongding", "Stone Drum Text", "Mawangdui Silk Book" and other inscriptions. After graduating, Tang Yuanmao has engaged in a variety of jobs, but no matter where he is or what position he is in, he has always insisted on Xi studying calligraphy for decades. In recent years, Tang Yuanmao to the seal of the hard work of the diligent preparation, Qin Jian Gu Li is good, its simple silk book, the rectification is rigorous, take the method of many parties, the technique is proficient, flexible and vivid, the style is distinct, its words are free, the size of the vertical and horizontal, a faction of heaven, the whole coordination to see the change, the reason to see the interest. Thick and thin, Tang Yuanmao has won the Huaihua City Fourth ** Literary and Art Award (Young Talent Award), Huaihua City Fifth ** Literary and Art Award (Contribution Award) honorary title, works have been in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, China Calligraphy Association sponsored by the professional calligraphy exhibition competition and into the exhibition, more than 10 works by Jiangsu Art Museum, Qinghai Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, Jiangxi Provincial Museum, Gansu Provincial Museum, Sichuan Provincial Museum, Ningxia Museum, China Water Conservancy Museum, The permanent collection of cultural and museum units such as the China Sports Museum.
Tang Yuanmao's work.
Studying science and literature, and studying calligraphy
Unswerving, accumulation. Tang Yuanmao knows that learning Xi calligraphy is not only the calligraphy skill itself, but also pays attention to cultivating the humanistic spirit, enriching the academic foundation, and "knowing what it is and why it is true". To this end, Tang Yuanmao has made great efforts in reading, and the classics of the hundred schools of thought are all volumes in his pillow books, such as the Taoist "Tao Te Ching", the Confucian "Analects", "Mencius" and "The Mean", and the Legalist "Han Feizi";Tang Yuanmao has a strong interest in poetry and music, such as "Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci", pre-Qin poetry, Han Fu, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan song, Ming and Qing dynastiesTang Yuanmao also attaches great importance to the study Xi and ** of calligraphy theory, and has a systematic Xi of "History of Chinese Calligraphy", "Selected Calligraphy of Past Dynasties" and "Selected Modern Calligraphy".Tang Yuanmao has few daily hobbies, but loves calligraphy related things, every three or five friends meet to travel, the first choice of local museums, art galleries, exhibition halls, in recent years, it is even more tireless, go to Shaanxi, Shanghai, Hubei and other places to exchange Xi, exchange ideas with colleagues, study Xi techniques, observe the stele forest, feel the humanistic atmosphere and rich heritage of different regions, although hard, but never tired, but also the name of "reading ten thousand volumes is not as good as traveling thousands of miles". Years of research and precipitation have sublimated his cognition and understanding of calligraphy, as he said: "Those who have always thought of calligraphy have entered the Tao from technology to cultivate calligraphy, and they are the right way to cultivate calligraphy." This kind of cognition also runs through his daily calligraphy creation, his recent creations are also mostly based on "Fu" as the carrier, especially the exploration and practice of the theme of Han Fu, through the Han Fu to strengthen the Qin and Han culture, the deep understanding and perception of the artistic spirit, the form of the work is richer, the cultural connotation is more authentic, and its calligraphy is also the first Shanghai Calligraphy Seminar, the National Excellent Calligraphy Education Seminar, the first China Hard Pen Calligraphy Summit Forum and other academic activities, "Calligraphy Herald", "Calligraphy and Painting World", " Many newspapers and periodicals such as Youth Calligraphy Newspaper (Youth Edition) have been featured in special editions to promote reports.
Founded a bookstore, peach and plum fragrance
In June 2019, Tang Yuanmao's calligraphy career reached a new level and founded the Wenhantang Law Training Center in Wangcheng District, Changsha City, which integrates calligraphy Xi, communication, creation, research, teaching, planning and exhibition. Wenhantang is clear and spacious, with elegant layout, antique and bookish fragrance. On the wall, the books of Tang Yuanmao and his people in different periods, large or small, majestic or natural, traditional or modern, seem to create a spiritual harbor to return to the original and find oneself, so that **Lian is intoxicated. Since its inception, "Wenhantang Practice" has always adhered to the educational concept of "quality wins", advocating tradition, revering classics, paying attention to basic training, and advocating the "hard pen standardization, brush art" dual synchronous mutual promotion education and teaching mode in the province, highlighting responsibility with feelings, winning recognition with focus, enlightening wisdom with professionalism, exploring the future with concentration, leading students to understand the classics and appreciate the beauty of calligraphy art.
Tang Yuanmao's work record "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home".
Over the past four years, through the organization of teaching achievement exhibition, Huichun Conference, theme research activities, calligraphy public welfare training, "Wenhan Forum" calligraphy lectures and other educational practice activities, Wenhantang has been affirmed and praised by the society and the public, and has now become one of the top 100 famous schools in calligraphy education in China, one of the top ten training bases for calligraphy education in Hunan Province, the first training base of the Calligraphers Association in Wangcheng District, Changsha City, an excellent Xi team in Wangcheng District, and a third-party social institution for after-school services in the second round of primary and secondary schools in Wangcheng District, Changsha City. It was officially rated as "Excellent Training Unit" by Hunan Hard Pen Calligraphers Association and Jiangxi Hard Pen Calligraphers Association. A total of more than 20 students have the qualifications to join the provincial and municipal associations, and nearly 1,000 people have participated in the exhibition and won awards in the exhibitions sponsored by the national, provincial, municipal and district education departments and cultural departments. Tang Yuanmao and many teachers of the institution have also been awarded the honorary title of "Excellent Instructor" at the national, provincial and municipal levels for many times. Tang Yuanmao wears many hats, not only to be fully responsible for teaching, but also to serve as the daily management of Wenhantang, to coordinate and organize students to participate in various competitions at all levels, but also to take into account his own calligraphy creation and calligraphy academics, which is very tired inside and out. I once advised him to let go moderately and give himself some space, he said emotionally: "The times have given our generation opportunities, the society has given me a platform to display, and my family and parents have given me the motivation to move forward. "Yin Yin's feelings for his family and country are beyond words, which is admirable.
From his childhood preferences, to his diligent pursuit, infatuation, hard work, and then to hard work, sticking to his feelings, and cultivating newcomers to traditional culture, Tang Yuanmao's pursuit of calligraphy art has always been consistent, and his original intention is like a rock. (Wen Dong Haibo).
Tang Yuanmao, whose name is Wenfeng, is currently a member of the Seal Script Professional Committee of the China Hard Pen Calligraphy Association, a member of the China Oracle Bone Calligraphy Art Research Association, a member of the Lettering Hard Pen Committee of the Hunan Calligraphers Association, a member of the Hunan Literature and Art Critics Association, and a student of the 6th China Silk Calligraphy Research and Innovation Advanced Training Course. His works won the first prize of the first national "Agricultural Reclamation Cup" calligraphy exhibition, the first prize of the "Putuo Cup" Youth Calligraphy Competition, the first prize of the first "National Unity Cup" calligraphy exhibition and other awards, and participated in the 6th Silk Road International Art Festival Today Silk Road International Calligraphy Invitational Exhibition (Ministry of Culture and Tourism), the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up All-Army Calligraphy Exhibition (China Calligraphy Association), the 3rd World Overseas Chinese Art Calligraphy Exhibition (China Calligraphy Association), and the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China "Red Huazhang · 100 Years of Glory" Theme Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition (China Calligraphy Association), Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China The 6th Financial Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition (China Calligraphy Association), etc.