The lonely alley is dark and the lights are deep
Try to analyze Huang Binhong, who is self-confident.
Jiang Yonglong. In the history of modern Chinese painting and calligraphy, without Huang Binhong, it would certainly appear thin, shallow, and dull; Because of Huang Binhong, the history of modern Chinese painting and calligraphy is thick, elegant, and transcendent, making the peak of the history of modern Chinese painting and calligraphy on the plateau more majestic and extraordinary.
Huang Binhong's life is rich and lush, and he is not only a master of Chinese painting and calligraphy, but also in gold and stone seal carving, porcelain copper and jade, literary and artistic lyrics and songs, as well as painting history and painting theory, ancient seal inscriptions, and even piano and sword, Go and many other aspects of research, profound knowledge, profound learning. He has a wide range of interests, but everything he is engaged in is based on the Chinese national culture, and is derived from the excellent national traditional culture. As a Chinese scholar, Huang Binhong studied calligraphy and painting based on Chinese culture and examined calligraphy and painting from the perspective of a scholar. Calligraphy and painting are just a means for him to study in morality, realize his ambitions, and achieve a fulfilling life.
Huang Binhong pointed out in the "Spirit" section of "Lectures on the Theory of Chinese Painting": "Painting is oneself, not a person. One has the view of favoritism in vain, is eager for utilitarianism, and wastes halfway. This argument is in line with what the Analects says: "The scholars of the past are themselves, and the scholars of today are men." This is to say: Ancient scholars, the purpose of reading and studying was to understand the truth of their own lives and the meaning of life, to cultivate themselves, to get rid of the confusion, filth and obsession of the mind, so as to perfect and achieve themselves, and to achieve a life of harmony and fullness, purity and unstainedness, and greatness and rigidity. However, the purpose of today's scholars is to use their knowledge to decorate the façade, boast to others, and win praise, so as to seek benefits.
Pan Lin, a contemporary scholar, said: "Regard learning as a ...... to transform oneselfEnrich yourself ......Perfection of oneself (through practical cultivation, the ultimate goal is to restore and manifest the conscience nature in the heart of each person.) Internally, the achievement of awakening and detachment, Confucianism is called 'benevolence' or 'sanctification', and externally it achieves great deeds for the benefit of all. Transcendence has been achieved both internally and externally, and Zhuangzi called it 'the inner sage and the outer king') must fulfill the obligation, which is regarded as the innate mission and responsibility, that is, 'learning for oneself'. To regard learning only as the accumulation of knowledge, the need for the advancement of social status, and the accumulation of personal wealth, and only as something that has nothing to do with oneself and is external to one's physical and mental life, is the 'learning of others'. ”
Whether engaging in various kinds of learning is "for oneself" or "for others" reflects a person's starting point and pattern, and also determines his final realm and achievements. Huang Binhong stands tall and has outstanding interests, and achieves a moral life with calligraphy and painting internally, and "uses pictures to assist politics and religion" externally. Because of his solid cultural education and lofty moral character, he has always adhered to cultural self-confidence in the absence of bosom friends, embarrassment and loneliness, and has not been moved by external disturbances and difficulties. Therefore, Huang Binhong can become a towering peak on the plateau of modern calligraphy and painting history while "being a saint for himself" and "inner saint", and "foreign king" the world with the cultivation of calligraphy and painting.
Works by Huang Binhong
Huang Binhong's self-confident life has gone through several stages, which are connected and blended with each other, and try to describe them from the following aspects:
First, be bold and save the country and strive to be strong
Modern China was poor and weak, and was bullied by foreign powers. People of insight and bloody men are all depressed in their hearts, and they want to save the country and save the people in dire straits, and actively seek the road to strengthening the country. Many heroes have the spirit of what Zhang Fei said to Liu Bei in the first episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "The eldest husband does not contribute to the country, why sigh?" Huang Binhong is no exception, he was full of enthusiasm in his young age, liked to make friends with people with lofty ideals, was eager to change the law, had the courage to take risks and make difficulties, and even hoped to use Wu Anbang.
Letter to Kang Liang. In April 1895, after the news of the signing of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" for the loss of power and humiliation of the country and the reparation for land cession reached Beijing, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao jointly raised 1,300 people in Beijing to write a letter**. Huang Binhong, who was mourning at home, was greatly excited when he heard the news, and immediately sent a letter to Shukang and Liang, expounding his support for the reform of the law, believing that "if the government does not try to innovate, the country will be destroyed."
Meet Tan Sitong. In the summer of that year, Tan Sitong, another important figure in the reform of the law, went to Shanghai via Guichi, Anhui Province. Xiao Chenshi, a friend of Huang Binhong's acquaintance in Yangzhou, traveled with Tan Si. After Xiao Chen's matchmaking, Huang Binhong specially rushed to Guichi to meet with them. Huang Binhong admired Tan Sitong's impassioned and straightforward talk about the evils of the times, and his heart was greatly shaken. Since then, the two have often exchanged ideas by letter. In October 1898, after Huang Binhong suddenly heard the bad news that Tan Sitong was martyred due to the failure of the Wuxu Reform, he couldn't help but cry bitterly and wrote an elegy angrily, which contained the sentence "Ode to the thousand-year-old Artemisia, worthy of the people in the Tao". In the spring of the following year, after the failure of the Wuxu Reform, Huang Binhong was denounced as an accomplice to the reformers. Fortunately, he learned the news in advance and escaped by running away overnight, but he still lived a life of exile for a year.
Set up a teaching center. After Huang Binhong and Tan Sitong broke up, they couldn't calm down for a long time, thinking that in order to protect their family and defend the country and save the nation from danger, they must have a revolutionary team. He went to visit Hong Peiquan and Wang Zuochen, two martial artists in the late Qing Dynasty, and after discussing with them, he set up a teaching field and gathered young and middle-aged people among the villagers to practice martial arts. Soon, a team was also pulled up. They claim to be to enhance the physical fitness of the villagers, but in fact they have grand ideals, hoping that they can come in handy when the law is needed to reform the law.
The Yellow Society was established. In the winter of 1905, Xu Chengyao established the first middle school in the history of She County, Xin'an Middle School, and Huang Binhong was hired as a chair in Chinese literature. Soon after, he invited Chen Quai, whom he met when he was a teacher at Anhui Public School, to teach at Xin'an Middle School. Chen Quzhi is a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu, who organized the Snow Shame Society in his hometown, advocated the Restoration and Revolution, followed Sun Yat-sen, joined the League, spared no effort to propagate the revolution, and made outstanding contributions to the Xinhai Revolution and the "** Movement". In order to echo the general trend of the domestic revolution, Huang Binhong, Xu Chengyao, Chen Quzhi and others established the "Yellow Society", which was named to commemorate the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty thinker Huang Zongxi. On the surface, the "Yellow Society" was a study of the poems and writings of Huang Zongxi and others, but on the inside, it was to propagate revolutionary ideas aimed at overthrowing the rule of the Qing Dynasty. In the winter of 1906, according to the organization's arrangement, Huang Binhong set up a minting machine in his backyard to privately mint copper coins to solve the problem of shortage of revolutionary funds. But in June of the following year, when the first batch of copper coins was about to be printed, because someone denounced it, Qing ** ordered the arrest of the members of the "Yellow Society", Huang Binhong heard the news and ran away overnight, and his ideal of rejuvenating the country and saving the people was shattered again.
Participate in the Southern Society. In 1909, Huang Binhong, Liu Yazi, Chen Quzhi and others initiated the establishment of the "Southern Society" to resist the Qing Dynasty and intend to use the alliance as a horn. Huang Binhong became one of the first 17 members of the "Southern Society", and participated in the "Southern Society" elegant gathering many times, and the fiery ideal of saving the country was ignited again.
Huang Binhong cherished the enthusiasm of saving the country and the people, and after the ideal of changing the law and trying to become strong was repeatedly frustrated, he wanted to realize his ambition to save the world through revolution. His words and deeds reveal that he has a fearless heroic spirit in his bones, a compassionate thought about the people, and a spirit of sacrifice for the country. Huang Binhong had the ambition of a revolutionary aspirant, although he did not embark on the road of revolution, but he turned all his blood into the inkstone inkstone, and his chivalrous courage retreated to calligraphy and painting.
Works by Huang Binhong
2. Inspirational and diligent learning, tracking sages
Huang Binhong went from hanging hair to a weak crown, standing and not confused, showing the extraordinary ambition of being diligent in learning, striving for goodness, and embracing the world; From the longevity of the sixtieth and ancient rare to the cane dynasty and the tái (tái) back, he has the mind of sending calligraphy and painting, comparing with sages and sages, and turning customs into customs.
Solid preschool learning. Since childhood, Huang Binhong has shown a bright and precocious intelligence that is different from ordinary children. His father Huang Dinghua told him "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" when he was 2 years old (Huang Binhong calculated by himself, and his age was added to 2 years old). Since Huang Binhong was 3 years old, Huang Dinghua has successively invited Mr. Zhao Jingtian, Cheng Jianxing, Ying Zhibin, Li Zhuoxian, and Li Yongtang to teach at home. When Huang Binhong was 6 years old, Huang Chongyi, a fellow ethnic group from She County, went to Fujian to take office. Huang Chongyi's words of appreciation touched Huang Binhong very much, and planted a good seed of self-affirmation and forge ahead in his young heart. In 1880, after Huang Binhong returned to his hometown to participate in the township examination and the government examination successfully passed the first two times, he returned to She County again to take the college examination and was admitted to show talent. This year, he was 15 years old.
Ask Wang Zongyi. Wang Zongyi (1837-1906), whose name is Zhongyi, was a native of Xixi, She County, Anhui Province. In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), Jinshi, in the study of Chinese culture is omniscient, general medical science, good swordsmanship, Xiaoyin law, good words and art of war, has been in Anqing Jingfu, Wuhu Zhongjiang and Shexian Ziyang and other academies as the main lecturer, the writing is very rich, is known as "Jiangnan Confucian". Huang Binhong was 12 and 21 years old and studied at Wang Zongyi twice. Huang Binhong not only learned from him about scriptures, paleography, gold and stone, and Huizhou culture, but also learned from him about sword dance, fuqin, and ancient seal collection. Huang Binhong and Wang Zongyi have many similarities, such as a broad desire for knowledge and "not being confined to the methods of their predecessors, but being able to make their own way". Wang Luxiang said: "Huang Binhong's heroic spirit of fighting with a sword and being a chivalrous man in his youth and his later years sparing no effort to advocate the vigorous atmosphere of the Jinshi family to save the softness of Chinese painting, can all feel his spirit as a teacher. Wang Zongyi's moral education and patriotic spirit had a great influence on Huang Binhong.
All-round dedication to calligraphy and painting. In 1907, Huang Binhong was denounced as a revolutionary and fled overnight to Shanghai. Huang Binhong has been in Shanghai for 30 years. In the past 30 years, Huang Binhong has gathered his words and deeds to save the country with revolution, and turned to be full of spirit and busyness with cultural efforts, and it is also the 30 years in which his literary and artistic outlook, academic cultivation, character refining and calligraphy and painting art have been progressing and gradually maturing. In addition to cultivating Hanmo Danqing, Huang Binhong is immersed in several fields such as calligraphy, painting, and ancient seals, and is immersed in the affairs of running newspapers, compiling periodicals, establishing clubs, writing articles, and teaching. Soon after he arrived in Shanghai, he joined the "Society for the Preservation of Chinese Culture", and served as the chief writer of the "Journal of National Quintessence" of the "Society for the Preservation of Chinese Culture", and at the same time edited the "Shenzhou Guoguang Collection". Later, he also founded publications such as "Political and Art Bulletin" and "Chinese Studies Series" with Deng Shi and others. In 1908, he and Deng Shi began to plan, edit, and publish the "Art Series", which had 160 volumes and collected 257 kinds of art treatises, which could be described as a huge cultural project. In 1911, Huang Binhong served as the chief writer of "Shenzhou**" and participated in the compilation of the "Truth Pictorial", which propagated progressive ideas after the Xinhai Revolution. In 1915, at the invitation of Kang Youwei, he served as the editor of "Guoshi Daily" and opened the "Zhouhezhai" antique calligraphy and painting shop, which attracted Lu Xun's visit. In 1918, he was invited to serve as the editor of the "Collection of Chinese Famous Paintings" to be published by Youzheng Book Company. In 1921, he was introduced by Chen Shutong as the director of the art department of the Shanghai Commercial Press. In 1926, he co-founded the "China Jinshi Calligraphy and Painting Art Society" with his friends, and was responsible for the editorial work of the society's pictorial magazine "Art View". In 1928, he established the "Brilliant Man" with Zhang Daqian and other 8 people, and was elected as the president. In this year, he also founded the "Chinese Academy of Literature and Art" with Ye Gongxuan and others, and served as the president for a time. In the following year, at the request of Ye Gongxuan, he organized the "Chinese Painting Association" and served as a supervisory committee after its establishment. In 1934, he served as the editor of the "Chinese Painting Monthly". In addition to editing and other affairs, he has also taught at Shanghai Xinhua Art College, Changming Art College, Shanghai Art College, etc. At the same time, he is diligent in pen cultivation, and has published more than 1,100 articles in more than 20 newspapers and periodicals, such as "Ink Seal", "Ink Making", "Village Residence", "Xinxiang Record of Chinese Painting History", "Discussion on the Difference of Painters' Character in Ancient Famous Paintings", "Discussion on Chinese Painting in the Art Exhibition", "Painters' Commentary on Recent Decades", "Introduction to Ancient Seals", "The Essence of Painting", "Chinese Painting is Not Unhelpful", etc., and also printed or published "Binhong Miscellaneous Works", "Ancient Painting Micro", "Chinese Modern Famous Paintings" and other treatises. These articles and treatises cover many aspects of Chinese culture and art, such as calligraphy, painting, seals, etc., showing Huang Binhong's profound knowledge and profound literary and artistic cultivation.
Huang Binhong and Deng Shi planned, edited and published the "Art Series", which has 160 volumes and 257 kinds of art treatises
In the 30 years that Huang Binhong lived in Shanghai, he relied on editing, writing, teaching, and participating in the activities of literary and artistic societies in order to realize his grand aspiration of carrying the Tao through literature and saving the country and making the country strong. Mei Mosheng said: "Huang Binhong is a person who attaches great importance to practical learning, and he is deeply influenced by Gu Yanwu's thoughts, that is, doing things must be beneficial to the family and the country, and to the country and the world. Huang Binhong loves this country, this nation, and this culture. He is not shouting slogans, he is speaking through his status as a scholar, relying on the art of his artists. ”