Feng Yuan's works |"Diagram of the Ancestors" |"Confucius of Zhuzi Tu".
Confucius (551 B.C. - April 11, 479 B.C.), surnamed Kong, Mingqiu, Zi Zhongni, was a native of Lu State (now Qufu City, Shandong Province) during the Spring and Autumn Period, and his ancestral home was Liyi of the Song Kingdom (now Xiayi County, Henan Province), a great thinker, politician, educator and founder of Confucianism in ancient China, and was listed as the first of the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World".
Confucius pioneered the style of private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith. There are **3,000, of which 72 are sages. He once led some ** to travel around the world for 14 years, and revised the Six Classics ("Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Music", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn") in his later years. After his death, he recorded the words, deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his **, and compiled them into the Analects, which was regarded as a Confucian classic.
Confucius is based on benevolence"Benevolence".As the core, the ethical ideological system including the morality of being a person, the morality of dealing with interpersonal relationships, and the morality of dealing with social relations is the sum of various virtues. From the perspective of its main content, this ethical ideological value system includes several levels
First, "benevolence" is the criterion of life and the inner moral character. Second, "benevolence" is a layman's moral code for dealing with interpersonal relationships. Third, "benevolence" is the great "way" to realize the value of life and the rule of social virtue.
Therefore, "benevolence" is an ideal state of life, a life goal worth a lifetime of efforts to achieve, and a humanity that can give value to people's lives.
Bow to oneself and be responsible for others
——Feng Yuan's "Confucius of Zhuzi Tu" painting
The upper part of the picture is Confucius's classic quotations "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you", "Self-denial and retribution are benevolent" and a brief introduction to the life of Confucius, and the lower part is the image of Confucius making a bow.
"Benevolence" and "propriety" are the core of Confucius's moral ideology, and they are also the ideological basis for the formation of his political theory, educational theory and aesthetic theory. The image of Confucius created by Feng Yuan as a bow appropriately captures the ideological connotation of benevolence and propriety in Confucius's ideological system, and portrays the life image of Confucius who "bows to himself and takes responsibility for others".
Different from Lao Tzu's cangjian and thin, as well as self-introspection and naturalness based on inaction, Confucius is majestic, is active in the office, and is optimistic and open-minded on the basis of adhering to benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, so Confucius in the picture, his hands are raised high, his eyes are not evaded, nor do he retreat, he meets the attention of the exchange head-on, and even, I see the piety in his sight, sincerely responds to those concerns, and humbly accepts those incomprehensions.
He must also have a generous and tolerant heart, otherwise, how could he be forbearant enough to restrain his selfish desires, and also to make his words and deeds conform to etiquette, and it is precisely because of such a generous and tolerant heart that he has the self-control and sobriety to restrain his own desires, so that he established the early civilization of mankind by virtue of benevolence and propriety in that chaotic ancient era, and made the spirit of humanism and order begin to become the essence of ancient Chinese social and political thought.
And such a salute, such piety and respect, such restraint and sobriety, but it is wrapped in a deeper emotional connotation.
Because his salute is to the people of his family and country, and to the people of the whole world.
He saluted towards the rule of virtue and etiquette, and sublimated morality and etiquette into the noblest way of governing the country, and etiquette began to become the basic standard for measuring the country, society and individuals, and the state of etiquette of the Chinese nation came from this. However, from barbarism to order, from passive to active, the pace of etiquette and religion into daily life and national politics is extremely slow, and the time along the way is extremely long, so Confucius is persistent and persistent, working hard day after day, year after year.
He saluted to the highest political ideal of national harmony, and this salute made me see Confucius's cherishing of those ordinary and ordinary individuals. Such a brave gaze, such courage to move forward, and such restraint and tenacity are all because he is doing his best to establish an ideal society in which the old have their ends, the strong have their usefulness, the young have their growth, and the widows, loneliness, and the sick are all supported.
He saluted to the equality of education that everyone should be educated, founded private schools, recruited students, expanded the scope of education to civilians, realized the equality of education, and also realized the popularization of culture, so that the educational concepts such as not shameful to ask, teach according to aptitude, teach without class, and learn the new from the past have established the core of ancient Chinese and current education theory, and trained as many as 3,000 people, among which the famous is the "Seventy-two Magi". Therefore, Confucius traveled around the world, teaching and educating people, teaching by word and deed, practicing deeds, and enriching etiquette and benevolence with his own body.
He also bowed to the unity of "beauty" and "goodness", perfected his personal temperament from the level of poetry, etiquette and music, completed his personality, and cultivated himself, because of his adherence to etiquette and benevolence, he always self-denial, always open his inclusive embrace, to embrace, to absorb, to feel, to listen, so his pursuit of beauty is also harmonious, impartial, is in the middle of the order, is difficult to walk and still has to take care of the flowers blooming in those corners. Therefore, he put forward the beauty of yin and yang, the beauty of life, the beauty of freedom, and the beauty of neutrality, established the core of the aesthetic thought of the Chinese nation, and thus brought about the aesthetic aesthetics of harmony and moderation of the Chinese nation.
But such restraint, such persistence, such a difficult way forward despite the long road ahead, I can't help but burst into tears, that distant Spring and Autumn Period, those incomprehensible lobbying, such a fourteen-year trip just to establish a harmonious society with benevolence and courtesy, and from the self-starting, practice and introspection and self-examination of moral cultivation and moral popularization, are so pure and broad, so radiant, so gentle and contained.
If I can go back to that era of a hundred schools of thought, I must get close to him, persuade him, comfort him, understand him, I hope that you at that time, less family and country feelings, less restraint and sobriety, and less wandering hard work and perseverance sadness, I hope you can be in that troubled era, more stability, more self-embracing and relief.
It is precisely because of your hard lobbying and systematic interpretation that we can always maintain a stable core of benevolence and etiquette in the process of historical development and social changes, and always be friendly, united, developing and steadily advancing.
If I can go back to that era of unprecedented ideological activity, I would like to follow you to wander among the nations, to see the clarity of thought and the diversity of consciousness, and to see the prosperity and carnival under the great social and ideological changes.
From ancient times to the present, from the germination of ideas to the implementation of rituals, I have never been able to let go of such tolerance, such generosity, such self-denial and self-denial, such Confucius is too prudent, and the restraint of oneself and others, such compliance and acceptance is too direct.
Therefore, I hope to see Confucius put down the posture of bowing all the time, sit down, slow down, slowly feel the unknowable colorfulness of life, slowly walk through the suburbs and cities and villages of the Fourteen Kingdoms, temporarily let go of those heavy ideological ideals, let go of the long-cherished wish of national and social reform, and let go of the urgent pursuit of a complete individual. All the way to prosperity and blooming.
Feng Yuan, a painter, professor, civil servant and cultural scholar, was born in Shanghai in 1952. In 1980, he graduated from the graduate class of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Mr. Fang Zengxian. Since 1996, he has successively served as Vice President of the China Academy of Art, Director of the Department of Education and Science and Technology of the Ministry of Culture, Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Director of the National Art Museum of China, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Member of the Party Leadership Group, Secretary of the National Art Association, Honorary Dean of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, Director of the Art Museum of Tsinghua University, President of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Deputy Director of the ** Research Museum of Culture and History, and Honorary Chairman of the China Artists Association. Most of his works mainly reflect historical themes and real life, with rigorous and vivid shapes, rich life atmosphere, and novel painting forms, especially good at creating large-scale epic works and classical poetry and painting works. His representative works include Chinese painting "The Great Wall", "Spark", "Mother and Son", "Qu Yuan and Chu Ci", "Wise Man of the Century", "Day by Day", "World", etc.; His main works include "Records of the East Window", "Return to the Likeness", "Return to Simplicity", "The Art of Man and the Man of Art", "Ink and Wash Figure Painting Tutorial", etc., with more than 150,000 words; He has published more than 10 kinds of albums. Over the past 40 years, he has held solo exhibitions and touring exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia, and given lectures, and his works have been collected by many museums and art galleries at home and abroad. He has been awarded the title of National Outstanding Teacher and Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions.
Chen Yuanzhi is a senior first-class person, publisher and curator. General Manager of Beijing Huaxia Thinkers Brand Management Co., Ltd., President of COFCO Great Wall Cultural Research Institute. He used to be the editor-in-chief of "Art Mirror" and "Jingya Art Network"; General Manager of Xinhua Monthly, founder of People's Artist magazine. Since 2006, he has planned and implemented many cultural and art exhibitions with wide social influence in venues such as the National Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the Military Museum, Prince Gong's Mansion, the China Millennium Monument, Li Keran Painting Institute, Anhui Provincial Museum, and Yaming Art Museum. The representative exhibitions are as follows: "Art Mirror" 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th Anniversary Exhibition, Sunrise in the East - Marx in China and the 90th Anniversary of the People's Publishing Exhibition, "Splendid China - Contemporary New Hui School Printmaking Exhibition", New Era, New Hui School Anhui Calligraphy and Painting 40 Years Boutique Jinjing Exhibition, "Daily Use is the Way" Chinese Thinkers Brand Launching Ceremony and National Famous Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition, "Cheers - Chinese Thinkers Life Art Exhibition", "Inclusion - Chinese Thinkers Young Artists Joint Exhibition", " Symbiosis - Viewing the Sea - Wu Xue Calligraphy Life Art Exhibition", etc.
This series is based on the paintings created by Mr. Feng YuanPoetry and Painting", "Sage Map", "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", "Wang Wei Poetry", "Poetry and Sage", "Venerable", "Ancient Sages and Holy Relics".
The main purpose of this series is to present the deep meaning and emotion contained in Feng Yuan's works in the most faithful way. By organically blending elements of painting, poetry and literature, it aims to create a new artistic experience. Each issue will present a work with a specific theme, showing Feng Yuan's creative style and artistic pursuit.
This series is expected**Period。We welcome the participation and attention of all colleagues, collectors and art lovers. Teacher Feng Yuan's works are pictorial - "Picture of the Sages".
Meng Ke of Zhuzi Tu
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