"Jiang": Jiang (190 1- 1986) is famous all over the world, and is known as the Twelve Stone Temples. Tianjin people. Uncle Jiang Bingshan was an academician of the Qing Dynasty, and his father Jiang Xuanliang was a juren. He began to learn painting when he was eight years old. Influenced by Zhang Zhaoxiang, he was a strict grandchild and studied in Beiping Art College. 1932 hosted a resolute painting meeting in Tianjin and taught Chinese painting techniques. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as editor of Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House and Yangliuqing Painting Society. He is good at painting flowers and landscapes, especially meticulous painting and line drawing flowers.
"Taking a break and talking is what I expect" —— A letter to the author
Mr. Jiang is a famous modern painter and an unforgettable friend of the author. As early as the early 1950s, his meticulous and heavy-colored painting "Flowers and Pigeons in old boys" was exhibited at the first China Art Exhibition, and his golden and heavy-colored painting "Hydrangea" was exhibited in many countries in Europe and Asia, and was later collected by the London Art Museum. Grapes and Bo Gu flowers painted on porcelain green paper are treasures of Tianjin Art Museum. His Collection of Sketches with Chiang Kai-shek was published twice, which was well received by Liu Haisu, Zhou and Zhou. He was good at calligraphy and poetry, and lived in Jiang Baishi during the Southern Song Dynasty. He pays attention to painting poems, and his works are integrated with poems, books, paintings and seals, which is quite literati. Yu Jianhua's China Artist's Surname Dictionary has published its name. Now in some large-scale auctions, the price of Mr. Jiang's four flower-and-bird screens has been 1.6 thousand to 20 thousand yuan. But who would have thought that this accomplished, generous and kind old painter, in that extremely "left" era, how bleak the evening scene was.
Mr. Jiang has no children. He originally lived in the old town of Tianjin. During the Cultural Revolution, the old couple were driven to work in a humble hut. In the late Cultural Revolution, the policy was implemented, and the cultural system gave the old couple a "single kitchen" in the urban fringe. I often go to the "single kitchen" to visit the old people. This letter from Lao Jiang is mainly about changing rooms.
Although Mr. Jiang's housing has been solved, it is not only small in area, but also very dark in the room because it is allocated to the first floor. At that time, Mr. Jiang was nearly 80 years old, and it was still inconvenient to paint on weekdays. So Mr. Wang said in the letter: "Although my current residence is very good, the indoor light is too dim, and I am too old to work." Mr. Wang knows that I work in the leading organ and hopes to help him change rooms through administrative relations. This is why the letter said, "I asked Zhu about my room change." I don't know if I have contacted him recently? " Unfortunately, although I ran around, it still didn't help, and things have never been solved. But Mr. Wang is an open-minded man, and he doesn't care about these things. He will make do with it. There are often weddings in the small room, talking and laughing. Poetry friends and painting friends often get together here, and Mrs. Jiang is busy making some wine and side dishes, which is very pleasant.
"Many distractions, thank you in person" —— A letter to the author
This letter revealed Mrs. Jiang's illness and was written in 198 1. Mr. Jiang's wife is a very amiable old lady. She and Mr. Jiang lived alone, suffering and suffering, and spent decades of ups and downs. The old lady has always been in good health. 198 1 in the spring, she suddenly felt unwell, and sometimes she had symptoms of coughing and wheezing. At first, the old couple disagreed. My wife and I kept visiting the elderly, and then we discussed it and decided to get a car to send the old lady to the first hospital of the city for examination. After fluoroscopy and chest X-ray, the result came out. It turns out that the old lady has lung cancer. We are all very sad. Do you want to tell Mr. Jiang about this situation? I talked repeatedly with several friends of poetry and painting, and decided to tell him, because everyone knows that Jiang has always been an open-minded old man.
We hope that Ms. Jiang can be hospitalized. Lao Jiang said: "At her age, hospitalization can't cure her illness. I'd better take care of her at home! " In the late stage of lung cancer, the patient is in unbearable pain. This letter from Lao Jiang is mainly for me to buy medicine. He said that some drugs "have not developed after eating, but they are weak and the painkillers are not enough." Please buy two boxes of' strong pain tablets' and twenty or thirty tablets and twenty codeine tablets in the hospital for emergency and distraction. " I tried my best to get the medicine, but I still didn't cure the old lady. In less than half a year, the old lady died.
I remember that on the first day of that year, a young man suddenly smashed my door. He is a close neighbor of Lao Jiang. The young man told me: "Grandma Jiang has passed. Grandpa Jiang invites you to help him with the funeral and send him to the crematorium for cremation as soon as possible. " I don't care about anything With tears in my eyes, I got on my bike and ran to Lao Jiang's cabin. The old lady has put on her clothes and is lying in bed. It turned out that Mrs. Jiang died on the night of the 30th. She doesn't want to disturb others. She put on her clothes and put them on the bed. She said to herself, "My wife! You have been with me all my life, and I will stay with you for another night! "
Portrait of Jiang Yiran
After the old lady's funeral, Lao Jiang was alone, and my wife and friends were all concerned about the old man's life. My wife often packs some jiaozi, makes some assorted vegetables for the old man, and cleans his room. After this lasted for a period of time, Lao Jiang's adopted daughter, Jiang Sangu, took him to her home and built a room for the elderly. We are relieved that the old people have food and drink and are taken care of. 1986, the old painter Mr. Jiang died at the age of 86.
Letter from Jiang to Xiu (1)
Letter from Jiang Gexiu (2)