Zhang Heng is an ancient calligraphy and painting appraiser and bibliophile.

Zhang Heng has profound attainments and long-term practical experience in China's calligraphy and painting appraisal. He is good at exploring the laws of calligraphy and painting, making comparative studies in combination with literature, and making scientific judgments objectively. Familiar with tradition, he broke through tradition, created a scientific appraisal method, and became a famous expert in calligraphy and painting appraisal in China. I have appraised millions of paintings and calligraphy in my life. 196 1 year, the Ministry of Culture organized a painting and calligraphy appraisal team headed by Zhang Heng, and toured around the country to appraise nearly 654.38+10,000 paintings and calligraphy, and found a number of long-lost treasures of paintings and calligraphy.

He has frequent contacts with Pang Yuanji and Liu Chenggan, and is proficient in edition catalogue and appreciation of epigraphy calligraphy. 1950 was hired as the consultant of Shanghai Cultural Relics Protection Committee. In the same year, recommended by Zheng Zhenduo, he was transferred to the Cultural Relics Bureau of Beijing Ministry of Culture. Later, he served as deputy director of the Cultural Relics Department of the Ministry of Culture and editor-in-chief of the Cultural Relics Publishing Bureau. Member of the Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee of the Palace Museum. Some of the books in Zhang Equilibrium's Poetry Garden were inherited by him, and most of them were collected by himself. He has acquired old collections such as Songjiang Han Yingbi's useful study for reading and Nanxun Jiang Ruzao's Miyun Building. He opened a room in his apartment in Shanghai to collect famous paintings and ancient books, and named it "Huahuizhai". 1947, Zheng Zhenduo compiled the Collection of Famous Paintings Collected by Hua Hui since Tang and Song Dynasties. He has a rich collection of ancient books, paintings and calligraphy. For example, Song Wenjian, Zhang Li's Collection, Fan Wenzheng's Collection, Dongpo's Poems, Daguan Materia Medica, Ying Song's Panzhou Music, Wei Suzhou Collection and so on. 1935 There are more than 30 volumes of poems by Zhang Dao and Zhang Ziyu in Hangzhou, most of which are unpublished. Cao Datie, a bibliophile, once became sworn brothers. There are more than 0 words 10 with Zhang Heng in Cao Datie's The Rhyme of Zi Ren. After the Anti-Japanese War, its books were sold to the National Central Library twice, and there were more than 200 almanac books alone. Zheng Zhenduo also recorded in his "Xidi Shuhua" that "some books of Zhang in Yunhuizhai, Deng in Fengyulou, Zhang in Haiyan, and Dow in Sheyuan stayed in Shanghai, and they all entered Tibet one after another." He is the author of How to Distinguish Calligraphy and Painting, Notes on Famous Paintings in Song Dynasty, etc.