The life of Xie Jusan - Baidu

In such an atmosphere with rich cultural heritage, I met a teacher named Xie Jusan, a native of Yixing and a librarian of the Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Literature and History. He was the defense lawyer in the "Seven Gentlemen Case" of the nationally famous Shanghai patriotic leaders. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served in the Supreme People's Court in Beijing for ten years. He was a student of Shen Junru, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress. He retired and settled in Nanjing in 1959. Lin Sanzhi, Xiao Xian, Gao Ershi and others came to visit him many times (Lin Sanzhi once borrowed a copy of "Wang Duo's Cursive Script Poems" from Mr. "Holy" has become a good story in the calligraphy circle). Xie's hometown has a lot of inscriptions and books that can satisfy my desire for knowledge and be used by me. Moreover, the Ancient Books Department of Nanjing Library is nearby. Although during the "Cultural Revolution", the inscriptions were dismissed as the "Four Olds", I was eager to learn and sincere, which deeply moved them, and I was willing to take the risk to lend a large number of inscriptions to them. I read. Among them, the one I remember most clearly is called "China Ink Blossom Dacheng", which is a Japanese collotype print. It is full of our nation's calligraphy art treasures and national quintessence. There I studied eagerly and took to the water like a fish in water. I was determined to take the path of calligraphy and set my goals in life. I have loved learning calligraphy since I was a child, especially cursive writing. Before the "Cultural Revolution", Mao Zedong had many poems written in handwriting, so I imitated them, but I didn't expect that my own works would be very different. Why? Because it is illegal. A few years later, when I started practicing cursive writing, I couldn't even recognize it myself, so I asked these teachers for help. Mr. Xie kindly guided me and said: "If you like cursive script, you should learn Zhangcao. What is Zhangcao? Zhangcao is ancient cursive script. Most of this cursive script comes from official script, and a small part comes from seal script. Cursive script evolved from seal script. It is also called ancient grass. "So I found Zhangcao and took it out when I had time to read it. Because it is very ancient and there are no ready-made books to introduce it, there are only its inscriptions and Chinese slips, so I worked hard on it. You can’t do it today, you won’t do it tomorrow, don’t rush, if you are willing to take the time to learn, you will do it one day.