Introduction to the attractions of Sha Menghai Book Institute:
Sha Menghai Academy is located in the celebrity cultural area in the north of Dongqian Lake, adjacent to Baishi Temple in the west. Before and after the two buildings, ups and downs between green mountains and green waters. Entering the gate, a red marble railing in Sichuan is engraved with the History of Sha Menghai Academy inscribed by the famous calligrapher Qi Gong of China. In the bright sunshine, it is glittering and eye-catching.
Mr. Sha Menghai is highly respected and knowledgeable. Great achievements have been made in classical literature, ancient philology, epigraphy and archaeology, and outstanding contributions have been made. Apollo's flying calligraphy art, in particular, enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. Mr. Sha Menghai's calligraphy is far behind the Han and Wei Dynasties, close to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and combines the essence of a hundred schools of thought, but he has become an outstanding figure with his own style. His calligraphy is well organized, dignified, simple, steady and vigorous. Pan Tianshou, a master of Chinese painting, praised his exquisite calligraphy skills, Fu Baoshi said that his calligraphy has the beauty of flesh and blood symmetry, and Wang Bomin, a famous art historian, praised his elegance and agility. Nowadays, the calligraphy circle calls Sha Lao's calligraphy sand body, which shows its unique artistic style.
1991may, the people's government of Yinxian county invested more than 3 million yuan to build Sha Menghai Painting and Calligraphy Institute to commemorate Sha Menghai's outstanding artistic achievements and carry forward and inherit Sha Menghai's calligraphy spirit. The main building of the Library College is a three-story comprehensive building, which is mainly used to display exhibits except for office and academic activities. The exhibition hall on the second floor introduces Mr. Sha Menghai's calligraphy career in three parts. The first part is an outstanding master of art, showing Sha's family background, calligraphy teacher's watch and teacher's ink. The second part is exquisite calligraphy attainments, which introduces the development of Sha Menghai's calligraphy art, various academic activities he participated in, published works and important manuscripts. The third part has far-reaching cultural influence, including the exhibition of books and periodicals of Sha Menghai Theme Society, participation in international academic exchange activities, gifts from all walks of life, and the distribution of Sha Lao's works in China.
Then it shows Mo Bao's works in Sha Menghai in the early, middle and late periods, including album pages, vertical axes, lenses, couplets and so on. His books are divided into lower case, running script, Cao Zhang, running script and list book. From the unique calligraphy treasures, we can see the extraordinary momentum and elegance of Sha Menghai's works. These works show Sha Menghai's superb artistic skills and are precious. On the east side of the second floor is Sha Menghai Xishi's studio, where Four Treasures of the Study and office equipment are placed. There is a black-and-white enlarged photo on the wall, which was taken by Sha Menghai under the big camphor tree at the entrance of his hometown Tangxisha Village in 1980s.
The second floor of Library College consists of exhibition hall and conference hall. During the period of 1995, relatives of Sha Menghai donated more than 200 works, anthologies and speeches by Sha Menghai, a painter and painter at home and abroad. In order to further demonstrate the outstanding achievements of this master calligrapher, huge dragon stickers and a large number of Sha Menghai calligraphy treasures are exhibited here. There are three large and small conference halls on the first floor, which can be used as small and medium-sized academic seminars and conferences.
On the hill to the west of the Academy, Mr. Sha Menghai's cemetery was built in 1994, and it was named inkstone. The fourth cemetery, Zhou Songbai, is lush. Climbing up the stone steps, you can see a hexagonal stone pavilion with a stone tablet inscribed by Mr. Zhao Puchu and the ashes of Mr. Sha Menghai buried inside. In the north of the pavilion, an exaggerated stone carving book and a big inkstone are red marble tombs, where old jars of sand are placed. Behind the tomb seat, 93 colored stones of different sizes are organically spliced to form a shadow wall. There are three seals embedded in the wall, which are engraved with people across the sea, the calligraphy of official books and the seal characters of red pansy and Shashi. This unforgettable ingenious design and compact and reasonable layout are unique and amazing. On the terrace of the cemetery, there is a Mohan Pavilion, the name of which was inscribed by General Zhang Aiping. Looking south, you can see a corner of Dongqian Lake with rippling blue waves.
Since its establishment, Sha Menghai Painting and Calligraphy Institute has carried out many calligraphy research and cultural exchange activities and received many painters, calligraphy lovers and other tourists. The Calligraphy Institute has held many training courses for cutting-edge calligraphers and international advanced calligraphy seminars, held discussions and exchanges with calligraphers in Beijing, Anhui, Qingdao and Taiwan Province provinces, and held calligraphy exhibitions in Beijing and Taiwan Province provinces, which has made the Institute's influence at home and abroad more and more significant.