1July, 895 19, Xu Beihong was born in Qitingqiao Town, Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, south of China, about15km west of the misty Taihu Lake.
The shore of Taihu Lake is a gathering place for talented people, poets and painters in China. It is not only famous for its mountains and rivers, but also has a long and glorious cultural tradition of hardworking and brave people. According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, he lived in seclusion with his teacher in Yixing, making purple clay pottery for a living, and was called the ancestor of purple clay. Up to now, Yixing enjoys the reputation of Tao Dou, China. Yixing also has a historic site, Jiaoqiao, which was a place where people killed in the Jin Dynasty. Xu Beihong's father, Zhang Gong, is an upright painter. He is good at poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting, especially painting, and has deep attainments in landscapes, figures, flowers and birds. He doesn't want fame, but he wants Wen Da. He carved a lot of seals to make his mind clear, such as "farming and fishing", "My home is in the sound of reading", "I have time to write a painting of Danqing for sale, and I don't have to spend money to atone for it", "My childlike innocence and heroic courage ..." His love and pursuit of art and his noble character as a man have deeply influenced Xu Beihong and made him embark on the art road.
Xu Beihong began to study with his father at the age of 6, and when he went to Liyang by boat with his father at the age of 10, he had a poem "Spring is green, spring is beautiful, sail is good, and the boat crosses Qian Shan", which is famous for his artistic talent of improvisation. At the age of 9, after reading four books and Zuo Zhuan, he began to learn painting with his father, copying a picture of Wu Youru's boundary paintings and figures every day. Wu Youru is the greatest illustrator in the late Qing Dynasty. He can depict pavilions, insects, fish, birds and animals, exotic flowers and plants, and even hordes in a certain proportion. Every time Xu Beihong goes to town with his father, he will go to the painting shop to see the works of Shi Tao, Eight People and Ren Bonian, and then write them from memory when he gets home. Influenced by his father's diligent teaching and innovative predecessors, he laid a solid foundation for China's painting. In his lonely youth without toys, Xu Beihong quietly fell in love with many animals around him, and made a detailed observation and description of them. The docile cows, Mercedes-Benz horses, quacking white geese, ducks floating on the water, and flowers lying in the corner or trees all appeared in his works.
/kloc-when he was 0/3 years old, his hometown was flooded, and Xu Beihong, a portable Zhang Gong, was born in a coal mine in other places. Draw people figures, landscapes, flowers, animals, carve seals and write Spring Festival couplets. At that time, there was only portrait photography in the city, so they often painted portraits of people. This is a very strict test for Liu's teenager Xu Beihong, which has a great influence on his outstanding achievements in the direction of figure painting in the future. Of course, this busking career not only honed his artistic skills, but also made him more exposed to the lower classes and working people, which aroused his feelings of worrying about the country and the people. At that time, his paintings were often signed with the names "Young People in China" and "Poor Men in the South of the Yangtze River" to express his lofty aspirations.
Xu Beihong was exploring new painting styles when he was a teenager. There were pictures of animals in the robber brand cigarette box at that time. Beihong loves to collect and watch all kinds of animal specimens, so he sketched them strictly and seriously. Replicas of some western masters made him dream of studying art in Europe. However, the cold reality stood in front of him. The wandering life made his father seriously ill and they had to return to their hometown.
/kloc-at the age of 0/7, Xu Beihong became a famous painter in Yixing, teaching fine arts in Yixing Women's Normal School, Pengcheng Middle School and Shi Qi Primary School. 19 years old, his father died of illness. After deeply burying his father, Hong Bei decided to go to Shanghai to find opportunities for work-study programs. When Zhang Zufen, a Chinese teacher at Yixing Primary Normal School, saw him off, he politely encouraged him to say, "You are young, smart, hardworking and have a bright future. I want you to remember a sentence:' people should not be arrogant, and they must not be arrogant'. I have nothing to give you, just take this kind word as a gift! Xu Beihong felt infinite gratitude from the bottom of his heart and took this sentence as his motto all his life. Until the end of his life, he still said to me warmly: "Mr. Zhang Zufen can be called my first confidant! "
19 14 years, Xu Beihong came to Shanghai. One of his fellow villagers, Professor Xu Zeng of China College, recommended the painting. The president of this university was highly praised and promised a job. When Xu Ziming accompanied Xu Beihong to see the headmaster, the headmaster was very surprised and whispered to Xu Ping, "He is still as young as a child. How does he work? " Xu Ziming argued enthusiastically: "As long as he is talented, why should you care about his age?" Later, Xu Beihong wrote to the president of Fudan University several times, but there was no reply. So Xu Beihong lives in Shanghai. Xu Ziming introduced him to Yun Tieqiao, editor of Novel Monthly. Xu Beihong took his own paintings and Xu's letter to see Huai Tieqiao, which was well received by Qing. He promised to find Xu Beihong a small job of drawing illustrations in the Commercial Press and told Xu Beihong to listen to the reply in a few days.
At this time, it is already the season of autumn rain. Xu Beihong didn't have an umbrella and went to listen to the answer in the rain. Mr. Yun Tieqiao said happily: "Success! You can go to the Commercial Press soon. " A warm current surged into Xu Beihong's cold body. He immediately rushed back to the hotel and wrote to his mother and friends in his hometown that he had found a job.