Wu Changshuo (1844—— 1927), a famous handsome man and a beautiful girl, was born in Xiangbu at the beginning, and her middle-aged name was Chang Shuo, Cang Shi. From 19 19, he used the word "land, bitter iron, etc." . His earliest success was seal cutting, vigorous and old, creating a school; The deepest skill is calligraphy, especially Shi Guwen; The most influential is Chinese painting, which uses seal script and weeds to paint, and likes to make freehand brushwork flowers. His art has achieved the "four wonders" of poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing in one furnace, and he is a master of modern painting and calligraphy.
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In the 24th year of Qing Daoguang (A.D.1September 844 12), he was born in wucun, Xiaofeng County (now Anji County). He studied with his father at the age of 6, and learned lettering at the age of 14. There is no lithograph, so I use bricks to carve it again and again. When his father saw that he liked seal cutting so much, he guided him. Since then, he has been "inseparable from printing". During the reign of Xianfeng (1860), he went abroad twice to avoid the war disaster and went through hardships. After three years of Tongzhi (1864), he returned to wucun and lived alone with his father. In the second year, I moved to Anji City (the former site of Jin 'an Town) with my father, bought land and built a house, and named it "Wuhu Garden". This year, Chang Shuo was admitted to a scholar, bathed in poetry with his classmates, and studied calligraphy and seal cutting at the same time. Wu Changshuo participated in agricultural production during his life in wucun and Wuyuan, and accumulated materials for future paintings.
In the second year after his father's death, Wu Changshuo began to study abroad, find teachers and friends, and study hard. In Hangzhou, I studied under Yu Qu, a master of Confucian classics. I met the painter Pu in Jiaxing and learned a lot from him. In Huzhou, I studied poetry with Shi Buhua, one of the "six talents in the hidden garden". In Suzhou, I had the opportunity to explore the Yi painting and calligraphy carving tools collected by Wu Pingzhai, a cultural relic collector, which opened my artistic horizon. Make friends with painter Ren Bonian and consult painting art; Pan Shoudi gave me an excellent copy of Shigu Copy, and since then my research on Shi Guwen has been interrupted every day. In Shanghai, epigraphist Wu Dazhi has made great progress in epigraphy. These experiences laid a solid foundation for his later artistic achievements.
In the 20th year of Guangxu (1894), the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 broke out, and Wu Dazhi moved northward. He took part in military activities. Knowing that beiyang fleet was overturned, I felt sad and indignant, and wrote poems to mourn the fallen soldiers. In the 24th year of Guangxu, he returned to wucun to rebuild Wu's genealogy (10). In the second year, he became the county magistrate of Anton (now Lianshui, Jiangsu). I didn't return to the south until January because I was not good at courting officialdom. In Xuantongyuannian (1909), Pu and others initiated the establishment of the Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Association, stipulating that the paintings and calligraphy works cooperated by the participants must be exhibited and sold at the exhibition, and half of the sales amount should be used for charity and disaster relief.
19 13 On the Double Ninth Festival, many famous seal engravers gathered in Hangzhou to establish Xiling Printing Society and elected Wu Changshuo as its president. After the establishment of the printing factory, Wu Changshuo was bound to take part in academic research and artistic creation activities every spring and autumn, and successively wrote Xiling Publishing House, Xiling Publishing House and Library Building. One of the precious cultural relics collected by the printing house, The Monument to Three Old People in Han Dynasty, is one of the two existing stone carvings before Han Dynasty in Zhejiang Province, and is known as "the first stone in eastern Zhejiang". At the beginning of the 20th century, this monument was stolen and sold, and shipped to Shanghai on 192 1. A Japanese overseas Chinese living in Shanghai is going to spend a lot of money to buy this monument and transport it to Japan. Zhejiang people in Shanghai heard about this matter, so they consulted Wu Changshuo. Wu Changshuo resolutely took it as his duty to save this precious cultural relic, invited comrades, wrote an appeal, and spared no effort. After hard work, we finally raised a huge sum of 8,000 yuan, redeemed this monument, and built a stone room by Xiling Printing Company for permanent preservation. 19 16, Wu Changshuo school magazine presented Zhu Zongyuan with 20 volumes of Yuan Gai Cao Fu, which made the poems of the poet (the son of Wu, a native of Zhangwu Village) in the late Ming Dynasty handed down from generation to generation. He sold paintings and calligraphy for the relief.
Wu Changshuo is not only tireless in learning, but also tireless in teaching. I have voted for disciples: Zhu, Zhu Lesan, An, Wang Yiting,
Yang, Xun Huisheng, Sha Menghai and Pan Tianshou. Later, most of them became famous painters. Wu Changshuo's fame is not well-known at home, but it is very famous overseas, especially in Japan. Among Japanese sinologists, He Ming of Kusabe and Yushan of Nagao have made the most friends with him. After He Ming's death, the tombstone of seal script inscribed by him still stands in He Ming's hometown, facing the famous Ziyundong stone carving in Hangzhou across the sea. The most famous disciples who came to China for advice were Kenjiro Kawai and Mizuno Shu Mei. Later, they were both famous Japanese painters and seal engravers. His achievements are highly praised by Japanese friends and disciples, and his reputation in Japan is growing day by day. However, his works are widely spread in Japan. Although there are different channels, they are especially related to "63 Gardens". "Sanliu Garden" is a Japanese restaurant run by Japanese Shiraishi Liusaburo in Shanghai, where Japanese people often meet and drink. The owner loves Wu Changshuo's art, not only criticizes him and invites him to dinner, but also displays his works during the dinner, and holds a solo exhibition of calligraphy and painting seal cutting for him in the garden. Due to the media of "Sanliu Garden", a large number of his works flowed to Japan. There are more and more imitators in Japan, who publish albums, hold exhibitions, make bronze statues and cherish them as national treasures.
After Wu Changshuo became famous, he still maintained the habit of hard work and plain living, opposed extravagance and waste, and was very simple in food, clothing, housing and transportation. However, he is not stingy and ready to help others. Relatives and friends are sick, and he pays for medical treatment; For the depressed patients behind him, he resolutely organized the funeral and took it as his duty to raise orphans.
Wu Changshuo died on June 29th, 1927+065438+ at the age of 84. His handed down works are, and so on. According to Wu Changshuo's wishes, his tomb was built in Chaoshan, Yuhang. Wucun has his monument. Xiling Printing House has Wu Changshuo Memorial Room. 1984, Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall was built in Dipu Town; 1987, his former residence in wucun was restored; Wu Changshuo Calligraphy and Painting Association and Changshuo Printing Society were established in the county.