Zhang Boju (1898-1982), named Jiaqi, also known as Congbi, also known as the spring outing master and Mr. Haohao, was born in Xiangcheng, Henan.
Born on March 14, 1898 (the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu) into a family of officials, he was the son of Zhang Jinfang, cousin of Yuan Shikai, and adopted by his uncle Zhang Zhenfang. Mr. Zhang Boju has been obsessed with ancient cultural relics all his life and devoted himself to collecting famous calligraphy and painting. He started collecting ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting at the age of 30. At first, it was just a hobby. He once bought the oldest ink ink in China - "Pingfu Tie" by Lu Ji of the Western Jin Dynasty and the oldest painting in the world. There are traces of Sui Zhanziqian's "Spring Outing", the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty's "Up to the Balcony", etc. He has collected 118 of the top Chinese paintings and calligraphy works of all dynasties in his book "Congbi Painting and Calligraphy Records". It is known as "the best treasure in the world". Mr. Zhang Boju has been influenced by traditional Chinese culture since he was a child. He has read too many books to count.
Solid literary skills have created his versatile cultural heritage. Because of his extraordinary talent, he used all his spare time to write a large number of ancient poems, phonology and opera treatises. His main works include "Cong Bi Ci", "Spring Outing Ci", "Qin You Ci", "Ci in the Mist", " "No Noun", "Continued Words" and "Poems about Dreams and Dreams", "Annotations to Poems about Dreams and Chronicles", "Annotations to Poems about Chronicles of Hongxian" and "Collection of Luantan Yin and Rhymes", "Cong Bi's Calligraphy and Painting Records", " "Su Yue Lou Couplet" and so on. In addition, Zhang Boju has profound knowledge in the study of Chinese calligraphy art and has written the book "Chinese Calligraphy"; he himself is also good at calligraphy. His calligraphy is based on Wang Xizhi's "Seventeen Tie", which integrates Zhen, Cao, Li, Zhuan and Yu. In his later years, he developed his own unique style. His brushwork is elegant and graceful, like a spring silkworm spinning silk, which is known as "Bird Feather Style". In order to inherit and develop Chinese classical art, Zhang Boju founded the Beijing Guqin Research Society, Peking Opera Basic Art Research Society, Chinese Calligraphy Research Society, and Poetry Research Society in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Until his death, he was still thinking about the preparations for the Chinese Rhythm Society. He once served as a special committee member of the Palace Museum, a member of the Appraisal Committee of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, an associate researcher and deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Museum, a librarian of the Central Museum of Literature and History, an honorary tutor of Chinese art history in the Chinese Department of Yenching University, an honorary president of the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association, and a professor of Chinese calligraphy. Honorary director of the Home Association. Zhang Boju's national treasures donated throughout his life were estimated by some at the time to be as high as 100 million yuan. However, with the progress of human civilization, the amount has exceeded this amount. His great Confucianism, Bodhisattva's kindness, and high Taoism are a milestone in the history of Chinese culture and art. An insurmountable monument.