The charm of Mr Dong Shouping lies in his noble personality. He is indifferent to fame and fortune, honest and clean, and helpful to others, which is a habit formed by Dong Shouping since he was a child. 1923, when Dong Lao was studying in Beijing Esperanto School, he planned to go back to Shanxi to visit relatives in the summer vacation. Because he met a classmate in yenching university, he couldn't go back to his hometown in Sichuan for lack of travel expenses, so he decided to give up his plan to go home and visit relatives. During his 60-year life, he participated in various voluntary exhibitions, pen meetings, charitable disaster relief activities and donated countless calligraphy and paintings. The greatest thing is his patriotism. 194 1 He will donate the proceeds from the Sichuan Art Exhibition to support the Anti-Japanese War. In his later years, Chen, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, often asked him to paint to promote tea culture. Most of them were taken away in a hurry before the ink was dry. Instead of being bored, I felt happy and highly praised Chen's power style. During the period of 1994, a once-in-a-century flood occurred in South China, and Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and other six units launched a charity sale of famous paintings and calligraphy for disaster relief. When Dong Shouping heard about it, he drew a four-foot bamboo named "Wind and Rain Bamboo" and donated it to charity sale. At that event, * * * 207 painters and sculptors donated 200 works, with a total charity sale of HK$ 2.409 million, while Dong Shouping's Wind and Rain Bamboo was subscribed by Ms. Su Baopeiqing, the daughter of Bao Yugang, the chairman of Sublimation Service Co., Ltd., for HK$ 290,000, which was the most charity sale.
Dong Lao has always loved and cared about the development of cultural undertakings in his hometown. As early as 1950s and 1960s, he donated dozens of precious ancient calligraphy and paintings to Shanxi Provincial Museum twice. Among them are the picture books of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ink-and-wash version of Red Golden Bamboo Map drawn by North Korean painter Li Tan in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, and the picture of touching knees and drinking in Han Dynasty drawn by Qing Dynasty painter for his great-grandfather Dong. 1983, he once again donated 200 fine paintings and calligraphy he created to his hometown. In his hometown, in order to commemorate Dong Shouping's artistic achievements, a long-term collection exhibition of Dong Shouping's works was established in Jinci Park, a scenic spot on the outskirts of Taiyuan, with the strong cooperation of relevant departments of Taiyuan and Japanese friends. This art museum is located in the historic jinci museum, to the east of Jinxi Academy, with a building area of 1.400 square meters. Dong Shouping wrote in the book "Donation of Calligraphy and Painting Works": My descendants and relatives are not allowed to ask for, lend or read it under any excuse; My descendants and relatives are not allowed to participate in the management of Dong Shouping Art Museum. These words fully demonstrated Dong Shouping's integrity. He is one of the few masters of calligraphy and painting in modern China. Even under the impact of market economy, he still lived a clean and honest life and spent his life perfectly.