First of all, I would like to correct you as "Pu Xinshe" and not Fu Xinshe.
Pu Xinshe (September 2, 1896 - 1963) was originally named Aixinjueluo Puru. His first name was Zhongheng, and he changed his name to Xinshe. He called himself Emperor Xi and Yishi of Xishan. A native of Beijing, Manchu nationality, he is the grandson of Prince Yixin of the Qing Dynasty. He studied in Germany and was deeply interested in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and achieved great success in all of them. He is good at painting landscapes, figures, flowers and calligraphy. Together with Zhang Daqian, he is known as "Southern Zhang Beipu", and together with Wu Hufan, he is also known as "Southern Wu Beipu".
Pu Xinshe’s father Zaiying was the second son of Yixin. Pu Xinshe's eldest brother passed to his uncle Zaicheng, who married Wang Jue; Pu Xinshe, the second eldest brother, and Pu De, the third brother, settled in Beijing to support their mother. When Pu Xinshe was 5 months old, he was given the title of Dingdai. He learned calligraphy at the age of 4. When he was 5 years old, he met the Empress Dowager Cixi. He calmly treated her and was praised as "this boy has the most spiritual energy in this dynasty." Able to write poems and write at the age of 12, he was hailed as a child prodigy in the Huangqing Dynasty. In addition to studying essays at Prince Gong's Mansion when he was young, Pu Xinshe also received "the aesthetics of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and wine" at the university. After the Revolution of 1911, he lived in seclusion at Jietai Temple in Xishan, Beijing for more than ten years, and then moved to the Summer Palace, where he specialized in painting. In 1924, he moved back to Cuijin Garden in Prince Gong's Mansion, got involved in society, and began to associate with famous painters such as Zhang Daqian. Two years later, he held his first calligraphy and painting exhibition at the Water Pavilion of Zhongshan Park in Beijing. He became famous for his rich works and wide range of themes. He was praised as "astonishing, just like Ma Xia". In 1928, he applied to teach at Kyoto Imperial University in Japan. After returning to China, he studied at the Peking National Academy of Art. Later, he co-organized an art exhibition with his wife Luo Qingyuan, and became famous again. He was publicly recognized as "the first painter of Beizong landscape". In 1932, Puyi became the puppet emperor in "Manchukuo", and the Pu brothers flocked to him. However, Pu Xinshe refused to take up the pseudo-post, and denounced Pu Yi in a famous article "Chen Pian" that "nine temples will not be established, the clan will not continue, sacrifices are not his ghost, worship is not his Shuo", and then angrily scolded this official The younger brother "is a concubine from a different clan, a ghost from another clan". [1]
After Xuantong left the palace in the winter of 1924, Pu Xinshe and Pu Xuezhai (named Songxue), Pu Yizhai (named Songlin), Guansongfang (named Songfang), and Hui Xiaotong (known as Songxi) and others founded the famous modern Chinese painting group Songfeng Painting Society, which called itself "Songchao"[2]. The Songfeng Painting Association is the main member of the Beijing-Tianjin Painting School and has a history of nearly 90 years.
On October 18, 1949, shortly after the founding of New China, Pu Xinshe hid in a small boat and took the risk of smuggling from Shanghai to the Zhoushan Islands (Zhoushan was still occupied by Chiang Kai-shek at the time), and then from Zhoushan He went to Taiwan and taught at National Taiwan Normal University. In order to supplement his family income, he also taught classes at his home and gave lectures in various Asian countries. He refused to accept the first prize because he was ashamed of his ancestors of the former Qing Dynasty. An invitation from his wife, Soong Meiling, to become an apprentice. In his autobiography, Pu Xinshe mentioned that during his stay in Taiwan, he went to Japan several times to help his cousin, Mrs. Pu Jie, return to the mainland to reunite with her husband and to find the whereabouts of the last empress Wan Rong who was lost after the war; because Pu Jie's wife was The daughter of the aunt of Emperor Showa of Japan, he lived in the Japanese Imperial Palace when he went to Japan and chatted with the emperor about old times. What impressed him most was that Emperor Showa once asked him: "How does it feel to be a nobleman who has subjugated his country?"
In 1959, the Taiwan Museum of History held a solo exhibition for him, with as many as 380 works on display. Pu Xinshe died of nasopharyngeal cancer in Taipei in November 1963 at the age of 68 and was buried in Yangmingshan. In 1991, Pu Xinshe's eldest son, Pu Xiaohua, was critically ill. Gangsters invaded his home and killed his wife. Pu Xiaohua had already hidden his father's remains in the wall, so the gangsters searched for them and found nothing. After Pu Xiaohua's death, the remains were The processing team divided Pu's legacy into three parts and handed them over to the Huagang Museum of Chinese Culture University, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and the Museum of History respectively.
These treasures of Pu Xinshe include 175 pieces of calligraphy, 292 pieces of painting, 13 pieces of other collections of calligraphy and painting, and 58 pieces of inkstones, seals, porcelain, etc., for a total of 543 pieces. The Huagang Museum has more than a hundred pieces of paintings, various calligraphy, notes, annotations, and manuscripts in its custody; the Forbidden City has a collection of masterpieces, sketches, vertical scrolls, and scrolls, including rare ghost albums, Journey to the West albums, and autographs. Painted on a porcelain vase, a disk and four small self-drawn cartoons, these are Pu Xinshe's essays about communicating with people while abroad.
In addition to Taipei, the Jilin Provincial Museum also owns many handed down works of Pu Xinshe; the treasures of the Palace Museum in Beijing include China's earliest surviving ink "Pingfu Tie" and Han Qian's "Zhao Yebai" in the Tang Dynasty, both of which are said to have been written by Pu Xinshe. Heart She's old collection.
Pu Xinshe has a strong tradition and is deeply influenced by Ma Yuan and Xia Gui. On the basis of the rigorous methods of traditional landscape painting, he was flexible, created new things, and created his own style. Pu Xinshe's special status as a descendant of the Qing Dynasty royal family made him realize that the ordinary life after glory and wealth is the ultimate state of life. Therefore, the ethereal and transcendent realm he created in his paintings is amazing. "Notes on the Poetry Circle since Guangxuan" says, "In the past thirty years, the Qing Dynasty's relatives were famous for their poems, paintings, and lyrics, none more so than Pubei Ziru. ... He was not well-known in the late Qing Dynasty, but became famous after entering the Republic of China. Painting Zong Ma Xia, who is close to the Song Dynasty, has a very beautiful poem. His character is noble and noble, and his poems are especially famous for their modern quatrains."