"Water Margin" is the most wonderful book in the world, the most powerful book, an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a monument in the history of Chinese literature. Its lifelike characters, fascinating legendary stories, profound literary connotation and aesthetic ideals have demonstrated our great national spirit and influenced generations of people.
"Water Margin Exposition" is a splendid dictionary monograph with more than 300,000 words. It is rare that it was written by a painter. It is amazing! The painter is Sun Jingquan. Jing Quan was born in Yuncheng, the "hometown" of the original Water Margin. He graduated from a provincial university majoring in oil painting and worked in Liangshan, the "hometown" of the original Water Margin. He was first a civil servant. Since he was in his twenties, he has served as director of local culture, director of culture, director of tourism, and director of the Liangshan Provincial Scenic Area Management Committee in Shandong Province. He has strong administrative leadership skills and has devoted nearly 20 years of efforts to the development of Liangshan tourism. After going through countless hardships, he has led Liangshan tourism from scratch to modern times. He successively presided over the large-scale mural and colored sculpture projects in Zhongyi Hall and Zhongyi Hall, the main building of Liangshan Scenic Area. It caused a sensation when the inauguration ceremony was held, and the streets were empty. He is the founder of Liangshan tourism development.
Jing Quan is also a famous Water Margin figure painter. In addition to his busy administrative work, he keeps writing. "Exploring the truth at a macro level and seeking truth at a micro level", relying on his own strength and potential, he has been engaged in the creation and research of oil paintings, Chinese paintings, murals, special stamp products and calligraphy. He often uses the Water Margin as the theme, generates creativity, and uses a variety of realistic, decorative, traditional, and modern expression techniques. The scale ranges from petty to large to grand. The paintings are extensive and have achieved impressive results.
Murals are Sun Jingquan’s strength in winning national awards. In the past ten years, he has presided over the creation of a number of murals with various themes and materials for tourist areas and public environments in Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangsu and other places, such as "Glory Rising", "Liangshan Heroes Picture" ", "Martial Spirits", "Water Margin", "Chinese Civilization", etc. The large-scale Tang Sancai mural "Heroes Gathering in Water Pond" (127m2) created by him was selected into the "2004 First National Mural Exhibition" hosted by the China Artists Association at the National Art Museum of China and won the highest award. At the same time, he was selected into the large-scale painting collections "Century of Chinese Murals" and "Complete Collection of Chinese Modern Art" (Mural Volume). In the creation of murals, Jing Quan strives to give full play to his deep grasp of traditional themes and their connotations, and strives to create an artistic language and distinctive personality that combines tradition and modernity, realism and decoration, which fully reflects his knowledge of mural art. of assistance. Today, he has served as the deputy secretary-general of the China Water Margin Society, a director of the Chinese Mural Society, and the vice-president of the Shandong Mural Art Research Institute, becoming the backbone of mural creation.
Jing Quan is a scholar of "Water Margin". He has been reading "Water Margin" for forty years and painting "Water Margin" for forty years. He poured and condensed the results of more than forty years of studying "Water Margin" into a "Water Margin Expo" of more than 300,000 words. He stood at the height of history, not only being faithful to the original work of "Water Margin", but also using a painter's unique perspective and a scholar's rigorous thinking, with novel ideas, informative materials, and concise language to analyze the words, characters, officials, and characters in "Water Margin". More than 20 categories of knowledge and suspense, including place names, architecture, weapons, martial arts, strategies, wine and food, scenic spots, landscapes, etc., have been explained and outlined in detail. It is academic, informative, and interesting, and is worth reading. What's more valuable is that "Water Margin Expo" is a work that fills the gap in the comprehensive dictionary of "Water Margin".
For a long time, Jing Quan has taken into account administrative work, art creation, and Water Margin research with perseverance under extremely busy and difficult conditions, and has made remarkable achievements in various fields. , It is not easy. He is a successful person and a "Liangshan hero" in art.
December 2005 in Jinan Zhang Yimin, vice president of the Chinese Mural Society, vice chairman of the Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, former dean of professor and postgraduate tutor of Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts, and dean of Shandong Mural Art Research Institute.