Jin Denian, a calligrapher of "Virtue and Art" in Tsinghua Campus.
Professor Jin Denian is the former chairman of Tsinghua University Calligraphy Association and the deputy curator of Longhu Art Museum in Mei Qing, Beijing. 1952- 1956 Professor Jin was admitted to the Department of Power Machinery in Tsinghua University with excellent results, 1959- 1962 studied at Kalinin Institute of Technology in Leningrad, Soviet Union. Professor Jin has never left Tsinghua campus for more than half a century. In the post of teaching and scientific research in Tsinghua University, he is rigorous in his scholarship, teaching and educating people, and working hard, making positive contributions to the country's training of senior talents.
Professor Jin studied calligraphy since he was a child, and he is very proficient in seal script, official script, grass, line and style. His calligraphy is unpretentious, rigorous in structure, vigorous and broad, vigorous in brushwork, magnificent and magnificent. Professor Jin's running script was included in Peking University Fangzheng Font Library under the name of "De Nian Ti", which left a valuable cultural heritage for the world.
Professor Jin's calligraphy is all over the campus of Tsinghua, and his calligraphy can be seen everywhere in departments, conference halls, laboratories, cultural landscapes and some faculty members' homes, especially the vigorous and unique Chinese characters such as "Near Spring Garden Site", "Ziqing Pavilion" and "Linyi Pavilion", which are even more attractive; What's more worth mentioning is that Tsinghua's signboards "The Second School Gate" and "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" were all created by Professor Jin. Professor Jin's calligraphy works are often presented as gifts to friends at home and abroad by school leaders, and are also listed as national gifts for foreign guests by the foreign affairs department of the state. In recent years, some famous mountains and rivers and landscape gardens in China have also invited Professor Jin to write inscriptions. Professor Jin was also invited to write couplets, banners and other calligraphy works for the plot of the youth inspirational film "Don't Ask the West" with the century-old history of Tsinghua as the theme.