Heze, this ancient and magical land, is not only famous for its national flower peony, but also for its prosperous calligraphy and painting art. Heze's calligraphy and painting has a long history, with numerous celebrities emerging. According to the biography of Yansu in the history of the Song Dynasty: Yan Su (a native of Caozhou) had a long history of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and many of his works were excellent works. He was also the brother of Chao Bu (a Juye native) in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Shang Ting (a native of Caozhou) in the Yuan Dynasty. The He family in Caozhou (the fourth generation grandsons of He Yongyun and He Yongjian) passed down the art of poetry and calligraphy to their family, which has not declined through the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, Ma Yanxi, Guo Ruyi, Liu Kun, Tian Ruluo, etc. were all famous calligraphers and painters at that time. Since modern times, famous calligraphers and painters such as Niu Qiangu, Zheng Shuping, and Li Meichuan have made great contributions to the art of calligraphy and painting in Heze area.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the art of calligraphy and painting in Heze has developed rapidly. A large number of talented calligraphers and painters with high artistic level and influence have emerged, such as Mr. Chao Mei, Chairman of the China Printing Association and founder of Beidahuang, Mr. Tian Boping, a famous Chinese painting artist, Ms. Pang Yuan, a famous sculptor, as well as He Fanghua, Lu Feng, Wu Dongkui, etc. They have certain influence and fame at home or abroad. At present, there are 5 national-level painters in our district, namely Xu Ruliang, Liang Zhaocun, Wang Fuzeng, Huang Entao, Shangguan Chaoying, 88 provincial-level painters, such as Li Ronghai, Dong Zhou, Cheng Hongfu, Wang Jin, Zhou Qinghan, etc., and more than 200 regional-level painters. people.
Various types of calligraphy and painting organizations are spread throughout Heze. Artists Associations, Calligraphers Associations, cultural and art units and folk calligraphy and painting organizations have formed a complete network of calligraphy and painting organizations. There are more than 100 calligraphy and painting associations, societies, and painting shops of various types, among which the Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy has the greatest influence.
The existence and development of Heze calligraphy and painting art have a broad mass base. According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 300 members of national and provincial art associations in the region, more than 3,000 people participating in national calligraphy and painting correspondence courses, and tens of thousands of people participating in prefecture-level calligraphy and painting training classes. At present, calligraphy and painting works have spread all over the country and the world, becoming important gifts for economic exchanges and socializing with friends. In order to meet the needs of the vast number of calligraphy and painting enthusiasts, Heze holds nearly a hundred calligraphy and painting exhibitions of different specifications every year, promoting the improvement and popularization of the art of calligraphy and painting. The Juye County Farmers' Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition in Heze City is well-known in the provincial capital. The Juye County Folk Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition was held in the Provincial Art Museum in 2008. Zhu Zhengchang, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, Cai Qiufang, Vice Governor, Zhang Changsen, Director of the Provincial Department of Culture and other leading comrades and Some well-known figures in the province's calligraphy and painting circles participated in the exhibition.
The Juye County Folk Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition, as an important part of Shandong Province’s achievements in creating a socially and culturally advanced county, is hosted by the Provincial Department of Culture. This exhibition brings together more than 340 works by 39 calligraphers and painters in Juye County, representing the highest level of calligraphy and painting creation in Juye County. The work truly expresses the real life of the grassroots people and vividly reflects the new spiritual outlook and ideal pursuit of the farmers in the new era. At the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Zhu Zhengchang, Cai Qiufang, Zhang Changsen and others cut the ribbon for the exhibition and issued honorary certificates to representatives of participating authors. Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute was founded in October 1985, covering an area of ??16,000 square meters and a building area of ??more than 9,000 square meters. It is a cultural institution integrating calligraphy and painting research, creation, exhibition, exchange and collection. It is currently the largest art academy at the prefectural and municipal levels in the country.
The architecture of Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy has both traditional ethnic characteristics and modern garden style. In the courtyard, there are rattan corridors, pavilions, rockeries, fountains, stone walls carved with thousands of characters, pine and bamboo fighting, and hundreds of flowers blooming. The landscape is elegant and suitable for calligraphy and painting. It has become Heze's window to the outside world, the center of calligraphy and painting activities, an important tourist attraction and a patriotic education base, and is open to the outside world all year round. The two exhibition halls, the East and West, cover an area of ??more than 900 square meters, and have hosted and held more than 200 exhibitions. The Caozhou Stele Gallery is more than 400 meters long, with the theme of reflecting the scenery of Heze and praising Caozhou peony, and engraved Portraits and deeds of some historical celebrities.
Most of the works are by famous contemporary calligraphers and painters, and they are also engraved with the handwriting of several great men and sages. They have strong national character, distinctive local characteristics and superb artistry. The works displayed in the Caozhou Calligraphy and Painter Works Exhibition Hall are all from Heze's famous calligraphers and painters. Carefully created, it represents the highest level of Heze's calligraphy and painting art; the 80 fine works collected in the Chao Mei Print Art Exhibition Hall were donated free of charge by Mr. Chao. The works are based on the entrepreneurial spirit and magnificent landscape of the people who were in full swing when they reclaimed the Great Northern Wilderness as the main content, integrating history. The combination of nature and artistry demonstrates Mr. Chao Mei's superb printmaking artistic level. As a result, the Painting and Calligraphy Academy is known as a wonderful art garden, an unparalleled painting palace, a base of national culture, and a palace of calligraphy and painting art. Mr. Liu Bingsen, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, praised: The spiritual roots descended from the sky to southwest Shandong, and the peonies of Wei Zi, Yao, and yellow ink came from the sky. It is a great fate to visit Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy House. The unique charm of the Painting and Calligraphy Academy attracts guests from all over the world. Since its establishment, the hospital has received more than 800,000 domestic and foreign tourists. Wan Li, former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Song Ping, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wu Guanzheng, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, Li Desheng, former Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and former member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Liao Hansheng and Li Ximing, vice-chairmen of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wu Xueqian, former vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Guangying and He Luli, vice-chairmen of the National People's Congress Committee, Wan Guoquan, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, etc. successively inspected the Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy and spoke highly of it.
Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy hired Mr. Shu Tong as its chief consultant in 1985, and Su Yiran, Cui Zifan, Xu Linlu, Yu Xining, Liu Bingsen and Liu Yi as its honorary presidents. There are more than 120 painters outside the academy. He was invited to Zhongnanhai twice to create 65 paintings and calligraphy works for the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council. In the past 15 years, more than 2,000 calligraphy and painting works have been published in central and provincial newspapers and periodicals, more than 600 works have been selected for national and provincial exhibitions, and more than 60 exhibitions have been held abroad. He has successively edited and published large-scale hardcover albums such as "Liu Bingsen's Regular Script Steles of the Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy", "Contemporary Chinese Flower and Bird Painting Collection", "Selected Works from the Peony Cup Grand Prix Competition", "Caozhou Forest of Stele Collection" and "Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy". In April 2000, a large-scale peony photography exhibition was held by Gao Zhanxiang, Party Secretary of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. More than 100 news organizations including People's Daily, CCTV, Dazhong Daily, Shandong TV, Hong Kong Satellite TV Chinese Channel, and relevant Japanese news agencies conducted exhibitions on calligraphy and painting. The institute and calligraphers and painters gave special introductions or news reports.
In addition, the Zhao Dengyu Memorial Hall built in the Painting and Calligraphy Academy uses a large number of detailed text and image materials to reproduce the glorious achievements of General Zhao Dengyu, a famous anti-Japanese general from Heze, in various periods, and enthusiastically eulogizes General Zhao Dengyu’s noble national integrity and actions. The patriotism spirit of sacrificing one’s life for one’s country.
Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy was rated as a prefecture-level civilized unit, a civilized window unit, a provincial-level advanced health unit, an advanced collective of Shandong Province’s cultural rural areas, and a regional-level patriotism education base; in 1992, it was rated as a national tourism The Bureau was included in the "China Tourism Information Database"; in 1997, it was included in the "Grand View of China's Famous Scenic Spots and Tourist Attractions" edited by the China Cultural Relics Society, the China Tourism Association, the China Scenic Areas Association, and the China Museum Association, and was included in the 500 nationally famous scenic spots. Home; in 2000, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles established the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Artists Life and Creation Base at Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Academy.
The Caozhou Stele Gallery located in the Caozhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute was completed in two phases of construction in 1985 and 1995. With a total length of nearly 500 meters and more than 400 steles, it is currently the longest stele gallery in the country. The content of the stele gallery is mainly based on past dynasties' poems praising the national flower peony and peony style. Among them are the handwritings of some historical celebrities and great men, as well as Shu Tong, Qigong, Zang Kejia, Huang Miaozi, Tang Yun, Shen Peng, Liu Bingsen, Wuzhongqi , Sha Menghai and other modern famous calligraphers, and also carved several paintings reflecting Caozhou's historical celebrities and precious peony varieties. With rich and versatile artistic styles and expressions, it has formed a collection of modern calligraphers' works. The beautiful landscape integrating peony culture attracts tens of thousands of tourists and plays an important role in promoting traditional national culture and cultivating artistic talents in calligraphy and painting.
The art of calligraphy and painting in Juye County has a long history. It can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. It made great achievements in the Song Dynasty. It developed rapidly during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, forming a group of calligraphers and painters represented by Liu Zao. The group left behind a large number of tablets and drawings.
After the founding of New China, under the guidance of the party’s literary and artistic policy, the vast number of calligraphy and painting art workers in Juye County, represented by Huang Entao, Wang Shichao, Dong Sen, Liang Fugen, Zou Deling, Liu Xinyi, Wang Guangyun, and Li Shiqun, inherited the And carry forward the traditional art of calligraphy and painting, take root in the fertile soil of Juye, use pictures to express feelings, and raise the county's folk calligraphy and painting art to a new level.
At present, the county has more than 20 members of national and provincial art associations, more than 900 city and county-level members, more than 1,000 exhibits at the municipal level and above, and various mass calligraphy and painting organizations. All over the county, organizations such as the Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, the Artists Association, and the Linzhou Painting and Calligraphy Society have become places for learning and exchange among calligraphy and painting enthusiasts. There are more than 30 large-scale painting sites in the county that integrate creation, sales, and mounting. There are farmers' painting creation classes and processing sites represented by Yao Guiyuan, Wang Chuanxue, Huang Chengjin, Chang Jin, etc., as well as a production and marketing network focusing on gongbi peonies. , spread across more than ten towns and villages in the county, and Liuzhuang Village in Dushan Town has become a veritable professional village for calligraphy and painting. There are more than 60 people in the county who are engaged in calligraphy and painting sales in other places all year round. They sell more than 200,000 paintings and calligraphy works annually, with an annual output value of more than 20 million yuan.
The vigorous development of calligraphy and painting art in Juye County has attracted great attention from superior leaders. In 2000, it was named the "Hometown of Juye Peasant Paintings in China" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Gao Zhanxiang, Party Secretary and Executive Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, sent a congratulatory letter. The naming of the hometown of painting has increased the popularity of Juye farmers' calligraphy and painting, and laid the foundation for Juye County's farmers' calligraphy and painting to enter the market and form a calligraphy and painting industry.
In 2001, China Juye Farmers Calligraphy and Painting Association and China Juye Farmers Painting and Calligraphy Sales Corporation were established. In order to fully demonstrate the style of Juye's calligraphy and painting art to the outside world, the county has traveled to Shanghai, Jiaxing, Xining, Xi'an and other places many times to organize farmer painters to hold exhibitions of their works, and maintains hotline contact with art intermediaries in Hong Kong, Beijing and other places to actively Develop the calligraphy and painting market.
In 2002, the China Juye Peasants’ Calligraphy and Painting Institute and the Juye Peasants’ Painting and Calligraphy Research Association were established, adding new highlights to the creation of Heze Cultural City. The two organizations gather the elites of Juye calligraphy and painting, integrate research, creation, training, and sales functions, rely on bases internally, contact the market externally, implement market-oriented operations, serve as the "bridgehead" of Juye County's calligraphy and painting industry, and start the "China Juye Farmers" "Calligraphy and Painting" brand, thus driving the development of the county's cultural industry.