Zhou Yongzhi, born in 1938, whose real name is Liang Lian, also known as Bamianye Bridge, now lives in Beijing. China's top ten calligraphers, contemporary calligraphers, vice chairman of China Calligraphy Art Research Association, consultant of Beijing Zhou Yongzhi Calligraphy Art Research Institute, contracted artist of Beijing Yang Wen International Art Management Agency, special consultant of China Art, director of the book editorial committee of China Chinese and foreign celebrity culture research association, and curator of Zhou Yongzhi Art Museum in Hengdian Film and Television City.
Chinese name: Zhou Yongzhi
Alias: the word is good and cheap, and you don't sign eight-sided wild firewood.
Nationality: China.
Date of birth: 1938
Occupation: calligrapher
Main Achievements: Top Ten Calligraphers and Contemporary Calligraphers in China.
Representative works: Ancient Poems in Xianxiang, Wong Tai Sin, Red Pine.
Position: Vice President of China Calligraphy Art Research Association and Consultant of Beijing Zhou Yongzhi Calligraphy Art Research Institute.
Artistic feature
His calligraphy was taken from Zhao Meng, Zhang Xu, Huai Su and other calligraphers. His works have won many awards in calligraphy competitions at home and abroad, and have been exhibited around the world for many times. His works have been collected by Yunnan Zhaxi Stele Forest Management Committee, Beijing Long Yin Yafeng Culture and Art Institute, Japan Toyo Education and Culture Institute, Japan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., China Great Wall Museum (national level) and Shanghai Xiaoxi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. In recent years, his works have been well received by celebrities in the entertainment industry, collectors and business circles, and he has been invited to write mottos and company plaques for celebrities and famous entrepreneurs in the film and television industry for many times. His calligraphy works have been selected into famous calligraphy works such as Contemporary Calligraphy Masters, China Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Artists Collection Festival, Top Ten Calligraphers in China, 65,438+000 Influential Artists in China (Contemporary Volume), and Painting and Calligraphy Auction Album of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (Collector's Edition). The artistic features of his books are famous for their distinctive personality. China Collection commented on his calligraphy: "The brushwork is vertical and horizontal, dripping and carefree, full of self-meaning, and it has formed its own distinctive characteristics." Hong Kong calligraphers commented on his words "beauty of form, beauty of momentum, beauty of artistic conception, combination of three beauties" and "art and value", and commented on Zhou Yongzhi's calligraphy "vigorous atmosphere, flowing clouds, sudden diarrhea like lightning and thunder, quiet as a pine, empty valley ...", and successively published Poems of Red Pine, Wonderland of Wong Tai Sin, Poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, The Source of Olympic Games in China and Auspicious Idioms.
The life of the character
I worked as a teacher in Jinhua rural area in the early 1960s, and I have been a Chinese teacher for 45 years. Talking about why he is keen on calligraphy, Mr. Zhou told me an interesting story more than 40 years ago: when he was teaching in the countryside of 1962, farmers often asked him to name laundry baskets, shoulder poles and wooden barrels. Because of poor writing, I often find excuses to refuse. But once, an old farmer insisted that he write a hanging scroll, saying, "It doesn't matter if it's not well written, you don't have to pay." Who knows that he left a sentence after writing: I didn't expect your handwriting to be "really ugly" and left angrily. It was this experience that inspired his determination to study calligraphy hard. It was not until he retired that he had enough time to continue practicing calligraphy. With the support of his wife, he became a full-time calligrapher. In 2009, he was invited to participate in "Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of New China". He said that most of the people who attended the Pen Club were "old ministers" and "old generals" in China and famous calligraphers in China. "I'm just a nobody. I am really lucky to be invited to participate in such an activity. " Zhou Yongzhi's works are also linked to the works of great calligraphers all over the country. His works have attracted a lot of attention, saying that his works are "looking at a word from a distance, looking at a painting from a distance".
"Gestures, dripping fun. He learned a lesson from the past, but didn't stick to it. He dares to break through the stereotype of his predecessor and has a strong sense of self in his works. When the pen is as heavy as a boulder, it falls to the ground, and even a sentence in the scroll is unstoppable. If the pen is light, it is like a shock, and there is no trace to be found, which achieves the effect of breaking the pen and forms a distinctive artistic feature. Many famous calligraphers in China once commented on Zhou Yongzhi's calligraphy.
From a distance, it is a painting, and from a close look, it is a word. Zhou Yongzhi is good at cursive writing. He claims to be a grassroots calligraphy lover. In recent years, with the propaganda of the media and magazines, Zhou Yongzhi has become famous, and he also has a certain reputation in the calligraphy circle in China. He is often invited by organizations to participate in various activities, and many publications solicit contributions and compile books from him. Master of Contemporary Calligraphy listed him as a "master" with China famous calligraphers Shen Peng, Ouyang Zhongshi, Li Duo and Wang Xuezhong, and the essay introduced him as a famous calligrapher.
Zhou Yongzhi's words fell from the sky like a huge stone, crashing to the ground. At first, they seemed to be shocked and disappeared without a trace. Asked about the reason, he revealed that the inspiration for his creation came from Lingquan Waterfall and strange cave walls. Yes 1998, Zhou Yongzhi was invited by Shuanglong Scenic Area to help develop Xianpu Cave. The task is to write a poem after the experience. In this way, he had to go deep into the cave and feel for himself. After the mission, he left a deep impression on Pu Xian Cave. When he picked up a brush to write, the scenery in the cave seemed to be imprinted in his mind, so that his writing was influenced by it. When he sees a boulder in front of him, he will write a big word, with a great color and a single line; When he sees an empty place, he will leave a blank on the paper; And when he sees pebbles on the roadside, he will write some small characters with small snow prints. It is such a special experience that his cursive script has reached the realm of "character" and "scenery".
Zhou Yongzhi said that in order to thank his hometown, a hot land where he was born and raised in Sri Lanka, and to thank the people in his hometown for their care and support, he founded Zhou Yongzhi Art Museum in the ancient houses in Hengdian, Dongyang. It is his greatest wish to make some contributions to his hometown in his lifetime.