As a calligrapher and writer, Zheng Wansheng has his own understanding of the art of calligraphy. He believes that the national character and uniqueness of calligraphy cannot be expressed in external form, but more importantly, it must be consistent with the spirit and concept of traditional Chinese culture, which is the complementarity of hardness and softness, the complementarity of emptiness and reality, the complementarity of yin and yang, and the harmony and unity. Don't pursue extremes, don't engage in strong stimulation, don't try to impress others, just keep working hard, just like a cup of tea, you don't realize how wonderful it is when you first taste it, but the more you taste it, the better it becomes, and you can taste it with hundreds of flavors. In calligraphy, the spirit of traditional culture not only requires calligraphers to work hard on the techniques accumulated over thousands of years of calligraphy, but also requires calligraphers to have extensive knowledge. More importantly, through continuous learning, edification, and refinement, they must develop from their thoughts. Deeply soaked in the spirit of traditional Chinese culture. On the basis of profound Chinese studies, learn the connotations of various calligraphy schools and lay a profound literary foundation...
With this foundation, we will not be driven by the interests of Jianghu calligraphy, and we will not forget the interests of others. , will not pursue excitement, will not break away from the foundation of Chinese culture... and will not be shaken by the impact of other trends of thought. He opposed Jianghu calligraphy. He advocated the organic combination of traditional excellent culture and reality and innovative national art. Innovating on the basis of inheriting tradition is the realm pursued by the art of calligraphy in the past dynasties. Zheng Wansheng started by studying Wang Yizhi's calligraphy and studied various inscriptions. He especially loved the calligraphy art of Zhao Mengfan (fu). He often studied it and made it his main focus. He innovated on inheritance and formed his own style. Zheng Wansheng believes that inheriting tradition is not only about inheriting traditional techniques and pens, but more importantly, based on the traditional cultural spirit. "Innovation" cannot just be innovative in form, but on the basis of constantly understanding the process of excavation of traditional culture in modern China, forming its own unique aesthetics that has both traditional foundation and the spirit of the times, combined with the practice of calligraphy and painting creation, Explore a calligraphy language that is both unique and individual.
? Indeed, Zheng Wansheng’s calligraphy pursues a state of mind. He was an educator who often incorporated the integrity of calligraphy into the administration of his schools. He is also a writer and essayist. He often expresses his feelings directly in his prose and integrates it into the artistic conception of calligraphy. In his spare time, he learned more about various excellent inscriptions. At the same time, he paid attention to the times, life, and people's livelihood, and took practical actions to maintain social stability and national unity. He also sent calligraphy to schools, companies, the military, and other institutions many times. Going to southern Xinjiang... In September 2001, he went to southern Xinjiang to deliver calligraphy to ethnic minority students, and gave calligraphy classes to students on stage. He stayed there for half a month without paying a penny. He was praised by Uyghur students and parents... Retired Later, he was still employed as a calligraphy teacher to teach calligraphy to students... He drew nutrients from Chinese philosophy, history, literature and other artistic categories, and constantly explored new calligraphy forms, so the style of his works seemed to be always changing. Sometimes it changes due to the accumulation of learning, sometimes it changes due to inspiration from the text content, sometimes it changes due to changes in mood, and sometimes it changes due to inspiration from some kind of inspiration. People's works give people spiritual shock and insights.
Since engaging in artistic creation, he has won nearly a hundred awards, large and small, in various domestic competitions. The more prominent awards include:
In March 2003, his work Won the first prize at the 4th National Youth Art, Calligraphy, Photography, Art Education Achievements Exhibition. In 2004, he won the silver medal in the National Calligraphy and Painting Competition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth.
In 2005, he was named "International Outstanding Chinese Writer" and "Excellent Chinese Literary Artist" by the International Chinese Culture and Art Association and the Chinese Art Society.
In December 2005, he was named "Outstanding Chinese Contemporary Meritorious Artist" by the Chinese Writers and Artists Association.
In 2006, he was rated as "China's best contemporary calligraphy and painting artist with both virtue and art" by the Academy of Fine Arts of Hunan Branch of China News Service. In the same year, he won the Calligraphy Gold Medal of the "Monument of Honor and Disgrace" of Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Famous Artists. In 2007, he won the gold medal in the National Calligraphy and Painting Competition commemorating the 80th anniversary of Kang Youwei's death; the gold medal in the "Shenzhou Cup" national calligraphy and painting competition; the gold medal in the "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" national calligraphy and painting competition...
In 2008, he won the national "Lanting Cup" by Wang Yizhi. Gold Medal in the Calligraphy and Painting Competition; in the same year, he also won 4 gold medals in the Calligraphy and Painting Competition to Commemorate the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea
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In the same year, he was hired as an academician by the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Academy and the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, and as a member of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art Association Director of the Research Association and outstanding Chinese artist.
From 2009 to 2016, his calligraphy won 18 gold and silver awards in national competitions. His deeds were promoted by the media many times, and some of his calligraphy was collected by domestic museums... In 2017, Zheng Wansheng was invited to the Yan'an Revolution Memorial Hall Participated in the "Timur and Dawamat Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition; in the same year, more than 30 large calligraphy works by Zheng Wansheng participated in the "Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Nation's Anti-Japanese War" calligraphy and painting exhibition at the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall, and was invited in October 2019 Participated in the calligraphy and painting exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Yan'an Revolution Memorial Hall. Many of his calligraphy works were collected by the Yan'an Revolution Memorial Hall. ? Unique in the calligraphy world, he wrote about benevolence with his pen.
We believe that in the land of Xinjiang, Zheng Wansheng will surely graze his spirituality on the fertile soil of traditional calligraphy, sublimate his art, practice the core socialist values ??while promoting the traditional art of the Chinese nation, and write more and more beautiful calligraphy works. , serve the people, serve socialism... write a more splendid life with a pen... The calligraphy art of the son of the black soil will definitely radiate a dazzling light in the northwest frontier and even the wider space...
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