Qiantang Zhizhai is the only epitaph museum in China, and it is also a treasure house of stone carving calligraphy. Facing the gate, there is a stone house surrounded by vines. This is Zhang Fang's study, built in 19 18, which has experienced a hundred years of wind and rain. "Who is not a passer-by, flowers are the master" in eight Chinese characters of Gu Zhuo, engraved on the front wall of the library.
It means that life is decades, like a blink of an eye, like a wisp of smoke, but flowers and sand are falling. Who do you say is the master? Although there are not many words in this couplet, its connotation is very rich. The first couplet is written by passers-by as a metaphor for time, and the second couplet is written by flowers as a metaphor for space. Starting from time and space, the author brings out a sense of vicissitudes in just eight words.
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Zhang Fang, a native of tiemen town, Xin 'an County, was born in 1886. After 1904, he entered Shaanxi army primary school and Baoding army crash school, and joined the China League. 1909 joined the army after graduation and became the main leader of Shaanxi new army. 1 1 After the outbreak of Wuchang Uprising,
After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as commander and commander of the second town of Shaanxi Army, commander-in-chief of the 20th Route Army of Kuomintang and acting chairman of Henan Province. In the later period of the Liberation War, Zhang Fang successively served as the director of the appeasement area in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi, and later resolutely resisted the darkness and turned to the light. After the founding of New China, he served as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and 1966 passed away.
Zhang Fang has always loved calligraphy and collected ancient and modern celebrity calligraphy and painting; He himself insisted on the clinic in the army and wrote plaques for many organs, groups, shops and individuals. His works are vigorous and inspiring.
Zhang Fang loves Shi Zhizhi, claiming to be a friend of the stone owner, and often associates with famous scholars such as Zhang Taiyan and Yu Youren to appreciate antiques together. Zhou Ji was generous to others, but he was very frugal in his own expenses, which laid the ideological and economic foundation for his later creation of Tang Zhi Qian Zhai.
From the early 1930s, Zhang Fang began to collect epitaphs of the Tang Dynasty. All parts of the country who have epitaphs of the Tang Dynasty are willing to spend a lot of money to buy them. After nearly five years' efforts, he collected more than 1000 epitaphs of the Tang Dynasty and became a leading collector. "Thousand Tang Zhi Zhai" was built on this basis.
In addition to more than 1000 epitaphs in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Zhiqian Village also contains stone carvings from the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Like a stone official, it can also be called a unique epitaph museum. There are many famous Mo Bao in it, and the calligraphy and painting parts are also full of treasures.
According to statistics, up to now, more than 3,500 epitaphs of the Tang Dynasty have been unearthed, of which Tang Zhizhai 1000 accounts for more than one third. 1000 copies of Tang Dynasty epitaphs collected by Tang Zhizhai provide important information for studying the politics, economy, military affairs, culture and foreign relations of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, these documents supplement the shortcomings of history books, and some epitaphs provide first-hand rare books for studying the art and origin of calligraphy, which are all important contributions made by Mr. Zhang Fang to the motherland.
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