In the 1960s, Zhang Xiu was born in Wuhan, Hubei, on the shore of the beautiful East Lake.
She inherited her education at a young age. Her father was a middle school history teacher and loved painting. As the saying goes, calligraphy and painting have the same origin. In her spare time, she followed her father in writing and painting, and gradually became immersed in the influence of art. Slowly embarked on the path of art. When he was five or six years old, he went to the streets with his father and smeared red paint on the character frames he outlined. At first, I thought it was fun, but over time, I became obsessed.
Perhaps he got the inheritance of "quietness" from his father. Zhang Xiu, who was under ten years old, could sit for a whole day without going out when he started writing. "When I write in the winter, my feet are warmed in the fireplace, and I don't even know if there are holes in my cotton shoes; in the summer, to prevent mosquito bites, I put a plastic bag on my feet..."
Since the age of 18 She wrote inscriptions for the Mozhen Well, an ancient building in Wudang Mountain, a plaque for the gate of Qu Yuan's Memorial Hall in Zigui, Hubei, and a couplet for Qu Yuan's tomb. She also wrote inscriptions for East Lake and other scenic spots; in 1989, Zhonghua Book Company published "Inscriptions on the Bells of the Tomb of Marquis Zeng Yi" " were all carefully written down from the unearthed chimes. His published works include the national textbook "Nine-Year Compulsory Education Full-time Primary School Textbook" - "Writing" and more than 60 kinds of brush calligraphy textbooks and copybooks. Zhang Xiu has been included in the "Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphers and Painters".
In 1980, Zhang Xiu was specially recruited to the Hubei Provincial Museum for his Juanxiu regular script to engage in exhibition display and calligraphy and painting research. Therefore, I had the opportunity to have sex with the great calligrapher Mr. Chen Shangmin. "Mr. Chen is now 90 years old, but he is one of the best calligraphers in the country and has always been low-key and unassuming. As the saying goes, those who seek the best will get it. Watching Mr. Chen write regular script has really benefited me a lot. I am very lucky to have learned calligraphy without taking any detours. ”
The scholar Mr. Zhang Zhongxing accidentally saw Zhang Xiu’s “lady’s small regular script” and was so pleased that he asked someone to ask for the words. In his "Three Words on Negative Noise", he also wrote with emotion: All the things in the past that are worth cherishing , not all the dead are like this.
In modern society, for a woman who writes in regular script with a brush, it is easy for people to think of tradition, calmness and gentleness. However, in terms of work and art, Zhang Xiu is full of energy and talent. During her work, she has participated in some book editing work for museums and cultural relics bureaus many times. In the bookstore, we often see the latest fountain pen copybooks written by Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu took out a folder of artistic achievements. The reporter saw that she had compiled more than 60 types of copybooks and monograph catalogs. She not only wrote copybooks, but also did some theoretical research, "Calligraphy News", "Chinese Calligraphy" A series of her papers on the status of Yang Shoujing's calligraphy have been published.
In real life, Zhang Xiu is also lively and fashionable, and her body is always filled with youthful vitality. In some public events in Wuhan, we can occasionally see Zhang Xiu. She often wears exquisite Chinese clothes and chats and laughs lively with the people around her. Although she is middle-aged, her style has not diminished. I once had a cocktail party with Zhang Xiu. The host and guest were seated, but she showed no sign of timidity when it came to a full glass of white wine. She was chatting and laughing happily while raising glasses. Her refreshing and energetic style made people recall her youthful demeanor.
In her spare time, Zhang Xiu’s biggest hobby is traveling, and the most memorable one is that special trip to Yunnan. In the winter of 1997, Zhang Xiu's family of three traveled to Kunming with a group. Zhang Xiu was so excited by the huge climate contrast that she proposed not to walk with the group. They walked from Kunming to Shangri-La for half a month, riding a bicycle to appreciate the scenery at every scenic spot. Favor. At this point, Zhang Xiu kept saying: "For you young people to get married and travel, I suggest you go to Yunnan, and go in winter. It's snowing here in Wuhan, and you don't even feel cold when you come back wearing short-sleeved shirts. It's as warm as It won’t go away for a few days!”
Art needs such romance, and romance needs an environment to cultivate. Zhang Xiu's lover, Mr. Zhang Jianwei, is a professor of German at the university and has the same interest in calligraphy and bean sprout writing. His daughter Zhang Baimiao is a sophomore in high school this year. Not only is her composition good, her handwriting in small regular script is no less good than Zhang Xiu's back then. The card Zhang Baimiao made for his father's birthday has a three-dimensional paper-cut portrait of his father on the front, which is exaggerated and vivid, but on the back is his daughter's neat and graceful regular script advice and congratulations.
Looking at these cards full of life and art, I seem to realize that Zhang Xiu’s art is a kind of life, and women in life are the most beautiful. Who wouldn’t want to get close to such a woman?