Mr. Chen Congzhou not only has in-depth research and unique views on ancient architecture and garden theory, but also participated in the design and construction of a large number of practical projects, such as the design and restoration of Oriental Yuyuan Garden, Longhua Pagoda, Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo and Rugao Ink Garden, the design and construction of a large number of garden buildings such as Nanyuan in Yunnan, and the transfer of Suzhou Netscape Garden to the Metropolitan Museum of New York in the form of "Xuan Ming". Become the first modern person to push China garden art to the world.
Mr. Chen Congzhou is also a famous prose writer and painter, and a disciple of Mr. Zhang Daqian. 1948, at the age of 30, he held a solo exhibition in Shanghai, famous for "A little willow, an inch of tenderness". Later, Chen Congzhou's painting collection was published, and Zhang Daqian generously signed it. After middle age, critics said that the painted orchids and bamboos were "more interesting than pens, more interesting than law, and they jumped out of the box and got rid of the previous stereotypes." /kloc-in the winter of 0/978, he was invited to design "Xuan Ming" for the Metropolitan Museum. I.M. Pei asked him to write a long scroll "Famous Garden Yun Lan" in ink painting, and invited domestic cultural experts to write poems. The existing new york Bay Garden has become an extremely precious masterpiece of painting and calligraphy. As an essayist, he has published some prose works, such as Shu Dai Ji, Chuntai Collection, Lian Qing Ji, Random Thoughts Collection, Poem Garden Collection and Zi Shi Yu Mo with more than 400,000 words.
Although Mr Chen Congzhou left us, he left many precious things to future generations. Every page of these works is saturated with his painstaking efforts and his love and true feelings for our Chinese civilization. When we read these works carefully, we will gradually indulge in those lines involuntarily, enjoy the richness and fragrance of China traditional culture and art, and fully appreciate the charm of ancient architecture and gardens in China. As Mr. Ye Shengtao said in a letter about "Talking about Gardens", "Since Brother Zhou, philosophical thinking and the art of writing have merged into one furnace, thus achieving gardens, and reaching this lofty realm is admirable and endless."
At the suggestion of Mr. I.M. Pei, a famous American architect, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning established the Chen Congzhou Education Award Fund to award outstanding teachers and students every year to commemorate and promote Mr. Chen Congzhou's moral demeanor.
Chen Congzhou (19 18—2000) was originally named Yu Wen, and later renamed Ziweng. Good at ancient buildings and gardens, and good at literature, history, part-time poetry and painting.
1918165438+1was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang on October 27th. When I was a child, I liked to plant flowers and grass, pile stones and manage water, and watch craftsmen build houses. I also like painting and reciting ancient poems.
1938, Department of Literature, Zhijiang University, China, China. Learn from the poet Professor Xia.
1942 After graduation, he was successively employed as a Chinese and history teacher by Hangzhou Provincial Middle School, Shanghai Normal School and Shanghai St. John's Affiliated Middle School.
1944 Married Jiang Ting of Haining. Jiang Ting is Xu Zhimo's brother and sister. After learning the anecdote about Zhimo, he began to study Xu Zhimo. At the same time, he was appreciated by the famous painter Zhang Daqian and became a disciple of Zhang Daqian, attacking landscape figures and flowers.
1948, the first solo exhibition was held in Shanghai, which attracted the attention of painting circles with the poetry of "a small willow, an inch of tenderness".
1949 published his first novel "Chronicle of Xu Zhimo", which became a valuable material for studying Xu Zhimo and the history of modern literature in China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has been actively engaged in the protection and excavation of ancient buildings. He combined China's literature, history, philosophy and art with ancient gardens, and published the first monograph on Suzhou gardens, five of which were On Gardens, summarizing China's garden theory. In his later years, he participated in many landscape design practices and directly participated in the maintenance and design of many ancient gardens in Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places.
From 65438 to 0950, he served as an associate professor of Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts, teaching the history of China art, getting to know Professor Liu Dunzhen, an expert in ancient architecture, and starting Professor Chen Congzhou's career in ancient architecture. In the autumn of the same year, he taught in the Department of Architecture of St. John's University and formally taught the architectural history of China.
195 1 published "Chen Congzhou Painting Collection", was employed by the Department of Architecture of Zhijiang University, and also worked part-time in Sunan Institute of Technology. After school, he began to investigate the ancient buildings, gardens and former residences of many celebrities in Suzhou.
1952 faculty adjustment, Zhijiang University and St. John's University merged with Jiaotong University and Tongji University to form Tongji University Architecture Department. Chen Congzhou teaches in the Department of Architecture of Tongji University, and was entrusted by Huang Zuoshen, deputy director, to set up the teaching and research section of architectural history.
1953 published the first article on the investigation of ancient buildings in the journal of Cultural Relics Reference-Dongtingdongshan Yangwan Temple in Wuxian County.
1954, participated in guiding the renovation project of Longhua Temple Tower in Shanghai,
1956, the masterpiece Suzhou Garden came out. This is the first monograph on Suzhou gardens. In this book, Chen Congzhou put forward the conclusion that "the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River are the best in the world, and the gardens in Suzhou are the best in the south of the Yangtze River", and grasped the most fundamental essential characteristics of Suzhou gardens-poetic literati gardens, and also summarized the gardening techniques of China gardens, such as borrowing scenery, facing the sky, grating and scenery lining.
65438-0959 participated in the work of three histories of Shanghai architecture. The so-called "three histories" are ancient history, modern history and founding history, all of which are architectural history. Under the leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Construction Committee, he made positive contributions to the collection and preservation of historical materials of modern architecture in Shanghai.
In the early 1960s, he participated in guiding the restoration and design of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden, Jiading Confucius Temple and Songjiang Yushan Monastery Tower. At the same time, from Suzhou to Yangzhou, the investigation and research work of Yangzhou gardens was carried out. In the investigation of ancient buildings in Zhejiang, the ruins of An Lan Garden were found, and in the investigation of Yangzhou Garden, the rubble-piled remains of Shi Tao and monks-flaky mountain houses were found. He assisted and participated in the Jian Zhen Monk Memorial Hall in daming temple, Yangzhou designed by Liang Sicheng, and published articles on the investigation of ancient buildings and gardens in Cultural Relics Reference, Cultural Relics and Journal of Tongji University.
1963, qualified as a tutor for master's degree.
From 65438 to 0966, Chen Congzhou was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.
197 1 transferred to southern Anhui cadre school, 1972 began to participate in the renovation project of Lianyungang Seaview Temple Tower.
1974, instructing Albanian teachers to continue their studies. The ancient buildings in Jinan, Qufu, Tai 'an, Liaocheng and other places were investigated, which made an important contribution to the preservation of the large wooden structure of Guangyue Building in Liaocheng in the early Ming Dynasty.
During the period of 1975, he wrote more than 400,000 words of Mo Yu in Zi Shi, detailing his contacts, textual research, mountains and rivers, folk customs, people's feelings and anecdotes in his life.
After the downfall of the Gang of Four, Chen Congzhou was out of danger. Words accumulated in my mind for many years suddenly came out of generate. This is the first article in Shuoyuan, which correctly evaluates ancient buildings and gardens and mercilessly criticizes their destruction for many years, causing strong social repercussions. The five articles of Shuo Yuan are sincere and sincere, integrating literature, history, philosophy and art with garden architecture, and are well received by scholars at home and abroad. They are published in different versions and translations, including English, Japanese, German and French.
1978, Suzhou gardens were partially formed and exported to the Metropolitan Museum of New York, namely Xuan Ming, which became the first export of garden cultural buildings since New China. I.M. Pei asked him to write a long scroll called Blue and White Gardens, which was inscribed by a famous cultural hermit and calligrapher in China. The existing new york Bayi Garden has become an extremely precious masterpiece of painting and calligraphy.
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/980, he studied under Dr. Kamiya Guankou, a scholar studying in Japan. In order to adapt to the tourism boom all over the country and restore the heat of scenic spots and historic sites, we have put forward some resounding slogans, such as "Give me back my nature", "Cultural tourism", "Green Park first" and "Green culture". In view of the tendency of "everything is money-oriented" in society, we put forward that "Zi Weng paints without money", "Take nothing, open supply" and "millions of school teachers". Speaking and reporting everywhere, wherever they went, they were greatly welcomed and received by the leaders and the masses. He has successively edited and published Chen Congzhou's prose, essays, poems and songs, such as Garden Talk, Book Collection, Spring Moss Collection, Curtain Collection, Random Collection and Landscape Room. 1985, hired as a consultant by I.M. Pei, an American architectural design firm.
1986 edited and published "Shaoxing Shiqiao", and was invited to Japan to attend the centenary celebration of the establishment of the Japanese Architectural Society in the autumn of the same year.
1987, presided over the restoration design of the east area of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden, and became one of the best places in Shanghai to entertain state guests. In the same year, he was awarded the title of honorary member of Japan Landscape Architecture Society. Editor-in-chief "Shanghai Modern Architectural History Draft" was published. 1988, East Garden of Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo was completed.
1990, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province jointly published China Famous Gardens, which described the essence of local gardens in poetic language.
199 1 winter, Anning south garden in Yunnan was completed. Chen Congzhou commented that "Xuan Ming in new york is an imitation of the novel; The eastern part of Yu Garden is a continuation of new things, while the peaceful South Garden started from the ground and was designed by itself, which is the concrete embodiment of my gardening theory. "
199 1 At the end of the year, the Hongkong Commercial Press published Chen Congzhou's latest collection of essays, The Man at the Edge of the Book.
Chen Congzhou is a talented person, with the feelings and temperament of a poet and painter, and the unique humor of China literati. He is not good at arguing, but his speeches or reports are often full of fun and make people laugh. He works hard, works hard, writes and draws every day and never stops writing. He has a kind heart. Although he suffered many blows and exclusions, he never hurt others. He has no airs and treats everyone equally.
After Mr. Wang's death, at the suggestion of Mr. I.M. Pei, a famous American architect, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning set up an education award fund to award outstanding teachers and students every year to commemorate and carry forward Mr. Pei's moral demeanor.