Mr. Xu Beihong, a master of modern art, has a book couplet of Wen Zhiming (1470- 1559), a famous painter in Ming Dynasty, which was adapted from Wen Zhiming's calligraphy scrolls. Getting this book couplet is also an anecdote.
1946, Mr. Huang Yanghui (formerly known as Huang Yanghui), who was teaching at the National Beiping Art College at that time, bought a large-scale calligraphy of "Two Poems of Wen Zhiming's Seven Laws" in Liulichang, which was exquisite in brushwork and distinctive in style, but it was difficult to hang because of its "broken" (incomplete) scale.
After being idle for two years, the work was seen by his teacher, Mr. Xu Beihong, who greatly appreciated the "boldness and boldness" of the work. When talking about the topic that this axis is "broken", Mr. Xu Beihong creatively put forward the idea that this axis can be changed into a book couplet. After his design, he divided it into four parts according to the content of rhyme. ......