Lin Sanzhi is a typical example of a late bloomer. Precisely because he became famous very late, he studied hard for decades, devoted himself to his work, accumulated profound knowledge, and cultivated himself. Not only did he have profound calligraphy skills, but also because of his sincerity as a person and his expertise in poetry, painting, and many other aspects. His achievements have nourished the spirit, rhyme, meaning and interest of his books, enabling them to reach extraordinary and high realms. Lin Sanzhi is known as the "Sage of Grass", and Lin Sanzhi's cursive calligraphy is called "Lin Style". Below is the cursive calligraphy of Lin San that I compiled for you. I hope it will be useful to you!
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Mr. Lin Sanzhi’s biography
Lin Sanzhi’s father, Lin Chengzhang, is a scholar with an honest nature and no intention of fame. His personality is similar to that of Lin Sanzhi. Education has a direct inheritance and influence on Lin Sanzhi. Lin Sanzhi loved writing and painting at the age of three. He was able to sketch objects at the age of five, and he entered a private school at the age of six. From then to the age of thirteen, he read "Hundred Family Surnames", "The Thousand Character Essay", Confucius and Mencius' classics, "Zuo Zhuan", "Gu Wen Guan Zhi", "The Book of Songs", "Mao Shi", and "Tang Shi" in seven years. And so on, he also studied composition, antithetical couplets, and poetry. He started learning calligraphy from drawing red lines, followed by Linyan and Liu Mingbei. At the age of twelve, he could write Spring Festival couplets for his neighbors. After school, he also sketched from life, or copied the characters in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Water Margin", which were bold and imaginative. Because of his naughty nature, he caused many interesting incidents in his childhood.
When Lin Sanzhi was fourteen years old, his father died of illness, and his family life was difficult. After that, he studied hard, first studying from a local man named Chen in He County, and then went to Nanjing to learn portrait painting from Zhang Qingfu. At the age of sixteen, he returned home due to ulcers. He asked Fan Liutang, a local student, to learn poetry and essays. He was trained in calligraphy from a normal school and practiced martial arts to strengthen his body. At the age of eighteen, he was hired to teach at his sister-in-law's house in He County. He also learned poetry and diction from Zhang Li'an, read through his collection of books, and was also taught calligraphy by him. At the age of nineteen, he married a girl named Zhao. The following year, Zhao died of illness. When he was 21 years old, he became seriously ill and was on the verge of death. Fortunately, Master Zhang was able to save his life due to his skill in medicine. At the age of twenty-two, he was chosen as his son-in-law by the Sheng family, a wealthy family in Quanjiao. His wife was a virtuous, virtuous, sensible, and good at managing the family, which made him concentrate on literature and art. They have been together for decades, and their relationship is very deep.
When Lin Sanzhi was twenty-three years old, he was allocated nearly four acres of ancestral paddy fields, several acres of mountain land behind his house, and ten original houses. He also purchased the surrounding barren hills, turned them into orchards, and planted a large number of trees. He named his residence "Scattered Wood Mountain House". By that time, his poetry, calligraphy and painting were quite famous.
At the age of twenty-six, he began to compile "Landscape Classification" and completed it at the age of twenty-nine. At the age of thirty-two, after being introduced by Zhang Li'an, he resigned from his teaching job and went to Shanghai to learn landscape painting from Huang Binhong. At the age of thirty-four, due to financial difficulties at home, he returned to his hometown and continued to teach. In the autumn of that year, when there was a flood in his hometown, he stepped forward to preside over the polder affairs voluntarily. He was fair and honest, and was very popular.
In 1934, Lin Sanzhi was thirty-seven years old. Following the teachings of Huang Binhong, he became a teacher and traveled thousands of miles alone. He produced more than 800 paintings and nearly 200 poems. The following year, he wrote "Wandering Notes" and serialized it in Shanghai's "Travel Magazine". In 1936, he visited Yushan, Yangzhou and other places. In 1937, he visited Huangshan and obtained sixteen poems and several drawings.
In 1938, his hometown was invaded by Japanese invaders, and Lin Sanzhi fled with his family. For several years, he carried poem manuscripts, inscriptions, inscriptions, pens, ink, paper and inkstones with him, and continued to write poems, calligraphy and paintings while wandering. He was deeply moved by the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945 and wrote nineteen poems about it.
After liberation, Lin Sanzhi was elected to the Jiangpu County People's Congress in 1951 and worked and lived in Jiangpu as a national cadre for twelve years. In the meantime, he served as deputy county magistrate of Jiangpu County in 1956, was elected to the Nanjing CPPCC in 1958, and was elected as a member of the Jiangsu Provincial CPPCC in 1959. In 1963, when he was about to retire, the Jiangsu Provincial Traditional Chinese Painting Academy hired him as a full-time painter. He moved to Nanjing and lived in a two-story building with the painter Qian Songyan, with Lin Zhai downstairs. From then on, he concentrated on calligraphy and painting creation and achieved great results.
In 1966, when Lin Sanzhi was sixty-nine years old, his wife died of illness. Lin was so sad that he suddenly became deaf in both ears. That year, the """ movement broke out, and Lin lived alone in Nanjing, traveling between Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Wujiang. He experienced seven years of wandering life. On the Spring Festival Eve of 1970, he was taking a bath in a bathhouse in Wujiang Town. He accidentally fell into the open pool and suffered severe burns all over his body. He recovered after four months of treatment. The five fingers of his right hand were glued together. Fortunately, his thumb, index finger and middle finger were saved, and he was still able to write. Because he calls himself "half-disabled old man".
In 1972, in order to celebrate the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the Japanese version of the magazine "People's China" planned to publish a special edition of "Selected Chinese Modern Calligraphy Works." During the selection, his cursive banner "Chairman Mao's Ci? Qing Ping Le Huichang" was highly praised by authoritative figures such as Guo Moruo, Zhao Puchu, Qi Gong, etc., and the title of the book was first shocked. He was seventy-five years old. In January of the following year, the first issue of "People's China" was published, and his works were listed separately on the front page of the special edition, which caused a huge response in Japan. Since then, visiting groups from the Japanese calligraphy community who came to China were all proud to meet Lin Sanzhi and highly praised his books. In March of that year, he returned to Nanjing from Jiangpu.
In 1975, he went to Beijing at the invitation of Rong Baozhai and invited Zhao Puchu and Qi Gong to teach him the manuscript of his collection of poems "Poems on the River". Zhao Wei wrote a eulogy and Qi Wei wrote a preface, giving them high praise. Four years later, Nanjing Teachers' Training College published 3,000 copies of it, and it has spread at home and abroad ever since!
Due to Lin Sanzhi's outstanding achievements in art and his significant social influence, in 1978, he was elected Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. After the popularity of the book's title, he became more diligent in creating, responding to requests or participating in exhibitions, and a large number of his works were spread far and wide. He produced fine works at the first, second, third and fourth national calligraphy exhibitions. In addition, in 1980, he held personal calligraphy and painting exhibitions in Nanjing and Hefei, displaying 140 works. In 1982, a calligraphy and painting exhibition of three generations of his ancestors and grandsons was held in Nanjing.
In the past few years, Lin Sanzhi created many large-scale paintings. For example, in 1980, when he was eighty-three years old, he used a piece of cursive calligraphy that was two feet long and draped it horizontally over "Self-composed Poetry? On Calligraphy", which was majestic and vigorous. In 1987, when he was ninety years old, he made a cursive banner "Writing his own poem? Look at the Yangtze River Bridge Project" with the whole piece measuring two feet tall. In the same year, the Jinding Book was rebuilt for Mount Emei, with two characters - Jinding - about two feet in diameter. It is also written in official script for Mazu Temple in Fujian, with eight characters: "Goddess of Peace, Strait Island". Each character is written on a four-foot-long sheet. The majesty and elegance of his masterpiece are deeply touching and breathtaking.
In 1977, Jiangsu People's Publishing House published Chairman Mao's cursive script "Shui Tiao Ge Tou? Return to Jinggang Mountain" and "Niannu Jiao? Questions and Answers of Birds" in a volume. In 1981, Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House published "Lin San's Paintings and Calligraphy Collection". In 1985, Anhui Huangshan Publishing House published "Selected Poems, Calligraphy and Paintings of Lin San", and Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House published "Selected Collections of Lin San's Calligraphy". In 1986, Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House published his cursive script "On Calligraphy and Poems".
On May 15, 1984, a Japanese calligraphy delegation to China visited Lin Sanzhi. The leader of the group, Sugiame Aoyama, a giant in Japanese calligraphy circles, presented the inscription "The Hermitage of the Grass Saint Is Here" as a gift. In the same year, the 47th issue of Beijing's "Wangwang" weekly published a review article on "The Legacy of the Grass Saint Is Here". Lin Sanzhi has been known as the "Contemporary Grass Sage" since then.
In his later years, Lin Sanzhi suffered from cerebral arterial and systemic aortic sclerosis and was hospitalized many times for recuperation. Whenever he got slightly better, he would recite poems, write books, and paint. In 1988, when he was ninety-one years old, he donated 170 calligraphy masterpieces, 40 paintings and two ancient inkstones to his hometown, Jiangpu County. Jiangpu County built a calligraphy and painting exhibition hall in Qiuyu Mountain
In July 1989, he became seriously ill. In October, his condition worsened further. Knowing that his life was about to end, he got up one morning and asked for paper and pen, and wrote down the four words "Be born in heaven and become a Buddha". On December 6, he passed away at the age of ninety-two.