Zhu Chan loved bamboo all his life and was a Zen monk, hence the name Zhu Chan. He often carefully observes various forms of bamboo in the bamboo forest in Shushan. "There must be bamboo in the chest, a spire on the top, and a bamboo shoot root on the bottom, so that the whole body can be exposed, and we can meet each other in a trance." Therefore, bamboo Zen painting bamboo, with thousands of gestures, is quite charming. Huai Su, a calligrapher of Zhu Chan, is good at weeds. Twenty years later, he practiced writing a new calligraphy style, "Jiufen Zen". Zhu Chan's paintings and calligraphy are often in the order of poetry, with seals such as "Prince Becoming a Monk", "Broken Mountain" and "Zhu Chan", and there are two volumes of Pu Yin and Carving Heart Sutra. In his paintings and calligraphy works, he is good at ink figures, landscapes, ink bamboo, stubborn stones and arhat Buddha statues. The main works are the Baoguang Temple in Xindu and Baihua Temple in Putuo Mountain. The Spring 2005 Painting and Calligraphy Auction of Beijing Auction House was held on March 6th. Among them, one of his six-foot four-screen Lingshi paintings was auctioned for several million yuan. Up to now, there are two Buddhist arhats circulating in Kaixian County. Personal calligraphy works are not as many as his paintings, but there are many cursive scripts, running scripts, Zen poems and poems in his paintings. In calligraphy, what he admires most is the creation of Nine Points Zen Book. The so-called nine-point Zen book is a unique idea formed on the basis of the "eight-part book" Eight points is an integral part of official script, also known as "sub-book". The font is like a plum with many faces. In Qing Dynasty, Liu Xizai thought that regular script was also called official script in Wei and Jin Dynasties. To show the difference, he called official script with waves "eight points". According to legend, the eight-point book was created by Wang Cizhong, a Shanggu man in the Eastern Han Dynasty. On the basis of the eight-point book, Zhu Chan created a new nine-point book, saying that "adding one point is Zen". He also said that "Zen is also a Zen word, and it is not enough to become Zen without gains and losses." The handwriting of this font is like an iron pen, strong and calm, and the style is sincere. It embodies the artistic style of the beauty of seal and official seal, but it seems that seal is not a seal, official seal is not an official seal, and it is not bound by law. Zhu Chan's calligraphy inherits the creative style of Shang Yi and fully embodies "Zen", which can be described as far-reaching artistic conception. The late master Chang Ming, a contemporary monk, once said that he "began to learn calligraphy at the age of five, and Yan, Liu, Ou and Zhao were all in Xi Zhi, and finally learned the calligraphy skills of Zhu Chan, a Buddhist painter and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty". That is, imitating the nine-point book of Zhu Chan, a Buddhist monk, "especially the skill of Zhu Chan, a master of Buddhist calligraphy and painting in the Qing Dynasty, has achieved the true meaning of his calligraphy." Based on this, Master Chang Ming created a large number of excellent Zen sayings and spread them all over the world.
Zhu Chan was a master of guqin in the late Qing Dynasty. He laid the foundation for creating a new piano school-Panchuan School. The former president of the Chinese Guqin Association believes that the Rui monks in the early Han and Tang dynasties in Bashu belonged to the traditional Sichuan school and the overbearing school. "In addition to the original tyrants in Shu, there are Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Qian Shouzhan, Zhang Kongshan, monks and monks. On the basis of the original piano art, they combined the characteristics of Qin Shu School, thus creating a new Sichuan School-Panchuan School. "
At the same time, Zhu Chan also spread the famous piano music "Memories of Time Past". Memories of Time Past is said to have been written by Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The melody is euphemistic and lingering, which is intended to miss the old friend. Mr. Li Xiangting, president of the Chinese Guqin Association and professor of the China Conservatory of Music, said: "It is difficult to test the generation time of Reminiscence, which came from a monk in the late Qing Dynasty."
Zhu Chan clearly put forward his aim of "expressing one's ambition with the piano" in the preface written for the famous "The Spectrum of Dead Wood and Zen", and pointed out that in the classical culture of China, Qin De and Zen are both ways to cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's character, and the purpose of devoting oneself to piano learning is to express Zen with the piano. Zhu Chan has made great achievements in guqin all his life, and his thoughts are integrated with piano art, but Master Zhu Chan is a master of guqin among monks and has made indelible contributions to modern guqin art in China. Zhu Chan is not only good at drawing figures, but also good at drawing animals. A painting of an ink lion in the East Temple of Baoguang Temple is even more fascinating and is passed down as a magic pen. Bamboo Zen painted lions, emphasizing the likeness of spirit. He skillfully used the shade of ink to draw a lion with high spirits and high tail, and a Zen cloud. No matter which angle you look at, the lion's eyes are fixed on you. One small step, like a lion's eyes following, followed by its tail! Zhu Chan wrote a poem on the painting:
It is wrong for me not to become a Buddha. The land of the abbot of Vimody can accommodate 80,000 Leo.
Zhu Chan's paintings and calligraphy in Baoguang Temple include Amitabha, Four Bodhisattvas, Lingyun Gao Jie, a precious longevity picture and couplets. Bronze mirror, bamboo screen, 16 arhats, sand-holding pictures for Buddha, exquisite calligraphy and painting, each with its own characteristics, are fascinating and belong to the national precious cultural relics. In terms of painting and calligraphy, Zhu Chan is as famous as "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" and "Broken Mountain Zen Master", and he is a famous painting geek in the late Qing Dynasty. People commented on his grave: "carrying huge sums of money, crossing the world;" It is as famous as Broken Mountain and enjoys a good reputation in the world. " It is a true portrayal of the life of this "famous painter". Fang Bingnan, his painting disciple, is good at flowers, birds, fruits and vegetables, and has a kind of mysterious "Painting Spectrum", which is widely circulated. He once presided over the "Peace-making Bureau" of provinces and counties, initiated bamboo curtain painting, and made Liang Ping's arts and crafts famous both inside and outside the province, becoming a famous folk painter in the late Qing Dynasty.