Speaking of the historical celebrities in Changzhou, there are many: Qu Qiubai, Yun Daiying, Zhang Tailei, Yun Yiqun, Zhang Zhirang, Yun Nantian, Ajia, Chen Hengzhe, Duan Yucai, Hong Liangji, Hua Luogeng, Huang Jingren. Jiang Chunfang. Yang Shouyu. Hong Shen. Liu Haisu. Yun Jing. Lu Simian. Qian Mingshan. Tang Jingchuan. Zhang Huiyan. Li Boyuan. Wang Zheng. Shi Liang. Zhang Hanfu. Zhuang Yunkuan. Di Chaobai. Li Gongpu. Jiang Heng. Zhao Yi. Zhu Lian. Wang Kentang. Ge Yuliang. Cai Xu. Ding Ganren. Liu Guojun. Sheng Xuanhuai. Tang Tuo. Xu Boxin...
Many of them are familiar figures. Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan. His father is Open a grocery store for a living. When he was young, he loved to use his brain, and was often nicknamed "dork" by his peers because he was too attentive in thinking about problems. After he entered Jintan County Junior High School, his mathematical talent was discovered by his teacher Wang Weike, who tried his best to cultivate it. After graduating from junior high school, Hua Luogeng attended Shanghai Zhonghua Vocational School, but dropped out of school because he could not afford the tuition fees, so he only had a junior high school diploma in his life. In the summer of 1936, Hua Luogeng was recommended to study at the University of Cambridge in England. In two years, he published more than ten papers, which aroused the praise of the international mathematics community. In 1938, Hua Luogeng visited Britain and returned to China, where he served as a professor at Southwest Associated University. In a small attic like a bullpen on the outskirts of Kunming, he struggled to write his famous book "Theory of Prime Numbers on Stacks".
Shi Liang and Li Gongpu were both parties involved in the "Seven Gentlemen Incident". After the September 18th Incident, Japanese imperialism engulfed the three northeastern provinces of China and stepped up its aggressive activities in an attempt to turn North China into its colony. While the Kuomintang government pursued a non-resistance policy against Japan, it intensified its anti-Japanese war and launched a civil war? On August 1, 1935, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Message to All Compatriots to Resist Japan and Save the Nation," calling on the country to unite, stop the civil war, and unite to resist Japan. Under the influence of the Communist Party of China's anti-Japanese national united front policy, , Shanghai's anti-Japanese national salvation movement flourished. The Shanghai Women's Salvation Association was the first to be established. Comrade Shi Liang was one of the initiators and was elected as a director. After the Shanghai Cultural Circle's National Salvation Association was established, Comrade Shi Liang was elected as an executive member. In 1936, The Japanese imperialist aggression became more arrogant and the national crisis further deepened. On May 31, the National Federation for National Salvation from all walks of life was formally established, and more than 40 people including Song Qingling and Shen Junru were elected as executive members. Comrade Shi Liang was an important member. In order to promote the Kuomintang's resistance to Japan, she Zeng and Shen Junru, Zhang Naiqi, and Sha Qianli, as representatives of the National Salvation Association, went to Nanjing to petition and actively participated in anti-Japanese and national salvation propaganda activities. The Kuomintang government stubbornly implemented the policy of "Anti-foreign forces must first pacify the internal situation" and was arrested brazenly on November 22. In order to save the National Assembly leaders Shen Junru, Zhang Naiqi, Zou Taofen, Li Gongpu, Sha Qianli, Wang Zaoshi and Shi Liang, they created the "Seven Gentlemen" prison that shocked China and the world. Shi Liang was the only lesbian among the "Seven Gentlemen". She was in prison. He rejected the enemy's conspiracy to induce surrender and insisted on the righteous stance of patriotism and innocence. It was not until the July 7th Anti-Japanese War that he was rescued from prison by Soong Ching Ling, He Xiangning, Hu Yuzhi and others with the support of the people across the country and the urging of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shi Liang was appointed as the Minister of Justice and a member of the Political and Legal Committee of the Government Affairs Council. It is Shi Liang's lifelong ambition to protect the people's democratic rights through the law and serve the people. During her 8 years as Minister of Justice, , worked conscientiously and diligently, and made important contributions to laying the legal foundation for our country's people's democracy?
After the "Seven Gentlemen Incident", Li Gongpu actively participated in the anti-Japanese democratic movement in Shanxi, decided by Comrade Zhou Enlai. , he served as a member of the "National Revolutionary War Field Mobilization Committee" and Minister of Propaganda, and carried out united front work. At the same time, he founded the "National News Agency" of which he was the president, and traveled around to promote anti-war propaganda and education and promote united front work. In August, he and Shen Junru actively prepared to establish the National Federation for Resisting the Enemy and National Salvation. In December, he and Shen Junru founded the National News Agency. In January 1938, "Popular Mobilization Theory" was published in Wuhan. At the invitation of Yan Xishan, Shanxi Province, he went to Linfen, Shanxi Province to establish the National Revolutionary University. He was appointed as the vice president and hired some progressive scholars and professors to teach at the National University of China.
In May 1938, "The Theory and Practice of Anti-Japanese War Education" was published. In July, in order to mobilize the whole people to resist the war, he jointly published the "National Weekly" founded by himself and the "Anti-Japanese War" edited by Zou Taofen into the "National Anti-Japanese War". During the difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War, he risked his life and traveled between enemy lines and the front line. In November he arrived in Yan'an and met with Mao Zedong and other central leaders of the Communist Party of China. With the support of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he organized the "Anti-Japanese War Teaching Group" to carry out anti-Japanese war education work in the Shanxi, Chacha and Hebei border areas, and wrote his personal experience into a book - "North China Behind Enemy Lines - Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei" , objectively and impartially promote the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he was transferred from the northern front line to Kunming, the southwest rear area. Beimen Bookstore was founded in December 1942, and Beimen Publishing House was founded in 1944. In 1944, he joined the China Democratic League, was elected as an executive member of the Yunnan Branch of the China Democratic League, and served as an editorial board member of "Democracy Weekly". In 1945, he was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee and deputy director of the Democratic Education Committee at the National Congress of the Democratic League. In December, the National Federation for National Salvation held a membership meeting and changed its name to the Chinese People's National Salvation Association. At the meeting, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Central Standing Committee. In early 1946, he and Tao Xingzhi co-founded the "Social University" and served as vice president and provost, implementing the policy of integrating the theory and practice of democratic education. He is also the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "Democratic Education". In order to welcome the convening of the Political Consultative Conference, he participated in the establishment of the Political Consultative Conference and the Capital Association for the Promotion of All walks of life and was elected as a director. During the CPPCC meetings, he often hosted various reports and lectures. On February 10, 1946, all walks of life in Chongqing held a meeting to celebrate the successful closing of the old CPPCC at Jiaochangkou, and he served as the commander-in-chief. The Kuomintang agents sabotaged the meeting and caused a "murder case". Li Gongpu, Guo Moruo and others were beaten by the agents and sent to the hospital for treatment. Zhou Enlai went to visit him. In May of the same year, the Social University was forced to close due to various difficulties imposed by the reactionary Kuomintang authorities. Li Gongpu returned to Kunming from Chongqing, preparing to move Beimen Publishing House to Shanghai and start writing "History of World Education". At this time, he was closely monitored by secret agents, but his determination to fight for peace and democracy became stronger. He said: "I have stepped out with two feet, and I am not ready to step back again!" On the evening of July 11, 1946, Li Gongpu was killed by Kuomintang agents. He dedicated his last drop of blood to the happiness and well-being of the Chinese people.
Liu Haisu, Liu Haisu was born in a feudal family in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was born with a rebellious character and had many blockbuster moves. At the age of fourteen, Liu Haisu went to Shanghai alone to study Western painting at the Scenic Painting Institute founded by Zhou Xiang. He returned home the following year and opened his own painting institute, teaching and studying on his own. In 1912, 17-year-old Liu Haisu ran away from home and went to Shanghai because he was dissatisfied with the feudal arranged marriage. Together with Wu Shiguang, Zhang Yuguang and others, he organized the Shanghai Picture and Art Academy and changed its name to "Haisu" after Su Shi's word "a drop in the ocean".
In 1931, he taught the "Six Methods of Chinese Painting" at the Chinese Academy of Frankfurt University in Germany and held the "Liu's Traditional Chinese Painting Exhibition". Later, he held an exhibition of his paintings in the United States at the Clermont Painting Hall in Paris. His work "Snow in Luxembourg" was collected by the National Gallery of Art in Iterbaum, France. After returning to China, he held personal art exhibitions in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, and was invited to hold art exhibitions in Germany, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Singapore and other countries. In 1938, at the invitation of Zhonghua Book Company, he wrote six volumes of the 800,000-word masterpiece "Haisu Series". In 1940, he presided over a relief exhibition of Chinese famous modern paintings and exhibited it in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and other places. In 1947, he held a solo exhibition at the "China Art Garden" in Shanghai. After 1949, he successively served as the principal of East China Art College, president of Nanjing Art Institute, and first-class professor. In 1952, he served as the principal of East China Art College. In 1957, the "Liu Haisu Oil Painting and Traditional Chinese Painting Exhibition" was held at the Shanghai Art Museum. In 1979, the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Artists Association held the "Liu Haisu Art Works Exhibition". In 1981, he was appointed as an academician by the Italian National Academy of Arts and awarded a gold medal. In 1988, the "Liu Haisu Ten Visits to Huangshan Painting Exhibition" was held at the Shanghai Art Museum.
Other works have been exhibited at home and abroad many times and published in newspapers and periodicals.
He has been engaged in art education and creation for more than 70 years. He has profound knowledge of Chinese painting, oil painting, calligraphy, poetry and art theory. He has a thorough knowledge of Chinese and Western art, ancient and modern art, and has the courage to explore and constantly innovate. The creation of traditional Chinese painting draws on traditional elites rather than following the past. It pays attention to sketching from life, learns from nature but deceives it. He is good at landscapes, flowers, birds, and animals, and likes to use the splash-ink and color technique. The painting style is bold and unrestrained, bold and vigorous, mellow, simple and lush, colorful and unique. It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.
He has successively served as dean, honorary dean, professor of Nanjing Art Institute, and honorary chairman of Shanghai Artists Association. Advisor to the Chinese Artists Association and member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Awarded the "Outstanding Achievement Award" by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, UK. The European Academy of Italy awarded the "European Palm Gold Medal". Published include "Liu Haisu Painting Collection", "Liu Haisu Oil Painting Collection", "Liu Haisu Traditional Chinese Painting", "Study of Painting True Interpretation", etc.