He is a legend!
“The La Traviata appears early in deep sorrow, and she becomes an ascetic in the end with her winning wish; endless treasures are offered to the eyes of the world, and a bright moon illuminates the heart of the sky.” ——Buddhist leader, outstanding calligrapher, and famous social activist , the great patriot Zhao Puchu commented on his life.
"If you ask me why I like his calligraphy, I can only answer intuitively, 'He is subtle and interesting.' Looking at the whole picture, it looks like a gentle and humble gentleman, neither arrogant nor humble, and has a pleasant appearance. , where to calmly discuss the Tao. Just look at one word, don't be too sparse in the sparse, don't be too dense in the dense, just feel that every stroke falls in the most appropriate position, and it is not easy to move one stroke at a time. Looking at it, it gives people a sense of fullness and three-dimensionality. Sometimes it is a bit naive like what a child writes, but on the one hand it is primitive and on the other hand it is mature, and the difference is clearly visible. 'To sum up the above words, It is the so-called implication, and the effort is beyond the pen and ink, so the more you look at it, the more interesting it becomes." - Ye Shengtao, a famous writer, educator, editor, literary publisher and social activist, commented on his calligraphy.
He was born into a wealthy family and studied in Japan. He has extensive experience in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and is famous in China, Southwest, and China. He has made great achievements in the fields of poetry, lyrics, calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, music, drama, aesthetic education, newspaper publicity, and social activities. . "Twenty articles shocked the world", and he was famous in Tianjin and Shanghai before the age of 20.
In the field of calligraphy and painting, cultural celebrities such as Lu Xun and Hu Shi were proud to have one of his calligraphy; in the field of seal cutting, the top "Xileng Seal Society" in the country set up a special room for his collection; in Western painting In the field of drama, he became the first person to create nude sketches in China; in the field of translation, he worked with Cai Yuanpei to translate the Japanese "Private International Law" for publication; in the field of drama, he was not only a famous drama star, but also dressed as a woman in the Japanese "Private International Law" "La Traviata" is one of the pioneers of Chinese drama; in the field of music, the song "Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green and the sky" composed by him is still sung... After he became a monk, he studied Buddhist scriptures intensively. , became the eleventh generation founder of the Buddhist "Qian Sect"!
——He is "Master Hongyi" Li Shutong!
Li Shutong, also known as Li Xishuang, Li An, and Li Liang, was born in Tianjin, his ancestral home is Pinghu, Zhejiang. He served as a teacher and editor, and was later ordained as a monk. His Buddhist name was Yanyin, his nickname was Hongyi, and his later nickname was Wanqing Laoren.
Once his handwriting appears on the market, it will become a hot spot for collectors! His calligraphy works have repeatedly reached new heights!
The old collection of Rongbaozhai, Master Hongyi's couplet "Seek the Right Enlightenment, Forget Oneself and Help All Living Things", the upper part is "Collecting Huayan Sentences", the lower part is "Yiyin is sixty years old", seal Zhu Wen "Hong Yi" and "Buddha Statue Shape" seal. Checking Uncle Li's chronology, the master was sixty years old, which was the 28th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1939. That year, Hongyi left Quanzhou and entered the Puji Temple in Bifeng, Yongchun. He lived in seclusion for 572 days, cut off contact with the outside world, and compiled various texts on classical law. His student Feng Zikai printed the "Sequel to the Painting Collection of Nursing Students" to celebrate his birthday.
This is the work of the master in his later years. The brush strokes are full of meaning, full of childishness, and the brush strokes are motionless and trembling from time to time. Every word is written fat and thin, with moderate ups and downs, with a leisurely mood, a calm mind, a restrained edge, calm and serene, as if not eating the fireworks of the world.
This banner is naturally battered, clean and pleasant. The paper is a half-cooked, refined paper similar to jade-printed xuan. The paper surface is smooth and hairless and covered with fine black bamboo bark fibers, which is different from all kinds of fiber paper produced today. Its fiber characteristics are short, thin, broken, and black. See "Twentieth Century Calligraphy Classics·Li Shutong" (jointly published by Hebei Education Press and Guangdong Education Press) "Regular Script·Huayan Sutra Collection Couplet No. 2" on page 62, "Regular Script·Five-Character Couplet of Meal, Wind and Sutra" on page 64 ", 65 pages of "Regular Script·Fan Lai", 108 pages of "Regular Script·Supreme Coolness" and other works use paper that is exactly the same as this paper. This kind of paper has only appeared many times in the works of Master Hongyi, so it is the See only. No other calligraphers or painters have ever used it, and this paper cannot be produced now.
For the seal and color of this couplet, please refer to the "Li Shutong" Zhu Wen "Hong Yi" seal and Zhu Wen on page 322 of "Seals of Celebrities in Calligraphy and Painting in the Past Hundred Years" (published by Rongbaozhai Publishing House in July 2001) The "Buddha Shape" seal is consistent with the physical seals collected in Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple's "Master Hongyi Memorial Hall" and other collections.