Zhu Kongyang
Zhu Kongyang (1892-1986), formerly known as Zhu Jiren, male, was born in Songjiang, Shanghai. The painter's courtesy name was Yunshang, and his later nicknames were Yongzhang, Longweng and Deafeng. . After liberation, he initiated the establishment of the Shanghai Art Archeology Society.
Chinese name: Zhu Kongyang
Alias: Zhu Jiren
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han
Place of birth: Shanghai
Date of birth: 1892
Date of death: 1986
Occupation: Painter
Graduation school: Hangzhou Zhijiang University
Main achievements: Initiating the establishment of the Shanghai Art Archeology Society.
Representative works: "Famous Epitaphs", "Fengyun Ancient Monuments", "Funyun Mountains and Rivers"
Gender: Male
Fenghua, Zhejiang
Overview
Zhu Kongyang (1885-1941) was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. His original name was Henian and his courtesy name was Shoumei. Member of the Kuomintang, Lieutenant General. In 1925, he became deputy director of the Military Supplies Department of Huangpu Military Academy. In 1929, he served as deputy director of the Munitions Department of the Military and Political Department of the Nanjing Government and director of the Management Department of the General Headquarters of the Army, Navy and Air Force. In January 1931, he was promoted to director.
Hobbies
He loved plum blossoms and white cranes all his life. He often entertained himself by planting plum blossoms and playing with cranes. He once built a garden-style residence at the east gate of Fenghua County and named it "Plum Garden". , which is quite similar to the legacy of Lin Bu (He Jing), a famous scholar from the Song Dynasty who lived in his hometown, as the "plum wife and crane son". Lin Hejing was originally from Huangxian Village, Fenghua. Later, he lived in seclusion in Gushan, Hangzhou, so many people mistook him as "Mr. Qiantang native".
Shanghai Songjiang
Overview
Zhu Kongyang was born in Songjiang County and lived in Bailongtan. He has been fond of epigraphy, calligraphy and painting throughout his life. When he was 16 years old, he studied medicine from Yue Xutang. In the second year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (1910), he joined the Songjiang Alliance branch.
After the founding of the Republic of China, he studied liberal arts in the Self-Help Department of Hangzhou Zhijiang University. Soon, he worked at the Youth Association run by a church in Hangzhou, and was promoted from secretary to acting director-general. He successively founded calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, seal cutting and other classes.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Anti-Japanese War Aid Association of Zhejiang Province and stayed in Hangzhou. He also served as the Chinese Director-General of the Hangzhou Branch of the Red Cross Society of All Nations. He ran hospitals for wounded soldiers and refugee shelters, rescued hundreds of Anti-Japanese War soldiers and More than 2,000 refugees were accommodated and transferred. At the beginning of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), he evacuated Hangzhou with the refugees and arrived in the Shanghai Concession. After that, he lived in Shanghai and served as professor of literature and history at Jinling Theological Seminary and Jinling Women's Theological Seminary which moved from Ning to Shanghai for many years.
The cultural relics of past dynasties are both sophisticated in identification and rich in collection. Zeng said: "Not just because of my own hobbies, but mainly to preserve cultural relics for the country." During the Anti-Japanese War, in order to prevent the Jingzhong cypress fossil that embodies the spirit of the national hero Yue Fei from falling into the hands of the Japanese invaders, various parties raised funds to purchase it. After liberation, the fossil was donated to the Yuefeng Cultural Relics Management Institute in Hangzhou. In addition to exquisite paintings and calligraphy, the collection also includes seals, ancient inkstones, ceramics, bamboo and stone carvings, etc.
In his early years, he collaborated with the painter Tao Lengyue and held a fan exhibition. Tao did the painting and Zhu wrote the calligraphy. Together they were called "Double Wall". The advertisement said "Tao Zhugong sells fans" and it became a favorite story.
After liberation
Initiated the establishment of the Shanghai Art Archeology Society. In the summer of 1952, Wang Guowei obtained the manuscripts of the oracle bone texts of the Yin Ruins and Li Hanqing's manuscripts. After proofreading, he compiled them into "The Textual Research and Interpretation and Correction of the Yin Ruins". In 1953, he was hired by the Medical History Museum of Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to collect and identify medical historical artifacts and materials. He has written "A Study of He's Genealogy" for more than 20 dynasties including the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
In 1972, he retired at the age of 80, but he was still invited to Hangzhou, Hefei, Taiyuan, Jinan, Qufu, Shaoxing and other places to assist relevant departments in the appraisal of cultural relics, and was hired as the cultural administrator of Hangzhou City committee member. In 1978, he was hired as a librarian of Shanghai Museum of Literature and History. It has donated more than 100 important cultural relics and hundreds of ancient books to the Chinese Revolution Museum, Nanjing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other museums, Hangzhou Cultural Management Committee, Taiyuan Cultural Bureau, Hangzhou Buddhist Association, Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple, etc. awards and commendations. When he was nearly 90 years old, he was invited to give lectures at the research class of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts.
The five-character couplets in official script written in his later years were exhibited in the 1986 "Selected Works Exhibition of Late Famous Contemporary Chinese Calligraphers and Painters". He also collaborated with Liu Haisu and Gao Luoyuan on "Pine, Bamboo and Plum Blossoms", and was known as the "sea, land and air" armies of Shanghai ("land" and "air" are homophonic).
His other works include "Famous Epitaphs", "Fengyun Ancient Monuments Research", "Fenyun Mountains and Rivers Research", etc.