20 18-05-03 1 1:46? Zhongtian art hui
Tang Tuo (187 1 ~ 1938), formerly known as Cheng Lie, was born in Wujin, Jiangsu. The pioneer of modern printing industry in China. His calligraphy is beautiful and powerful, subtle and simple. It is called the Tang style, and it is also called the four masters of stele study with Shen, Ma and Tiantai Mountain people. Representative works include Wujin Tangtuo Xi copybook, Filial Piety and Yuhetang. Tang camel, why is it called humpback camel? The origin of the word "camel" is that when he was 29 years old, he was bent over and was in pain because of overwork at his desk day and night. Although treated, it is difficult to correct, and the right back is raised and cannot be recovered. Then grandpa simply took the name "camel". Tang Tuo's original spectrum was named Chenglie, also known as Shouheng, with the word crane age, son right and son right; After taking the calligraphy stage name "Tang Tuo", it was named Qu Ren.
He started with calligraphy and wrote signs for the business community. The market strokes of Zhonghua Bookstore, World Bookstore and Dadong Bookstore are all his handwriting. The central bank and stamps on the banknotes also had his handwriting, and the income at that time was the highest in Shanghai. Representative works include Wujin Tangtuo Xi copybook, Xiaode Memorial Hall and Yuhetang Memorial Hall.
Impressed by the backwardness of domestic printing, he went to Japan to study printing technology for three years. 1906, a joint venture with others to establish China Book Company. Due to poor management, I applied for the post of deputy manager, and now I am gradually improving. Because of the fire, he was transferred to the Commercial Press to preside over the compilation and publication of Inscriptions Collection. After the establishment of Zhonghua Book Company, he was hired as the deputy director of the printing department of the company. All the important businesses, such as the local official money bureau's money notes, the exchange's bills, the Buddhist scriptures of Ailiyuan, etc. , are personally contacted by him, personally write a contract or letter. When the economy of Zhonghua Bookstore was in trouble, due to his painstaking efforts, the printing business developed rapidly, which changed the adversity of the bookstore.
Knowing the market demand and development trend of printing industry, he sent Shen, Liu, and others to Japan to study French. Shen later became the most famous intaglio sculptor in China and trained more than 40 people, including Zhao Jun, a world-famous sculptor who carved the head of Sun Yat-sen, the central bank of the Republic of China. Liu Fuqing later founded and edited China Printing, the first academic printing publication in China, and designed and manufactured the first imagesetter in China, which was praised as "the treasure of China printing technology" by the German printing industry.
After nearly a hundred years of silence, with the rise of the craze for Chinese studies and Chinese characters, the illustrated text course of Chengzhimeng School, which integrates the beauty of words, calligraphy and pictures, has been re-published, attracting people's attention. Many domestic publishing houses have successively published various editions, and some have also issued 6,000 sets of gift books to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of china confucius foundation. After printing, they will be destroyed to give them collection value. People often miss this calligrapher who died nearly 80 years ago.