Li Shutong returned from Tokyo Fine Arts School in 19 1 1, and successively engaged in teaching in Tianjin and Shanghai, initiated and devoted himself to new cultural activities. 19 12, went to Hangzhou Zhejiang first normal school as a painting and music teacher. In the same year, Feng Zikai, aged 17, was admitted to this school, and Li Shutong served as his painting teacher. Feng Zikai was taught and edified by him, and his study was excellent, which was highly praised by his teachers. Soon, Li Shutong became a monk and was called Hao Yi.
Feng Zikai, who has a deep affection between teachers and students, tries to break the dust and follow the teacher. Master Hongyi warned Feng Zikai that becoming a monk also has troubles, so it is unnecessary. Feng Zikai had to give up. During the period of 1927, current events were chaotic and Feng Zikai became a lost lamb. That year, Master Hongyi traveled to Shanghai and stayed at Feng Zikai's home. After two months together, Feng Zikai could no longer restrain his Buddhist heart, and finally worshipped Hongyi as a teacher, converted to Buddhism and became a layman.
Master Hongyi traveled around the world and promoted Buddhism. He was deeply touched by the law of forbidding killing in Buddhism. After Feng Zikai converted to Buddhism, Master Hongyi discussed and cooperated with him on a book "Nursing Students", which was painted by Feng Zikai and accompanied by his own poems. Take art as convenience and humanity as interest? Advise everyone not to kill nursing students again, be merciful. At first, the album imitated the form of "Twenty-four filial piety pictures", with only 24 paintings. When preparing for publication, it was suggested to increase the number of frames. It was nearly 1930, and Feng Zikai thought that Master Hongyi was just 50 years old. Why not draw 50 pictures and publish them to congratulate the master on his birthday? Feng Zikai told Master Hongyi about this idea, and the master agreed very much. In this way, the first volume of Nursing Students published by Ma Yifu in 1929 included 50 paintings.
It seems that nursing students want people to love animals and not hurt their lives, but it is actually propaganda? Protecting students means protecting the heart, saving animals, insects and fish is just a means, and advocating kindness and peace is the purpose? . After the first volume was released, it was well received by people and printed more than 200,000 copies.
1938, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way. Feng Zikai didn't want to stay in the occupied area to be a conquered people, so he drifted from place to place, stopping in Guilin, Chongqing and other places to make a living by teaching. However, no matter how hard life was, Feng Zikai never forgot to publish another volume "On Nursing Students" when the teacher was 60 years old. He overcame many difficulties and finally finished painting 60 works, which were sent to Master Hongyi of Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, and published together with poems at 1940. In this regard, Master Hongyi is very pleased and hopes that Feng Zikai can do this for a long time. In his letter to Feng Zikai, he wrote: When the old man was 70 years old, he asked the benevolent to draw the third episode of Nursing Students, with a total of 70 paintings. Shooting the fourth episode at the age of 80, * * * 80; Shooting the fifth episode at the age of 90, * * * 90; 100 years old, he made the sixth episode, *** 100. Nursing students draw merits and demerits here. ?
Feng Zikai read the master's letter and was deeply moved by the master's attention, but he thought that he was an octogenarian when he painted the sixth episode, which coincided with troubled times. Will he live to that time? But the great trust of the mage can't live up to it, so he said in his reply what if? As Shishou promised, will he abide by it? .
1942, Master Hongyi fell ill and was very weak. Knowing that his future was numbered, he couldn't let go of nursing students, so he wrote to his friends. Those who seek benevolence and benevolence, with sincere wishes for corrupt people, try their best to help them. Will they appreciate their complete achievements? .
Soon, Master Hongyi passed away, and so did his entrusted friends, so it fell to Feng Zikai to complete the mission of caring for students. Feng Zikai kept in mind the teacher's teachings and was determined to continue painting by nursing students.
/kloc-at the beginning of 0/949, Feng Zikai made a special trip to Quanzhou to pay tribute to the remains of Master Hongyi. A layman took out Feng Zikai's letter to Master Hongyi. As Shishou promised, will he abide by it? Impressively, the master's 70th birthday is coming, and Feng Zikai decided to start painting the third episode of "Nursing the Students" at once. In order to avoid unnecessary entertainment, Feng Zikai stopped publishing and publishing cases and closed the door to thank guests. He lived in Xiamen for three months.
In painting skills, Feng Zikai did not feel hard at this time. The difficulty is the choice of theme. When painting the last painting, Feng Zikai really couldn't find suitable painting materials. At this time, Master Guangqia, a disciple of Master Hongyi, wrote a letter about one thing: Master Guangqia met a passenger in the car and took five chickens home to be slaughtered. These chickens kept barking when they saw him, obviously with the intention of asking for help. Master Guangqia bought all the chickens and brought them back to the temple to avoid being slaughtered. Feng Zikai was deeply inspired after reading it, so he drew a picture of a happy chicken and completed all the drafts of the third episode of "Nursing Students". At this time, Master Hongyi has been dead for seven years. Who will write the content? Feng Zikai thought of Ye Gongchuo, a calligrapher proficient in Buddhism, and made a special trip to Hong Kong to ask him to write poems. Although Ye Gongchuo agreed, because of his old age and infirmity, he could only copy and could not write any more poems. Feng Zikai had to make some by himself, select some ancient poems, and finally get a collection of paintings for publication.
After 1949, Feng Zikai became the president of China Painting Academy, and began to paint the fourth episode of "Nursing Students" after his busy official duties. At that time, some people in China regarded Buddhism as a feudal superstition, so it was impossible to publish paintings in China, and even paintings were inconvenient to make public. Feng Zikai had to choose materials to paint at any time and send them to master Guangqia in Singapore one after another.
The fifth episode should have been published by 1970, but Feng Zikai was worried about the consequences, so he drew it to 1965 in advance. Both volumes of paintings were published overseas by Master Guangqia.
? Cultural Revolution? During this period, Feng Zikai, who was criticized, was deprived of the freedom of writing and painting, and was also listed as a nursing student. Reactionary books and periodicals? But he ignored everything about himself and just wanted to continue painting and fulfill the master's ambition. 1980 is the centenary birthday of the master, and one more episode will complete his merits, but Feng Zikai doesn't know when the immediate catastrophe will end, so he doesn't want to wait until 1980 to finish painting. So, he arrived during the day? Cowshed? Suffering from torture and risking painting at home at night, I finally finished the sixth episode on 1973. He was worried that he would not see the publication of the album, so he marked the page number on each painting to prevent the order from being wrong when it was published. Feng Zikai wanted Zhu Youlan to write poems, but he was afraid of implicating him, so he told him that painting "protecting students" was very risky. In order to repay the kindness of the teacher and keep the previous agreement, I will forget the inscription of this episode. I wanted to trouble you, because the risk was too great, so I'll talk about it later. ? Zhu Youlan was deeply moved by Feng Zikai's spirit, and immediately expressed his willingness to take risks, and prepared his own poems in extreme secrecy.
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1978, Master Guangqia, who had lost contact with Feng Zikai for many years, came to Shanghai and learned the details of Feng Zikai's paintings from Zhu Youlan. At this time, Feng Zikai has been dead for more than three years. Master Guangqia knelt before Feng Zikai's spirit with tears in his eyes. Later, Master Guangqia brought the paintings and poems of the sixth episode to Singapore for publication. Feng Zikai kept the agreement for half a century and finally bloomed brilliantly.