What kind of person is Nan Huaijin? Why are his reviews mixed?
Do you know what kind of figure Nan Huaijin was in history? Why does he have mixed reviews? Let’s talk about it together.
People who like Nan Huaijin are generally lovers of traditional culture. But not all traditional culture lovers like Nan Huaijin. As far as the friends I know, there are many fans of traditional culture, and they are high-level traditional lovers. These people often do not appreciate Nan Huaijin. There is a master of Chinese traditional culture. As soon as his calligraphy works were posted by netizens, he received many different comments. These comments were mixed. Although some were pertinent and some were far from the topic, netizens could also see that I have my own opinions on the calligraphy of Chinese masters and no longer blindly worship them.
After Nan Huaijin passed away, Deng Kejin, one of the founders of the former Taiwan China Unification Alliance who lived in Shanghai, was filled with emotion. Deng Kejin recalled that more than 20 years ago, Nan Huaijin was not afraid of what others said and worked hard for the peaceful development of cross-strait affairs. Although he fell short of success at the end of his life, he still made indispensable contributions. Nan Guojin has been a scholar all his life: he is full of economics and aims to promote Buddhism. Although he has been away from his hometown for most of his life, he always adheres to the foundation of Chinese culture with dreams, inherits and continues the vitality of culture, popularizes traditional culture, and worships foreign countries among the people. , who was keen on westernizing in the difficult world, left many immortal chapters, especially after his works were published in mainland China, they received rave reviews and set off "Nan Huaijin fever" many times, and the three words "Nan Huaijin" became a cultural symbol. , a cultural phenomenon.
Due to the lack of basic skills in calligraphy, Nan Huaijin’s calligraphy has omitted the rules of calligraphy. Whether it is the structure or the twists and turns, he is all based on the hard-pen writing method. Strictly speaking, calligraphy is written with a hard pen. It looks good, but in fact it has no calligraphic value. Scholar Yu Dan said that Nan Huaijin was conveying an innovation to traditional Chinese culture, because his works never made a grand narrative from an omniscient perspective, or said how authoritative he was from an academic perspective. Everything he said was It's a personal opinion. He never claimed that he was an omniscient and omnipotent authority. He used "He Said, Differentiation, Bypass" as the title of his book, which was to express an attitude, that is, to sincerely activate the classics with personal insights and complete a personal Expression of feelings.
As Nan Huaijin’s reputation rises, especially as his works become more and more popular, his teachings become more and more popular, and more and more deluded beings receive enlightenment from their karma in front of him. Some Criticisms and opinions about him followed, which led to the formation of two completely opposite attitudes towards Nan Huaijin, both in academic circles and among the people: those who like him regard him as a god, and those who dislike him hate him deeply. Nan Huaijin wrote many books throughout his life, and his students are all over the world. Many of his students include Taiwanese political, economic, cultural and financial figures such as Chiang Wei-kuo, Chiang Yanshi, Bai Wanxiang, Ma Jizhuang, Li Chuanhong, and Yin Yanliang. There is no shortage of academics in mainland China who admire his intellectual character. Zhu Qingshi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of the University of Science and Technology of China and Southern University of Science and Technology, respects and admires him very much.