Influenced by family style, Deng Erya knew the style of Liushu from an early age. At an early age, I began to listen to my tutor explain books such as Begging and Explaining Words to my brother who is six years older than him. Rongjing Deng is carving at home, and he looks crazy, too. He started his seal cutting career at the age of 8, which won his father's appreciation. Deng Erya's seal cutting technology advanced by leaps and bounds after he returned from studying in Japan at the age of 28. At that time, he saw the works of Huang Mufu, a contemporary Indian management master, and admired them very much, so he devoted himself to imitation and made unremitting efforts for it. Later, he created his own seal cutting style, integrating calligraphy, painting and seal cutting, painting into printing, and books and seals infiltrated each other. The printed seal is sharp and vigorous, beautiful and smooth, and it has changed in the middle. Deng Gong's seal cutting experience is that "creating characters is like managing printing, and managing printing is like creating characters".
When Deng Erya was eighteen or nineteen, he also studied fine arts with Huang Juexiang, the grandfather of Huang Miaozi, a famous modern calligrapher. 1905, 23-year-old Deng Erya went to Japan to study fine arts. When he returned from Japan at the age of 28 or 9, he helped Pan Dawei to set up the League and the first domestic organ publication, Current Affairs Pictorial, which was active in the art forest, enjoying a good reputation in the north and south of the country and making friends with famous domestic artists. From then on, he began to concentrate on studying Huang Mufu's seal and claimed to be Huang Mufu's "private disciple".
In his later years, Deng Erya liked to print with the inscriptions of the Six Dynasties, which was called "driving the pen and making Mao Ying vertical and horizontal". The seal style is beautiful and quiet, and it is strong and meaningful. Seemingly vulgar and elegant, knife and pen are equally important, harmonious and natural, with distinct charm; He is also good at carving and printing. Seal cutting can only be visualized if you don't know the characters, which is the representative creation of Deng Gong's seal cutting. Deng Erya carved thousands of seals in his life. Mr Rong Geng used "I have been in Guangdong for 300 years" to evaluate Deng Gong's seal.
Deng Erya has trained a number of Guangdong seal cutting masters such as Yu Zhongjia, Liu Yulin and Mo Tie. His nephews, Rong Zhaozu, Rong and his nephew Deng Zujie also have their names in the art forest. Deng's descendants were influenced by it and became attached to seal cutting. Deng Erya's profound accomplishments in calligraphy, such as Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Xing Kai, all depend on his academic immersion in primary school exegetics for many years. Since childhood, Deng Erya has a strong interest in written exegesis. When he recalled his childhood, he once said: When I was a child, I only loved reciting Tang poems, and I was very proud of reciting them. Because his family has a rich collection of books, including all kinds of stones, rubbings, books, antiques and printed books, he inherited his family studies and read many books since childhood. From 65438 to 0897, he studied under He Zou Ya, and his father was appointed as the fourth head of Guangya College. He studied under Chen Li's great-grandchildren Chen Zhida and Huang Lengguan in Guangya and Huang Zhuxiang. These learning experiences have laid a solid foundation for exegetics in primary schools in Deng Erya.
Among his posthumous works, Etymology, which took decades to write, is the most important and refined. These 2 1 manuscripts are all donated by family members to the Hong Kong Museum of Art, all of which are notebooks, each paragraph is 300-400 words in length, and many of them have subtitles. It is estimated that there are 30-400 words, which is dazzling, so it is very rare for them to learn more than six books.
Deng Erya is also a poet. His poems are as meaningful, simple and fresh as his calligraphy seal cutting. 19 14, Deng Erya joined Nanshe, wrote numerous poems in his life, and published a large number of poems in newspapers and periodicals such as Current Affairs Pictorial, Nanshe Congke, Nanwu Journal, and Sinology Congxuan. Mr. Rong Geng, his nephew, said, "Deng studied seal cutting, Deng Chengxiu studied calligraphy and Gong Zizhen studied poetics, all of which can change to form their own families. Viewers rarely know where they came from." However, the only book left from Deng Erya's poems and songs is Poems of Green Lacquer Original. Because I have traveled widely all my life, poems describing local scenery occupy a large space in my poetry collection.
In addition to books, essays and seal cutting, he also became attached to Qin. The famous piano "Luqiqin" was made in the second year of Tang Wude, and was obtained from the famous descendant of Kang Jiayu. 1944, the "Green Romance" built by Deng Erya in Tai Po was destroyed by a typhoon, and even a large number of books and cultural relics were destroyed, but the green Chyi Chin rescued from the ruins was safe and sound. Deng Erya thought it was a miracle, and then moved to Kowloon to settle the famous piano. Until he died at the age of 7 1, he still ordered his family to put the piano on the bedside and touch the last breath.
Deng Erya's ancestral home is Dongguan, but there are few footprints in Dongguan. Only during the period from 1920 to 192 1 did he return to his hometown and teach in Dongguan Middle School. Although he didn't have many days in his hometown of Dongguan, Deng Erya knew the folk customs, culture and customs of Dongguan like the back of his hand, and many of them used Dongguan dialect or Cantonese as rhymes, which made his poems unique. After Deng Erya's death, his nephew got a manuscript from his relatives, which was recorded by Mr. Shang, a flower explorer in the late Qing Dynasty. He got more than 520 poems, accounting for about one-third of the total, which were published in catalpa on 1960.
From 65438 to 0898, He Du founded a school in Dongheng Street (near Gaudi Street) in Guangzhou, which was the earliest primary school in Guangzhou.
Rong Zhaozu, a master of modern and contemporary epigraphy and a historian of philosophy in China, is the nephew and the first teacher of the Rong brothers. 19 13, when he returned to his hometown in Dongguan, Rong's three brothers Rong, Rong and Rong Zhaozu went to primary school with his uncle, which laid a solid foundation for their future academic achievements. Later, Rong died young, while He Rongzhaozu made great achievements and wrote a lot.