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Problem description:
The front of the monument is inscribed by ***, and the back is inscribed by Zhou Enlai.
Analysis:
·Cuiwen Pavilion
Cuiwen Pavilion opened around 1930 and was founded by Wei Changqing, a native of Changping County. The original location was Quanyechang (now the site of "Xinxin Clothing Store"), and it mainly engaged in seal carving. It is a specialty store focusing on the research and management of calligraphy, calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, seal materials, and the Four Treasures of the Study.
Mr. Wei Changqing, the founder of Cuiwenge's calligraphy and seal cutting, is an artist who has made great achievements in calligraphy, seal cutting, epigraphy and stone appreciation. In the early years of the Republic of China, Wei Changqing was an apprentice at Wenbaozhai on the first floor of Langfang Toutiao Shoushan, and was able to write more than 1,200 words of the Thirteen Postscripts of Orchid Pavilion on a four-inch square black box. Wei Changqing's gold and stone seal carvings are very impressive from Wu Changshuo's knife skills, knife skills, and character shapes. Wei Changqing's facial expressions are also very skillful. Later Wei Changqing opened Wenwen Pavilion in Quanyechang. Soon it moved to Liulichang East Street. It is adjacent to Yongbaozhai in the west and Wenbaozhai in the east
Cuiwenge’s calligraphy and seal cutting combines the expertise of famous artists to create its own unique style, which has a simple and vigorous momentum. For this reason, it is loved by many at home and abroad. praise from readers. There are many talented seal makers here. The late Mr. Wei Changqing and Chen Shu made outstanding contributions to the creation of the seal art of Cuiwen Pavilion. Current senior arts and crafts artists Xu Huanrong (bo Tao), Li Wenxin (Shifu), Zhang Yintang (Yanbo) and special second-level and third-level calligraphy and seal engraving masters Liu Tiebao, Lu Pin and Han Baoyu have even more outstanding achievements. His works are widely circulated at home and abroad, and are especially loved by international friends.
After the July 7th Incident, Peiping fell, Yongbaozhai and Wenbaozhai closed down one after another. Cuiwen Pavilion was also cut off from the source of stone for carving seals, so it could only barely survive. In order to survive, Wei Changqing led several apprentices to collect and buy old seals, polished off the characters and re-engraved them, changing the big ones into small ones. Through the hard days, Wei Changqing also developed the method of polishing stones and making "Eight Treasures Seal Clay". technology. Ink pad is also called ink color. Cuiwenge's homemade ink pads are carefully processed from raw materials such as cinnabar, moxa velvet, pearls, agate and castor oil. Because it uses the best materials, especially the castor oil, which is aged for many years. Therefore, Cuiwenge's ink pads are bright in color, long-lasting, and will not spill oil when covered with paper.
After liberation, in November 1955, Wei Changqing and Xu Huanrong engraved the inscriptions written by *** and Zhou Enlai on the Monument to the People's Heroes. Xu Botao recorded this experience in his "My Calligraphy Career": "The construction of the 'Monument to the People's Heroes', which was laid by Chairman Mao Zedong himself in September 1949, started in 1952. Chairman Mao personally inscribed 'The People's Heroes will be immortal' on the monument. ', Premier Zhou Enlai inscribed the inscription. Each word of Chairman Mao's inscription is only three inches square, and the enlargement of the font of Premier Zhou Enlai's inscription was left to me and Mr. Wei Changqing. It took the two of them half a month to complete the enlargement task, and then used grid enlargement to enlarge the inscription written by Premier Zhou to its current appearance."