Cao Datie's poems, especially his Yuefu poems, are second to none. His poems are written from youth to old age, and there are countless poems. His poems advocate the ancient meaning, tracing back to the Han, Wei and Qi Dynasties, and are especially good at imitating Bai Juyi's Changqing style. He wrote many long articles, mostly prefaces and poems, often with hundreds of lines and thousands of words, which is a masterpiece. Cao Datie claimed that his poems were "adhering to the purpose of doing things for the time". So his long poems are mostly about what he saw in the past. The historical facts are reliable, the emotions are sincere, and the narrative is vivid and touching, which can be said to be a photo of the times and life. Liu Zheng, a famous poet and painter, once commented on Cao: "(His poems) are all works subject to Bai Fu, and there is no empty talk. Or feel concerned about the country and the people, generous and sad; Or write something, the iron plate jingles; Or mourn the teacher's bosom friend, with deep feelings; Or pity the weak and fragrant, and the ileum turns nine turns; ..... it makes people sad, forgetting whether it is a poem or a word, leaning against the big iron with tears in your eyes and telling your heart! " Therefore, some people commented: "In China's old-style poetry world, it is Cao Datie who really inherits and develops Yang Yun's epic industry!"
Most of Cao Datie's Yuefu poems were written in his youth, with ancient meaning and occasional sustenance. Deng Sanmu, a famous calligrapher, wrote 30 poems. Later, he turned to Bai Juyi's Changqing style and wrote many long lines, claiming that he insisted on the purpose of Bai Fu's doing things for the time, which was related to his learning poetry from the famous poet Yang Yunshi when he was 15 years old. He said: "When I was a teenager, I learned to ask Mr. Yang Yunshi in the same city. I dare not learn the Five Laws, because I am not talented enough. Speaking of its songs, it comes from Changqing style, and I secretly admire it. "
Cao Datie's long ballads are excellent, with hundreds of lines and thousands of words. Most of them are prefaced by skills, with a thousand words, and the momentum is like the Yangtze River. Bai Juyi's Changqing style in Tang Dynasty developed into Meicun style in Wu Meicun in Qing Dynasty, which opened up a new vision of classical narrative poetry. Yang Yunshi surpassed Meicun style in the scale of writing system, and often had long prefaces and poems, which formed Yang's unique Meicun style. In China's old-style poetry circles, it is Cao Datie who really inherits and develops Yang Yun's epic industry. His songs about the rich country, the introduction of Dan Qing and the acts of kindness are all between 300 and 400 sentences, which are much longer than Wu Meicun's 80-sentence Garden Song, and even more than Naishi Yang Yunshi's 242-sentence Princess Changping and 292-sentence Tianshan Song. Judging from the composition of ballad poetry, it is rare in ancient and modern times. Not only are their compositions grand, but their ballads and poems are pictures of the times and life in content, and they are deeply emotional and touching in art. At that time, people commented on them as follows: "There is no empty talk, or they are worried about the country and the people, generous and sad; Or write something, the iron plate jingles; Or mourn the teacher's bosom friend, with deep feelings; Or pity the weak and fragrant, and the ileum turns nine turns. " Cao Datie has more poems and greater achievements. Qian Zhonglian said that the poems written by Jun were better than poems, and praised his poems for "making up for the shortcomings of historical events, and there are great iron men, which is enough for the history of Ci." From 1930s to 1980s, his ci creation never stopped, with a large number of creations, most of which have been lost. The incomplete manuscript of "Da Tie Ci" only collected 675 poems, 100 mesh, so it was called "incomplete manuscript". These words describe all stages of his life, including the quiet and elegant leisure of his youth, the passionate passion of fighting in China during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, the joy of working in the society after liberation, the melancholy and sadness of criticizing the right-wing Cultural Revolution with middle-aged sufferings and wrong marks, and the clarity and serenity of living in the countryside in his later years with great concentration on art. His poetic style is implicit and lyrical, combining Chen Weisong, Chen Zilong, Zhu Yizun and Nalan Xingde in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. He is recognized as an important contemporary poet.
His words are brilliant and magnificent, and the structure of his words is full of verve. Chen Weisong is his favorite, and critics believe that he is the successor of Chen Weisong's ci style. Cao Datie wrote 67 pieces of He Xinlang, which is unprecedented in the history of China's ci. Since Chen Weisong wrote 133 pieces. Cao Datie's vocation is to build and attack civil engineering structures, and poetry is his spare time. So the title of Qigong is "Zi Renyun". He is also very accomplished in this industry. He has published academic papers such as "Discussion on Thin Shell Structure of Copper Concrete" and presided over the structural design of He Fei Bridge in Anhui, 1 1 story bell tower building and Anhui Textile Factory No.2.. He studied at Zhijiang University and is fluent in English. I also studied Japanese with the linguist Fang Guangtao for three years. Because he is fluent in Japanese, he translated the Japanese book "Night Talk in the Boat Room". Because he is fluent in foreign languages, his engineering structure design can often introduce advanced foreign ideas, which is quite famous in Anhui engineering design field. But after all, this industry came to an abrupt end from the early days of liberation to the 1957 anti-rightist movement, while poetry ran through his life, and his achievements and reputation were more important than this industry. Therefore, most people in the world regard Cao Datie as a poet among poets, and he is known as a "wizard" and a "genius".
Cao Datie is not only a poet and lyricist, but also a painter, calligrapher, collector and cultural relic appraiser. 19 years old studied under Zhang Daqian in Suzhou Netscape Garden and was accepted as a closed disciple by Zhang Daqian. At the age of 68, he received an album sent to his family by Master Daqian before his death in Taiwan Province Province. The relationship between teachers and students has lasted for 50 years and has become a story in painting. Although he is modest, his paintings are not as good as poems. He quoted a letter from Zheng Banqiao saying that his paintings have some advantages. Let's have a look. If there is no benefit, paste the window and the wall, and cover the pot and vase. " He remembers that when he was young, he didn't study painting seriously. He was once reprimanded by a big teacher: "fooling around all day, drawing badly, and one of your pens failed." But after all, he is a disciple of Dafengtang, who has been copying famous paintings of the ancients for a long time and has a deep foundation. His paintings have their own style, long and imposing. His representative works are Long Volume of Yushan Forest Valley Map, Lotus Pond Map and Qu Qiubai Memorial Hall Zhu Shi Giant Map. Compared with poetry, Cao Datie gives people the impression that he is lazy in painting, and it is difficult for even good friends to get his paintings. However, he also paints diligently. According to his own records, after he returned to Li from 65438 to 0964, he "forgot to eat and sleep, and made 45 landscapes, flowers, birds and horses in a hundred days", from which we can see his brilliant talent in painting. During the Cultural Revolution, Cao Datie was robbed of more than 130 of his paintings, which shows that he painted a lot. According to people in the art auction industry, some Cao Datie's paintings scattered among the people are now very popular and expensive.
Cao Datie has provided many precious historical materials about Zhang Daqian, which is a contribution to the study of Zhang Daqian and even the study of modern painting history in China. From 200/KLOC-0 to the beginning of 2002, in the Spring and Autumn Weekly of China People's Political Consultative Conference, articles such as Memories of Zhang Daqian (Part I and II), Mr. Zhang Daqian and I, Tiger: Zhang Daqian's Brother's Pet (dictated by Brother Jin) were published successively. These articles recorded Zhang Daqian's artistic activities and life in Suzhou Netscape Garden, Dunhuang during the Anti-Japanese War, and Shanghai after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, all of which were little-known first-hand materials.
Cao Datie/kloc-studied calligraphy from Yu Youren at the age of 0/7. Yu Youren is famous for its cursive script. On the 60th birthday of his teacher, he wrote Man Fang Ting, saying that "the beard is always natural and unrestrained, and the grass is virtuous and worships the seal". On the teacher's seventieth birthday, he also presented the poem "Eight Sounds of Ganzhou", calling it "Mo Chi Qing, Zhu Feng, Hong Fei", which greatly praised the teacher's calligraphy. He started with the teacher's cursive script, and later learned the calligraphy style of Ni Yunlin in Yuan Dynasty. Cursive script is very magical in the book world. In Hefei, Anhui Province, before Lian Quan Ting Ji stood in Baogong Temple, Bao Xiaosu Gongzhuan stood in Baogong Cemetery. In Changshu, Shajiabang, Yushan Jianmen, Guangfu Temple, Four Monks' Tomb and Mo Wei Temple all have their stone carving calligraphy. His inscriptions on various paintings and calligraphy are even more numerous. Chen Congzhou thinks that Cao Datie's calligraphy, like poetry and painting, has a "reputation for achievement", which shows that cultural circles attach great importance to his calligraphy. Cao Datie loves books, especially books, and is known as "the last bibliophile in Changshu". His collection of books has a family origin, and his father Cao Jusheng has a close relationship with the owner of Laoshan Building. He once bought Zhao's Bibliography of Old Mountain Buildings. He has a very solid foundation in China ancient literature and is good at edition catalogue research. His collection of books inherited the tradition of Yushan Collection School and paid attention to rare books. Except Song and Yuan editions, most of them are Ming editions, manuscripts and rare editions with high value and large quantity. According to his skill notes in Banye Yuanqu, when he was wrongly classified as Rightist, "426 rare books and 27 famous paintings were all lost in the public library". After the anti-rightist movement and the Cultural Revolution, there were 153 rare books.
Cao Datie attached great importance to the collection of rural literature and the old stories of Changshu bibliophiles. He has a rich manuscript of Cold Words, Feng Jianyuan's finalized Ming History, Mao Yi's Notes on Four Books, Weng Tonghe's Old Notes, Qi Jiage's Selected Works of Zhaoming, and Chen Yi's Legacy of Yu Yi. Besides books, he also keeps famous paintings and calligraphy. In the Qing Dynasty, Yu Qiushi's collection of Liu's Visit to Ye Tang and Bi's Sketch of Hedong Jun are important materials for studying Qian Liu. On behalf of his father, Cao Datie's son James Cao donated Zhang Daqian's "Huansha Map" and Qian Shoutie's "Muluo Yuan Qiu Map" to Changshu Museum the year before last, which are part of his painting and calligraphy collection.
Cao Datie is well informed, good at identification, and has close contacts with domestic cultural relics identification masters. Cao Datie, a 93-year-old Changshu celebrity Cao Zhongdao, said, "Literature and history, that is, the catalogue of known editions, should not be copied from the right and wrong of Song and Yuan Dynasties, especially famous calligraphy and painting. When you meet a good person, others will be confused and hesitate. If you have money, you will find it, and the result is like this. " This is not an exaggeration. Cao Datie's Letter from Jiang to Mr. Chen Shutong: At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Cao Datie visited Yang in his Shanghai apartment. When he saw the case, he put a plum blossom picture of Qing Dynasty painters Jin Dongxin and Luo Liangfeng. Cao read it and said it was a fake, while Yang thought it was genuine, so he arbitrarily criticized Cao. During the debate, an old man stood up, praised Cao's insight and said that Yang's judgment was wrong. After being introduced, he knew that the old man was Chen Shutong, and these two paintings were his collection. In addition, a note on Cao Datie's article "Tune the tune and play with Huang Qianlao": At the beginning of liberation, in the eighteenth year of Guangxu, non-Chen Ke champion Huang (Qianzi) and Cao Datie were drinking tea in the Heyuan teahouse in Changshu, and Suzhou booksellers came to sell ancient books, including a book "Examination of Iron Tickets in Tang Dynasty", which Huang asserted was a Song version, but Cao denied. Because it is forgotten, we get together for tea every day and argue with each other unscrupulously. Huang put on an official airs and asked Cao, "Do you know or do I know?" Cao replied, "Yes, I know. I want to push you for the study of literature and history, but I dare not sell myself short for the study of edition. You are vertical and horizontal. " Qian Nantie, a celebrity present at that time, also echoed Huang's point of view. The next day, Cao Datie came to the teahouse with more than ten kinds of relevant bibliographic materials and put them in colored paper. After Huang and Qian went through it again, they were silent. The default was not Song Ben.
The two things mentioned above show that Cao Datie's appreciation of cultural relics is really strong. Cao Datie is different from ordinary cultural relics appraisers. He combined identification with collection, and integrated cultural relics identification with the study of poetry notes and edition catalogue, forming his own unique cultural relics appraiser.
Cao Datie's versatility is rare in the cultural history of Changshu in modern times. With a high reputation, he kept a low profile. After the publication of Zi Ren Yu Yun, he personally delivered it to the door, and wrote the title of "My brother taught me, and my brother is a big iron" on the title page of the book. He is generous, affable and has no airs. Young friends always call him "big iron" without the word "sir". Someone teased him that he was "lucky" and married several wives. He accepted with a smile. Someone teased him about his poor days with "one dress in spring, summer, autumn and winter, two legs in the southeast and northwest", and he accepted it with a smile.
In 2002, Cao Datie became a vegetable, and it has been eight years since then. At first, a friend went to visit him and found him frozen in bed, staring at the ceiling, muttering: some paintings are wonderful, and some poems are wonderful. Later, I was silent and never spoke again, but my eyes were open, thinking and remembering. A 94-year-old man, has he traced his life for a long time? Is he quietly chewing the flavor of artistic life? Mr. blacksmith is a legend. He was born in a wealthy family in Changshu. He entered the Department of Civil Engineering of Soochow University in his early years. He likes painting, calligraphy and words. He once worshipped Zhang Daqian as a teacher and became the last disciple of Daqian. Mr. Da Tie went to Shanghai Shili Foreign Firm earlier, which was handsome and romantic. Later, he was beaten to the right and exiled to Anhui Province. He has a bitter and fascinating life, and a biography of100000 words is hard to describe. Therefore, I just want to look at Mr. Datie and his semi-wild garden collection through a book and the legendary stories surrounding this book. This book is a bibliography of Jiang Yun Lou (hereinafter referred to as Jiang Mu) copied by Xiafeng during the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty.
Although Mr. Datie comes from Mr. Zhang Daqian's family, I don't study painting and calligraphy, and I haven't seen many of Mr. Datie's paintings and calligraphy works, so I dare not comment. The talent of Mr. Da Tie is manifested in the talent of literary diction. I think "According to You" is far ahead of the world. Mr. Datie's paintings are not as good as Mr. Daqian's, but his collection of books is unusual today. I think there are two reasons. First, the cultural influence of Mr. Datie's hometown Changshu. Changshu, the place where books are collected in the south of China, has seen many successful book collectors since the Ming Dynasty, such as the seven-year-old mountain residence in Yang Yizhi. Zhao Yongxian and Zhao looked at the pavilion; Golden hair, hair branch Guge; The crimson cloud floor of money; Shugu Hall in Qian Ceng; Is Zhang Xiao? Blessed land; Chen Jirui Building; Weng Tonghe's colorful clothes hall, etc. I can't list them all. Therefore, the collection of books is the pride of all literati in Changshu. It is not surprising that Mr. Datie was born and raised in Sri Lanka and deeply influenced by the local culture bred in this land, and he likes to collect books. Secondly, among Mr. Datie's close friends, one of his eldest brothers is a famous bibliophile. His name is Zhang Heng, but he is a figure to be reckoned with in China's collectors in the middle of last century. Zhang Heng, a native of Wuxing, Zhejiang, is a famous Hui Zhai in collection room. He is a great collector of ancient books and paintings, including The Legend of Zhongjing in the Song Dynasty. Zhang Heng and Mr. Datie are brothers who kowtow to each other. From more than a dozen poems and Zhang Heng's words in Da Tie's book "The Rhyme of Zi Ren", we can see Zhang Heng's influence on Da Tie, and redundantly quote the words of "He Xinlang-Yu Cong, a great Dan xiu with insomnia": "But look at that look, it's interesting, and it teaches me to pretend to be crazy and sell silly, and I feel close to each other."
Once in Shanghai, I did business and won a lot. I collect ancient books on painting and calligraphy, buy celebrity waste gardens and make friends with others. I spent a lot of money without hesitation. 1946 Zhang Daqian in Beijing was short of money because he bought nine volumes of famous ancient paintings. He telegraphed Cao Datie that it was urgent and sent 10 million yuan to the Summer Palace to listen to the oriole pavilion. He immediately exchanged gold for 1 10, hence the nickname "Cao Dapai". The native catalpa culture and the guidance of experts have made Mr. Datie's book collection. He bought a lot of books. His old house was the site of Qianban Ye Tang in the late Ming Dynasty, so he named his library "Banye Garden". I tried to rebuild the "Houjiang Cloud Building" but failed. There is a "Ling Hua Pavilion" in the Tibetan Painting Building. Most of his books were unknown until later generations sold them. Wei Li, a contemporary bibliophile, spent a huge sum of 654.38+600,000 yuan to buy more than 20 books, including many treasures and cheats. Most of his books, Semi-Wild Garden, are manuscripts. He once collected 426 rare books and 27 famous paintings, which were later put into public libraries. There are 153 rare books in the book catalogue. Such as "Reading Collection" and Zhao's "Little Good Hall"; Qian's manuscripts include Lengyan Sutra, A Brief Introduction to the North of Ming Dynasty, Notes on Four Books of Ming Dynasty, Mao's proofreading, Wu Yifeng's proofreading, and Zhao Zongjian's handwritten Bibliography of jiusan Building. 1950, Xu Senyu ceded 10 school names. In 2000, Wang He, deputy director of Shanghai Museum, and Shen, a delegation from Nanjing Library, appraised Cao Datie's collection of paintings, calligraphy and ancient books. The books are printed with the words "Cao Datie Collection Secretary", "Cao Datie Collection Seal", "Ling Hua Pavilion" and "Banyeyuan Collection".