Chinese name: Qi Gong
mbth: Qigong
Alias: Chagdor Zabu
Nationality: China
Nationality: Manchu
Place of birth: Beijing
Date of birth: July 26th, 1912 (the year of Renzi) < p Cultural relic appraiser, redologist and master of Chinese studies
Belief: Buddhism
Major achievements: central research institute of culture and history, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, and honorary chairman of China Calligraphers Association
Representative works: Notes on a Dream of Red Mansions, Comments on Ancient Fonts, Comments on Poetry and Rhythm
Mr. Qi Gong was educated by the famous historian Mr. Chen Yuan, specializing in the history of China literature, the history of China art and so on. He has been teaching for more than 6 years, and has made outstanding achievements in the teaching and research of classical literature in China, and cultivated a large number of classical literature teaching and research talents for the country. In order to promote the education of the motherland, repay the teacher's education, and extend Mr. Chen Yuan's teaching, he used more than 2 million yuan from the sale of calligraphy and painting to set up the Liyun Scholarship.
in 1913, my father died and lived with my grandfather. In order to pray, my grandfather asked him to learn from an old Lama in the Lama Temple and become a registered little Lama, named "Chagdor Zabu". At that time, just after the Xinhai, the Qing emperor abdicated, and his great-grandfather refused to live in Beijing to show that he would no longer ask about state affairs. Just his great-grandfather had a student named Chen Yungao, who was also an academician. His family was the richest man in Yixian County, Hebei Province, and he was rich in wealth, so he invested in buying a house in Yixian City and asked his great-grandfather to live there. Great-grandfather Nai moved to Yixian with his family when he was three or four years old. Later, I went to a private school to read poetry.
In 1935, he served as an assistant in the Fine Arts Department of Fu Jen Catholic University.
Since 1938, he has been a lecturer in the Department of Chinese Literature of Fu Jen Catholic University and a special member of the Palace Museum. He has been engaged in reviewing manuscripts and appraising cultural relics in the Palace Museum.
His achievements lie in calligraphy → creating his own "Qiti". Gao Qigong once studied a large number of inscriptions. His calligraphy works, regardless of banners, album pages and screen couplets, can show beautiful rhythm and far-reaching artistic conception, which is called "Qiti". The calligraphy circle commented: "It is not only a book of calligraphers, but also a book of scholars and poets." He also has many original ideas about the art of calligraphy itself. Generally speaking, learning calligraphy begins with writing "Jiugongge" or "Mi Zige", and focuses on the center of the square. However, Qi Gong found that the center of gravity of Chinese characters is not in the center of traditional Mi Zige, but in the four corners not far from the center. He also calculated that the proportional relationship between them is in line with the so-called "golden ratio", which has important guiding significance for learning calligraphy. Qigong's calligraphy works are very popular in the market. Taking the spring auction in Beijing in 23 as an example, we can see that China Guardian released 1 of his works, all of which were sold, of which 4 were over 8, yuan, and the mirror heart of Seven Poems of Tang and Song Dynasties was sold to 418, yuan, with a staggering transaction price.
painting → landscape and bamboo stones to express interest. The style of qigong painting is: rigorous composition, vivid technique, bright color and long lasting charm, especially good at landscape and bamboo stones, which is very interesting in traditional literati painting. "Qiushan people walk in painting" is a common topic.
Qigong is not only a famous contemporary painter, but also familiar with the study of language and ancient calligraphy and painting identification, especially the study of inscriptions. In the study of steles, Qi Gong opened up a new research method. Qi Gong tasted poetry and said, "It is different to buy bamboo slips and return pearls, and most of the rubbings are calligraphers. What's the use of talking about it? I saw a few collectors chanting it. " Change the previous famous scholars, such as Ye Changchi and Weng Fanggang, who only paid attention to the form but not the content when studying the ancient inscriptions; I only know calligraphy, but I have a little knowledge of its words.
In addition to exploring new ways in research methods, Qi Gong made a final judgment on the authenticity of the tablet of Cao E, a dutiful daughter, and determined that the tablet of Cao E handed down from generation to generation was definitely not the original work of Wang Xizhi. During this period, although some scholars raised objections, for example, Chen Sheng, a Hong Kong scholar, had written a textual research on the ink in the silk version of the Monument to the Daughter Cao E to argue with it, Qigong strongly refuted Chen's argument with his unique research methods and profound learning, and deeply criticized Chen's statement as "nonsense", which finally enabled the authenticity of the Monument to the Daughter Cao E to be identified. For a detailed discussion, please refer to Qi Gong's Poems on Books, Manuscripts on Ancient Fonts and Notes on Books.
Peng Liming, director of China Calligraphers Association and vice chairman of Beijing Calligraphers Association, commented on Mr. Qi Gong: "Mr. Qi Gong is a master in China calligraphy and cultural relics collection. He is straightforward, elegant and humorous, and he is a model for a teacher. Qi Gong, the chairman of the second China Calligraphers Association, has made great contributions to the development and innovation of China's calligraphy. His death is a great loss to China's calligraphy and literary circles. Mr. Qi Gong insisted on taking students until his later years, and he was full of peaches and plums all over the world. We will always remember him. " Xie Jinglian, a great calligrapher, said: "As a well-known scholar, the teacher gave me not only the teaching of calligraphy with his broad mind, but also the most important thing was to learn his outlook on life imperceptibly." Mr. Peng Liming recalled that Mr. Qi Gong was very humorous and had many interesting stories in his life.
Mr. Chen Gengqiao, a research librarian of Shandong Provincial Museum and a judge of China Calligraphers Association, said: "Qi Lao is a famous scholar, educator and calligrapher, and is also a recognized connoisseur in society. He has always strongly supported China's appreciation and auction of cultural relics, and he is greatly respected by the cultural relics circles in China. Since the early 198s, I have had many contacts with Mr. Qi Gong, and he impressed me the most and inspired me the most in the field of cultural relics appraisal.