Anhui is the hometown of Deng and the cradle of modern stele study. In the early years of the Republic of China, it was the time when epigraphy was in the ascendant. Ge Jieping's calligraphy is the only choice. But he was luckier than his contemporaries: not only was he personally taught by two masters, Bao disciple (Visiting Canal) and (Visiting Canal), but he also officially became a disciple of Liu's visiting canal at the age of 19, and became the fourth generation direct descendant of Deng, the founder of Monument School. The inheritance relationship is as follows: Deng → Bao → Liu Fangqu, Zhang → Ge Jieping.
The famous teacher taught him personally and learned from him directly, so that he went straight to Deng Pai's stele study. In the meantime, he first took Yan tablet as a blueprint, and later traced it back to Wei and Jin Dynasties, and spread all over the northern tablet, especially the tablet of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the epitaph of Zhang Xuan and the tablet of Longzang Temple in Sui Dynasty, which laid the foundation for regular script. His style is elegant, smart and elegant, which also made the first cornerstone of his artistic life. However, just as he was in high spirits and the title of the book was broadcast, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression rose, and Ge Jieping resolutely abandoned his pen to join the army and went to Dabie Mountain to participate in anti-Japanese activities. He once wrote in his poem: "Farewell to Gaotang, go on an expedition to men's affairs, please aim high and seek for Pengcheng" (see Post-robbery Manuscript). After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ge Jieping was invited to return to his hometown to participate in the construction of Hefei. However, Mr. Ge Jieping, whose politics was dark and traitors were rampant, disdained to associate with him and resigned angrily. This is the only short career in his life.
It is often said that experience is also a kind of wealth. After experiencing wars and setbacks, Mr. Ge Jieping went more firmly to his artistic life. 1946, he came to Nanjing alone and successfully held the first calligraphy exhibition in his life, which was well received by people at that time with his four-body combination. It is said that the famous calligrapher Yu Youren made a special trip to see the exhibition. Recommended by my classmates, I worked in Nanjing Central Industrial Laboratory (headquartered in Shanghai). The need of work makes him travel frequently between Shanghai and Nanjing. Making friends with Wen gave him the opportunity to meet a large number of elites in contemporary cultural circles and establish friendship.
After the founding of New China, the people of China finally ended their miserable life of humiliation and civil strife and began to rebuild their homes in a real sense. Hefei was liberated in February, 1949. In April of the same year, Ge Jieping, a famous scholar, returned to Hefei from Shanghai at the invitation of the Military Management Committee to participate in the arrangement of cultural relics and historical sites. Soon he was officially appointed as a full-time researcher of Anhui Provincial Cultural Relics Management Committee (predecessor of Anhui Provincial Museum). Since then, Mr. Ge Jieping has worked in this ordinary post for thirty years.
His professional academic career has made his career and his calligraphy art, and his long-term experience in cultural work has broadened his academic horizons and made his examination of calligraphy art more unique. And have access to more first-hand information, such as a large number of original manuscripts and theoretical works of Bao. Especially in the study of Anhui regional culture, he is good at taking "calligraphy" as the breakthrough point, and has made detailed case studies on the "Four Schools of Qing Dynasty" represented by Wenshan (real name), Deng (real name), Bao (real name) and Yao Nai (real name), and achieved remarkable results. It can be said that calligraphy provided an opportunity for his study of literature and history, and academic accumulation nourished his calligraphy art, which made him occupy a unique advantage in the study of Deng School's stele. Thick accumulation and thin hair breed artistic maturity, and the unique "Gree" is ready to come. During this period, Mr. Ge Jieping was not only omnipresent in Qin and Han stone carvings, three generations of inscriptions on bronze and even Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but also devoted great enthusiasm to Chunhua Pavilion calligraphy and the ink of famous artists in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the beginning of 1960, Mr. Guo Moruo visited the Anhui Provincial Museum, and saw the explanatory text written in exquisite fine print in the ancient history showroom, as well as the inscriptions on Zhong Ding and ancient vessels, which greatly praised him and could not help asking the author's name. When I learned that it was Mr. Ge Jieping who was always with him, I was happy to hold his hands tightly and even said, "Good word, good word, you can see the original Cai!" That night, Lao Guo condescended to drive to Mr. Ge Jieping's shack and had a long talk all night, leaving Bole with a beautiful talk of meeting Liangju.
In his later years, Ge Jieping ushered in the prosperity of reform and opening up, and his calligraphy art also entered a brilliant stage. His official script takes Deng as the blue book, which is a collection of monuments and has the richness, beauty and wonder of Zhang Qian. He grasped the momentum with a pen and used ink as paint. Gu Zhuo's structure is very strong, which leads to ups and downs and twists and turns, showing his emotional interest between the beginning and the end. His official script has two most distinctive strokes. One is the upside-down and horizontal wave painting, which emphasizes the effect of "pine needles and monkey hair", and the other is the vertical hook method, which replaces the common simple calligraphy strokes with the "qi" method in the eight-character method, greatly improving the gold content of his official calligraphy strokes. In his later years, he joined the official script seal script, and quoted the calligraphy styles of Tianfa Shenbei and Jinnong Lacquer Book, which made the brushwork more concise, elegant and rich in style, greatly enriching the expressive force of official script. Because of his unique official script and high aesthetic value, many people imitate it and are honored as "Gree". His achievements in seal script are particularly outstanding: Xiao Zhuan sees merit and nature, his brushwork is smooth and soothing, and he sees Ana. Compared with the great master Deng Wanbo, it is a little more quiet and elegant. His bronze inscription represents the highest level, and he has the most experience in the study of Mao and Da, which has been unanimously recognized by the academic circles. Famous scholars, linguists Shang Chengzuo, Xu Bangda and inscription writer Fang Jiekan all admire Weng Jie. With his profound knowledge and superb pen and ink skills, his seal script (including Da Zhuan, Jin Wen and Oracle Bone Inscriptions) is often handy, and his large-scale poems are written in one go, and every word has a source, which has considerable academic value. In terms of brushwork, he combined Fiona Fang and skillfully combined "twists and turns" with "turning points", which successfully dispelled the artificial traces of the plump pen with bronze inscriptions, making it more dignified and simple, full of stone flavor, in line with the characteristics of writing, and retaining the meaning of writing, and became one of the successful examples with ancient Chinese characters as the creative elements. Therefore, his seal script works not only have academic rigor, but also have unique artistic aesthetic value, which is beyond the reach of ordinary scholars who describe ancient Chinese characters. Nowadays, the ancient style of calligraphy is popular, and many young people are keen on the creation of ancient Chinese characters, thinking that it is easy to make "achievements". Due to their low education and poor skills, they are caught in a specious quagmire. Before his death, Mr. Wang often said that learning seal script must be proficient in primary school and not fabricated, otherwise it would make a joke that "grandparents and grandchildren live together."
As we all know, the calligraphers of the tablet school are not good at cursive script, and they also have something remarkable in introducing Weng cursive script. His cursive script started from the pavilion post, chased the two kings, and sent out various factions to explore posts. Mi Fei and Zhang Jizhi in the Song Dynasty, Dong Qichang, Wen Zhiming, Zhan Jingfeng, Fu Shan, Ni Yunlu and Zhang Ruitu in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Duo, Zheng Gukou, Yi Bingshou, Liu Shian, Wang Wenzhi and Yao Nai in the Qing Dynasty. With the support of Deng's theory of "taking white as black" and Bao's theory of "taking honesty as faith", he pursued the aesthetic ideal of "having both ability and political integrity and being full of vigor and vitality" and finally got married. The main features of Weng Jie's cursive script are: repeated strokes, no mistakes, broken strokes and repeated strokes; In the grass law, the proposition conforms to the law, has a source, is not fabricated and is not false; Composition, pay attention to casual, airtight, known as "sleet". Usually a cursive script has only one or two main strokes, and it is these two strokes that make the whole article come alive. The so-called "real place is easy to get, but virtual place is hard to find" is more vulgar. He hates calligraphy and seems to be wild, but in fact he deceives the world and ridicules it as a dead snake hanging a tree. Weng Jie's cursive script emphasizes the real place, especially the imaginary place, because he sees the pen and ink in the real place and the ingenuity in the imaginary place, so it is particularly attractive.
Weng Jie is a famous seal cutting artist. He inherited the mantle of Deng School, traced back to Qin and Han Dynasties, and integrated the strengths of Zhejiang School, and printed it with books, forming a noble and elegant personal style. His seal is deeply loved by people in the painting and calligraphy circles in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Zhao Puchu, Lin Sanzhi, Li Kuchan and other celebrities have asked him to print. There is another anecdote. Mr. Zhao Puchu wrote a poem to thank him for his printing: In that year, Weng Jie carefully printed two pieces for Mr. Zhao Puchu, put them in a tube full of peanuts, sealed them and sent them to Zhao Puchu in Beijing. Zhao Lao was very happy to receive the seal, so he wrote a poem to express his deep gratitude: "A package was wrapped tightly and delivered politely, which made you feel comfortable all the way;" Peanuts write flowers beautifully, and the double jade hides the clouds differently; Ge Weng's seal cutting is unparalleled today, and there is a god in the wrist of Qin and Han dynasties; From now on, I will spend a lot of time to help me cherish my poems. "
In his later years, Weng Jie became famous far and wide, and was praised as "the first golden signboard in Anhui" by Lai Shaoqi, a famous painter who was then the propaganda minister of Anhui Provincial Committee and the president of East China Artists Association for many years. 198 1 year, Anhui Calligraphers Association was established, and Mr. Ge Jieping became one of the main leaders, and served as the president of Anhui Jinshi Society and consultant of Poetry Association. In view of Mr. Ge Jieping's special contribution to Anhui book circle, 1992, the Propaganda Department of Anhui Provincial Party Committee, Anhui Provincial Department of Culture and Anhui Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles jointly awarded him the "Deng Fengbei-Lifelong Achievement Award" and held the "Art Retrospect Exhibition on the 80th Anniversary of Mr. Ge Jieping's Birth", which gave a historical evaluation of Mr. Ge Jieping's artistic career for more than 60 years and his contribution to the study of Anhui regional culture. Liu, a famous poet and calligrapher, praised his poems: "Poetry and calligraphy have opened up a new look, epigraphy has a sound, the previous generation is coquettish and happy, and Anhui has another mountain man." (Note: Mountain Man, another name for Deng) It is a historical conclusion that Mr. Ge Jieping is honored as "Mountain Man Second".
Mr. Ge Jieping is not only a famous calligrapher, an accomplished scholar and a poet, but also a respectable and lovely elder. He embodies the spiritual integrity and moral cultivation of an old intellectual.
65438-0946, Mr. Ge Jieping was appointed as the construction chief of Hefei County. He offended his boss and was framed by corrupt officials because he was impartial and outspoken. In this regard, he struggled to refute with great courage, proved his innocence with facts, and resigned angrily. Show the integrity of a scholar who insists on justice and is not afraid of power.
He loves the traditional culture of the motherland, but he also has national justice. In his youth, Ge Jieping was in the prime of life. When his academic articles advanced by leaps and bounds, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out. Faced with the national disaster, he felt uncomfortable, resolutely abandoned his pen and joined the army, and went to the national disaster as a Confucian scholar, showing an educated but not cowardly intellectual image. After the founding of New China, he gave up the development opportunities of Shanghai, Nanjing and other big cities, returned to his hometown without hesitation, contributed to the cultural construction of his hometown, and became a pioneer in Anhui's cultural and cultural undertakings.
He is also a gentle and optimistic person. In that era of political fanaticism and endless "class struggle", many scholars felt at a loss, embarrassed and helpless. Normal academic research is difficult to carry out, but endless political study is overwhelmed. Mr. Ge Jieping had to deal with it during the day, and when he got home at night, he secretly opened the tablet to study calligraphy. He believes that art will not miss life, and there will always be a time when the clouds open and the sun rises. Because of his "good attitude" and popularity, he naturally avoided a lot of troubles during the "Cultural Revolution", but he refused to accept this "feeling". Seeing some old friends locked in the bullpen, I was dissatisfied, so I took the initiative to find the leader to admit that my "political consciousness" was not high enough and needed to strengthen study and reform. The leader was puzzled and had to agree that he would participate in the study in the "bullpen" as a "free man". It turned out that he was taking the opportunity to "chat with those cattle friends"! His humor is not only an open-mindedness and wisdom, but also a great irony of that era! In that special era, his home became an underground literati salon, which gathered many academic celebrities and masters of calligraphy and painting who were sent to Anhui, leaving beautiful memories for their traumatized hearts. During this period, Chairman Mao's favorite poem written by Mr. Wang is: "No matter how stormy it is, it is better than walking around." With this positive and optimistic spirit, he "wandered in the art" and encouraged his old friends to walk out of the shadow of the times together.
Although Mr. Ge Jieping made achievements in his later years, he never claimed to be a famous master. The period of 1980 was the climax of calligraphy craze, and various calligraphy activities in society came one after another. Regardless of his old age and infirmity, he actively participated in the organization, training and exhibition work, personally gave lectures to calligraphy lovers, wrote inscriptions and poems for various cultural activities, and even volunteered to write Spring Festival couplets for the masses, without the shelf of famous artists. Troops, institutions, schools, factories, villages, mines, leaving the footprints of the elderly everywhere. For those who come to the school to ask questions, give enthusiastic suggestions, actively encourage them, and give books as gifts. Even in the declining years of poor energy, people who respect books are overwhelmed and don't let the scholars who come to you be disappointed. So some speculators pretend to be pious and ask for books. Sir, I don't smell angry. He was advised that "the work should not be too extravagant, otherwise it would be worthless." He disagreed: "As long as the masses like calligraphy, I think it's worth it!"
Why is Mr. Ge Jieping so enthusiastic about spreading calligraphy culture and promoting post-learning? There is an unknown secret among them. According to the old man's memory, one day in 1956, a Japanese calligraphy delegation visited China and held a Chinese and Japanese calligraphers' pen meeting in Suzhou. At the meeting, the head of the Japanese delegation proudly said, "I didn't expect you to be all gray-haired old people, writing about old faces in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties." After returning to China, the head of the delegation wrote in the newspaper that "the calligraphy originated in China will be carried forward by Japan" and "the responsibility of inheriting the art of calligraphy will fall on us Japanese". When the news came to China, the calligraphy circle was in an uproar, which also deeply hurt the old man's heart. Therefore, Mr. Wang vowed to do his best to revitalize the calligraphy art of the motherland and cultivate new artists. However, the ensuing political environment is deteriorating. Calligraphy, in the eyes of the "revolutionary teenager" in charge of politics, has become a "cultural lag" of the "four old" and feudal remnants. How many people are willing to learn calligraphy? Now, my husband's pent-up enthusiasm for serving the country has finally erupted. Why not let the old man be ecstatic! Life can take several beats, so why not? He practiced his promise with his own practical actions! In order to popularize the art of calligraphy, he left more than 10 thousand works in his life. Except for people from all walks of life, most of them are made by painting and calligraphy lovers and people at the bottom of society. Not only is it unpaid, but most of it is pasted with ink.
In fact, the living conditions in Weng Jie are not rich. His frugality is almost simple, and he often drinks a handful of soybeans and two pieces of pickles at a meal. Walking into Mr. Wang's study, I can hardly see the white discarded paper, and I really don't waste every inch of paper. He often said that cherishing Xuan paper is a character, a book and a respect for working people. 1979 after retirement, the unit allocated him a house of an old expert, but he politely declined it because he didn't care. I couldn't beat the old man, so I finally had to draw his old home to make up for it. It was not until a few years later that the housing conditions of the unit were really relaxed that I was willing to move into a new house. He was ill in hospital, never lived in the "Gao Qian Ward", and he didn't need to import medicine, for fear of spending more public funds ... odds and ends, endless memories. It is these odds and ends of the past that make people forget the dead old man for a long time.