On Zhuangzi's Epiphany
When talking about his paintings, Fan Ceng always emphasized "taking poetry as the soul". As we all know, he is addicted to poetry. Zhuangzi Epiphany is a long poem with 3,000 lines. It is the representative work of Mr. Fan Ceng, which combines poetry, calligraphy, literature, history, philosophy, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and fully expresses Fan Ceng's profound thinking on human civilization. Liu Mengxi, director of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese Academy of Art, said: "Fan Ceng is a scholar with a long history, a patriarch and has his own unique language symbols. The book "Zhuangzi's Epiphany" alone can establish his academic status. " Zhuangzi's Epiphany, which was brewed in Beijing and Tianjin, was written in Paris, combining Qu Sao's Han Fu, Tang Poetry and Song Poetry, drama suite, freestyle new poetry and other different genres, creating an unprecedented artistic framework and becoming a wonderful flower in the history of China's poetry. The whole poem is a dialogue. Through the argument between virtual Zhuangzi and Taishi, Einstein, Heidegger, Picasso, Plato and Fan Ceng's great-grandfather, this paper explores the natural beginning of the universe, explores the true meaning of life and death, refutes the boundary between skin appearance and beauty and ugliness, questions the irrational conflict between cloning and instrumentalism, calms the suffering of terrorism and post-modernism, and the academic collision and impact of various ideas, up and down physics and rhetoric. This philosophical poem is both poetic and learned. It is also smart and heroic. It is an illusion uprising, full of reason and interest, suddenly full of ups and downs, and sometimes absurd. Has a consistent appeal, shock and penetration. Ji Xianlin commented that Fan Ceng was a "painter, sinologist and thinker" in the preface to Zhuangzi's Epiphany, while Chen Shengshen, a master of mathematics, commented that reading Fan Ceng's brother's Epiphany in Zhuangzi has the same feeling as reading Du Gongbu's Eight Poems of Autumn Prosperity, which is full of vigor.