Right: Wang Wenxuan's media review
He is the author of Research on Chinese Painting, Reference Picture of Ancient Music History in China, Painted Ornaments, Bamboo Carving Art, Appreciation of Ming Style Furniture, Ancient Lacquerware in China, Research on Ming Style Furniture, Pigeon Whistle in Beijing and Complete Works of China Fine Arts? There are 30 works by Yu Ben, such as Bamboo and Wood Tooth Corner, China Ancient Music Bibliography, Alpine Bamboo Spectrum, Carved Lacquer Collected in the Palace Museum, and Kam Ash Heap.
On February 3, 65438, Prince John of the Netherlands? Frissu made a special trip to Beijing to present the 2003 Prince Klaus Award to Mr. Wang, who was 89 years old. He won this award because his creative research proved to the world that without Wang, a part of China culture would still be buried. Mr. Wang said that all the 654.38 million euros (about RMB/KLOC-0.00 million yuan) he won will be donated to the Hope Project in China, which will be used to build the "Sino-Dutch Friendship Primary School".
On February 3, 65438, Prince John of the Netherlands? Frissu made a special trip to Beijing to present the 2003 Prince Klaus Award to Mr. Wang, who was 89 years old. He won this award because his creative research proved to the world that without Wang, a part of China culture would still be buried.
As a prestigious cultural award in the Netherlands, Prince Klaus Award has an important influence in the field of world culture. This award is awarded once a year, including 1 highest honor award and 10 honor award. Previously, Cui Jian and Wu of China won the "Prince Klaus Honor Award", and the "Prince Klaus Highest Honor Award" was won by China people for the first time.
Mr. Wang donated all the 654.38 million euros (about RMB/KLOC-0.00 million yuan) to the Hope Project in China, which was used to establish the Sino-Dutch Friendship Primary School.
Wang, from Chang 'an, Fuzhou, Fujian, 19 14, is a famous scholar and cultural relic connoisseur in China. Mr. Wang has profound knowledge and attainments in the research and appraisal of cultural relics, especially the study of Ming-style furniture, which laid the research foundation of this discipline and pushed Ming-style furniture to the supreme position. He is the author of Research on Chinese Painting, Reference Picture of Ancient Music History in China, Painted Ornaments, Bamboo Carving Art, Appreciation of Ming Style Furniture, Ancient Lacquerware in China, Research on Ming Style Furniture, Pigeon Whistle in Beijing and Complete Works of China Fine Arts? There are 30 works by Yu Ben, such as Bamboo and Wood Tooth Corner, China Ancient Music Bibliography, Alpine Bamboo Spectrum, Carved Lacquer Collected in the Palace Museum, and Kam Ash Heap. The Way to Understand and Explore Art —— Hui Jin Team
Wang Yi
The first and second volumes of Hui Jin Dui, Mr. Wang's anthology, contain most of his writings before the age of 80, totaling 105. These words are divided into 12 categories in this anthology: furniture, lacquerware, bamboo carving, handicrafts, examples, calligraphy and painting, sculpture, music and dance, reminiscence, entertainment, diet, miscellaneous manuscripts and so on. The third volume contains 120 poems written by the author over the years, which were copied by Mr. Wang and his wife, Mr. Yuan Quanyou. As an important reference and explanation of the above words, the book has 234 line drawings, 424 black and white photos and 255 color photos. On the title page of this book, the author wrote down the reason why this book is called "Kam Ash Heap":
Shun painted a small horizontal scroll entitled "Jin Hui Dui" (see "The Collection of Treasures in Shiqu" and "Records of Paintings and Calligraphy Seen"). The picture shows chelates, shrimp tails, chicken feathers, mussel shells, bamboo shoots, Lotus House and other things, all of which are leftovers and useless to throw away. I secretly read my junk works over the years, which are trivial and miscellaneous, similar to them, because I named my collection "Hui Jin Pile".
Although this is a language of deep self-modesty, the author's writing style is extraordinary, and the style of seeking its trace and its environment can also be seen from it.
Different from modern archaeology based on archaeological stratigraphy, China's traditional "Wenwanxue" is closely related to the life art of the literati class, even a part of the rich and profound life art of the cultural class at that time. This tradition began in the Jin Dynasty, when literati flourished in culture and art, and lasted for more than a thousand years from the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even the Republic of China. Its basic pattern and interest have not changed much. So in the past, China's cultural relics (especially those in the study) were generally called antiques, antiques, books and so on. What makes people admire and intoxicated is the rich and broad cultural connotation contained in one thing and one thing, as well as the unique cultural and aesthetic interests of China literati. This aesthetic spirit has been summed up and accumulated in numerous literary works since the Tang and Song Dynasties (such as Records of Famous Paintings in Past Dynasties, Records of Monuments Burning, Records of Cave Clearing, Records of Passing Clouds, Notes of Gegu, Eight Poems of Honoring the Sacred and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio), and its style is more refined.
Due to the superior family cultural tradition and atmosphere, the author of Hui Jin Dui had the opportunity to immerse himself in all kinds of cultural relics and antiques, even all kinds of food, entertainment and other related life arts since he was a child, and studied with many senior scholars and "players" from all walks of life for many years, which laid the foundation for the future study of cultural relics and classical art. This background and accumulation certainly had a decisive impact on the author's life research work and lifestyle. Therefore, in Hui Jin Dui, readers can feel the artistic "interest" as the soul of the book at any time through the author's extensive and rigorous research process and textual research on many cultural relics, even in very subtle places. For example, the author describes the argument between him and a Russian cultural relic expert he met at the Boston Museum of Art about the taste of China cold dishes and Russian side dishes, which even began more than 30 years later, until the author entertained visiting old friends with homemade China cold dishes at home, and he came to the conclusion:
..... In winter, I made Su Yu mutton cakes with southern flavor, fried rape pine and mushrooms with bamboo shoots in Fuzhou, fried shredded vegetables in Beijing and preserved rabbits imitating shrimps, bad chickens in Zhejiang, sweet and sour spicy cabbage piers and fried pheasants with pickles in the north and south. This time he accepted. He admitted that China's cold dishes are well-made, with a wide range of raw materials and great changes in color and flavor. Vegetarian dishes, in particular, are not only delicious, but also meet the hygiene requirements. Russian snacks are rich and heavy, but they lack elegant and meaningful products. In contrast, they are slightly heavy, which shows the gap between China's landscape paintings and Russian classical heavy color oil paintings. (Debate from Cold Dishes, p. 707)
From the seemingly minimalist cold dish, the author draws an understanding of China's "elegant and meaningful product" and even the reasons for the differences between Chinese and western painting styles, which not only gives people a vivid grasp of the characteristics of China's food culture, but also shows the unified and harmonious aesthetic taste of China's culture and art, which can greatly expand and deepen the topic when starting at leisure, and of course shows the author's deep appreciation of China's traditional cultural and artistic system and its inner spirit.
From the description of this book, it is not difficult for readers to understand the cultural environment and spiritual interest that made scholars of all ages successful. For example, Chen, a famous poet of new poetry and scholar of ancient history and ancient writing, like the author of this book, takes his love for classical art such as furniture, lacquerware, bamboo carving and printmaking in Ming Dynasty as his final destination:
..... The dreamer is already a masterpiece at this time, and his remuneration income is more than mine, so he can buy furniture that I can't afford. For example, that pair of rosewood straight lattice has been placed in the furniture store in the east of the south exit of Lubange for a year or two. I went to see it many times, but I couldn't help it. I finally got it from the dreamer. But unlike him, I didn't put too much energy into academic research. I often ride a broken car, knock on my door and visit the stalls in the ghost market, so that I can buy things that dreamers can't see. (Dreamers, 570-57 1 page)
Through many such words in Hui Jin Dui, readers can not only truly understand the interests and hardships of collectors in the process of looking for cultural relics, but also get a glimpse of the profound and extensive traditional cultural attainments of that generation of literati and think about their artistic life atmosphere.
Of course, in addition to the traditional lifelong "literary drama", the "Hui Jin Team" is equally eye-catching, which is the sublimation and transcendence of this tradition. This is manifested in the author's exploration vision based on modern knowledge (such as the author's background of receiving modern education, proficient English and working experience in American museums), as well as his great energy and fruitful achievements in opening up new fields of cultural relics research. Among them, the most prominent is the detailed study of Ming furniture and China lacquer art, especially its manufacturing technology.
Because the traditional society in China despises technology, it is difficult for craftsmen who lack cultural ability to write down special works to record their experiences. Therefore, although Ming-style furniture, lacquerware and other arts with strong craftsmanship have reached a high level and occupied an important position in the world art history, few works have been handed down from generation to generation in the past. This paper analyzes their style characteristics, craftsmanship and system inheritance, thus making the true meaning and focus of these arts increasingly blurred. Although western scholars have advocated collecting and studying Ming-style furniture art since modern times, due to cultural differences, limited knowledge and experience, especially the lack of opportunities to personally analyze and understand its complex and specific manufacturing technology, it is difficult to fully display the aesthetic realm and technical achievements of these art categories. In contrast, the Hui Jin team showed a momentum. For example, there are articles such as "quality", "disease" and "overview of Ming furniture" to analyze the artistic appearance of Ming furniture in detail, and there are also special studies to show the specific structure and technology of furniture in detail. For example, in the article "The Structure of Ming Furniture", the author analyzes the combination and assembly methods of Ming furniture structure in detail (various plates, vertical and horizontal materials, straight materials, bending materials, etc.). ), the respective combinations of furniture legs and upper and lower parts, the functions and structures of various tenons and mortises, etc., and a large number of accurate process drawings are attached to help explain, thus making the logic and connotation of various Ming furniture from big to small.
Especially, it is extremely difficult to finish the research in a certain art category after decades of investment. But only the author can explore its craft and style from lacquerware, sculpture, bamboo carving and many other aspects, just like furniture art. Today, compiling these words describing Mr. Wang's decades of experience into a book "Hui Jin Pile" not only makes people marvel at his fruitful achievements, but also shows the world how to understand and explore art, a plaything and become a family. Mr. Wang wrote in "Jin Hui Dui"
Tan Zongyuan
How many things can a person do in his life? This question is difficult to answer. Some people can do nothing all their lives, eat in the dark and be in a daze all their lives. Some people have made achievements in their respective fields, even great achievements, and they are famous for a while. But people like Mr. Wang are, without exaggeration, rare in the world.
He has made achievements in many fields. He is a veritable expert and a veritable saint.
What would he do? I can't say it at the moment. Generally speaking, there is nothing he doesn't know about the five elements and eight accomplishments of old Beijing. Once I had nothing to do, and I didn't mean to talk about the drama "The First Floor in the World". He is quite dissatisfied with the way prostitutes are brought into restaurants to live. He believes that this is forbidden by Dong Jia and the industry, so it is completely impossible and purely fabricated. He also pointed out by the way that some famous Beijing-style novels were not written like this. It's just that he was kind-hearted and didn't write these out and publish them.
Mr. Wang is an official at home, and books are widely circulated. He has been instructed by others since childhood, and he is also familiar with literature and history, music, calligraphy and painting. He speaks fluent English and obtained a master's degree from yenching university Research Institute. However, Mr. Ran has been obsessed with a word. He plays with a variety of things, such as crickets, pigeons, eagles, badgers and dogs, cooking, wax, lacquerware, bamboo carvings, Ming furniture and so on. He doesn't play these games for fun, but he really likes them. In order to get love, he is willing to spend money, work hard, and even travel long distances to eat, drink and be merry. In order to find out the plaything, I made friends with many poor people and asked for advice with an open mind in order to have more information. He has been immersed in diving for a long time and is not proficient in various skills, but his artists include poets, calligraphers, fire painters, falconers, chefs, gourmets, art historians, Chinese classical music historians, cultural relics appraisers, folk experts and so on. Along with his family, there are dozens of works, such as Research on Chinese Painting (unpublished), Catalogue of Ancient Music Documents in China, Notes on Seal Carving, Bamboo Carving Art, Ancient Lacquerware in China, Research on Ming Furniture, Pigeon Whistle in Beijing, Talking about Hulusi, and Integration of Qufu Spectrum.
A few years ago, Mr. Wang selected his articles and published them in Beijing Sanlian Bookstore. Somehow, many years have passed since the book was published. At the moment I received the sample book, I think Mr. Wang and his wife, Mr. Yuan Quanyou, must have breathed a sigh of relief (Mr. Yuan has contributed a lot to this book, see the postscript written by Mr. Wang for details); Friends who like this book will also have a bright eye and will not hesitate to pay to take the book home.
This is a beautiful and strange book.
Exquisite: The book is divided into three volumes and 20 notebooks. The cover is based on the brocade pattern of the book shadow of wuyue's Notes on Painting and Calligraphy, which is dark yellow and simple and elegant. The calligraphy title of Mr. Wang is impressively printed on it, which is very pleasing to the eye. The body of the book is divided into two columns, with a small heart, and a lot of blank space between the body and the mouth of the book, which is very Shu Lang-like (the third volume of Poetry is different, the vertical version, photocopying the husband and wife's handwriting, is very wide and tastes like a thread-bound book). In addition to a large number of illustrations (including more than 200 fine line drawings by Mr. Yuan Quanyou), the book also includes many color swatches. The book is so seamless that people can't put it down.
Odd: Needless to say, everything from Ming-style furniture to autumn worms is related to craft, art, food and play, which is absolutely solid and reliable, including furniture, lacquerware, bamboo carving, handicrafts, examples, calligraphy and painting, sculpture, music and dance, reminiscing about the past, entertainment and so on.
The name "Kam Ash Heap" comes from Shun's small horizontal scroll and is painted as "Kam Ash Heap". Mr. Wang named it "Kam Ash Heap"
The name of this episode has an element of modesty.
I can't evaluate Mr. Wang's book. Many of these things are things I have never seen or heard of, and many things I don't understand at all, even if I want to talk about them. I read this book from the perspective of literature and folklore. So articles on furniture, lacquerware, handicrafts, examples, etc. Skipped, interest is injected into memories, entertainment, diet, miscellaneous articles and poems. This kind of reading is certainly not desirable, but these later articles really exposed his true colors.
In Miss the Dreamer, Mr. Wang told an incident in his school days. That was when he and his husband were neighbors. One night, he and a group of people took four dogs to Yuquan Mountain to catch badgers. They came back at dawn. Because the gardener was asleep and no one answered the door, they tried their best to knock at the door and make a noise. Finally, they had to jump into the wall, scaring Mr. and Mrs. Chen and thinking that a robber was coming. This shows that the young king has a tiger spirit. If this spirit is used for fun, it must be very dark. If you use it in business, you will achieve something. Since God has given talents, let them be used! He is good at playing and doing business.
Watch him play ball. Beijing pigeon whistle, autumn insects, winter insects, badger dogs and eagles describe his play intensively, which is really crazy to the extreme. Go catch crickets. He can go out of the city as soon as possible, grope among the grass trees in the sun, or wander around in the dark, and he will be ecstatic to get a good bug. In order to raise cricket, he is willing to clean cricket jar by jar, change water to feed cricket for a long time, and serve hundreds of jars without any trouble. He also wrote a poem, whimsically wanting to become a cricket and live in the cricket jar for a few days (the poem said: 10,000 pots of jasper pond, cage to protect men and women. I hate the lack of Gong Hu skills, so let me live a leisurely life. What's more, after dinner, I wore a cuff on my right arm and went out with the eagle. I strolled from Chaoyangmen to Qianmen Wupailou, chatting with several fellow travelers until the dead of night, and few people left. Then I filled my stomach and ran to Xicheng, stepping on fallen leaves and carrying a long way to a night teahouse to chat with the sea. Then I set off again and went to the small city of Deshengmen. I didn't go home until morning and wandered all night. During the Cultural Revolution, everyone was fighting with others, and he didn't forget to fight. In the sunny days of the autumnal equinox and the first frost, he often grabs the fruit on the mountain to distract himself. These articles written in the old age are still full of deep feelings, well written and detailed, and retain precious materials such as Xianggujing, which is of great documentary value.
Let's see him get down to business. Take an article "Recalling the Cultural Relics Cleaning Work in Ping Jin after the Victory of the Anti-Japanese War" as an example. This is the most proud experience of Mr. Wang's life. 1945 after the Japanese invaders surrendered, he became a member of the Committee for Clearing the Loss of War Cultural Relics, and worked in the Ping Jin Regional Office from Chongqing. In the next two years, he took part in many important activities and confiscated 240 pieces of German Yang Ningshi bronzes. Acquired a batch of Guo Baochang Tibetan porcelain; The Japanese porcelain illegally accepted by the American captain was recovered; Helped rescue a batch of silk embroidery from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty; Received a batch of precious Puyi cultural relics in Bird, Tianjin; Received a batch of goods from Suntech Defu Foreign Firm handed over by the customs, so that these things (many national treasures) will not flow out, be destroyed or be lost. He has made outstanding contributions to protecting the culture of the motherland. He also went to Japan to deal with the work of recovering rare books. These are enough to show that Mr. Wang is worthy of a big post at a critical moment, far from being a player.
Or Mr. Yuan Quanyou's Tree Map really tells what kind of person Mr. Wang is. This is a paper sculpture, a big tree with a round crown, on which are engraved fifteen loves of my husband's life, which shows his lifelong pursuit. Mr. Yuan also explained one by one, and its four clouds: Fan Qing's craft was on the verge of being lost after liberation. The appearance of Shi Xiang's "Talking about Vessels" and "Talking about Gourd" saved China, a unique traditional craft, and now many people are engaged in production. It is the strength of Mr. Wang that let me know that the gourd that grew in the mold can be revived today. Later, I learned from others that Mr. Wang's Ming-style furniture works were found by some manufacturers, produced good furniture and obtained high economic benefits.
Wang, the big player, said so long ago. Knowing what Mr. Wang is like, we will come to the conclusion that this statement is not comprehensive. He plays, plays more tricks than the average person, holds more cards than the average person, and is more sophisticated than the average person, so that university teachers can't help him. But he doesn't just play around, he can also bury himself in reading when he should study hard. Otherwise, his handwriting, his poems and his English are too good to explain (he has benefited from these three aspects all his life). Things are far more than that. The most commendable thing is that he can attach importance to his knowledge, make skilled friends, really study hard, consult modestly, collect information extensively, or compile the information on a specific topic with pictures (including the drawings carefully drawn by Mr. Yuan), which really helps to leave people with an amazing picture of old life.
In the eyes of ordinary people, fighting crickets between eagles and lackeys used to be the work of idle street people. These things were described and summarized by Mr. Wang and immediately upgraded to culture. Moreover, not only ordinary people admit that this is culture, but also great intellectuals admit that it is amazing. How much effort has been spent in this, I am afraid that only the couple know best. The cost is worthwhile.
No wonder Mr. Huang Miaozi praised him for playing with things, and Mr. Qi Gong also said that he was not a "plaything" but a "study of things". He never gave up his ambition. The so-called big player's statement seems to be going to be eliminated.
Of course, Mr. Wang's achievements are closely related to the era of ideological emancipation and political clarity. If we go back to more than 20 years ago, the whole of China was ups and downs in the wild waves of class struggle. Keeping cats, dogs and flowers was not enough in many places, and it was dismissed as the lifestyle of the landlord and bourgeoisie, not to mention caged birds and playing pigeon whistle. Even if such an article is written, it must be hidden in the mountains and cannot be published. Mr. Wang is old and has caught up with a good year, so he can give full play to his residual heat and do what he wants. This is the luck of Mr. Wang and our readers.
I have known Mr. Wang for a long time. My first impression is that he dresses casually, is simple, and speaks easily, like a broad-minded fat master who can be seen everywhere in the street. I didn't expect him to be a researcher in National Cultural Heritage Administration Institute of Cultural Relics and a librarian in central research institute of culture and history. Now he still gives me the impression. I like such intellectuals, and I hate those glib and bitter literati, so Mr. Wang has always given me a good impression.
I went to see Mr. Wang a few days ago, because he was reading the proofs of the Ming Pigeon Classic and the Qing Palace Carrier Pigeon Handbook, and he talked a lot about carrier pigeons. He said that a year ago, the first CCTV program broadcast morning music with a solemn flag-raising ceremony on the screen. Then a white dove flew in. This pigeon has a long mouth and is ugly. You can tell at a glance that it is the king of gourmet pigeons. At this time, he didn't feel bad about his self-esteem. Don't we have good pigeons ourselves? There is a homing pigeon association in China, but there is no ornamental pigeon association, which is a shortcoming. There are many kinds of pigeons in China, including more than 60 species in Beijing alone, such as black spot, purple spot, tiger hat, gray jade wing, jet wing, purple jade wing, iron-winged bird, copper-winged bird, spotted gray and hooked gray. These varieties are cultivated by predecessors, and if we don't pay attention to them, they are likely to become extinct. He asked us to pay attention to the cultivation of ornamental pigeons. To this end, he wrote an open letter to the pigeon management office of the provincial and municipal parks bureaus, calling for handling this matter and expecting a positive response.