Shen Yinmo

Shen Yinmo

Shen Yinmo (1883-1971, June 1) was named Zhongming, Qiuming, Junmo, Guiguzi. He was born in 1883 in Hanyin hall, Xing'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. He is a famous scholar, poet, calligrapher and educator.

In his early years, he studied in Japan, and later served as professor of Peking University, President of Peking University, Professor of Furen University, and editorial board member of New Youth magazine. Together with his elder brother Shen Shiyuan and younger brother Shen Jianshi, they are called "three shens of Peking University".

He is famous for his calligraphy. In the early years of the Republic of China, he was known as "Shen in the South and Yu in the north". In the 1940s, there was a saying of "Southern Shen and Northern Wu" in the calligraphy circle. Together with Li Zhimin, he is known as "two masters of calligraphy history in Peking University". Mr. Xu Pingyu, a famous litterateur, calls Shen Laozhi's achievements in calligraphy art "beyond yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and straight into the four schools of Song Dynasty.". Professor Xie zhiliu, the late leader of the national cultural relic identification team, said: "for hundreds of years, there have been many calligraphers, and no one has ever been out of his right.". Lin Yin, the late professor of Taipei Normal University and director of the Institute of Chinese studies, praised Shen's calligraphy "under Mi Yuanzhang (Mi Fu)".

brief account of the author's life

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His original name was Junmo (because he didn't speak much when he was a professor at Peking University, he was ridiculed by his colleagues for "dry mouth", so he suggested that he be Yin, and then he changed his name to Shen Yinmo.) The name is Zhongming, Qiuming, Junmo, Guiguzi. His ancestral home is Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Hanyin, Shaanxi Province in 1883. He is a famous scholar, poet, calligrapher and educator.

Shen Lao, who had been studying in Japan for the second time in his early years, taught at Peking University and Beijing Women's normal university successively after he returned to China. He was the right fighter of the new culture movement by running new youth with Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun and Hu Shi. Chen Duxiu once criticized Shen Yinmo for "the word is vulgar in the bone", so their relationship is not good. In 1925, in the "women's normal university wave", Shen Lao, Lu Xun, Qian Xuantong and others jointly issued a declaration to support students' just struggle. Later, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shi recommended him as director of Hebei Education Department and President of Peking University. In 1932, dissatisfied with the government's containment of the student movement and expulsion of students, he resigned and went south to Shanghai to serve as the director of the Sino French cultural exchange and publishing Committee. At the beginning of the Anti Japanese War, at the invitation of Yu Youren, the president of the supervisory yuan, he went to Chongqing to serve as a member of the supervisory yuan. He tried to impeach Kong Xiangxi and was dissatisfied with the corruption of the government. After the victory, he resigned and lived in Shanghai. He was willing to live in poverty, which shows Mr. Shen's integrity. On June 1, 1971, Shen Yinmo, a great calligrapher persecuted by the "Cultural Revolution", died in Shanghai at the age of 88.

Previous position

Mr. Shen Yinmo is the first Democrat to visit after Mr. Chen Yi entered the city. He is a member of the first Shanghai Municipal People's government, a deputy director of the Central Museum of culture and history appointed by Premier Zhou Enlai, a member of the Shanghai Municipal People's Committee, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a member of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. After 1949, he successively participated in the work of the municipal CPPCC, the Municipal Museum, the Municipal Cultural Management Association, the Chinese Painting Academy, the Municipal Federation of literary and art circles, and the Municipal Museum of literature and history. He personally founded the first calligraphy organization after the founding of new China, the Shanghai Chinese calligraphy and seal cutting Research Association, and made outstanding contributions to the prosperity of the cultural cause of the motherland, especially to the art and theory of Chinese calligraphy. Chairman Mao met with him and spoke highly of his work and artistic achievements. The first page of Zhongnanhai collection of calligraphy and paintings is a calligraphy written by Mr. Shen to the chairman. The prime minister's home and office have been hung with the word Shen Lao. His works include a glimpse of Erwang's Dharma books and a summary of the experience of famous scholars in the past dynasties. He has published about 20 calligraphy collections and calligraphy books, including the collection of Shen Yinmo's legal calligraphy, four kinds of Shen Yinmo's manuscripts, and the ink of Shen Yinmo's entering Shu. His poetry works include Miscellaneous Poems of Qiuming room, long short sentences of Qiuming room, etc.

Beijing University and its influence

Most of the calligraphies of many academic leaders and senior professors in Peking University are very precise. They are not calligraphers but better than calligraphers. However, most of them are famous for their academic contributions and professional attainments. Throughout the history of Peking University, Shen Yinmo was truly famous for his calligraphy before the founding of the people's Republic of China, and Li Zhimin was in the new era of reform and opening up. Therefore, Li Zhimin and Shen Yinmo are collectively known as "two masters of calligraphy history in Peking University".

After Cai Yuanpei became the president of Peking University in 1917, he set up the Calligraphy Research Association of Peking University. The president of the association is Professor Shen Yinmo, who is famous for his calligraphy skills and theory, and enjoys great popularity. His influence has been passed down from generation to generation in Peking University. In addition to his calligraphy practice, Shen Yinmo devoted himself to the promotion of calligraphy. He also made great efforts to cultivate a large number of calligraphy talents centered on Peking University and Shanghai, which gradually influenced the whole of China. Mr. Shen is the first leader of "Calligraphy Research Association" in China's modern education system. Mr. Shen's calligraphy has three great achievements: first, Shen Yinmo has become a leading figure in the modern calligraphy world. He has multiple identities such as a new culture celebrity, scholar, poet, and so on. He has also made an epoch-making effort to achieve the great rejuvenation of calligraphy and become the first person to promote the development of calligraphy culture. Secondly, we should attach importance to the research function of the Calligraphy Research Association, and further promote the development of international calligraphy, which has contributed to many Chinese and Japanese calligraphy exhibitions. Thirdly, it liberated calligraphy from the literati's style of the late Qing Dynasty and became a large-scale mass calligraphy movement of Chinese calligraphy in the 20th century. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, Peking University Yanyuan painting and Calligraphy Association (the predecessor of Peking University painting and Calligraphy Association) came into being. President Li Zhimin inherited Shen Yinmo's legacy and carried forward his thoughts: he would like to become a new star of Yanyuan and seek for its deep roots. It is a long way to go to learn from the best. He is excellent in morality, art and theory, and is the most outstanding in Yanyuan. In the 1970s and 1980s, he had a deep insight into the development trend of calligraphy. On the basis of learning from the practical experience of the predecessors' calligraphy, he took the lead in clearly putting forward the proposition of "introducing Steles into the grass", and made a pioneering attempt and exploration. He is worthy of being the successor of Shen Yinmo. Under the influence of Shen Yinmo, Li Zhimin's exploration as a pioneer of introducing steles into the grass has left a rich page in the history of contemporary calligraphy, which is worthy of serious study and reference in the field of calligraphy theory. Professor Zhang Xin, director of Chinese Calligraphers Association and President of Peking University Calligraphy and Painting Association, commented: "in the history of Peking University, there are only a few famous calligraphers, such as Zhang Yu, Jin xihou, Luo FUKAN and Shen Yinmo. Li Zhimin is the first one in the new era of reform and opening up."

artistic characteristics

In his article Shen Yinmo, a calligrapher of the early Republic of China, Fu Shen, a professor of Taiwan University, said, "in regular script, I think it's fine brushwork. It's really beautiful and elegant. It's hard to see it after Zhao Mengfu." When Lu Weizhao, the late professor of Zhejiang Academy of fine arts, commented on Shen's calligraphy, he said: "when Shen's calligraphy is written in the Song Dynasty, most people can only catch up with the Qing Dynasty, but when it is written in the Ming Dynasty, it is not many." Wang Yuechuan, director of the Institute of calligraphy art of Peking University and director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, said: "in Chinese history, no one with shallow knowledge has been able to become a master of calligraphy. Shen Yinmo cultivated calligraphy with rich knowledge. In the spring of 1913, Shen Yinmo was employed by the acting president of Peking University to teach at Peking University. He began to teach the book of songs and history. Peking University hired Mr. Shen to teach, not calligraphy, but the book of songs and Chinese history. In Peking University, those who can speak the book of songs in the five classics and Chinese history are of course excellent in Chinese culture. It can be said that Mr. Shen is first a scholar, a thinker, and then a calligrapher. "

Shen Yinmo's life is a "calligraphy life", and his life is mainly devoted to calligraphy. I seldom see a famous scholar, poet, professor and headmaster in China in the 20th century who put so much effort and spirit into calligraphy. On the contrary, in the eyes of many literati, calligraphy is a small skill that Zhuang Fu does not do. However, Shen Yinmo made great efforts to turn the tide around, return to the classics, and enter the "two kings", which made great contributions to the right pulse, the right path and the right path of Chinese calligraphy. It can be said that he has devoted all his life to calligraphy creation, calligraphy theory construction and calligraphy talent training, and has made great efforts to the revival of Chinese calligraphy culture. In this sense, it is time for Mr. Shen Yinmo's elegant and fluent style of classic books with the "two kings" system as the noumenon and contemporary innovation to be reevaluated by the theoretical circle. He stressed that "beauty" makes the tendons and bones inside. In his fluent use of pen, he did not intentionally write the words with coarse hair and disorderly clothes. His tendons and bones were exposed at a glance, but contained in the refreshing spirit of writing, which deeply contains the bookish aesthetic spirit of "mianzhong Cangzhen" of Chinese culture, and let people ponder over it again and again.

Shen Yinmo also has profound attainments in calligraphy theories such as stroke, stroke and stroke meaning. He has written many books on calligraphy and a series of manuscripts on calligraphy. He has explored the art and techniques of calligraphy from a micro perspective, established a unique system of Shen Yinmo's calligraphy, and constantly launched new works. Shen Xiansheng has made great contributions to calligraphy research, calligraphy education and calligraphy popularization in modern education system.

Some calligraphy

His calligraphy is natural and fluent. The pen and ink are full of ups and downs, with the charm of Ouyang Xun and the bone and muscle of Zhao Mengfu.

Theoretical works

Most of Shen's calligraphy theory works were published after 1949, such as on calligraphy in 1952, random talks on calligraphy in 1955, on calligraphy in 1957, literary reform and the rise and fall of calligraphy, on learning calligraphy in 1958, and on answering questions about calligraphy in 1960,

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