Deng Sanmu

Deng Sanmu

Deng Sanmu (September 1898-1963), formerly known as juchu, also known as tie, was born in Shanghai. He was also known as toutie, Sanmu, also known as dung Weng, luzhongren, unharmed, qiquzi and xiejianzi. After his left leg was amputated due to arteriosclerosis, he was named Kui and Yizu. His Zhai was named xiejianlou, baopishi and sanchangliangzhai.

In the art world, he is also known as Qi Baishi and has the reputation of "Northern Qi and southern Deng". He is good at calligraphy and seal cutting. He is good at Zhen, Xing, Cao, Zhuan and Li.

brief account of the author's life

Deng Sanmu

（1898—1963）

Modern calligraphers and seal carvers. Born in Shanghai in 1898, formerly known as juchu. Word scattered wood, another name Lu Zhongren, unharmed, dung Weng. Wait a minute. In 1960, because of arteriosclerosis, the left leg was amputated, and because of self signing Yizu and Kui, the name of zhaiguan has toilet Jianlou, three long and two short Zhai (three long: seal cutting, poetry and calligraphy; two short: painting and lyrics, which is Mr. Sanmu's evaluation of his art). In fact, he is good at poetry, calligraphy and engraving, and can also paint. He is good at Si Ti Shu. He is good at Xing Cao Shu, which is a collection of the merits of Er Wang, Zhang Xu and Huai Su. Lishu has been all over the Han stele. Yishan stele, a newly learned seal script, followed by Zhongding and Shang oracle bone inscriptions. Seal cutting began to learn from Zhejiang School, and later learned from Qin and Han seal. In his early years, he was enlightened by Mr. Li Suzhi, and in his prime, he was personally taught by Mr. Zhao Guni and Mr. Xiao mouan. He made great progress in his art. He also absorbed nutrition from the seal clay, ancient pottery and brick inscriptions, and formed his own style of changeable composition and magnificent simplicity. From 1931 to 1949, there were 12 exhibitions in Jiangnan area, which attracted the attention of the art circle. It is known as "Jiangnan sacrifice wine" in the calligraphy circle, and "nandeng in the Northern Qi Dynasty (Baishi)" in the art circle. Member of Chinese Calligraphy Research Society. Mr. Deng Sanmu devoted his life to the arts. For decades, he got up at dawn, engraved in linchi, and had breakfast only when he was out of the day. He had been to Shuowen ten times and Lanting dozens of times. He was still at his desk a few days before his death. He died in 1963. Deng Sanmu's works are mainly collected in Heilongjiang Provincial Museum.

Personal resume

Deng Sanmu has written simplified Chinese character models for people's education publishing house, and has published simplified three character script and simplified regular script script, etc. his more than 80000 character "seal cutting" shows his extraordinary skill. since the 1920s, his calligraphy and seal cutting have become famous in the world. He is known as a geek because he is dissatisfied with the current political situation, pretends to avoid the world and behaves strangely. He used to use the word "iron" as his stage name because he liked to use knives to control seals. Together with Wu Changshuo (kutie), Wang bingtie and Qian qiantie, they are known as the "Jiangnan four Railways". He took the word "blunt iron" as a sign of self modesty. When he was young, he worshipped Sun Yat Sen, the "father of the nation", became a faithful believer of the three people's principles and joined the Kuomintang. After the coup d'etat, Chiang Kai Shek had a sense of crisis in his trust in the Kuomintang, and then he turned from disappointment to despair, so he publicly declared "seceding" from the Kuomintang. He changed his name to "dung Weng" and ordered his residence to be "toilet building" in order to compete with the filthy and decadent world customs. In his later years, he wrote a poem named sixty suing himself, which said: "when you are thirty years old, go to the surname and use the word" dung ". If you don't dare to ask for astonishment, talk about it with anger. Deng Sanmu was aloof and uninhibited all his life. There are many anecdotes about him in the literary world. Mr. Zheng Yimei said in his book "Tang Tuo, the master of writing market moves": "there are two famous calligraphers in its fashion. The shop doesn't ask for advice, but one is Deng dung Weng. The word" dung "is not pleasing to the eye. The only hope of a shop is to make money. This surname conflicts with making money. "In the old days, the literati lived a miserable life, and they wrote the market moves (shop signs) to get the polishing fee, which was an important source for the calligraphers to supplement their families. Once, a rich businessman asked him to write, embellish from abundant, just for signature, do not use "dung" word, he immediately after listening to the table scold. In 1936, it was recorded in newspapers that at that time, a KMT "Central Committee member" admired Deng Sanmu's calligraphy and sent a large sum of money to write inscriptions for his dead mother. It was just that he "regretted the name of Weng, because it was easier to ask.". Deng Sanmu angrily replied: is Gong tired of my name? The world is full of famous people. Why do you take it from me? I'd rather starve than change my name, "I'm a stone robber, and I can't turn it around." dung man means "to get rid of dung" and "to clean up the filth." he also means "to regard money and power as dirt.". After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he hoped for a peaceful world. He also wanted to do more good things for the society, but it always backfired. He felt that he was incompetent. He borrowed the metaphor of "Sanmu" in Zhuangzi · human world, so he changed his name to "Sanmu" to ridicule himself. After the founding of new China, during 1950-1955, Deng Sanmu devoted almost all his energy to the work of Shanghai Linong. At that time, he was the people's representative of Xincheng District, Shanghai, and the director of the neighborhood committee where Deng Sanmu lived. He also did all the trivial work of Linong as seriously as Zhiyi. He even published blackboard newspapers, registered books, held literacy classes, patrolled nights, and went on a tour They are often busy until one or two o'clock in the night to publicize various principles and policies. During this period, he also participated in the land reform task force organized by Shanghai Federation of literary and art circles and took part in the land reform work in Shaoxing Daoxu. In his later years, Deng Sanmu moved to Beijing, but unfortunately, he had to amputate his left lower limb because of blood vessel blockage. However, instead of being pessimistic and depressed, he optimistically signed his name as "Yizu" and wrote a poem: "if you leave your legs, don't worry. If you leave my life in danger, I'll stay with you. I'm going to stay, but I'm going to have to build equipment for socialism. " Although only one foot, but enough!

Origin of nickname

Deng Sanmu's original name was tie, with the word "blunt tie" and the name "dung Weng". Since his calligraphy and seal cutting rose in Shanghai Art Garden in the 1930s, there have been a lot of people who changed his name to "iron". He was tired of it, so he changed his name to "dung Weng" and named his living room "toilet Jianlou". He called himself "toilet Jianzi" and his study "toilet Jianlou". Since then, no one has followed suit. in addition, it is said that when listening to a foreigner's lecture, the teacher slapped Deng Sanmu rudely on his head. Mr. Deng was deeply ashamed of him and regarded him as a Buddhist writer, hence the name of "dung man". in fact, the word "dung" here means "excrement", not filth. In the early 1960s, Deng Sanmu amputated his left lower limb because of a blood vessel blockage. Since then, he has paid for "one foot" to show that he has only one foot.

Main contributions

Artistic career

Deng sanmuxing's cursive script is immersed in Erwang's calligraphy department. His works are natural and unrestrained, fluent and elegant. His works are fresh and round, but euphemistic, showing the beauty of yin and softness. In zhuanli, he learned from Xiao tuoan, or euphemistically used calligraphy techniques, or Cangjin used gold and stone techniques, which created a strong personal style of cursive seal script Minuscule.
　　

Public welfare

He is very enthusiastic about calligraphy education. Hold lectures and compile handouts. His 80000 character book "seal cutting" is his experience in managing seal printing, including "a hundred questions of calligraphy", "three long and two short seals", "toilet Jianlou biannian Yingao", "shuangsanmu poetry anthology", etc. In 1955, he was invited by Beijing People's publishing house to write simplified Chinese characters. He also wrote a lot of textbooks and various popular reading materials. Students' calligraphy books, including simplified three character script and simplified regular script script, made great contributions to the popularization of calligraphy education.

Artistic features

Calligraphy

As a disciple of Xiao tui'an, a great calligrapher in the south of the Yangtze River, Gongxing cursive script has a great deal of Wang characters, but he has also made great efforts in seal and official script. The regular script is mainly composed of Tang Kai and Beibei stele, but in the end, the meaning of calligraphy is stronger than that of stele. Lishu, on the other hand, most of the famous steles in the Han Dynasty were involved, which were well written and well written. The skill of seal script is very good. At the beginning, he took the way of Wu Changshuo. Later, he learned from ancient times to modern times and wrote a strong personal style of cursive seal script.

seal cutting

In modern times, Deng Sanmu was famous for seal cutting. At that time, the so-called "Northern Qi and southern Deng" in the printing circle refers to Qi Baishi in Beijing and Deng Sanmu in Jiangnan. Deng Sanmu's seal cutting teacher is Zhao Guni, the founder of Yushan school. His pursuit of seal cutting is unrestrained, regardless of the work clumsy effect. But it seems to be a little broken, the realm is not high. Calligraphy is the same, which may be due to talent. The reason why Deng Sanmu's seal cutting is deeply rooted and unique in style lies in his deep understanding of the artistic essence of the seal cutting works of ancient seals, seals of Qin and Han Dynasties as well as those of Ming and Qing Dynasties. In his early years, he was enlightened by Mr. Li Suzhi. In his prime, he was personally taught by Mr. Zhao Guni and Mr. Xiao mouan. In the 1930s, he became famous for seal cutting. Since ancient times, seal is a kind of art with characters, patterns and decorations. In the aspect of making the seal patterned and decorated, Deng Sanmu can be said to bring forth new things through the old and has a unique look. His patterned works are more pleasing to the eye than to the heart, more interesting than to the realm, giving people a sense of leisure and tranquility.

Anecdotes

Mr. Deng Sanmu is a good drinker and has an amazing amount of wine. According to his wife, "dung old man" once gambled with others and drank a jar of yellow rice wine at once, which was 50 Jin in weight, which made others dumbfounded. The yard of "dung old man" is divided into two sides with wine jars. One side is full, and the other side is empty. He never buys wine bottle by bottle as we do. He puts several jars of yellow rice wine in the yard at a time and throws them on the empty side after drinking. "Dung old" is a fiery person. When he is drunk, he often criticizes the current situation and scolds others like nobody else. When Deng Sanmu got married, he didn't decorate his new house like others, but decorated it like a funeral hall, as if it was not a marriage, but a memorial ceremony. His group of "Fox friends" are also good at it

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