Pan Shou

Pan Shou

Pan shou (1911.1.26-1999.2.23), formerly known as pan guoqu, was born in Nan'an, Fujian Province on January 26, 1911. In 1930, when he was 19 years old, he went to Singapore and took the post of "Le Pao" for the first time. Since 1934, he has been teaching in Huaqiao middle school, Daonan middle school and ma'anpo Zhonghua middle school, and he has been the principal of Daonan middle school for six years (1935-1940). He had no formal college education of his own. In 1955, the president of NTU, Lin Yutang, left the University and was appointed as the Secretary General of the University. He spent the most difficult four years without the president in charge of the school affairs. He did not resign until the first group of 437 students graduated in 1959.

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In 1937, after the Anti Japanese War, the army fled to Singapore and served as the Chief Secretary of "Nanyang overseas Chinese relief association" (Chairman Tan Kah Kee). After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he took refuge in Chongqing, his capital, and returned to Singapore after victory. In 1953, he participated in the preparation of Nanyang University and was a member of its executive committee. Pan studied calligraphy. In his early years, he studied Yan Zhenqing and Yu Shinan. Later, he studied Wei stele. He had deep attainments in regular script and running script. Finally, he became his own family. In 1982, he published three volumes of calligraphy works, and the National Museum of Singapore held two calligraphy exhibitions for him in 1984 and 1991 (celebrating his 80th birthday). His calligraphy is widely loved and respected by all walks of life. In addition to Southeast Asia, he can be seen in the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong, the stele forest in Xi'an, and the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan. Pan Shou is also fond of writing and poetry creation. He won the first prize in China's "national anti drug thesis competition" in 1928 (President Cai Yuanpei of Peking University was elected as the director). He liked to write vernacular poetry in his early years, and devoted himself to the creation of classical poetry in his youth. He has published overseas Lu Poetry (1970), Yunnan Garden Poetry Anthology (1984), and 800 page Anthology of Pan Shou's Poetry (1997) ）Among them, there are more than 1300 poems. Pan Shou's calligraphy and literary attainments are valued by the cultural circles at home and abroad. In 1985, he won the golden prize of salon artistes Francais in Paris; in 1986, he won the cultural Medal of Singapore government; in 1991, he won the medal of office arts and letters; in 1994, he won the medal of Singapore p.j.g.; in 1997, he won the ASEAN cultural medal; in 1998, he won the honor of Singapore Calligraphers Association In the same year, Nanyang Polytechnic University awarded the honorary doctorate of literature. pan Shou died on February 23, 1999 and lived 89 years.

Chronology

Born in Nan'an, Fujian Province, China in 1911, formerly known as pan guoqu, graduated from Peiyuan middle school in Quanzhou, Fujian Province in 1927, came to Singapore in 1930, served as "Le Bao" in 1930-39, taught and served as president of Singapore overseas Chinese middle school, Daonan school and Mapo Chinese Middle School successively, returned to China from 1940-50, worked as executive member of Nanyang University in Singapore in 1953, retired as Secretary General of Nanyang University in 1955-60, and engaged in culture and art Research and creation of art 1970 Chinese society of NTU publishes overseas Lu Poetry (reprinted in 1985 and 1986) 1980 Nanyuan poetry anthology of Pan Shou's running script 1983 three traces of Pan Shou's recent works and the Grand View of ink 1985 won the gold award of "French Art Salon" at the grand Palace of Paris 1986 won the Singapore Culture Award 1991 won the highest medal of French literature and art 1994 won the highest award of Singapore government In 1995, Singapore government declared it a "national treasure"; in 1995, it published a review of Pan Shou's poetry; in 1997, it won the ASEAN cultural Award; in 1998, it was awarded the honorary doctor of literature by Nanyang Technological University; in 1998, it was appointed the honorary president of Liming University in Quanzhou, Fujian, China; and in 1999, it passed away

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Pan Shou devoted himself to the Chinese culture he loved for decades. His outstanding achievements in Chinese calligraphy and poetry have provided valuable cultural assets for the spiritual civilization of Southeast Asian Chinese, and his profound cultivation in art and literature has become a model of traditional Chinese intellectuals. In 1995, in recognition of Pan Shou's outstanding contribution to national culture and education, the Singapore government officially declared him a national treasure. In 1998, when pan Shou learned that NTU was going to confer an honorary doctor of literature, he specially met with Brigadier General Yang rongwen, Minister of information and arts, and said that he was not sure whether he should accept the honor, because his contribution was in "Nanyang University", not "Nanyang Technological University". Yang believes that the spirit of NTU still lives on the campus of NTU and encourages him to accept it. In the ceremony, pan Shou advocated the restoration of the name of Nanyang University, which shows his deep feelings for Nanyang University. His appeal received a warm response from the Chinese community in Southeast Asia. Pan Shou: an unpublished past Chen Shenggui published Li Huiling's Hongwen on March 6: "Pan Shou's tears in NANDA: an unpublished interview" by Lianhe Zaobao. A few nights after Li Wen's publication, he thought that "the 88 year old man mocked himself that he was a robber at that time and became a national treasure later.". It's hard for me to dream every night. On the evening of March 13, at the annual dinner of Singapore Arts Association, president he Jialiang moved his bottle to my table, and we talked about the topic after Mr. Pan's death. he still has a fresh memory of supporting me in helping Mr. Pan apply for citizenship. So I decided to take the opportunity of several related people who are still alive to narrate an unpublished story 16 years ago

The colonial government deprived pan of his citizenship

First, the civil rights of Li Wenxu and Mr. Pan were deprived in 1958. "It was 25 years later, in 1983, that the Singaporean government returned the citizenship rights to Mr Pan," the article wrote I would like to make two points: (1) the British colonial government deprived Mr. Pan of his citizenship in 1958, and the people's Action Party government "returned" Mr. Pan's citizenship in 1983. (2) The British colonial government said he was a robber, and the action party government said he was a treasure. Second, let's get down to business. In the middle of 1982, the Singapore Calligraphy Association decided to organize a popular calligraphy delegation to visit China for a month during the school holiday in June of the next year. My colleagues and I hope that Mr. Pan will set out with us. One day during the school holiday in September that year, Mr. Pan said to me, "I really want to go out, but I don't have a pass!" It was the first time I knew that he was a stateless person. Thirdly, under my urging, Mr. Pan applied to the civil rights bureau for citizenship rights and was invited to meet three times. One day, he said to me excitedly: "every time I go to a meeting, they always move out a lot of documents that are higher than the head I sit on. I want to clarify and admit it. I can't stand it. Don't apply. (4) at the end of that year and the beginning of the next year, I asked several civil servants with better status to see if there was a turning point in the past 20 years. 5. One day, a noble man told me to write a letter to lawyer Cai Shanjin, Minister of the interior at that time. Instead of saying "pan guoqu", he said his calligraphy attainments, contribution to the association and his role in the communication between the association and foreigners. Pictures and newspapers were attached to prove that he was a calligrapher and cultural man I want to apply. I'll do it. Sixth, about a month later, this gentleman said to me, "it seems that there is hope. In order to strengthen the weight of your letter, we should ask two government officials who are related to the association to support your request with realistic letters. 7. I went to the Ministry of education on Qixiang road to find Deputy Minister He Jialiang, and to Alexandria road to find Minister Wang Bangwen. The central government asked them to write to Minister Cai Shanjin about the contents of my letter. Both of them are happy to do so (this is what Mr. Jia Liang mentioned to my deskmate at the annual dinner of the Art Association on the evening of March 13, 1999). One day in August and March, Mr. Pan called to ask my wife and I to go to his home after dinner, and told us to remember to bring the resident card. When the two of us arrived, in addition to Mr. Pan Shou and his wife, Ms. Zheng Wenhui, there was also a Miss Yang, including five of us. 9. Mr. Pan said that they (officials of the civil rights bureau) were very polite to see me this time. They asked me to fill in the application form for civil rights and said that they planned to reissue the civil rights to me. They also said that I was old and they helped me apply for a passport in case I had to run one more time, so they had to hand in six photos. 10. Mr. Pan said that I don't know if there will be any trouble or change. Therefore, your wife and Miss Yang will be my guarantors in this application form for civil rights. Miss Yang is also very reliable, which is more appropriate, don't you think? 11. Mr. Pan was born in early April 1983. When he obtained his citizenship and passport, it was too late for him to join us in going abroad. Early in the morning of May 28, he came to the airport to see us 28 people. Before entering the gate, he said, "when you come back, we'll go to Kuala Lumpur together." 12. At 5:00 p.m. on February 23 this year, I accompanied Mr. Pan's son, Dr. Siying, with the two male nurses. After that, I watched Mr. Pan's body move from intensive care unit 3006 on the third floor to the morgue downstairs and handed it to Wuzuo. When he was on the bus, he opened the zipper of the long plastic box of the shroud and showed it to Dr. Siying and me. Pan's mouth was the same as it had been for 25 days

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