Xi Gang

Xi Gang

Xi Gang (1746-1803) was a seal cutter, calligrapher and painter in Qing Dynasty. Its original name is gang, and its name is Tiesheng and chunzhang. It is Luokan and dieyezi. It is also called hezhusheng, Mengquan waishi, mengdaoshi, Xi Daoshi, Sanmu Jushi and Donghua nunnery. It is originally from Shexian county (now Anhui Province). Yizuo Shexian county (now Anhui Province) lives in the West Lake of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Should not be imperial examination, sentimental poetry and painting, landscape flowers and stones, rhyme super meaningful. He once visited Japan and is famous overseas. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, he was honest and upright. Engraved in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it is as famous as Ding Jing, Huang Yi and Jiang Ren, and is known as the four great masters of Xiling. Together with Chen Yuzhong, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zhichen and Qian song, they are called the eight Xiling families.

Profile

Xi Gang, a calligrapher, was good at seal cutting. He lived in the Qin and Han Dynasties and was able to write official script at the age of 9. Later, he was proficient in calligraphy, cursive script, seal script and official script. His landscape paintings are natural and unrestrained, and his flowers, orchids and bamboos are free from vulgarity. Learning from Ding Jing, he has developed and has a clear style. He is an outstanding person of Zhejiang School. Together with Ding Jing, Huang Yi and Jiang Ren, they are four famous families in Hang County, and together with Chen Yuzhong, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zhichen and Qian song, they are eight families in Xiling. He is also good at poetry and calligraphy. He is good at drawing pictures. His nature is isolated, and not his own. Chu suiliang, a real calligrapher, is a four body calligrapher. The ancient Li style is more elegant than the others. The landscape is natural and clear, which is the way of Dong Qichang. He is broad-minded and upright, does not seek fame and honor, despises the powerful and dignitaries, and always wears cloth clothes. After his painting and calligraphy became famous, there was an endless stream of painters. However, they paid a lot of money to the officials and the rich and despised them. Ruan Yuan, the governor of Zhejiang Province, asked many people to meet him, but he still didn't do so. Li Liufang is an old man. Flowers have Yun Shouping charm, orchid and bamboo are also detached, which is a giant painter in central Zhejiang. He has made such axis as the painting of autumn in Xishan Mountain, the painting of orchid in banana bamboo and the painting of returning wings in spring forest. The painting traces handed down from generation to generation include the volume of jiaolinxueshutu and the volume of tijinguantu, which are now stored in the Palace Museum. He is the author of more than one manuscript of winter flower nunnery. In recent years, the research on Xigang has been most in-depth, such as "Xigang's family background, life and seal cutting art" (theses of the third Xishan seal society international seal printing Summit), "several aspects of Xigang's life" and "Xigang chronology" by Zhu Qi, a research expert of eight schools in Xiling, and he has also written "Xigang research".

Anecdotes of characters

Emperor Qianlong toured the south of the Yangtze River many times. The governor of Zhejiang built a palace on the Bank of the West Lake to welcome Shengjia. Because Xi Gang was famous, local officials invited him to paint in the palace. Xi Gang resolutely refused, and the governor was angry, so he sent someone to detain him to the palace. Xi Gang was not afraid of power and said firmly: "how can there be a painting? You can cut off your head, but you can't get a picture! " The governor's staff admired his courage and praised him: "Er is not a child, but an iron." Since then, Xigang has been known as "Tiesheng".

Representative paintings

Chinese PinYin : Xi Gang