Zhang Xingbin's character introduction

Mr. Zhang Xingbin is an influential contemporary calligrapher in China. Mr. Zhang has been fond of calligraphy since he was a child, and he has persisted in learning and writing in his work. He has been writing for more than 6 years. He inherited the tradition, walked out of it, and became a school of his own. His cursive script won the essence of Wang Xizhi, Zhang Xu and Crazy Su cursive script. It is magnificent, bold and unrestrained, with an open-minded and smooth style, a distinctive personality and a national spirit and romantic color. His works often participate in major exhibitions at home and abroad, and are published and collected. His masterpiece is hung at Xi 'an International Airport, and the plaque in Luye Garden in Naraichi is also his masterpiece.

Chinese name: Zhang Xingbin

Nationality: Chinese people * * * and China

Birthplace: Mo Zhang Cun, Guandi Town, Linwei District, Weinan City

Occupation: Calligrapher

Major achievements: Zhang Xingbin Calligraphy

Representative works: Rain is coming, but the wind is full of buildings

Life of the characters

Suffering childhood. Under extremely difficult circumstances, Zhang Wuying insisted on sending his two sons to Honghuasi Primary School outside the village. The two sons are also very clever, especially the second son, Zhang Xingbin, who is intelligent by nature, very studious and has excellent academic performance. At that time, he was the best student in the class. He is always the first to finish the homework assigned by the teacher, and he finishes it best. The teacher always praises him and never touches the teacher's board. After school, he only needs a short time to finish the homework assigned by the teacher. After his homework is finished, he often leads his village partners to hide and seek in the Woods outside the village, sings Shaanxi opera on the gate building, carves a shadow play with paper, and plays in a variety of ways. He became the king of the children of the village. Children are most happy to play with him. Often, because of their fun, other children forget the teacher's homework, so they are often punished by the teacher the next day. According to his classmates, Zhang Xingbin at that time was often called a prodigy by teachers and classmates. In teaching, the teacher found that Zhang Xingbin likes writing and drawing very much, and he is very talented. So the teacher encouraged him to learn calligraphy. He started with Yan Ti and Liu Ti, carefully studied copybooks and made rapid progress.

Take part in the revolution

After graduating from Honghuasi Primary School, he was promoted to Xiaji Senior Primary School to continue his studies. At that time, Hui Chunlin, the secretary of Weibei district of our underground party, was appointed as the principal of the school, and Xiaji Senior Primary School has become a famous progressive school in Weibei district. Influenced by progressive thoughts in this school, Zhang Xingbin began to incline to revolution. While studying, he took part in the underground activities of the Party, and often went out to brush and write anti-Japanese slogans to publicize the revolutionary truth. From 1938 to 194, he was promoted to middle school. After graduating from high school, he joined the army and served as an instructor in a unit of the 38 th Army of the National Army. In the Kuomintang army, he actively carried out revolutionary activities In 1949, together with Zhang Yinghuan, he joined forces with other companies of our regiment to organize an uprising in Sanyuan. As a result, the uprising plan was leaked and Zhang Xingbin was arrested. The enemy took him to the execution ground overnight and shot him. At the critical moment before the execution, my underground party members rescued him. After being rescued, Zhang Xingbin continued to engage in revolutionary activities. He and the local underground party organizations actively set up the Weinan County Party Committee, and later, he went north to welcome the PLA troops to Xiaji Middle School and liberated Weibei.

Young Calligrapher

After the liberation of the whole country, he served as the head of the Weinan Cultural and Art Troupe. At this time, he has become a famous young calligrapher in the local area. In 1951, he was the editor-in-chief of Weinan Daily. In 1952, he was transferred to Shaanxi Daily as the head of the art picture group of Shaanxi Daily. In 1969, he was sent to work in Shiquan County, and served as the director of Shiquan County Culture and Education Bureau and the director of the propaganda department of the county party Committee. In 1979, he was transferred back to Shaanxi Daily. In January 1986, Zhang Xingbin, who was 63 years old, retired with honor.

in p>1976, when China went to the Japanese calligraphy exhibition, he wrote a painting of "The coming rain cast its shadows before it" for the Sino-Japanese calligraphy exchange exhibition, which had a strong spirit of the times and had a great influence in China and Japan, and was known as "the hometown of the forest of steles". The Japanese magazine People's China was published at the top of the calligraphy page. Japanese was selected into Modern China Calligraphy; Hebei People's Fine Arts Publishing House has compiled it as the First Collection of Modern China Calligraphy. His masterpiece "Clouds Hidden in the Mountains" also represented Shaanxi in the "First National Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition". China Contemporary Calligraphy Panorama published in Beijing, Xi 'an Calligrapher's Collection published in Japan and Chang 'an Contemporary Famous Old Calligrapher's Collection published in Shaanxi all collected and reviewed his works.

Family background

Zhang Xingbin's family was originally an old household in Mo Zhang Cun, Guandi Town, Linwei District. It is said that 83, people died in Guanzhong after the earthquake in the Ming Dynasty. The sharp decline in population has made the Guanzhong Plain extremely short of labor. The Ming government organized a large number of immigrants from densely populated Shanxi to enrich Guanzhong, and a couple yearned for the generous natural conditions in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. married with children, along with the team of immigrants, came to Zhang Cun, a plain township in Weinan County at that time (now Zhang Cun, Guandi Town, Linwei District, Weinan City). Zhang Cun is an ancient small village, and its original residents are Zhang's family. After the couple came, in order to be accepted by Zhang's family, influenced by Zhang's family name, they also took Zhang's family name. In this way, they not only integrated into the local culture, but also quickly gained a foothold in the local area.

Mo Zhang's first family

Time flies, and hundreds of years have passed. The history of their ancestors is beyond examination. Now we only know that in the Qing Dynasty, an able ancestor in their family managed the family well and began to buy some land. With the development of the family, according to the customs of Guanzhong, the Zhang family, like other families in Guanzhong, has formulated a strict family hierarchy system for their own family. Their children and grandchildren must be named according to a certain generation. From the beginning of their "macro" generation, the following is: Ke-Wu-Xing-Qi-Heng-Jun. By the third generation, they had surpassed the original Zhang family and became the largest family in Zhang Cun.

the most promising

Zhang Wuying is the most promising of Zhang's descendants. When Zhang Wuying was a teenager, his family was average. He went to school for a few days and later made a living by farming. However, he is a man who is unwilling to be mediocre. Besides farming, he also likes to make friends and help others. In the 194s, he was selected and appointed as the head of Weinan Lingdian militia. Although he has the power in his hand, he is a dutiful man, never doing anything that harms the village. On the contrary, he also uses various relationships to benefit the people. There is an ancient temple, Honghua Temple, in the southwest of Zhang Cun. Since the Hui people's uprising in Qing Dynasty, monks were killed or fled, and local people used the original building of Honghua Temple to set up a new school. Honghua Temple has been in disrepair for a long time. In order to protect the ancient temple and give teachers and students a better learning environment, Zhang Wuying raised funds by himself to build a new earth wall for Honghua Temple School. It has produced an excellent reputation among the villagers.

Personal life

Children

Zhang Wuying has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Zhang Xingbang (born on September 1, 1913 in lunar calendar and died on March 15, 1974 in lunar calendar), was once the director of Mo Zhangbao in Pingyuan Township, Weinan County. The second son, Zhang Xingbin, was born on December 2th, 1923 (November 13th of the lunar calendar). His daughter married to Baowang Village, Guandi Town.

wife

Jiang Yuqin, the wife of Zhang Xingbang, the eldest son, was born in about 1921 and died on the fourth day of September in the lunar calendar in 1991. He had two sons, Zhang Qixiu (1938-1988), who studied in the Soviet Union and worked in an arsenal in Xi 'an after returning home. Zhang Qichao, whose name is Kuan Shou, was born on July 28th, 1947, and has been working as a farmer at home until now.

Features of the work

Mr. Zhang's calligraphy is better than cursive script, and it has reached perfection. Its skill is extremely profound, and it pays attention to using pen and ink. In his later years, most of his works are huge and long scrolls, which are free from restraint, coherent and natural, and typically show rough, bold and vigorous traditional artistic characteristics. Mr. Qi Gong, a well-known scholar and chairman of China Calligraphers Association, wrote in the long volume "Eight Poems of Du Fu's Autumn Prosperity" written for him at the age of 6: "Huai Su's thousands of poems, Yan Xiu's books and Tang poems are all traces of great grass dramas, and his stones are precious in the forest of steles in Xi 'an, which has been irrigated for thousands of years. This book is a milk of inheriting the law, and it is exciting to worship the view, because it is known later."

Honored

His calligraphy works have not only been published in many newspapers and periodicals, but also participated in many major calligraphy exhibitions at home and abroad, and have been published and collected; Some are regarded as precious gifts. His works have won many awards and entered the canon. In March 1992, he led a delegation to give lectures and hold exhibitions in Singapore. At the welcoming ceremony, Mr. Jialiang He, Senior Minister of Government Affairs of the Singapore Ministry of the Arts, said: "Mr. Zhang Xingbin is good at cursive calligraphy, paying attention to the use of pen and ink. The cursive script has won the essence of Wang Xizhi's and Zhang Xu's and Huai Su's cursive scripts. It is magnificent, unrestrained and fluent, with a particularly strong personality and a national spirit connotation and romantic color." In March 1994, Zhang Xingbin was invited to hold an exhibition in Hainan, and Qiongtai Economic Times reported it in a special edition. Haikou Hong Kong and Macao Assets Company bought 15 of his exhibits for more than 1, yuan. In December, 1996, Rong Baozhai held a solo calligraphy exhibition specially for him, which was unprecedented. In June, 1997, his eighth edition of Zhang Xingbin Calligraphy was printed and published by Sanqin Publishing House. More than 6 of his works were selected in the book, which was well received by experts.

Repaying his hometown

In order to repay his hometown and promote the development of culture and education in his hometown, Mr. Zhang Xingbin has invested nearly one million yuan at his own expense since the beginning of 2 to build the "Zhang Xingbin Calligraphy Art Museum" in the corner of Xiazhong Middle School. Mr. Zhang's righteous act won strong praise and support from the Linwei District People's Government of Weinan City and the Xiaji Town Government. Weinan Municipal People's Government is also proud of being an outstanding calligrapher in the local area. In May 22, "Zhang Xingbin Calligraphy Art Museum" was completed and opened to the public free of charge.

As early as 1993, Mr. Zhang Xingbin built a primary school for his hometown, Mo Zhang Cun, with a grant of RMB 2,. And decided that from 1996 to his death, he would personally provide 1 yuan's education subsidy for the school every year. At the same time, he decided to subsidize a student who was admitted to a famous university (a poor student who has no relatives or reasons) to graduate from the university in the next middle school; Moreover, after his death, his family and children will continue to carry out his promise. For this reason, Mr. Zhang also specially sent someone to contact the next middle school, which was sincerely welcomed and thanked by the school.

Zhang Xingbin has married two wives in his life. The first wife, Zhang Guiying, is from the south of Jicheng, and she has two sons with Zhang Xingbin. The eldest son, Zhang Qirui, has a wide word; The second son, Zhang Qimin, was later named Sharla Cheung, whose word was Kuande. In 1953, she divorced because of her disagreement with her ex-wife. Zhang Kuansheng, the eldest son, lives with Zhang Xingbin, and Zhang Kuande, the second son, lives with his mother. After the divorce, Zhang Xingbin married teacher Liu Ruike. After marriage, they have two daughters and one son. The eldest daughter Zhang Xian, the second daughter Zhangfan, and the son Zhang Fang (Belgian Chinese and poet).

Mr. Zhang is highly respected, and he has also been listed in China Fine Arts Yearbook, Who's Who of Contemporary Writers and Artists in China and Weinan County Records. In 198, he joined the China Calligraphers Association and served as the director of Shaanxi Branch of China Calligraphers Association. He used to be honorary president of Shaanxi Hualian Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute, consultant of Yu Youren Calligraphy Association in Xi 'an, reviewer of Chinese Calligraphy Association in Singapore and curator of Zhang Xingbin Calligraphy Art Museum.