Who is the president of the first calligraphy university in China history?

1963, the calligraphy major of China Academy of Fine Arts (formerly Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts) was established, which opened the precedent of calligraphy higher education in new China. The establishment of this major is inseparable from the contributions of Pan Tianshou, Lu, Sha Menghai, Zhu Lesan, Zhu Jiaji, Fang Jiekan, Liu Jiang and Zhang.

In the face of the decline of China's traditional calligraphy, they resolutely undertook this unprecedented undertaking with the belief of "keeping the past as the sacred and carrying forward the past" and "the best in the world".

Mr. Lu Zhaowei waved when he received the foreign guests.

Calligraphy and seal cutting are one of the outstanding cultural heritages of the Chinese nation. They are an indispensable part of national social life and one of the symbols of people's spiritual civilization.

As a way of spreading this art, the most important thing is calligraphy education. In the past, the way of calligraphy education was mainly served by teachers (mostly literature or art teachers). Before 1949, there was a writing course in primary school, and the department of Chinese painting in the Academy of Fine Arts once offered these two courses, which were set as the basic courses for Chinese painting students. After 1949, due to the interference of "left" thoughts, the department of Chinese painting was also cancelled, let alone preaching this course or establishing such a major.

Before 1949, our college was the only highest art college in China and attached great importance to the education of calligraphy and seal cutting. The fate after 1949, like other art colleges, was cancelled. As a graduate of the Department of Painting and the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, his paintings are quite good, except that there is no inscription. Some can boldly sign autographs, but the calligraphy and painting are out of proportion, and even destroy the perfection of the picture, so they have to go to Pan Tianshou, Zhu Lesan and other old gentlemen to write ghost letters.

1957, the phenomenon of criticizing "nihilism" and ignoring Chinese painting has changed. 1958 Our college resumed the Department of Chinese Painting. Painters and calligraphers from the old society began to be valued, and Pan Tianshou was appointed as the dean and Deng Bai as the head of the department. At the initiative of Mr. Pan Tianshou and others, the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting resumed the course of calligraphy and seal cutting.

1957 draft teaching plan of Chinese painting department (selected pages)

1962 In March, when the Ministry of Culture held a national conference on teaching materials for art colleges in Hangzhou, Dean Pan Tianshou said at the national conference on basic curriculum setting of the Department of Chinese Painting: "Students who study Chinese painting now can't write inscriptions for themselves, which is a joke. ...

Chinese painting department should not only learn calligraphy and seal cutting, but also set it as a compulsory course. Then he talked about his worries about the whole country and the future, calling for: "At present, calligraphy classes cannot be offered in primary and secondary schools, but calligraphy majors should be offered in a few art colleges to train calligraphy talents." ...

Calligraphy seal cutting is a precious national cultural heritage and must be inherited. Save the heritage, do not pay attention to calligraphy education, there will be no successors. "The comrades attending the meeting and the leaders of the Ministry of Culture attach great importance to and support this proposal.

The meeting finally decided to set up calligraphy and seal cutting courses in the Chinese Painting Department of the National Academy of Fine Arts, with conditions first, and without the active creation of teachers; The pilot task of calligraphy major was entrusted to Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts for preparation.

Since then, the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting in our college has offered calligraphy courses in the first and second grades, and seal cutting courses in the third grade. Pan Tianshou personally organized a seven-member team composed of Pan Tianshou, Zhu Lesan, Lu, Sha Menghai, Zhu Jiaji and Liu Jiang, and appointed Mr. Lu as the specific person in charge with Liu Jiang's assistance.

Later, he tactfully criticized: "The formulation of teaching syllabus and teaching plan should be done by teaching assistants with teaching experience." When discussing the syllabus of ancient Chinese drafted by Lu, it was passed because there were not many supplementary opinions in the discussion. According to the discussion, the outline of seal cutting is still supplemented and revised by me, and then revised by Teacher Zhu, and passed in the next discussion.

1962 summary of the first review meeting of calligraphy syllabus (manuscript)