During my study, I participated in the West Lake Painting Festival organized by famous painter Feng Zikai and others. 1927, went to France to study oil painting. 1936 returned to China as a professor at the National Peking Art Institute. 1938 after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Yunnan with the National Art College as acting principal. 1940 left the art college and became the standing Committee member and secretary of the art education Committee of the Ministry of Education.
1942 In September, the Preparatory Committee of the National Dunhuang Academy of Art was established, with the deputy director. 1on March 24th, 943, by coincidence, Chang Shuhong came to the desolate Dunhuang. On the one hand, he marveled at the richness of art collection, on the other hand, he felt helpless and sorry for the hardship of material conditions. At that time, Dunhuang was full of yellow sand and surrounded by Gobi, and there was no one in the village. Wolves often haunt us, and there is no heating equipment in the dripping room. The conditions are unimaginable to ordinary people. Not only are they short of clothes and food, but even the stables are luxurious houses. My wife and daughter walked from Chongqing to Dunhuang for a whole month.
Facing the biting cold and the endless Gobi Desert, they were greeted by a bowl of big salt, a bowl of vinegar and a bowl of sliced water when they walked to Dunhuang. He devoted all his efforts and worked hard for the Mogao Grottoes. A year and a half after his wife Chen Zhixiu came here with her children, she ran away from home because she couldn't stand the hard living conditions, leaving two children unattended, and everything fell on his shoulders. Although his wife's departure gave him a fatal blow, he never wavered and still stuck to Dunhuang.
1In March, 1982, he was transferred to National Cultural Heritage Administration as a consultant, and his family moved to Beijing. But Chang Shuhong, who moved to Beijing, often mumbles like a child. Why did you let me live here? I want to go back to Dunhuang, and I want to live in my earthen house! ? . Chang Shuhong devoted himself to Dunhuang art all his life. During decades of hard work, he organized everyone to repair murals, collect and sort out cultural relics, wrote a number of papers with high academic value, copied a large number of exquisite murals, and held large-scale exhibitions and published picture books many times, introducing Dunhuang art to more people and making outstanding contributions to the protection and research of Mogao Grottoes.