In the same batch of Jinshi, he has successively served as the director of military department, the magistrate of Tianjin and the supervisor of Tianjin Arts and Crafts Bureau, the magistrate of Baoding, the Taoist Lu and Ambassador of Tianjin, the agent of Shuntian prefect, and the minister of Zhili. 19 1 1 years later, he served as a member of the Beiyang Political Council, and the Senate participated in politics. He is good at lyrics and loves painting. He has close contacts with famous painters such as Qi Baishi, Wang Yun, Xiao Liquan, Zhou Qixiang, Jincheng, Wang, Chen Yinque and so on. , and organized the Beijing Painting Association. The scholar often goes in and out at home. Such a family and living environment made her fall in love with painting from an early age, influenced by literature and art. At the age of six, she painted many landscapes, flowers and people on the white wall with charcoal in the garden. A friend of her father saw these paintings and said to her, your paintings are very stylish. You have a genius, and you will become a great painter. I'm going to tell your father to find you a teacher ... In this way, she studied under Miao, a famous female painter and favorite painter of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Gu Hongming, who was called a geek in the literary and art circles at that time, and laid the foundation for classical poetry and English. When he was seven or eight years old, he studied painting under the famous landscape painter Wang, and later under the female painter Hao Shuyu, laying a solid foundation in painting techniques. 1May 924
Tagore, a great Indian poet, visited China. Professor Peking University and Chen Yuan (Xiying), head of the English Department, served as the reception, and Ling Shuhua was one of the welcome representatives. On the afternoon of May 6th, Beijing English Teachers' Union held a tea party in yenching university Women's College to welcome Tagore. At this time, Ling Ya and Chen met for the first time. After that, he wrote a book and discussed literary and artistic issues. 1925 65438+ 10/0, Ling Shuhua's masterpiece "Drunk" was published in Modern Review (Volume I, No.5); On March 2 1 day, the short story Embroidered Pillow was published in the same publication (No.1 VolumeNo. 15), which aroused widespread concern. At this time, her interest in writing became stronger. In addition to her novels published in Modern Review, she also published works in New Moon, Morning Post, Yanda Weekly, Literary Magazine, Dagong Literature and Art, Wuhan Literature and Art, Literary Quarterly, Enlightened, Chinese Weekly and China Literature and Art, and finally made a step in Modern Review. She is the only female writer in Modern Review and the main novelist of Crescent School later. With a good hand, she adjusted the weight of the words she needed, and refined ordinary and even a little vulgar materials into flawless jade. From June 65438 to June 0926, she graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of yenching university, won the Golden Key Award with excellent results, and worked in the Painting and Calligraphy Department of Beijing Palace Museum. In July, she married Chen Yuan; In the early autumn of the following year, the couple made a short trip to Japan, and then lived in Ling Shuhua, Kyoto for one year, studying the works of Kan Kikuchi, Haruko Sato, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Junichiro Tanizaki, Natsume Soseki and Japanese art. People in Linghe and other places have the same hobby for literature and art, and writing, painting and criticizing literature and art are their common spiritual sustenance in life. According to the reporter in the article "Ling Shuhua talks about Chen Yuan", they don't write in the same study after marriage. Ling Shuhua's works are always kept secret from Chen Yuan, for fear that critics will douse her literary thoughts and creative passion with cold water before her works are published. After Chen Yuan finished writing the article, he didn't show it to her, but only showed it to the other party once after it was published.
1928 Spring
Crescent Bookstore published her first collection of short stories, Flower Bed (the fourth in the modern literature and art series), edited by Chen Yuan. In the editor's note, he said: Before getting drunk, the author had written several novels. I don't think their writing skills have improved, and the author thinks so, so there is no collection.
1929
Chen Yuan left Beijing for Wuhan University as a professor, dean of the Faculty of Arts and head of the Department of Foreign Literature. Ling Shuhua also went to Wu Da with her husband. She first lived in Tanhualin, northwest of Wuchang, and then lived on the beautiful Luojia Mountain in Wuchang. She became good friends with Yuan and Su, two other female writers who taught at Wu Da University. At that time, she was called three literary friends of Luojiashan and three outstanding writers of Luojiashan. In Wuhan, in addition to teaching, Ling Shuhua also worked hard to create; In order to recruit literary talents in Central China, he also edited Wuhan Literature and Art. ..
1930
Her collection of short stories "Woman" (one of the modern literature and art series) was published by the Commercial Press. 1935, Liangyou Book Publishing Company published her collection of children's short stories "Little Brothers" (the twentieth in Liangyou Literature Series). The author said in the preface: This little book was originally designed to collect the works of my children. I collected nine works, almost ten years from the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926) to this year. After typesetting, the editor said that the book was short. I hope I can add more articles, which is the reason for adding more articles. It's another kind of thing, suddenly joined, as if a child wore a pair of adult slippers, which didn't quite match ... In the summer after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese invaders threatened Wuhan, and she moved to Leshan, Sichuan with her school and taught in yenching university two years later. The war brought her pain and anxiety. 1938 In the spring, she wrote to Virginia Woolf, a famous British woman writer. Woolf wrote: Only works can you face the war, and encouraged Ling Shuhua to write about her familiar life and personal affairs. In writing, she was influenced by Chekhov of Russia and Miss Katherine Manthfield of England. During this period, she didn't write much, but she made a serious study of oriental art and drama. From 65438 to 0946, Chen Yuan was appointed by the Kuomintang government and went to Paris as the permanent representative of UNESCO. The following year, Ling Shuhua took her daughter Chen Xiaoying to London to reunite with Chen Yuan and settled in Europe. She attended the United Nations crash course in international understanding and got a diploma, and then studied French and impressionist painting in Paris for many years. Life in Paris is expensive, and Chen Yuan's salary is not as good as that of the first secretary of the embassy. This huge pressure of life forced them to leave Paris and have to live in London. It was only during the meeting that Chen Yuancai went to Paris. In London, she used to teach oriental art and drama to universities, but during this time she mainly engaged in the research of western literature and art.
Ling Shuhua is famous for being indifferent to ambition and being quiet and far-reaching. Although she comes from a famous family, she can bear hardships. In addition to daily housework, in order to make up for the lack of living expenses, she had to work as a painter and sell paintings. From 1956 to 1960, at the invitation of the newly established Nanyang University, he served as a professor of China's modern literature and new literature studies in the Chinese Department of the school, and enthusiastically assisted young artists in their creation after class. 1960 Singapore Sin Chew World Bookstore and Malaya Youth Bookstore published her collection of short stories "Selected Short Stories of Ling Shuhua" with the life of women and children in China as the theme, and her collection of essays "Love Meng Shan Shadow" with overseas stories and literary poems as the content.
Having lived abroad for more than 30 years, she has held many solo exhibitions in museums in Paris, London and Boston, as well as chambers of commerce in Singapore and Mubing. 1962 65438+In February, in order to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the late dean and famous sinologist Glosshaut, Cenuschi Museum was invited to hold an exhibition of paintings by China literati and herself in Musee Cenuschi. This is a sensational art exhibition in Paris. In this exhibition, in addition to more than 30 of her own works, there are also masterpieces of three generations of great painters: Dong Qichang, Ni Zan, Chen Laolian, Yunnan Tian, Shi Tao, Li (Fish List), Jin Dongxin and Zhao. These treasures were printed into commemorative books. In addition, she also exhibited her collection of cultural relics, Four Treasures of the Study and epigraphy. French TV and radio stations introduced it extensively, and major newspapers such as Le Monde and le figaro published special articles praising it. Andre Morova, a famous academician and writer of French Academy of Sciences, once wrote about her paintings. Morova's article is printed on the postcard she drew.
The reputation of Ling Shuhua's paintings at home and abroad.
Ling Shuhua's paintings enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad. She is not only good at meticulous brushwork, but also good at freehand brushwork. Her ink is light and far away, and her charm is deep. She was praised by famous artists at home and abroad. When interviewed by the media, Ling Shuhua, 87, still talked about Ling Shuhua's exhibition in Boston in 1950s. At that time, Mo Luoya, a famous French biographer and president of the French Academy of Art, wrote a preface for her exhibition. Mo Luoya called her a clear-headed China woman, and Morova said she was a clear-headed and versatile China woman. Her paintings belong to literati paintings. The so-called literati painting is a painting method in which the painter expresses his soul, thoughts and feelings through the things in the painting. Mo Luoya said: In this poem and painting, mountains, rivers, flowers, bamboo and so on. Are inherent objects and concepts. There is no difference between static and blank and lines, that is, there are paintings in poems and poems in paintings. People in China often combine calligraphy, painting and poetry into a trinity art, and literati painting is formed by properly controlling these three elements. Although China artists are influenced by tradition, they do not copy the works of the ancients, but try to get rid of stereotypes and show their own realm. They don't stick to imitating nature as their own ability, but think it is very important to create a poetic artistic conception, so Ling Shuhua's efforts are not superficial. The misty mountains she painted, the faint rivers with blurred lines almost mixed with light on both sides, and the white clouds gently set off with light gray constitute her unique world, which seems to emerge in a knee-high dream. Another feature of her art is that she knows how to use her charm to draw an orchid, a magnolia or a bunch of apple buds vividly with a few strokes. She uses China ink stick, which is simple and plain on the white picture, and can hardly be seen. It can be said that this is an abstract brushwork. But looking at her curves depicting nature can remind people of the entities of these flowers and branches. In fact, this is all caused and spread by real existence.
The evaluation of Ling Shuhua's painting art in this passage is accurate. She is a writer and painter, and her painting activities are an important part of her life. Her own landscape flowers have been purchased and preserved by Bocheng and Yin Cheng Museum. 1968, the British Art Association also lent her literati paintings exhibited in France to London for exhibition.
People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) established diplomatic relations with France on 1964. The following year, the French government ordered Chen Yuan to leave 1 1 No.5 Avenue Gorge. Since then, my health has gone from bad to worse, and 1966 resigned, making family life more and more difficult to maintain.
1967 to 1968
Ling Shuhua teaches in Canada, teaching China modern literature. After returning to England, he taught China modern literature and China painting and calligraphy art for many times at the invitation of London University, Oxford University and Edinburgh University. From 1972 to 198 1, she returned to China five times, traveled all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, painted and wrote articles, and the beautiful prose Ode to Dunhuang (published in the 30th anniversary collection of the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao reprint) was her masterpiece after she went to Dunhuang Grottoes. She has published one-act plays successively, and published many articles introducing the scenic spots and literary works of the motherland in Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and Nanyang Business Daily. She also writes in English. Some of her works about the culture, art and customs of the motherland, such as Tuo Shi in the Han Dynasty, Wood Carvings in the Ming Dynasty, China Gardens, Country Life and Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang, have been widely praised by the intelligentsia, especially Virginia Woolf, the most famous female writer in modern Britain. Her autobiographical English work "My LODIES in Ancient Times" was written under the guidance of V W00lf, which is considered as an intoxicating work. She said to Ling Shuhua: Don't write books for foreigners. Write down what you see and know. Ling Shuhua said: This is very reasonable for literary workers. After the publication of the Collection of Ancient Songs, it has aroused great concern in the cultural circles. The British Book Association rated it as the best-selling masterpiece of the year, and the Sunday Times Literature Supplement also devoted an article to it. Ling Shuhua is also famous in the international literary world.
A foreign land is not home after all, and a foreign country is not the motherland after all. Only the motherland is your mother. Ling Shuhua is always thinking about his motherland. According to the cloud, she once said with infinite emotion: I don't want to sell carpets on the roadside like Belarus. Of course, she is not Belarus. She is a respected writer, painter and patriot, and she dreams of the unity and strength of the motherland. 1949 has just been published in New China. Li Siguang, a famous geologist, was in trouble when he returned home. It was Mr. and Mrs. Ling Shuhua who called from London in the middle of the night to inform him that the situation was urgent and asked him to leave the seaside hotel in Bournemouth quickly. This alone shows the sense of justice of Ling Shuhua and his wife.