Pengxi County is located in the hilly area of central Sichuan, with an area of 1.246 square kilometers and a population of 750,000, and governs 3 1 township. County was established in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and named in the first year of Tang Tianbao. Up to now, it has a history of more than 1600 years and is rich in traditional culture. Pengxi folk customs are simple and quaint, and the wind of "being good at writing and painting" has been passed down from generation to generation. It is spread all over Shan Ye and has always enjoyed the reputation of "the hometown of five histories", which has a huge humanistic environment and historical soil for developing national folk culture and art.
In the past twenty years, a group of young and middle-aged calligraphy groups with great strength have grown in the profound cultural soil of Pengxi, forming a nationally famous "Pengxi Calligraphy Phenomenon" in the calligraphy field. The works of "Pengxi Calligraphy Group" have also been frequently exhibited and won honors in art halls at all levels in China. Pengxi's colorful mass calligraphy activities have contributed to the construction of "three civilizations". In May 2000, the Ministry of Culture of China awarded Pengxi County the title of "Hometown of Folk Art (Calligraphy) in China".
The Historical Origin and Inheritance of Pengxi Calligraphy Art
First, Pengxi folk calligraphy style is extremely prosperous, and there are many ink marks of historical celebrities.
(1) In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu set foot in Pengxi, leaving behind the famous prose "The Traveler's Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty" and poems inscribed with calligraphy.
(2) In the Song Dynasty, Wang Hongshan wrote calligraphy and wrote down the inscription of Baofan Temple, which still exists today.
(3) Huang Hui, a calligrapher with the same fame as Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty, wrote an inscription "Zidong Zoulu" in Pengxi, praising Pengxi's prosperous culture and simple folk customs.
(4) In the Qing Dynasty, there were nine palaces and eighteen temples in Pengxi, involving Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and other cultures, leaving many plaques and couplets. Pengxi County Lingsheng inscribed "Guest House"; Pengxi county magistrate Duan Xiuzuo's "Tiger Roar Map"; Zhang Chuanshan, a native of Pengxi, was a genius of "poetry and calligraphy" in Qing Dynasty. His calligraphy is solemn, rough and simple. Zhang Yao and Wang Meng are both good at calligraphy and painting, and their works are included in Yizhou Calligraphy and Painting Record.
(5) During the Republic of China, Gao Feng Mountain (in Pengxi), a famous Taoist mountain in central Sichuan, had many plaques, such as Weibei, and ancient seals and running scripts. Yu Youren, Linsen, He, Ju Zheng, Feng Zikai, Zhang Lan, Dai, Chen Cheng, Chen, Zhang Qun, Chen Lifu, Wang, Wang, Feng Yuxiang, Deng Xihou, Bai Chongxi, Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui and Tian Songyao all left ink here.
(6) Contemporary famous painters Huang and Sha Menghai also left precious Mo Bao in Pengxi.
(7) In the late 1970s, Ceng Laide, a famous calligrapher in Pengxi, founded the first township-level calligraphy association in China in Sanfeng Town of Pengxi, and sent young calligraphy lovers out to study and further their studies as planned. A group of old calligraphers in the county, that is, Wei Bei or Fa Tie in the Tang and Song Dynasties, guided young people: "Learning books should be based on ancient laws and the right path should be the most important." In the mid-1980s, volunteers obsessed with the exploration of Pengxi calligraphy realized the limitations of individual learning and the importance of the influence of group wisdom, so they organized and established Pengxi Youth Calligraphy Society and Pengxi County Calligraphy Association. "Pengxi Calligraphy Group" was born. "Calligraphy Group" has always maintained a positive academic atmosphere and a strong learning atmosphere. Not only adhere to personal creative practice, but also often hold various calligraphy pen meetings, exhibitions, manuscript reading parties, calligraphy art salons for artistic exchanges, and often invite famous scholars to give lectures and travel abroad to study. Only in this way can Pengxi calligraphy finally take the lead in the national book circle with its own features, special connotation and unique style-
● 1995 10, the official publication of China Calligraphy Association, China Calligraphy, introduced the amazing achievements made by Pengxi Calligraphy Group in the creation and exploration of calligraphy art for the first time, and held a special academic symposium with a "typical" domestic regional calligraphy group in Beijing.
●1May, 1996, Calligraphy Guide published an article by Mr. Zhou Junjie, a member of the Academic Committee of China Calligraphers Association, a famous calligrapher and vice chairman of Henan Calligraphers Association, focusing on the causes and trends of Pengxi calligraphy and "Pengxi calligraphy group", and the special significance of the formation of calligraphy groups in China to the development of contemporary calligraphy. In another article about the 20-year review and summary of China's calligraphy, nearly 30 representative calligraphers in China were cited, among which 4 were the authors of "Pengxi Calligraphy Group".
● 1996 10 10 In October, Sichuan Calligraphers Association held the Third Sichuan Calligraphy Academic Seminar in Pengxi, and held the Pengxi Calligraphy Group Exhibition and the Pengxi Calligraphy Art Symposium. The meeting was presided over by Mr. He, Vice Chairman of China Calligraphy Association and Chairman of Sichuan Calligraphers Association. ● 1997 65438+ 10. In order to promote the development of calligraphy art in Sichuan Province, Sichuan Calligraphy Association held a calligraphy exhibition between the two places in Sichuan Art Museum with the theme of "Pengxi Calligraphy Group" and Chongqing Calligraphers, which attracted wide attention from the art circles and all walks of life inside and outside the province.
●199965438+February, the 7th National Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition held every four years was held in China Art Museum. Seven people from Pengxi Calligraphy Group participated in the exhibition, ranking first in all counties in China, and 1 person won the "National Award". The participation of other western provinces and regions is: Guizhou 8, Guangxi 7, Yunnan 3, Qinghai 3, Tibet 1.
● In May 2000, the Social and Cultural Books Department of the Ministry of Culture of China named Pengxi County as "the hometown of folk art (calligraphy) in China". There is only one "hometown of calligraphy" named after the county like Pengxi. This special honor has aroused widespread interest and concern in Pengxi in the cultural and artistic circles at home and abroad, especially in the painting and calligraphy circles.
From June 5438 to February 2000, the 8th National Exhibition of Young and Middle-aged Calligraphy and Seal Carving was grandly opened in China Art Museum. Pengxi Calligraphy Group selected 8 people, 5 people entered the exhibition and 2 people won the third prize. Other provinces and regions in the west participated in the exhibition: Shaanxi 10, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Qinghai, Yunnan, Guizhou, Ningxia, Gansu and Inner Mongolia 1 person, and Tibet was blank.
● In the "Sichuan-Guizhou Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition" in 20065438+0, Sichuan took Pengxi and Shifang calligraphy authors as the main lineup to exchange in Guizhou. Young and middle-aged calligraphers in Pengxi Group 12, exhibiting more than 30 works.
● In 2003, Calligraphy Guide published Pengxi Group, the hometown of calligraphy in China, in consecutive 15 issues.
Second, the current situation of Pengxi calligraphy art
Pengxi has 13 members of China Calligraphy Association, more than 20 members of provincial calligraphy associations, more than 100 members of city and county calligraphy associations, and more than 3,000 folk calligraphy lovers. In recent years, he has won more than 90 awards in newspapers and magazines at home and abroad, published more than 600 works and more than 30 papers. There are three calligraphy teaching and training bases in the county's primary schools, and they have participated in more than 200 national children's calligraphy and painting exhibitions and won more than 60 awards. Township folk calligraphy organizations have been gradually established and improved, and activities have been carried out normally.
Cultural function and its social function
As an old revolutionary base area with relatively backward economic and social development, Pengxi County, how to seize the opportunity of western development and realize the leap-forward development is the key to give full play to its own advantages and embark on a unique development path. Therefore, it is of great significance to make full use of the national and folk cultural advantages of "the hometown of calligraphy in China", carry forward and inherit "calligraphy with folk characteristics", vigorously develop cultural industries, promote the development of tourism, comprehensively improve the popularity of Pengxi County in the country and even the world, vigorously attract investment, and promote all-round economic and social development. At the same time, inheriting and developing excellent traditional calligraphy art is conducive to enhancing national pride and cohesion, which is a vivid patriotic education method and will further promote the development of Chinese calligraphy art.
technical description
The works created by Pengxi Calligraphy Group include seal script, official script, truth, line and grass, each with its own strengths, unique personality and unique style.
List of members confirmed by China Calligraphy.
He Wenshuo Ouyang Fu Chen Gang Liu Yanqi Dayu Tang Zong Linyue Li Yan
The favorable and unfavorable factors affecting its sustainable development
First, China people are interested in calligraphy, which is a national hobby, and it has the same aesthetic nature as it was cultivated from childhood. However, we have to admit the fact that most literati are writing every day, but they are extremely unfamiliar with calligraphy, full of enthusiasm for calligraphy, and have no common sense of creation, and then regard the field of calligraphy as an unreachable sacred place. This has greatly affected the popularity of calligraphy art and the improvement of its popularity.
China is a country of calligraphy. Calligraphy is a bright pearl in traditional culture and art, and also a treasure in the treasure house of world culture and art, which has great influence on Chinese and overseas Chinese in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Canada and even the whole world. However, with the development of modern science and technology, information technology has penetrated into all aspects of society, computers are more and more widely used, and the more advanced telecommunications technology, the less opportunities people need to write. So fewer and fewer people are learning calligraphy, which is great.