"My friend Ai Shuhao won the first prize in the Chengdu Primary School Hard Pen Calligraphy Competition."
Who won the grand prize in the first National Hard Pen Calligraphy Competition? Can you share their works?
1985 the first national hard-pen calligraphy competition is a major event in the development of hard-pen calligraphy in China, with millions of participants. Later games have never been so big. Before introducing the ten grand prize winners, let's briefly review the history of outline calligraphy. Pen was introduced into China only 100 years ago, which coincided with the New Culture Movement. Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Yu Dafu and others began to write with pens. 1935, Chen Gongzhe wrote a thousand words in a running script, which was written vertically by Lian Bi, the first pen copybook in China. The General Book written by Huang Ruozhou in 1939 also had a great influence. Pen words have sublimated from practicality to artistic realm. 1954 published Shen's Outline Writing Practice and Writing, and 1958 published Chinese Characters Quick Writing, with a print run of130,000 copies, which is a copybook with great influence. After the end of 1970s, hard pen calligraphy became mature. 1980 Jiang feng, chairman of artists association, affirmed the word "pen calligraphy" in the preface of Pang Zhonghua's "Talking about learning to write pen characters". Since then, a large number of pens have been published in Copybook for calligraphy and many competitions have been held. In this context, the national contest of 1585 is of great significance to the later development of pen calligraphy, and the names of the ten grand prize winners in the contest have also been written in hard pen.
The ten winners are: Cao Baolin, Zhao Yanliang, Zhang Xiu (female), Liu Huipu, Ren Ping, Ma Ming, Qiu Yin, Ge Quansheng, Gu Zhongan and Jason.
Zhao Yanliang works, Shanghainese, 1966 Zhiqiang, 1989 Graduated from China Journalism College, Chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Xinjiang Construction Corps and Chairman of Xinjiang Calligraphy Association.
Cao Baolin works, Shanghainese, contemporary calligrapher.
Jia, working in Institute of Linguistics, Anhui Normal University, is a professor and doctoral supervisor.
Ren Ping works in Jiangsu, graduated from Chinese Department of Hangzhou University, Ph.D., once a professor at Zhejiang University, and is now a professor and doctoral supervisor at China Academy of Fine Arts. ..
Zhang Xiu's works, the only woman who won the grand prize, is a researcher at Hubei Provincial Museum and vice chairman of Hubei Book Association.
Liu Huipu's works, Hunan native, director of Guizhou Calligraphy Association, special researcher of Provincial Literature and History Museum.
Ma Ming works, Jiangsu native, has been engaged in middle school teaching, special math teacher.
Qiu Yin's works, a native of Jiangsu, later joined Fangzheng font library and won the title of "Font Goddess".
Ge Quansheng's works were published in "Fly High" of Peking University. He also studied in the Research Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China, and was a researcher, doctoral supervisor and academician of China Academy of Sciences. He was 22 years old when he won the grand prize, but later he faded out of the book world because of his work.
Gu Zhongan's works were brush calligraphers before learning pen calligraphy, and hard pen calligraphy has a good foundation in brush calligraphy.