Li Shutong is the pioneer of China drama movement and the founder of China drama. He is the main member of the first drama group "Spring Willow Society" in China. La Traviata, which was staged during the Spring Festival in the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), was the first drama staged by China people, with Li Shutong as the heroine Margaret. Later, he starred in the one-act drama Living in Compassion, The Painter and His Sister, and the drama The Black Slave's Call to Heaven based on the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Li Shutong's performance had a great response in the society. Although Li Shutong's drama activities are like stars, they light up the road of China's drama development and open the curtain of China's drama. Especially in scenery design, makeup, clothing, props, lighting and many other artistic aspects. , played an enlightening role. In music, Li Shutong is a great lyricist and composer, and the first person in China who has achieved fruitful results and far-reaching influence in music and song creation. He edited Music Magazine, the first music periodical in China. He was also the first composer in China to compose music with staff. He first popularized the western "King of Music" piano in China. He explained harmony and counterpoint in Zhejiang No.1 Normal School, was the first person to introduce western music theory into China, and was also one of the earliest promoters of "school music songs". In the thirty-first year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1905), the Collection of Songs of Chinese Studies was edited and published, which was used as a teaching material by primary and secondary schools at that time. His songs are wide in content and diverse in forms, which are mainly divided into three categories. One is patriotic songs, such as Song of the Motherland, My Motherland, Mourning for the Motherland and Greater China. Second, lyrical songs, such as Living in seclusion, Spring outing, Early Autumn, West Lake, Farewell and so on. Third, philosophical songs, such as falling flowers, sad autumn, late bells and bright moons. Most of Li Shutong's songs have beautiful tunes and catchy lyrics, so they spread widely and have great influence. Li Shutong was the first person in China to introduce western painting knowledge and to hire nude models to teach. He edited woodcut prints with educator and writer Xia Mianzun. He is the earliest creator and advocate of modern printmaking art in China. He widely introduced western art schools and artistic ideas, and organized the Western Painting Research Association. His works include History of Western Art, Introduction to European Literature, Usage of Plaster Model, etc. , all set the first place in the study of Chinese people in the same period. He spared no effort to introduce the history of western art development and representative painters in school art class, which made China artists fully and systematically understand the grand view of world art for the first time. As an art educator, he taught in Zhejiang First Normal University with modern educational methods, and trained a number of famous painters and musicians such as Feng Zikai, Pan Tianshou, Liu Zhiping and Wu Mengfei. Li Shutong himself has made great achievements in western painting. He painted many sketches, gouache and oil paintings. Today, people can still see his charcoal sketch "Girl", watercolor "Camellia", oil painting "Girl" and "Self-portrait". What's more commendable is that Li Shutong not only boldly introduced western art, but also attached great importance to China's traditional painting theory and techniques, and was especially good at combining western painting with China's traditional art. He cooperated with his disciple Feng Zikai in "Protecting Students", which was praised by the world for its combination of poetry and painting. Li Shutong's achievements in calligraphy attracted worldwide attention. His early calligraphy was born in Wei Bei, and his brushwork was open and clever. Later, it became a school of its own, diluting the wilderness and being gentle and clear. Especially after becoming a monk, his works are full of extraordinary tranquility and the distance like a cloud crane. This is extremely gorgeous and plain, quiet after heroism and childish after aging, just as he claimed: "The words of corrupt people are plain, quiet and easy to escape."
Related commemorative activities (15). "Li Shutong's seal cutting is unique. In his early years, he began to attack Zhejiang School from Qin and Han Dynasties. At the age of 35, he joined Xiling Printing Society. At the age of 39, before he became a monk at Tiger Run Dinghui Temple in Hangzhou, he gave his seal cutting works and Tibetan seals to Xiling Printing Society. The organization built a "seal tomb" for it and erected a monument to commemorate it. Governing Britain, appreciating Britain and evaluating India are hobbies that he has never given up in his life. In his letter to a friend, he said: "The flat-headed tip is flat, even like a cone, created by rotten people themselves. Tapered knives can only engrave white characters, such as writing with an iron pen. A flat-headed knife can engrave Zhu Wen, but it will inevitably be nicked. If you don't carve Bai Wen with a conical knife, you will naturally be interested. "Li Shutong's contribution to Indian studies is also reflected in his promotion of modern seal cutting. He personally initiated the establishment of another printing agency, Xerox, after Xiling Printing Agency, and regularly collected works and arranged historical materials. This is also the first thing that leads the trend in the history of modern seal cutting. Li Shutong's poems also occupy a place in the history of modern literature in China. When he was young, he attracted the attention of the literary world with his talent. When he lived in Shanghai, he wrote down his previous poems by hand, which was circulated among friends of Chengnan Literature Society as the first poem "Poem Bell Collection", and later collected the poem Bell Collection. On the eve of becoming a monk, he compiled more than 20 poems from 26 to 33 years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1900- 1907). Among them, there are many commendable masterpieces, such as "Leaving the Motherland for Students" and "Mourning for the Dead", which show the author's deep concern for the fate of the country and the sufferings of people's livelihood. In the five or six years before becoming a monk, he also published more than 30 lyrics. These works express people's thoughts and feelings in the same situation in the metropolis through artistic means. They are all the rage, and some of them have become enduring masterpieces.