1924 On the fifth day of the first lunar month, at the foot of Dabie Mountain, a male was born in a farmhouse near Shenghu Lake in Shifodian Township, Gushi County, Henan Province. He is Li Ganshan. My parents have been farmers for generations, and they have been farming without studying. It was a time of war and chaos, but parents were determined to send their son who had just turned 8 to a private school. Seven years later, they urged their son to go to middle school without hesitation, in order to avoid those strongmen. As long as boys go to middle school, they can postpone their service. Li Ganshan grew into a tall and strong young man at the age of fifteen. The life design made by his parents for him is completely beyond the actual ability of this family.

In rural private schools, Li Ganshan was taught by two scholars in the late Qing Dynasty. The two old gentlemen, with profound knowledge and rigorous scholarship, require all-round learning, not only memorizing the four books and five classics, but also demanding writing, poetry and composition. Wu Zhongfu is an old scholar with rich books. It's sunny in summer. Mr. Wang asked the school children to help him carry the books outside to dry. Li Ganshan was unexpectedly attracted by Zhu Suiliang's Preface to the Wild Goose Pagoda. The old gentleman is generous: he likes to practice. Under the careful guidance of Teacher Li, Li Ganshan saw the exquisiteness of calligraphy from the beginning and stepped into the threshold of the art hall step by step. In the following years, in Gushi Middle School and Huangchuan Joint Division, I was fortunate to be guided by the famous calligraphers He, Song and Wang in the late Qing Dynasty, and calligraphy made great progress.

From 65438 to 0946, Li Ganshan was successfully admitted to Henan University. During this period, Li Ganshan was personally handed down by Professor Yu Anlan, a famous archaeologist, archaeologist, famous calligraphy seal engraver and painting theorist. When he swam to the sea, he got water, which affected his life.

As the saying goes, if the country declines, the book will decline; The prosperity of the country is the prosperity of books. The struggle history of a civilian calligrapher is closely linked to the fate of the country.

After studying in the university for one year, Mr. Li Ganshan left the institution he was deeply attached to with a grudge because of livelihood problems and walked back to his hometown for half a month. He once wrote a poem to express his feelings at that time: "I was out of school for 30 days, vaguely down and out." Why did Mulberry trek to save her family from poverty? "

Poverty, dropping out of school, seclusion ... all the twists and turns can only urge Li Ganshan to climb the pace of calligraphy After returning home, he was still in the pool, determined to get out of the enclosure and seek art from famous artists.

1947, he resolutely went to Nanjing, the seat of the National Government at that time, and knocked on the door of Mr. Yu Youren, a famous calligrapher at that time and then the president of the Supervision Institute of the National Government, and received enthusiastic guidance from the master. Yu Lao encouraged him to write his own style on the basis of not losing the word Chu, and waved his hand happily, giving the book the motto of "Never forget the past and learn from the future". Mr. Li Ganshan was regarded as a standard all his life.

1948165438+1October, Mr. Gam San attended * * and was in charge of local township leaders.

1952 Abandoning politics to teach.

1958 was labeled as a rightist and re-educated for four years;

196 1 Go back to my hometown and work hard for 20 years. A person's life should have several golden years! What a miserable 20 years! Mr. Li Ganshan, a novice, was criticized several times for swimming across the village street in order to practice calligraphy, wearing a top hat, hanging black cards and wiping his face. And Mr. Li Ganshan's pursuit is "though he died nine times without regret". He ordered a copy of Henan Daily. After reading it, he wrote a few big characters in light ink, then small characters, and then wrote a few small characters in the gap. When he wrote a piece of black ink, he dipped his brush in water and continued to write. He didn't want to throw it away until he broke the newspaper. Day after day, year after year. The wind is tight, and my wife is watching the wind outside the door. It is with his persistent love and pursuit of art that he has gone through the most bleak years of his life.

1978, rehabilitate and resume work;

1984, he ushered in the spring of art: in the first Zhongyuan Calligraphy Competition, Mr. Li Ganshan won the first prize in one fell swoop and became famous in the Central Plains. This year, he is 60 years old. In the same year, he joined the China Calligraphers Association and served as the vice chairman of Xinyang Calligraphers Association (since then 19).

Mr. Li Ganshan knows that art is endless and the road ahead is long. Take winning the prize as a new beginning. At the age of 60, he is still as pious as a primary school student as Lin Sanzhi, a "contemporary grass sage". He is diligent in art, assiduously studies, learns from others' strengths, constantly innovates, and gradually forms his own style, ushering in the spring of a hundred flowers in his calligraphy art garden.

1992 won the Excellence Award (the highest award) of the first national book fair, which filled the historical blank of national awards in his city (Xinyang area at that time);

1995, at the age of 72, his works were selected for the 6th National Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Exhibition; His works have also traveled across the ocean to Japan, and have been widely collected by national museums such as the Great Hall of the People, and his artistic achievements have been recorded in various dictionaries and classics.

Mr. Li Ganshan's calligraphy techniques are widely used, and inscriptions are combined with calligraphy. He has mastered all aspects of official script and seal script, and his research on small letters and cursive script is more detailed and his brushwork is old and spicy. As the famous calligraphy critic Mr. Xi Wen Zhong said when analyzing and evaluating Mr. Gam San's calligraphy characteristics: "He didn't use the side pressing of the pen and the ups and downs of the lines to obtain the visual effect of the surface, but paid special attention to the texture of the lines and the strength of using the pen ... He practiced" internal strength ". The lines in his works ... are very round and smooth, full of elasticity and tension ... they are mature and refined realms forged by years, and everything is turned into soft fingers. " "Pursue the artistic conception of naturalness and frankness, and follow the creed that I write my heart. The pen is simple, the structure is simple, the composition is compact and smooth, and it is full of the spirit of actively entering the WTO and the fresh and lively life atmosphere. " Mr. Li Ganshan is good at poetry creation, and has published many monographs such as Poems of Feasible Caotang and Poems of Tudingzhai.

Mr. Li Ganshan not only studied calligraphy skills, but also spared no effort to promote new people, making great contributions to the growth of the local calligraphy art team. Mr. Zhang Hai, Chairman of the China Calligraphers Association, highly affirmed the reasons for the formation of the calligraphy team in Gushi County, the hometown of calligraphy in China: "There are a large number of calligraphers in Gushi, and the way is correct and the level is high, which is obviously closely related to the words and deeds of the older generation of calligraphers such as Lei and Li Ganshan."

In 2009, Mr. Li Ganshan was nominated for the Lanting Award, the third highest calligraphy award in China. He deserves this high honor.

Mr. Li Ganshan became the chairman of Gushi County Book Association and tried his best to reward and promote new people. The whole county is learning calligraphy, and a group of calligraphy talents stand out. A county has 38 members of China Book Association, more than 0/00 members of provincial Book Association and tens of thousands of calligraphy lovers. More than 100 people have participated in the National Exhibition, Lanting Award, China Youth Exhibition and China Youth Exhibition. Among his disciples, many young Toshihiko made his mark in the calligraphy circle in China, such as a member of the lettering research society of China Calligraphy Association, an accomplished young calligrapher, a member of the Education Committee of China Calligraphy Association and a member of the seal script judging committee, a young calligrapher, a young scholar calligrapher, an associate professor of China Academy of Fine Arts, and a young and middle-aged calligrapher Li. Mr. Gam San also organized a painting and calligraphy research society for the elderly in Gushi County, and the activities were in full swing. Among the members who are over 60 or even very old, 7 are members of China Book Association and 25 are members of Provincial Book Association.

Mr. Li Ganshan has always been enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings. On 20 10, teacher Li donated more than 400,000 yuan to the county library to buy more than 2000 books/kloc-0. In 2009, the People's Government of Gushi County awarded Mr. Li Ganshan the "Lifetime Achievement Award" and is preparing to build the "Li Ganshan Calligraphy Art Museum". Mr. Zhang Hai, Chairman of China Calligraphers Association, gladly inscribed the name of the museum.

Mr. Li Ganshan, who enjoys a high reputation in the world of books and peaches and plums, still sings with great pride, "A person's old pen is like Zen, and he is willing to inject fresh blood. If you are free to write, you can write at any time. "

Calligraphy Newspaper, Calligraphy Guide, Xinyang Evening News, Wen Yi Newspaper and China Reportage reported Mr. Li Ganshan's artistic life successively. Ink was collected by Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and other units.