Pang Zhonghua, a famous calligrapher, educator and poet, was born in Dazhou City, Sichuan Province. Born in 1945, 10, 1965 graduated from Southwest University of Science and Technology, majoring in geological exploration. The main pioneer of hard pen calligraphy in contemporary China.

He is currently honorary chairman of China Hard Pen Calligraphy Association, president of Pang Zhonghua Hard Pen Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and was elected as a member of the Eighth CPPCC.

Pang Zhonghua has been practicing hard-pen calligraphy for decades, and he knows famous calligraphy like the back of his hand. He believes that we should not blindly copy the calligraphy of our predecessors and lose ourselves, but should constantly innovate. In his words, it is to "read ancient books and write modern Chinese characters". At the same time, Pang Zhonghua studied under Wen, a master of Chinese studies, and was a close disciple of famous scholars such as He, Wang Liping, Kong Linzi and so on, and also had a certain foundation in poetry creation. At present, he is the executive director of Tang Yan Poetry Society.

Chinese name: Pang Zhonghua.

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of Birth: Dazhou City, Sichuan Province

Date of birth:1945101October 2 1.

Occupation: calligrapher, poet

Graduate school: Southwest University of Science and Technology

Main achievements: the establishment of China Hard Pen Calligraphy Association.

Pang Zhonghua Hard Pen Calligraphy Center and College was established.

Member of the Eighth China People's Political Consultative Conference.

Representative Works: Pang Zhonghua's Pen Copy, Pang Zhonghua Modern Hard Pen Copy, etc.

Personal work

Since 1980, more than 100 copybooks and monographs have been published at home and abroad, among which the representative works are: Pang Zhonghua talks about learning to write with a pen,

Pang Zhonghua's pen copy, Pang Zhonghua's modern hard pen copy, Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy collection, Pang Zhonghua's poetry copy, Pang Zhonghua's prose collection, Pang Zhonghua TV lecture, Pang Zhonghua's life perception, hard pen calligraphy introduction, etc. , edited a number of calligraphy textbooks, including textbooks for the popularization class of hard pen calligraphy, textbooks for the advanced class of hard pen calligraphy, and textbooks for the advanced class of hard pen calligraphy. And suitable for primary and secondary school students to use in the classroom, such as writing textbooks, writing posts, calligraphy art, and Pang Zhonghua's happy handwriting. The total number of books printed has exceeded 65.438+0.5 billion, and the number of books printed by informal channels has exceeded 300 million. He was also invited to teach hard-pen calligraphy and Pang Zhonghua's hard-pen calligraphy art on CCTV and China Education Television for many times, with tens of millions of audiences.

Personal realization

Pang Zhonghua Hard Pen Calligraphy Center and College, which he founded, has trained more than 20,000 students/kloc-0. Pang's hard pen calligraphy is fresh and elegant, and he is good at various styles, so he is known as "Pang Style". His original "happy three-dimensional teaching method" is well-known at home and abroad. Besides calligraphy, he is good at music, poetry, prose and speeches. Public opinion at home and abroad called him "the first person in hard pen calligraphy in China".

life experience

The story of "bamboo pen"

Deep in the poor but beautiful Daba Mountain, five-year-old Pang Zhonghua timidly started his "school" life in a land temple with dozens of rural children, learning to write in the first class. Simple brushes were bought from village vendors, and the paper was rough yellow crumpled paper. A broken bowl is turned over, and the round bottom of the bowl is just used to grind the inkstone. The students divide the fringed paper into vertical rows. The teacher writes a model at the beginning of each row and the students imitate it.

What impressed him most in his childhood was the pen of teacher Yuan, the head teacher. That's the only pen in the remote mountain village of Daba Mountain! Teacher Yuan usually pins his pen in his coat pocket, revealing a shiny pen hanging. What good air! While Mr. Yuan was writing, Pang Zhonghua stood quietly, staring at how the shiny nib crossed the paper, how to leave smooth and light lines, and how beautiful and beautiful the font was. The pen cover is made of celluloid with a small round hole on it. What a magical pen! It looks beautiful and easy to use. It's completely different from the brush you use. Grind ink at the bottom of the bowl every day, and accidentally get ink all over the books and clothes.

However, where can children in mountain villages afford pens? He used a sickle to cut out a thumb-thick bamboo spot, cut it into half a foot long, and cut one end like a pencil tip. He cracked a small crack in the middle and wrote in ink. The thread is as thin as the tip of a pencil, and he never gives up. Then he cut off a thick bamboo tube, made it into a pen cover, and didn't put it in the pocket of little Khan's coat. Riding on the cow's back, proudly walking through the village head, walking in front of classmates. At that time, in the hearts of rural children, pens represented knowledge, learning, cleverness and wisdom. Teacher Yuan praised Pang Zhonghua in the class, saying that he was very creative and could build airplanes and advanced machines for the motherland when he grew up! But of course, Mr. Yuan didn't expect that this rural child, who cut a pen with a bamboo tube barefoot, had an indissoluble bond with the pen in later years.

Pang Zhonghua used this Zhi Zhu "pen" to copy "geographical common sense", "scientific common sense" and "people's common sense" on yellow fringed paper, page by page, one book after another, and his heart was full of endless fun. It's 1952, a note from a seven-year-old boy in Dabashan village. A year later, the child walked out of Daba Mountain and came to Chongqing, where he got his first real pen from his kind uncle. Holding a pen, his eyes lit up and he jumped for joy. It's late at night, but he still can't sleep. He still plays with his pen repeatedly under the lamp, and he can't let it go. He took out a red diary and neatly wrote a new page in his life with this new pen.

The eight-year-old boy, who gained the motivation of a new life, studied eagerly, kept writing down his thoughts and feelings in his notebook with that pen, and kept getting enviable good grades in various school exams.

Geologists and calligraphy

Pang Zhonghua finished high school and Chongqing Institute of Building Materials (predecessor of Southwest University of Science and Technology) in Chongqing, then packed his bags and went to the North China Geological Exploration Team, and once again returned to the embrace of mountains: every day, he went up and down the mountain with a hammer and a pickaxe, hammered, dug and planed, climbed over one mountain after another and found one mine after another. The tent was torn down again and again, again and again. He is always accompanied by an accordion and books that change frequently. Time flows quietly in the mountains.

The quiet time was suddenly completely broken one day-one early summer evening, Pang Zhonghua found himself deeply fascinated by writing. At first, he took advantage of the inevitable opportunity of political study at that time to copy newspaper articles one by one with a pen and describe newspapers and various fonts page by page. The rich cultural information and ever-changing font structure contained in the square characters strongly attracted the young geologist to explore.

As a writing tool, pen has been widely used for a long time, and it must have its unique writing skills and calligraphy art rules. In China, the pen is a writing tool used by hundreds of millions of people every day, but there is no pen in Copybook for calligraphy. "I want to write a copybook and erect a banner written in Chinese characters!" Pang Zhonghua was inspired by his great wish and pushed to a new height irresistibly. He tried to find all the brush copybooks he could see, and used a pen to describe various fonts of Wang, Zhao, Yan, Ou and Liu. He carefully studied the similarities between brush and pen in the structure of Chinese characters, and discussed how the unique aesthetic feeling of China traditional calligraphy was passed down in the wide use of modern writing tools. An unshirkable sense of mission is urging him all the time. The toolbox became a desk he carried with him, and reading notes, diaries and letters were all taken as opportunities for him to practice his handwriting seriously. While others are drinking, chatting and playing cards to pass the tedious life of prospecting in the deep mountains, Pang Zhonghua has gradually spread his ideal wings through thousands of Chinese character descriptions.

It was the Cultural Revolution, and the exploration and pursuit of this geologist was at least a typical example of "doing nothing", if not "moving against the trend of the times". Occasionally, he also doubts: Can the shoulders of an ordinary geologist be competent for that solemn mission?

But he knows that the only way he has to go is to move forward, even if there is a heavy burden on his shoulders-perhaps because of the great responsibility. He tried to overcome the huge gap between the realistic environment and the ideal. While conscientiously engaged in geological exploration work unrelated to writing, he insisted on reading and practicing calligraphy in the mobile tent of the geological team. When you are tired, run on the winding mountain road.

After fifteen years in the isolated hills of Huaying Mountain, Emei Mountain, Daqingshan Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Taihang Mountain and Wuwangshan Mountain, Pang Zhonghua once again walked out of the mountains and took his first manuscript to talk about learning to write with a pen.

Hard pen calligraphy leader

It was in the early 1980s that the long river of China's calligraphy history suddenly burst its banks and a new category-hard pen calligraphy appeared. The leader is actually a little-known geologist.

When "Talking about Learning to Write Pen Words" became a bestseller, when Pang Zhonghua sat on CCTV and vividly explained hard-pen calligraphy, when the People's Daily, China Youth Daily and other central news media reported on Pang Zhonghua, a learning storm with enthusiasm of hundreds of millions of people quickly swept across the country.

In the past 27 years, the storm of learning hard-pen calligraphy has swept across the north and south of the river, gradually forming a steady, slow and idle river, which runs parallel to traditional calligraphy in the long history of China calligraphy, and Pang Zhonghua has always been the digger and promoter of this river.

Honor also came to him from this river. He drew nutrition from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jin Wen and Shi Guwen, walked out of the tradition and created a hard pen "Pang Ti" combining practicality and artistry-elegance and roundness in the founder and freedom and freedom in the rigidity. His more than 300 kinds of copybooks and monographs have been published in more than 1 100 million volumes, which are used as teaching materials for teenagers to learn Chinese characters. His writing board, pen container, writing tools, writing pens, writing books, etc. It has become a writing tool for teenagers to practice Chinese characters quickly. China Pen Calligraphy Correspondence Center, founded by him, has trained millions of students, lectured in hundreds of universities, institutions and military units in China, and spread the cultural essence of China Chinese characters and its original music happy teaching method to hundreds of well-known universities abroad.

He became the idol of hundreds of millions of teenagers in China. People saw this idol carrying the banner of China's hard pen calligraphy all the way, with a bumper harvest behind it. People also saw the mark of honor left by him: due to long-term hard training, several joints of his right middle finger were obviously deformed, and the thick and arched fingers formed a thick cocoon at the end of the pen.

From 65438 to 0993, Pang Zhonghua became the chairman of China Hard Pen Calligraphy Association. The chairman put forward a resounding slogan to Chinese people all over the world: "Write beautiful Chinese characters and be an upright China person", and he himself was the most loyal practitioner of this slogan.

Feelings and experiences

I want to go to the forest of steles in Xi most.

Pang Zhonghua said that he has traveled all over the world, but his favorite place is the forest of steles in Xi 'an. "The essence of China's calligraphy art lies in the forest of steles. When I first went there, I saw the original inscriptions of Yan Zhenqing and Wang Xizhi standing there, and felt that there was no chance in this life, because they had a height that modern people could not surpass. "

As a calligrapher, Pang Zhonghua also dabbled in the literary world and wrote a large number of modern poems, which gave him the opportunity to meet a number of Shaanxi writers such as Chen and Jia Pingwa. "Shaanxi is a very literary place, which makes me very yearning. I sometimes fantasize that if I could be born in the Tang Dynasty where the great calligrapher Zhang Xu was located, how happy I would be to drink and read every day! "

Learn books step by step.

Pang Zhonghua devoted himself to the popularization of hard pen calligraphy. He taught at the Confucius Institute in China, which was opened in Germany, and taught foreigners to practice hard-pen calligraphy with the "happy teaching method", which was very popular. "With German music, foreign students learn to write Chinese characters one by one, which is not only correct, but also standardized and beautiful. Good works should be exhibited, which is a great promotion to China culture. "

What worries Pang Zhonghua is that while foreigners are scrambling to learn to write Chinese characters, there are fewer and fewer people in China who can write good Chinese characters. The popularity of computers makes hard-pen calligraphy more used in exhibitions, which is also related to people's indifference to traditional culture and impetuous mentality. As for some parents' attitude that "hard calligraphy is a trifle, and good calligraphy is the real skill", Pang Zhonghua thinks that learning calligraphy is a step-by-step process, which can only "grow seedlings". More importantly, the two are not contradictory, and the former is more practical. He revealed that the Ministry of Education will introduce a new standard for hard-pen calligraphy examination, so that children can take fewer detours in their studies.

I was rejected many times.

Pang Zhonghua was "shut out" on the way to explore calligraphy. More than 30 years ago, he took his hard-pen calligraphy works to many publishing houses, but the editors were not interested in him. After many twists and turns, Wen Huaisha recommended Pang Zhonghua's Hard Pen Calligraphy Works to meet the readers. Now this book has issued 6,543,800 copies, which can be said to be one of many primary and secondary schools.

"Words are the facade of people", and Pang Zhonghua is not pessimistic about the prospect of hard-pen calligraphy. He believes that hard-pen calligraphy, as a part of China traditional culture, has a great market, and it is also the embodiment of a person's quality cultivation. "After several years, when others almost forget the strokes of Chinese characters, how great it would be if you could write beautiful words!"

best seller

In 1980s and 1990s, the word "Pang Zhonghua" brought a wave of hard-pen calligraphy that swept through China. At that time, many families had at least one Pang Zhonghua's pen on their desks. Many children practice a few more Pang Zhonghua words at the request of their parents after finishing their homework every day; The scene where Pang Zhonghua sat on the top of the TV and taught the audience to write with pen and ink became one of the classic memories of that era.

Not long ago, Pang Zhonghua held a "30-year retrospective exhibition of Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy art" in Beijing. Thirty years ago, it was from Tianjin that Pang Zhonghua took the most important step in his calligraphy-the thin "Talking about Learning with a Pen" published by Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House, which greatly changed Pang Zhonghua's fate, made him become a well-known hard-pen calligrapher from an unknown geological prospector, and also opened the floodgate of China's contemporary hard-pen calligraphy. Thirty years later, the era of "Pang Zhonghua Hard Pen Calligraphy craze" has passed, and the way and attitude of writing Chinese characters have also changed. Although Pang Zhonghua is over 60 years old, he is still obsessed with his hard-pen calligraphy career. He is full of enthusiasm and intones: "The old man talks about juvenile madness, and China is still like a child."

The just-concluded retrospective exhibition made Pang Zhonghua and his wife Wang Changzhi exhausted. Near the end of the year, he and his wife decided to travel, and our reporter took the last bus. Before leaving, they came to their home in Beijing, Pang Zhonghua, and chatted with him about their calligraphy life in the past 30 years.

Pang Zhonghua, 65, looks exactly like the photo he printed on the cover of a pen copybook many years ago. Wearing a pair of dark blue sweatpants and speaking Mandarin with a Sichuan accent: "I bought these pants more than ten years ago and they are old brands made in Tianjin. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to buy it in the future, so I bought ten pairs at one go. I've been wearing it all these years. It's very comfortable. I have been the' spokesperson' of this brand for more than ten years, and I am afraid they don't know. " Then, there was a string of hearty laughter.

Time flies. Students who copy Pang Zhonghua's copybooks have now become the backbone of society, but at the same time, the rapid development of science and technology has made important changes in the way Chinese characters are written, and hard-pen calligraphy seems to be less "hot" than before. However, Pang Zhonghua believes that calligraphy is the most beautiful and moving silent music that the Chinese nation has dedicated to the world, and it will never die. In recent years, Pang Zhonghua has not fallen behind with the ebb of hard-pen calligraphy. He began to enter the pen-making industry, hoping to bring hard pen calligraphy to the world.

Social assessment

Hard-pen calligraphy, which is popular in China, has always been associated with the name of Pang Zhonghua. Like a bright pearl, it is deeply loved by the masses and teenagers. In the gallery of calligraphy art in China, a brilliant milestone has been erected for hard pen calligraphy. At the same time, in order to spread and promote Chinese culture, Pang Zhonghua gave lectures and held artistic exchanges overseas many times, which made gratifying contributions to the promotion of Chinese character culture and won honors for China and the people internationally.

As the chairman of China Hard Pen Calligraphy Association, Mr. Pang Zhonghua implemented the idea of "arming people with scientific theory, guiding people with correct public opinion and shaping people with noble spirit" put forward by General Secretary Jiang Zemin with practical actions. Inspire people with excellent works. " At the turn of the century, the 20th anniversary exhibition of Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy art was held at the Chinese History Museum in Tiananmen Square, dedicated to the great era of China's reform and opening up and rewarded the motherland and people who raised him. This exhibition shows Mr. Pang Zhonghua's noble sentiment and broad mind of dedicating himself to art, and his pioneering, arduous and indomitable struggle for the cause of hard-pen calligraphy in China. If the audience friends get artistic edification and life enlightenment from it. This will be the greatest comfort to our organizers.