History of Painting and Calligraphy in Heze, the Hometown of Painting and Calligraphy

Heze, an ancient and magical land, is not only famous for its peony, the national flower, but also for its prosperous calligraphy and painting art. Heze has a long history of painting and calligraphy, and celebrities come forth in large numbers. According to the Biography of Yan Su in Song Dynasty, Yan Su (Cao Zhou) was a long poet and calligrapher, and most of his works were masterpieces. His brother in the Northern Song Dynasty (Giant Man), Shang Ting in the Yuan Dynasty (Cao Zhou) and He Jia in the Ming Dynasty (He Yongyun and He Yongjian's fourth grandson) were all handed down from generation to generation by poetry and calligraphy. Ma, Guo Ruyi, Liu Kun and Tian Ruhui were all famous painters and painters at that time. In modern times, famous painters such as Niu Qianshou, Zheng Shuping and Li Meichuan have made great contributions to the art of calligraphy and painting in Heze area.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the art of painting and calligraphy in Heze has developed rapidly. A large number of talented painters and painters with high artistic level and influence have emerged, such as Chairman Xie Fuxi of China, Mr. Chao Mei, founder of the Great Northern Wilderness, famous Chinese painting artist Tian Boping, famous sculptors Pang Yuan, He Fanghua, Lu Feng and Wu Dongkui. They have a certain influence and popularity at home and abroad. At present, there are 5 national painters such as Xu, Liang Zhaocun, Wang Fuzeng, Huang Entao and Shangguan, 88 provincial painters such as Dong Zhou, Cheng Hongfu, Zhou, and more than 200 painters from the autonomous region.

Various types of calligraphy and painting organizations spread all over Heze, including artists' associations, calligraphy associations, cultural and artistic units and folk calligraphy and painting organizations, forming a complete network of calligraphy and painting organizations. There are more than 100 painting and calligraphy associations, societies and painting shops, among which Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute has the greatest influence.

The existence and development of Heze painting and calligraphy art has a broad mass base. According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 300 members of national and provincial artists' associations in the whole region, more than 3,000 people have participated in the national correspondence study of painting and calligraphy, and tens of thousands of people have participated in the training courses of painting and calligraphy at the prefecture and city levels. At present, calligraphy and painting works have gone to the whole country and the world and become important gifts for economic exchanges and friendship. In order to meet the needs of the vast number of painting and calligraphy lovers, Heze holds nearly 100 painting and calligraphy exhibitions of different specifications every year, which promotes the improvement and popularization of painting and calligraphy art. The farmers' painting and calligraphy exhibition in Juye County of Heze City enjoys a high reputation. The folk painting and calligraphy art exhibition in Juye County, the provincial capital, was held in the Provincial Art Museum in 2008. Cai, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Minister of Propaganda, Vice Governor, Zhang, Director of the Provincial Department of Culture, and other leading comrades and some celebrities in the painting and calligraphy circles in the province attended the exhibition.

Juye folk painting and calligraphy art exhibition, as an important part of the achievement exhibition of establishing an advanced social and cultural county in Shandong Province, is sponsored by the Provincial Department of Culture. This exhibition brings together more than 340 works by 39 painters in Juye County, representing the highest level of painting and calligraphy creation in Juye County. The works truly express the real life of the grassroots and vividly reflect the brand-new mental outlook and ideal pursuit of farmers in the new era. At the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Cai and Zhang cut the ribbon for the exhibition and presented honorary certificates to the representatives of the participating authors. Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute was established in June 1985, covering an area of16,000 square meters, with a building area of over 9,000 square meters. It is a cultural institution integrating the research, creation, exhibition, exchange and collection of calligraphy and painting. At present, it is the largest prefecture-level painting academy in China.

The architecture of Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute has both traditional national characteristics and modern garden style. Its rattan corridors, pavilions, rockeries, fountains, carved stone walls with thousands of characters, exotic bamboos and beautiful scenery are suitable for books and paintings. It has become a window for Heze to open to the outside world, a center for painting and calligraphy activities, an important tourist attraction and a patriotic education base, and is open to the outside world all the year round. The East-West Exhibition Hall covers an area of more than 900 square meters, and has hosted and held more than 200 exhibitions. Cao Zhou Monument Gallery is more than 400 meters long, with the theme of reflecting Heze scenery and praising Cao Zhou peony, and carved portraits and deeds of some historical celebrities. Most of the works are written by famous contemporary painters and calligraphers, and are also engraved with the handwriting of several great men and sages, which has strong nationality, distinctive locality and superb artistry; The works exhibited in Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition Hall are all carefully created by famous painters in Heze, representing the highest level of painting and calligraphy in Heze. Mr. Chao donated 80 masterpieces of Chaomei Printmaking Art Exhibition Hall for free. The works are mainly based on the pioneering spirit and magnificent landscape of the people who opened up the Great Northern Wilderness in those years, integrating history and art, and showing Mr. Chaomei's superb printmaking art level. As a result, the Painting and Calligraphy Institute is known as a wonderful art garden, an unparalleled painting hall, a base of national culture and a hall of painting and calligraphy art. Mr. Liu Bingsen, member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of China Calligraphers Association, praised it as a descendant of Linggen in southwest Shandong and Mo Peony in Yao Huang, Wei Zi. It is also the Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and it is very lucky to be here. The unique charm of the painting and calligraphy institute attracts guests from all directions. Since its establishment, it has received more than 800,000 tourists from home and abroad. Wan Li, former chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), Song Ping, former CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), Wu Guanzheng, former member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of Shandong Provincial Party Committee, Li Desheng, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wu, former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, He, and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference visited and spoke highly of the painting and calligraphy institute.

1985, Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute hired Mr. Shu Tong as the chief consultant, Su Yiran, Cui Zifan, Xu Linlu, Yu Xining, Liu Bingsen and Liu Yi as honorary deans, and there were more than 20 painters outside the institute1985. He was invited to Zhongnanhai twice to create 65 paintings and calligraphy works for the general offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council. Since 15, more than 2,000 paintings and calligraphy works have been published in central and provincial newspapers, more than 600 paintings and calligraphy works have been selected for national and provincial exhibitions, and more than 60 exhibitions have been held abroad. He has edited and published the Inscription of Liu Bingsen Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute, Contemporary China Flower and Bird Painting Collection, Peony Cup Grand Prix Works Selection, Cao Zhou Forest of Steles Works Collection, Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute and other large-scale hardcover albums. In April 2000, Gao Zhanxiang, Party Secretary of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, held a large-scale peony photography exhibition. More than 100 news organizations such as People's Daily, CCTV, Volkswagen Daily, Shandong TV, Chinese Channel of Hong Kong Satellite TV, and relevant Japanese news agencies gave special presentations or news reports on the painting and calligraphy institute and painters.

In addition, the Zhao Memorial Hall built in the Painting and Calligraphy Institute reproduces the brilliant achievements of Zhao, a famous anti-Japanese general in Heze, in various periods with a large number of detailed words and images, and enthusiastically eulogizes General Zhao's lofty national integrity and patriotic spirit of dying for his country.

Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute was rated as a municipal civilized unit, a civilized window unit, a provincial advanced health unit, an advanced collective of Shandong culture going to the countryside, and a district-level patriotic education base; 1992, which was included in China Tourism Information Database by National Tourism Administration; From 65438 to 0997, The Grand View of Famous Scenic Spots in China, edited by China Cultural Relics Society, china tourism association, China Association of Scenic Spots and China Museum Association, was included in 500 famous scenic spots in China. In 2000, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles set up a life creation base for writers and artists in Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute.

The Cao Zhou Monument Gallery located in Cao Zhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute was built in two phases, namely 1985 and 1995, with a total length of nearly 500 meters and more than 400 steles. It is the longest monument gallery in China at present. The content of the stele gallery is mainly composed of poems praising the national flower peony in past dynasties, with the handwriting of some historical celebrities and great men, as well as the works of modern famous artists such as Shu Tong, Qi Gong, Tibetan, Huang Miaozi, Tang Yun, Shen Peng, Liu Bingsen, Wu Zhongqi and Sha Menghai. At the same time, several paintings reflecting historical celebrities and precious peony varieties in Cao Zhou were carved, forming a collection of modern calligraphers' works, which melted peony with rich artistic styles and expressions.

Juye County has a long history of painting and calligraphy, which can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, it made great achievements. In the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it developed rapidly, forming a group of painters and calligraphers represented by Liu Zao, leaving a large number of inscriptions and scrolls.

After the founding of New China, the vast number of painting and calligraphy artists represented by Huang Entao, Wang Shichao, Dong Sen, Liang Fugen, Zou Deling, Liu Xinxi, Wang Guangyun and Li Shiqun in Juye County, under the guidance of the party's literary and artistic policies, inherited and carried forward the traditional painting and calligraphy art, took root in Juye fertile soil, and expressed their feelings with paintings, which raised the folk painting and calligraphy art in the county to a new level.

At present, the county has more than 20 national and provincial artists' associations, more than 900 municipal and county-level members and more than 0/000 municipal exhibits. Various mass organizations of painting and calligraphy are spread all over the county, and organizations such as painting and calligraphy research association, artists association and Linzhou painting and calligraphy society have become places for the majority of painting and calligraphy lovers to learn and communicate. There are more than 30 large-scale painting spots integrating creation, sales and mounting in the county. Farmers' painting creation classes, processing sites and production and marketing networks, represented by Guiyuan Yao, Wang Chuanxue, Huang and Chang Jin, are all over the county, and Liuzhuang Village in Dushan Town has become a veritable painting and calligraphy professional village. The county has more than 60 people engaged in painting and calligraphy sales in other places all the year round, with an annual sales of more than 200,000 paintings and calligraphy works and an annual output value of more than 20 million yuan.

The vigorous development of painting and calligraphy art in Juye County has attracted the attention of superior leaders. In 2000, it was named "China Juye Peasant Painting Hometown" by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Gao Zhanxiang, Party Secretary and Executive Vice Chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, sent a congratulatory letter. The naming of the hometown of painting has improved the popularity of Juye farmers' paintings and laid the foundation for Juye farmers' paintings and calligraphy to go to the market and form a painting and calligraphy industry.

200 1 China Juye Farmers' Calligraphy and Painting Association and China Juye Farmers' Calligraphy and Painting Sales Corporation were established. In order to fully show Juye's painting and calligraphy art to the outside world, the county has organized peasant painters to hold exhibitions in Shanghai, Jiaxing, Xining, Xi 'an and other places for many times, and maintained hotline contact with art intermediaries in Hong Kong and Beijing to actively explore the painting and calligraphy market.

In 2002, China Juye Farmers Painting and Calligraphy Institute and Juye Farmers Painting and Calligraphy Research Association were established, which added new highlights to the creation of Heze Cultural City. The two institutions bring together Juye's painting and calligraphy elites, integrating the functions of research, creation, training and sales, relying on their bases internally, contacting the market externally, implementing market-oriented operation, acting as the "bridgehead" of Juye County's painting and calligraphy industry, and launching the brand of "China Juye Farmers' Painting and Calligraphy", thus driving the development of the county's cultural industry.