The couplet "No one is a passer-by, the flower is the owner" is from the Army General Zhang Fang of the Republic of China. It is now in Zhang Fang's study room in Qiantang Zhizhai, Xin'an County. His study room is called "Listening to Incense and Reading Paintings" room".

Qiantang Zhizhai is the only epitaph museum in my country and a treasure house of epigraphy and calligraphy art. Reflecting the gate, there is a stone house "surrounded" by vines. This is Zhang Fang's study. It was built in 1918 and has gone through hundreds of years of ups and downs. "No one is a passer-by, flowers are the masters" are eight crude characters engraved on the left and right walls of the front wall of the library.

It means that life is fleeting for decades, like a white horse passing by, like a wisp of smoke, but the flowers, grass, sand and stones are the same as before. Who do you think is the master? Although the number of words in this couplet is small, the connotation is very rich. The word "passer" in the first couplet is a metaphor for "time", and the word "flower" in the second couplet is a metaphor for "space". The author starts from time and space and uses only eight words to bring out the sense of vicissitudes of life.

Extended information

Zhang Fang was born in Tiemen Town, Xin'an County in 1886. After 1904, he studied at the Shaanxi Army Primary School and the Baoding Army Accelerated School, and joined the Chinese Tongmenghui in 1909. After graduating in the spring of the same year, he joined the army and became the main leader of the Shaanxi New Army. After the Wuchang Uprising broke out in 1911, Zhang Fang served as the commander-in-chief of the Qinlong Fu-Han Army's eastward expedition.

After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as the second town commander and division commander of the Shaanxi Army. He also served as the commander-in-chief of the 20th Route Army of the Kuomintang and acting chairman of Henan. In the late period of the Liberation War, Zhang Fang served as director of the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Appeasement District. Later, he resolutely revolted and turned to the bright side. After the founding of New China, he served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died of illness in 1966.

Zhang Jun has always been fond of calligraphy and collected calligraphy and painting calligraphy by famous people from ancient and modern times. He himself persisted in Linchi during the military and military affairs. He has written plaques for many institutions, groups, shops and individuals, and his regular script is vigorous and vigorous.

Zhang Fan loves stone stones and calls himself the owner of friend stones. He often associates with celebrities and scholars such as Zhang Taiyan and Yu Youren, and appreciates antiques together. He was generous in giving to others, but very frugal in his own expenses, which laid the ideological and economic foundation for his later creation of "Qian Tang Zhi Zhai".

Zhang Fang began to collect epitaphs from the Tang Dynasty in the early 1930s. He did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy any epitaphs from the Tang Dynasty across the country. After nearly five years of hard work, he collected a collection of epitaphs from the Tang Dynasty. With more than a thousand pieces, it has become the leading collector, and "Qian Tang Zhi Zhai" was built on this basis.

In addition to more than 1,000 epitaphs from the Tang Dynasty, "Qian Tang Zhi Zhai" also contains epitaphs from the Northern Wei, Western Jin, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, spanning more than a thousand years, like a collection of Zhi Shi Li Li can also be called a unique epitaph museum. There are many ink inscriptions by famous masters, and the calligraphy and painting section is also full of treasures.

According to statistics, more than 3,500 Tang Dynasty epitaphs have been unearthed so far, and Qian Tang Zhi Zhai owns more than one third. It provides important information on politics, economy, military, culture and foreign relations. At the same time, these documentary materials have supplemented the gaps in the history books, and some of the epitaphs have provided first-hand rare books for studying the art of calligraphy and its origins. All of these are important contributions made by Mr. Zhang Fang to the motherland.

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