Ding Cong
Ding Cong (1916-2009), born in Shanghai in 1916, began publishing comics in the early 1930s. He once served as deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Pictorial". His works include "Illustrations of Lu Xun's Novels"; "Illustrations of Ding Cong"; illustrations of Lao She's "Four Generations Under One Roof", "Camel Xiangzi" and many other works.
Chinese name: Ding Cong
Alias: Xiao Ding
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han
Place of birth: Shanghai
Date of birth: 1916
Date of death: May 26, 2009
Occupation: Painter, editor
Representative works: "Ding Cong Illustration Collection"
Famous Cartoonist
Character Profile
Ding Cong (1916 - 10:00 on May 26, 2009 54 points) also known as Xiao Ding.
Famous Chinese cartoonist and stage artist. Born in Shanghai in 1916, his ancestral home is Fengjing Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai, and his pen name is Xiaoding. Good at comics and illustrations. He died of illness on May 26, 2009. He began publishing comics in the early 1930s. Influenced by his family since childhood, he began publishing comics while studying at Qingxin Middle School in Shanghai. After the Anti-Japanese War, he drew for the magazine "Salvation Comics" and edited "Good Friends", "The Earth", "China Today" and other pictorial magazines. In 1940, he went to Chongqing to work as an artist at the China Film Studio and designed the scenery for the drama "Fog in Chongqing". In 1942, he worked in Guilin, Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming and other places as the art designer for "Imperial Envoy", "Song of Righteousness", "Peking Man" and other films. At the same time, he held a personal exhibition in Chongqing. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai and continued to engage in satirical cartoon creation and stage art design. In 1947, he went to Hong Kong to participate in the activities of the Human World Painting Association. In 1949, he attended the first Youth Congress. National Literary Congress, and later served as deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Pictorial", member of the Standing Committee of the All-China Youth Federation, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and editor-in-chief of "Decoration" magazine. His major works include "Illustrations from the True Story of Ah Q", "Illustrations from Four Generations Under One Roof", etc., and he has published "Selected Comics by Ding Cong".
The origin of the pen name: Ding Cong started publishing cartoons when he was in middle school. He originally used his name, but the word "Cong" had too many strokes. After making the version, it became too small to be seen clearly, and too big to take up the screen. There were too many and they didn’t look good. Later, Zhang Guangyu suggested, why not use “Xiao Ding”? Zhang Guangyu said: “Your father’s name is Lao Ding (that’s what friends call him), so you can call him Xiao Ding.” From then on, Ding Cong used "Xiao Ding" as his pen name.
Life experience
During the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Hong Kong and the Southwest Rear Area, engaged in pictorial editing, stage art design, art school teacher, and painting Anti-Japanese War propaganda posters. He has participated in many art exhibitions with his comics. Edited pictorials such as "Good Friends", "Dadi", and "China Today" in Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places. Later, he engaged in stage art design in Chongqing, Chengdu and other places, and created "Illustrations from the True Story of Ah Q", "Phenomena Pictures", etc.; in 1944, he joined the China Democratic League. After 1945, he edited the literary magazine "Qingming" in Shanghai. From 1945 to 1947, he published many influential satires with the theme of "fighting for democracy" in Shanghai.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Pictorial", member of the Standing Committee and deputy secretary-general of the All-China Youth Federation, director of the first and third terms of the China Artists Association, and director of the Cartoon Art Committee. He is a member of the 2nd and 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. During this period, Ding Cong met Shen Jun, who graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai with a Russian major through his sister Ding Yiwei. The two got married in 1957. For more than 20 years after 1957, due to well-known reasons, he was forced to be transferred to the Heilongjiang Reclamation Area and had no conditions to publish. It was not until after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee that satirical cartoons were drawn again. There are "Illustrations of Lu Xun's Novels", "Illustrations of Ding Cong" and satirical collections "Yesterday's Things", "Collection of 100 Ancient Interesting Pictures", etc.
After 1980, in order to make up for the lost time, he used extraordinary energy to engage in literary book illustrations and satirical cartoons, creating a large number of works, the number of which greatly exceeds the total number of previous works. He often publishes works in major newspapers and periodicals. Since the founding of "Dushu" in 1979, his comic column has never been interrupted.
On May 26, 2009, Mr. Ding Cong passed away in Beijing at the age of 93.
Main works
In the past 20 years, he has published more than 30 collections, including "Illustrations of Lu Xun's Novels"; "Illustrations of Ding Cong"; "Illustrations of Ding Cong"; Illustrations of "Four Generations Under One Roof", "Camel Xiangzi", "Two Horses" and many other works; "Ding Cong Comics Series"; "Chinese Comic Book Series - Ding Cong Collection"; "Ding Cong Picture Album - Comics, Illustrations, sketches, sketches, portraits, design collections"; "Worrying Blindly", "Double Loss in Drawing", (cooperated with Chen Siyi); "Mr. Y's Quotations" (cooperated with Liushahe); Chinese, English, French, German, The Japanese version of "Guquji" and the Chinese, English and Japanese versions of "Jinquji" etc.
Ding Cong’s Shanhai Residence
Ding’s house has four rooms and no living room. As soon as you enter the gate, there are books piled in the aisle. To say "heap" is absolutely appropriate. Because these books are not placed in bookcases or bookshelves, but are piled in bundles on the floor, as if they are preparing to move or have just moved in. In fact, these books are neither just moved here nor ready to be moved out, but have been piled up for many years.
Ding Cong is famous for being good at reading and buying books. If he doesn't buy a book after entering a bookstore, he will feel a little sorry for the bookstore, or sorry for himself - the trip was in vain.
All in all, Ding Cong would never leave the bookstore empty-handed, so he ended up moving the books from the bookstore to his home. As a cartoonist, Ding Cong admits that buying books is complicated, but he said: What he likes to buy the most is picture albums. When I brought home the books, of course I put them in bookcases and bookshelves. If I couldn’t put them any more, I had to pile them on the floor. It’s just that the picture album will definitely be placed in bookcases and bookshelves forever. However, Ding Cong said that if you buy books and return home, the biggest headache is finding a place for the books. Not to mention that there are no gaps in the bookcases and bookshelves, and there is no space on the floor.
Ding Cong’s study, perhaps more accurately called a studio, is only 12 square meters. The desk, or drawing table, is a drawing board placed on several book boxes. The bottom of the drawing board is piled with books, and the surroundings of the drawing board are also piled with books and various materials, like hills, with only one in the middle left. Small basin. Ding Cong said that he neither paints oil paintings nor traditional Chinese paintings. The comics he draws are all in 16 karat gold, so there is only a 16 karat space on the painting desk. Of course, sometimes the hills are too high, and not only are they in danger of collapse at any time, but Ding Cong, who works in the basin, is often blocked by the hills, preventing others from seeing whether he is inside. Ding Cong's study not only has a tight floor space, but also a tight wall space. Bookcases and bookshelves, plus various handicrafts, photos, paintings, etc., cover the walls airtightly. Someone gave me a big photo of Ding Cong and his wife, which was very nice, but I couldn't find a place to hang it on the wall. Looking around Ding Cong's study, the only blank space left was the ceiling, but it could not be used.
Ding Cong's study is called "Shanhaiju", which was inscribed by Huang Miaozi. "Shanhaiju" sounds very beautiful. But Ding Cong explained that mountain refers to the mess in the study, with books piled up like a mountain, and finding things for him was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. That’s it!
Ding Cong calls himself a small family for the elderly. My children and grandchildren have settled abroad, and there are only two of them at home. I am over 80 years old, and my wife is over 70 years old. But they didn't hire a nanny because there was no place for the nanny to stay, so they had to hire an hourly worker. Not to mention that there is no place for the nanny, even if the children and grandchildren come back from abroad to visit relatives, there is also no place to live. They had no choice but to rent a house at a high price for their children and grandchildren to live in.
From the piles of books in the corridors, it is not difficult to imagine how many books there are in Ding Cong's four rooms. Mrs. Ding Cong's room is her studio and the couple's dining room. But the dining table was piled with manuscripts and letters, leaving only a quarter of the space for eating. Ding Cong said that they never entertain guests at home because there is no place to put bowls for the guests.
Ding Cong’s study is very unusual because it is not decorated. When he moved in more than ten years ago, there was no need to decorate it. At that time, even if he wanted to decorate, Ding Cong could not stop work for three months because it was in a mess. . Ding Cong's study is very mainstream, because the study is for himself, not for others to see, and it seems messy to others, but it is orderly when he uses it. Besides, the function of the study room is to study and work. Who can deny that these past ten years have been a period of high productivity for Mr. Ding Cong’s creations. Therefore, this study should also be noted.
Forever "Xiao Ding"
Author: Li Hui
"I have taken a trip to this world, and I am very happy to have done one thing, which is painting. The famous cartoonist Mr. Ding Cong has a very unique pen name: Xiao Ding. People are familiar with this pen name, and he is just like this pen name: humorous, happy, and indifferent.
"Xiao Ding" started using it when he was less than 20 years old. He used it for more than 70 years until yesterday, May 26, 2009, when the 93-year-old Mr. Ding Cong passed away due to illness.
The "model worker" can no longer work for readers
Ten days ago, the reporter went to the ward to visit Ding Cong. Mrs. Ding, Ms. Shen Jun, said that he had been unconscious for several days and had not opened his eyes. While we were talking, he suddenly opened his eyes, but he no longer had the familiar look in his eyes, but there was a tear flowing out of the corner of his eye.
On the afternoon of May 26, 2009, Ms. Shen Jun said on the phone: "His last wish during his lifetime was to keep everything simple, not to hold a farewell ceremony, and not to have ashes. He often said that he had passed away for a lifetime. I am very happy to have done one thing, which is to draw comics all my life.”
The famous writer Wang Meng was very sad to learn that Ding Cong passed away. Ding Cong once drew a comic portrait for Wang Meng. Wang Meng is also an old reader of Ding Cong's comic works and knows his character and paintings very well. He talked about his impression of Ding Cong like this: "His pen name is 'Xiao Ding', which always expresses The cartoons show innocence, sincerity, and kindness, and no matter what kind of works, they can bring a sense of pleasure to readers. Even the works with strong satirical images have the simplicity of human nature in their sharpness. Cartoonists have a sense of irony. He is sharp, but he is also round and cute."
In people's memory, Ding Cong will always be young. At every gathering, as long as Ding Cong is present, his black hair and his eternal youth will always become a topic of conversation. At the age of 88, everyone lamented his youth, but he himself felt that he was not as good as before. He would say something like this: "It won't work! In the past two years, no one gave up his seat on the bus, but now there are people who give up his seat. It shows that he is still getting old!" Having said that, some people still suggest that, regardless of the current market situation, Uncovering so many so-called palace secrets for eternal youth is not as convincing as Ding Cong's personal statement.
However, when asked what his secret recipe was, the answer was: "Don't exercise! Don't eat fruits! Don't eat vegetables! Eat meat!"
In fact, what really keeps Ding Cong young forever is his optimistic spirit. The ups and downs in his life have indeed made him go through a lot of hardships, but it has never changed his passion for life and art. He was grateful that he had survived the rightist life, survived the "Cultural Revolution", and achieved a rare creative climax in his later years.
In his later years, Ding Cong drew cartoons for the magazine "Reading" for 30 years. Shen Changwen, the former editor-in-chief of "Dushu" said: "What impressed us most was that he worked hard and never expressed his opinions. Readers only knew that he drew cartoons for "Dushu", but they didn't know that he designed the layout of each issue of ours. He accepts everyone who comes. We all call him a model worker."
Today, "Xiao Ding", the "model worker", can no longer work for readers.
Comics Father and Son
Ding Cong was born in Shanghai in 1916. His father, Ding Ju, was one of the pioneers of modern Chinese cartoons. He not only drew political cartoons that satirized social phenomena, but also drew fashionable women on calendar cards. When Liu Haisu founded the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, the earliest art academy in China, in the 1920s, Ding Ju served as the dean. Around 1933, Ding Ju organized and established China's first comics association, and the association's signboard was hung in front of Ding's house.
The Ding family suddenly became a gathering place for celebrities and artists. Every weekend and holiday, this place is like a lively salon in Shanghai. Zhang Guangyu, Ye Qianyu, Wang Renmei, Li Lili, Zhou Xuan, Nie Er, Jin Yan
As the eldest son, Ding Cong, although he is still in middle school, But he has become a favorite member of these celebrities. He sat among them and listened to their chatter and laughter. Nie Er came to Ding's house and became good friends with young Ding Cong. Once he said to Ding Cong: "Have you ever thought about why your surname is Ding and my surname is Nie? To write, one is the easiest and the other is the most troublesome." Ding Cong also pestered Nie Er and walked into his "pavilion". "The little room in the house, telling him scary stories. "One time Nie Er got drunk, walked to the patio, climbed along the wall to the attic to sleep." Once a reporter accompanied Ding Cong back to Shanghai, pointing to the corner of his old residence, he said: "This is where Nie Er climbed. Go up."
When it comes to the formation of his artistic accomplishment and style, Ding Cong will always mention his experience of reading European and American fashion magazines and movie pictorials in Shanghai second-hand bookstores. It was magazines like these, as well as Hollywood movies that were constantly being staged, that made young Ding Cong's thinking active and his horizons broadened.
Why does Ding Cong have a soft spot for his father’s salon? Not just because he spent his happy boyhood here, nor just because those celebrities left happy smiles here. What made him more nostalgic was obviously the cultural diversity present in Shanghai at that time, and his father's salon was just a vivid portrayal. Perhaps it was at that time that he began to form the concept of painting what he thinks in his mind and what his eyes see around him. The ugly ones are condemned, the beautiful ones are praised.
Although his father is a cartoonist, he does not want his son to follow the same path in the future. But Ding Cong himself fell in love with comics. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, one day, he suddenly showed his sketches of Peking Opera to his seniors. They couldn't help but be surprised that his brushwork was so vivid and accurate, able to convey the shapes, expressions and dynamics of the characters on the stage. Feeling expressed. They did not expect that Ding Cong, who often watched Peking Opera with his father, not only learned to play Jinghu and flute, but also picked up a paintbrush.
Although Ding Cong only took time to study by himself at the Shanghai Art College for less than a year, he laid a more solid foundation for his painting. His writing never stopped, and his eyes keenly observed the people and things around him. Barber shops, trams, classrooms, mahjong tables, parks, and zoos have become places where he captures sketch subjects wherever he goes. The students onlookers in the classroom, the passengers wearing top hats sitting on the tram benches, the focused women on the mahjong table and the children staring curiously. Ding Cong’s preserved paintings are sketches of life during self-study in the large classroom of Shanghai Art College. , and the life comics published around 1936, which allow us to see his initial start in art.
Comics style
Criticizing the current ills and ridiculing the state of the world
From the time when he first showed his talent in the painting world, the young Ding Cong learned to use critical words Observe society with your eyes. Living in the eccentric Shanghai, Ding Cong, like his predecessors and fellow cartoonists, focused on depicting the strong contrast between the rich and the poor, and outlining the ugliness of those dark corners of society. The characteristics of social satire that Ding Cong initially displayed became more prominent in his later creations. It is inseparable from and integrated with political satire, becoming the most significant work among his creations.
After becoming a rightist and being forced to stop writing for many years, Ding Cong resumed writing in his later years.
Most of today’s readers are familiar with his name through the Ding Cong comics that must be included in every issue of "Dushu". He and Mr. Chen Siyi jointly launched the "World Photos" column in "Dushu" magazine for a long time, with pictures and texts, showing all the phenomena of Chinese society in the past 30 years, and became an indispensable record of this period of history. Ding Cong, who has never aged, has been paying attention to the changing China every day with his eyes, and expressed the conscience and thinking of a painter with his brushes. His thousands of cartoons cover a wide range of topics, including political storms and all kinds of world affairs. Calling himself "Xiao Ding", Ding Cong wields a pen as big as a rafter.
Mr. Chi Beiou, who is famous for his satirical poems, is also a long-term collaborator of Ding Cong. He commented on Ding Cong's comic art: "Ding Cong is the artist I admire the most. He had a rough life and was treated unfairly, but he created thousands of works in the past few decades, especially his Many cartoons criticize reality and ridicule the state of the world, fully demonstrating his concern for the fate of the country and the world, and reflecting his sense of responsibility for society and the people."
Chi Beiou said particularly sadly: "Since the 1980s. I have collaborated with him many times since the 1990s, and he has illustrated nearly 200 cartoons for my satirical poems. In the past two years, he had to put down his writing due to illness. At the beginning of last year, Mrs. Ding Shen Jun specifically asked me to write new comics to encourage him. To write a poem, he actually paired it with a painting. I selected 100 of his cartoons, each with a poem, and compiled a book "The Ridicule of the World". The publisher said it would be published in a few days. It was about to be published, but unexpectedly, he left us before the book came out."
The cartoon I drew for Chi Bei Ou actually became the work of Xiao Ding, an artist who has been drawing for more than 70 years. A swan song!
Early film comics
Ding Cong’s comics are famous all over the world and are well known to everyone. Wu Zuguang said: "Xiao Ding's paintings have his own special style. Every line in the painting belongs to him, Xiao Ding, and cannot belong to anyone else; his style is so distinct and strong, it is So different! If there are a thousand paintings in front of me, and there is only one painting by Xiao Ding, I can guarantee that I will recognize it at a glance." As for why Ding Cong's later paintings were all named "Xiao Ding", there is another story - "When I started drawing comics, I used my real name 'Ding Cong' in my signature, but the traditional strokes of 'Cong' It was a lot. If it was written small, the layout would be difficult to see. If it was written large, it would take up a large space in a small painting and look very inappropriate. So Zhang Guangyu suggested that I sign it as "Xiao Ding". I thought. It makes sense, so I adopted it and still use it today. The second reason is: the Chinese word "ding" means "person", and "xiaoding" means "little person". This is in line with my basic experience in this life - although becoming famous is more difficult. He was early, but he was always a 'little person', even his head was short."
This confession of Ding Cong is a reminder to collectors of his comics that anything named "Ding Cong" must be relatively early in time. Among the three early cartoons of Ding Cong shown here, two belong to "Ding Cong" and "Hunting Picture" belongs to "Xiao Ding". They are obviously works after listening to Zhang Guangyu's persuasion, and the two are obviously earlier. Yes, do you think the signature with the word "Ding Cong" is very cumbersome, ugly and difficult to recognize? Pay attention to the signatures under the faces of Sun Yu and Jin Yan. Although there are many signature strokes and it is difficult to place them, in terms of collection, early works are of course preferable to be collected early rather than late. The earlier the works, the less, and the less, the more precious they are.
Words should keep pace with the times. The themes of Ding Cong's comics are also inseparable from the influence of the social environment and changes in personal life. When we look at Ding Cong's early cartoons, we can get a glimpse of the artist's growth footprint and the reflection of his creative content on the surrounding life circle. The Ding family is a gathering place where friends often come and go. It is a very lively salon. Most of the visitors are Zhang Guangyu, Ye Qianyu, Wang Renmei, Li Lili, Zhou Xuan, Nie Er, Jin Yan, and Li Jin, who are friends from the press, entertainment, and cultural circles. As time went by, Hui and Ding Cong became influenced by it, and the main objects of comics were the characters in the film industry in these life circles. From many old photos of Ding Cong, we can also see his unrestrained and intimate photos with stars in the entertainment industry. It is easy to understand why there are so many movie stars in Ding Cong's early comics, and we are not familiar with them. How to express them?
Han Langen and Liu Jiqun were a pair of living treasures in the film industry in the 1930s. They were funny, one tall, one short, one fat and one thin. In Ding Cong's writing, these two living treasures are even more funny. One is aiming a gun and shooting, but he can't hit it well, and the other is busy plugging his ears so that he can't hear the sound of the gun. Why is he hunting birds? This cartoon is still in color and seems to have never been shown to the public, so it is very precious.
This is a cartoon portrait of four people: two directors and two actors: Cai Chusheng, Sun Yu, Zheng Junli, and Jin Yan. The unique lines of Ding Cong mentioned by Wu Zuguang are not eye-catching in these four portrait cartoons. You can compare them with the later character cartoons of Ding Cong, and there is still a big difference. The lines of the later figures are rounded and approachable, while the early figures are sharp and angular, with only one eye exposed among the four figures. Without telling you, you wouldn't know at a glance that this was painted by Ding Cong and not by someone else.
"Galaxy Star Bath" is a work by Ding Cong in 1935, when Ding Cong was not yet twenty years old. Later, when the world was at peace, someone asked Ding Cong how his artistic accomplishment and style were formed. Ding Cong would always mention the influence on him from the European and American pictorials that were popular in Shanghai at that time, as well as the continuous Hollywood movies. It inspired him to open up his artistic creation ideas. Ding Cong studied the brushwork and style of foreign cartoonists, but he did not copy them. We can vaguely recognize the shadow of a foreign cartoonist in Ding Cong's early cartoon style. I once saw a picture of "Hollywood Stars Bathing in the Sea" drawn by a foreign cartoonist. The scene is broad, with medium, near and long shots, many characters (50 or 60 people), and bright colors. It is possible that Ding Cong's Chinese version of "Galaxy Star Bathing" Picture" was inspired by the "Sea Bathing Picture".
"Galaxy Star Bathing Picture" is a large-scale comic, but compared to "Sea Bathing Picture", only close-ups of the characters fill the picture, lacking depth of field, beach, and a sense of vastness. A few parasols dotted one corner. The male and female movie stars in swimsuits are (from right to left): Sun Min, Xuan Jinglin, Gu Lanjun, Gu Meijun, Shu Xiuwen, Zheng Xiaoqiu, Ye Qiuxin, Hu Die, Huang Naishang, Gong Jiajia, Mei Xi, Xu Lai, Wang Xianzhai, Gao Qianping, Gao Zhanfei, Yan Yuexian, ranked 16th, 5 boys and 11 girls. Among them, the current readers are more familiar with Xu Lai, the "standard beauty", Hu Die, the "film queen", and Shu Xiuwen, who was known as one of the "Four Famous Dancing Girls" in Chongqing. Only readers who are very familiar with the appearance and posture of old movie stars can distinguish them one by one and accurately identify them one by one without any pretense. The person holding her chin on the lower right is Shu Xiuwen, and the person sitting in the middle is Hu Die. I can also recognize Xu Lai. The woman sitting with arms propped up under the two gesticulating and joking male stars is.
After seventy years, not too long ago, the bright stars have faded into smoke of the past. Today, we can only vaguely feel the aura and aura that the old movie characters once had from Ding Cong’s comics. There was an uproar.
In memory of Ding Cong
In order to commemorate the comic master, on the second anniversary of Ding's death, Ding Cong's descendants established the "Ding Cong Comic Art Network", which was launched in 2011 It will be officially opened on May 26, 2020. This website displays more than 2,000 officially published paintings by Mr. Ding and nearly 100 rare photos online, showing the artistic achievements and journey of the master's life. For netizens who want to understand and remember Mr. Ding, this is the site with the most detailed information on paintings. . Netizens can log in to the Baidu website and search the site name to enter the Ding Cong Comic Art Network.
Ding Cong Comics Museum
Comic Gallery Layout
Ding Cong Comics Exhibition Hall is located at No. 415 North Street, Fengjing Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai. It was built in 2003 In June, seven halls and two rooms were opened, namely "Preface Hall", "Life Introduction Hall", "Satirical Humor Hall", "Ancient and Modern Interesting Collection Hall", "Masterpiece Illustration Hall", "Character Portrait Hall" and His father's "Ding Ju's Works Hall" as well as the "Video Information Room" and "Souvenir Sales Room". There are furnishings from Ding Cong's life and residence in the exhibition hall. Each exhibition room displays Ding Cong's satirical and humorous works, masterpiece illustrations and portraits, etc., containing more than 120 representative works from various periods.
The reason for building the museum
When Ding Cong was 14 years old, his father took him to Jing, Fengjing Town, Shanghai to trace his roots, inquire about his ancestors, and pay homage to his ancestors' graves. In 2002, I was invited by Jilin TV Station to shoot the feature film "Going Home". When I returned to my hometown, I was very happy to see the great changes in Fengjing. He readily agreed to display his comic works in his hometown exhibition hall.
After a year of preparations, the Ding Cong Comics Exhibition Hall, whose name was inscribed by his close friend Huang Miaozi, a Chinese art historian, critic and famous calligrapher, was built and opened in Fengjing.
Exhibit introduction
In the "Portraits" exhibition room, Shen Congwen, Qin Yi, Xiao Qian, Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Fang Cheng, Feng Jicai, Xin Fengxia, Lao She, Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Huang Miaozi, Qian Zhongshu, Nie Gannu, Xia Yan, Wang Meng, etc., each celebrity is vividly displayed in front of the visitors in the form of comics. From these works, we can see Ding Cong’s extensive connections in the Chinese cultural and art circles. He has deep friendships with many well-known figures in the Chinese literary and art circles. As can be seen in the "Illustrations of Masterpieces" exhibition room, he has drawn illustrations for works by famous writers such as Lu Xun, Lao She, Ye Shengtao, Shen Congwen, and Xu Dishan. When Mao Dun met Ding Cong again in June 1980, he couldn't help but write a poem called "Five Jue":
"I haven't seen little Ding for a long time, but when we meet, we feel more loved. The childlike face is still the same as before, and I write hard. Fighting against fierce men."
Not only wrote about the friendship between them, but also spoke highly of Ding Cong's works and personality. The handwriting of this poem is also displayed in the exhibition hall. There is also a video room in the exhibition hall, which displays some of the objects he used in his creation and life. Ding Cong named them "Xiao Ding Shiwu". On the wall are also his contributions to the Peking Opera world while working at the Ming Tombs Reservoir. Portraits of famous figures such as Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Ma Lianliang, Gai Jietian, Zhou Xinfang, Hou Xirui, Li Shaochun, and Xiao Changhua are also on display here. >
Ding Cong Illustration Collection
Basic Information
Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore
Price: 25.00 yuan
< p>Category: Books>Collection BooksCategories: Books>Pictures and Texts>Comics
Total number of pages: 184 pages
Binding: Paperback
p>Format: 24 pages
ISBN: 9787108028594
Publication date: 1st edition, Beijing, June 2008, 1st printing, Beijing, June 2008
Introduction
For more than half a century, in addition to comics, Mr. Ding Cong has created a large number of illustrations for literary masterpieces by Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Lao She and many other writers, summarizing them with images and concise lines. , rich in charm and enjoys a high reputation.
"Ding Cong Illustration Collection" selects his representative works from various periods, from the illustrations of "The True Story of Ah Q" in the 1940s, to "Little Stories of Beijing" in the 1960s, to many of his second peak creative periods since the late 1970s. This work, totaling 250 frames, is accompanied by fragments of the original work and several promotional articles by famous artists, which focus on demonstrating Ding Cong's achievements in the field of illustration art.
About the author
Ding Cong was born in Shanghai in 1916. It has been 76 years since it started publishing comics in the early 1930s. During the Anti-Japanese War, he worked in Hong Kong and the Southwest Rear Area, working as a pictorial editor, stage art designer, art teacher, and painting Anti-Japanese War propaganda posters. He also participated in many art exhibitions with his cartoons. From 1945 to 1947, he published many influential satirical paintings in Shanghai with the theme of "fighting for democracy". After liberation, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Pictorial". No cartoons were published for more than 20 years after 1957. It was not until the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee that satirical cartoons were drawn again. After 1980, he worked with extraordinary energy and created a large number of literary book illustrations and satirical cartoons. Since the founding of "Dushu" in 1979, his cartoon column has never been interrupted. In the past thirty years, he has published more than forty collections, including "Illustrations of Lu Xun's Novels"; "Illustrations of Ding Cong"; illustrations of Lao She's "Four Generations Under One Roof", "Camel Xiangzi" and many other works; "Ding Cong Comics Series"; "Chinese Comic Book Series·Ding Cong Volume"; "Ding Cong Picture Album - Comics, Illustrations, Sketchings, Portraits, Design Collection"; "Mr. Wang's Quotations" (in cooperation with Liushahe); "My Comic Life"; Chen Wending's painting series (cooperated with Chen Siyi); Chinese and foreign versions of "Ancient Interest Collection", "Today's Interest Collection", etc. He is currently the director of the Cartoon Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association.
Album Catalog
"Ding Cong Illustration Collection" Mao Dun: Reading Ding Cong's "The True Story of Ah Q" Story Paintings (Preface 1)
Hu Xuqing : "Four Generations Under One Roof" and Ding Cong's illustrations (Preface 2)
Ding Cong: I draw illustrations for literary works (Preface 3)
Lu Xun: "The True Story of Ah Q" "
"Plucking Wei"
"Forging Swords"
"Sad Death"
"Tomorrow"
"Brothers"
"Sister Xianglin"
"At the Restaurant"
"White Light"
"Corrosion"
"Camel Xiangzi"
"Four Generations Under One Roof"
"The Legend of Niu Tian Ki"
"Two Horses"
< p>"Lao Zhang's Philosophy""Children's Songs"
"Little Things in Beijing"
Wang Ying: "Bao Gu"
Xin Fengxia: "Memoirs of Xin Fengxia"
Wang Zengqi: "A Happy Life"
Zhang Guofeng: "The World of Scholars and Foreign History—Floating World Gallery"
"Selected Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Short Stories"
Guo Moruo: "The Crossed Road"
Ye Shengtao: "Mr. Pan in Difficulty"
Bing Xin: "Fen"
p>Xu Dishan: "Peach Pounding"
Yu Dafu: "Intoxicating Spring Breeze Evening"
Mao Dun: "Lin's Shop"
Rou Shi: " Mother of a Slave"
Zhang Tianyi: "Mr. Warwick"
Ding Ling: "Ms. Sophie's Diary"
Ai Wu: "Sister-in-law Shi Qing"
Ye Zi: "Harvest"
Ba Jin: "Moonlight Night"
Lao She: "Crescent Moon"
Shen Congwen: "Husband"
Xiao Hong: "Hand"
Zhao Shuli: "Xiao Erhei's Marriage"
"Miscellaneous Notes of Living in Beijing"
Xiao Qian: "Bubble"
Feng Zhi: "Fun and Boring"
Zang Kejia: "My Children and Me"
Bian Zhilin: "Leaking Room Ming"
Ye Junjian: "Doctor"
Yang Hansheng: "(The Reckless Hero) Forty Years"
Chang Shuhong: "Talk about Beijing in the Old Age"
Feng Yidai: "The Uninvited Guest and the Phone Ring"
Dong Leshan: "Asking for Directions"
Xie Tian: "Suddenly Discovered a New Toy"
Wu Guanzhong : "Lodging"
Luo Binji: "Talk about Taxi"
Wu Zuguang: "Laundry Notes"
Lin Jinlan: "Receiving Letters"
< p>Zhou Ruchang: "Save the Hutong"Li Zehou: "The Temple of Earth"
Shao Yanxiang: "A Midsummer Night without a Dream"
Appendix:
< p>Jing Song Dynasty: Preface to "The True Story of Ah Q" by Ding CongWu Zuguang: Preface to "The True Story of Ah Q" by Ding Cong and Illustrations
Huang Miaozi: "The True Story of Ah Q" "The Story of Ah Q" Postscript
Ding Cong: Notes on reprinting illustrations of "The True Story of Ah Q"
Ding Cong: I drew illustrations for Lao Sheji