Wang Meng moved from the small courtyard where Xia Yan once lived to the ninth floor. Mr. Huang Miaozi, an 87-year-old painter, happily wrote a couplet:
There is no one else in Bai Ou, and there is no one else in the Yellow River.
neat and free and easy, which is a good pair. However, after repeated tastes, I felt that "Yellow Heshan Qiao" looked familiar. I was busy turning over the history of Chinese painting, and suddenly realized that it was the name of Wang Meng, a famous painter in the Yuan Dynasty, and "someone else" naturally meant Wang Meng in the Yuan Dynasty.
Wang Meng in Yuan Dynasty was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang Province). At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he worked as a small official such as "Li Wen" and "Long History". During the war, he abandoned his official and hid in the Yellow River Mountain in Linping, Yuhang, because he thought it was a number. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he became the magistrate of Tai 'an, and the Records of Tai 'an County recorded: "Be honest and keep, learn from officials and be safe for the people. Gong Yu and the scholar-officials drank wine and wrote poems, and they were dyed in the pool, which was a great event. " Looks like a good official voice. Unfortunately, in order to consolidate its dominance, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, severely punished and severely punished him. At that time, Hu Weiyong, the left prime minister, colluded with the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in an attempt to rebel, and was severely suppressed, with more than 3, people involved. Wang Meng went to the Hu family to watch Tibetan paintings, but he was also implicated in prison. He died in prison in the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385) at the age of 84. Wang Meng is the grandson of Zhao Mengfu. Zhao, the grandson of the 11th Emperor of Song Dynasty, started the landscape painting style in Yuan Dynasty after Wang Defang of Qin Dynasty. Wang Meng's paintings have both family origins and extensive learning from predecessors. Dong Qichang said: "Wang Shuming's paintings, from the charm of Zhao Wenmin, ... flooded the famous artists in Tang and Song Dynasties, while Dong Yuan and Wang Wei were the ancestors, so they were colorful and often out of Wen Min's specifications." Among the landscape painters in Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng was the only one who won by his dense painting style. His dense painting style was mainly manifested in the composition, which was often overlapping and complicated in structure, with mountains and mountains and twists and turns. He creatively used pen and ink techniques to maximize the effect of pen and ink. "When I get old, I gradually feel that my writing is pedantic. Writing a painting is like writing a seal script." He emphasized the use of calligraphy in painting and paid attention to the characteristics of the pen used by the center of seal script. When the world once had a poem praising: "Uncle Ming can carry the tripod with his pen, and there has been no such monarch for 5 years." Not too much. Therefore, he, Wu Zhonggui, Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan, also known as the four masters of Yuan Dynasty, represented the highest achievement of landscape painting in Yuan Dynasty and achieved the creative transformation of China's landscape painting. After the Ming dynasty, although there were many schools, after all, there was a lack of creativity, which gradually became a gentle and continuous trend.
Today's Wang Meng is from Nanpi, Hebei. Nanpi, the hometown of Zhang Zhidong. Of course, he was born in Beijing and went back to Nanpi after his birth. When the "July 7th Incident" broke out at the age of three, the whole family fled to Beijing in a carriage. Many years later, they recalled their childhood and remembered it as "a miserable childhood." He joined the China * * * production party at the age of 14, and became a cadre at the age of 15 after the liberation of Peiping. Now he is a part-time professor in more than one university, and his real education is only in the first year of high school. Later, he wrote novels, essays, poems, reviews and studies A Dream of Red Mansions, and finally became a great scholar writer, relying entirely on self-study. At first, I wanted to learn architecture, and I went to the front line of fiery construction. Without approval, I decided to write a novel. In 1953, he wrote the novel Long Live Youth. In 1956, he published the short story "The New Young Man in the Organization Department", with fresh and simple style, vivid and sharp language, strong satire and sense of humor. The writer is keen, promptly discovers and bravely puts forward anti-bureaucratic problems, and reflects the tendency of the party's leading organs to be sloppy, perfunctory, conservative and divorced from the masses after the victory of the revolution. The novel aroused strong social repercussions, and of course he paid a heavy price for it. Some newspapers started to discuss and contend, and Yao Wenyuan labeled it as "standing opposite the enemy of the party to oppose bureaucracy". Upon hearing this, President Mao Zedong made a clear statement: "I will support Wang Meng's anti-bureaucracy. I don't know Wang Meng either, not his children's in-laws! " It should be said that it was President Mao Zedong's affirmation that enabled him to be protected before sudden misfortune. However, it was still labeled as "Rightist" in the end, and it was finally "balanced" by the organization. The time was 1958, and the fate of twenty years was decided by this "balance". First, I went to the suburbs of Beijing for labor reform, and then moved my family to Xinjiang with my wife and belt. He lived and worked silently there, and could not write any more. In the sad adversity, he has not lost confidence in life and the future, and he is optimistic about everything. I returned to Beijing in 1979 and started a new life course. He has successively served as editor-in-chief of People's Literature, vice-chairman of Chinese Writers Association and minister of culture. Although the official position is high, he looks very pale. "For writers, all kinds of experiences are precious and are a big classroom for life. I think both my experience as a minister of culture and my experience of living in a bullpen are precious, both fate and a lesson from social life. " Therefore, he thinks that the most suitable thing is to be a writer. As a writer, I have been pursuing and exploring unremittingly. Long live youth, written at the age of 19 and published more than 2 years later, abandoned the main line of the story and created a new narrative structure; In the 198s, in the face of China literature and world literature, he made great efforts to open up artistic space and spiritual space with a spirit of being the first in the world. His experiments and explorations of modernist novels, including stream of consciousness, sound of spring and Dream of the Sea, etc., made him a dancing butterfly and a flying kite over the literary world in China! After more than forty years of ups and downs, what he pursues is no longer the simplicity of youth, but a kind of justice, harmony and tolerance. He has carefully constructed a series of seasons, and has created four, namely, the season of love, the season of lovelorn, the season of hesitation and the season of revelry, and will write two more until today. After all, he came to this day with the times, a participant in various political events in China and a witness to the history of new China. He has no intention to write about the great events of all times, but he should write about his pride, integrity and self-esteem with it as the background, and provide a testimony to history. He wants to create a world with his works, a world of reflection and thinking. This world embodies the passion, hope and confusion of a generation, as well as the pursuit, pain, disappointment, awakening and excitement of their generations.
It's a coincidence that Wang Meng in Yuan Dynasty and Wang Meng today have the same surname and the same name after more than 6 years. They are irrelevant, because * * * has this symbol for the world to call. In fact, apart from their names, they also have an important feature, that is, they all have the courage to explore and innovate, which makes them: one plays an important role in the history of Chinese painting and the other plays an important role in the contemporary literary world. This is Wang Meng!