Born on March 28, 1892 in Suoshi Village, Fengxin County, Ji'an, Jiangxi Province. The name is Jianji and the word is Jian. He lost his mother when he was 3 years old and his father when he was 6 years old. He spent his childhood living in his grandmother's house.
From 1904 to 1908, he studied part-time at Wang Huachen Library. Because of his intelligent nature, he was deeply loved by his teachers and was taught calligraphy and painting by Tang Zichao, a famous Chinese painter in Guangxi.
Student at Guilin Political School in 1910.
In 1911, he conducted a social survey in Huangzhou, Hunan Province and continued to study calligraphy and painting for one year.
From 1912 to 1913, he served as a calligrapher and painter in the Education Department of Guangxi Province.
From 1914 to 1920, he was the director of the Art College of Chaozhou Tax Factory in Guangdong Province.
Married Hu Huifen in Chaozhou, Guangdong in 1917.
In 1918, a handsome young girl started studying.
From 1919 to 1920, he was admitted to the Oil Painting Department of the Shanghai Fine Arts College founded by Liu Haisu and became a second-term student. He was born at the same time as Pan Yuliang, Ni Yide, Zhang Xian, Wu Fuzhi, Xu Shiqi, Ye Lingfeng, etc., and his teachers included Liu Haisu, Wu Fading, Wang Yachen, Wang Jiyuan, Li Chaoshi, etc. Receive systematic education in Western painting theory. Accept the ideological influence of the "May 4th" New Culture Movement.
The second daughter, Shuai Liming, was born in 1920.
In 1921, he returned to Guilin and founded the "Yanmei Art Studio", becoming the first person to introduce Western painting to Guangxi. Practice new art education and adopt the "life drawing" teaching method. The first Western painting courses in perspective, human body painting and anatomy were launched in Guangxi. Some of his disciples were Yang Taiyang, Huang Zhen, Yang Qiuren, etc., who became the pioneers of modern art education in Guangxi.
From 1921 to 1927, he served as the general director of Guilin Provincial Second Normal School, and served as the school and the provincial Guilin No. 3 Middle School, Guilin Middle School, Guilin Girls' Middle School, Guishan Middle School, Hunan Lugui Yuying Primary School, etc. School drawing teacher. Engaged in teaching oil painting, watercolor, sketch, chalk painting and Chinese painting.
He joined the Kuomintang during the first Kuomintang cooperation period and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guilin Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang (Left). Together with Pei Bangtao, Li Zhengfeng, Li Renren and others, he followed Sun Yat-sen in the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolutionary movement.
When Sun Yat-sen went to Guilin in the winter of 1921 to organize the Northern Expedition, he served as the captain of the photography brigade.
In 1922, his son Shuai Lide was born.
The second son Shuai Lizhi was born in 1924.
In 1925, in order to commemorate Sun Yat-sen's great achievements, he was commissioned by the Guangxi National Government to personally design Zhongshan Park, Zhongshan Pavilion (Zhiyang Pavilion) and Zhongshan Memorial Tower, and create a full-length oil painting portrait of Sun Yat-sen. He once led and organized the people and students to carry out vigorous democratic and freedom movements that eliminated superstition, anti-feudalism and anti-colonialism. He also led Yang Yangyang and other students to plant eight banyan trees at the gate of Mingjingjiang Royal City.
When Guilin Zhongshan Park was completed in 1926, I had the impression of climbing Duxiu Peak: Xu climbed the 360 ??steps, and thousands of households were confused by the fog. Pointing to the ant island in the distance, the clouds hit my hand, and the Lijiang River bends far away and the peaks are low.
The third son, Shuai Limo, was born in 1927.
From September 1927 to 1932, after the "April 12" incident, he was wanted because of the Kuomintang purge. He fled to Hong Kong and changed his name to Chen Jiyuan. He worked as a lithograph, art designer, and advertising designer at the Commercial Press of Hong Kong. division.
In 1932, he worked as a document and bookkeeper in Shanghai and studied accounting at Shanghai Lixin Accounting School.
After graduating from Shanghai Lixin Accounting School in the summer of 1933 to 1936, he went to Nanning via Wuzhou, Guangxi, and served as the chief of the first and second sections of the Accounting Department of the Guangxi Provincial Government and the director of the accounting office. At the same time, he taught at the Guangxi Accounting School. .
In 1933, he founded the painting shop "Xinxinzhi Shop" in Nanning.
The fourth son, Shuai Liren, was born in 1933.
The fifth son, Shuai Lishi, was born in 1935.
In the summer of 1936, because the Guangxi National Government moved the provincial capital from Nanning to Guilin, he returned to Guilin and reopened the "Yanmei Studio". Guangzhou made friends with the celebrities in the Chinese art circle who gathered in Guilin during the Anti-Japanese War. We discussed creation and education with Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Zhang Anzhi, Shen Yue, Zhang Jiayao, Ma Wanli, etc., and our friendship was profound. He is one of the earliest members of "Chinese Artists".
From the summer of 1936 to 1944, he participated in the preparations for the Guangxi Provincial Art Teacher Training Class (the predecessor of Guangxi Art College) and served as a teacher of Chinese painting, perspective, anatomy and other courses in the training class. Later, he resigned from his accounting job in the provincial government and became one of the founders of Guangxi Art Institute.
In 1936, he collaborated with Xu Beihong, Zhang Jiayao, Shen Yue and Xu Jiemin on the traditional Chinese painting "Pheasant". When I revisited Xu Beihong's former residence in Yangshuo, I wrote poems in memory: I feel the same emotion at the end of the world in calligraphy and painting, and I send my travel traces in the green lotus peak. Pheasants are similar to Binhong and far away, but they are different in the north and south.
On January 9, 1938, a meeting of art workers in Guangxi Province was convened by the National Defense Art Society in Lequn Society. The meeting decided to establish the "Guangxi Art Workers Association". More than 40 people attended the meeting, including Shuai Chujian, Li Wenzhao, Yang Qiuren, Yang Yangyang, Chen Xunchu, Li Mantao, Tang Cheng, Man Qianzi, Zhong Huiruo, Feng Fengzi, Sun Yutang, Zhang Min, Bai Ke and Hong Xuecun.
The sixth son, Shuai Liguo, was born in 1938.
On August 22, 1941, more than ten people in Guizhou, including Guan Shanyue, Ma Wanli, Zhang Jiayao, Shuai Chujian, Long Yuelu, Fan Xinqiong, Shen Yue, Lin Banjue, Yang Yangyang, and Yin Shoushi, initiated the preparations for the establishment of the museum. Guilin Art College selected Zheng Minghong, Zhang Jiayao and Ma Wanli as standing committee members to be responsible for preparations.
The school offers three subjects: art education, Western painting, and Chinese painting, with an enrollment of 100 students. Principal Zheng Minghong. The school was originally located at No. 3 Fuhou Street. On October 23, it was changed to No. 9 Sihui Road to build a school building. On November 15, No. 40 Dangshang Street was rented as the school building.
On November 11, 1941, the Guilin Academy of Fine Arts held a school board meeting and deemed Li Jishen, Liu Houwu, Li Renren, Qiu Changwei, Peng Xiang, Liang Ruisheng, Yang Shubao, Li Deming, Lei Peihong, etc. as honorary students. Fifteen school directors include Shuai Chujian, Zheng Minghong, Ma Wanli, Long Yuelu, Zhang Jiayao, Fan Xinqiong, Lin Banjue, Yin Shoushi, Huang Chuke, Feng Jingju, Gong Shaokun and Zhou Zehang.
In 1941, he created the huge oil painting "Lin Zexu Smoking Smoking Smoking", which won the first prize of Guangxi Art Works.
On December 28, 1941, the Guangxi Fine Arts Association held a membership meeting at the Guilin Radio Auditorium and elected seven directors, including Shuai Chujian, Zhang Jiayao, Long Yuelu, Lin Banjue, Gong Shaokun, Feng Jingju, and Shen Yue.
On January 2, 1942, the Guilin art circle held a gathering at the Meilichuan Tea House. Yu Xinya, Liu Jian'an, Zhang Anzhi, Xu Dehua, Fu Sida, Liu Yuan, Zhang Jiayao, Shuai Chujian, Chen Haiying, Zhou Zehang, Wan More than 30 people, including Hao, Shen Tongheng, Huang Yanghui, Zheng Keji, Shen Tuzhuang, Yin Shoushi, Cao Peiqi, Lin Hengzhi, Wu Xuanhua, Zhang Zaimin, Zhou Lingzhao, Xu Jiemin, Zheng Minghong, etc. attended the meeting. During the meeting, the attendees drew self-portraits and signed their names, and discussed Construction of art studios and other matters.
The seventh son born in 1942 was handsome and made meritorious service.
In September 1942, under the order of the Guangxi Provincial Government, the school moved to the Chen Wengong Temple in Dingguimen and was renamed as the private Guilin Rongmen Art College. Principals Ma Wanli, Shuai Chujian and others still remained. As a school director. There are more than 200 students in the American College. The Japanese army invaded Guangxi, and the school's urban building south of the city was destroyed by the war.
On February 1, 1943, the Guangxi Fine Arts Association held a general meeting of members to elect directors for this year. Seven directors including Long Qian, Zhang Jiayao, Lin Banjue, Yang Yangyang, Gong Shao, Lin Hengzhi and Feng Jingju were elected. Ma Wanli, Shuai Chujian, Shen Boyin, Yin Shoushi and Huang Ke are the review committee members. The new directors and review committee members held a joint meeting today.
In October 1944, Guilin was evacuated during the Anti-Japanese War, and his family moved to Yangshuo, where they lived until October 1956.
From 1944 to 1945, he served as chief secretary of Yangshuo County Government.
In 1945, Guilin was restored and he resigned as director secretary of the county government.
In February 1946, Rongmen Art College merged with the original Guangxi Provincial Art Teacher Training Class and was renamed Guangxi Provincial Art College. Since October 1941, he has served as a teacher and professor at Guilin Fine Arts College, Rongmen Fine Arts College, and Rongcheng Painting Academy.
From 1946 to 1947, he served as a painting teacher at Yangshuo Middle School and made a living selling paintings. He wrote the motto "Don't seek to spread your reputation in vain, but seek to spread your humble writing throughout the world".
From 1948 to 1949, he served as the accountant of the Yangshuo County Government’s Land and Grain Management Office.
From 1950 to 1956, he served as the director, accountant, and deputy director of the Yangshuo County Cultural Center. He also served as a government reception tour guide, responsible for receiving the collections of paintings of former Soviet experts and domestic scholars who came to Yangshuo and Xingping. He reopened the "Yanmei Art Studio" and recruited many students. At this time, his students included Pan Yilu, Li Zhengou, etc. He actively practiced "sketch creation" and created a large number of landscape paintings, flower and bird paintings, such as "Xingping Yudu" and "Liu Gong". "Xiang Wu Ship" and so on, as well as nearly a thousand paintings. Drawing the "Yangshuo Landscape Painting Collection", organizing and writing a large number of Yangshuo scenic spots and Yangshuo historical materials, writing the Yangshuo part of the book "Guilin Landscape", designing and organizing the restoration and construction of Yangshuo scenic spots Jianshan Tower, Yingjiang Pavilion, and Nanshan E Scenery Tao, Woyunting, Snow Lion Ridge, etc.
From October 1956 to September 1958, he was transferred to Nanning and served as a cadre of the Guangxi Provincial Bureau of Culture and the Guangxi Provincial Mass Art Museum.
In October 1958, Guangxi Art College resumed its organizational structure, and the first batch was transferred to prepare for construction. Guangxi Art College was promoted to Guangxi Art College and became a lecturer of Chinese painting in the art department of the school, teaching anatomy, perspective, and landscape, flower and bird classes. Use its innovative "three-three cycle sketching teaching method" to train students. He has been rated as an advanced educator many times. The first and second directors of Guangxi Artists Association. Member of the Guangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1960, I visited Yangshuo again and felt the changes in Yangshuo. I wrote the poem "Shouyang City": "The water is like a river, the mountains are like a screen, and the strange peaks and lotus peaks are famous in ancient times. The morning glow in the East Ridge has a new look, and the beautiful rivers and mountains have a long life." "Yangcheng." In the 1990s, the poem was written by the second son Shuai Lizhi on the cliff stone carvings customized by the Yangshuo County Government, and was engraved on the Nanshan E Scenic Trail together with poems by Chen Yi and Mo Naiqun.
Librarian of Guangxi Museum of Literature and History in 1962.
On March 22, 1963, in order to create the "Art Exhibition to Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region", he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at 5 o'clock in the morning and died suddenly next to the painting table. Throughout his life, Shuai Chujian took the motto of "not to spread his reputation in vain, but to spread his humble brush to the world", and he was engaged in art industry and art education, and his achievements were all over the world.