Zhang Qianyi has a wife, three concubines and countless confidants. However, it was not until March, 2004 that the floating world of his huge landscape painting "Garden Smelting and Youcuitu" with a value of more than100000 yuan and the seal of "Late Autumn", which he had never exposed before, were mysteriously unveiled, and the shocking Platonic love story of this romantic genius was finally decrypted.
Kneel for beauty just to know yourself.
At the age of 20, Zhang became a monk in Tiantong Temple in Ningbo after his fiancé e died, and returned to Shanghai three months later. When Zhang Daqian worked hard in Shanghai painting circle, even experts could not tell the authenticity of these paintings imitating Shi Tao.
At that time, the wealthy businessman in Ningbo was also one of the targets of Jia's deception. When Li Maochang showed her daughter Li Qiujun the "original" she bought from 50 oceans, she smiled and said, "This painting is fake, but the artist's talent is extremely high, and his great achievements in the future will be epoch-making."
Since then, Li Maochang has found a master in Shanghai painting. After they finally met, Zhang Daqian laughed after listening to each other's narrative. From then on, they became good friends.
Zhang Daqian
Li Maochang intends to let Zhang Daqian know his daughter. Li Qiujun, the daughter of Li Maochang, graduated from Shanghai No.5 Middle School. She has been proficient in chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood. She is a famous talented woman with elegant appearance and gentle personality. One day, Zhang Daqian came to Ningbo at the invitation of Li Maochang. In the living room, he was attracted by a huge lotus painting, one is a broken lotus, the other is a bare stem, and the other is mud, which is elegant and exquisite. Zhang Qian sighed, "there really is a world behind the world of painting. Look at this painting, the technical momentum is great, but the font is magnificent and the artistic conception is delicate and feminine. It's amazing. "
Li Maochang smiled and said, "It seems that you like this painting very much. Do you want to meet the host? " Zhang Daqian said, "I think it's too late to be a teacher, but I wonder if the owner of this Guxiangtang is still alive." Li Maochang said with a smile that artists can see it at night.
Dinner started, and the door of the living room was flung open, only to see a beautiful young woman standing in the afterglow of the sunset. Her bun was loose and her face flushed after running. Li Maochang smiled and said, "Qiu Er, this is Zhang Daqian you have always admired." Then he said to Zhang Daqian, "Brother Daqian, have you seen Master?"
A few seconds later, Zhang Daqian reacted, pushed open the chair and fell to his knees with a bang. He shouted, "Zhang Hao, junior, have met Master." A strange love began.
When you kneel, hate yourself and never meet each other.
After the meeting, under the "matchmaking" of Li Maochang, Zhang Daqian opened a studio in "Ouxiangtang", the back building where Li Qiujun lived. They are almost inseparable except sleeping in different rooms.
At that time, Zhang Daqian did a lot of things. Young attractive and caring men and women knew Li Mao Changdu very well. But only for this third sister, Daqian never dared to cross the line.
In the past six months, Zhang Daqian has been thinking, "Why are we late?" It turned out that Zhang Daqian was unhappy after his cousin died. His mother adopted him and married him. The next year, he brought a concubine. And this Miss Li Jiashan, how can she condescend to be her concubine? Zhang Da is free and easy by nature, not a sentimental person, but he secretly engraved the seal of "Late Autumn" on his back.
Li Qiujun also fell into endless distress. On one occasion, Li Qiujun saw Zhang Daqian writing a letter to his wife and concubine in Sichuan, and tentatively told Zhang Daqian that it would be great if he could marry another big girl as a concubine. After listening to this, I often hesitated for a few seconds and sighed.
The next day, Zhang Daqian closed the studio for the first time and didn't open the door until evening. When he came in with tea, he often knelt down and said, "Third sister, I am young and frivolous, but I know that I will live for painting and die for painting all my life." There is no one in my life except you, except men and women. But if I take you as my concubine and humiliate a generation of talented women, I will be damned. "
Three knees, traces of dust, wax and moss, dreams and feelings
From then on, Li Qiujun buried the love of his life in his heart and pretended to be his sister in front of Zhang Daqian.
In the early 1930s, Li Qiujun followed Zhang Daqian to Shanghai and taught at China Academy of Fine Arts. Li Qiujun has always been concerned about Zhang Daqian's daily life. When Zhang Daqian traveled around the world, Li Qiujun chose his disciples, and his disciples also called Li Qiujun "Jenny". Li Qiujun didn't refuse, so she never got married.
On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Daqian was afraid that Third Sister would be lonely and gave her own flesh and blood to her adopted daughter. Li Qiujun regarded her as her own flesh and blood and devoted herself to education.
Encouraged by Li Qiujun, Zhang Daqian went to Dunhuang to sketch, and his trip to Dunhuang had a decisive influence on Zhang Daqian's life. Although the suffering of Dunhuang made Zhang Daqian suffer the injustice of "the destroyer of ancient culture", it also established his irreplaceable position in the history of China painting. Even Xu Behong lamented that "500 years have passed". When Picasso read Zhang Daqian's works in his later years, he lamented that "the real art is in the East".
Zhang Daqian never interrupted his contact with Li Qiujun: in Huangshan, Sichuan and Dunhuang, he always wrote down his artistic feelings and sent them to Third Sister. This process lasted for nearly 40 years.
1939, Zhang Daqian and his newly married fourth wife Wenbo came to Shanghai from Chengdu to celebrate Li Qiujun's 50th birthday. At that time, Zhang Daqian was suffering from diabetes, and every dish he ate had to be tasted by Li Qiujun first. Before leaving, Li Qiujun gave Mrs. Wenbo a recipe of Zhang Daqian.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Ms. Li Qiujun and Ms. He Xiangning organized a disaster relief home for homeless children in the occupied areas. Zhang Daqian repeatedly urged her to hurry to her side. But Li Qiujun can't leave Shanghai. First, he thought of two adopted daughters who were studying. Second, he didn't want to burden Zhang Daqian's life. 1In August, 945, after hearing the news of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Zhang Daqian, who was far away from Chengdu, painted a huge landscape painting "Yuan Ye and Youcui", praising the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and stamping it with the seal of "Late Autumn". First of all, I know that this painting will be a masterpiece of his life; The second is to commemorate his feelings with Li Qiujun. Later, he gave this painting to his friend Xie, hoping to see it when he brought it to Shanghai for exhibition. Unfortunately, the wild jade map was confiscated at 1952, and it was not returned to its teacher until 1984. Li Qiujun has never seen this painting in his life.
1949, Zhang Daqian came to South America from Southeast Asia. Every time he goes to a country, he collects a little soil there and puts it in an envelope that says "Three Sisters Exhibition". Later, through Li Qiujun's brother in Hongkong, he gave this letter to Li Qiujun. The letter said: "Third sister, I heard that you have been lying in the hospital bed recently, and your heart is like a knife. The biggest regret in life is that you can't live in the same place, but you can't die in the same place. Although you wrote the epitaph with me, I'm really worried about whether we can have the same opinion after death. Qin Shu of Shushan was loved by countless beauties all his life, but compared with Third Sister, these six palaces were eclipsed. Starling still remembers how lovely and charming you were when we first met today. Unforgettable, just like yesterday. I hate the separation of the straits. It is in the southwest and usually has different homes in the southeast. Dust, wax and moss mark a dream. '
197 1 When Li Qiujun died in, Zhang Daqian was holding an art exhibition in Hongkong. Hearing the bad news, Zhang Daqian couldn't afford to kneel in the direction where he lived in Li Qiujun, and he couldn't eat for days and nights. Since then, he has aged a lot, and his disciples around him often hear him say, "Third Sister is alone."
Eight years later, Zhang Daqian died. In March 2004, the descendants of my friend Xie finally auctioned his "Wild Travel Map". After the publication of Zhang Daqian's masterpiece Late Autumn, the origin of Late Autumn was finally decrypted, thus exposing this incomparable love.