Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty(s) "Xingshu Lengyan Jing Zhi Zhi Volume" (partial). Courtesy of Shanghai Museum
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu was sent to The House. Courtesy of Shanghai Museum
Recently, the Shanghai Museum and the Shanghai Radio and Television Station to see the news launched a special program of "ShengShi Fanghua - Cloud Appreciation of Shanghai Museum's Donated Cultural Relics Exhibition". In the program, the host followed Yang Zhigang, director of the Shanghai Museum, into the recently opened "Sheng Shi Fanghua - Shanghai Museum Donated Cultural Relics Exhibition", leading the audience to appreciate the fine cultural relics in the exhibition and telling the moving story between the donor and the Shangbo.
The 70-year development history of the Shanghai Museum is inseparable from the righteous deeds and love of countless donors. By the end of 2021, the Shanghai Museum has a collection of more than 1.02 million cultural relics, including more than 140,000 precious cultural relics. More than 88,000 cultural relics in the collection were donated by people from all walks of life, including more than 33,000 precious cultural relics, accounting for about 8.6% of the total collection of cultural relics and 23.6% of the total collection of precious cultural relics.
The "Shengshi Fanghua" exhibition is another large exhibition of donated cultural relics held by the Shanghai Museum after last year's "Prosperous Thousand Autumns" exhibition and the "Gaoshan Mountain Tour" exhibition, and it is also one of the series of activities for the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Museum this year. The exhibition brings together 195 pieces/groups of cultural relics, mainly important cultural relics donated since the 1970s and 1980s, covering calligraphy and painting, bronze, jade, seals, bamboo carvings, sculptures, ceramics, coins and other categories, only 11 national first-class cultural relics, including the late Shang Dynasty oxtail bone inscription, the Western Zhou Dynasty Chengwang period Xiaochen Shan Qiao, the Warring States Shang Martingale, the Northern Song Dynasty Wang Anshi "Xingshu Leng Yan Jing Zhi Zhi Volume", the Southern Song Dynasty Zhang Jizhi's "Kai Shu Zhi
Entering the exhibition hall, a long scroll of calligraphy spread out is particularly eye-catching. Yang Zhigang introduced that this is Wang Anshi's "Xingshu Leng Yan Jing Zhi Zhi Volume", which was donated to Wang Nanping and Fang Shuyan in 1985. Wang Anshi was a famous politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, whose calligraphy works have the evaluation of "clear and steep, fluttering and extraordinary". This volume is an excerpt from the "Leng Yan Jing" section of "Guanyin Fa Miao Ermen", there is a line book in the middle of the main book, a light ink disease book, and the strokes are clear, although the line is tight, there is little blankness, but there is no sense of chaos. Its use of the pen seems to be casual, but it has the charm of idleness and dissipation. According to the self-signed text at the end of the volume, this volume was written a year before Wang Anshi's death (1085), and his pen strength is still strong.
Wen Peng's "Deep In the Seventy-Two Peaks" tooth medallion is also a treasure among the cultural relics donated by Shangbo in the 1980s. Wen Peng is the son of the Ming Dynasty calligrapher and painter Wen Zhengming, and this tooth medallion is one of Wen Peng's representative works and a famous product in the history of Chinese literati seal carving. The printed text cloth is white and uniform, the lines are thin and round, elegant and generous, and there is a cursive version of the word "Wen Peng" on the left side of the tooth seal. The "Deep Seventy-Two Peaks" was discovered during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and was once the old collection of GaoluoYuan in Hangzhou, and later returned to Hua Du'an. In September 1983, Mrs. Hua's wife, Mao Mingfen, donated more than 1,500 Ming and Qing seals to the Shanghai Museum in accordance with Hua Du'an's will, which is one of the preciousest.
Wu Wang Fu Cha Lu is a "net red" cultural relic in the bronze ware collection of the Shangbo Museum, which He Hongzhang donated in 1996. It has an inscription of 12 characters on its shoulder, which records that this cup was cast by Wu Wangfu for a woman in bronze. Yang Zhigang introduced that most of the surviving relics of Wu Wangfucha are weapons (swords, spears) and jian, which have not been seen and circulated in the past, and are extremely precious. The lid of the cup and the delicate dragon pattern of the abdomen of the vessel are intertwined with each other, and the hollowed-out beams are reflected in each other, forming a gorgeous and complex visual effect. The hollowed-out beams of the cups were cast by the lost-wax method, and the lids and ornaments used the popular stamping technology at that time, reflecting the superb copper casting process in the Wuyue region (present-day Jiangsu and Zhejiang) in the late Spring and Autumn Period.
"Lindai Wenjin Xie Andong mountain map axis" is one of the only large axis green landscape paintings seen in the existing works of Shen Zhou, one of the "Four Houses of the Ming Dynasty", which was donated by Weng Wange in 2019. This picture was made by Shen Zhou when he was 54 years old, and copied is the Zhejiang school painter Dai Jin's "Xie An Dongshan Map", depicting the scene of the Eastern Jin Dynasty famous Xie An when he was living in seclusion in Dongshan. Shen Zhou's landscape painters Huang Gongwang and Wu Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty traced back to the five generations of Dong Yuan and JuRan, while Dai Jin's patriarchal Southern Song Dynasty Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, in terms of style, one is the tradition of southern landscape and ink painting, and the other is the tradition of northern landscape and court color painting. The color of the painting is bright and fresh, and it integrates the characteristics of the southern and northern landscape paintings. Shen Zhou's paintings imitate Yuanren, and this painting is both a lonely piece and a strange work in his works, which is unique.
The exquisite carving of Zhou Wenshu rhinoceros horn carved Chibi Tu cup, the solemn and elegant Jingdezhen kiln yellow ground three-color double dragon pattern drum stool, the unique shape of Yixing kiln Chen Hongshou "Yannian" inscription purple sand pot... There are many exquisite and elegant ancient crafts in the exhibition, which is a feast for the eyes.
Yang Zhigang said that the exhibition will last until September this year, and when the epidemic situation stabilizes and resumes opening, everyone is welcome to come back to the exhibition. (Reporter Zou Yating)