(On March 24, 2012, the opening ceremony of the 28th China Lanting Calligraphy Festival and the Jin Sheng opening ceremony were held in the Wangyou Temple of the Lanting Wangyou Right in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

Calligraphy behind the Calligraphy behind the Chinese Book Association

Reporter/Zhou Qunfeng

Send 2020.8.24 Total Issue 961 China News Weekly

On the morning of August 12, the Texas Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province passed the long -range video system and opened the trial of Zhao Changqing in the first instance.Officially disclosed photos showed that during the trial, Zhao Changqing's expression was sad.Zhao Changqing expressed his confession and regret, and the case was not sentenced in the court.

Zhao Changqing is 67 years old and is the former party secretary and former vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association (hereinafter referred to as the Chinese Book Association).Prosecutors accused: From 2006 to 2019, Zhao Changqing used the convenience of his position to seek benefits for others in the approval of members of the Chinese Book Association, elected director of the Chinese Book Association, and coordinating engineering project cooperation.A total of more than RMB 24.86 million should be held criminally responsible for bribery.

The chairman of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Artists Association and the president of the Guangdong Chinese Calligraphy Institute, Liu You Bureau, has served as a member of the Creative Committee of the Chinese Book Association and has a lot of direct contact with Zhao Changqing.He told China News Weekly that although Zhao Changqing was the vice chairman of the Chinese Book Association, because he was still the party secretary of the party group, according to the system, he was actually the leader of the Chinese Book Association.Liu Youzhan commented that Zhao did not understand calligraphy, and relying on academics to compare with experts. He rely on the upper position of crooked wind and evil. During the Zhao Changqing's main administration of the Chinese Book Association, he pushed the crooked wind of the Chinese book to the peak.

Some people in the industry believe that in recent years, the bureaucratic atmosphere of book associations at all levels has become stronger and the humanistic atmosphere has become lighter.After joining the book association, many officials enabled bribers to scramble to make bribes by making a lot of money.Many officials who have fallen in the horse also have the elegance of calligraphy. Some of them are members of the Chinese Book Association and are called official calligraphers by the outside world.

How many corruption chaos has it hidden in the elegant and pure calligraphy industry?How should this corruption be controlled?

The way of gathering wealth

His hair is pale, and gold -wing glasses are decent, like an elegant and gentle elder.This is a preliminary impression of many people who have contact with Zhao Changqing.

Zhao Changqing was born in July 1953 and was from Yi County, Liaoning.He has long served in Heilongjiang for a long time, and has served as deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Heilongjiang League, Deputy Minister of Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and Secretary of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Federation.In December 2005, he served as the secretary of the party group, vice chairman and secretary general of the Council.In April 2014, he served as vice chairman of the Chinese Book Association.In June 2018, he retired from the consultant of the Chinese Book Association.

In the past, it was reported that Zhao Changqing loved poetry since childhood, and published poetry, prose, and literary reviews in the provincial and national newspapers and periodicals in his twenties.Four lyrics such as the Five Ring Flowers of the Mainland China, which he created, also won awards in the Chinese conditions and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Songs.

In May 2008, the Chinese Book Association was awarded the title of Chinese Calligraphy Mountain in Taishan and held a licensed unveiling ceremony.At present, the inscription on the famous Chinese calligraphy monument located in Tiandi Square in Tai'an City is written by Zhao Changqing.

On October 18, 2019, Zhao Changqing was invited to collect the creation of Dahei Mountain Scenic Area in Beixi City, Liaoning Province.On the same day, 16 painters and painters he led by him came here and created more than 50 meters of calligraphy long scrolls and dozens of calligraphy art works.At that time, the news about him was about to be checked.Ten days later, rumors were sitting in real.

On October 28, 2019, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the Central Propaganda Department and the Shandong Provincial Supervision Commission issued news that Zhao Changqing was suspected of serious disciplinary violations and accepted discipline review and disciplinary inspection and supervision team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.Supervision and investigation of the Shandong Provincial Supervision Commission.

Liu You Bureau was the judge of the 5th National Calligraphy Exhibition of the Chinese Book Association.He said that Zhao Changqing's serious problems appeared at the ninth National Calligraphy Exhibition.The National Calligraphy Exhibition is held every four years. The industry is also known as the national exhibition. It is known as the National Games of the Chinese Books. It is the highest -specification work exhibition in the national calligraphy industry.

In December 2007, the ninth National Calligraphy Exhibition opened in Guangzhou.The book fair was co -sponsored by the Chinese Book Association and the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and co -organized by the Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Federations and Provincial Books.This is also the first national exhibition organized by Zhao Changqing after taking office.

Zhang Guiguang, then vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Book Association, revealed to the media that in order to win the right to host, Chen Shaoji, then the chairman of the Guangdong Book Association, went to Beijing to discuss and paid more than 3 million yuan in margin to sign the exhibition contract.

Liu You Bureau said that at the first National Exhibition in 1980, it cost only 50,000 yuan, and the ninth National Exhibition spent up to 25 million yuan. Why is it so big?Where did these money use?Why is there no supervision and review?

Liu You Bureau told China News Weekly that there have been many strange phenomena at this national exhibition.For example, after the exhibition, the collection of works published, the number of printing is only 10,000 volumes, and the full calculation is up to 600,000 yuan, but it has been made by more than 2 million yuan.However, it cost more than 3 million yuan; in addition, the total participation fee of 1.74 million yuan did not know to go to hellip; hellip;

In 2015, Zhang Gong, an art critic and a documentary writer from Gansu, posted on the Internet and reported Zhao Changqing in the real name.The article lists his 10 ways to collect money: packaging himself into a first -class calligrapher, selling words and collecting money in a mandatory manner; through various calligraphy exhibitions and activities, he will gain money from it; borrowing the opportunity to join the association with calligraphy workers and collect money to collect money;Formulate cultural industry projects and deceive local government finances to invest in wealth; they cleverly engage in inspection activities, extorting enterprises and local institutions at all levels to collect wealth; borrow the network of people from the Chinese Book Association, pull gangs, engage in small groups, play bribery and guest rolesCultivation of wealth; selling the book association associations to private bosses and vested interests take the opportunity to collect money.

The article also stated that in the Chinese Book Association, Zhao Changqing had a three -person group.They played the role of white gloves on the road of Zhao Changqing's wealth. They only approved the hometown of calligraphy and calligraphy cities in various places, and their annual income was millions of yuan.

Several interviewees said that during the period of Zhao Changqing's masterpiece, he was very enthusiastic about hosting selection activities such as Chinese calligraphy in Chinese calligraphy cities in Chinese calligraphy.In order to get these signboards, the local governors are also happy to move closer.In the past reports, during the period of Zhao Changqing led the team to inspect or award the license, there are generally main leaders of municipal leaders or even provincial and ministerial leaders in the local area.

Zhang Gong said that Zhao Changqing's calligraphy was considered a general level in the industry, but after the leadership of the Chinese Book Association, the price of his word increased by dozens of times.

There have been media reports that in the early years, Zhao Changqing's handwriting banner was priced at only a few thousand yuan. During the leadership of the Book Association, the prices of their works soared to a maximum of 560,000 yuan.A domestic auction website shows that in 2014, Zhao Changqing had a high price of 115,000 yuan.

Zhang Gong said that at that time he was the head of the art section of a well -known portal website and received a lot of report materials about Zhao Changqing.Since then, he has conducted verification investigations on many report information, including inquiring about many leaders of the Chinese Book Association.

He said that after public reports, Zhao Changqing repeatedly found him through some famous people, persuaded him to delete manuscripts, and promised to publish books for him.In 2015, Zhao Changqing found me several times through the middlemen, saying that he would meet me in person.I lived in Lanzhou. At that time, there were also officials in Gansu Province who asked me to tell me, hoping that I could delete posts and I was rejected by me.They lifted out a leader who had served as an important position in my hometown Ningxia.

On August 11, 2015, Lanzhou Police also found Zhang Gong on the grounds of many people in Beijing.Zhang Gong recalled that the police said that the content of the report was listened to the Taoist. Let him delete it.To eliminate negative effects, from 2 pm to 7 pm.In the end, because there was no exact evidence, the inquiry was not available.

Coal boss is keen to be vice chairman

After Zhao Changqing was investigated, the rumors of Li Shijie, the chairman of the Anhui Provincial Book Association, were spreading.The surging news quoted the relevant person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Court Court, saying that since October 16, 2019, Li Shijie is not in Hefei and is currently unable to contact.

Someone in the industry uses youth to follow the politics, and in his later years, he summarizes Li Shijie's resume from the book.In 1952, Li Shijie was born in Suzhou, Anhui, and entered the world at the age of 17. He has participated in the self -defense counterattack against Vietnam and made a great achievement.After transferring the job, he served as the personnel, deputy manager, manager, and material director of the Suzhou Fuel Company, and served as the Deputy Director of the Commercial Bureau of the County District of Su County in 1992.

In 2003, Li Shijie was transferred to the Coal Industry Hefei Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. (a state -owned enterprise in Anhui Province), and served as the director of the institute, deputy dean, and party secretary of the party committee.In 2009, at the fifth council of the Chinese Book Association, Li Shijie was elected director of the association.In 2012, Li Shijie retired, and then established the Anhui Provincial Court.In 2013, he was elected chairman of the Anhui Provincial Book Association and stepped down in January 2019.

The accumulation of Li Shijie's wealth is closely related to the field of coal.Tianyancha shows that Li Shijie is a legal representative of 14 companies including Anhui Provincial Materials and Energy Co., Ltd., which covers the fields of coal, steel, building materials, calligraphy and painting mounting.

Li Shijie and Zhao Changqing have many intersections.In May 2009, the Fifth Council of the Fifth Session of the Chinese Book Association was held in Hefei. Zhao Changqing was the then party secretary and vice chairman of the association.Director of the 7th Chinese Book Association has attended many activities with Zhao Changqing.

On November 5, 2017, Cao Baolin, a well -known calligrapher and a professor at Jinan University, publicly reported that Li Shijie was suspected of huge bribes.Cao Baolin said that during the 6th Chinese Book Association election in 2010, Li Shijie was not in the list of vice chairman's candidates.The representative means he smashed 25 million yuan.

Subsequently, Li Shijie complained Cao Baolin to the court for suspicion of slander.In January 2019, Cao Baolin's defamation of the first instance of the criminal mediation letter from the Luanqiao District Court of Suzhou, Anhui. The two parties have reached a mediation agreement and Li Shijie withdrew.

In March 2019, Cao Baolin issued a statement saying: I have never believed that the suspicion of the bribery election is a false statement, but whether the amount of the bribery election is 25 million yuan, as a civilian, it is difficult to calmly proof.

Liu You Bureau told China News Weekly that Li Shijie was a coal owner in his early years. Later, he became a managing cadre, and he became a director of the Chinese Book Association by drawing all the way.He is not called calligraphy, called veteran cadres.When he had not become a director of the Chinese Book Association, he was competing with the post of vice chairman.Although there is no successful campaign, the vote is very high.

Liu You Bureau said that at that time, the industry was rumored that during the election, Li Shijie bribed with Zhao Changqing for the vice chairman of the Campaign Association.

Behind the Chinese Calligraphy Building in Hefei is also considered the shadow of Li Shijie and Zhao Changqing.An article entitled by the founder of the Chinese Calligraphy Building Mdash; MDASH; Li Shijie's article introduced that the building is introduced by the Anhui Provincial Court of Calligraphy by Li Shijie as the dean.The first comprehensive and high -level calligraphy research base.The Chinese Calligraphy Building is 23 floors above the ground, 2 floors underground, with a total height of 113.8 meters.

On December 28, 2013, the foundation laying ceremony of the Chinese Calligraphy Building was held.

In addition, the building is also questioned by the industry as a star -rated hotel.According to the official website of the building, there are 340 rooms and 574 beds on the 7th to 23th floor of the building.The Kang Sports Center is located on the 5th floor of the building. There are gyms, swimming pools, yoga rooms, etc., with a total area of 1,600 square meters. SPA (ie, spa) is located on the 6th floor of the building.

Book Association Chaos

On January 1, 2011, Liu You Bureau exited the Chinese Book Association to the chairman of the Chinese Book Association.He bluntly said that the Chinese Book Association has forgotten his original intention.

Liu You Bureau said that he joined the Chinese Book Association in the early 1980s.At that time, the atmosphere was very positive.At that time, I often went to Qigong's house as a guest, and the topics I talked were artistic.That generation of people has feelings, and in the calligraphy accomplishments, they are also willing to work hard.

He believes that from the beginning of the 1990s, the Chinese Book Association has begun to taste.At that time, book associations at all levels began to pursue economic benefits. After some people entered the book, because there was no background of traditional calligraphy, the so -called popular book style appeared.

Liu You Bureau said that this so -called new calligraphy form, named innovation, is actually dominated by clumsy ugliness and rough monsters, and is a collective manifestation of utilitarianism.There must be sufficient theoretical basis for artistic innovation, not to say that crooked head and brain are innovation. At that time, some people who did not understand calligraphy at that time, because there is no basic skill in traditional culture, so it is easy to get started with popular books and touch fish. At that time, such crooked wind appeared at the time.Essence

Liu You Bureau said that the fundamental reason for the reason why someone wants to be elected as the leaders of book associations at all levels is still favorable.It turned out that one square foot was only 2,000 yuan. After the leadership of the Book Association, it could rise to tens of thousands of yuan.

He said that even more, he organized the so -called national exhibition to make a class, and taught the calligraphy enthusiasts who were keen to win the award at the national exhibition and received a high teaching fee.In fact, it is a teacher to spend money to find relationships and form a relationship network.Rather than teaching, it is better to say how the professor students speculate.

Liu You Bureau said that over the years, the Chinese Book Association has also engaged in many professional committees.The official website of the Chinese Book Association shows that the Chinese Book Association has 40 group members and more than 15,000 individual members, and there are 13 committees including academic committees, scriptures, Lishu Committee, and Kaishu Committee.Liu You Bureau believes that some professional committees have been cultivated as tribute committees, and adding a committee to increase the opportunity to divide interests.

In the local book association, more and more book officers and other book officers such as Honorary Chairman, Vice Chairman.According to Liu You Bureau, at the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese Book Association, the vice chairman of the provincial book associations generally had two or three people, at most three or five. Now many vice chairmen of many provincial book associations have grasped a lot.

Many people in the industry said that a provincial book association in the Southern Province has publicly sold the position of vice chairman.50,000 yuan each, it has to be related to buy.Later, it caused a lot of criticism and was stopped.

On January 23, 2013, the official website of the Shaanxi Calligraphers Association announced the new presidency member.There are as many as 62 leadership selected leadership. Except for 1 chairman, the number of other positions is outrageous. 11 Honorary Chairman, 16 executive vice chairman, 18 vice chairman, 6 consultants, and 10 deputy secretary -generals.On the day of the election conference, there were 242 representatives of the calligraphy industry in Shaanxi Province. According to this calculation, one of the less than 4 people liked the official hat of the association.In addition, there are many officials among the candidates.

In November 2014, after the central inspection team visited Shaanxi, he mentioned that Shaanxi leading cadres participated in too much in calligraphy and painting activities during the feedback.In the month, the Shaanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Supervision Department, and the Provincial Civil Affairs Department held a joint meeting to propose rectification opinions and requested that all cadres at or above the deputy department level or above were withdrawn from the association.On November 25 of the same year, the Shaanxi Civil Organization Administration issued documents from the relevant leading cadres within the association.Since then, a total of 8 cadres at or above the deputy office have resigned as the leadership of the Shaanxi Provincial Book Association.

A member of a provincial -level book association told China News Weekly that the leaders of the book associations in many places were not received by party and political leaders to enter the meeting and elected them to become the leaders of the association.The level of the works of these leading cadres is secondary. With the coming of leading cadres, they can increase the influence of the association.When the association conducts activities, they can also use their power and connections to facilitate money to raise money.In addition, some people joined the Book Association to mix the circle of friends of officials.

Some interviewed people revealed that although some painters and painters with the power of the association have already become rich, they have made their reputation through the so -called public welfare.Some people send Zhang's works to some entrepreneurs who donate to public welfare. If the entrepreneur donated one million yuan, the painter said that his work sold one million yuan, and then took a photo with the donor.Then package itself on major media.

Going to officialization is a must -have

In recent years, there are not a few official calligraphers investigated and punished.For example: Wei Chuanzhong, former deputy director of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, Chen Shaoji, former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Jin Suidong, former vice chairman of the Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Wang Youjie, former secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee.Member of Book Association.The reasons for their dismissal also involved the field of calligraphy.After their dismissal, because of the loss of elegant bribes, their works have fallen thousands of feet.

Li Dalun, the former secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Luzhou, Hunan Province, published a collection of Dalun calligraphy works at the time of office. The price is as high as 418 yuan. In just a few years, he sold this book to more than 30 million yuan.After the dismissal, no one asked the work.

Wang Youjie, former member of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, held a personal calligraphy work exhibition at the Henan Provincial Museum, and published Wang Youjie's calligraphy collection.The industry evaluated that the market price of his word at that time was 2,000 yuan per square foot.On January 19, 2007, Wang Youjie was sentenced to death by Jingzhou Intermediate People's Court for unknown bribery and huge amounts of property.In October 2012, a shooting bank took a calligraphy work of Wang Youjie through the Internet. The starting price was 30 yuan, and there was no bid for three days online.

Liu You Bureau said that the chaos in the calligraphy industry now explains that the prevention of corruption in this field is still weak.

He believes that the Book Association is both an academic institution and an official institution, so this complexity brings some bad places to anti -corruption.The Chinese Book Association is the unit of the main hall. According to relevant regulations, it is not possible to use influence to seek private interest, but they cannot specify that they cannot sell their own calligraphy works, which leads to uniqueness and concealment of anti -corruption in this industry.Liu You Bureau said that it is very necessary to convert book associations at all levels from official to private.

After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the deepening of anti -corruption, the anti -corruption of the literary and art circles also attracted attention.On October 15, 2014, at the Symposium on Literature and Art, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the CPC Central Committee, pointed out that artists should not be slaves of nobles.Critics are not leading the market and guiding consumption, but they have become a pusher and a slave to the market.

On January 16, 2015, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection delivered a speech at the then Secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission Wang Qishan.Wang Qishan said that some leading cadres did not write well, and they ran directly to the grass, and dared to mount them.Now some cadres have played and fluttering, forgetting the relationship between the ruling party and the people.

On December 2, 2014, the People's Daily published an article on Monday, the chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Book Association.The article criticized some leading cadres into the art association as a leader, and they just collectively collect money, acquiesce and elegance, and the individual works were inferior, but they were sold very hot. In fact, they used the guise of the association's leadership.On Monday, he was still in the article, advising party and political leaders to consciously withdraw from the association's presidium.

Some comments believe that behind many chaotic phenomena, the instructions of the instructions need to be reforming urgently.Book Associations at all levels have a history of more than 30 years, and the disadvantages are very obvious.The corner of China's new round of reform has sounded, and the development of calligraphy art must be incorporated into the scientific system. Reform is necessary and no choice.