Cultural perspective
From October every year, it is the busiest time in the academic community. At the end of the year, projects, endless lectures, conferences, and paper publishing and publishing at the end of the year can be described as mountains.However, I heard that there is a big ink painting exhibition on the 115th anniversary of Mr. Fan Changgan on Wujie Road. I still can't miss this rare opportunity, and take the unwilling daughter who is unwilling. I hope she can also feel the essence and charm of traditional ink paintings.Where.
As we all know, the Chinese older generation of Chinese people are mobilized by different dialects.In each gang, not only religious beliefs, occupations, and even good interests are still different.Those who can be called male stars with cultural relics, such as Yang Qilin, the most important elegant Tibetans of the 20th century, Yang Qilin, "Xiangxuezhuang" Chen Zhichu, and "Xu Baizhai Master" Liu Zu Zu, all are elegant in the tide.Many tide books are more directly involved in artistic creation. As I personally like epic, I personally like the sense of history, and the Western painter Cai Mingzhi and Xu Xiyong, which are also rich in Nanyang's mood, and traditional ink painters such as Chen Wenxi and Fan Changgan.They are all outstanding representatives of tide painting giants.
It can be seen from this, wealthy and courteous, Yahao painting and calligraphy is the wind of Chaozhou Township.At the end of the year, I also visited "Gathering Chaozhou: Chao people famous ink and wash exhibition".At that time, the works of four other tide painters, Chen Jianpo, Xu Mengfeng, Lin Jiaxiong and Lai Ruilong, which also reflects the tradition of local tide people's cultural traditions and artistic cultivation.
Different from Western painting, Chinese paintings based on ink paintings are closely connected with specific Chinese culture traditions.It does not pursue the appearance of objects and characters, but pays attention to changes, ascension, and refreshing with the shape of things. Therefore, the real state is often related to the qi charm and bone force related to the personal spiritual cultivation of the painter.This is like the mood of "antelope hanging corner, no trace" mentioned when Yan Canglang commented on Tang poetry.
Chinese painting training also relies on practical painting skills for many years, the moisturizing and accumulation of cultural literacy, and the accumulation of life experience.Small skills, at the same time, have a unique innovation.
However, all these are too difficult to explain for my daughter who reads three.She has received English -based education since she was a child. She took time to teach her one or two hundred Tang poems during the kindergarten stage, and was already thrown out of the clouds.It can be said that since the teaching language unified in English in the 1980s, in addition to a few enthusiasts, it is difficult for Chinese people to have the complete recognition of Chinese educators to Chinese culture.It is really difficult for me to explain why the flowers and birds in Fan Changyan's pen are "not very similar", because the true meaning of traditional ink painting is the subtle balance between the like and the dislike, otherwise it will be competing with the streets of the craftsman.It is even more difficult for me to tell her that Fan Changgan's paintings often have to cooperate with the poems he created in order to better appreciate the artist's subtle state of mind.And to depict bamboo, orchids, and plums in his paintings, it must be fully understood in the meaning of the entire traditional Chinese culture.
In a sense, appreciate traditional Western paintings, a child may intuitively feel its good, bad, and ugly; but to appreciate traditional Chinese paintings, you must first immerse them in a more complete cultural system.Unfortunately, this has a very close connection with the language environment, and these are slowly losing in the local area.
Fan Changgan's achievements were not only inherited and carried out the tradition of sea -faction painting, but also in the relentless continuation and inheritance of the tradition in a cultural adversity.Since the beginning of the 1960s until his death, he has trained dozens of disciples and disciples of Zhuo Ran family.The so -called sea -faction painting art is actually the result of a sea of sea; in Fan Changgan, etc., it can also be said that it is a sea irrigation, that is, the spread of the world, which has a profound cultural impact on the New Horse area.This is also very close to Singapore itself, and the new spiritual temperament that can be used to cast a furnace and introduce a new spirit.
To this day, the generation of my child, not only with the traditional Chinese culture, the influence of the electronics and the Internet age. From the beginning of middle school, a mobile phone can be seen to see the great changes of the times.Other modern spiritual fast foods with games, online chats and short -level fast, have replaced any cultural pasta of any traditional slow era.
Under such new circumstances, how to allow them to understand the ink paintings or western paintings of local painters, to understand the traditional music performance of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and how to continue the context of Singapore.There was a big gap in the historical tradition of Singapore, which was a very severe challenge.
Otherwise, just watch Japanese anime, chase Korean stars, and the new generation of Chinese people who grow up in short videos and games. When running and entering the postmodern fast food society, it may be like a duckweed in adulthood.Fracture without root.Under the influence of local recreational and utilitarianism, losing their ability to perceive art and losing the past traditional generations, no matter how rich they are in the future, they will face the huge pain in culture and classical spiritual micro -type.
The author is a local literary and historical enthusiast and religious researcher
How to allow the next generation to understand the ink painting or western paintings of local painters, understand the traditional music performance of the Singapore Chinese band, and how to continue Singapore's context is not too different from the historical tradition.Serious challenges.
