内容提要
Introduction to Professor
Fan Zeng
FAN Zeng, born on July 5, 1938 in Nantong of Jiangsu Province, is a well-known Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet. He is also a professor of Peking University, Dean of the Chinese Painting Institute of Peking University, the Honorary Doctor of Letters of Glasgow University, tenure researcher and Ph.D. supervisor of Chinese National Academy of Arts, tenure professor of Nankai University, Ph.D. supervisor of the College of Literature and the College of History of Nankai University, tenure professor of Nantong University, and President of Tianjin Panshan Academy of Classical Learning. He was awarded with the “l’ Etoile Civique” in France in 2008, “Special Consultant of Diversified Culture” in 2009 by UNESCO, and was granted with “Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur” by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010. In 2012, he was granted with “Chinese Art Lifetime Achievement Award”.
Born into a prestigious literary family with a history as long as 450 years old which has produced 13 generations of poets, Professor Fan is well versed in the areas of literature, history, and philosophy. A champion of the notion of “return to the classics and the nature”, and a practitioner of the aesthetic principle of “taking poems as soul and calligraphy as bone”, he has made a huge contribution to the development of Chinese painting by initiating a movement of “neo-classicism” in arts. The humanistic concern expressed in his books on literature, history, and philosophy is widely acclaimed in academic circle both at home and abroad. Among others, his essays have been considered as the choicest in the country for the sake of the grace and brilliance shown in them. As the “Special Consultant of Diversified Culture” of UNESCO, Professor Fan delivered speeches at the UNESCO headquarters with the topic centered on “Return to the Classics and the Nature”, “Embracing the Nature” and “Walking to the Essential Goodness”. In 1984, an Art Gallery after his name was set up in Okayama County, Japan. In 1986, He financed the Oriental Arts Building of Nankai University. His devotion in humanitarian business and charity affairs has earned him one of the “Top Ten Philanthropists in China”.
Professor Fan is also a prolific writer. He has authored over 150 works, such as Real Man’s Poem, Poem Manuscripts of Fan Zeng, Records of Chuangtzi Showing His Power, Simplified Stroke and Splashed Ink of Fan Zeng, Painting Collections — Fan Zeng and Bada Shanren, Poem Collections of Fan Zeng, Crambo of Fan Zeng, 33 Essays of Fan Zeng, 33 Essays of Fan Zeng Abroad, Interpreting Laozi and Chuangtzi, New Articles of Fan Zeng, Approaching the Nature and 33 Essays of Fan Zeng Abroad, of which, 119 have found their way into China National Library.
The following is Professor Fan’s self-portrait: crazy for painting, versed in calligraphy, occasionally interested in writing poetry and prose, a passionate reader of history, and knowing something about the changes of the past and present.
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