Xu Shuangxi’s main experience

Xu Shuangxi

Xu Shuangxi was born in June 1959. A native of Zhuji, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. President of the Chinese Academy of Culture and Art, executive vice president and academician of the Chinese Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, visiting researcher at the Institute of Calligraphy and Art of Peking University, and visiting scholar of Peking University. He is widely praised by the media as "the first person in China's list of books" and "the world's most famous person". The new champion of the list."

Chinese name: Xu Shuangxi

Nationality: Chinese

Ethnicity: Han

Birthplace: Zhuji, Zhejiang

Date of birth: June 1959

Occupation: scholar, calligrapher

Main achievements: "The first person in China's list of books", "the new champion of the world's list of books"

Representative work: "Peking University Cultural Calligraphy·Xu Shuangxi Volume"

Character Experience

Born in June 1959. A native of Zhuji, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. President of the Chinese Academy of Culture and Art, executive vice president and academician of the Chinese Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, visiting researcher at the Institute of Calligraphy and Art of Peking University, and visiting scholar of Peking University. He is widely praised by the media as "the first person in China's list of books" and "the world's most famous person". The new champion of the list." The current market price of calligraphy works has reached 50,000 per square foot, and the auction price is close to 60,000 per square foot.

Xu Shuangxi has been passionate about calligraphy since he was a child. He specializes in running script, cursive script and Bang script. He studied under Wang Xizhi, Huai Su and others. In recent years, he has focused on the research and creation of Bang script. He has published the paper "A Brief Overview of the Artistic Characteristics and Practical Theory of Chinese List Books" and published the collection "Peking University Cultural Calligraphy·Xu Shuangxi Volume"; he was included in the collection together with three seniors, Ouyang Zhongshi, Shen Peng and Quan Xijun. The book "Four Leaders in Chinese Calligraphy" was compiled by China Cultural Information Association and published by China Culture Publishing House. Established Xu Shuangxi calligraphy website. The main representative works include Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface" and Huai Su's "Autobiography". In particular, Lin Huaisu's "Autobiographic Notes" (size: 545cm*215cm*66 pieces) were created using the list of books. At the same time, there are also single characters such as "dragon" and "art" created in giant list books, and he also went to Japan for calligraphy exchanges.

On May 26, 2010, a giant "dragon" of 272.25 square meters was written in Beijing. It has been certified on-site by the China World Records Association and is currently the largest record book in the world. It is known as the "new champion of the world record book".

Public Welfare Activities

On November 6, a long "longevity" with a height of 39 meters and an area of ??more than 500 square meters was written on Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue, kicking off the first longevity culture forum in Nanyue . On March 26, 2011, he wrote the word "Art" on 648 square meters at the Peking University Gymnasium during the China Chart Book Seminar, once again breaking the 507 square meters of the word "Shou" he created on November 6, 2010. record.

Xu Shuangxi's list book "Dragon" successfully challenged the world record and became "the best list book in the world".

The above major events, CCTV, China Central Educational Television, Hong Kong Satellite TV, Hunan Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV, Beijing Satellite TV, People's Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Beijing Evening News, Beijing Times, Beijing Daily, Beijing Labor Morning News, Macau Daily, Calligraphy Herald, Hunan Daily, Changsha Evening News, Xiaoxiang Morning News, Zhejiang Daily, Shaoxing Daily, People's Fine Arts, People's Daily Online, Xinhuanet, China Daily, Sina, NetEase, Sohu, Tencent, Hunan Calligraphy Network and hundreds more The media have made relevant reports. People's Daily Online and CCTV's Chinese Channel also produced special interview programs titled "Xu Shuangxi: China's No. 1 Person".

Representative work

"Huai Su's Autobiography", the work is created with small calligraphy and written on special rice paper with light yellow patterns. The book begins with "Huaisu grew up in Shasha, and has been practicing Buddhism since he was a child. In his spare time, he is quite good at penmanship." It is written in vertical ink from right to left. The work is inspired by the idea of ??movement, with flying dragons and dancing phoenixes, shaped like purple orchids, and breathy like a hanging river. The long scroll says: "There is no lover in Far West, and the solitary cloud sends me to the emptiness. I come to see the world in a crazy way, and it is so true when I am drunk." The huge creative writing project demonstrates the artist's profound calligraphy skills and extensive cultural heritage.

The work is permanently collected by the United Nations. This long cursive scroll displayed in the United Nations exhibition hall has a reasonable layout, exquisite use of ink, both form and spirit, and majestic. It has a sense of the endless flow of the Yangtze River. The momentum is more like the majestic spirit of the five mountains flying around to move the universe. It creates a vivid and expressive effect with bold strokes, and the work complements the UN's broad integration platform.

When Du Garry, Director of the United Nations Information Division, saw this work for the first time, he couldn't help but told the media at the scene: "I was very excited after reading the long scroll work of Mr. Xu Shuangxi, a Chinese calligrapher. The work It is undoubtedly the best level of contemporary Chinese calligraphy art.”

Du Garry is very fond of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and has even gone to Japan for calligraphy exchanges. . I prefer Chinese cursive writing. He believes that things that cannot be found in life can be read in the long history of Chinese culture. Xu Shuangxi's calligraphy works gave him spiritual nourishment in Eastern culture.

After long-term polishing, Xu Shuangxi's cursive script has become superb, showing his profound attainments in cursive script and unique writing techniques. Xu Shuangxi's primary school students, Huai Su and Zhang Xu, learned to post "Two Kings" Jincao, and were good at attacking the inside and approaching the outside. He innovates and stands out from the crazy tension of ancient and modern cursive scripts, hides the pen in the deep and majestic depth, and embodies the beautiful brocade in the entire work. His long books are soaked in ink, often immersing the viewer into a situation similar to that of a river. From time to time, he hangs his pen under the mountain waterfall. In the history of his calligraphy creation, large-scale calligraphy is particularly famous, while fine and wild cursive writing is more charming. Two nights before it was presented to the United Nations, a Hong Kong collector in the United States went to the hotel to see this long scroll. He couldn't put it down and was very optimistic about it. He wanted to pre-order it at a high price of 11 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately RMB 9 million). Collection, but Xu Shuangxi politely refused. He felt that the organizer of the "Timur Dawamat Unity and Friendship Patriotic Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" invited him to present this selected work to the United Nations as a commemoration. The social value of the work is far more important than the economic value. , the donation to the United Nations reflects the true value of Chinese calligraphy artists in spreading Chinese national culture. Xu Shuangxi's words made Ren Xingliang, Secretary-General of the World Federation of Overseas Chinese Societies present, and every overseas Chinese present feel extremely proud.