Introduction: Li Shutong is a famous musician, art educator, calligrapher, drama activist, and one of the pioneers of Chinese drama. Let me introduce Li Shutong to you, hoping it will be helpful to you.
Born in the late Qing Dynasty and grew up in the Republic of China.
Li Shutong (1880-1942), also known as Li Xishuang, Li An, Li Liang, was given the birth name Wentao, his childhood name Chengqi, his scientific name Guanghou, his courtesy name Xishuang, and his nickname Shutong.
Li Shutong is a famous musician, art educator, calligrapher, drama activist, and one of the pioneers of Chinese drama. After returning from studying in Japan, he worked as a teacher and editor. Later he was ordained as a monk. His Buddhist name was Yanyin, and his nickname was Hongyi. Later, he was also known as Wanqing Laoren. He was later revered as Master Hongyi.
In 1913, he was employed as a music and painting teacher at Zhejiang Normal School (later changed to Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School). From 1915, he served concurrently as a music and painting teacher at Nanjing Normal University, and composed the first school song in the history of Nanjing University.
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He is a pioneer of China's New Culture Movement, an outstanding artist, educator, thinker, and innovator. He is an outstanding representative of the combination of traditional Chinese culture and Buddhist culture. , is one of the most outstanding eminent monks in the history of modern Chinese Buddhism and a well-known figure with a high international reputation. Li Shutong is a master whose "twenty articles shocked the world". He integrated poetry, lyrics, calligraphy, painting, seal cutting, music, drama, and literature into one. In many fields, he pioneered the splendid culture and art of China. At the same time, he has made creative developments in education, philosophy, law, Chinese characters, sociology, advertising, publishing, environment, animal and plant protection, and human fasting experiments.
He pushed the ancient Chinese calligraphy art to its extreme. As an eminent calligrapher, Hongyi is different from some monks and artists in history, such as Zhiyong and Huaisu. Although they wear cassocks, it seems that their lives are not aimed at firm Buddhist faith and sincere and practical Buddhist practice. They are just He is an artist who lives in a Zen monastery. He "comes madly to light up the world, and gains true knowledge while drunk." This is entirely the temperament and romance of an artist.
The irony of Bada Shanren's image of the white-eyed starling is obvious. His paintings are actually a kind of venting, and they are worldly, not transcendent. Compared with them, Hongyi escaped from Zen more thoroughly. He took refuge in his own heart, transcended the world, and devoted himself to the cultivation of Buddha in the Vinaya sect. He was a pure Buddhist master. He was the first pioneer to spread Western music to China. His "Farewell Song", which he wrote, has been sung for decades and has become a classic. At the same time, he was also the first teacher in China to pioneer nude sketching.
With outstanding artistic attainments, he has successively cultivated some cultural celebrities such as the famous painter Feng Zikai and the musician Liu Zhiping. He dedicated himself to the Buddha, did not eat after noon, studied Vinaya diligently, and promoted Buddhism. He was regarded as the eleventh generation ancestor of the Vinaya sect by Buddhist disciples. He has left endless spiritual wealth for the world. His life is full of legend. He is a typical figure in China who is extremely gorgeous but ends in mediocrity.