Tang Peng

Tang Peng

Tang Peng, whose name is Tianchi, was born in Huizhou and moved to Lishui, Jiangsu Province. Born in 1644, died in 1722. The iron painting artists of Qingshun and Xijian had studied painting from Xiao Yuncong. Under the guidance of Xiao, their skills became better and better. Tang Peng's iron painting has been handed down from generation to generation and is popular at home and abroad.

Profile

Tang Peng, Tianchi. Qingshun, Xijian iron artists. He was born in Huizhou and moved to Lishui, Jiangsu Province. When he was young, he came to Wuhu to study iron work. He grew up in a self-employed iron workshop and initially made single iron flower and iron flower lamp decorated with inner mounted silk paper for worshiping Buddha. Later, he combined the two into one and created iron painting. It can knead iron to make flowers, bamboos, insects and birds. It can also be used as a landscape barrier. After the iron painting came out, everyone cherished it. He once learned to draw branches from Xiao Yuncong. Under Xiao's guidance, he became famous for his excellent skills.

Character experience

Tang Peng's early iron paintings were all immature. In view of the large-scale landscape, Xiao Yuncong, a painter of Gushu school, asked for advice. "To reach Xiao Chi mu, to seek its draft.". And "see its splash ink potential day by day", "often stop work to view Xiao's painting". Xiao Yuncong, seeing his sincerity, did not talk about the relationship between the poor and the humble. According to the characteristics of forging iron, he drew the painting of "Cun is to reduce the brushwork, and Lin is not thick", and gave Tang Peng the iron painting. From this, his skill became more and more refined, expanding the world of iron painting, reaching the realm of "iron is the muscle and bone, painting is the soul", becoming a master at that time. Tang Peng's iron paintings are excellent and skillful. In the Qing Dynasty, scholars such as Liang Tongshu, Qian Shi, Xie Jinpu, Wu Shanting and Chen Baosuo wrote poems and praises one after another. "A thousand years of ghost axe cutting in the charcoal, forging in the Yang furnace at night, flying star crack, must be called the illusion of soft fingers, skillfully seizing the pen in the south of the Yangtze River.". "The sound of a thousand doors and hammers goes on and on, and all kinds of fine arts and crafts have passed through Liangzhou. There is a special combination of materials, art and industry, and Tang Pengzhi's skills are unique.". Huang Yue praised Tianchi iron painting as unprecedented. Wei qianheng, a poet of Wuhu, who worshipped iron painting in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem: "when Jingguan passes away, Ni Huang dies, and no one can write about the real landscape. Who can do the magic work from iron smelting, thousands of miles can live close to each other. In the early days of ancient times, he taught the six methods directly to the Honglu, refined them to make flexible fingers, and believed that the world was weak. " Huang Dehua praised: "it's not a forger, it's a painter." Tang Peng's "iron smelting skill" is highly skilled and famous for a time, but he lives in poverty and has no money to buy a drink after work. In the song of iron painting, Wei qianheng sang: "I only pity for the strange skills, but I am poor in the sky, and I am empty in the wine and money when the river and the sky are at dusk.". Huang Yue's poem says: "my family has a house near zhuangkui, and Tang has not paid for it for a long time. At the end of the year, he often casts his money with paintings, and the lamp screen and candle are charming.". The iron paintings created by Tang Peng have been handed down from generation to generation and are popular at home and abroad.