Introduction to the master of Chinese culture Jao Tsung i, what is the life of the master of Chinese

Jao Tsung-i, 9 August 1917. Born in Chao'an County, Chaozhou City, Guangdong. The word Guan, the number of the election hall, Guangdong Chaozhou people.

Mr. Rao's 12th ancestor Shibao Gong began to sell Hakka tofu in Chaozhou City, and then slowly developed. In Mr. Rao's generation, it is the 19th generation of the Rao family. At the age of 18, he continued to write the Chaozhou Art and Literature Chronicle written by his father, which was published in Lingnan Journal.

Later, he successively served as a professor at Wuxi National College, Guangdong University of Arts and Sciences, and South China University. He moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and taught at the University of Hong Kong, where he conducted research at the Bandhagarh Institute of Oriental Studies in India, and was a professor at the University of Singapore, Yale University in the United States, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes in France. He returned to Hong Kong in 1973 and became Chair Professor and Head of Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Rao was awarded the Julian Prize in 1962 and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by the University of Hong Kong in 1982, and was later appointed Honorary Chair Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Chinese Hong Kong. In 1993, he became a consulting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Professor Rao's academic scope is wide-ranging, including oracle bone inscriptions, Dunhuang studies, paleographies, ancient history, ancient history of the Near East, art history, and lexicology, etc., and he has published 40 kinds of books and more than 300 academic articles.

In terms of art, he has a deep attainment in painting and calligraphy. In terms of painting, he is good at landscape painting, sketching and foreign mountains and rivers, not sticking to one method, but has his own face. The figure painting method of white painting has opened a new road in addition to Li Longmian, Qiu Shizhou, and Chen Laolian, and has a great influence.

In terms of calligraphy, it is rooted in words, and the cursive script is integrated into the indulgent charm of the late Ming Dynasty. The "Tianxiao Building" in Jao Tsung-i's home has a collection of more than 100,000 volumes, which was the most prestigious library in eastern Guangdong at that time.

Jao Tsung-i Chaozhou people, my fellow countryman, my senior brother, he graduated from Chaozhou Jinshan Experimental Middle School in junior high school, there is calligraphy written by him behind the Jinshi Glance Pavilion, which is engraved by later generations, Chaozhou has Lin Daqin in ancient times, and there is Jao Tsung-i later.

Fellow villager Lin Lunlun's comments on Mr. Rao: Mr. "Ye Jing Six Learning, Talent Preparation Nine Abilities", has published more than 50 books so far, published more than 400 articles, in Dunhuang Studies, oracle bones, lexicology, historiography, bibliography, Chu Ci, archaeology, calligraphy and painting, **, rhyme and other aspects have great achievements, at home and abroad enjoy a high reputation. Mr. Jao Tsung-i, the word Guan, also the word Bozi, Bolian, the number of the hall.

Mr. Rao's father is the third in the family, named Baoxuan, the word pure hook, later changed to Gong, called the blunt deer, and also known as the Ziyuan layman. Mr. Rao graduated from Shanghai School of Law and Politics, participated in the Southern Society, is a progressive scholar, has written "The Records of the Buddha Kingdom", "Wang Youjun Yearbook", "Cixi Palace Poems", "Chaozhou West Lake Mountain Chronicles" and so on. Mr. Rao is also a heroic Confucian businessman, who opened a rich village in Chaozhou, likes to collect books, is a good celebrity, and has received his support from young progressive writers such as Feng Yinyue.

Mrs. Rao Cai is from a famous family, her grandfather Cai Yigui, Qing Tongzhi served as a senior doctor, her father Cai Ziyuan was born in Jinshi, and she was the head of the household department. In such a good family environment, Mr. Jao Tsung-i has cultivated a studious and thoughtful character since he was a child, and he liked to read classics such as "Three Kingdoms", "Fengshen" and "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" as a child. At the age of 6, he began to learn French painting, especially painting Buddha statues.

At the age of 10, he can recite the "Historical Records" and read Buddhist scriptures, poems, poems, and songs. At the age of 11, he learned to paint landscapes, flowers and birds and Song Dynasty grass from the painter Yang Yan. During this period, more than 100 masterpieces of Ren Bonian in the Yang family's collection were copied, laying a solid foundation for the creation of calligraphy and painting......

In the early morning of February 6, Mr. Jao Tsung-i, a master of Chinese culture and president of Xiling Seal Society, passed away and died at the age of 101. In 2017, he just celebrated his 100th birthday. He is a well-known contemporary Chinese historian, archaeologist, writer, economist, educator, calligrapher and painter.

He covers almost all aspects of Chinese culture and is proficient in Sanskrit. Jao Tsung-i and Ji Xianlin are equally famous, and the academic community calls them "South Rao and North Ji".

Mr. Jao Tsung-i has studied both Chinese and Western throughout his life, including oracle bones Dunhuang, Sanskrit Pali, Greek wedges, and Chu and Han silks. In these fields, the most memorable thing is that he made the Dunhuang manuscript "Wenxin Carving Dragon" public to the world for the first time, and was the first person to study Dunhuang calligraphy. Speaking of Dunhuang, the name of Dunhuang is known to the world, and Mr. Jao Tsung-i has made great contributions.

His research covers almost all fields of Chinese studies, and according to his own induction, his works can be divided into eight categories: Dunhuang Studies, Oracle Bone Studies, Poetry, Historiography, Bibliography, Chu Ci Studies, Archaeology (including Jin Shi Studies), and Calligraphy and Painting. It's hard to put him in any family, and he once humorously said, "I'm a homeless wanderer."

In his early years, Mr. Jao Tsung-i mainly focused on local history, and in his middle age, he also managed the transportation of the four descendants and excavated documents, and in his prime expanded from Chinese history to the study of the history of India, West Asia, and human civilization, and in his later years, he devoted himself to the exploration of Chinese spiritual history.

In the field of Dunhuang Studies, Mr. Jao Tsung-i is an internationally recognized master of contemporary Dunhuang Studies, who has visited the Mogao Grottoes five times and is very concerned about the development of the Dunhuang Academy and the development of Dunhuang cultural relics.

It is understood that in 2000, Mr. Jao Tsung-i, Master Jueguang and others launched the fund-raising activity of "Hong Kong Dunhuang Buddhist Relics Protection Merit Forest", took out their own calligraphy and painting works to participate in the charity sale, and raised 8,473,000 yuan for the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Shelter Forest.

On the evening of November 18, 2010, the Friends of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of the University of Hong Kong organized the "Focus on Dunhuang Dunhuang Fundraising Party" in Hong Kong, Professor Jao Tsung-I donated 10 paintings and calligraphy works for on-site auction, and the whole party raised a total of 10,000 yuan, of which 6.02 million yuan was donated for the construction of the scientific research building of the Institute of Digitization of Cultural Relics of the Dunhuang Academy, and Mr. Rao personally inscribed the title "Jao Tsung-I Building".

Jao Tsung-i, born in 1917 in Chao'an, Guangdong1, ancestral home in Chaozhou, Guangdong2, the word Gu'an, Bolian Zuobo, Bozi, No. Xuantang 3, is a well-known scholar and master of calligraphy and painting at home and abroad. 4 He has made important contributions to the study of traditional classics and history, archaeology, religion, philosophy, art, literature, and Near Eastern liberal arts, and enjoys high prestige in the contemporary international sinology community. 4 Jao Tsung-i went to Hong Kong in 1949 and taught at New Asia College in 1952.

He taught at the University of Hong Kong from 1152 to 1968, and was appointed as the first Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Chinese at the University of Singapore from 1968 to 1973. In 1973, Professor Jao returned to Hong Kong to become Professor and Head of the Department of Chinese Languages and Literatures at the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University, and after his retirement in 1978, he lectured extensively in France, Japan, Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Macau. 1Professor Rao has received numerous awards, honorary doctorates and honorary professorships, including the Prestigious Prize for Confucian Sinology at the Académie de France, a Foreign Member of the Institut Française, an Honorary Member of the Asia Society in Paris, the first Chinese Honorary Doctor of Humanities at the Sorbonne in France, the Special Contribution Award for the Conservation and Research of Dunhuang Cultural Heritage from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China and the Gansu Provincial People**, the Grand Bauhinia Medal of the Hong Kong **, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

On December 13, 2011, Jao Tsung-i, a master of Chinese culture, was elected as the seventh president of the Xiling Seal Society. 4On March 23, 2013, the 5th World Forum on Chinese Studies was held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, and Jao Tsung-i, Emeritus Chair Professor of the Department of Chinese and Wei Lun Chair Professor of the Institute of Chinese Studies and the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Chinese Hong Kong, won the "Contribution Award for Chinese Studies". 5In September 2014, he won the first "Global Chinese Sinology Award You Hu Song Lifetime Achievement Award".