Garry Ho: Ming Dynasty Calligraphy Collector

I was born in Sichuan in 1947. My father is from Jiangxi. My mother is from Tongnan, Sichuan. In 1949, I came to Taiwan with my parents by boat. To this day, I still think that what I'm doing is what I want to do. The reason I came here may be because I have a mission. I want to show the innovation of the people of Wanming. Is there anyone with innovative ideas? Of course there is. Who? Zhang Jizhen. Zhang Jizhen? Ye Xianggao. Those are all very innovative ideas. Ye Xianggao is good. There is also Gao Gong. Gao Gong, you don't know him, right? His contribution is that he and Zhang Jizhen started a business together. Let's listen to it again. I remember when I was in junior high school, the history teacher was very passionate. When he talked about the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, he was very excited. He felt that how could a country reach such a level? The Eight-Nation Allied Forces took away a lot of Chinese national treasures. When I was in junior high school, I thought that one day I would have the chance to get them back. Two bags. As long as they are intellectuals of Wanming, they are related to this. Military people, intellectuals, educators, life artists. At the beginning, they made a historical classification for Wanming. I hope that these pioneers will keep their books. I am most happy that the audience reacted well. I didn't know that there were so many great people One of the key points he collected is history. He often said that he saved a person, a work of art. Some people ask how many works of art the Foundation has collected. In fact, it is not clear. For example, when a portrait is opened, there are 32 portraits of Ming Dynasty people. But in our file, it is a work of art. In terms of number of people, it is relatively easy to calculate. There are about 1,200 people. I haven't seen you for a long time. Hello, Guo. Hello, Mr. Fu. Long time no see. This is our company's new employee. New employee. He is German. I said I could come to see Mr. Fu today. He said, hello. Where is your teacher? His name is Simon. Simon. Yes, Peter Simon. He studies pharaohs. There are not many pharaohs. Not many. Our Foundation often asks Mr. Fu for help. Pharaohs are mainly painters. Painters. They are good at calligraphy. I have recently collected a few works for you to see. Oh, a big one. I don't recognize these few words from here. I can't recognize them. Only here can I recognize them. I can recognize them at a glance. You can recognize them at a glance. This was originally a car. A car. It was modified. Modified, yes. This is your watch. Yes, this is a watch in Taiwan. I gave it to Lin Huan Sheng. There is more. Mount Zhuzhi. Oh, this is rare. This is very long. What is this? A magnifying glass. This is from India. Is this from India? It's a Zuzha. A Zuzha? Do you have any more? I don't see any more. There are a lot. Very few. These are written by Zhu Yu Ming. And only this one has a Zuzha. Only this one has a Zuzha. Mr. Fu is an international scholar. He has lived in the United States for nearly 30 years. He also studied at Yale University in Washington at the Fairbanks Museum as the director of Chinese calligraphy and painting. He didn't easily deny a work. He often said that this is like a judge's verdict. What if you kill the prime minister by mistake? If you think you didn't surpass Wang Yang Ming, you didn't surpass Zhu Zhi, you didn't surpass Chen Baisha, you didn't surpass Luo Hong Xian, then you have to admit that their physical evidence is not something you can challenge because these are all great works. They all have deep cultivation. I started early. It's been almost 30 years. 30 years of Chinese calligraphy and painting are not expensive With my salary at that time, I could barely afford to buy a big house like Huangdaozhou or Yiyan Road. To be honest, it was expensive. But if you dare to bite the bullet, you can still afford it. But if you dare to bite the bullet, you can still afford it. You can't afford to bite your lips or anything else. It's impossible now. We went to a shop to buy things. We sat down and talked. He has so many hands. He also buys these. He knows a lot about Song Dynasty. He also knows He said, this man is so generous. So we got to know each other. These are good. Love colors. Love colors, that's right. Awesome, awesome. Love colors. Wish you a long life. When I bought Xiong Tianbi, I later found out that Yang Rubin was competing with me. What impressed me the most was that there was a photo of Xiong Tianbi. Xiong Tianbi, because he had never appeared before. On that day, Guo Hao and he were talking with a few friends. Suddenly, his phone rang. He said, Guo Hao, I need to answer a call. It was almost time for the shoot. Guo Hao said, I need to answer a call. Yang Rubin said, I also have something to do. I need to go out and answer a call. The two of them called each other. He came in and said, who is that? I almost fell for him. I almost bought him. In the end, it wasn't me. It was He Dong. There were a few times So, at that time, I was infatuated with He Dong. It doesn't make sense. Because He Dong was an architect. An architect's boss and a poor teacher were thinking about something. If this gets out, it won't be good. So, we were infatuated with each other. After I built two exhibitions with him, we had a special more than 20 years. He said, he couldn't find a reason to be my enemy. The only reason was to collect. Because at that time, 20 years ago, he said he could buy something from a poor teacher. The only difference between him and me is that we have it. If I can provide good ideas, Mr. He will agree and support. He has so many good things. We can cooperate with each other. I think this is quite good. So, many of the exhibitions I hold are supported by Mr. He. Mr. He's work, for example, you can see the name, Chi Du. Actually, I spent a lot of time on it. I met Mr. He in the auction house. I have known him for more than 30 years. So, there is no institution that invites so many people to do the exhibition. He organizes that have not been researched. So, to Chinese culture. So, I admire him a lot. Did you print the book? No. Can I take a photo? Yes, you can. You can see things OK, let's go up. You can also choose us to take some photos of young people. Why don't you come out? Let me introduce this. This is very interesting. I want to cut it. This is the book he wrote in his late years. In his late years. This may be Song Tuo. Yes, Song Tuo. So, you can tell by looking at the pen. These things are not fake. He wrote very well. This is a good work of his. I can't remember him at all. He is in this season. So, he is a bit like Wen Zhengming. Wen Zhengming wrote very well. This is not his stone. This is from Zhenji. He stole it at that time. He drank it and stole it. He printed it to Zhenji. He printed it to Zhenji. Huanan Dawu. These are all from the Imperial Palace. Imperial Palace. These are all from the Imperial Palace. I think the highest art in China is calligraphy. This tradition must be guarded by some people. It can't be affected by the influence of contemporary foreign art. As an intellectual, I have a motto. For the benefit of the world, for the benefit of the people, for the purification of the past, for the peace of all things. I don't have the ability to purify the past, but I keep the past and keep the calligraphy. When you see the calligraphy, you can see it clearly. I think in the next 25 years, we may be able to do something. So, let's take a look at the works first. OK. Please take a seat. Come on. Sit down. Come on. The special thing about calligraphy is that it has the hand-hand sound. It is also part of the music. The song I'm going to play is a folk song. The reason why Li Shizhen's work was published is because of the poem written by Wang Shizhen. It was very important for Li Shizhen. OK. Next. I think you should have heroes. Simply put, if you get rid of those people, you will feel that being a Chinese person is meaningless. If you remove Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Gao Panlong, Xiong Tingbi, and all these people from Song Dynasty, if you get rid of them, what is the meaning of living in this civilization? They are our chickens. Yes, they are our chickens. That's right. They are our chickens. The chickens make up this civilization. If you get rid of them, how will you raise your children? In the past, everyone in Taiwan was poor. Everyone wore pants made of flour. After eating the flour, they would take the bags and change the pants into pants. That was a common memory. When I left the school, the teachers were all foreigners. I thought it was great to have a foreign teacher. I wanted to go to the U.S. when I was in college. Of course, I had no cultural confidence. Of course, I thought they were all very tall. So I thought I wanted to introduce these people to everyone. What was China like at that time? I held many exhibitions. I hope that when I look at these works, I feel that we are all part of this culture. And we are not that far away. Hello? Hello, Guo Hao. I have made an appointment this week. The main thing is that the Japanese are still studying calligraphy. Yes, yes, I will show him calligraphy. I will also show him Wan Ming Liu and Dong Qi Chang. Okay, okay. Thank you. Okay, bye. I built these houses a long time ago, 20 years ago. At that time, there was a 50cc motorbike that drove around Taipei. If you tell me the address, I can probably tell you where it is in the east or west. From renting a house to selling a house, I sold the whole house. In 1973, I earned more than 20 million Taiwan dollars. At that time, the dreams of young people were long gone. At that time, I was thinking all day how to make more money. So at that time, I had already forgotten Until my father passed away, I saw him He left a lot of calligraphy that he wrote. At that time, I suddenly thought I don't have time to accompany my father at this time. But these ancients accompanied him. The poems of the ancients let him pass on his feelings and his thoughts through calligraphy. And he wrote a lot. He wrote Jiang Chengzhi Ten years of life and death, two hair, not two words, a thousand miles of loneliness, five words, seven grains. I saw this and I knew what he was thinking. Because my mother passed away first. He was actually missing my mother. But he wrote it with a brush. Yes, I think my father benefited from the ancients and benefited from calligraphy. And this benefit, you see, when I was not around, when we were busy with business, he could make a living like this. So I think he should be able to promote calligraphy. So in 1995, I set up a calligraphy foundation named after my father. You see, this is called Ban Zuo. This Zuo is used in the ritual. Used in the ritual. Wang Yangmin went to participate. Yes, it has something to do with this ritual. Oh, it has something to do with it. So he immediately went back. These two disciples, I found out that these two disciples are from Guizhou. This must have been written in Guizhou. That was in the early days. He was 37 years old. Yes, 39 years old. Longchang Yi. Who is this person? His name is Wang Ji. Wang Ji is from Suzhou. He is a calligrapher. He happened to be in Guizhou at that time. And he was in Guizhou for only one year. This letter is different from the calligraphy you collected. The calligraphy he wrote was very respectful. Very respectful. Because he wrote a calligraphy like this. Yes. Wang Yangmin was actually dealing with this kind of worldly affairs. I think he was so regular. So regular. We have Wen Zhengming, including his own six generations, the works of the six generations of descendants. We all have. He first paid great attention to the establishment of family history, which is a family style. Why is Wen Zhengming such a good family style? As for his descendants, every generation has very powerful people. Our generation has a very deep relationship. The first is the blood relationship. The second is the relationship of hometown. So you say I am from Jiangxi. What I care about is the origin of my roots. At least this is the best knowledge our ancestors gave us. No one in the world has it. But only for the Chinese, there is a pen. You can write on it. From here, there is literature, there is poetry, there is thought, there is art. As a Chinese, to be able to enjoy the wisdom that so many ancient people gave us. So you think when I was in junior high school, how to restore such a Chinese culture to restore our national rejuvenation. At that time, I was influenced by a history teacher. So I wanted to do something. This belongs to the whole Chinese nation. I want everyone to have a chance to share it. Have a chance to know their own students. So far, I think what I am doing is what I want to do. I came here with a mission.