The Complete Biography of Zhang Daqian (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Li Yongqiao
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Publish Date: 1998-04-01
Features: This full biography adopts the annalistic biographical genre, arranging the timeline in chronological order. The historical accounts strive for reliability and detail, aiming to faithfully record, reflect, and recreate the complex, multifaceted, highly legendary, and colorful life of the subject, Mr. Zhang Daqian. The content of the biography is organized in the order of the subject's "Biographical Notes," "Chinese Painting Creation," and "Poetry and Prose," arranged year by year. Since leaving his hometown, Daqian had been wandering outside for over thirty years. During this long period, he often felt a deep sense of nostalgia for his homeland, his heart twisting in longing. As for his relatives and old friends, he was even more deeply attached, constantly thinking of them day and night. The numerous poems and paintings he created during this time particularly emphasized his yearning for his motherland and his longing for his loved ones. With heartfelt brushwork, he poured out the heartbroken sentiments of an overseas traveler, his words moving readers to tears and evoking profound emotions. In his later years, after settling in Taiwan Province, the emotions of longing for family and hometown became even more prominent in his works, fully expressing the painter and poet's intense sorrow and deep sorrow over the abnormal situation of the motherland remaining divided and loved ones still separated.