侯绪让Hou Xurang

Hou Xurang, Han nationality, from Dongping, Shandong. Born in 1942.

 

After graduating from Jiaohe Normal University in 1963, he started working and has been teaching for 42 years. He successively served as a primary school, junior high school, and high school teacher, and was promoted to the first batch of senior high school teachers in 1987. From July 1991, he served as the principal and party branch secretary of Jiaohe No.1 High School until his retirement in 2004.

 

He has been working diligently for decades and has achieved remarkable results. Since 1985, it has won the honorary titles of "Top Professional and Technical Talents with Outstanding Contributions in Jilin City", "model worker in Jilin Province", "Special Grade Teacher", "model worker in the National Education System", etc. His performance has been included in books such as "Jiangcheng Talents", "Jilin Yingmo", "The Proud Son of the Republic", and "Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Education Celebrities".

 

Hou Xurang has had a passion for calligraphy since childhood. When he was in elementary school, he copied the willow style "Xuanmi Pagoda", but later interrupted due to being busy with his studies and work. After retiring at the age of seventy, he picked up a calligraphy brush again and focused on small regular script. He particularly loved the "Lingfei Jing" and persisted in practicing it for several years. His calligraphy works were exhibited at the 2nd Dalian Retired Persons Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition and won awards; Also selected for the "Han Ink Fragrance" calligraphy and painting exhibition celebrating the 65th anniversary of the National Day in Jinzhou New District, Dalian; Previously included in the compilation of "Selected Works of Chinese Ancient Poetry and Calligraphy" and "Yearbook of Representative Works of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters" edited and published by the "Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Guide". This comrade is currently a member of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association and has been included in the "List of Chinese Elderly Calligraphers and Painters".

 

Fengshen is handsome, clear and upright

——Hou Xu left an impression on calligraphy

 

Huang Jinliang (Editor in Chief of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Guide)

 

Hou Xurang's regular script gives people a sense of approachability, calmness, and familiarity in terms of dots, strokes, and organization, providing a beautiful enjoyment. Between the lines, the charm is vivid, the rhythm is strong, and it is full of beauty, without exaggeration or affectation, without roughness or strangeness, and without the form of bareheaded dancing.

 

He never flaunts his writing skills during the writing process, but instead controls the lines in his pen with a free mindset. This is extremely rare because "calligraphic" is the prerequisite and most important characteristic of calligraphy art. Therefore, he exudes a masculine aura in his writing, without any trace of artificiality. In terms of brushwork, the center of the pen never slackens. The strokes are symmetrical, round, straight, and firm. The cotton is wrapped in iron, and the iron wire is jade reinforced.

 

Its character structure is precise and strict, clear and upright, with a suitable balance of weight and weight in the layout. The guests and hosts are harmonious, and the wind and spirit are handsome, with distinct personality characteristics, giving people a natural, dignified, elegant, vigorous, and relaxed beauty. This beauty of harmony is not only a reflection of Hou Xu's peaceful mentality and his principle of "being honest and peaceful", but also a manifestation of the traditional Chinese cultural concept of "harmony is precious" in his calligraphy.