51 years ago today, on June 23, 1974 (May 4, 1974, the lunar calendar), Qin Zhongwen, a modern China painter and art historian in China, passed away. Qin Zhongwen (1896~1974) was a modern China painter and art historian in China. Famous Yu. A native of Zunhua County, Hebei Province. His original name was Qin Yurong, and his name was Zhongwen. Later, he used Qin Yu as his pen name to be a native of Liangzihe Village, and his studio was named Qunfeng Fucui Residence. Born on January 26, 1896 in Zunhua County, Hebei Province, and died on June 23, 1974 in Beijing. I have loved painting since I was a child, and I first copied "The Painting Biography of Mustard Garden","The Painting of Rizhai", and "Paintings of Famous People in Ancient and Modern". In 1915, he entered the Department of Law and Politics of Peking University. When studying at Peking University around 1915, he participated in the China Painting Research Conference hosted by President Cai Yuanpei and received advice from famous scholars. In 1920, he participated in the China Painting Research Association. He was educated by Jincheng and others and worked hard to copy ancient famous works. After the late 1920s, he successively taught at the School of Art of Peking University (formerly Beiping Art College), the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, and the National Beiping Art College. After liberation, he served as a painter at the Beijing Academy of Painting and a professor at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. He is forthright and can speak out. In 1947, a heated debate broke out over Xu Beihong's different opinions on teaching China painting in the Art College, and he was dismissed after the summer of that year. In the mid-1950s, he wrote an article to debate the issue of China painting with Wang Xun, striving to maintain traditional painting techniques and characteristics. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died of depression. Qin Zhongwen carefully studied ancient paintings and was a China painter with profound pen and ink skills. He is also proficient in poetry, good at calligraphy, and has written on the history of painting, so his understanding of traditional painting art is deep and thorough. Before the age of 50, Qin Zhongwen's paintings were mainly copied from the ancients, but later they were integrated into sketching, striving to break through the norms of the ancients and create his own appearance. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, he had the most works and became more mature. He created works such as "Sketching on the Road of Shafeng","Rain in Min Mountain","Yueyang Tower", and "Natural Danger of Wujiang River". He controls the skills of southern landscape painting with the bold temperament of a northerner. His pen is firm and powerful, and his ink method is subtle, which can express his broad and powerful spirit in a small frame. He is also good at painting black bamboo in Xingkai style, with a clear and powerful style. Published "Selected Works of Qin Zhongwen","Collection of Qin Zhongwen's Landscape Paintings","Selected Paintings of Qin Zhongwen", etc. Qin Zhongwen was good at mountains and rivers, ink and bamboo, and was especially famous for his ink landscape. Its mountains and rivers integrate Wang Shigu and Wu Mojing, and trace back to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, striving to integrate the northern and southern sects. It likes to use small axes to chop and chop, and the scenery is simple, the writing power is firm, and the vast and profound. After liberation, there were many sketches, but the basic style remained unchanged. Qin Zhongwen was capable of poetry and poetry, was good at studying art history, and wrote "The History of China Painting", which was one of the important works on art history in the first half of the 20th century. In 1936, he made four-screen ink paper for flowers