![]() ![]() The youngest of 4, Yang was clever but introverted and dropped out of school at the age of 17. He was born on Jin Zhengyang County, Zhumadian, Henan Province, to one of the poorest families in the village. He is the most prolific serial killer China has ever produced. He was sentenced to death and executed for 67 murders. Yang Xinhai, also known as the Monster Killer, Yang Zhiya and Yang Liu, was a Chinese serial killer who confessed to 67 murders and 23 rapes between 19. Nevertheless, the rigidity still permeates and ruggedness is also his Achilles’s heel, indicating a smidgen of strenuousness, which is at variance with Chinese artistic standard of naturalness. Here, Zheng’s previous flat schema has been transformed to some contrasting variations in a sense of two-dimensionality, bringing vitality to the works. The rigid 丿 in “分”, and the rugged □ in “明” can find similar genealogical traits from their counterparts in Figure 9, which is from Yang Dayan Zao Xiang Ji created around 506 AD. Another example of Zheng’s cross-fertilization could be detected in the character “分” and “明” in Figure 8. Zheng’s 寺 is the symbol of this contradictory yet complementary comment. According to Yang Shoujing (1839-1915), whose work is also preserved in our collection, this stele has an eccentric instability concealed in the level-headed stability and a strict denseness hidden in the elegant sparseness. For instance, the longest horizontal stroke of 寺 (Figure 6) presents a dramatic thinning-and-thickening brush movement, which is akin to brush style of the horizontal line in下(Figure 7) from the Stele on Ritual Implements in the Confucian Temple (Liqi Stele, dated 156 CE). Our first couplet in Figure 2 is the epitome of his inclusive studies of the stelae. During this period, he maintained an eclectic interest in ancient calligraphic rubbings, such as those from stone inscriptions, epitaphs, Buddhist votive stelae, and cliff engravings created in the Han (202 BC-220 AD) and Northern Dynasties (386-581). ![]() Immediately after Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Zheng spent some time in Shanghai with his boon companions such as Chen Sanli, whom I discussed in a previous post, and Shen Zengzhi, whose cursive hanging scroll is also preserved in our Zhou Cezong Collection. ![]()
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