“名城雅韵藏文脉,翰墨飘香沐吴风”。在中国的“太湖明珠”无锡,有一所守护这座城市文化瑰宝的地方性综合博物馆——无锡博物院。
      我们无锡博物院现在拥有各类文物藏品3万4千多件,其中包括书画、紫砂、陶器、玉器等等,字画的藏品有5000余件,以历代法书、清宫旧藏字画、无锡望族以及艺术家的捐赠书画最具特色。
      【一件因吃而成就的笔墨神迹】——五代杨凝式行书《韭花帖》
      一座博物馆就是一部物化的地域文明发展史。无锡博物院作为国家一级博物馆,所珍藏的每一件文物都是无可替代的,其中在书法史上地位非常重要的《韭花帖》则成为千古不朽之作。
      在我们无锡博物院,珍藏着五代书法家杨凝式的一幅行书--《韭花帖》。在古代,有天下十大行书的说法,第一行书,当然是《兰亭集序》,《韭花帖》名列第五,这个帖子当中叙述了书法家午睡起来,饥肠辘辘,正好有个朋友给他送来了韭花酱和鲜嫩的羊羔肉,那么这个书法家吃过以后,就提笔给这个朋友写了一封信表示感谢。那么整幅作品用笔率性洒脱,时行时楷,时收时放,开阖有度,可以说是书法史上的一幅名作。
      【南宗山水  文人画顶流】——元倪瓒《苔痕树影图》
      无锡博物院一直致力将保护文物、传承历史文脉作为担负的责任和使命。因一代又一代人多年的坚守和初心才达到了现在非常丰富的馆藏。馆内来之不易的重要藏品《苔痕树影图》更是成为镇馆之宝。
      中国古代十大画家当中,无锡就占了三位,分别是顾恺之、倪云林、王紱。作为“元四家”之一,倪云林对明清以来的山水画影响极大。因为他性格清高,个性迂癖,惜墨如金, 所以现在存世的作品数量也很少。这幅《苔痕树影图》是倪云林去世前两年的作品,国家一级文物。画中绘有枯树两株、青石一块、修竹数丛,左上角他也亲笔题诗一首,书法古淡天真,笔墨技巧真的已经达到了炉火纯青的地步。
      【吴王手谕,号令天下】——《朱元璋行书手谕卷》
      一件藏品如一段活的历史,它穿透历史隧道,向世人诉说着曾经的烽火岁月。而无锡博物院珍藏的朱元璋亲笔《吴王手谕》,就带我们走进了那段烽火狼烟的历史,也走进了这位传奇帝王的另一面。
      我们无锡博物院还藏有朱元璋的亲笔《吴王手谕》,那么这个卷子具有很高的历史价值,是国家一级文物。这个卷子是朱元璋写给大将军徐达的一个手谕,谈论的是“张寇首目”的这个越狱事件。直到今天,我们来展卷阅读,仍然能感受到朱元璋的那种杀伐决断的这种气概。
      【锡博英才  吴风传承】——融古汇今,焕发文物活力
      如今,无锡博物院已从一个普通的“收藏者”变成一个文化的“保护者”和“传承者”。通过每年策划举办数个精品原创展览,让越来越多的珍贵文物与观众见面。与此同时,博物院注重人才的培养,给更多的青年人才创造一个学习、研究、创作和展示的平台,进一步推动无锡文化遗产保护和利用工作,促进无锡文化艺术的持续发展和繁荣。
      从2019年开始,无锡博物院就开展了锡博英才的行动计划,对于符合条件的青年艺术家、青年学者给予专项资助。通过第一届的行动,我们成功举办了《与古为新——锡博2020艺术新空间特展》,第二届锡博英才行动也正在开展当中。
      聚英才,传薪火,融古汇今,焕发文物活力,无锡博物院正用自己独特的方式诠释着传承与创新,积极践行“让文物活起来”,让文物走进大众的生活。
      欢迎走进无锡博物院,一起来触摸历史,品读翰墨飘香的吴风古韵。
Graceful culture echoes down the historic city, aromatic calligraphy is immersed with the Wu style. Wuxi,“the Pearl of Taihu Lake”in China. Boasts the Wuxi Museum, a local comprehensive museum guarding the city’s cultural treasures.
 

The number of various cultural relics is over 34,000 in our museum, including calligraphy and painting works, purple sand, pottery, jade pieces and so on. There are more than 5,000 calligraphy and painting collections, which feature calligraphy of the past dynasties, old collections of calligraphy and painting housed in the Qing Palace, and those donated by the prestigious families and artists of Wuxi.
 

[A divine work of calligraphy achieved because of eating]——Yang Ningshi’s Leek Flower Post in running script of the Five Dynasties
 

A museum is a materialized history of regional civilization development. As a national first-class museum, every piece of cultural relics in Wuxi Museum’s collection is unique and irreplaceable. Among them, the Leek Flower Post that occupies a higher position in calligraphy history has become immortal.
 

Our Wuxi Museum houses a running script of Leek Flower Post by Yang Ningshi, a famous calligrapher in the Five Dynasties. In ancient times, there was a saying of“Top Ten Running Scripts”. For sure, the top one is The Orchid Pavilion, while Leek Flower Post ranks the fifth. This post recounts the story of the calligrapher who got up from his nap and was hungry. Just then, his friend brought him leek flower sauce and tender lamb. After eating it, the calligrapher wrote a letter to express his gratitude to his friend. The entire work can be acclaimed as a master piece, with its spontaneous and free strokes, sometimes in running script and sometimes in regular script, sometimes of retracting and sometimes of releasing styles in a measured manner in the history of calligraphy.
 

[Southern Landscape, Top of the Literati Painting]——Moss Traces and Tree Shadows by Ni Zan in the Yuan Dynasty
 

Wuxi Museum has always been committed to protecting cultural relics and inheriting historical culture as its responsibility and mission. It is through the perseverance and dedication of generations of people that we have attained rich collections at present. One of our hard-won important collection, the painting of Moss Traces and Tree Shadows has become the top treasure of the museum.
 

Among the top ten painters of ancient China, three were from Wuxi, namely Gu Kaizhi, Ni Yunlin and Wang Fu respectively. As one of the“four famous artists in the Yuan Dynasty”, Ni Yunlin has a huge influence on landscape paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Because of Ni’s lofty character, pedantic personality, and his abstemiousness of use of ink, the number of his extant works is very small. The painting of Moss Traces and Tree Shadows was created by Ni Yunlin two years before his death, which marks a national first-class cultural relic. In the painting, there are two dead trees, one piece of green stone and several clusters of tall bamboos. In the upper left corner, he also wrote a poem by himself. His ink and brush skills of ancient and unsophisticated calligraphy have really reached the level of perfection.
 

[The Handwritten Instruction of King Wu, Ordering the World]——The Handwritten Instruction Scroll by Zhu Yuanzhang in Running Script
 

A collection is like a piece of living history, which penetrates the tunnel of history and tells the world about the beacon years of the past. The Handwritten Instruction of King Wu in the Wuxi Museum takes us into that history of war flames and fires and the other side of the legendary emperor.
 

Our Wuxi Museum also boasts the Handwritten Instruction of King Wu by Zhu Yuanzhang. This scroll enjoys prestigious historical value as a national first-class cultural relic. It is a handwritten instruction by Zhu Yuanzhang to General Xu Da, talking about the jailbreak of Zhang Shicheng’s trusted generals. Up to now, when we spread this scroll for reading, we can still feel Zhu Yuanzhang’s decisive temperament of killing enemies.
 

[A Galaxy of Talents in Wuxi, An Inheritance of the Wu Style]——Integration of the past and the present, revitalization of cultural relics
 

Today, Wuxi Museum has transformed itself from an ordinary“collector”to a“preserver”and“inheritor”of culture. By planning and holding several high-quality original exhibitions every year, the museum allows more and more precious cultural relics to meet with the audience. Meanwhile, it focuses on talent cultivation and creates a platform for more young talents to study, research, create and display, further promoting the protection and utilization of Wuxi’s cultural heritages, and advancing the sustainable development and prosperity of Wuxi’s culture and arts.
 

Since 2019, Wuxi Museum has carried out an action initiative for Wuxi Talents in Museology, giving special funding to eligible young artists and young scholars. Through the first phase action, we have successfully held the“Fusing Ancient with New - 2020 New Art Space Special Exhibition in Wuxi Museum”, and the second phase of the action initiative is underway. 
 

Gathering talents, passing on the culture, integrating the past with the present and revitalizing cultural relics. Wuxi Museum is interpreting inheritance and innovation in its own unique way,“letting cultural relics come alive”and bringing cultural relics into the lives of the public.
 

Welcome to the Wuxi Museum, to touch the history and appreciate the ancient charm of the Wu style tinged with aromatic calligraphy.