China News Service, Taipei, March 27 (Reporter Yang Chengchen) The farewell ceremony of Huang Yongsong, a well-known Taiwanese publisher and founder of "Hansheng" magazine, was held at the Taipei Municipal Second Funeral Home on the 27th. Many celebrities in Taiwan's cultural circles and magazine readers Attend. Inside and outside the hall, there are flower baskets paid tribute by many of Huang Yongsong's close friends and partners from mainland China during his lifetime.
Huang Yongsong, who was born in Taoyuan, Taiwan in October 1943, passed away on March 4 this year. For more than half a century, Huang Yongsong traveled across the Taiwan Strait with the Chinese and English "Hansheng" magazine he founded in the 1970s, focusing on rescuing, excavating, and sorting out Chinese folk art and intangible cultural heritage. Huang is also known as the "patron saint" of folk crafts, performing arts, and folk culture.
On March 27, the farewell ceremony of Huang Yongsong, a well-known Taiwanese publisher and founder of "Hansheng" magazine, was held in Taipei. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Chengchen
Taiwanese photographer Zhuang Ling, who attended the farewell ceremony, and Huang Yongsong have had a friendship for more than 50 years. He recalled their various experiences with reporters from China News Service. "Some time ago, I had a phone call with him in mainland China, and we talked about how we would get together after returning to Taiwan. Unexpectedly, it became a farewell." Zhuang Ling said that the release of "Han Sheng" made Chinese traditional culture, especially folk culture, visible to Westerners. , and also allow young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to fully understand their own historical traditions. "We are family friends, and it is difficult to describe him in one word. He has devoted his life's work to promoting traditional culture."
Zhuang Ling and his wife Chen Xiasheng were present together on the 27th. Chen Xiasheng and Huang Yongsong also have a special connection. In 1981, Chen Xiasheng, a knot artist, cooperated with Hansheng Publishing House to publish the book "Chinese Knot", and "Chinese Knot" got its name from then on. Chen said that Mr. Huang is a very enthusiastic person who is very good at caring for and training young people. "He really thinks about the younger generations. If the younger generations of "Han Sheng" have other good places to go, he will encourage them."
Xi Song, a well-known Taiwanese painter who is one of the founders of the magazine, Huang Yongsong and others are known as the "Four Gentlemen of Han Dynasty". On the 27th, he told reporters at another cultural event in Taipei, "In the past, our four-person group was led by Huang Yongsong. He led everyone to explore folk wisdom. At that time, when everyone was pursuing Western avant-garde, We found another avant-garde and looked back at our own local culture."
Xi Song believes that Taiwanese society is in an environment of "rapid westernization". Some people have forgotten and lost the grace that Chinese people should have from head to toe. In particular, they have not noticed that the tradition of folk culture is still profound.
On March 27, the farewell ceremony of Huang Yongsong, the founder of Taiwan's "Hansheng" magazine, was held in Taipei. Inside and outside the farewell hall, there were flower baskets paid tribute by many of Huang Yongsong's close friends from mainland China and colleagues of "Hansheng" magazine during his lifetime. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Chengchen
Xu Changde, a well-known Taiwanese musician and lyricist who attended the farewell ceremony, told reporters that his first job when he entered society about 40 years ago was in "The Voice of China". In his impression, "Hansheng" is an extremely "troublesome" magazine, while Huang Yongsong is a "super romantic" person.
"A book with more than 100,000 words requires 6 proofreadings. I thought at the time, why is this magazine so different from other magazines?" After leaving "Han Sheng", Xu Changde entered the music circle and took these "seriously" "rules" into the art, printing, and packaging fields of records. Xu Changde lamented that Huang Yongsong was a kinder person to him than his "parents", and it was "Han Sheng" that made him who he is today.
"With Mr. Huang gone, will the things he created evaporate like alcohol?" Xu Changde said, "We have been discussing recently to keep the IP of "Han Sheng" alive." (End)