The Lin Sanzhi Art Museum is an exhibition hall for the works of Mr. Lin Sanzhi, a master of cursive script in China and known as the ‘Contemporary Sage of Cursive Script’. Mr. Lin Sanzhi’s ancestral home is Wujiang Town, He County, Anhui Province. He loved mountains and forests all his life. In his early years, he benefited from the calligraphy and painting master Huang Binhong. Whenever he encountered beautiful landscapes, he would ascend, chant, and depict them.
He obtained more than 800 sketching drafts and more than 200 poems. He is especially proficient in calligraphy. He began to create wild cursive script at the age of sixty, but with profound skills and natural charm. He is renowned at home and abroad and has the reputation of a great master. Mr. Lin had visited Caishi more than ten times during his lifetime and admired the sages of the past. He always had the wish of ‘settling down and being neighbors with Li Bai’. Therefore, after his passing, Ma’anshan City set up a museum for him in Caishi Park to fulfill his wish. The Lin Sanzhi Art Museum is designed in a garden style and covers an area of 3,800 square meters. In the grassy courtyard, the main hall, auxiliary hall, and academic hall are three antique buildings with thatched roofs and pink walls and red windows, arranged in an orderly manner. The main hall is named ‘Thatched Cottage by the River’. It contains more than 100 representative works of Mr. Lin from various periods, mostly fine cursive script works. The sketching drafts and poem manuscripts he made during his lifetime are preserved in the auxiliary hall. It is worth mentioning that there are several tree remains from the prehistoric era – silicified wood standing silently in the courtyard, sharing the spring light with azaleas and the winter snow with green bamboos. Referring to Mr. Lin’s self-description in his later years when he called himself ‘useless wood’, yet the useless wood is immortal. From this, one can see the ingenuity of the designer of this art museum.The opening hours are from 8:30 to 17:00 all year round.
