张弓先生是潇湘艺坛一位令人尊敬的老书画家。这位教授级书法家1928年8月出生于湖南长沙市,1949年9月参加中国人民解放军,从1958年起始便在常德地区工作,对常德书法美术事业的贡献多多。用业内人士概括的话说,就是办了三件大好事。其一是组建常德地区(市)书法家协会,主持书协工作一十八载。早在拨乱反正的上个世纪八十年代初叶,为了弘扬中华优秀传统文化,发展新时期的书法事业,张弓先生于1983年便率先组织一批有志之士,成立原常德市(即现武陵区)书法协会,被大家推举为主席;第二年省书法家协会成立时,他当选为理事(嗣后为省书法家协会常务理事)。 Mr. Zhang Gong is a respectable old painter of Xiaoxiang Arts. The professor-level calligrapher was born in Changsha, Hunan in August 1928 and joined the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in September 1949. Since then, he has been working in Changde since 1958, contributing a lot to the art of calligraphy in Changde. To sum up the words of the industry, is to do three good things. One is the formation of the Association of Calligraphers in Changde (City), who presided over the Association for 18 years. As early as the early 1980s, in order to carry forward the excellent Chinese traditional culture and develop the calligraphy business in the new era, Mr. Zhang Bow took the lead in organizing a group of people with lofty ideals in 1983 to set up the original Changde City (now Wuling District) Calligraphy Association, was elected as chairman; the second year when the provincial calligraphers Association was established, he was elected as director (later as the provincial calligrapher association executive director).