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= Jiang Xun = Jiang Xun （simplified Chinese:蒋勋；traditional Chinese:  蔣勳；pinyin: jiǎng xūn  ; born 1947）is a famous painter, poet and writer of Taiwan.

Early life
Jiang Xun was born at  Xi’an, Shan xi province of China and he is a Han Chinese. His mother is a nobility of Qing dynasty but after the revolution of 1911which known as the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew China’s last imperial dynasty, the big family of his mother declined. He moved to Taiwan with other members of his family at 1949 and graduated at Chinese Culture University of Taipei. Jiang Xun had worked on institute of art of University of Paris in 1972 and he back to Taiwan in 1976. He was an editor in chief of lion art monthly magazine and successively work at Wenhua University, Furen University and Donghai University as dean of arts major.

Style and thought
In his book “Because of loneliness”, the editor evaluated that “the style of his work is elegant and smooth.”  He has strong ability to explain reasons without confusions and his works both have emotional and rational beauty (as can be seen in his novel “Because of loneliness”). Though the handwriting Jiang Xun sent to Brigitte Lin, a famous actress of China in last 80s, he wrote that “The tides come and go but the white clouds are still in the corner of the green hills(潮来潮去 白云还在 青山一角).”  In the book "the beauty of Angkor", he introduced the beauty of Angkor in the form of letters and literature, and expresses his love to beauty and open-mindedness to death: "When all the expression becomes the past, as if from the sludge pond in a lotus flower, the smile has become the only expression of higher city, inclusive of love and hate, life and death, through long years, the smile passed to future generations (当一切的表情一一成为过去，仿佛从污泥的池沼中升起一朵莲花，那微笑成为城市高处唯一的表情，包容爱恨，超越生死，通过漫长岁月，把笑容传递给后世)

Prize
The first competition in the province's novels in 1964

China Times New Poetry recommendation Award in 1982

China Times essay Award in 1985

Zhongxing Art Award in 1995

broadcast Golden Bell Award in 1988

Wu Yue literature prize in 1997

Golden Tripod Award for ninety-two years in 2003

The fortieth broadcast Golden Bell Award in 2005

The forty-third broadcast Golden Bell Award in 2008

The thirteenth Taipei cultural awards in 2009

Ninety-nine annual essay award in 2010

Novels
“Because of loneliness”  (《因为孤独的缘故》), (1993)

"I hope I can have a boat"(《希望我能有条船》),(1993)

"New legend" (《新传说》), (1999)

"Love for books: Ly's M"（《欲爱书：写给Ly's M》）， (2000)

"Secret holidays"（《秘密假期》）, (2006)

“Because of loneliness” (《因为孤独的缘故》), (2002)

Paintings and poems
"Sentimental should laugh at me" (《多情应笑我》 )， (1989)

"Blessing" （《祝福》 ）， (2000)

"Before the eyes is picturesque world" （《眼前即是如画的江山》）， (2000)

“The coming days would be long” （《来日方长－蒋勋诗画集》 ）， (2007)

Art discourse
"China art history" （《中国美术史》）， （1990）

"The beauty of Meditation" (《美的沉思》), （1998）

"The beauty of meditation: Chinese art "（《美的沉思：中国艺术思想刍论》（2003）

"The western art history" (《写给大家的西洋美术史》), （2003）

"To the young artist's letter" (《给青年艺术家的信》), （2004）

"The world is beautiful"（《天地有大美》）， (2005)

"Beautiful Awakening - Jiang Xun and you talk about eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body" （《美的觉醒-蒋勋和你谈眼、耳、鼻、舌、身》）， (2006)

"Body Aesthetics - let your mind calm contented forever" （《身体美学-让你的身心永远从容自得》 ）， (2008)

"Ten feelings of beauty- Jiang Xun talking about beauty" （《感觉十书－蒋勋谈美》）， (2009)

"The dawn" （《美的曙光》）， (2009)

"Look at the world of art from Louvre Museum " （《从卢浮宫看世界美术》，（2009）

"The beauty of calligraphy Chinese characters dancing cursive"（《汉字书法之美-舞动行草》）， （2009）

"Hand posts: Southern Dynasty years" （《手帖：南朝岁月》）， （2010）

"Desolate monologue writing " （《苍凉的独白书写〈寒食帖〉》）（2010）

"Introduction to art" （《艺术概论》）， (2010)

"Life: Awakening" （《此生：肉身觉醒》）， (2011)

" Fuchun Mountain painting of Huang Gongwang”　（《黄公望 富春山居图卷》， (2011)