关公画堂外景

关公是中国历代尊崇的武圣，他集儒、道、佛文化于一身，是中华民族的形象代表。关公画堂位于北京古文化街琉璃厂火神庙前，是全国第一家以关公命名的画堂，其立店之本即为“诚信”。北京关公画堂在2006年中华人民共和国文化部两年一届的全国2000多个画廊中脱颖而出，被评为“中国十大诚信画廊”。
画堂创始人郑桂兰为当代优秀女作家,曾被陈慕华在人民大会堂授予“中国妇女环保百佳”称号，系第四届世界妇女大会推介的优秀中国妇女，改革开放时期她转入构筑“心灵环保”工程。在文化部和中国收藏家协会支持下，以“弘扬华夏大文化，亮相环球新舞台”为己任，倾情打造忠义仁勇的关公艺术形象。关公画堂为确保所流通的当代名家书画均为真迹，经多年探索，开发出“科技保真，立体查询”防伪保真系统。收藏家可利用触摸屏系统、网络、计算机、固定电话、移动电话、小灵通等对所购藏品进行防伪查询。



关公画堂内景一角


另外，关公画堂协助实力派画家进行作品的印刷出版、网络发布、媒体报道、声像推介和科技保真查询工作,以帮助其建立一整套严格的宣传、营销管理体系，促进作品市场良性循环。
关公画堂同时进行文化产品开发，生产经销根雕、木雕、玉雕、刺绣工艺品、民族服装等,并从2000年起在海内外举办关公文化万里行宣传活动，为华夏文化广泛传播尽心竭力。



The Brief Introduction of Beijing GuanGong gallery



Guan Yu, also called GuanYuanchang, came from YunCheng city in Shanxi province. According to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", GuanYu, as always been worshiped by the folks, is almost as tall as 6 feet and the most outstanding general of the Emperor-LiuBei in Eastern Han dynasty. He was so famous in history that even after he dead, he was respected by the civil society and canonized by the successive dynasties as saint emperor. He was known as Garan Bodhisattva in Buddhist and respected as the military saint by subsequent rulers, enjoying equal popularity as Confucius-the “literature saint”. Meanwhile, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles", "Attending the dangerous banquet single" "killing a general named HuaXiong during a drink" and other stories.

GuanGong, who sets in the culture of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, on one hand, is respected by the generations of Chinese as the “military saint”, on the other hand, is the representative image of Chinese.

GuanYu is always loyal to his country and kind towards all the people. Besides, he is not only intelligent and honesty, but also brave and heroic when he was on the battle field. In the Chinese culture, GuanYu is on behalf of the brave, loyalty, kindness, faith. In the modern time, he was worshipped not only as the “military saint” by all the Chinese and the “God of Wealth" by all the businessmen.

The first gallery named as GuanGong around the entire country, is located in front of the Vulcan temple in the ancient cultural LiuLichang street with the legislature of "good faith argumentation". ZhengGuilan, the founder of the gallery and contemporary outstanding writer, once granted the honorary title of “Top hundred Chinese Women‘s Environmental Protection” by ChenMuhua in the Great Hall of the people and the excellent Chinese women in the Fourth World Conference. In the period of reforming and opening up, she engaged in the project of the built of “spiritual environmental protection”.

With the help form the Ministry of Culture and Chinese Collectors Association, ZhengGuilan, together with Mr. WangGuoxin, strived to establish the character-brave, loyalty, kindness and faith of GuanGong to the responsibility of promoting the Huaxia culture to the world. To make sure the authentic of the art works of contemporary artists in the market, GuanGong gallery develop the secure system of “technology fidelity and three-dimensional query”. Collectors can query the security of the purchased by touch-screen systems, networks, computers, fixed telephones, mobile phones, PHS, etc.

In addition, GuanGong gallery assists the artists with the works of printing, publishing, web publishing, media reports, video promoting as well as the technology of fidelity inquiry in order to set up a strict system of propagation and marketing to encourage the benign cycling of art marketing.

What’s more, GuanGong gallery produces and distributes some cultural products, such as root carving, wood carving, jade carving as well as embroidery, new crafts and national dresses etc.. Simultaneously, the promotional activity of GuanGong culture around the world was held in 2000 home and abroad, which contributes to the propagation widespread of HuaXia culture.