I climbed over three deep ditches and came to this magical land that gave birth to Mrs. Flower Arrangement. Aunt Kushulan sat on the kang with a knitting sheet, and she and I were separated only by a small kang table. The old man was wearing a shabby blue blouse, and his sparse hair was neatly combed and tied in a bun at the back of his head. His body is elegant and clean, dry and tidy. I tried to follow her eyes and try to read something from them. But what I am facing is not only a wax figure, but also an artistic peak that no one has climbed, not just half a century later. She is immersed in her own world, and no one, including me, can go deep into the artistic paradise in her soul!
The simple layout of the cave restored the scene of her home at that time. There are newspapers on the kang wall, butterflies flying around the kang, rich peony and simple seal flowers. There are no opera stills and celebrity portraits on the wall, but all her paper-cut works: Dahlia with flowers and leaves, a dignified and luxurious flower-cutting lady, and Bai Mudan with green leaves. Of course, the most fascinating thing is the more than 10 thousand red frogs from the top of the kiln to the foot. They all held their heads high, kicked their legs and swam, showing their high vitality.
In such a magical artistic atmosphere, I suddenly remembered my childhood. When the children saw the newborn, they all asked curiously, "Where did you get the Maowa?" Grandma smiled and said without exception, "Grandma and your mother got it from a waterlogged pool with hedges!" " "Why do you want to fish for babies in the waterlogged pool? Here, I am enlightened. It turns out that not only "frog" is homophonic, but also frogs lay more eggs. The shape of tadpoles is very similar to that of human sperm. Moreover, the frog's cheerful jumping and croaking in the water are full of the tension of life, which conforms to the endless desire of mankind for millions of years!
Wandering in the Lan Shu Art Exhibition Hall, I was dumbfounded and amazed. The content of the work is familiar flowers, trees, birds and beasts, but they are all spirits of all things, showing a bit of strangeness and fairy spirit. There is a chrysanthemum in the vase. The flowers are gorgeous and the shades of green are different. It's chrysanthemums in front of and behind our house! However, it is more exotic than chrysanthemums in real life. Chrysanthemums have many colors: red, rose and pink. Flower bones are all a little "crimson lips" of cinnabar. Around the petals, without exception, there is a circle of pink green. Look carefully at the shape of the petals, like crawling caterpillars, arranged around the flower heart in a Taiji diagram, making the flowers rotate in the wind like a rotating wind wheel. That vase, with a big belly and small feet, stands firmly. Of course, the most imaginative thing is the two ears of the vase. The ears of traditional porcelain are all cloud-shaped, and only the ears of old lady Kushulan's vase are two cauliflower snake flowers, which are smart and lovely. A pair of lovely children, a boy wearing a robe and jacket and an official hat, and a girl wearing a feathered gown, are beaming and carrying a flower basket to enjoy the flowers. "Weave a basket of flowers, weave a basket of flowers on Nanshan, Nanshan is full of red peony ..." Chrysanthemum is surrounded by butterflies and clouds, and the whole picture is colorful and full of composition. The work Chrysanthemum was created by the master 1986. Thirty years have passed, and the artistic charm of the work has not lost half a point.
What a beautiful name "Pear tree against white wall", which makes people daydream. The image of the five poisonous insects is exaggerated, but you can't put it down; Spending 12 months has distinctive features. The grapes cut by the old man Ku Lan Shu are not bland one by one, but separated one by one, like a pear, huge, with transparent pulp and clearly visible grape seeds. 1 1 month persimmons are red all over the street, which is even more lively. Lan Shu, an old man, observes life in detail, and his expression is bold and exaggerated.
What fascinates me most is the peasant life under the scissors of the master, which is humorous, true and vivid. Xunyi Suona is a national intangible cultural heritage with a profound historical background and a broad mass base. Xunyi people's suona blared, playing their joys and sorrows. In Ku Lan Shu's works, two men blow each other, infatuated with each other. The aroma in the teapot on the table of the Eight Immortals is curled up, the black cat under the table is fascinated, and the light bulb on the top of the head flashes. When the old man cut paper, he sang while cutting: "Duwa, Duwa! Two trumpeters play suona, and when they get married, they bury people, and weddings and funerals are indispensable. " Mysterious songs are all blurted out. She cut paper without a draft, and cut it whenever she wants. The songs are all improvised and the lyrics are catchy. The "feeding pig" has black pig hair, which makes him smarter and less stupid. A man and a woman quarreled about who was doing the dirty work of feeding pigs. My wife is sharp-tongued: "My baby pig is bigger and stronger than you. I will eat it then." Qingshui hates water ice for my heart. Under heaven, it won't be said that there are only two months left in Yangshou. "The whole work is full of fun. The melon son-in-law in "My son-in-law is bald and wets the bed" has six red lines flowing down his crotch, which shows that he has been peeing on the vamp. The lyrics rhyme harmoniously: "embroidered shoes, no matter what boxes they are, were sold to me by the matchmaker ..." This funny paper-cut makes you laugh and makes your melon son-in-law come home. Let you cry, cry over the unfortunate marriages of countless women. ...
This is a fascinating work, but the life of her creator Ku Lan Shu is very bumpy. She is ingenious and married to a son who prefers boys to girls. She loves children so much that God has never given her a man and a woman in her life. The dull man surnamed Sun on the Loess Plateau didn't know that the woman beside him was a great artist, Picasso of the East. The hammer-like fist of the old man rained down on this evil woman countless times. The old lady Kushulan said, "The old man has beaten me all my life!" Seeing this sentence, tourists can't help crying. All women living in this land have the same fate: "If you don't fight for three days, you will go to the house to uncover the tiles." "Naked, selling sesame candy, but you can't beat your wife." "Hit its daughter-in-law's face!" Beating is a common occurrence for countless rural women.
However, the hard life did not leave any traces of gray in her works. The lady who arranges flowers is graceful, the woman who goes back to her mother's house smiles on the donkey, and the man who goes out to pour wine is touching ... Why did the bitter life not crush them, but made her passionate and created countless magnificent works?
I'm confused.
Walking in Xunyi County, although it is a weekend, everything can be clean and tidy. On the garden, the green gauze of the corn field is airtight, the fruit of the apple orchard grows sturdily under the care of bagging, and the newly turned wheat stubble field is soft and flat ... charming pastoral scenery shows the solid and meticulous care of the farmers here.
Today, we are here to attend the full moon banquet of Wang Xinmin tuqiao town's twin granddaughters, and the wedding was held here. Miss Wang and her lover are retired teachers, and her daughter has settled in An, while her son and daughter-in-law are all state officials. The whole family has a fixed income, but they still work nonstop. Mr. Wang is over 60 years old and is looking after several acres of orchards. As soon as he has time, he turns on the computer to create folk customs, and he can see his works in newspapers almost every week. The Xunyi Folklore compiled by him is informative and vivid, which amazed people in the industry. Pick up the hoe. He is a farmer. Shake the pen. He is a writer. Looking around, there are many cultural people in this small town: there is a rough and straightforward peasant clay sculpture culture, and there are also writers who are slightly deaf and sharp-minded. Not to mention a group of old people dressed in plain clothes, carrying a brush or dancing while writing, or looking at the bones and muscles, got into the wood; A bunch of old ladies picked up scissors and needles in their hands, embroidered or cut, carved or painted, a pair of shoe pads and a belly wrapped in dragons and phoenixes, all of which were unique handicrafts.
Turning to Xunyi people, the beginning is the sunny and romantic Xunyi people: "Xunyi is an ancient city with mountains and water. The green screen hangs on the moon, and the water keeps flowing ... "A four-character parallel prose tells the ancient history of Xunyi one by one. Many Xunyi people write the word "Xunyi people", and their hands are full of sheep hair. The difference is the font and the same deep love for Xunyi!
Under the grape trellis in Wenhua Ma's yard, I had the same epiphany as Sakyamuni under the bodhi tree: in this ancient land, from the time when the virgin Jiang Yuan opened up territory for her ancestors, to today, everyone in Xunyi who stayed behind or went out to make a living inherited the qualities of their ancestors, with hardworking, simple and down-to-earth genes flowing in their veins, and their dreams of pursuing a better life stuck in their bones. They express and carry forward their longing for beauty in works of art handed down from generation to generation!
Ku Lan Shu, who has died, once carried a burden of more than 100 kilograms with a pair of little feet and said happily, "It is lighter to carry a burden and fan the wind than to ride a horse in a sedan chair." She picked up scissors and cut them for a whole day, without eating or drinking or caring about anything. I believe that the persevering and conscientious Xunyi people like Ku Lan Shu will use their wonderful hands and wisdom to make ordinary life more happy and beautiful!