Traditional Chinese culture is all-encompassing, both literary and martial, is wisdom and strength, and is "civilized in its spirit, barbaric in its physique." Teaching and inheriting make its essence immortal; the development of the times makes its innovation continue to flow. Who are the future hipsters? Spirited Chinese teenagers! They inherit the family style, dance and ink, majestic and heroic, standing on the shoulders of their ancestors, standing on the shoulders of history, looking far ahead.
Feng Minjing stands on her father's shoulder, Feng Yihui, who poses as a fierce tiger pushing the mountain, is in the center, and her 5-year-old sister Feng Minyu poses as a night tiger out of the forest.
When other partners are still in the arms of their mother, 4-year-old Feng Minjing has begun to practice every day, 12 years of uninterrupted practice, the harvest brought to her is enviable long legs and cool and heroic posture, as well as countless medals; from the time of teeth and teeth, Guo Yilan grew up on the big painting table of her grandfather and calligrapher Guo Mangyuan, since she was a child, she has become a "small painter" among her peers, holding her first solo exhibition.
"Now I'm the strongest in the family." Min Jing said mischievously. As the new generation of inheritors of Guangzhou's non-heritage Hongquan, she has known since she was a child that she has shouldered the responsibility of inheritance, "After graduating from university, I will take over the martial arts hall at home." Yi Lan mentioned the "sense of responsibility": "I feel that I have the responsibility and obligation to paint better and pass on the traditional capitalism." ”
Feng Minjing (left), Feng Yihui (middle) and her sister Feng Minyu, 5 years old.
"Martial Arts Girl":
"The burden of inheritance is on our new generation"
Like ordinary flower girls, Min Jing smiled a little shy and cunning, but there were many more generous and cheerful girls who did not have: "Girl friends don't think I'm strange at all, they are happy, saying that they are particularly safe with me." ”
This is not easy to come by. From childhood to adulthood, Min Jing followed her father Feng Yihui, saw her brothers and sisters punching when they shouted hey ha hey ha, thought it was very interesting, 4 years old began to practice, only to know that the "hard days" came. "Every day I walked for at least half an hour, pressed my legs, punched, and every day I was tired and sore." Recalling these days, she "complained" about her father's "cunning", "He always coaxed me to practice, said that if I practiced well, he would buy me a favorite toy." She also secretly revealed her father's "secret": "In the past, when my father was a child, he practiced with his grandfather, and he was also 'coaxed' by a 5 cent snow bar. ”
Feng Yihui took her daughter Feng Minjing to practice stick technique.
At the age of 7, Min Jing won the gold medal at the 2013 Guangdong Traditional Martial Arts Championships. As she grew up, Min Jing gradually learned that her father's great-grandfather, Master Feng Xiaofeng, was a disciple of Master Tan Min, a disciple of The Master of The Hongxi Guan, who had gathered more than 800 people from Yubei Tongsheng Township in 1841 to participate in the Sanyuanli People's Anti-British Struggle, and his father was the 5th generation of hongquan in the Feng Xiaofeng family. With Hong Quan's successful application as a Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guangzhou, she gradually felt the weight on her shoulders: "Since then, I have known that the heavy responsibility of inheritance is on our new generation. ”
"Sense of responsibility" made her re-examine the boring training day after day, and gradually find pleasure in it. "In addition to being able to strengthen the body, martial arts itself has great charm." Min Jing said that although she has not yet been able to understand the martial arts like her predecessors, she has a heartfelt love for martial arts. She couldn't help but joke: "Of course, it is also fun to teach teachers and sisters, and it makes me very happy to see them squatting and 'abusing' them." ”
As a "master sister", Min Jing led a group of teachers and sisters to practice boxing.
Min Jing was practicing brush writing at home, and she was writing the word "Wu" on the sticker on her mobile phone.
"Family Heirloom Artist":
"I want to pass on the traditional big picture"
Born and raised in a family of calligraphy and painting, art is a daily routine for Yilan - grandpa is a traditional calligrapher and painter, dad Guo Qing is a contemporary artist, and the family contacts are cultural and artistic celebrities, and splashing ink is a common thing. Yi Lan is jokingly called "learning to take chopsticks while learning to take a brush".
"At first, I really thought that painting was a very 'bitter' thing." Thinking back on the experience of learning to paint, Yi Lan couldn't help but tell, "Especially sometimes if you don't draw a good picture, you have to paint a new one, but you may keep practicing, but if you are not satisfied with each one, you will feel frustrated." But, gradually, she found that it was precisely because she had been dissatisfied that she would "correct" a little bit every time, and slowly, she had been making progress until she drew a picture that she was satisfied with, and looked back, "Wow, I have insisted on it for so long."
Guo Yilan took a group photo with his father and grandfather. Grandpa Guo Mangyuan is a traditional calligrapher and painter, and Father Guo Qing is a contemporary artist.
Grandpa's adherence to traditional culture and decades of unshielding scrolls have had a great influence on Yilan: "I feel that calligraphy and painting and traditional culture have been integrated into my life. Whenever I travel or study, I am most interested in local museums and art galleries, and I always bring sketchbooks and paintbrushes with me. And her grandfather and father's artist friends also provided her with the opportunity to learn oil painting, printmaking, and rubbing." Different categories have similarities, and I am very interested. Yi Lan smiled shyly, revealing his small teeth.
At the end of 2021, Yi Lan held her first solo exhibition on the campus of HuashiFu Middle School.
Although grandpa and dad have expressed their stance that she is not required to take the road of a professional artist, the most important thing is to improve her cultural accomplishment and artistic aesthetics, but YiLan knows very well that she will definitely go down this road of art, but now that she is still young, whether she regards art as a hobby or a profession, but also depends on her future development opportunities: "But no matter what, I will always love art." ”
In addition to love, there is also "responsibility". Especially before that, she jointly held the "Farming and Reading Family Style" exhibition with her grandfather and father, which gave her a great impetus: "At that time, I realized that I had the responsibility and obligation to paint better and pass on the traditional bighand. ”
On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger, Yi Lan practiced painting tigers in his grandfather's studio.
This 14-year-old girl who is only 14 years old in the Year of the Tiger has a clear understanding of herself: "Dad has made innovations on the basis of tradition, relying on traditional skills. What I have to do now is to lay a good foundation, not to rush, because the road is still very long. ”
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Lin Lin
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng Reporter: Chen Youzi
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Lin Chuanling