Interview record of Teacher Shi Yunxiang of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts Advanced Research Class (II)
About childhood experiences —
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > asked: What habits made you go all the way and helped you the most? </h1>
Shi Yunxiang: When I was a child, I developed the habit of being wayward because of the love of my parents, relying on adults for everything, and only doing what I was interested in. The rest is hard to care about.
My mother was the leader of the unit, and she often criticized my family for never being willing to do a little bit of chores, "lazy," she often said. But my cheerful and open-minded father was an artist, but he often praised me, "Watching this child learn to draw, he is very diligent!" ”
The diametrically opposed evaluation made me think that praise was to like you, criticism was not to like you, mistakenly thought that my mother did not love me, always said that I was "lazy and stupid", and my father thought that I was "smart and hardworking". For my parents, I loved my father even more at that time.
During the Cultural Revolution, I was still in elementary school. Suddenly, one day, my parents both died, and I became an orphan, only then did I realize that my usually strict and hard-working mother was more important to me! I wouldn't have done anything without my mother. The person I rely on the most is actually the person who loves me the most!
The early death of my parents made me, who never understood love, seem to mature overnight, "Father's love is like a mountain, and mother's love is like water!" "It's something I didn't understand until I was 13 years old. I regret that I used to talk back to my mother, in fact, I was very attached to her in my heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > asks: What experience as a child helped or affected your later development? (Please cite a specific case).</h1>
Shi Yunxiang: I have already answered this question in the last question, "What habits made you help you the most along the way" as a child, and I will not repeat it here.
When I was a child, I developed a more willful habit of being spoiled by my parents, and at that time I was very ignorant, and then during the Cultural Revolution, my parents died and suddenly made me understand a lot, so I will answer a question.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > asked: Who influenced you the most as a child? (It can be a teacher, a parent, a classmate, please give an example).</h1>
Shi Yunxiang: First of all, it was my father who discovered my special hobbies and hoped that I could engage in art when I grew up, because my father was an artist himself, and my mother, who was a party member and the leader of the unit, was still in elementary school when my parents died suddenly.
In addition, even my two teachers have a great influence on me. The first teacher's surname is Zhao, called Zhao Wanbi, Gu Yun "complete Bi returned to Zhao", I was destined to have both teachers surnamed Zhao.
At that time, because I was an orphan overnight because of the sudden change of the family, this teacher Zhao, because he was a disgraced old literati and wore the hat of "rightist", before liberation he was the principal of the art college, specializing in the research and education of traditional Chinese green landscapes, but during the Cultural Revolution he was the object of "supervision and transformation" by the masses. At that time, I often went to see him, and he secretly took some classical green landscapes and gave them to me to copy.
The second teacher, also surnamed Zhao, was zhao yunyu, and he was a descendant of Zhang Daqian's disciple Dafengtang.
He was working in the provincial museum at that time, and I often went to the museum to ask him for advice, the teacher could restore cultural relics and appreciate it, and I was fortunate to see a lot of good things that I couldn't see on the market. At that time, I could say that I had a drunken love for traditional Chinese culture, learning to copy things from the ancients, and often staying up all night and not wanting to sleep! Later, the teacher personally wrote the four words "Heavenly Reward for Diligence" and gave it to me, and the teacher's ink treasure is still preserved at home.
Shuzhong Erzhao is a famous old painter in Sichuan, although they have long been ancient today, but they are the most respectable teachers in my life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > ask: If you were to give a piece of advice to your students now, what would you most like to tell them? </h1>
Shi Yunxiang: Decades have passed, and in a flash, I am now a teacher of artist education and a father. Every year on Mother's Day and Father's Day, children say a blessing to us, but I can't bless my long-lost parents.
I often tell my students and children that life is like a dream, everyone has their own dreams in their youth, such as to achieve their dreams and ideals, in addition to hard work and hard work, they must adhere to their beliefs, love life, love their careers, love their families, and have love and love for their families. In life, there is "love" to reflect the value of life. Know how to love, know how to cherish, know how to be grateful, you have a good life.
Today, the most regrettable thing is that I have lost the opportunity to repay and thank my parents forever. In response to the old saying, "The tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping, and the son wants to raise and not to be close."
(Interviewed on Mother's Day 2020)