Chen Hongbiao | wen
From pressing the handprint to prevent "thieves" to winning the 1 million prize for the art prize, why is Jia Pingwo jealous?
From adoration to jealousy
The writer Jia Ping has been jealous for a long time.
I'm also part of this jealous team.
Since the age of eighteen, I have been a student-level fan of Jia Pingwa, and I have bought and read every book of his, and some have read it more than once, and even his limited edition anthology has spent a lot of money to buy a set and read all his articles and novels again.
It can be said that on the road of my love of literature, his status is that of the teacher I most admire, and there is no one.
However, since I loved calligraphy and painting, learned calligraphy, and saw Jia Pingwo selling calligraphy and paintings, I changed from a student-level fan of Jia Pingwo to a calligraphy and painting troll of Jia Pingwo, and gave birth to unprovoked jealousy.
I reflected on this inner change, if my jealousy of Jia Pingwa began with a love of literature, then jealousy is only positive and upward, starting from learning to write prose and writing novels from him, and the purpose of jealousy is to hope that by learning from him, one day I can reach one-tenth of his level, even if it is less, only a little fur, I will feel that I have not lived up to my love of literature in my life.
But, thirty or forty years later, I found my dreams too far from reality, and cruel. Therefore, Jia Pingwa's position in my heart is no longer a literature teacher, but a god of literature, offering him, and looking forward to meeting one day, holding his works and asking him to sign his name.
However, I don't know why I have another kind of jealousy of Jia Pingwa's calligraphy and paintings, there is no reason, there is no reason, and I don't know what the problem is until now?
Until Jia Pingwo won the highest artistic contribution award in the Chinese art world at present, receiving 1 million prizes and a trophy of 1 kilogram of pure gold, I suddenly realized, where did the jealousy of Jia Pingwo come from all these years?
Second, press the handprint to prevent "thieves"
At that time, I had just learned calligraphy, and when I saw his heavy and lineless brush words, I felt superior, I wrote much better than him, and when I saw his stupid and ugly brush words, of course, I was happy in my heart.
But for him such a brush word, some people will buy it, and it is very popular, to the point of "Luoyang paper is expensive", I am very dissatisfied. Especially when the price tag is "4 square feet 100,000, and the inscription plaque is 40,000", I am even more indignant.
I wrote an article to spray him, from pen and ink, pen, brushwork, glyphs, structure, chapters and other aspects, sprayed again. In one sense, Jia Ping's brush words are useless, and it is not pleasing to see which word.
In the end, he could not help but sneer at him, saying that it was not good to mix in the literary world, it was not good to write novels, why did he sneak into the book world?
Wrote a few broken words as a baby, cheated to eat and drink to deceive literature lovers. Besides, if you really want to play calligraphy and grab the job bowl of a calligrapher, then take out some skills, write the words well first, and then worry about other people's bowls?
My views have been supported by many netizens, and seeing that everyone thinks so, I am more confident.
I wrote one article, wrote another one, and got more support, so I kept squirting, squirting very relieved, and I was addicted to my mouth. But unexpectedly, Jia Pingwo's brush characters sold more hotly, the market is full of counterfeit Jia Pingwo calligraphy, just like his "Waste Capital" at that time, the book stalls are full of pirated books, within half a year, Jia Pingwo to the hands of the pirated "Waste Capital" there are more than 60 kinds, the genuine version is only 2 million copies, the pirated version of that year is as many as 10 million copies.
Seeing the fake works that his friends entrusted to him to identify, Jia Ping's face was smiling and squinting, but his heart was dripping blood. Not only did the silver of the white flowers reach someone else's pocket, but every counterfeit calligraphy was better than his.
Jia Pingwo is a very smart and shrewd person. He thought of a way to stop stamping his name at the end of the calligraphy, but to press the handprint directly.
When someone presses a fingerprint, it is either a contract, a confession, or a confirmation of a legal document. Jia Ping's concave handprint is to prevent "thieves". Unheard of from ancient times to the present, it is simply a unique trick for eternity.
It is said that this trick of Jia Pingwo made counterfeit traders busy and helpless, and the number of counterfeit Jia Pingwo calligraphy once dropped sharply.
For a while, Jia Ping's concave defense against "thieves" was famous inside and outside the circle.
Third, he was forced to become a calligrapher and painter
The most infuriating thing is that Jia Ping saw that his brush characters were easy to sell, there was a big market, and he opened up a second market for money - painting.
His paintings, not traditional literati paintings, nor modern paintings, were as ugly as his words, or even uglier. However, it sold quite well.
You say angry no? What's the use of you just getting angry, so you write an article to spray.
And found that netizens like such troll articles, do not spray the sky or spray the ground nor spray air, but specially spray people, spray celebrities, more popular, more can become explosive articles.
More and more people have formed a network phenomenon.
And Jia Pingwo is still Jia Pingwo, just like when his novel "Waste Capital" was banned, all kinds of criticism voices were overwhelming, others thought that Jia Pingwo was definitely finished, either beaten to the ground, never able to get up, or cut himself off from literature, abandoning his pen and retiring from the literary world.
Unexpectedly, in the face of criticism, Jia Pingwa did not say a word and did not make any response. The ban on "Wasteland" was not banned until it was officially lifted in 2009 when it was republished by the Writers Publishing House, and for sixteen years, he still buried his head in writing novels. He has published 7 novels, including "White Night", "Tumen", "Gao Laozhuang", "Remembering the Wolf", "Report on illness", "Qin Cavity", and "Happy", and a memoir "I Am a Farmer - Five Years of Memory in the Countryside", which has won the French Fermina Literature Award, the Lu Xun Literature Award and the Seventh Mao Dun Literature Award.
Since then, some people have said that Jia Pingwo was born as a stone, a hard and ugly stone, potholed, with a brute force, no one can shake him, let alone no one can knock him down.
Jia Pingwo has had day and night in the literary world, while he has no night in the calligraphy and painting market, only day, and it is like day in the sky.
If you want to ask for his calligraphy and painting, you must pay according to his polishing fee first, not only can not bargain, but also have to make an appointment. If you make an appointment, you may not be able to get the calligraphy and painting immediately, and you have to go to the queue with the bank transfer record.
If you want to move crooked ideas, want to be white, take advantage of him, there is no door. His calligraphy and paintings not only clearly marked the price, but also wrote a notice and posted it in the most conspicuous place in the study:
"Officials, people, men, women, money, not officials, people do not look at sex." Handing over money with one hand and taking the goods in the other is good for everyone and better for you. You are not willing to pay, I am reluctant to ink, good to anyone, especially good to me. Raw acquaintances are customers, please drink tea if the transaction is not closed. ”
Many netizens feel that Jia Ping's concave calligraphy and painting is not good, this notice is written a little interesting, worthy of being a literati, obviously can take the Nobel Prize in Literature, and even have greater achievements in literature, why should we wade into the muddy waters of calligraphy and painting?
The regrets of others are just regrets, and no one knows what Jia Ping's heart is thinking.
Like Mo Yan, he also held a calligraphy and painting exhibition. Many people spray it, which is a blatant use of literary fame to collect the wealth of calligraphy and painting.
Why do you, a famous writer, hold a calligraphy and painting exhibition, and why do you sell calligraphy and paintings?
He said very directly that selling calligraphy and paintings was to subsidize the family. What's even more infuriating is that he said, "Since I can exchange words for money, and I love money, then I will be a calligrapher!" ”
What this means is that he was very reluctant and forced to be a calligrapher. This is all because people give him money to write, and if he writes too much, he will embark on the path of a calligrapher.
You see, this is typical of a cheap and well-behaved lord.
This is not only a great irony for those of us who want to sell calligraphy to get rich from it from the beginning, but also an insult, and the most important thing is how do these people who have written calligraphy for most of our lives and no one wants to live?
You say, this Jia Ping is not angry.
Such a person is not jealous, who is jealous?
4. Won the Million Gold Prize for Artistic Contribution
This time Jia Pingwo was jealous again, not Jia Pingwo held a calligraphy and painting exhibition again, but people gave him an award, called the "First Fang Jinyi Award", with a prize of 1 million yuan, plus a gold trophy.
This trophy not only has a high gold content, it is made of 1 kg of pure gold, and the artistic content is also very high, which is designed by the internationally renowned artist Ding Shaoguang personally, and carefully produced by Zhang Jingyang and Zhang Xinyi, two national masters of arts and crafts of Lao Fengxiang.
That is to say, although it is only an art award set up by an enterprise, it is currently the highest prize in China from the perspective of the amount of the prize money and the value of the gold trophy.
In addition to Jia Pingwa winning the "Artistic Contribution Award", Jin Shangyi, former president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and an important pioneer of the Chinese school of oil painting in the 20th century and famous oil painter, won the "Jinyi Award", and the famous painters Luo Zhongzhong, Yang Yumin and Yu Youhan won the "Nomination Award".
As a result, the social response is very large. Many of them are sneering, saying that this is not an official award, but an award set up by a company.
Secondly, he aimed the finger at Jia Pingwa, thinking how he could be a writer who could win such an art award. He even suggested that "Professor Jin should refuse the prize" because "because it is tantamount to humiliation." ”
More netizens also raised doubts about the award speech for Jia Pingwa's "Artistic Contribution Award".
"His calligraphy and painting are a family of their own, both tangible and intangible, both thick and cheerful, both vast and simple, both writer and calligrapher, and have made extremely high achievements in the field of culture and art."
They feel that this passage is nonsense, not only ambiguous, saying is equivalent to saying nothing, and it can be used on anyone.
What is "both tangible and intangible", isn't that four different? What is "thick and smooth", isn't that just graffiti? What is "both vast and simple", isn't that stupid and ugly? As for "being both a writer and a calligrapher and painter", no one dares to refute the writer, but no one agrees with the "calligrapher", believing that this is a typical star live streaming goods, borrowing the face of the star to sell fake goods.
In this feast of netizens' salivation, I suddenly found that there is a problem that a company issues gold medals for artists, what is bad? Why are so many people attacking?
I am reminded of a saying that my parents said: In this world, only your parents are happy to see that you are better than them, and no one else can see that you are better than them. When you're well, they'll be red-eyed, they'll nag you, orchestrate you, hurt you, hurt you.
It turned out that the root of my jealousy of Jia Pingwo was here.
Terrible human nature!
May everyone in the world live better than Jia Pingwa, enter the gold every day, have a lifetime of glory and wealth, and do not have to write novels, write calligraphy, paint and draw.
This article is the exclusive original of [Chen Hongbiao's Writing and Painting], written by Chen Hongbiao, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, biographer and critic of calligraphy and painting, who has published 16 personal works, including the long biography "Xu Mangyao's Oil Painting World" and so on. Image from the web.