"I never read."
Author Ye Xingyi
Learned calligraphy from childhood, but went to the corresponding school of the Price Bureau when he graduated; when he graduated, the government did not care about the assignment, so he sold the treatment instrument, and measured the blood pressure of the uncle and aunt at the door of the community every day; wrote an advertisement for a period of time, and engaged in rock music with the boss and friends at the time, and then because the piano practice was too loud, he was driven out of the rental house and the music dream by the landlord at the same time; wrote a sitcom, the masterpiece "Jianghuai Small Theater", I found an episode of the theme is to teach the elderly to play mahjong on the Internet, the opening picture quality is as follows, for a while I could not tell whether it was computer poisoning Or my life was rewinded.
He also carved the skin, according to the old text of Douban, the goods sold may not be as much as given to the girl; now the main business is to do brick carving rubbings, that is, to pick up a green brick on the side of the road, engrave and paint on it, and then expand it and put it on Taobao to sell. It's pretty good-looking.
"I sometimes help people write lyrics part-time."
It may be that the profession that has nothing to do with literature talks too much, and at the end of the topic, Ye Xingyi specially added a side job that can best be related to professional "creative" people.
But what is the use, this person's "unreliable" image of Qin Twilight chu and three minutes of heat has successfully replaced the original initial impression of "simple duty" and become a new reason for this marketing editor to worry about the future.
But immediately, I realized that my worries had come early, because he immediately had a cordial and warm meeting with his boss Tu Tu around "I never read":
Ye: "I can't read two books a year"
"I'm sleepy as soon as I read a book"
"I haven't turned a book in years"
It is true that people do not have to read books, but...
"Can a person who doesn't read really write a good book?"
"House catcher" on Douban
Rushers... What is a house snatcher?
"The technique of chasing the house was improved by the Heavenly Master of the Northern Wei Dynasty Kou Qian, and was one of the spells accomplished by the Six Ming Sect's cultivation, coinciding with the prosperity of Emperor Xiaowen's relocation of the capital, dividing the house, stirring the foundation, walking the house, moving the gods, introducing the sect, opening the road, knowing the furnace, falling temple, floating wind, and Clearing the way, and the small ones moved the capital to move the graves, and the large ones drove the mountains and muyuns."
Ye Xingyi's rush to the house was first updated in the Douban diary by the writer "Fengxing On the Water", and then a number of well-known domestic writers such as Haiberian, Zhang Tang, Deng Anqing, etc., constantly combined with their own "insights" to supplement, and finally settled into a relatively clear context of the "rush room universe".
Ye Xingyi belongs to the focus on stirring up the soil and relocating the foundation, according to the information detailed by the crowd, it should belong to the "stirring base" faction, and they have a clear "three no's principle" for driving the house:
It is not that the family does not rush, the family disagrees do not rush, and the neighbors do not rush
The specific process of eviction also has "example" recall references, which are depicted in considerable detail:
"First draw a circle around the house, then paste a symbol along the circle, chant the mantra for three days, and whip it within the circle every day with a whip. Draw a clear line between the foundation and the surrounding land, so that the house will not affect other people's homes. When the soil of the house was almost awake, the house was pulled up and floated into the air, and then the Dao Chang quickly chanted the reduction mantra, turning it into a portable size, and finally the person who drove the house wore a Robe, carried two long swords, and two hands were freed up and dragged a long line, and the other end of the line was tied to the small house, and several little devils supported and floated in mid-air, like flying kites, step by step to 'rush' to the destination. ”
This online conference around the "popular science" of the house, the more pulled and thinned, the darker the depiction, and finally left the legend of "the person who drove the house Ye Xingyi" on the douban.
Loneliness, the smell of fireworks on earth
With the legend of "house catchers", Ye Xingyi gained nearly 10,000 fans in Douban.
He began to try to write some small stories of the people around him in Douban, the second grandfather, the old classmate, the drilling cousin... With the passage of time, the protagonist of the story slowly changes from the people around him to the distant artists.
The writing of the new book "Wang Xizhi's Release of Geese" began with his Douban.
Lu Jia, the editor of "Wang Xizhi's Tale of Letting Go of the Goose" and the founder of the paper creation, wrote in the editor's recommendation:
This is a new compilation of the stories of ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting artists
A revival of traditional Chinese note-taking novels in modern Chinese
Around Ryunosuke Wasagawa and Wang Xiaobo
Between "The New Language of the World" and "The Tale of the Mountain Moon"
For such an evaluation, Ye Xingyi himself said in the author's handwritten note "The First Style of Wang Eight Fists":
"I knew very early on that I didn't have the talent to write, but I still had a little urge to write, and then I didn't even have the impulse, and I thought I really wasn't this material, so I might as well do something else."
Ye Xingyi really did a lot of other things, but in the end, he still came to the road of writing.
Whether it is cramped and cautious at first sight, or frank and honest in chatting, or more people's impression of his serious nonsense humor on Douban, in my opinion, Ye Xingyi has an irresistible naïve temperament, both rooted in the world's desires, real and vivid personality, but also beyond life, boundless romantic fantasies.
This charisma is highly harmoniously unified and infused into his works.
He wrote about Wang Xizhi in "The Tale of Wang Xizhi's Release of Geese", quoting Wang Xizhi's own work "Sending Zhou Fu":
"For twenty-six years, I have always been in a bad situation, and I feel the aging day by day. My wife has been seriously ill lately, often vomiting late at night, and probably not much time, but I can't do anything.
When he was alive, my old wife also complained to me, saying that when the Xie family came, I would turn over the boxes and cabinets for good hospitality, but her brothers Fang Hui and Chongxi were very weak, how did she understand our feelings? Remembering and Chongxi exchanging experiences of serving five stones, traveling east together to see the beauty of the mountains and rivers, discussing how to live in seclusion, remembering when he wrote a letter to Chongxi to propose relatives, let the little children and officials marry the little daughter of the Xi family, those brisk joys seemed to be in front of them, but in the blink of an eye, yin and yang were separated, and life was really helpless.
You're in your seventies this year, right? I am also about to be sixty, and it is not easy to live to this age, but my health is getting worse and worse, and I don't know if I can still become Sichuan. Going to the day is more bitter, taking away too much expectation and not much joy, leaving the helplessness of repeating the day by day, so that the difference between imagination and reality becomes so far. There seems to be nothing to be sure of, only by taking five stones can there be a short period of fun, but Fang Hui is worried about my body, advising me not to take it, probably does not understand me, if there is not even such fun, then what is the point? ”
He wrote Song Huizong's "Farewell Forever, Painting Academy":
"I asked people to identify the calligraphy and paintings collected by the Inner House, from Cao Buxing to Huang Juyu, and compiled them into books and paintings for them to study. My own paintings are not stingy to give to everyone for their appreciation and study.
In March of the fourth year of Xuanhe, I remember most clearly, when there were a lot of people, I took out the ancient paintings that I usually copied, everyone rushed to grab them, Li Tang and Su Hanchen almost fought, these people are usually so weak, they can't imagine that they can ignore the image in order to paint. I sat there, drank some wine, and there was some ripple in my heart, hoping that they would always be so lively, and I hoped that my painting academy would always be so lively.
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Later, the Jin Army came, and those years were really torturous, anti-resistance or peace? Everyone quarreled in the main hall every day. The destruction of the country made me very anxious, and when I woke up at night, I saw Xuande Gate standing coldly under the moonlight, and the heavens and earth were lonely and desolate. On that Shangyuan Festival more than ten years ago, the clouds on xuande gate were swirling, the cranes flew and danced, and the people of Beijing looked up, and I gladly mentioned the stroke "Ruihe Tu", which is really emotional compared with the past and present.
Now I am very sick, I don't have to struggle anymore, all that awaits me is death. They locked me in a tattered hut, the wind blowing in from all directions, the snow blowing heavily, getting bigger and bigger, and I could hear the trees breaking. In the morning, the earth was white, a bird in the yard fell on a dead branch, the branches trembled slightly, and the snow also fell, it looked at the miserable white sky alone, motionless, and there was no sound, this is not the "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram" that Li Di once painted? I watched it for a long time, and my heart became more and more sad.
I can't go back, I can't go home, I can't go back to the past, and it's really uncomfortable to think of this result. ”
He wrote "The Vietnamese Fox Fairy" that lived for a thousand years, but could not learn to look at it indifferently:
The fox fairy said: I am lucky to be able to spend so long with adults. I have lived for more than a thousand years, seeing people born and then leaving, seeing the establishment of homes and then desolation, seeing dynasties prosper and then decaying, except for the sun, moon and stars, everything always comes and goes, glory and withering, the world is impermanent, life is more impermanent, I can't change anything, only to adapt to it.
After Chu Suiliang left, the fox immortal still lived in Luocheng. During the day, she wandered the streets and returned to Chu Suiliang's house in the evening. Before the new officials of the imperial court came, there was only her and a servant in the whole room, and that servant was older than Chu Suiliang, and he always spoke without a preface, he always hunched over his back, sometimes sweeping the floor in the courtyard, sometimes doing nothing, just pestle in the courtyard, holding his hands crossed on his belly, tilting his head and looking straight ahead, looking at it for a long time, he finally remembered things,
The servant murmured, "Fox Fairy, then, are you Lord Chu's wife?"
The fox fairy could only smile and said no again.
The two men continued to look ahead, and the dark cloud finally came, and the rain continued to fall into the night.
When the rain stopped, the moon peeked out of the thin clouds and shone on the yard like daylight, quiet, with only bugs singing in the corners, crisp and intermittent.
It's really lonely, the fox fairy thought. ”
His characters casually pick out a star that cannot be ignored in Chinese art, but he wants to write about their unseen tacky side:
He wrote about the proud rice bush:
"Let me talk about calligraphy, and I'll talk about it. I was asked about my evaluation of today's writers, and I answered truthfully, this is also the ranking of several in my heart, as for why it is a stroke and a drawing, typography, brushing, I will not explain too much, or leave it to your own imagination.
From ancient times to the present, there is a common disease in the evaluation of calligraphy and painting, that is, it is not good to speak, what dragon jumps the gate of heaven, tiger jumps phoenix que, what does it mean? It sounds like it's unpredictable, think about it and actually don't say anything, I think it's those laymen who don't understand, so they scare people with these words of cloud and fog.
Du Fu did not understand calligraphy, and wrote poems praising Xue Ji's "Puzan Temple" inscription well, saying that the three characters of 'depression' were entangled with jiaolong." I have seen the engraving, every word looks like a big steamed cake, especially the word "Pu", as if a person clenched his fists to the top of his head, to hit the king of the eight fists, this is still called a dragon?
The Tang Dynasty people couldn't write well, and the ancient law was finished from Yu Shinan and Ouyang Inquiry. Yan Zhenqing's writing is acceptable, the calligraphy is very tacky, Ouyang Qing's writing is shabby and spiritless, just like a patient who is haggard and weak, Not to mention Liu Gongquan, xue Ou is far inferior to Ou, deliberately artificial, is the grandfather of the vulgar ugly characters, why are there so many ugly and tacky things in the world called calligraphy? I learned it from him.
Writing well, of course, rely on talent, no talent how much effort you spend is in vain, it is better to do something else, I see many people like this, like intoxicated, but the talent is flat, very sad for them. ”
Write about the political giants of the Tang Dynasty, and privately write articles and laugh at each other:
"The Tang Dynasty people popularly wrote novels to attack dissidents, and the famous passage in the Tang legend, "The Legend of the White Ape of The Supplementary River", attacked the calligrapher Ouyang Yuan. Ouyang Que looked ugly, and the eldest grandson Wuji once made fun of him like a monkey. According to this point, the "Biography of the White Ape" says that the general Ouyang Qi led an army to the south, and his wife was robbed by a white ape spirit and gave birth to Ouyang Qing. This Ouyang inquiry version of the 'raw monkey' terrier, because of its good arrangement and high literary value, has been passed down to this day.
It is said that when Ouyang Que read this story, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and when he saw the eldest son Wujie, he was about to beat him, and the eldest grandson Wuji shouted that he had been wronged, saying that this story was not made up by me, and I made fun of you, didn't you also satirize me? ”
In addition, he wrote the playful anecdote "Avenge Lu Gong" that could not be examined, and wrote the well-founded ancient art science "Fish Eating Thesis" and "Wine and Meat Monk", "Eating on the Autumn Deep Post", "The Inscriber", and "Summer Hot Post".
He wrote about the brilliance and prosperity that every lover of calligraphy and painting art in that era longed for, but at the same time did not avoid the shortcomings of that era, such as the abuses, backwardness, turmoil, and weakness, he wrote about the dazzling glory and noble pursuit of the artists, but at the same time did not avoid the unwillingness, outdress, frustration and depression they encountered.
In those stories of laughter and anger, fiction and reality, there is cunning and warmth that makes people laugh, and there is also a lonely sigh that makes people sigh and sigh.
On "Why the artists you write are not as abstract, majestic, and lofty as we traditionally think." ”
Ye Xingyi gave this answer: "I am just used to seeing all people equally. ”
"There is no art, only artists". This quote from Gombrich seems to be particularly suitable for ancient Chinese art.
Ancient Chinese art, like Chinese philosophy, is first and foremost about people, people's hearts, and human nature. Therefore, the appreciation of ancient paintings and calligraphy, when it comes to speaking, it is best to start from its creators.
The book "Wang Xizhi's Tale of Letting Go of the Goose" is exactly such an attempt.
In this book, there are legends, there are new stories, there are naturalisms, there are art history, there are folklore, there are fables, there are aspirations, there are fantasies, among them, Wang Xizhi, Mi Fu, Han Gan, Song Huizong, Yang Ningshi, Ni Yunlin, and other ancient masters of calligraphy and painting enshrined in distant temples suddenly present in a living way, or strange, or everyday in a variety of strange stories. These creators came alive, and with that, their works seemed to come alive.
In terms of design, with the story in the book, it seems to be true and false, and the texture of virtual reality is set, setting the tone of whiteness, transparency and softness.
The protective seal is made of special cotton paper, which feels like yarn, thin and tough, has a sense of breathing, and can see the flashing paper wire under a certain light and angle. The binding adopts an empty ridge, which is convenient for spreading out and protecting the spine.
Bold inner text typography strives to reflect the flickering breath of the text. For each chapter, the layout changes once, but at the same time the page number position is fixed, both changing and unchanging. Between the void and the float, it seems to capture the "true meaning" of the text with the reader.