"This man must have money, but I've never seen a rich man live in such a broken place."
More than 80 years old, should have been nurturing the heavens, but she insisted on spending 5 years, dumped more than 60 million yuan, with her own meager body, no children's support, no government financial support, five years as a day, her own collection of 60,000 pieces of porcelain, built a porcelain palace.
5 years, 1825 days and nights, Yu Ermei alone to stick to her dreams, although her relatives are far away, carrying huge debts, she still gritted her teeth and survived, until this porcelain palace full of Yu Ermei's lifelong treasures of hard work rose up, people know the significance of this 80-year-old old lady's persistence!
"After a lifetime of hard-earned money, I can't take it away in the end, so I might as well use it to do something that benefits the future generations of the city, and I can also realize my original dream."
Born in the 1930s in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China, Yu Ermei was deeply influenced by the local porcelain culture since childhood, and formed a lifelong relationship with porcelain.
Since the age of 12, she has followed her uncle to learn art in a ceramic workshop, and because Yu Ermei is very studious and willing to endure hardships, she quickly mastered the various processes required to make ceramics from clay to painting blanks. After completing her studies, she worked in the Jingdezhen Ceramics Factory, and every time she made porcelain in the factory, she would treasure it herself, and there were as many as 60,000 in the past few decades.
Tianjin porcelain house
I thought that life would go on like this. Until 9 years ago, a trip to Tianjin gave Yu Ermei a great touch, what touched Yu Ermei was the sky-high porcelain house in Tianjin, its appearance did not make Yu Ermei sigh, Jingdezhen as a world-famous porcelain capital, there was no decent porcelain house, from that day on she secretly decided: must build a porcelain palace belonging to Jingdezhen.
This idea burned like a flame in Yu Ermei's heart, when she proposed it to her family, she was unanimously opposed, young and fine, more than 80 years old to do such a "ridiculous thing" is not a fool's dream, the difficulty in front of it is obvious: the cost of building a porcelain palace is huge, where does the money come from? What should I do if I am in my 80s and my body collapses?
However, this difficulty did not extinguish Yu Ermei's determination to build a porcelain palace. In the end, the children all cut off contact with themselves, and the second sister Yu was still unmoved. For five years, she lived alone in a shack, wearing a few dozen pieces of clothing, drinking white porridge and eating instant noodles. In contemporary times, it is difficult for us to understand how a person without water and electricity can survive more than a thousand days and nights, for many people, just without a mobile phone and no network, it is estimated that it is unbearable. At the most difficult time, Yu Ermei was also shaken, and when the night was quiet, when the family was reunited, looking at herself with a single shadow of her age, she could not avoid being sad, secretly wiping her tears, thinking, Forget it, maybe this matter may not be able to do it at all, but the next day I saw her standing in the construction site of the Porcelain Palace to continue to work. Without a strong belief in the heart, I am afraid it is difficult to do so!
The constraints of life are on the one hand, on the other hand, the problem of funds, without the help of children, the government has not given Yu Ermei a penny, Yu Ermei not only spent her life's savings, but also sold gold and silver jewelry and her own years of treasures, and finally even the house left by her mother to herself was sold, and she borrowed a foreign debt like relatives.
The stubborn Second Sister Yu finally kept the clouds open and saw the moon, poured everything out, and built the porcelain palace of her dreams.
Not only was it built, but it was not a casual response, and the effect could be described by the word "shock". The entire porcelain palace is 1200 square meters, equivalent to the specifications of a small art museum, and the four famous porcelains of Jingdezhen are skillfully integrated into it. The porcelain palace is divided into 3 layers: the first layer is high-temperature porcelain dominated by blue and white, the second layer is an old camellia plate, and the third layer is a classical pastel color glaze.
The most amazing thing is that Yu Ermei also staged a story telling with porcelain in the Porcelain Palace, "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" four famous works are not missing, in addition to more than 100 imperial porcelain plate paintings, more than 500 Luohan porcelain plate paintings, etc., as if it is a collection of Chinese culture.
Such an inconspicuous little old lady has done such a big thing, which is simply incredible and sincerely admirable.
"In my life, I have broken into ceramics, and I have a deep relationship with ceramics, and when I get old, I will also be here, buried on this mountain."
Even if it is ordinary, the life with dreams can still shine, and it is not abandoned in the face of seemingly "delusional" choices, and after all, in this great era, you can write your own colorful strokes!