Look at the news knews reporter Zhou Yu Lin Haisheng
2021-05-29 09:00
Laid off at the age of 52, self-taught piano at the age of 54, oil painting at the age of 66, and bonsai at the age of 70. Xue Rongli, an old carpenter sitting at No. 55 Fenyang Road, quipped: "Lay off early, do whatever you want like me, how happy!" ”
However, the time went back to 22 years ago, and Xue Rongli, who had just been laid off, was not so calm. At that time, in order to hide his layoffs from his family, he pretended to go out to work every day. After spending two years in the Fenyang Road area, one day the old carpenter watched an old movie about Chopin, "An Unforgettable Song.". The piano music in the movie made him really "unforgettable", and suddenly Mao Sai suddenly opened up: "Anyway, I don't have anything to do now, why don't I learn piano?" ”
Staves will not, just translate into a simple score; self-study is too difficult, it does not matter if you spend a year or two to practice a song; practicing at home will quarrel with your family, then go to various piano shops to practice! The old carpenter with the spirit of Yugong moving mountains began to learn the piano from morning to night in various piano shops on Fenyang Road.
Dramatic twists also took place, and no one chased away the old carpenter who seemed out of place with the young people who embraced musical ideals on Fenyang Road. The clerk of the piano shop also wants to sneak out to do something of his own, simply ask the old carpenter to help look at the shop, Fenyang Road is after all the location of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, there are many teachers in and out of the piano shop, and it is also pointed out and encouraged, so the old carpenter's way to learn the piano is not only smooth, but also opens another way for his own livelihood - probably because the old carpenter can learn the piano at this age, as if it has become a living signboard, he is in the shop, the number of people who buy the piano has increased. The old carpenter who played the piano and sold the piano was rewarded for it. On second thought, why not do it yourself! In this way, the old carpenter's piano shop opened at No. 55 Fenyang Road!
It takes a little luck to hear the old carpenter's piano now, but in the past 10 years, the piano sound of No. 55 from morning to night is a scenery on Fenyang Road. As early as 2007, a reporter from the Finnish Daily newspaper was attracted by the sound of the piano and shot a short film for the old carpenter. Mr. Wen, a Taiwanese guest from the United States, said he came to Shanghai in 2011 and often passed by Fenyang Road. Every night, when the whole street was quiet, only here the lights were on, and the sound of the piano was heard, and at that time he thought that he had met a high-ranking person in the world, and he did not dare to come forward to talk, and now, he sent his twin sons to the shop to learn the piano.
The days have become better, and now the old carpenter has less time to play the piano, not that he is slack, but that his artistic life is not only music, which also has a great relationship with Fenyang Road. On Fenyang Road, in addition to the music hall of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, there is also an art hall at the other end of the road - the Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts, known as the "Little White House". It is also the Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts, which brings together a number of municipal arts and crafts masters, whose daily work and production process can be publicly observed. In the sad days when the old carpenter was laid off, he often spent time here, and unconsciously received artistic influences, so that he began to learn oil painting at the age of 66 and began to play bonsai at the age of 70, and he did a good job.
The most satisfactory tree, just finished, was thrown 1,000 yuan by a great uncle who likes bonsai and took it directly, so that the old carpenter still thinks about it, because there is no longer a tree that is so satisfied with it.
The old carpenter was most satisfied with a tree
In 2015, the old carpenter who made bonsai attracted several special guests. One of them was a German pianist who came to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to look at the bonsai by the door.
The pianist casually played a schubert improvisation on the piano, which happened to be a tune that the old carpenter was learning and had just practiced. The old carpenter, who had no teacher, quickly took out a video recorder and wanted to film it and learn it himself. Unexpectedly, the pianist played too well, and the excited old carpenter could not speak English, so he could only show the pianist his own translated score. The pianist was excited at first sight and invited the old carpenter to play. The two of them met with a piano, and in the case of language barriers, the old carpenter's piano sound made the pianist cry on the spot. The video recorder that both men forgot, recorded the whole process, leaving a valuable memory.
Now in the old carpenter's shop, except for the piano, everything else, the bonsai he makes, the paintings he paints, are not sold, only their own likes. If you pass by Fenyang Road, you may wish to walk into No. 55 to have a look, and if you are lucky, the old carpenter will also play a song for you, all depending on his mood.
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Zhou Yu Intern reporter: Lin Haisheng Intern Editor: Shen Yihao)