Feng Minjing stood on her father's shoulder and posed as a crane perch (crane shape), Feng Yihui, who was in the middle of the tiger pushing the mountain pose, and Feng Minyu, a 5-year-old sister, posed as a night tiger out of the forest.
Guo Yilan took a group photo with his father (middle) and grandfather (bottom) holding their respective paintings of tigers. Grandpa Guo Mangyuan is a traditional calligrapher and painter, and Father Guo Qing is a contemporary artist.
Min Jing was practicing brush writing at home, and she was writing the word "Wu" on the sticker on her mobile phone.
Before teaching her daughter to learn boxing, Feng Yihui squatted down and tied a red silk ribbon around the child's waist.
As a "master sister", Min Jing led a group of teachers and sisters to practice boxing.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger, Yi Lan practiced painting tigers in his grandfather's studio.
From childhood to adulthood, Yi Lan has been painting with his grandfather.
At the end of 2021, Yi Lan held her first solo exhibition on the campus of HuashiFu Middle School.
Traditional Chinese culture is all-encompassing, both literary and martial, is wisdom and strength, and is "civilized in its spirit, barbaric in its physique." Teaching and inheriting make its essence immortal; the development of the times makes its innovation continue to flow. Who are the future hipsters? Spirited Chinese teenagers! They inherit the family style, dance and ink, heroic posture, standing on the shoulders of their ancestors, standing on the shoulders of history, looking far ahead.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter interviewed 16-year-old Feng Minjing, the daughter of the representative inheritor of Guangzhou's Non-Heritage Hongquan, and the 14-year-old Guo Yilan, a representative of the "post-00s" of the artist family, and listened to them tell the story of their hard practice of basic skills in literature and martial arts since childhood, and now they have made a volunteer to inherit.
Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Lin Lin Photo/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Chen Youzi
When other partners were still in the arms of her mother, 4-year-old Feng Minjing had begun to practice every day, practicing uninterruptedly for 12 years, bringing her enviable long legs and cool and heroic posture, as well as countless medals; from the time of teeth and teeth, Guo Yilan grew up on the big painting table of her grandfather and calligrapher Guo Mangyuan, waving her pen and ink since she was a child, and before the age of 14, she had become a "little painter" among her peers and held the first exhibition of her life.
"Now I'm the strongest in the family." Min Jing said mischievously. As the new generation of inheritors of Guangzhou's non-heritage Hongquan, she has known since she was a child that she has shouldered the responsibility of inheritance, "After graduating from university, I will take over the martial arts hall at home." Yi Lan also mentioned the "sense of responsibility": "I feel that I have the responsibility and obligation to paint better and pass on the traditional capital strokes." ”
"Martial Arts Girl":
"The burden of inheritance is on our new generation"
Talking about her difference from ordinary girls, Min Jing smiled a little shy and cunning, but there were many more generous and cheerful girls who did not have: "Girl friends don't think I'm strange at all, they are happy, saying that they are particularly secure with me." ”
This is not easy to come by. From Xiao Minjing followed her father Feng Yihui, it was funny to see her brothers and sisters shouting when they punched, and it was not until she began practicing at the age of 4 that she did not know the arrival of "hard days". "Every day I walked for at least half an hour, pressed my legs, punched, and every day I was tired and sore." Recalling these days, she "complained" about her father's "cunning", "He always coaxed me to practice, said that if I practiced well, he would buy me a favorite toy." She also secretly revealed her father's "secret": "In the past, when my father was a child, he practiced with his grandfather, and he was also 'coaxed' by a 5 cent snow bar. ”
At the age of 7, Min Jing participated in the 2013 Guangdong Provincial Traditional Martial Arts Championship and won the gold medal. As she grew up, Min Jing gradually learned that her father's great-grandfather, Master Feng Xiaofeng, a disciple of Master Feng Xiaofeng, had gathered more than 800 people from Yubei Tongsheng Township in 1841 to participate in the people's anti-British struggle in Sanyuanli, and her father was the 5th generation inheritor of the Feng Xiaofeng family of Hongquan. With Hong Quan's successful application as a Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage of Guangzhou, she gradually felt the weight of her shoulders. "Since then, I have known that the burden of inheritance is on our new generation."
"Sense of responsibility" made her re-examine the boring training day after day, and gradually found pleasure in it. "In addition to being able to strengthen the body, martial arts itself has great charm." Min Jing said that although she has not yet been able to understand the martial arts like her predecessors, she has a heartfelt love for martial arts. She couldn't help but joke: "Of course, it is also fun to teach teachers and sisters, and it makes me very happy to see them squatting and 'abusing' them." ”
"Family Heirloom Artist":
"I want to pass on the traditional big picture"
Born and raised in a family of calligraphy and painting, art is a daily routine for Yilan - Grandpa Guo Mangyuan is a traditional calligrapher and painter, Father Guo Qing is a contemporary artist, and the family contacts are cultural and artistic celebrities, and splashing ink is a common thing. Yi Lan is jokingly called "learning to take chopsticks while learning to take a brush".
"At first, I really thought that painting was a very 'bitter' thing." Thinking back on the experience of learning to paint, Yi Lan couldn't help but tell, "Especially sometimes if one is not well drawn, you have to re-draw a picture, but you may keep practicing, but if you are not satisfied with each one, you will feel frustrated." But, gradually, she found that it was precisely because she had been dissatisfied, every time "corrected" a little, so she kept improving, until she drew a picture that she was satisfied with, and looked back, "Wow, it turns out that I have insisted on it for so long."
Grandpa's adherence to traditional culture and decades of unshielding scrolls have had a great impact on Yilan: "I feel that calligraphy and painting and traditional culture have been integrated into my life. Whenever I travel or study, I am most interested in local museums and art galleries, and I always bring sketchbooks and paintbrushes with me. And her grandfather and father's artist friends also provided her with the opportunity to learn oil painting, printmaking, and rubbing." Different categories have similarities, and I am very interested. Yi Lan smiled shyly, revealing his small teeth.
Although Grandpa and Dad have stated that she is not required to take the path of a professional artist, the most important thing is to improve her cultural accomplishment and artistic aesthetics. But Yi Lan knows very well that she will definitely go down the road of art, but now that she is still young, whether she regards art as a hobby or a profession, but also depends on her future development opportunities. "But no matter what, I will always love art."
In addition to love, there is also "responsibility". Especially before, she jointly held the "Farming and Reading Family Style" exhibition with her grandfather and father, which gave her a great touch. "At that time, I realized that I had the responsibility and obligation to paint better and pass on the traditional capitalization."
The 14-year-old girl in the year of the tiger has a clear understanding of herself: "Dad has made innovations on the basis of tradition, relying on traditional skills. What I have to do now is to lay a good foundation, not to rush, because the road is still very long. ”
Source: Guangzhou Daily