Every year during the Spring Festival, it is a time for people to gather together and celebrate reunion. However, during the Spring Festival, it is often the most troublesome day for many single and elderly young people, because at this time, parents are eager to introduce them to the object, hoping that they will get off the list as soon as possible. Relatives and friends rushed to get married and drank happy wine. Presumably, in the first month of the day, I don't know how many single friends spend every day in trouble. If you were also urged to marry because you were single, then I really hope you can see the story of this bachelor. (This set of images was taken from 2019 to 2021)
Uncle Zhang introduced his poems
This is a true story that takes place in the Lunan Mountains. The protagonist of the story is named Zhang Chonghong, 77 years old this year, he is a native of Dashangzhuang Village, Hongning Street, Wulian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province. Uncle Zhang is a talented man, he has a belly full of talent, can export into chapters, and can refer to things to write poetry. That is, you can point to an object and have him write a poem about it, and he can recite a rhyming poem with little thought. The poems written by Uncle Zhang, commonly known as "oil poems", and the "oil poems" he wrote, each capital contains his life feelings, as well as life thoughts, and is full of life philosophy. If you taste it carefully, you can feel a lot of life truths.
Uncle Zhang introduced his daily life
Such a very talented uncle, who wrote a lot of "oil poems", presumably he must be a person with a story. Without further ado, let's take a look at Uncle Zhang's life story. About four years ago, by chance, we discovered this unusual uncle. That day, we went to Uncle Zhang's village, Dashangzhuang Village, Hongning Street, Wulian County, to visit Uncle Zhang, and inquired in the village, trying to find the uncle who wrote the poem, the old people and children in the village, and none of them did not know. A warm lady, who led us around a bend, told us, "The broken house in the westernmost part, the two big trees in front of the door, the one with the poem written on the wall is it." ”
Uncle Zhang's own "Monument of Kindness"
We followed the direction of the enthusiastic lady's finger, walked forward for more than 600 meters, and arrived at Uncle Zhang's house. Before we got close to his home, we were drawn to this somewhat special house. The first thing we saw was the two large trees in front of the door, the trees were also carved with Chinese characters, and there was a "banner" between the two trees, which was also full of Chinese characters. If you look closely, the front of the bungalow, the east and west sides, and the three walls are written with poetry. It was when we were carefully looking at what poetry was written in the house that a great uncle came out of the house.
Uncle Zhang returned from working in the fields
We guess that this may be Uncle Zhang. In fact, before we talked to him, we didn't know what his name was. We told him that we had heard that there was a great uncle here who wrote poetry on the house, and this time he came to see what poetry was written on the house, and at the same time he wanted to get to know the owner of the house. This uncle was very polite and told us that he was the owner of this house, his surname was Zhang, and his name was Chongheng. The name on his ID card is Zhang Chonghong, in fact, it should be Zhang Chongheng, because when he first applied for the ID card, because the dialect "Hong" and "Heng" were pronounced the same, it was written as Zhang Chonghong.
View of the roof of Uncle Zhang.com
Seeing our arrival, Uncle Zhang was very happy. He walked us around the house, introduced his experience in building the house, and read us poem after poem and explained the truth. We saw that the house was made of red brick and that the walls were painted with multiple poems. Above the house, and in the small courtyard, there are several sculptures made of cement, monkeys, portraits, and various birds sewn with rags, and wind chimes. Anyway, it looks very strange, and there is a strange feeling.
Uncle Zhang's house
Uncle Zhang said that this house was the house that his uncle helped build that year. When he was young, because his family was poor, there were many sisters, two older sisters, one younger sister, and one younger brother. At that time, they did not have a house to live in, so they temporarily lived in the grass hut where the production team watched the green, which was ventilated in the winter and leaked rain in the summer, and later because the village needed this land, the grass shed made of soil blocks was demolished. There is no place to live, there is no money at home, and there are many children, what can I do? At this time, his uncle looked really pitiful, so he helped them borrow 200 yuan, bought materials, and finally built five bungalows, which was a decent home.
Uncle Zhang's own baked small cakes
When he was young, Uncle Zhang was a smart, honest and capable person, and also a person who was very filial to his parents. Since the death of his parents, he has been devastated, often hiding at home alone without working, and there is no food to eat when the production team does not work. His sister said that he "just ate and didn't work" and separated from him. Since then, his personality has been withdrawn, and he has lived a single life, and has not been single until now. However, living alone has taught him to cook, learn to stir-fry, learn to sew clothes, exercise his hands-on ability, and make his life different from then on.
The peanut threshing machine invented by Uncle Zhang
Uncle Zhang told us that he did not say that he could not say that he could not live in his daughter-in-law, and he had many opportunities in this life, all of which he voluntarily gave up. When his parents were still alive, someone proposed to him, and when he saw that his family was poor, people were reluctant to do so. The failure of the first blind date made him have an inferiority complex and accompanied him all his life. He always thought in his heart, women spend money, the family is poor, without money, they can't afford to raise a daughter-in-law, it is better to live by themselves, poor and rich, a person eats enough and the whole family is not hungry. I didn't bother to please women, and I lived happily by myself, how good.
Sculpture of Uncle Zhang
Uncle Zhang was actually very handsome when he was young, he was smart, capable, had studied for several years, knew some words, would also pull erhu, could sing opera, was the "literary and artistic backbone" of the production team at that time, and it can be said that there were also some "fans". At that time, he participated in the construction of the reservoir by the master, and the leader saw that he could swim, so he taught him a "literacy class" (a synonym for young girls at that time) to learn to swim, and there were many young and beautiful beauties among the students. There was once a beautiful girl who saw that he was more handsome and realistic, and wanted to marry him, but as soon as he thought of his family's poverty, he refused the beautiful girl's courtship.
Uncle Zhang drew two dragons on the wall pillars of his home
Without money, the family is poor, even if you marry your daughter-in-law, you can't afford to support it. Uncle Zhang said that the poor who have no money cannot afford to raise their daughters-in-law, look at how many people around them who have no money, poor people in the family, can not live a good life if they marry their daughter-in-law, and when they are poor, their daughter-in-law will run away, and if they cannot live a good life, their daughter-in-law will divorce you. He is inferior and stubborn, his personality is straight, he is paranoid and dogmatic in his work, his ideological tradition is serious and conservative, so he has identified this dead reason, the family is poor, there is no money can not want a daughter-in-law, women are spending money, so they can not want a daughter-in-law.
Uncle Zhang's poems
When Uncle Zhang was in his 40s, a big lady saw that he was very good at living a life, and he was honest and honest, and he could farm and work, so she introduced him to a widow with a child, and the woman agreed. He thought about it at home for several days, but finally did not agree and refused. He said that if he married someone else, he would have to support his wife and children, buy a house for his children, buy a car and marry his daughter-in-law, that is to raise children for others, he did not have the ability to earn money, he could not afford to raise his wife and children, or it was better to live on his own. He said that there was once a bachelor who became a door-to-door son-in-law, married a widow, and then because he could not earn money to support the family, the family was thrown out of the house, and the man committed suicide by drinking pesticides in shame.
Uncle Zhang introduced the erhu he made
Because of paranoia, stubbornness, inferiority and stubbornness, Uncle Zhang lived alone for a lifetime. Why didn't he see the families of those who, although he was poor when he was young, later through his own efforts, he married his wife and built a house, and his children and grandchildren were full of halls, and realized the counterattack of life? Why didn't you see that when you were young, you had no money, your family was poor, and after marrying your daughter-in-law, your husband and wife loved each other, they were diligent and thrifty, they worked hard together, and later they bought a house and a car, and their wives and children were filial piety? Why has it not been thought that such a good society now, a person's fate, can be changed through their own efforts, through hard work to achieve a happy life?
A photo of Uncle Zhang singing when he was young
If the time could be turned back, I think Uncle Zhang would definitely choose to marry his daughter-in-law. In fact, he definitely has the ability to support his daughter-in-law, support his children, and then he can live a good life. Over the years, in order to make a living, he rushed to the rural market and did a business of selling ice cream, popsicles, and small snacks. He was clever, invented by himself, and made a peanut threshing machine by hand, a cut-out sweet potato dryer, and a stone mill with three wheels. He has great hands-on ability and has personally produced several erhu. If you use these talents to make money, to apply for patents, to make practical machines, maybe now you are a big boss worth tens of millions. However, he was willing to be plain, indifferent to fame and lust, and lonely and poor all his life.
Uncle Zhang's remodeled hat
Uncle Zhang in life will not only invent and make practical agricultural tools, but also burst out of talent, writing a few "oil poems" from time to time to vent the frustration and bitterness in his heart. From the "oil poems" he wrote on his family's house, it can be seen that he is a "cultural person" with feelings, ambitions, ideas, and creativity. Can write poetry, can paint, can sculpt, can sing, will pull erhu, erhu are made by themselves, such a generalist, in real life, is really rare. If Uncle Zhang marries a like-minded daughter-in-law, he may become a generation of "famous artists", and may also become a very distinctive "internet celebrity" such as "Classmate Zhang", "Brother Coat", "Li Ziqi", "Wandering Master" and so on, through the short video platform, absorbing countless gold and becoming rich overnight.
Uncle Zhang pulled the erhu
However, this is all hypothetical. There are no ifs and no ifs in life. Let's take a look at a few "oil poems" written by Uncle Zhang. He wrote in the poem "God has grace": "A seed is buried in the soil, hoping that it will not rain; suddenly a thunderstorm falls, and the seed is unearthed and smiles." This poem, with a profound meaning, implies that Uncle Zhang's humble and lonely life, full of economy, and suffering from the heart of nowhere to show his talents. Although the poems are simple, they are concise, philosophical, easy to understand, and extremely imaginative throughout. If you carefully polish the words and sentences, if you modify them slightly, it is a good poem.
The stone mill invented by Uncle Zhang
Uncle Zhang carved such a couplet on the two poplar trees in front of his home: (four seasons) the flowing water in front of the door is blessed, and (ivy) is sunny and early red and the moon is convex. Horizontal batch: (47) Children are one head high in the New Year, young people are touching slippery oil in the New Year, the old people are worried about the New Year, and the New Year is not seen (two eight). He explained that the "four sevens" on this horizontal batch means that the Chinese People's Liberation Army achieved a major victory in 1947, and the "two eights" means that the horizontal batch has a total of 28 characters. If passers-by still can't understand it, there is still a "think" word written in the middle of the couplet, just think for yourself. With such an explanation, we will find that this word is witty and humorous, and it is of great practical significance, which shows that he is really talented.
Uncle Zhang sculpture of a monkey
Let's look at his inscription on the cement wall on the west side of his house, there are three poems in total, let's look at the first one: "Do more good deeds, the road is wide, do evil things and be uneasy, not afraid of good luck every day, afraid of good luck for a while." The second song: "It is said that it is good to have money, money is the root of the goods (disaster), money can do things, it is difficult to buy sincere people." The third song: "Men are like Tai (Tai) Hills, women are like the East Ocean, there is a Tai (Tai) landscape is always there, Tai (Tai) Mountain pours water and flutters."
Uncle Zhang's self-portrait
Let's look at Uncle Zhang's two poems on the east wall of the house, and first look at the first one: "The sun is red out of the east, and the afternoon returns to the west without light; the sun returns to the west and turns back, and people do not return to their hometowns if they return to the west." The second song: "The sunset in the west fell black, and there was a pile of ash; it was not the injustice of god that left the earth in color." He also carved on the two poplar trees in front of the door: "Good people have lived on the road in front of the door, leaving good words and people's hearts happy." ”。 Seeing a telephone pole at the door, he casually chanted: "Look at a pole from a distance, look closely at the sky; he is not afraid of rain, and the wind does not bend." After reading these "oil poems", did you find that he was really talented?
Uncle Zhang introduced the poems on the walls
If we look back at Uncle Zhang's life, we will find that although he is very serious, very hard-working, and very smart, he is paranoid, stubborn, and inferior in his personality, which makes him lonely for a lifetime. Now 77 years old, still not off the list, it is impossible to find a daughter-in-law, can only live alone, until the end of life. Here, those single men and women who were urged to marry by their parents and relatives and friends during the Spring Festival holiday, I don't know if they can feel something through the story of Uncle Zhang?
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