【I am your brother】
A long time ago, I picked up the phone from a strange number and asked: Which one is it? The answer on the other end of the phone was straightforward: I am your brother.
I almost pressed the phone, and there are only a few people in the world who can call my brother, and there is no habit of calling others "brother". A little hesitation between thoughts, detected by the other party, the other side of the phone continued: I am Hui Xiping.
The caller is indeed my brother, Hui Xiping is his big name, his nickname is Daping, and his family gets together and calls him Brother Daping. The phone call was over, and Brother Daping asked, "You didn't save my phone?" Both sides of the phone are haha. Later, when we met about this matter, Brother Daping only had one sentence: Am I your brother? The answer was yes, and I was secretly glad in my heart: fortunately, I didn't have a fast mouth that day, and I refuted it according to his words.
Da Pingge, a 78-level Chinese department of Northwest University, after graduating from university, has worked in the publishing house for more than 30 years, is the winner of the Taofen Award for Chinese Press and Publication, the top ten people of the year in Chinese publishing, etc., and was elected vice chairman of the China Publishing Association last year. Speaking of Brother Daping so seriously, all because on the night of the first day of the first month, the family gathered together and drank happily, brother Daping recounted family history and family affairs, the sky was vast, just a few words, it was already the yellow river surging waves, the wind blew from the Loess Plateau, and what was walking in between was a legendary story, soaked with pain and joy, tragedy and glory.
At that time, everyone gathered together, but they felt that Brother Daping was speaking to me, and although he did not explicitly say it, he reminded me that while paying attention to the history of the big, the family history and context are also worth writing. In the composition of history, everyone is a remarkable word chapter. Brother Daping said to me very seriously: More important than history is people. Better than One Hundred Years of Solitude is Love in the Time of Cholera, the same work of Márquez, the former writing history, the latter writing people.
If the city wall is a book to read, then you and I who walk at the root of the wall are the people in the book. This is written by the famous writer Gao Jianqun for "Yue Reading the City Wall", "Yue Reading the City Wall" is the 2022 calendar produced by DaPingge photographic works, from Hanguang Gate to Wenchang Gate, about three kilometers away, Daping Brother walked in two years, recording, perceiving. The city is full of changes, and it is a view of the publisher on the city where he lives, and it is also a concern for his own soul. Wash away the lead and return to nature. "Closer to the earth, farther away from the sky." Records are more important than art.
From Jiazi to Xin Ugly, Da Ping Ge filmed for two years, collected into "Yue Reading the City Wall", Nong Yin, the first day of the New Year, get this calendar, you can follow this reading city wall, remember it.
(Figures 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are parts of Dapingge's photographic works)
