The mystery of Sizhi Village is also that it is sparsely populated and has more than 300 residents. However, it is a feng shui treasure where humanities gather and famous artists gather.
Among my contemporaries was Li Kaifang, who served as chairman of the Shaanxi Dancers Association. He has edited "Chinese Folk Dance Integration Shaanxi Volume" and "Chinese Dance Chronicle Shaanxi Volume", enjoyed the special allowance granted by the State Council, and edited six books, including "Basic Theory of Dance", "Concise History of Ancient Chinese Dance", "Dance Aesthetics Tutorial", and "Dance Art Appreciation", with remarkable results. In 1975, he choreographed the dance "On the Road to Delivering Grain" for my Tongchuan Song and Dance Troupe, which was very well received. During this time, we worked closely together and deeply felt that he was generous and artistically talented.
Lee Kai-fang and folk artists
Then there is the Shaanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater Symphony Orchestra, the Shaanxi Provincial Orchestra Conductor, and the president of the Shaanxi Provincial Choral Association Feng Changlu. His conducting performances have won the first and second prizes at the national level, the first prize at the provincial level more than fifty times, and he himself has won many conducting awards. Become an award-winning professional in the Shaanxi music scene conductor. Brother Feng Changlu is a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and his younger brother Feng Yonglu is my little playmate.
In addition, Zhang Feng, vice chairman and secretary general of the Xi'an Chess Sports Association, referee of famous chess competitions and chess master. He is also the inventor of the Chinese stereoscopic chess patent, and has authored "Appreciation of the Famous Chess Game", "The Case of the Weak Victory of Chess", "Fifty Years of Xi'an Chess", etc., and his paper "The Setting of Chinese Stereoscopic Chess" won the Special Prize for Excellent Scientific Research and Academic Achievements, and the International Excellent Paper Award. In order to promote the ancient Chinese chess to the world, he contributed his outstanding talent. This work has won the concern and attention of Deng Xiaoping and other party and state leaders.
Zhang Feng's brother Zhang Xinglin was a classmate of my sixth year in elementary school. His younger brother Zhang Tailin is also a versatile figure, who plays the violin well and is a painter who is good at landscapes, flowers, birds and figures. Zhang Feng's family had deep roots, and his uncle Zhang Jianping (also known as Zhang Hongye) was a lieutenant general in the National Government. The family lived in no. 36 Nansifu Street, this compound is also called zhangjia courtyard, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Sun Weirubu Shaanxi Garrison Brigade and Regiment Commander, went out to participate in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Yi Folk Society's "Blood Battle Yongji" that year, which is written about him. Zhang Feng's father, Zhang Hongzhi, attended the Northwest Military Academy sponsored by Feng Yuxiang, and later graduated from the fifteenth term of the Huangpu Military Academy (The Seventh Branch of chang'an Huangpu Military Academy) and served as a military sports teacher at Fengxiang Normal School; his mother, Liu Haoqing, was born in the Fengxiang Education Family, and his maternal grandfather Liu Shaofu was also the director of the county education bureau and the provost of the Shaanxi Provincial Fengxiang Normal School. His mother was good at calligraphy and painting, and her paper-cut work "Defending Peace" and embroidering "Meilan Zhuju" won the second prize in the Shaanxi Folk Artist Competition in 1957.
One of my classmates is Ren Zhicheng, who lives in the last courtyard of Sandao Lane in Sizhi Village, which is a single courtyard. The back door is near the big waterlogged pond in the light. His family moved from Henan to Xi'an, remember his father is very capable, not only raise cows and sheep at home, but also specialize in fruit tree cultivation and grafting, his yard has a tree of apple and pear grafting, I have also eaten the strange fruit of this tree.
When Zhicheng was in elementary school, he was very clever, quick-witted, drifting around, and was given the nickname "Mouse Shadow", which was too impressive! More than fifty years later, some classmates said that I gave this nickname, and I hurriedly denied it. In retrospect, I really didn't dare to plunder the beauty. After junior high school, Ren Zhicheng gradually showed his intelligence, bent on going up to the university entrance examination, and his ambition was very strong, which made me, a retreater who did not have a little self-confidence in college, very admired. Because I didn't apply for a high school after graduating from junior high school, I could get into a technical secondary school even if I burned high incense!
Ren Zhicheng
Ren Zhicheng, who wanted to go to college, graduated from high school but encountered going to the mountains and going to the countryside and was assigned to Pucheng. In November 1968, it was the first batch of Xi'an to go to the countryside. At that time, I was the only old classmate who sent him and two other classmates, Chen Hao and Li Zhifeng, to the countryside. When it was dark, we rushed to Xi'an Thirty-One Middle School outside the west gate where they went, and then we sat on an open-top truck and paraded around Xi'an West Avenue, Bell Tower, and Xincheng Square with the motorcade of the whole city to the countryside to show in response to the call of the old man Mao. After a long journey of five or six hours, we arrived at the Sufang Commune Zhai Brigade in Pucheng County.
I remember that in Sufang Commune, the peasants performed the Peking Opera "Shajiabang" folding play, entertaining Zhiqing, acting until Guo Jianguang and the wounded and sick were in the reeds, the ghost patrol boat came over, Guo Jianguang should have waved his hand backwards, saying "hidden", who knew that the actor forgot his lines, saw that everyone did not move, and roared in an emergency: "All of them are squatting!" "I saw that the intellectuals present who were immersed in excitement and excitement were not aware of it. But I thought, my talented classmate Ren Zhicheng, should be in this vast world! Who knows that Zhicheng's name is good, and those who have aspirations can do things! Within three years, as a cadet of workers, peasants, and soldiers, I was admitted to the Department of Energy and Power of Xi'an Jiaotong University, which can be called the first among my classmates to be admitted to the university, or a national key university. Later, he served as the director of the large casting steel branch of Xi'an Heavy Machinery Factory and the director of Xi'an Fire Fighting Equipment Factory, although his work was not earth-shattering, but his career was also unusually prosperous.
Engaged in literature, when the professional writers in addition to the author himself, there is also a neighbor with Ren Zhicheng, the two of them from elementary school to high school, together to the mountains and countryside to join Chen Hao of Sufang Commune in Pucheng County. Of course, Chen Haoshi's journey was smooth, and he worked from the director of the office of the new urban area to the deputy secretary general of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee. Later, he served as the president and editor-in-chief of Xi'an Evening News.
Chen Hao's family is also a single family, but the family has a large population, seven or eight brothers and sisters, and a large family of more than a dozen. I remember Chen Hao's father raising cattle, sheep and rabbits at home, and in the sixties, there was an Angolan long-haired rabbit with snow white and red eyes, a green silk blue rabbit, I couldn't figure it out, the price was a mess, a pair of rabbits one or two thousand yuan, can be equivalent to the current fifty or sixty thousand yuan. The police station and the West Avenue Commune sent special people to keep an eye on the Chen family, afraid that they would sell it. The Chen family has cows and sheep, and I remember that when we were young, we sang about Chinese folk songs: "Masons, live in grass houses; weavers, no clothes; wives who sell salt drink light soup." Those who cultivate the fields eat rice bran; those who stir-fry vegetables and smell the incense; those who weave mats and sleep in the kang; those who make coffins on the dead road. "I think the Chen family should also be: raise cows to drink cold water." Who knows when asked Chen Hao, he said that fresh milk, goat milk, not easy to store, the people in the fifties were poor, drink less milk, can not sell, Chen Hao and his father forced the children to drink, Chen Hao drank to smell the smell of milk and vomit, drank hurt, never drank milk again. If I think about it today, individual farmers in those years and months would not process yogurt, milk powder or anything. There's no new thing like preservatives or anything.
At that time, it was reported that Western Anglo-American imperialism poured milk that could not be sold into the sea. In addition to talking about overproduction, the situation is similar to that of the Chen family. Chen Hao's family is poor, there are many children, and he still holds a bursary in junior high school, of course, he is reluctant to fall...
At a class reunion, it was said that Chen Hao had never drunk milk all his life. Zhang Xinglin and Ren Zhicheng, two classmates from Sizhi Village, who were present here, said that they could not drink milk in their whole lives, and they had raised cows and sheep in their families, and they had been injured since they were young. It seems that this is the opposite of a grin: cows and sheep do not drink milk!
Chen Hao's eldest brother, Chen Hai, works at the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute and is a senior cultural relics restoration expert. Chen Hao said to me, "My eldest brother participated in the restoration of the bronze carriage and horse in the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum and the shadow finger of the Buddha's finger relics in Famen Temple. ”
In fine arts, there is also Han Shaoli, a painting genius who has enjoyed the title of a little prodigy since he was a teenager, and his horses are famous in the painting world, which is a must for Xi'an, and the painting master Qi Baishi also wrote letters to praise and encourage him. When I was a child, I was a big fan of Brother Shaoli. After retiring, we were hired together as librarians of the Xi'an Municipal Museum of Culture and History, and we held meetings together to collect styles, and the opportunity to meet was more than when we were young.
There are also celebrities in other categories, including ordnance experts and senior engineers who make guns and cannons, famous martial arts teachers, acupuncture doctors with ear needles that are the best in Shaanxi, and members of the Basketball Team of Shaanxi Province. My elementary school classmate Chen Aimei graduated from the Xiqu School, and her sister is a famous corner in the Qin cavity circle.
Painter Zhang Zheng
It should also be said that Zhang Zheng, vice chairman of the Shaanxi Landscape Painting Research Association and president of the Xi'an Landscape Painting Institute, is a painter. Zhang Zheng's grandfather, Zhang Maoru, was a cultural scholar who participated in the Xinhai Revolution in his early years and served as the quartermaster of the Hu Jingyi Department of the Nationalist Second Army. One of the earliest cinemas in Xi'an, the Star Cinema near the Bell Tower on North Avenue, was founded by his old man, and because of his ideological progress, the Soviet film "Lenin in 1918" was closed and closed during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Xi Xiaofeng, who lived in the sixth place of the Fourth Zhi Village, served as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper during the Republic of China. In 1957, he was branded a rightist. Xi Xiaofeng once wrote a poem praising Mr. Zhang Maoru: "Putting yourself in the world is like a sub-room, and the wisdom and courage are like Kong Ming." There is also an inscription "Shou Zhen Elderly, Nine As Three More, Remembrance of Yi Cai, Wu Yi Model." "The gate of the Zhang family faces north to Xizizi Street, and the back door faces south in an alley in Sizhi Village. At that time, there were few residents in Sizhi Village, and zhangjiazu's grandfather, Zhang Zheng, opened a lot of vegetable gardens here, and then let others build houses for free, and around the sixties, there was also a vegetable garden in Erdao Lane of Sizhi Village, which was called Zhangjia Vegetable Garden by the old people. Due to the high terrain of Xizizi Street, his family's building is the commanding height of Sizhi Village. Whenever the little dolls in the alley put pigeons, the pigeons flew up a few laps, and when they were tired, they perched on the roof ridge on the roof of the Zhang family's house.
The Zhang family and our family, especially my grandfather's family who lived with me in Egret Bay, were all good families at that time.