Yang Fengzhong died a long death
Author | Feng Yihan
Since the 1970s, Linqu County, Shandong Province, has been known as the "Hometown of Calligraphy and Painting", and then known as the "Hometown of Contemporary Chinese Folk Painting". As early as 1958, Lü Xueqin of Lüjialou Village participated in the national art exhibition with the annual painting "The Old Two Mouths Enter beijing", and he became the vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Artists Association. Fortunately, Fu Peize, Hou Jide and other rising stars taught by Lu Xueqin have further formed a unique "Linqu Hand-painted New Year Painting". Fu Peize's Annual Painting "Sweet in Sour" won the third prize in the country. After Fu ren as the director of the County Cultural Center, he was even more of a thousand miles of music, so that there were many winners of Linqu New Year paintings, among which Yang Fengzhong, who won the second prize of the national award for "Return", became the leader. In this annual painting exhibition, three winners from Shandong Province, and one of the other two third prize winners is Li Wenshan of Yeyuan Laoyagu Village. Among the three winners in Shandong Province, two are from Yeyuan Town, Linqu County, Guangyao Shandong.
Yang Fengzhong is a farmer who is no more than 1.6 meters tall. His father was a peasant whose ancestral weaving (mulberry and willow branch baskets) was once mixed with the family planning task force with a loud voice, while Yang Fengzhong may have helped the aura of Leopard Fuling and Dashishui and lived in calligraphy and painting. He does not have the great voice of the Father, but he is visible. He went to the home of Master Pei Ze to ask for advice, asked Fu to guide the New Year painting, took out a pack of goldfish (nicknamed big belly fish) cigarettes that had been crumpled into a "cloth lotus bag" from his trouser pocket, drew a cigarette that had been bent several times, and respectfully handed it to the teacher, Fu smiled and politely refused, and Yang then stuffed the "wrinkled lotus skin" of the cigarette back into his trouser pocket. When he went to Beijing to participate in the award, he borrowed a suit that did not fit, but inside was a black shirt, which made the award guest of the China Artists Association sincerely sigh at the young peasant painter: This golden and brilliant "National New Year Painting Second Prize Certificate, worth tens of thousands of yuan?" But it is better to give Yang Fengzhong cash!
In the late 1970s, I was the station manager of Yeyuan Culture Station. Yang Fengzhong participated in art creation training classes again and again. However, there is Ji Xingtian, a person from Huangjiazhai Village, who grasps art creation, and the instructors further up are Fu Peize and Hou Jide of the County Cultural Center, and Zhao Xiudao, deputy director of the Weifang Regional Art Museum. My main purpose is literary and artistic creation, but I have only participated in the selection of materials for artistic creation. But Yang Fengzhong believes that I have praised him a lot in writing materials (for decades, I was the chief writer of the Linqu County Cultural Bureau), and he has become the person who has been alone in my kindness and tried to repay. Whenever after the Lantern Festival, he used the frozen half-dried cooked meat as a gift, and I could only be disrespectful, and I sighed and watched the figure of his thin peasant poor painter who turned back several times and beckoned...
In 1989, my family built a new house, although I had been rated as the only deputy senior title in the cultural center (national second-level screenwriter), and my salary was already at the top of the list; but my family had a thin foundation, so I still had to do a lot of the work of building a house. For example, the foundation of the wall is laid well, like an empty pool, and the waste of the old earthen wall needs to be filled. I held a pair of hands holding pen tubes, and I was no stranger to physical work, lifting a 20-pound mound with one hand and throwing it into the one-meter-high wall base "pool", sweating on my back. At this time, the short and thin Yang Fengzhong somehow got the news and rushed to help me "do some work", I looked at him sweating like pulp, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "How many people have Written written materials for a certain pen pole of My Feng Feng, and won the nickname "Public Secretary"; and I am Yang Fengzhong, but I must write your name and a few words of praise without stinginess in the report materials, is it worth your helping hand when necessary? You may just have to give me a painting after I build a new house! Look at your little body, four or five years younger than me, not as strong as my physique! ......
I was forty-five years old at the time, and although I was "over forty days", I was in the heyday of literary and artistic creation, and several large works were completed one after another, and I really had no distractions. A few years later, I suddenly learned bad news: Yang Fengzhong died of illness! It was because of the overwork of the new house, and he died as soon as he fell ill. Can I not be sad? I don't know that Yang Fengzhong rebuilt a new house, and I never moved a brick and tile for him! This is enough to make my name Yihan (pen name Yihan) really regret! Rebuilding a new house in order to find a comfortable residence, Yang Fengzhong was impatient and died of exhaustion!
By 2009, I edited the Yeyuan Calligraphy and Painting Collection, and I had the opportunity to repay Yang Fengzhong again- I tried my best to obtain a pair of Yang Fengzhong's landscape paintings "Guan Waterfall", and prominently marked Yang Fengzhong's name as his birth and death (1951-1995), and he died at the age of forty-four. Liu Xuande wrote in the "Testament to orphans": "Fifty years of life, not called longevity..." Modern people have only lived for forty-four years, what disease is so hateful!
Some people die, and it can make people feel sad, which is a fortunate thing. Nong Yin Yuanzheng, even turned to the "Yeyuan Calligraphy and Painting Collection" published 13 years ago, turned to Yang Fengzhong's paintings, and thought about the past: Yang Fengzhong, who was seven years younger than me, has been dead for 27 years! My old man is 79 years old, and he is still able to write articles to Ji's old friends, and it is unfortunate that he can enjoy the prosperity!
Feng Yihan (1944-1), pen name Yihan, is a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, a national second-level screenwriter, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a member of the China Yuelian Society, and a director of the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association.