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The collecting culture of a disabled soldier in Southern County
Cao Fuzhang
Chen Xu, a disabled soldier in Nanfang County and a non-hereditary inheritor of Qishi, was met at the annual meeting of the Shengzhong Lake Photographers Association in 2020. His WeChat name "Asahikawa Museum", which can be called the name of the museum, first of all gives people a deep impression, that is, the variety style has reached a certain number. As a result, Chen Xu has become a hot figure in many news media.
Jialing River Strange Stone collected by Chen Xu (courtesy photo by Cao Fuzhang)
Reading the news and reading the newspaper, you can only know from the surface that he is the inheritor of the intangible stone, but in fact, it is not. His non-genetic inheritance can be summarized as: "Farming Culture", "Golden Silk Nanmu" (Ebony), "Red Memory", "Banknote Collection", "Wine Bottle Collection" and "Jialing River Strange Stone".
Farming culture
In Chen Xu's collection room, there are ploughs, rakes, backscreens, sickles, hoes, back racks, coats, buckets, slingshots for cotton, shelves, hand hammers, big buckets, small buckets, pots, bowls, scoops, pots, dings and other production tools and daily necessities of farming culture. You can also see the most primitive rice cooker made of wood, or a rice steamer made of mud and fired in a kiln. These production tools and daily necessities, including Han, Tibetan, Tujia, Uyghur, Hakka, etc., can be described as wide-ranging and wide-ranging.
Take the big bucket and the little bucket, when it comes to fighting, the older people will think of the oppressed people in the old society, the scene of the little bucket borrowing grain, and the big bucket paying rent. People superficially see only production tools and daily necessities, but ignore the importance of these production tools and daily necessities. Through these production tools and daily necessities, the authenticity of history is witnessed and reproduced.
Golden silk nan wood background
In Chen Xu's collection room, there was a certain amount of golden silk nan wood. Golden silk nan wood, also known as gloomy wood, also called ebony, formerly known as Zhen Nan, also known as Xiaoye Nan wood, also known as emperor wood. Mr. Mao Dun's popular "Poplar Praise" mentions Nanmu, and uses Nanmu's "beautiful and noble" to set off the "extraordinary" of poplar trees.
According to the "Sichuan Tongzhi" and the "YingpanBi Carving" of Jiepai Village, Tantou Township, Yanjin County, The Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital in Nanjing, the Ming Chengzu Zhu Di built the Beijing Palace, and the Qing Dynasty Cixi Mausoleum and other buildings were built with Nan wood.
Gloomy wood, also known as "carbonized wood", is buried by earthquakes, floods, mudslides, etc. all plants and organisms on the ground into low-lying places such as ancient riverbeds, and is formed by the process of carbonization for tens of millions of years under the action of microorganisms such as hypoxia, high pressure, and bacteria.
Gloomy wood never fades, does not decay, does not grow insects, is the ideal material for making works of art and antique furniture. Ebony has been used throughout the ages as a repellent object to make handicrafts, Buddha statues, and amulet pendants.
Golden Silk Nan wood also has a name: "Grandpa Wood", why? Because the growth cycle of golden silk nan wood is particularly long, it takes several generations to become a wood.
The ancients said: "The home has an ebony half square, which is better than a box of treasure." There are many varieties of golden silk nan wood in Chen Xu's collection room, and they have different shapes.
Red memory
Chen Xu's collection room was filled with many books about Chairman Mao Zedong, tea cups, gun holsters, knives, oil lamps, horse lamps, umbrellas, coats, straw hats, and other items used by the proletarian revolutionary martyrs of the older generation. These objects often appear in history textbooks, red classic movies and TV series. Seeing the relics of these revolutionary martyrs is awe-inspiring and blood boiling.
Bottle culture
The collection and arrangement of wine bottles is also a major feature of Chen Xu's collection room.
Speaking of collecting wine bottles, there is also a small story. One day more than ten years ago, several sanitation workers sold wine bottles to the boss who came to buy them, and the boss selected glass wine bottles while dismantling all the ceramic wine bottles, and repeatedly stressed: "Ceramic wine bottles are not accepted!" This detail was just seen by Chen Xu, who was passing by, and he went forward to take a ceramic wine bottle in his hand and carefully examined it, thinking of the difficulty of these sanitation workers, although he was a disabled soldier, he must be a member of the Communist Party of China, so he became compassionate: "He does not accept me, 5 cents a piece." He lit the ceramic bottles and gave them the money.
What I didn't expect was that the sanitation workers picked up more and more bottles later. In order to help those sanitation workers earn more pocket money, Chen Xu raised the original 5 cents to 1 yuan a piece.
This story, Chen Xu has not been told to the outside, inadvertently several sanitation workers told it. The number of wine bottles in the storeroom accumulates more than 30,000 every day. There are bottles and caps of Wuliangye series, Moutai series, Langjiu series, Shogun liquor series, Liulangchun series, Tashan liquor series, Xifeng liquor series, etc. There are a variety of famous and unpalatable liquors.
The trademark of the bottle can be described as a great skill, and the shape of the bottle and the bottle cap can be described as strange, and the size and height are distinctive. Some are like vases; some are like gourds; some are like jars; some are like dignitaries and nobles, with big belly and poop; some are like the champions in the imperial examination system, wearing yuan hats and wearing yuan clothes, and the bottles seem to contain not wine, but the extraordinary temperament of learning and yuan; some are small and exquisite; and some bottle-shaped mouths are crooked and oblique, and people call them "crooked mouths."
These bottles, caps, logos and shapes show the craftsmanship and cultural background of different eras of wine.
Jialing River Strange Stone
The Jialing River Strange Stone occupies two-thirds of Chen Xu's more than ten collections. Some have large beans, some have big fingers, some have large fists, some have large porcelain bowls, some have large washbasins, and the weight varies from half a ton to a ton. Some are like people, some are like flowers, some are like trees, some are like horses, some are like cows, some are like sheep, some are like cats, some are like rats, some are like birds, some are like eagles, some are like fish, and some are like the sun, moon and stars. Walking on the ground, swimming in the water, flying in the air, and even in the universe above the sky, there are all kinds of things. They have different looks, sitting, standing, lying, playful, spreading wings and flying, running, overlooking, concentrating, fighting, fencing, boxing. The colors vary, available in white, rose, light red, light green, light blue, purple and orange. Showcasing the colorful and magical nature. There are also gold ore, iron ore and other fossils, which have gathered more than a hundred tons of strange stones, condensing his decades of painstaking efforts.
Flipping this hundred tons of strange stones leaked into his figure on the bank of the Jialing River. In order to pick up a piece of Jialing River strange stone with a unique character, Chen Xu got up early and greedy, climbed the mountain and waded through the water, and rode a number of motorcycles. In order to be able to pick up one more piece of Jialing River strange stone, he endured hunger and hunger, and did not hesitate to lose his reputation and spend the night in the pig pen of a distant family. Or in order to collect strange stones, books and newspaper relics and wine bottles, people call him "crazy", "stupid" and "neurotic", and even some people walk behind the shadows and provoke their family relations. These loads, like Mai Mang, needles, and steel knives, pierced into his heart again and again; these heavy loads, like a mountain for a time, came upon him.
As soon as the reporter interviewed the reporter, the TV news passed, and no one really understood the ambitions of this veteran soldier who did not fade, and no one really understood his original intention and love for JialingJiang. He wants to keep these strange stones in the south, keep them on the banks of the Jialing River, drive the tourism culture in the south, let more people travel to the south on major festivals in the country, and let people know that there is a Jialing River Strange Stone Museum in the southern county.
Chen Xu changed the status quo of the Qishi in JialingJiang, and the Qishi will surely change his future.
Qishi read him, he read Qishi, and he also became a strange stone of the Jialing River.
Strange stone culture and its value
The so-called "layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway" means that people who do not understand only look at the surface of the problem and ignore the core of the problem.
People's understanding of stones only stays on the surface of the stone, superficially thinking that it is not a hard, bulky, cold stone. Only those who collect stones with their hearts understand that stones also have language, emotion, temperature and inner world.
The value of the strange stone is not just a kind of ornamentation, not a few award certificates and a non-heritage sign can be completely frozen. Microscopically, strange stones have ornamental value, and from the ornamental collection to create economic value; from the perspective of art form, strange stones have natural flowers and trees, birds and animals, mountains and lakes, as well as the sun, moon and stars, which can be described as all-encompassing; from a macroscopic point of view, the strange stones themselves are a history, a history of crustal changes, and the history of the earth's examination.
What human beings have experienced, the strange stones have experienced; human beings have not experienced witnessing, and the strange stones have experienced witnessing. For example, a certain fossil is a powerful study of volcanic eruptions and crustal changes.
The world of strange stones is wonderful: one stone and one flower, one stone and one insect, one stone and one bird, one stone and one figure, one stone and one forest, one stone and one mountain, one stone and one lake, one stone and one star, one stone and one world...
In Chen Xu's collection room, dazzling plaques and honorary certificates such as "Advanced Individuals in Poverty Alleviation", "Excellent Loving Volunteers", "Realizing Dreams of Helping Students with One Heart", "Advanced Individuals in the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Advanced Individuals in Actively Donating Funds and Materials to Fight the New Type of Pneumonia" and so on are neatly placed.
The collection of Chen Xu's collection room has been awarded "Nanchong Characteristic Tourism Commodity" by Nanchong Municipal Tourism Bureau, Nanchong Municipal Economic and Information Commission, and Nanchong Evening News, and "Local Characteristic Tourism Commodity" by Nanfang County Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Nanfang County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Nanfang County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, Nanfang County Commerce And Economics and Information Bureau, and Nanfang County Tourism Association.
In April 2020, when Emei Film Studio was filming the film "Day and Night River" in the south, the fish tanks, fishing nets, kerosene stoves, teapots, teacups, tea cups, tea trays, water scoops, clothing, noodle machines, wooden tea tables, stools in the film... Eighty percent of the props in the movie "Day and Night Rivers" were provided by the collection room of Chen Xu, a disabled soldier. These props are the symbols of history decades ago, and the film "Day and Night Rivers" is precisely because of these objects from a specific historical period that the humanistic landscape and historical landscape of that era are reproduced.
Now, Jialing River Strange Stone has become the designated exhibit of various activities, walking into the campus art festival, Liulin Square, Yimin Square, New Century Square Mass Culture and Art Festival, Hongyanzi Square Farmers' Harvest Festival, every May 19th Tourism Day, there are also strange stones displayed in the southern county.
A Jialing River stone is a culture, an honorary certificate is a story, and a plaque is a legend!
·About the Author·
Cao Fuzhang, pen name Cao Jiawo, is a native of Caojiawo, Shuangfeng Township, southern County, Sichuan Province. He is a director of the China Local Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Poetry Genre Network, a member of the Nanchong Writers Association, the deputy secretary-general of the Shengzhong Lake Folk Culture Research Association in Nanfang County, and a member of the Shengzhong Lake Peasant Poetry Society. He won the third prize of the National Essay Contest of the Party Building Magazine of the Central Propaganda Department, the second prize of the National Essay Contest for Migrant Workers' Poetry, and the Winner Of the Arctic Ocean Season of the International Micro Poetry Competition.
His works have been included in grades 5-9 of the "Core Reader of Language Literacy", and various anthologies such as the recitation of "The Party Flag Leads Me to Grow". The work "Stonemason" was entered into the general question bank system, the mid-term test paper of the 7th grade "Language" of the ministry edition, the mid-term sprint simulation test question of the second semester of the 7th grade "Language" of the 2020-2021 edition of the ministry edition, the selection of mid-term review questions of the second semester of the eighth grade of the ministry, and the mid-term standard test of the second volume of the 7th grade "Language" of the unified edition of the Human-Taught Edition (Teacher Edition).
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Source: Sichuan Provincial Local History Work Office
Text/Photo: Cao Fuzhang
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