Sunday, February 27 Sunny
"Dear fathers and fellow villagers, in order to enhance everyone's comprehensive literacy and promote the revitalization of the countryside with literature and calligraphy, the task force and the two committees of the branch village specially invited Mr. Cao Junping, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Cultural Center, a national first-class artist, and a calligrapher and painter, to give a lecture in our village, and welcome everyone to the second floor of the village department at 7:30 tonight to listen to a lecture."
Seeing this notice in the group, I came to the village department early after dinner to wait for the teacher's lecture. To tell you the truth, I have been away from the classroom for more than twenty years, sitting in this spacious and bright conference room, I heard that the teacher who gave the lecture was still a very famous master in the country, I was very excited in my heart, and I cherished this opportunity, and I came early to choose the closest position to the teacher to sit well.
At eight o'clock, the lecture officially began, Teacher Cao told 15 typical cases of changing the trajectory of life because of learning calligraphy, which benefited me a lot, including ordinary women who accompanied the truck driver's husband to run the transportation to become calligraphy teachers; from gamblers to calligraphers; there were high paraplegias who practiced calligraphy and became members of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. Among them, the most touching thing to me is Teacher Cao's female apprentice Li Yanhong, a peasant woman who first saw the rustic atmosphere in the soil, the mother who gave birth to two children, in addition to doing complicated farm work every day, also squeezed out time to practice writing, the living conditions at home are not good, even the paper used for practicing words is a waste newspaper that was picked up, this persistence is 10 years, and now I have become a national Internet celebrity farmer calligrapher, I admire. I wanted me to be able to write such beautiful words, how nice it was.
This time Teacher Li Yanhong also came to Shazhou, fortunately she happened to live in my family's homestay, that night in the house talked a lot, when I asked her why she liked to write, she smiled and said: "32 years old when I was a nanny, I was attracted by the employer's beautiful handwriting, from then on I began to practice writing, and persevered, and later had the honor to become Teacher Cao's apprentice, under the guidance and encouragement of Teacher Cao, my words have made a lot of progress."
I can't help but think, under such difficult conditions, Li Yanhong can practice words, how can I not do it, I heard that Teacher Li Yanhong will live in the sandbar to teach us to practice calligraphy, I secretly resolved in my heart, in the future I must accompany my children to read and practice words.
(Author: Ou Zhiling, a villager in Shazhou Village, Rucheng County)