I know Li Xiasheng, but I know that he has been painting for about seven or five years. Teacher Wang, who was teaching art at Renmin Road Primary School at that time, went to Li Xiasheng's house and begged him to paint, but he did not paint. He said he couldn't paint, and the result asked me, saying that Gangqing you recognize Li Xiasheng and don't recognize it, I said I don't recognize it either, and as a result, I went home and asked my father, saying that I didn't recognize Xiasheng, and my father said that it was you Old Uncle Li, and I said Oh, I recognize. As a result, I told my father that Teacher Wang asked him to draw, but he did not paint. After going there twice, my father said you remember, you bring your own paper, which color you want to draw, buy some color, that time is The most difficult time for Li Xiasheng. As a result, I was with the art teacher of the fourth middle school, Mr. Meng, and his son Erli was a classmate, and the two of them rode their bicycles to find Li Xiasheng in a small piece.
On the left is Mr. Guo Gangqing, and on the right is Mr. Pan Changshun
After going to a small piece, when I inquired, the courtyard wall of his house collapsed. Someone said he would go to the field when he got up early, someone went to call him, and the old man came in a moment. Just look at the old man barefoot, carrying a flat burden, pants legs rolled up, all mud on it, as soon as I saw me said you are strange and rare, I said to come to you to learn to draw. He said come in, he spread it out on his eight immortals table, there was soil on the square table, just on it was all drawn, I cut the paper at that time, there were four feet of whole sheets, there were folios, and banners, and so on, let him draw.
This may be painted about a dozen of it, large and small, painting chickens, flowers, shrimp, frogs, at that time the painting was very fast, almost more than an hour, I said to put a stamp on the fall of a section, hey he said this is still used to fall what model, I said to fall a section and then stamp it. I remember giving him a gift, like a snack and two bottles of wine, which was the first time I personally saw Li Xiasheng's paintings.
After this, I know it, and I often go to him to paint,
This was until '80.
Mr. Li Xiasheng
The whole spirit of the '80s was fine. Therefore, in March of 1980, my father Li Xiasheng and Yang Heting. Four of them went to Hangzhou and lived in Hangzhou for more than ten days, because my mother was absent in November 1979, and when I was not there, I was given a pension, more than 700 yuan, which was the largest sum of money since my father's liberation. At that time, Li Xiasheng had not yet worked, because there was no rehabilitation to implement the policy, my father said to Yang Heting, Xiasheng road fee I out, your own road fee you out of ah, (Yang Heting he had a job at the time), we went to Hangzhou, went there to play, scattered, stayed in the Overseas Chinese Hotel, at that time into the railway station to listen to the radio to find people notice, broadcast Guo Wenxuan from Xinxiang to the VIP room, that night when eating on the Maotai wine, Li Xiasheng was overwhelmed by the wine, said not to drink and guess boxing, lost the drink, the result of the waiters all came to watch, He said that he had only seen such a drink on TV, and that he had seen Guess Fist for the first time.
They lived for twelve days, more than a week, and every day they ate with meal coupons, and the two old men lived in a room with three beds and a bathroom.
I was living in a room for 20 people on the top floor, a room was full, lived for more than ten days, and then looked at the house price list written at the door, a day is 12 yuan, a calculation, that is a good one or two hundred yuan. I have lived for more than ten days, and I have been living for one or two hundred yuan. I quickly told my father, and I told Wang Lifu that he was the secretary general of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee at that time, and he was ready to leave, so he bought me a train ticket, and everyone sent a piece of Hangzhou spinning.
Then I came out of Hangzhou, went to Shanghai, lived in Shanghai for two days, and then went to Suzhou, lived in Suzhou, maybe three days, two nights and three days, sat on a hard seat, and then sat from Suzhou to Chuzhou. At that time, it was called Chu County, and this trip may have been gone for more than 20 days. This is the longest time I have given Li Xiasheng a long time together.
Later, he began to live in Xinxiang, first in a staff member of the County Yu Opera Troupe, and then in The Plain Road of Xiaobei Street, there was a red brick house in the west courtyard, where he lived. Once my acquaintance wanted Li Xiasheng's painting, I went home to find Li Xiasheng, and when I went to the door, I saw that i had written a note, how much was four feet a piece, and how much was six feet.
At that time, I didn't have so much money in my pocket, I didn't dare to enter, I left, and then I touched Yang Heting, I said Teacher Li, Old Uncle Li began to buy paintings, he said what, I said that I went to him that day to ask for paintings, a look at the door hung up with Runge fee, I didn't dare to go, Yang Heting said Oh, that's scary, scared the acquaintances away.
He told Li Xiasheng about this. This did not stop for a few days, Li Xiasheng ran to the bookstore, I was working at the Pingyuan Road Bookstore at that time, he took two paintings, he said, I heard that scared you away, joking.
There was also a bumpy life in his life, once resisted Japan, the Japanese devils burned his home, the Kuomintang also arrested him and imprisoned him, the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, he and Li Yizhi (the first mayor of Xinxiang City) together occupied the Xinxiang County Party Department, is also a hot-blooded young man, the Kuomintang also arrested him, the Communist Party also sentenced him, he is an angry youth.
Mr. Li Xiasheng had a rough life, and there were also times when he was comfortable, at least twice. One was when he was teaching at Qinyang Provincial Thirteenth Middle School before liberation, which is now Qinyang No. 1 Middle School, and the other time was after liberation, when the wife of Vice Mayor Guo Wenxuan died, and Li Xiasheng and Yang Heting traveled south to Hangzhou with a pension. Let's start with traveling to Hangzhou. The beauty of Hangzhou's West Lake, most people refer to it as a beauty, saying that it is always appropriate to apply thick makeup. Mr. Li Xiasheng studied fine arts. When studying Chinese painting in Beiping, teachers never taught drawing. At this time, Chuichi dabbled in it, opened his eyes, made an exception, took out the book, and started sketching. Beggar painters and peasant painters who even have to pay for the fare have been troubled by food and clothing all their lives and cannot lift their heads, where are the conditions to "walk thousands of miles" and "search for the qifeng", if there is this condition, we Xinxiang people can see many exquisite and unique landscape masterpieces in the world of painting. The beauty of the West Lake has been determined and does not need to be repeated here. Li Xiasheng changed scenery step by step, and after painting to the place where The Crane's wife Meizi was, accompanied by an old friend of Wang Lifu, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Zhejiang Province, he visited the "Xiling Printing Society", the highest institution of printing in the country. As the saying goes: connoisseurs stretch out their hands, they know whether there is any, in the praise of the people around them, the xinxiang people in the poor and remote areas feel a kind of understanding satisfaction, which is by no means equivalent to vanity.
For the first time in his life, Mr. Li Xiasheng stayed in a high-end hotel, which was also the happiest thing in his life. That's for entertaining foreigners. Old friend Wang Lifu is a person with a heart, specially arranged an afternoon, invited Li Xiasheng to have an academic exchange with the teachers of the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, but unfortunately, Comrade Guo Gangqing, the son of Guo Wenxuan, did not personally record the minutes of the discussion. This can be said to be an equal artistic exchange between the former Central Academy of Fine Arts and Zhejiang United States, and it can also be said that it is an exception discussion between the old farmers in Xinxiang and institutions of higher learning.
Pan Changshun wrote a poem at Li Xiasheng's Centennial Painting Exhibition
Famous schools are crowned with ancient and modern, and the light spirit and light ink have disappeared.
The characters of the mountains and rivers do not show their tails, and the screen is not the floating heart of the painting world.
Oral description of Guo Gangqing, son of Guo Wenxuan
Finishing plains cultural arts center
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Trip to the South in 1980
2015-04-16 09:26
Author: Guo Gangqing
In the spring of 1980, Wang Lifu, secretary general of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, invited my father Guo Wenxuan and my father's old friends Li Xiasheng and Yang Heting to Hangzhou for a reunion.
Shortly after my mother's death, the unit paid a pension of 800 yuan. This money is the largest sum in my memory for our family. At that time, Li Xiasheng was a farmer, there was no fixed income, Yang Heting was a state cadre with a salary, my father said that Xiasheng's travel expenses I came out, Heting's expenses were at his own expense, how about the three of us going to Hangzhou together? The three of them agreed to set off together.
At that time, my father's youngest was nearly 70 years old, plus my mother had just died, the mood was not good, the family did not trust them, on the morning of the train, my father suddenly had a high blood pressure, originally the three of them walked together, had to change the itinerary. From Li and Yang to Zhengzhou first (at that time, there was no direct train in Xinxiang, it was necessary to go from Zhengzhou to Shanghai and then to Hangzhou), my father was treated at home quickly, and a day later I accompanied him to Zhengzhou and then went to Shanghai, because of the temporary supplementary ticket, there was no sleeper, explained the situation to the railway, and then made up a soft sleeper. I could only sit on the side, because the fare was too expensive, we only sat in Nanjing, got off the bus, sent a telegram to Hangzhou, telling us that we could only get to Hangzhou at night.
Arriving in Hangzhou at seven or eight o'clock that night, Wang Lifu said that he personally went to Hangzhou Station to greet him. Because there were many people arriving at the station, they did not pay attention to the radio at the station at all, and followed the flow of people out of the station. But I couldn't see the king coming to pick up the station. My father asked me if the telegram had been sent? I said, said tonight to Hangzhou, then my father looked around, at a glance saw Wang standing in the VIP room, we hurried over, they greeted each other, Wang said, please broadcast the studio broadcast to let you come out of the VIP room, wait and wait for you to see you, only come out to find you, then the station broadcast is still broadcasting Mr. Guo who came from Xinxiang, Henan, came out of the VIP room to be picked up. We all laughed. Then we got on the bus together to go to the Overseas Chinese Hotel to rest, and met with Elder Li and Elder Yang.
The three of them lived in a room with three beds on the first floor and a bathroom. I live on the eighth floor, one for twenty people. The next day at noon at the Flower Harbor Hotel, picked up the wind for us. In a private room on the second floor, on the moutai wine, a waiter stared at the stage, (at that time 80 years, we are not used to let the waiter serve, I am the first time in my life to see and receive this treatment), Secretary General Wang said, from three or eight years of separation, today and meet again, more than 40 years apart, it is really rare, come and come, toast. After drinking for a while, Wang found that Elder Li's wine had not been drunk, so he asked Elder Li why he did not drink it? Bad wine? Elder Li said: I didn't lose, why did I drink? As soon as Wang heard it, he said that he had not guessed a piece in forty years, come, guess one, so the four of them guessed, and after a while, a few waiters gathered at the door to see the liveliness, and the southerners had never seen a fist-drawn, and Secretary General Wang asked, "Why are there so many people?" One of them said, "Secretary-General, we have only seen guessing boxing in movies, and in real life, we are still seeing real people guessing boxing for the first time" Elder Wang smiled and said, In our hometown, we don't guess boxing or drink, so let's come in and see.
After lunch, a group of us went to Huagang Park for a tour, I followed them, heard passers-by talking, there were internal guests, and the secretary-general personally accompanied the park. A group of four of us stayed in Hangzhou for ten days, and we played by ourselves in the close-up view of the West Lake, accompanied by Elder Wang in the distance. I occasionally found that my father was 12 yuan a day in the room where they lived, and secretly told my father, they discussed and said let's go, because the funds were limited, so I proposed to Elder Wang to leave Hangzhou to shanghai to see, and let Elder Wang arrange tickets and related matters to Shanghai.
The next day, we arrived in Shanghai, there is the manager of Shanghai Overseas Chinese Hotel to pick up the station, because the population density in Shanghai is too large, and the feeling of living in Hangzhou is very different, too noisy, so we only in the Nanjing Road Bund, the City God Temple strolled around, stayed overnight, the next day to Suzhou. I stayed in Chu County for two more days. Because Yang Heting's son worked in the Chu County Commercial Bureau, then, our group returned to the new city smoothly. After arriving in Xinxiang, Li Xiasheng said, "It's still the dawn of Xinxiang."
Character Notes:
1. Guo Gangqing: Guo Wenxuan's fourth son, engaged in book distribution. Retired.
2. Guo Wenxuan: A famous representative of multi-party cooperation in Xinxiang City and the founder of the Xinxiang Civic Revolution. Former vice chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, honorary chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Former People's Innovation Township. Born in October 1911, a native of Xinxiang County, Henan Province. He graduated from the History Department of Peking Furen University in July 1937, and in March 1932, he joined the "Anti-Imperialist League," an external organization of the Canadian People's Party, and participated in the student salvation movement. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the principal of Heshuo Middle School, the deputy chief of the Municipal Department of Culture and Education, the deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Education, and the vice mayor of the Municipal People's Committee. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the First Committee of Xinxiang City of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the vice chairman of the second, third, fourth and fifth sessions. In June 1981, he founded the Municipal Committee of Minxin Township and served as a deputy to the First, Second, Third and Fourth National People's Congresses, a deputy to the Sixth and Seventh Deputies of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese People's Republic, a deputy to the First, Second, Third and Fourth Municipal People's Congresses, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth and Sixth Municipal People's Congresses.
3. Li Xiasheng: Formerly known as "Xiasheng", also known as Li Jinchen, known as the non-landlord, the old man of the six chickens in beixia, born in Xinxiang in 1908, died in August 2000.
Li Lao learned to paint since childhood, and in the spring of 1930, he entered the Beijing Huamei College to study Chinese painting. First studied under Qiu Shi, Wang Shensheng painted small freehand flowers and birds. Later, he transferred to Qi Baishi, specializing in freehand flowers and birds. At an exhibition held at the school, Mr. Yu Fei dark gladly inscribed on his cabbage drawing: "Intended between the eight great green vines", which was later treasured by the squire Mr. Shi Jiehou. After graduation, he participated in the establishment of the "North Huamei College" and taught at the school, while also teaching at Chenguang Women's College. Because he went home to mourn, he was left by the villagers, so he taught in his hometown. Due to historical reasons, Mr. Li experienced extremely bumpy experiences, rarely participated in painting exhibitions, and only entertained himself in his leisure time, sending feelings and expressing his mind. In 1934, Guan Baiyi, director of the Henan Provincial Museum, and Li Hanji, director of the Department of Civil Affairs, held a painting exhibition and published a collection of paintings. Mr. Wang Ye, Mr. Qian Juntao, Mr. Lu Guangzhao, Mr. Qin Lingyun inscription, Yang Lian, inscription book title, in 2001, hometown for him held "Li Xiasheng Legacy Exhibition"
Yang Heting: One of the earliest Communist Party members in Xinxiang. After graduating from Chinese university, he participated in the salvation movement as a student. He was the leader of the Pinghan detachment.
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In the modern history of Xinxiang, there have been 3 strange old people
2016-03-29 13:30
Author Guo Li
My grandfather had two good friends, and I knew them from the moment I was six years old, because as soon as they came, I had good food.
Because I was the eldest son and eldest grandson, my grandfather still favored me. As soon as his two friends arrived, they set up a table at home, and before the feast began, his good friend always gave me a dish to eat. It was the mid-1970s, living conditions were not good, eggs and meat were not often eaten. They also often teased me with chopsticks dipped in a little wine and said it was sweet. As soon as I timed, the spicy died, the tears came out, and they laughed. At that time, the living conditions were not high, and the food was also home cooking, my favorite food was the leek scrambled eggs and cold mixed silver bars, the eggs were fragrant, and the silver bars were crisp and delicious.
Many years later, I didn't know their names, one li named Xiasheng, the other called Yang Heting.
Li Xiasheng Li Ye, dry bar thin old man, a dark black native cloth clothes, every day laughing Mimi, the appearance is a standard Central Plains rural old man, can be seen everywhere in the countryside. Later, I learned that this person was very good, in 1930 in Beijing JinghuaMei College, he studied painting from Qi Baishi, Li Kuchan and other masters, co-founded the Beijing North Huamei College with Zhang Hexhui and others, and in 1938 he formed an anti-Japanese guerrilla group to fight against Japan, and more importantly, he lived in the prisons of the Kuomintang, japanese devils, and the Communist Party in an all-round way, a total of 33 years!
After the September 18 Incident in 1931, my grandfather Guo Wenxuan, who was studying at Fu Jen University, Yang Heting, who was studying at a Chinese university, and Li Xiasheng, who was studying at The Beijing Huamei College, participated in the student movement together, lying on the rail, petitioning, smashing glass, and turning the float that Cixi gave to Zhang Zuoxiang. These are also what I learned twenty years later, they never talked about these magnificent and fierce youth years, but the parents were short and the content was bland so that I did not leave a little memory.
Once Grandpa Li gave my grandfather a picture of an orchid, I was only 6 years old, the adults were admiring, I was watching from the side. Listening to them say how good this painting is, I can't help but say, I don't see this painting well, how to paint is a fly. The adults laughed, my grandfather criticized me for nonsense, Li Ye laughed, saying that it was a bit like a fly, or a child to tell the truth, and now I think of it with shame.
Li Ye smiled and asked me, what painting do you want, I paint it! I belong to the dog, let's say draw a dog, Li Ye is embarrassed, the hand stall said that the dog white clouds are the most difficult to draw, Yang Ye was happy, ridiculed Li Ye said: You also have things that you can't draw. This is more than twenty years, when I received Li Ye to send me a painting, I was scolded by my father.
It was 1995, after my grandfather's death, the old uncle Han Gongren, who was the vice chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Municipal Committee of the People's Innovation Township, found that his old man had not left a complete image data in his lifetime, and it was a pity that in order to leave a picture material for Li Ye, in order to leave a picture of Li Ye, I was assigned to be the director of the special topic department of the TV station, and I made a feature film for Li Ye. The only feature film in your life was made by you, leaving valuable information for the cultural history of Xinxiang
。 One day shortly after the feature film was broadcast on Henan Television, my father came home from work, his face was very ugly, handed me an envelope, scolded me and said: You give you Li Ye to paint, you will not go to get it, you Li Ye is almost eighty years old, and personally sent you, how big a shelf are you! I was very aggrieved, because I had never opened my mouth to ask for a painting, and when I asked, I learned that In order to thank me, Li Ye specially drew a painting, because he could not find me, he took the bus to the Municipal Cppcc Committee by himself, and asked the secretary general of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee to hand over the painting to me. This picture and Li Yeping
The painting style is not the same, a large area of ink color, bright red plum blossoms bloom all over the picture, two magpies called out a clear sky, the inscription is: Happy on the eyebrows, Guo Li Cun Nian.
Yang Ye was tall, with a beard and a smile every day. This person in the Xinxiang Party History Department knows everyone, no one knows, he and Li Ye are local revolutionary old people in Xinxiang, the earliest to accept the communist ideology, once worked together in the Pinghan guerrillas to resist Japan, the 2 people have a share in their lives, in 1947, the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense agents arrested Li Ye Yang Ye, ready to put into sacks and throw him into the Wei River to drown, when carried to the river, the gunfire outside the city suddenly stopped, the secret agents considered that Liu Bocheng's troops could not enter Xinxiang City for the time being, and only then suspended their execution. Afterwards, my grandfather and educators jointly bailed them out, and with the efforts of all parties, 2 old people survived.
The most embarrassing thing is that in the early days of liberation, Li Ye was framed and convicted, and underwent labor reform in the Xinxiang Luwang Tomb Labor Reform Team, Yang Ye happened to be a correctional cadre there, and the 2 people had to pretend not to know each other, so that Yang Ye could secretly take care of Li Ye again, and even use the methods they used to engage in underground work before liberation.
Previously, Yang Ye had sat in the Kuomintang prison in 1928, and joined the Communist Party in Beijing in 1929, and it is said that with this qualification, the three brothers did not do too much after liberation to get a municipal party secretary and mayor, but they did not seem to care about fame and fortune, even if the new regime they fought for beat them into the abyss, they still smiled and hehehe, old friends gathered together with a small glass of wine, and they eliminated the block in their hearts. The one who often teases me with chopsticks dipped in a little wine is Yang Ye, who is an optimist and has not seen them complain about the unfairness of fate. I couldn't imagine that a few old people who had given me vegetables since I was a child could have such a prominent experience.
The last time I saw Yang Ye was around 2000. Once, after I was transferred to Zhengzhou to work, I once returned to Xinxiang, and it happened that my uncle and aunt went to see Yang Ye, and I followed. That time there should be almost 8 years have not seen Yang Ye, Yang Ye at that time has been in poor health, activities are very inconvenient, vision has also dropped greatly, once I heard that I went to see him, trying to stand up, said where you have been all these years, are adults. He also shouted at his wife: Xiao Li is coming, what is delicious at home, take it out!
After so many years, I have never eaten the fragrant scrambled eggs that Yang Ye clipped to me, and the silver bars are soft and collapsed, not the sour and crisp of the year