When I was a reporter, I ran the "folk customs mouth", often went to the Xi'an Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center for interviews, and met many folk artists. Among them, there was a person who painted a Qin Cavity face, surnamed Chen, and I heard that this person was originally a Qin Opera singer, with a copper hammer flower face. Therefore, no one mentioned his real name, and they all called him Chen Hua face.
Initially I didn't see real people, only photos on promotional materials. This Chen Hua has a big face, a lot of oil paint, and a horizontal eyebrow, which makes people not know the true face of Lushan.
In those years, I listened to a few scattered ears about Chen Hua's face. I heard that Chen Huayan entered the drama school at the age of fourteen, studied drama for five years, and studied the four skills and five laws in a down-to-earth manner, but unfortunately, few people listened to Qin Lu before they had even taken the stage. In addition, Chen Hua's voice had not been opened, and his breath could not reach the head cavity, and he simply stopped singing later. Chen Hua face home is Shajing Village, that is a famous urban village in Xi'an, his family a whole building for rent, do not sing, go home to do charter business, drink tea, bubble bath, moisturizing, can lie flat.
However, Chen Hua's face loves Qin Cavity drama, and he does not sing and itches in his heart, and he closes the door at home to hook his face with a flower face. First painted on his own face, then he couldn't get out of control, painting on paper, painting on the wall, painting on the curtain, painting on the horse spoon, painting on the frame, painting on the gourd, painting on the bench... Catch what's on what's painted.
Chen Hua face his father looked at this situation, a little panicked, the other boys in the village are playing games, riding motorcycles, smoking and drinking and bragging, we know one day to drill into the house to draw, the brain has "Mada", just go out.
Chen Hua's face went out, that is, two places to drill. The first is the antique market, do not look at jadeite, do not look at beeswax, only in the old paper pile of old calligraphy and painting, specifically looking for rotten pieces of Face paintings. The second is the old artist who is looking for a singing play, an old man and a young man are basking in warmth under the roots of the city wall, two sentences do not leave the song, three sentences do not leave the play, when it comes to the rise, it is indispensable to roar a few times: shout a tie outside the tent, can't help but laugh and laugh at Haojie ...
Chen Hua's face and his father panicked again, thinking that this baby was magically hindered, and quickly found a daughter-in-law. At this time, Chen Hua's face was also twenty years old.
Introducing an object, Starbucks met, and the two smiled at each other and began to be relatively speechless. Chen Hua looked at the female baby and hooked the eyeliner, a cup of coffee was not finished, and finally couldn't help it, saying: The next time I paint you, your hands are raw, shaking the pen.
The baby girl laughed and spat half a mouthful of coffee onto the placket, dirty. Chen Hua's face quickly took out a tissue, to wipe, his hands were all stretched out, looking at the bulging girl's chest, her face was red, and she stopped. The baby girl laughed again.
What do Hangzhou's colloquial poems say? "There are thousands of miles to meet, and the three laughs are in vain." This kiss became, Chen Hua face married a flower daughter-in-law. With double happiness at the door, Chen Hua's face has also become the inheritor of the Qin cavity drama face recognized by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center.
However, I also heard people say, no, no, Chen Hua face is not the village in the city to collect rent, the family is the West Street City God Temple Market to do business. This is strange.
This statement is that Chen Hua face has never entered a drama school, but it does have a relationship with Qin Opera. Shaanxi people say that the Qin opera is to watch "blowing the beard and staring at the hat and playing with the wings", and the hat on the stage is too big. Chen Hua face his father Old Chen is a Qin cavity crown hat master, "helmet crown scarf hat" four categories, hundreds of styles he is proficient in everything, in the West Street city god temple has a store. Later, with the decline of the Qin Cavity, the opera crown hat was rarely asked, and Lao Chen's store was still open, but he turned to the sale and rental of dance costume props.
The person who is watching the store is Xiao Chen. When bored, he often lay on the counter and scribbled. Draw drama. You think, Lao Tzu made a crown hat, and his son naturally did not hear less drama. What is the painting of "The Case of GongMei", "Wudian Po", "Zhou Ren Huifu"... Inside, there is no shortage of painting faces, white-faced Cao, black-faced bags, and red-faced Guan Gong shoulder knives. Painting more, hands gradually familiar, some people boasted, his courage grew, bought a four-foot Qin cavity face map full of rice paper, got the academy door to frame, hung in the store to watch and play. Unexpectedly, tourists often pass by, glimpse, and when tourist souvenirs are half grabbed and half bought, they are gone. Xiao Chen came and went, gradually became famous, became Chen Hua's face, and was also included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center.
Where does this chen hua face come from? Later, after I mixed in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Center for a long time, I solved the case, and it turned out that Chen Hua's face was two people. The Face of Chen Hua in Shajing Village is called Chen Yaowu, and the face of Chen Hua in the City God Temple is called Chen Chuanping. The two were about the same age, and Chen Chuanping was three years older than Chen Yaowu.
I later became acquainted with both of them. The first thing I knew was Chen Yaowu, the face of Chen Hua in Shajing Village, and the relationship was good. Later, Chen Yaowu published a book, called "Qin Cavity Face". I interviewed him and went to his house. Five floors, the first floor is the façade, and the yard has a row of sockets for the tenant's electric donkey to charge.
Ask him why he wrote this book. He counted the family treasures and said one two three four five six seven. For example, he said that qin face masks are more complex and decorative than faces such as Peking Opera and Sichuan Opera. Qin Cavity face is exaggerated, spicy, casual, distorted, crooked, asymmetrical to present a special sense of beauty, so there is a "crooked face" said.
Later, I left my job as a nuclear carving craftsman, carved a peach core, and the character's open face was also inspired and influenced by the "crooked face" of the Qin cavity face. It's all gossip, not to mention.
He already had two daughters. I saw that he had made two benches for the two girls, and the stool surface was painted with a face sheet, one was Sun Wukong, and the other was a clown with tofu blocks on the bridge of his nose, which was strange and interesting.
Chen Yaowu was afraid that my ass was big, so he crushed this small bench, quickly collected it, and told me that the Qin Cavity team painted the moon on Bao Gong's forehead, which was painted realistically, looked up and saw that the crescent moon had been painting the crescent for a long time, and when he saw the half moon, he would draw the half moon, if it was a full moon, he would honestly paint it as a full moon... Chatting and chatting, the conversation led to another Chen Chuanping, the face of Chen Hua. Chen Yaowu smiled and said only one sentence: Chuanping has the ability to earn money beautifully.
This is true, Chen Yaowu in the circle has a greater influence than Chen Chuanping, but Chen Chuanping's name outside the circle is even louder. Because Chen Yaowu was quiet, he buried his head and did not say a word. After all, Chen Chuanping is a person who grew up in the City God Temple, loves to be lively, likes to preach, and all activities in the intangible cultural heritage center must show his face. There will naturally be leaders to inspect and guide the event, or celebrities to add icing on the cake, and more reporters will follow the photography. At this time, Chen Chuanping will go to the leaders and celebrities to get together, just to appear together. The other folk artists in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Center looked at him and looked down on his face, and secretly gave him a nickname called "Chen Zhuozhuo". East and west, west, mixed, mixed with a familiar face, Chen Chuanping newspaper also on, TV also on, but also made a lot of journalist friends, Chen Chuanping often invited him to eat, sing and wash his feet, there are reporters who sent a press saying that Chen Chuanping is "the first person in Qin's face." That's a big deal. The head of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Center also asked him where the "first man" statement came from.
Chen Chuanping was aggrieved in his heart, feeling that people were afraid of being famous pigs and afraid of being strong, and being jealous and hated by people, so he did not have contact with those people in the intangible cultural heritage center, and he opened a shop in the Muslim Street behind the Drum Tower, selling souvenirs of Qin face mask under the banner of "the first person with Qin Cavity Face". There was a lot of traffic there, so the business was booming, and I hired three or four little girls to get busy. So Chen Yaowu said that Chen Chuanping earned money beautifully.
I once went to Chen Chuanping's shop, and the walls were full of photos of Chen Chuanping, one of which was with the movie star Jackie Chan, who was wrapped around Jackie Chan's waist. At that time, I was still a reporter, Chen Chuanping recognized me, was really enthusiastic about me, and took a set of Facebook bookmarks to send me. I looked at the list price, not cheap, more than three hundred. But I also know that there are more than thirty yuan on Taobao. So the embarrassment came, collect it, take thirty yuan of things and owe three hundred yuan of human affection. Don't accept it, his arm strength is amazing, smiling and smiling, I really can't stand it.
Chen Chuanping said while stiffening: What is this, you take it back to play with your girlfriend, and in the future, you will have to bother you to publicize and publicize the old brother.
I quickly scrambled and asked him why he couldn't see his hand-drawn works in the shop.
Chen Chuanping: Hey, busy ass smoke, where there is kung fu to draw their own. Let's this is a scenic spot, the visitor only asks if it is cheap or not, who is still carefully optimistic about Lai? I do have hand-drawn good things, expensive, and the currency that does not enter sells quickly. Selling fast is the last word.
A few days later, Chen Chuanping called me to ask me to dinner, and I said that I had eaten and asked him what was wrong. He said, it's just a meal and a chat.
I said, OK, I'll invite you to eat lamb steamed buns when I get the chance. He said: I invite you, I invite you. Lamb steamed buns are not uncommon, and I invite you to eat turtle steamed buns. Nourish yin and aphrodisiac. Weekends, what's going on? You call your colleagues, have a few drinks, and we're lively.
I said, "You must have something to do."
Sure enough, he sent me a dozen pictures and a press release for me to send to our newspaper. The picture shows Chen Chuanping and his facial works from multiple angles, Chen Chuanping wearing a Chinese-style dress with a dragon and phoenix, and a red scarf. The title of the press release is very long, which is "The first person to draw a ten-meter-long scroll of Qin Cavity Face mask for the Xi'an World Garden Society".
At that time, Xi'an was about to open the World Horticultural Exposition, and every Xi'an person received tickets and commemorative stamps, and the streets were full of slogans welcoming the World Horticultural Exposition.
It just so happened that on that day, Chen Yaowu and a few other inheritors went to Daming Palace Primary School to be the main lecturer of the intangible cultural heritage class, and I also went. He casually showed the photo to Chen Yaowu. Chen Yaowu looked at it and shook his head.
I asked what? Chen Yaowu pointed to the picture and said: Hu Haoli, I see that the face he painted is not a Qin Cavity face. Most of them are Peking Opera faces, a few surnamed Qin, that is not a Qin face, is the New Year's play community fire face. Alas, the cat draws the tiger from the Internet... Even if it is a peer, there are some things that I am not good at saying.
So I didn't send the manuscript, but several other newspapers in the same city basically did. Because of this, Chen Chuanping's relationship with me faded, and he did not invite me to eat turtle steamed buns. Later, I didn't do a reporter, carved my peach core, was busy, and didn't have much contact with Chen Yaowu. The two Chen Hua faces are only active in my WeChat circle of friends, which can be known to their movements.
Last year, during the COVID-19 epidemic, Chen Yaowu dressed up as Bao Gong, Guan Gong, Qin Shi Huang and other theatrical stage images on the stage, and was responsible for measuring body temperature at the mouth of Shajing Village to publicize the public wearing masks. I saw it in his circle of friends.
Hahaha, Chen Yaowu is really a lovely person, I also forwarded these photos.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yaowu's photos Chen Chuanping also forwarded, it seems that the two people are still connected. However, Chen Chuanping did not explain that this Chen Hua face was not the other Chen Hua face. Then I saw that there were many people at the bottom who liked it, one of which was: to promote the Qin culture and inherit the art of Facebook. Qin Cavity Face Mask First Person Chen Hua Face, come on!
Author | Uncle Peach | Arts and crafts artist