Chinese red is a color that I can't do without in my paintings, and it's a habit I inherited from my youth.
It is abundant and full, it is the warmth of the sunrise and river flowers, the sincerity of the blue blood pill heart, the brilliance of the layers of forests, I paint the red autumn in my pen, and I also put all kinds of emotions in the autumn red picture scroll.
In the autumn of this year, I met Li Wansheng.
Ji Lao and Chairman of Dingqing Group Li Wansheng
Under the introduction of a friend, the first time I met him, I called him Mr. Li because he was the chairman of Dingqing Group. On the day of the meeting, he wore a plain white shirt, always spoke very low-key, always smiled modestly, and talked to him with a "smile and unrestrained" comfort, but I read the fortitude and wisdom in his eyes.
Dingqing Group is a well-known gas supply service provider in Changchun, integrating liquefied gas storage, transportation and sales, meeting the gas needs of thousands of households, and has been truly serving people's livelihood for 30 years. Although Mr. Li and I run different businesses, we both served in the military when we were young and started from scratch, and this similar experience made us see each other. During the conversation, many memories of more than 20 years ago always flashed in my mind, like old photos when they were just in color, which will fade slightly and still be dotted with red highlights. At that time, almost all Changchun people, including me, used liquefied gas tanks in their homes, and Dingqing's mobile transport vehicles were running in the streets and alleys, and Dingqing people wore red overalls to deliver cans of liquefied gas to the homes of ordinary people. It was also at that time that I knew the Dingqing brand.
Dingqing Group staff morning meeting
I remember the details of the several conversations that followed, and as I write this article at this moment, I am still sure that Mr. Li has never told me about his honor. I learned about Mr. Li's reputation from a friend I knew well, he is "Jilin Province Special Labor Model", "National Model Worker", "National Employment and Entrepreneurship Outstanding Individual", "National Advanced Individual in Fighting the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Private Economy", but also "Jilin Province Outstanding Communist Party Member", "China Good Man", has been listed on the "National Honor List of Veterans Entrepreneurship", won the "National Moral Model Nomination Award", "National May Day Labor Medal"....... What an honor! It is thick and powerful, because it comes from the Motherland and the people! At that moment, I firmly believed that behind the honor must be Mr. Li's benevolence and responsibility! Later, I called him Brother Wan Sheng. Brother Yisheng, it has nothing to do with age, only about state of mind, which is a way for me to express respect.
In the past of the sun and the moon, the more I got to know Brother Wan Sheng, the more it triggered me to think for a long time, how closely can a person be connected with the society in which he lives? Is it the soft lights of the home that you see from a distance when you go home at night? Or the busy streets of 9-to-5? Is it always paying attention to the people and things happening around you? Or is it someone who lends a helping hand when they encounter difficulties?
Maybe both, maybe neither. But I think that in the heart of Brother Wan Sheng, the answer must be the former.
In the spring of 1989, with the determination to change his fate and the desire to get rid of poverty, Brother Wan Sheng came to Changchun from his hometown in Henan Province with 70 yuan to work alone. Many stories are wrapped in the storm of entrepreneurship, and he sometimes mentions that squatting at a train station, working as a stevedore, carrying a liquefied gas tank, and the difficult life at the bottom can better reflect the goodwill of a city. Brother Wan Sheng said that the warmth and kindness that Changchun had given me at that time had already lived in my heart. After 30 years of hard work, he transformed from a migrant worker to an excellent private entrepreneur, and the Dingqing Group he founded has grown from a small tricycle on the street to 16 branches under its jurisdiction, and the "Red Army" of Dingqing has grown from only 3 people at the beginning to more than 500 people now.......
Li Wansheng, chairman of Dingqing Group
Brother Wan Sheng often tells me that everything about me starts from Changchun, and the land of Spring City has given me too much warmth and strength, helped me through the hardships of entrepreneurship, and I can't repay the heavy affection, I just want to carry the huge stone on my shoulders and assume greater and more social responsibilities, so as to give back to the city I love deeply. Therefore, he pulled up the "two carriages" without hesitation - people's livelihood and charity. In the past 20 years, when the land of China encountered difficulties and was in danger to be rescued, Brother Wan Sheng and his Dingqing Group set out from Changchun dressed in red to Wenchuan, Yushu, Ya'an, and Ludian for earthquake relief, rushed to the site of the Yongji flood to rescue the disaster, rushed to Henan to resist the flood disaster and distribute disaster relief materials, and rushed to the most dangerous, difficult, difficult, and most needed places of the new crown epidemic... The broad shoulders, sturdy posture, and eager steps of the "Red Legion" project the red tone of life's goodness. Become the most hardcore force in crisis, stable and soothing the hearts of the people!
After returning from the disaster area, Luoyang City has seen the autumn breeze, stepped through thousands of rivers and mountains, and the most unforgettable thing is the hometown feeling in the heart. When his economic conditions permitted, Brother Wan Sheng funded the construction of roads for his hometown, dug wells for the village, donated tables, chairs, computers, school uniforms and bags for the primary school, and paid money for the elderly in the village... "No one let me do it, I want to do it myself", this is to give birth to me and raise my land, this is unfulfilled, this love for his hometown makes him can't help but burst out more sense of social responsibility, give back to his hometown fathers and elders, just for the original love of one food and clothing.
Li Wansheng, chairman of Dingqing Group
Charity is not a one-time act of doing good, but a lifetime of volunteering. The deeper undertone of this volunteer is the Chinese red soaked with the party flag. It is rare to see Brother Wan Sheng's excitement, the only excitement is when he said, I am a Communist Party member, I should be a red pioneer! On the land of Spring City, Brother Wan Sheng and his Dingqing Group have been extending a helping hand to the lonely elderly, poor students, low-income poor households and disabled people all year round, helping them get out of the difficulties in life, and also lighting up their future life path with a red light. As the chairman of the "Shanghai Love Alliance", Wan Sheng led the members of the alliance to more than 10 times to hold the "Love and Light Walk" activity in the poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Xinjiang, and implemented the "Thousand People Restoration Project".
The eyes will be clear, and the heart will be brighter! In one act of kindness, Brother Wan Sheng has devoted his greatest love to the earth, and he is cultivating the good land with his ardent kindness, not seeking to reach the world, but only to inspire more people's good deeds. In my golden autumn paintings, Chinese red has once again become the main color, it is the party flag held high by Brother Wan Sheng, and it is the physical practice of Brother Wan Sheng and Dingqing people bending down in red clothes, and the scenes of helping the poor and helping the poor move the mountains and rivers of China, how can my drawing board bear it! Put down the brush in your hand, look up at the party flag soaked with the oath, and the red of China is rising!
Ji Zhibin
Ren Yin in the winter of Kikuzhai