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"Audience friends who want to listen to the explanation, please come to me, our volunteer explanation will start soon!"
At 10:30 a.m., 72-year-old Lu Shali warmly greeted friends in the exhibition hall of the Guangdong Provincial Museum (hereinafter referred to as "Yuebo"). It was the summer vacation, and soon her side was full of people, Lu Sally cleared her throat and officially began the day's volunteer service.
Lu Sally is a volunteer docent and the oldest in the volunteer team of Yuebo, and has been engaged in volunteer interpretation for 10 years. In the museum, everyone affectionately called her "Aunt Sally".
Lu Sali took a photo in front of the gate of Yuebo Photo by Yangcheng Evening News reporter He Quansheng
One
When Lu Sally was a freshman in high school at the age of 16, she temporarily interrupted her studies for some reason, became a soldier of the People's Liberation Army, and then trained in the army for 17 years. It wasn't until 1984 that Lusali returned to the local area. She worked as a midwife in the 454 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army in Nanjing for several years, and because she could sing and dance, she was often invited to participate in theatrical performances of different propaganda teams.
In 1981, she was transferred back to her hometown of Guangzhou's 157 Army Hospital. After changing careers, she worked in the government's cultural department and a real estate company.
No matter what kind of job, Lu Sally is strict with herself and strives to be the best. She also found time to study culture on her own, and enrolled in the first batch of self-study exams in Guangdong Province to obtain a college diploma.
2001 was an extremely low year in Lusali's life. Due to the adjustment of the company's business, she had to retire early with a meager pension. At this time, it was the time when her son, who was suffering from autism, was at his worst.
Lusally had two failed marriages, and her son was born to her and her second husband. "He has a tendency to self-harm and sometimes hurts those around him." Ms. Lu said she had to start her own business in order to see a doctor, take medicine and hire a caregiver for her children. Fortunately, with the help of her family, she and her son's life was stabilized.
While taking care of her son, Lu Sally began to volunteer in museums, signing up for dance classes and choirs. People around her said she was "really tired", but she said: "I just try to make my retirement life more fulfilling." ”
Moreover, sitting with her peers, everyone often talks about topics such as "how much is the pension", "which medicine works", "whether the price of today's meat and vegetables has increased", etc., she does not like it, compared with it, she prefers to stay with young people, talk about historical stories, talk about Chinese and foreign humanities.
Lu Sali's cultural level is not high, but she loves literature and art in her bones. She feels that although this road is hard, it is "quite calm".
Two
Lu Sally loves ceramics, and her first volunteer job after coming to the museum began in the ceramics exhibition hall.
She recalls that at first, like most new volunteers, she just memorized the explanatory words bluntly and read the text, without further understanding the meaning of the cultural relics. After gaining experience, she began to consult more materials to enrich the explanation, and tried to use heuristic questions to interact with the audience before telling the historical story behind the artifacts.
In this way, Lu Sali's explanation slowly formed a distinct personal character. Lu Sally believes that to explain well, you must eat every explanation thoroughly and make the audience like your explanation.
In the past 10 years, Lu Sally has completed more than 700 lectures, an average of two sessions per week, and accumulated more than 1,700 volunteer hours.
But the nervousness and unnaturalness of the first time she walked into the hall, Lu Sally still remembers. "At that time, I couldn't speak very well, I spoke slowly, and many places were missed before I knew it." In addition to the unfamiliar content, what troubled Lu Sally the most at that time was that the audience did not pay much attention to the ceramic exhibition.
Compared with today's "museum fever", museums 10 years ago can be described as deserted. Lu Sally recalled: "The regular explanation needs to wait for the audience at the entrance of the exhibition hall in advance, and if there is no audience for more than half an hour, then the volunteer explanation will be automatically canceled." ”
At that time, as long as she saw an audience appear, Lu Sally would immediately step forward and take the initiative to ask if she needed to explain the service. Unlike now, when it is time for the regular explanation, there are already audiences waiting for the docent at the door of the exhibition hall. She joked that she used to have to "catch" the audience herself, but now she has to be "chased and run" by the audience.
In the past 10 years, she has gained a large number of "fan" friends. "Sometimes as soon as I walk to the door of the showroom, the staff tells me 'there's already an audience waiting for you'. At this time, the happiness of being a volunteer docent will be born in my heart. ”
Lu Sally said that the volunteers' volunteer service at the museum is very pure, without any remuneration, and love is the only driving force. "When I walk into the hall, my heart must be calm. The whole person is immersed in the exhibition and integrated with it, and I think this is how it can be explained well. ”
Lu Sali's explanation was photographed by Yangcheng Evening News reporter He Quansheng
Three
Lu Sally loves challenges and enjoys volunteering.
The exhibition of Yue Bo is usually divided into two categories: permanent exhibition and temporary exhibition, temporary exhibition is renewed every few months, as a docent, each time he participates in the explanation of a new exhibition, he must go through a new assessment. When it comes to a favorite exhibition, Lu Sally always has to give it a try.
"Many times I just stepped on the passing line in exams, and the teachers said I 'won the lottery.'" Especially now that she is getting older, her memory is far from being comparable to that of young people, but Lu Sally can still compete with young people, which makes people have to admire.
"The knowledge in my head is always bouncing around, and that's the hardest thing for me. I desperately memorized the explanatory words, but I immediately forgot them. During the explanation, she would pause when she occasionally encountered a difficult to remember proper noun, and then tell the audience immediately after a few seconds when she remembered it.
Lu Sally said: "After each explanation, I will review it myself, find out what is missing, and quickly do my homework to check the gaps and strive to make the next explanation richer." ”
She has participated in many temporary exhibitions. This year alone, he has participated in the explanation of exhibitions such as "China in New Year Paintings", "Bloom: Victorian Art", and "Syrian Ancient Cultural Relics Exhibition".
In the exhibition hall of "Syria Ancient Cultural Relics Exhibition", if the audience encounters her, they will hear her talk from the Paleolithic period to the Sumerian civilization influence, and then to the successive reigns of Assyria, ancient Persia, Rome and other regimes... Combined with the cultural relics in the exhibition hall, the ancient mysterious and overlapping ancient Syrian civilization is told by her, which can always make people listen to it.
At the end of a nearly two-hour explanation, Lu Sali's face could not see a trace of fatigue, and no one could tell that she was 72 years old. In order to keep herself online, Lu Sally developed the habit of running 5 kilometers every morning. She said: "The body is tough, and I am more energetic and energetic when I do things. ”
Last year, Lu Sali's son suddenly fell ill one morning and died. After spending more than thirty years with her son, the sudden separation made Lu Sally a little stunned.
But she adjusted herself for a while, and soon returned to the museum she loved, wearing her favorite skirt, chatting with museum friends, and explaining it to more audiences.
She said: "Volunteering at Yuebo has given me a lot, and I should thank the museum. When asked how long she would be in the museum, she always replied, "As long as my body allows, I hope to keep talking." ”
The original article was published in the A08 version of Yangcheng Evening News on August 27, 2023
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