Text/Moshizi poem (musician, singer)
"When we plant an oak tree, we can't expect to sit in the shade right away and cool off."
- "The Little Prince"
In today's rapidly changing information age, many things are always fleeting. The crowd came and went, and slowly realized that only deep and beautiful things can always remain in people's hearts and make people patiently taste slowly.
At the end of the 1980s, in order to fully practice the skills of oil-paper umbrellas, in addition to teaching at his father's place, Wen Shishan had to find a teacher who was making oil-paper umbrellas at the same time as his father, and spent a long time every day on the back and forth journey.
In the process of learning, someone told him that it was a waste of effort to do so, and no one would ask for an oil-paper umbrella. Wen Shishan still insisted, thinking that the oil-paper umbrella was a daily necessity and would always be needed.
Only more than six years old bamboo is used to make umbrellas, and the umbrella bone requirements must come from the same bamboo tube. A bamboo in Wen Shishan's three-story studio requires 106 processes to become an oil-paper umbrella with the smell of tung oil in his hand.
In the long life, we will always start to learn what and do for various reasons and opportunities, but in the end we can keep going, it must be because we feel a certain meaning or a certain love in the things we learn and do. In this way, it will not be a moment of enthusiasm, like fireworks, only for a moment.
Picking up a traditional skill undoubtedly requires patience and love. After years of oil-paper umbrella skills, to inherit it, you must also bear the time to polish your own heart. Wen Shishan persevered.
"My umbrella must be both beautiful and practical" for this sentence, and later Wen Shishan spent another ten years to improve the process before and after, putting an oil-paper umbrella to the extent that picky Japanese customers are also full of praise.
He is most proud of the tea ceremony umbrella he has researched and made. Tea ceremony umbrellas are also known as wild point umbrellas, wild vertical umbrellas, pay attention to the umbrella eaves sleek, that is, each end of the umbrella bone has a certain curvature. In order to the curvature of the end, Wen Shishan spent three years, just as Edison made a light bulb to try different materials, tried electric heating wire, iron pipe and other materials to finally succeed. The trials and tribulations were hard and hard, and only he could feel it.
For about eight years, Wen Shishan's oil-paper umbrella factory was running very barely. Friends asked him to go to the city to open a hardware accessories store, and did not collect rent. Faced with such a much easier thing than making oil-paper umbrellas, Wen Shishan finally chose to continue to make oil-paper umbrellas.
"I have feelings for this umbrella, and I don't have the money to do it."
"It's not that the oil-paper umbrella can't do without me, but I can't do without the oil-paper umbrella."
Wen Shishan said. Later, he became the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage oil paper umbrella production technology, and also one of the formulators of the national paper umbrella and oil paper umbrella quality standards.
There are also tough moments.
When I first started to do oil paper umbrella factory, because of the price, there were very few people who bought oil paper umbrellas. In order to order the oil paper umbrella factory to continue to operate, Wen Shishan not only participated in the dating meeting, but also ran all over the foreign trade companies in Shanghai and Zhejiang, running in many ways, and spent a lot of time and energy on the quality improvement of the oil paper umbrella, so that the oil paper umbrella factory can be maintained, but the orders are mostly sold abroad.
After meeting Zhang Jianhua, the founder of the intangible cultural heritage video production agency Xungu MCN, he agreed to the idea of shooting a short video, which led to the "Uncle Wen's Umbrella" account on Douyin, and sold 100,000 pieces on the platform in the first month. Fans affectionately call him "Uncle Wen" on Douyin.
Many fan messages let him make oil-paper umbrellas, focusing on aesthetics. However, Wen Shishan still adheres to the concept that oil-paper umbrellas are daily necessities, and focuses on the quality of the use of oil-paper umbrellas. He hopes that when someone goes out with an oil-paper umbrella he has made, if it is windy or rainy, the oil-paper umbrella in his hand can be used, rather than just used as a shooting tool.
"I don't want to have to buy my umbrella, I don't want fans to be morally kidnapped, I think everyone's support for me, care for me, are particularly pure." 」
This is a passage that Wen Shishan said in the Douyin video.
He was once approached by foreigners, hired him abroad for teaching at a high salary, bought his handmade equipment and tools at a high price, and invited him to shoot. They were all rejected by him.
"I am afraid that foreigners will take our things to apply for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage." After all, the oil-paper umbrella is something left by the ancestors, and it is also my responsibility to protect the oil-paper umbrella. He said.
Traditional craftsmen can endure the temperament, and focus only on that thing all their lives, and they must not do it for money, nor will they change for money.
"The art of making oil-paper umbrellas is blank for young people, and now it is necessary to deeply wear this brand into it."
Wen Shishan said. That's what he wants most.
Many traditional skills are slowly being lost, because the process of passing on the craft is too hard to realize quickly. Young people are all going to the hustle and bustle, and it is difficult to calm down to see the shadow of a tree.
Many young people want to understand the production process of oil-paper umbrellas because they have watched his vibrato, and some people have come to his home to ask for a teacher to learn art. Oil-paper umbrella skills are increasingly concerned and valued by all sectors of society.
Through Douyin, Wen Shishan saw the diversity and creativity of the media in today's Internet age, and sometimes the aroma of wine also needs to be shouted to allow people who can't find the direction to come.
A piece of bamboo, in the hand, goes through time, changes shape, and eventually passes into the hands of more people. This is like a kind of inheritance of feelings, because the beauty of the oil-paper umbrella through the changes of the years can be immersed in the bottom of people's hearts.
In our city, there are many wastelands. People build tall buildings and prosperity on it, and people come and go on it, but they rarely pour their hearts into it. How to make the wasteland grow nerves, let the wasteland become fertile, let it not be affected by people, but to influence others. This is something that today's young people need to think about.
Wen Shishan's umbrella is an umbrella that is making the wasteland grow nerves.
He and his umbrella are well used to tell us that as long as we love and focus on what we do, it makes sense for us to go from place to place. Don't be too rushed, don't be too impetuous.
There should be something deeper in our lives that allows us to meditate and try our best to persevere, rather than the enthusiasm and attention that arises on a whim.
Behind Wen Shishan's oil-paper umbrella skills that have passed through the years, there are thirty years of concentration and patience, which makes people feel the ideals and beliefs that have never changed, and also makes people feel the days and nights he spends with bamboo.
Things that can make people feel beautiful are always profound.
Similarly, there are many craftsmen engaged in traditional crafts in Daliangshan, such as the production of felt, the production of harmonica, the production of clay lacquerware, etc., of course, there are many traditional music, but because there is no good use and inheritance, so more and more young people do not pay attention to him, because there are more attractive things in the world of flowers and flowers. I am also one of those who have lost, knowing that one day I suddenly had a sudden inspiration, wrote a Yi song, slowly liked the way of writing in my native language, and slowly had a self-reproducing understanding, this recognition allowed me to regain my national self-confidence, start my own musical path, and even now try more possibilities. I also hope that more young friends who have come out of Liangshan can have their most precious qualities in themselves, so as to better dialogue and connect with the world.
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