Jimu news reporter Shu Jun Li Hui
Correspondent Jiang Meng Liu Zhongren
"Let these precious materials go back to the 'mother's house'"! In the preparatory process of "Craftsman Xin - Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Xiang Xinran, Chief Designer of the Yellow Crane Tower Reconstruction Project", Xiang Xinran's eldest son donated hundreds of precious items (sets) to the Yellow Crane Tower Park Cultural Research Center, including historical objects, historical letters, and original large-scale exquisite drawings.
The son looks at his father: his father became famous in the Yellow Crane Tower, and he is also most concerned about the Yellow Crane Tower
Until the age of 18, until the 1990s, He lived with his parents and brothers. He knew from a young age that his father loved to draw and was good at sketching; he knew from an early age that his father was diligent in reading, teaching and educating people, and the bookcase at home was filled with his father's professional books, as well as densely written notes; he knew from an early age that he had designed the Yellow Crane Tower and the Uprising Gate, which are famous historical and cultural attractions in Wuhan.
"I've also fed puppies and had lunch on the site of the Yellow Crane Tower." In the years when the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt, his father Xiang Xinran often ate and lived on the construction site for two or three years, recalling upwards, "At that time, I was still in elementary school, and I often went to my father's construction site with my brother on weekends. But at that time, I didn't know much about what he was doing, only that my father was preoccupied with his work. What he remembers more deeply is his state of life, the puppies fed on the construction site, and the lotus balls in the canteen. ”
Until the preparation of this exhibition, upward from Shanghai back to his father's home, in his father's study, he uncovered bundles of curly drawings, dismantled a stack of drums into deformed file bags. He was deeply struck by his father's massive paintings, exquisite hand-drawn paper, meticulous teaching notes, orderly historical documents and correspondence, and various manuscripts that were repeatedly revised.
"It was as if I had opened the door of time, and in the memory of my youth, I saw again in those years, a father who was full of talent, extreme diligence, and never sinking stood in front of me." Upward is somewhat emotional, "Father's life is busy and fulfilling. In his 60-year career, he has achieved remarkable results, and I am deeply proud of my father. ”
These precious objects that have been carved and yellowed over the years let him pick up and put them down, and after weighing them repeatedly, he solemnly decided to donate them to the Yellow Crane Tower Park Cultural Research Center, "Because his father became famous in the Yellow Crane Tower, he was also most concerned about the Yellow Crane Tower, so that the precious materials he had carefully collected all his life returned to the Yellow Crane Tower, just like returning to the 'mother's house', it will certainly meet his wishes." ”
Designers look at designers: the reconstruction of the Yellow Crane Tower is not achieved overnight, and the older generation of builders are hard and excellent
He inherited his father's mantle and is now an architect. From these precious materials, he also saw how an excellent architectural designer balanced art and engineering, realized the common appreciation of elegance and customs, and saw the history of the hard work and excellence of the older generation of builders of the Yellow Crane Tower.
"The reconstruction of this famous historical and cultural building, the Yellow Crane Tower, was not achieved overnight. Father is a person with a heart, manuscripts, writing, including 1980-1985, about the Yellow Crane Tower reconstruction project correspondence, meeting minutes, stamped documents, etc., behind the efforts of many people, my father is very well sorted. He said: "We can use computers now, very advanced, at that time there were no such advanced tools, all hand drawings, handwritten letters, very difficult." ”
Upward hopes that these feelings of his can be transmitted to more people through the display of objects. He also put forward a creative interactive session for the exhibition from the perspective of the architect – each visitor can receive a piece of sulfuric acid paper and depict Xiang Xinran's manuscript on the spot.
"We often say 'draw a blueprint', in the past, architects turned a plan into a blueprint, going through several processes, first drawing a white manuscript, then using translucent sulfuric acid paper to depict, and then drying sulfuric acid paper into a blueprint." Explained upwards, "I hope that visitors will be able to experience for themselves how architects work and take away a 'work' of Xiang Xinran through this small ritual." ”
It is understood that the "Craftsman Xin - Yellow Crane Tower Reconstruction Project Chief Designer Xiang Xinran Works Retrospective Exhibition" exhibited a total of 28 Xiang Xinran manuscripts, which is only equivalent to the tip of the iceberg of donated items. The Yellow Crane Tower Park said that in the future, it will consider various forms to display these items to the public to live up to the selfless donation to Xinran's family.
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