If life is like Feng Zikai, life is lovely everywhere.
This is the feeling I gained when I read Feng Zikai's works recently.
In his pen, the stool is afraid of dirt and will put shoes on the four legs; the clouds in the sky will turn into beautiful shapes to comfort people; the children's graffiti, the cat will run to appreciate it...
"Ah Bao has two feet, the stool has four feet"
"Clouds"
It's amazing! Those trivial and trivial things, as soon as they reached his eyes, instantly became cute and loving, and there was joy.
When it spread out into his pen, it became a simple prose and a childlike cartoon, which was seen by people, like spring water flowing through the tip of the heart, so that it could be healed. No wonder from the prime minister, to ba jin, Zhu Guangqian, Tagore and other masters, and even to the street wonton vendors, all love this old man.
In the twenty-fourth year of Qing Guangxu (1898.11.9), a baby cry came from the deep lane of Shimen Bay in Zhejiang Province, and Feng Zikai was born.
As the only boy among the 7 children in the family, he is like Jia Baoyu, his grandmother dotes on him, his parents love him, his sister loves him, and even his neighbors like him.
Growing up in an atmosphere full of love, he is always soaked with warmth in his bones, turning into a childlike heart and love in his works, warm and healing.
Take the fan as a wheel, wear daddy's shoes to dress up adults, graffiti, catch butterflies... He wrote down the children's ordinary things, reminding us that there is simplicity in the world, and we may not be able to live a clear and easy life.
In his innocence, he is fascinated by the kindness of the child who sympathizes with all things, and the attitude of curiosity and love for all things.
Because the toy hurts, it breaks, and they cry; because the birds can understand, they can lie in front of the window and talk to the birds; even "Why is the willow tree green" have to ask...
This empathy and love, found that the cute childlike heart of life, has long been forgotten in the adult world, and the joy is naturally much less.
Since the beginning of the third year of the Republic of China, he studied under Li Shutong. When Li Shutong became a master of Hongyi, he took refuge under his throne and became the first son of the secular sect. At Master Koichi, he not only learned the essence of art and music, but also became more familiar with the virtues of being a human being and the Zen of the world. This makes his works, in addition to childlike fun, a little more Zen, human touch, and inadvertently solve the confusion in the reader's heart.
On the left is Master Hongyi, and on the right is Feng Zikai
Within the comics, there is often a leisurely and sudden, and the details can always find a broad and a little relief. Two simple paintings illustrate:
Life friends three or two, a round of bright moon and a cup of tea, there is no great wealth and nobility.
Life is not satisfactory, nine times out of ten, let alone in the war years?
In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, the claws of life began to reach out to Feng Zikai, torturing him for 33 years.
Before his death, Feng Zikai curled up in this small bed
But what is rare is that Feng Zikai is still alive after he is desperate and sees the ugliness of the war, and even brings hope to people. As he himself said: "Since there is nowhere to hide, it is better to be silly." Since there is no escape, it is better to rejoice. ”
Since war life is inevitable, it is better to take advantage of the years of poetry and wine, and still write about innocence and childlike fun, beautiful human feelings... Up to now, I am afraid that few people have done it. In the face of growth, most people are teaching us: know more about people's feelings and sophistication, and learn more about the way to stand up. This old man, after we recognize the truth of life, tells us to still feel life like children, to become what we want, cute and interesting. I think that's why people still like him to this day.
Ba Jin once sketched the image of Feng Zikai: "A child's heart that has no quarrel with people, loves everything, and has a pure and unblemished heart." ”
Perhaps, we can't have the same soul as Feng Zikai. But we can choose, in his pen, to forget the worldly things for the time being, and to be closer to the frank and childish, innocent childlike heart, and this is enough.
May you, after insight into life, still feel that life is lovely.