Jiang Wei is an authentic Beijinger, who lived in Xiaowangzhuang, Majiahe Commune, northern Shaanxi, for 10 years, and only returned to Beijing in 1978 to start his new life.
Back to Beijing Jiang Wei is 26 years old, the family is very anxious about his marriage, although the queue delayed the time, but many Zhiqing came back with a family with their mouths, Jiang Wei came back with a handbag, which was filled with his own paintings, in the northern Shaanxi interstitial ten years, Jiang Wei has been immersed in creation, the experience of northern Shaanxi has brought him a lot of creative inspiration.
If it were not for the "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" to go to northern Shaanxi to join the team, Jiang Wei may have been a painter already, because Jiang Wei liked to paint since he was a child, but there were two things to solve in front of him, the first thing was work, the second thing was his marriage, for the work Jiang Wei had already thought about it, planned to continue to paint, but was opposed by his parents, because jiang Wei could not support himself by painting, after collective consultation at home, he planned to let Jiang Wei take over the work of his father Jiang Donghai and work in a company under the Mining Bureau. He could receive a salary of 95 yuan per month, and Jiang Wei had to temporarily agree and go to work at the Mining Bureau.
Regarding Jiang Wei's marriage problem, in fact, before returning to northern Shaanxi, Jiang Wei had fallen in love with his junior high school classmate Li Xiaojuan, and the two planned to get married after returning to Beijing, Li Xiaojuan was one year younger than Jiang Wei, although the family situation was very ordinary, but Li Xiaojuan looked sweet, gentle and generous, Jiang Wei liked Li Xiaojuan in his heart, and Li Xiaojuan also cherished this feeling.
In 1980 Jiang Wei and Li Xiaojuan got married, after marriage the two people had their own daughter Jiang Yuting, in 1985 the Mining Bureau wanted to make a propaganda poster on the outer wall, Jiang Wei took the initiative to do this work, after a month of dedicated creation, Jiang Wei created a huge poster "The Most Glorious Working People" became famous for a while, in 1986 Jiang Wei participated in the National Youth Art Exhibition, his creation of "Northern Shaanxi Style" won the first prize in the country, Jiang Wei's name has its own reputation in the painting industry, In 1990, Jiang Wei studied painting with the master Zhang Liangwei to learn painting creation, and by 2000, Jiang Wei's paintings had been favored by the market, and a painting had reached a price of more than 100,000 yuan, and in this year Jiang Wei also quit his job to concentrate on painting.
After 8 years, Jiang Wei has the idea of wanting to return to northern Shaanxi, because where after all, he has spent 10 years, he wants to go back to see his hometown, when Jiang Wei returned to Xiaowangzhuang again after 30 years, Xiaowangzhuang has undergone earth-shaking changes, every household has built a high-rise building, once everyone's "second-rate son" Zhao Mancang has opened a Mercedes-Benz, this time back to northern Shaanxi is Zhao Mancang's reception of himself.
The two people drank a small wine and talked about the past, Zhao Mancang raised his wine glass and said to Jiang Wei: "This cup of wine is my respect for you, if you hadn't left me three hundred yuan when you left, there was no Zhao Mancang today", it turned out that Zhao Mancang was the poorest family in the village, Zhao Mancang was also delicious and lazy, the people in the village did not want to see him, only Jiang Wei was willing to talk to Zhao Mancang, when he left, Jiang Wei left him three hundred yuan when he saw Zhao Mancang pitiful, and told him that "if others want to see him, they will come out a little."
After Jiang Wei left, Zhao Mancang went to Guangzhou, did not expect to see each other again after 30 years, Zhao Mancang is already the richest man in the village, he also helped the whole village to get rich, Jiang Wei lived in Zhao Mancang's home for three days, and then went to the hometown of his fellow villagers to turn around, before leaving, Jiang Wei created a pair of "Attachment" to Zhao Mancang.
After returning to Beijing, Jiang Wei was touched and created several paintings with northern Shaanxi themes in succession, and Jiang Wei also began to prepare for his third exhibition.