Author: Shanjia
Speaking of comics, the "Father and Son" series created by german Braun immediately floated in his eyes. The first time I saw it, it was in hours, in the Reader magazine of the year. Of course, at that time, it was not called "Reader", but the daimyo "Reader's Digest". The humorous style, the unfinished taste, a glance at ten thousand years, can not forget.
Later, after becoming a mother, she specially selected a complete collection of "Father and Son" for her son. I will always remember that my son also asked me to compile a catalog of this complete collection from front to back. Now that I think about it, I am really persistent enough to drip, so addictive. In short, this complete collection has created N more good times for parent-child reading.
Today, I would like to talk about a cartoonist from Taiwan, Cai Zhizhong. The first time he looked at his work was also in The Reader. Once, there was a strange man in the Republic of China, Gu Hongming, who was also Zhang Zhidong's right-hand man, who assisted him in founding the world-famous Hanyang Iron Works and Arsenals and other foreign affairs, and made great contributions to the Hubei New Deal. In my eyes, Mr. Gu's greatest strength is the translation of the Confucian classics "Analects", "Zhongyong", "University" and so on. His translation, in the Late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty Zhongshu English translation, is the most prestigious, so powerful.
Today's male protagonist Cai Zhizhong, who uses a paintbrush to depict classic series such as "Comic Lao Tzu" and "Comic Confucius", is also well received and famous overseas.
On November 17, 2020, a full-fledged artist actually "fell" to the Shaolin Temple, with the legal name "Yanyi". In the eyes of ordinary people, there is some abruptness, and what is more important is whether he is also as weird as Master Gu? What about his parents, wives and children behind him?
01
Cai Zhizhong was born in 1948 in Huatan Township, Changhua County, Taiwan. Dad, the secretary of the villagers' representative council, is also considered to be engaged in politics. Old mother, on the other hand, does not know a single character, gets up early and is greedy, goes out to farm for food, and goes home to beat pigs and pennies. But in Cai Zhizhong's eyes, she was the smartest one in the family.
When Xiao Zhizhong was born, six of his brothers and sisters had already died before and after the illness. Therefore, the requirements of his parents and fathers are to grow up safely and normally, and to live a good life, without any utilitarian wishes and expectations.
Mom and Dad are still Catholics. The old mother believed in the Lord, just like she believed in Guanyin Bodhisattva, but with a different name. Zhi Zhong, who grew up listening to the Bible, saved up a stomach full of Bible stories when he was three and a half years old. These stories became the source of his later creations, and in that year, he also became associated with painting.
Dive into the night with the wind, and the moisturizer is silent. I have to admit that the atmosphere of books in the home can give children great enlightenment. For Cai Zhizhong, this enlightener is largely his father.
Dad, love calligraphy. The family is poor and cannot afford enough money to buy pens, ink and paper. What to do? Father Cai began practicing calligraphy at noon, when the sun was shining, using bricks as paper and water as ink. Write one side, write the other side, and when the other side is finished, the previous side is also dry. Here, suddenly thinking of brother coat, I just love to sing, especially love to sing to the big rooster who understands me, I didn't expect to sing into an idol-level figure.
And in Father Cai's place, as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is sharpened into a needle. Day after day, year after year, his calligraphy became the first in the township. Let's put it this way, the township office, the mountain village primary school and other institutions, the inscription is written, that is the handwriting of Father Cai. Especially when writing the Spring Festival during the New Year's Festival, it is a good time for Father Cai to show his skills. In short, Father Cai is definitely listed in the celebrity seat in Huatan Township.
Although Father Cai loved calligraphy, he did not force his children to love him. Doing nothing should be the best way to educate. Xiao Zhizhong would always go to the tavern for his father to play wine. By the way, save up some money for running errands. He used this errand money to buy a number of villain books, and he loved these paintings when he thought about it. He's been pumping himself up, and when I grow up, I'm going to paint and draw these lovely characters.
02
In his second year of junior high school, Zhizhong received an invitation from a comic company in Taipei to work there. Father and mother, are very open, since you think well, then you bravely go forward to do a good job. In this way, 15-year-old Zhizhong started a comic book career and has been walking on the road he loves and insists on.
In May 1966, Zhizhong returned to his hometown in the countryside. Usually, when work is busy, he stays at home for three or five days and then leaves in a hurry. This time, it has been two months, and there has been no movement of departure.
It turned out that at that time, comics had reached the brink of banning, saying that it had brought some adverse effects to children and seriously interfered with children's learning. The government then asked animation companies to submit animation books for review, and the first month asked to change "mo" to "mo", and the next month to change "mo" to "mo".
When the wind comes, the pigs can fly up into the sky. This is good, the government's big move to clean up the animation has come. With all this, the animation company has to stop the flag, can't afford to provoke, and can't hide?
So and so, Zhizhong stayed at home for a long time, and the father secretly said to the mother that the child even brought back the record player, and it seems that the situation is really serious. There are also neighbors who will also ask Mother Cai if they have nothing to do: Why did your family Zhizhong come back for so long, why hasn't he returned to Taipei?
The old mother was very calm and quietly replied: They have their own reasons for reading people's affairs...
In the eyes of mothers, no matter how much wind and rain the children suffer outside, and home will always be their strongest backing and warmest harbor. In the face of unpredictable difficulties and setbacks in the future, children will have greater courage to face them.
Those who know me, the mother also, Zhizhong sincerely thanks himself for having a strong mother, too powerful!
03
Zhizhong entered the Guangqi Society, and there was a female director named Yang Wanqiong, who was particularly eye-catching. She is highly educated, slender and beautiful, the youngest female director in the club, and the brightest star in the club. Zhi Zhong couldn't help but look at her more. Unfortunately, the flowers are sentient, the flow of water is unintentional, and Yang Meinu may not have put this shy, uneducated young man in her eyes.
Every time the company is built in a group and holds mountaineering activities, Yang Meinu always has many reasons, and always intentionally or unintentionally reveals that she has a boyfriend who studied in the United States. Therefore, she has to set aside free time to study TOEFL English.
Such a social flower, actually fell in love with an unknown American student? The young men in the society really couldn't swallow this breath, so they encouraged Xiao Cai to have the courage to take on the heavy responsibility of pursuing Yang Meinu.
Perhaps, Xiao Cai already has a special love for Yang Meinu. So he first adopted the Flower Offensive.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Xiao Cai held a bouquet of purple water hyacinths, walked into the director's office, and casually planted flowers on Yang Meimei's desk.
This is undoubtedly the official announcement, and I have blown the clarion call of attack to Yang Meinu. The female colleagues around them were stunned, and the shy little Cai classmates in normal days ate leopard bile?
The next day, the third day, Xiao Cai sang the same song, and sent a bunch of water hyacinth on time. Such a strong offensive, Yang Meinu is a show of beauty, extra enlightened, then go on a date.
Xiao Cai, doing things in a very methodical way, appointments should also be planned on a list. Before each meeting, he would always prepare a small note, write ten topics with his heart, and put them in his pocket. After meeting, first throw out the first topic, love is long, quietly listen to Yang Meinu. Waiting for this topic, the mountains and rivers are exhausted, Xiao Cai seamlessly links the second topic, and then listens to it.
In this way, after five years of love and talking, even Yang Meimei's father could not hold his breath and told Xiao Cai: "Please ask your parents to come to Tainan to propose to you!" ”
On May 22, 1976, it was a beautiful Saturday, and Xiao Cai married Yang Meinu and hugged her beautifully.
04
In 1977, the Cai family was born, and Cai Zhizhong was Cai Xinyi, hoping that her daughter would always be happy.
Under normal circumstances, mothers mostly bring their children. But in the Cai family, Yang Meinu is a professional woman, perhaps she thinks that it is better to work than to take children, so she declares that she is very busy at work and also has to shoot dramas. Yes, or Daddy bring it. When it is done, it is not a big deal, so Xiao Cai's classmate has become a grandfather.
It is conceivable that the little Cai classmate, who speaks soft Taiwanese, is extremely protective of his daughter.
Pampering is pampering, but Zhizhong never pampers his daughter and does not respond to every request.
That year, five-year-old Xinyi especially liked the steak in the restaurant opposite her home. Zhizhong began to teach his daughter the procedure of ordering food, first you had to put the banknote on the table, and then ask the waiter to say that he wanted steak.
Before the words could be heard, Xiao Xinyi jumped to eat the steak.
In 1990, at the request of his wife, Zhizhong moved to Canada with his family. When he was a duke, it was also difficult to stay up, and he held a book and read it every day. Really can't stand life in a foreign land, Zhizhong confessed to his wife, if I stay like this, I must be crazy, I want to go back. So, when he said he did, he flew back to Taipei alone.
One day, my wife called, my daughter was going to Japan alone, she couldn't stand it too much, she was going to get sick. Zhizhong asked his daughter, is there anyone to pick up the machine? No; is there anyone arranging accommodation? No. Thinking about it and going again, Zhizhong still agreed. Think about it, when he was 15 years old, he broke into Taipei alone, wasn't he also a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers?
After N days, the daughter returned safely to Vancouver, excitedly telling her mother what she saw and heard along the way.
Choosing a university is also Xinyi's own business. At the age of seventeen, she went to California alone, renting her own house, furniture, renting a car, and taking care of her own life, spending only five years to earn degrees at two universities in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
After graduation, she consulted her father on where to go. Dad told the truth that Shanghai is a metropolis, and in this way, Xinyi turned to Shanghai.
It is said that the emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married, but Xinyi, who has an artist father, still has not found the favorite him. She was honest with her father that there were no good boys in Shanghai...
Yes, a shot overturned a boat of people. At this time, Dad began to point out to Jiangshan, you are a 29-year-old girl, and after that, in terms of mate selection, it will deteriorate, you still fly back to the United States.
Back in the United States, Xinyi worked in hollywood as a costume designer, and indeed found him. At the age of 37, she gave birth to a small qianjin, and the second child was still a female baby. In this way, zhizhong now became the grandfather of the two little princesses.
05
In the eyes of her mother, Zhizhong is her baby, as long as she grows up safely, it doesn't matter what kind of fame or lilu.
In his father's eyes, Zhizhong was the one who made him most proud and glorious among his children. As soon as my son published the book, my father would tell the villagers that my son had published the book.
In 1985, Zhizhong participated in the award ceremony of Taiwan's "Ten Outstanding Youths" and specially invited his father to attend. In his speech, he said this -
I especially want to thank my father, because he did not force me to continue school, did not tell me to go to cram school, computer class, did not ask me to complete his unfulfilled wishes in his life, so that I had the opportunity to draw cartoons...
When the wife heard that her husband had been elected as an outstanding young man, she burst into tears, thinking that marrying this artist was really risky enough.
In fact, Yang Meinu has a lot of wisdom, and at the age of 36, her husband Jun has a number of deposits and three sets of large houses facing the sea and blossoming in spring. At that time, he decided not to work for money anymore.
In the eyes of the daughter, the father has never been a father, and the two have always gotten along like friends.
In the eyes of Cai Zhizhong himself, he is neither a good son, nor a good husband, whose good father, he is himself - Cai Zhizhong.
In 2020, 72-year-old Cai Zhizhong was sent to the Shaolin Temple. He himself, to tell the truth: "I became a monk at the age of 15, lived in the company and studio, and never been in the red dust." "What he prides himself on is that he has always lived the simplest life with the greatest freedom. The old Ji Futuo, determined to be in a thousand miles. Life is limited, and Zhizhong will produce another 500 books.
Someone once said that in all the relationships you want to cherish, it is good to be honest. Cai Zhizhong, did it. The law is on it, it depends on it, there are examples and goals in front, how to persevere in the motivation of struggle, the spring light is so beautiful, and the spring lives ah ~ ~ ~