"Why is there such a 'Nie' shadow?" Blame it. Mother said. Look, how cute Daddy's smile is
Author: Yangtze River Daily reporter Song Lei
Yu Minhong once said, "I think that in this world, no one's father will be more widely known than Jiao Bo's father, and no one's father will be more able to shake our hearts than Jiao Bo's father, so that our nostalgia and affection are so strong." ”
From 1974 onwards, Jiao Bo used a camera to take pictures of his father and mother, and later used a video camera to record his mother. At the end of 1998, the National Art Museum of China held a photography exhibition of "Daddy and Mother", and Jiao Bo's parents attended the ribbon cutting. Because of the filming of his parents, but also because of the vivid and touching of his parents, Jiao Bo was once nominated by CCTV as a "moving Chinese".
One gourd two "scoops", "Daddy" and "Daddy" complement each other!
Over the past 30 years, Jiao Bo has taken more than 12,000 photos of his parents. Not long ago, some of the photos, together with Jiao Bo's affectionate words, were combined into a book called "Daddy and Lady", which was published by CITIC Publishing House. Yangtze River Daily Reading + Weekly reporter telephone interview with Jiao Bo, he said, I hope this book can remind everyone, each of us want to do something for Daddy, we must be early, otherwise we will regret it for life.
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Daddy is not good-looking, but their images are treasures
"Closer, closer!" Zhong's niece Jingjing let her father and mother take intimate photos
Jiao Bo's parents are the most typical simple farmers in Shandong. As a photography professional, Jiao Bo knows that his parents "don't look good", but when he sees his father and mother who are getting older day by day, he feels that the years are ruthless, and he always wants to use some way to "keep his father".
"My name is Qiao Huagui, she is 1.41 meters tall, and she is a weak woman who weighs 70 pounds. She is a cow. "My father's name is Jiao Wenchong, he is 1.70 meters tall and weighs 80 kilograms, and he is a strong man with a pair of stubborn eyes. He is a rabbit. He used the lens to take black and white images, freezing the frame for his parents.
Jiao Bo also recorded his father and mother in simple words.
Daddy for a group photo.
He wrote that the illiterate mother once said: "To do everything is the same as pushing and grinding, step by step, anyway, one step is one step less..."
My father, who has been a carpenter all his life, said: "To learn carpenter, you have to pull a big saw for three years, do you know why?" It is not that it takes three years to learn, it is three years to make you realize two truths: one is to understand that two people can cooperate to complete a thing, no matter what they do, they must talk about cooperation; the other is to grind their temperament, the officers do not seek to be vain, they must be down-to-earth, and they must be single-minded. Even if you don't work as a carpenter in this life, you can do anything well. ”
Jiao Bo his father.
In the autumn of 2002, Jiao Bo's mother celebrated her ninetieth birthday, and after the birthday banquet, Jiao Bo took out his camera and took a group photo for his father. Dad pulled the mother's arm, dragged hard to the side, and said while dragging: "From the small husband and wife to the old relatives." "I didn't expect that this was the last group photo of my father," and at the end of this year, Jiao Bo's father died.
His parents have passed away, Jiao Bo has not dared to face the camera for a long time, until recent years, he has slowly become accustomed to facing those photos, "The voices and pictures of his parents, they are like alive, communicate with me, listen to my story, this is a particularly precious treasure."
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Hanging bottles on the train also have to go to Beijing to participate in the son exhibition
After taking photos of her father for more than 20 years, in the Spring Festival of 1998, Jiao Bo wanted to hold a film exhibition for her father, the exhibition venue set at the National Art Museum of China, China's top art exhibition hall, and the exhibition time was set for the day of her 86th birthday.
"Mother, are you still on the ground?" "Go! What do people do without working! "This year, my mother is 84 years old.
At the beginning of November, Jiao Bo went home to discuss ribbon cutting with his father and mother. Hearing that the exhibition was held at the National Art Museum of China, Jiao Bo's father said excitedly: "I know, it was one of the top ten buildings in Beijing (20th century) in the 50s." Soon, the two old men had a heated discussion: What is ribbon cutting? How to cut it to cut it?
Jiao Bo's father polished his old scissors over and over again, and his mother said, "In two days, I will go to Beijing for a meeting." ”
This day the mother was sick.
A week before the opening of the film show, Jiao Boniang fell ill and suffered from a cold that caused emphysema. "When I met my mother, she was hanging bottles, inhaling oxygen, and her face was like a purple eggplant."
The doctor advised her not to go to Beijing, and Jiao Boniang hurriedly said loudly: "It doesn't matter, I can do it." The father on the side pulled Jiao Bo aside and said, "If your mother can't go, I will even drag this sick leg to climb to Beijing and cut this color for you." ”
On the last day of the beijing exhibition, Jiao Bo received a call from a friend and learned that his mother had been forcibly discharged from the hospital, and he and his father got on the train to Beijing and hung hanging hanging bottles on the car.
On the day of the launch, Jiao Bo's father walked to the front of the red silk, "clicked" and cut, and applause sounded. At this time, not only Jiao Bo, but also many exhibitors and audiences had tears in their eyes.
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I go back to my hometown more than 20 times a year and make a phone call every day
Jiao Bo and Daddy.
Jiao Bo works in Beijing, visiting his parents at least once a month, returning home more than 20 times a year, and calling his hometown every day to say hello to his father. "This makes the neighbors very envious, and makes the father feel very happy."
Every time he went home, Jiao Bo's parents were very much looking forward to it, and they were anxious to ask for the time to arrive home, so as not to wait at the gate all day. After Jiao Bo returned home, he entered the door lightly and used the camera to capture the expression of his father's first glance at him. "The surprise that erupted on the faces of the two old men, the disgust, made me moved and extremely happy."
It was a joy to be home, but it was sad to be away from home. Jiao Bo said he had a photograph that almost everyone touched when they saw it: a winding path, and the mother was waddling forward alone, sending away her son. "Almost every time, the 90-year-old has sent me farther and farther."
One day, jiao bo left home at 10 o'clock in the evening, and there was no light in the mountain village. His mother took the flashlight and insisted on giving it to him, and the flashlight shone on the path leading to the outside of the village. "The light on the road faded until it disappeared, and I knew I was far away. But looking back, the flashlight was still dangling there. "In the darkness, Jiao Bo saw the diminutive figure of her mother, and she was still watching her son leave far away." This is my mother, my mother-in-law! ”
One night, my mother smiled and said to Jiaobo, "You can shoot more quickly, I'm gone, you can't shoot." This sentence makes Jiao Bo feel sad when he thinks about it now." She supports her son's career with all her heart, and that's what the parents are."
Grandpa had never been to Mount Taishan in his life, and Dad climbed to the top of Mount Tai with a portrait of Grandpa.
Over the years, Jiao Bo's photography has touched many viewers, many people can't help but cry after watching it, and some people immediately go home to visit their parents, which makes Jiao Bo feel that what he continues to do is of great social significance. "These images are very revealing, and I will regard them as wealth, for my descendants and for the world."