There is no wonder in the world, the types of people in the collection circle play are also various, almost covering all things in the world, folk collection is even more unimaginable, 86-year-old Uncle Liu of Pinglu County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, is one of them, the old man has fun collecting waste wine bottles has become a "big cause", 11 years of clever use of various ways to collect more than 16,000 wine bottles, filled the room and courtyard, the home collection can be said to be a "museum" or a world of wine bottles, Uncle Liu, who is happy to collect, has recently been a little upset, and worry has become a nuisance.
A few years ago to listen to the local film friends teacher introduced the matter of Uncle Liu's hidden bottles, has always wanted to visit his private museum, because of various reasons failed to do so, the Mid-Autumn Festival small long holiday specially went to visit the old man's home, at 2 o'clock at noon we knocked on the door of Uncle Liu's home, the old man greeted us happily, stepped into the courtyard and saw the wall of the flowery and green wine bottle under the eaves, dazzling, overwhelmed, saw us eagerly taking pictures of Uncle Liu smiled and said: "Don't worry, I have more good things, Come and follow me into the room to introduce you one by one, so that everyone can open their eyes. ”
Following Uncle Liu's body, we first look at the study center, listen to the old man's introduction that this is his boutique Tibetan, the rare wine bottles collected are all hidden here, are all groups of collections, almost including many famous wine series at home and abroad, the number is about 500 or so, the most popular is China's ancient four beautiful women bottles, size 2 groups, the shape of the bottle is the beautiful body line of the beauty, behind which there are ancient poetry and famous sentences, it can be said that it is the perfect combination of ancient and modern aesthetics, but also the embodiment of cultural inheritance.
Uncle Liu explained the collection in great detail by himself, almost like a professional narrator, perhaps there are more people visiting, the explanation of the old man is carried out in accordance with the established procedures, a room is carried out in an orderly manner, talking about his collection of wine bottles, he is like a river, gushing endlessly. Uncle Liu used to be a chinese teacher at the Second Middle School in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, across the river for 30 years, and then transferred back to the Pinglu County Party School to work for 10 years, 26 years ago gloriously retired back to his rural hometown, in order to make his later life colorful, the old have fun, he first chose a very collectible stamp collection and very favorite food production from his many hobbies, due to conditions, played for more than 10 years and did not play anything famous, and then another chance, let him germinate the idea of collecting wine bottles, I didn't expect to be out of control, and I have been playing until now.
Uncle Liu has 3 children are working outside, there is a happy and harmonious big family, every year every New Year's Holiday to go home for reunion, there is a year when the children left 2 beautiful empty wine bottles for dinner to attract the attention of uncle, beautiful streamlines and red festive colors let the old man love to let go, the mind has the idea of collecting wine bottles, just at the beginning the old man is walking the streets and alleys to collect on the garbage heap, and then into the hotel restaurant, select empty wine bottles, with the increase in the number of bottles, his interest is getting bigger and bigger to mobilize relatives and friends to help him collect, Even the former students have joined the ranks, as long as they come to see him have brought him very characteristic wine and wine bottles, just played for 11 years, collected as many as 16,000 wine bottles, in order to facilitate preservation, he classified these bottles, in the home transformation of 13 rooms for storage, there is now everyone legend of the "bottle museum" legend.
Uncle Liu said that the most of his collection of natural or our country, China is an ancient civilization, wine culture when the number of the world's first, just say that the variety of wine is many, domestic wine bottles according to the 10 famous wine series classification, other according to porcelain, glass, strange modeling, poetry and painting class, four famous characters, Mongolian grassland wine, southern bamboo wine classification display, foreign according to, white wine, red wine classification, respectively refined into European wine, Asian wine, African wine collection. When the specific display is also placed in groups, or color matching, or placed according to the shape.
Uncle Liu said that he now collects wine bottles has reached the level of obsession, almost every day to walk through the streets and alleys of the county, looking for abandoned waste bottles everywhere, or telephone contact the hotel restaurant, as long as they look at the eyes all take home, these empty wine bottles in the eyes of others are some waste, in their own eyes are all "treasures", they are collected to show everyone to visit, is to play a greater role, although the bottle is small but big culture, there is art and painting artistic value on it, There are also poems and songs that give cultural knowledge, which can also be said to be an ocean of knowledge. Writing calligraphy in the collection room is also a kind of enjoyment of life.
Speaking of excitement, the old man said that as long as he walked into the progressive room, he felt that he was much younger, 16,000 wine bottles were like more than 16,000 precious soldiers, and he was happy to see them every day, and he was excited to recite aloud for us the poem he created, "Ten Thousand Bottles of Jai Lord's Elderly Chant", expressing his love and happiness for life.
Uncle Liu's North Room Exhibition Hall is connected to a small suite, the four walls inside are filled with a variety of wine bottles from bottom to top, walking in is like crossing the time tunnel of wine bottles, which is dazzling and pleasing to the eye.
In the bedroom, Uncle Liu pointed to a large blue porcelain wine bottle and said that this was the largest one in his collection, with 16 gems inlaid on it, with the name of the Qianlong Imperial Gift of the Great Qing Dynasty, which could hold 30 pounds of wine, which belonged to the "King of Wine Bottles" in the collection.
Uncle Liu's study is also full of various wine bottles, the bed is placed in a total of 8 books of literary works he wrote, he said that now in chronological order has been published in 8 books, are his retirement works, now as long as someone comes to send wine bottles, they will give him a book as a souvenir, the small study not only has the fragrance of books but also wafts with a faint aroma of wine, let people indulge in the space of wine and books.
In the yard, Uncle Liu raised a lot of flowers and plants, put his newly obtained empty wine bottle on the ground, picked up a red wine bottle and said to us, this is the harvest this morning, walking around the streets of the county town, suddenly saw 2 red wine bottles on the garbage heap, intact and picked them up, and when they will be cleaned, they will be sorted into the bottle team and given them new life.
Uncle Liu collected wine bottles from an initial preference into a complete "bottle idiot", 11 years of living in the world of wine bottles, in addition to eating and resting, most of the time is with the bottles, not sitting at home to sort out the bottles, or walking in the streets and alleys to collect bottles on the road, very famous in the local area, the news media have many reports, more people who have visited have tried to ask the old man whether they are willing to sell, he said: "It's not that I don't sell them, who can't afford this price, the bottles not only bring me happiness, There are also the love of friends and family in it, how do you say I sell?! "The eldest of the three children of the uncle teaches in a college in the city, and the level of education is extremely high, and the uncle said that he plans to leave him with the treasures in the yard in the future, hoping that he can pass on these bottles." But there is also a very disturbing thing, most of the wine bottles are porcelain or glass products, belonging to fragile things, a little careless will be broken, although their own display shelves are made particularly fixed, but the encounter with natural disasters is still very worried, some time ago in order to prevent rain also deliberately put the house for rain treatment, the upper side of the reinforcement of a layer of color steel materials, there is no danger at present, if there is an earthquake is a big thing, worry has become a worry.
In the past 11 years, Uncle Liu has been happy to change the waste into treasure collection bottles, just like a scavenger, footprints all over the yellow river on both sides of the Two Provinces of Jinyu and Henan large and small restaurants, under his persistent insistence, built a "farmhouse wine bottle museum", people have also become "bottle idiots", no matter who comes to visit the home when they ask "bring wine bottles?" "Before leaving do not forget to advise "don't forget to send me a bottle of wine", it can be said that the bottle collection has become the old man's old age, the spirit of the old and the happy, the spiritual pillar and emotional sustenance, now the year has 86, good health, spirit, mentality sunshine, there are 2 points especially worth learning, one is a good habit mentality, the second is no matter the size of the career, persistence is the only channel for success, and then insist on the process, life is enriched, feelings are enriched, this life has been read happily, the meaning of life is also great. This is exactly what it is: Shi ShiGao is far away from the wind, riding the wind and singing for a long time, enjoying what he does in the old age, and leisurely walking the world's immortals. 【If you want to see more stories of the people, please click to pay attention】