"I'm a living antique, an old monster for five hundred years!"
When the Republic of China playwright Wu Zuguang and Wu Huan, the son of Xin Fengxia, the "Empress of Commentary", said this sentence in public, people in the know would be playful and funny and wanted to ridicule him a few words, but they could not find words when they wanted to come and go.
Why? Because behind this sentence is the continuation of the Wu Huan family for hundreds of years. It was so solemn and serious that no one could make fun of anything but the Wu family themselves.
Wu Huan is a celebrity, he is a well-known painter, writer, social activist, but in the wu family full of celebrities, he is also a very inconspicuous one. But there is no doubt that he is the one who values the family inheritance the most among the living Wu family generation, and even among all the celebrity descendants.
Also because of his importance, even if he ridicules people, he will not forget to bring the "five hundred years" that shocked and proud of him and his entire family and even China.
As a celebrity, Wu Huan's mantra is: "I am the most bitter!" Those who know Wu Huan will know that this sentence is not a humble word, but a fact.
Wu Huan inherited the talent of his father Wu Zuguang in literary style, he wrote a god, in the early years, his novel debut "Big Black" won the "Modern Literature Award". Such a being is usually considered a genius. But this genius threw away his pen after the explosion of achievements, and when others asked, he tilted his head and grinned slightly: "Writing is too tired, sitting for a few hours, I can't bear this pain!" ”
Wu Huan
When Wu Huan said this, he obviously did not expect that there were countless people with literary dreams who had worked silently in the dark room one by one, and a retreat was months or even years. But most of their works are not well received.
After throwing down the magic pen that could produce flowers, Wu Huan turned around and grabbed the brush brush, and this grasp surprised his comrade-in-arms Jiang Kun when he was building the Heilongjiang Construction Corps, and many years later, when talking about this comrade-in-arms who was three years younger than himself, he said with a thousand emotions:
"I've been with him for almost 30 years, and I've never seen him grind red, and he's actually a good hand in the seal." I have never seen him practice Danqing hard, and indeed he has also painted Chinese paintings of figures, flowers and birds. ”
At this point, if you were his friend, what could you say? After the sigh, look at yourself, then look down and sigh. That's right, that's about it. However, even if it is easier to calligraphy and painting than writing, Wu Huan only uses a playful mentality. But ordinary painters and calligraphers have worked hard enough, but they can't fight his "playing the whole thing".
The word genius is once again reflected in Wu Huan's painting and calligraphy. No way, his father Wu Zuguang is a calligrapher, his mother Xin Fengxia is a painter in his later years, and their children can play with both, can it be strange?
Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia
However, Wu Huan can play calligraphy and painting, but it is not without heredity and reasons other than hearing and seeing. For this reason, Jiang Kun summed it up like this, he said: "I have summed it up for him, that is, to do professional work and take out the spirit of amateurism; dry amateur has professional momentum. ”
The first time I saw Wu Huan splash ink, I was deeply touched by Teacher Jiang Kun's words. The strength with which he draws on paper with a pen is enough to infect anyone who has no interest in calligraphy at all.
And whenever Wu Huan finishes painting and chooses one of the many large and small, square, and round seals to stamp the calligraphy and painting, you can feel the kind of interest he had when he "stamped", which is a bit of a feeling of giving the beauty a little lip.
Wu Huan's father, Wu Zuguang, wrote the script, and classic works such as "Phoenix City", "Zhengqi Song", "Returning to the People in the Night of Wind and Snow", "Breaking into the Rivers and Lakes", "Flowers as a Medium" and so on are all from his handwriting. These talents of his were perfectly inherited to Wu Huan, so he almost wrote a TV series with a single stroke, and this "casual work" won the CCTV Excellent Drama Award.
Wu Huan paintings
After that, because he was popular for writing TV dramas, he was followed by a large number of dramatists in Hong Kong and Taiwan to "force debts" after the first episode of the ass.
But Wu Huan did not buy it, after all, compared with ordinary playwrights, he was almost worry-free in his life. A person who does not make a living in any industry is naturally a person who wants nothing, and since he has nothing to ask for, he naturally stands taller than the average person. Wu Huan himself was very clear about this, so he once said with some pride:
"My writing, painting, and so on, explodes as soon as I go out, not because of anything else, because I don't do it for the sake of doing it, not even for any other purpose, my thing, is art itself." 」
What makes Wu Huan "do not do for the sake of doing" and "not doing for any purpose" is the result of his parents laying a solid foundation for him.
Compared with the children of ordinary people, Wu Huan never had to worry about his livelihood, whether he was young or adult. This is doomed: even if he does not work so hard, he can live better than the average person.
It is precisely for this reason that Wu Huan once personally smashed his iron rice bowl.
It is said that when Wu Huan graduated from film school in his early years and was assigned to work for a television station, he became the director. Such a profession, such an era, this is really a "golden rice bowl". If you change into an ordinary person, you will definitely work hard and hard, and then hope to skyrocket all the way.
But Wu Huan was Wu Huan after all, and he had eaten and worn all his life without worrying, how could he put a golden rice bowl in his eyes.
The requirements of the TV station are very strict, but Wu Huan is after all a brother of the gongzi, how can he stand such a rigid "bar"? What if I can't stand it? If you are an ordinary person, you can't stand it and have to suffer. But here in Wu Huan, "can't stand it and suffer it" does not exist.
Therefore, after realizing that the TV station was "not free", Wu Huan began to fish for three days and dry the net for two days, and later, he simply stopped going.
At a meeting in the stage, the leader said: "Now some people do not come to work, and they come to receive a salary once a month. So colleagues set their sights on Wu Huan.
When Wu Huan saw that everyone was looking at him, he hurriedly "explained" loudly: "This kind of person is really not like words, but the leader is not talking about me Wu Huan, I Wu Huan only came to receive a salary once in half a year." ”
So, after laughing, Wu Huan's TV experience was over.
In the middle is Wu Huan
But if you think that this is the extreme embodiment of Wu Huan's "Gongzi Brother" style, it is a big mistake. The real Wu Huan once "built" a building in Beijing City just by eating and drinking when he was young. What is this concept, which is equivalent to eating alone, and it has lost tens of millions.
It is also because of this stubble that Wu Huan still "retains" the "good name" of "the first loser in Beijing"!
But when Wu Huan talked about this, he didn't think so, and he never said anything about it. After all, for a celebrity descendant like him, money and so on are the most secondary. Because these things, in their world, are innate.
For Wu Huan, the biggest benefit of being a celebrity descendant is by no means the visible things, in contrast, he feels that those invisible things are more important, such as: the extraordinary circle he has because he is a celebrity descendant.
Since he was a child, Wu Zuguang has almost grown up in the celebrity pile. Because, the people who interact with his parents, there are very few ordinary people. Almost the whole Republic of China knew that Xin Fengxia and Wu Zuguang were very hospitable, and they bought a large courtyard in Beijing at that time, and after this courtyard was arranged by them, they began to call friends here.
At that time, there were almost no celebrities in the cultural circles who had never visited their courtyard, and Qi Baishi, Ye Qianyu, Lao She, Shen Congwen and other celebrities were once regular guests of this courtyard.
Xu Xiaoyang, a close friend of Wu Huan, once wrote an article titled "Wu Family Courtyard, Beijing Grand Salon", which mentioned the list of Wu Zuguang's new Fengxia and his wife's family gathering: "The guest list can be described as a bright star: Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Guo Moruo, Shen Yinmo, Lao She, Ba Jin, Mao Dun, Cao Yu, Zhang Boju, Pan Hannian, Xia Yan, Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Xun Huisheng, Shang Xiaoyun, Shen Congwen, Fu Baoshi, Zhao Puchu, Xie Bingxin, Qian Zhongshu Qigong..."
There are hundreds of people in this long list, and they are all celebrities from the Republic of China period.
How big is the circle of friends of Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia, how lively their courtyard is.
At that time, they did not expect that such an atmosphere would invisibly influence their children. From the beginning of his childhood, Wu Huan began to be interested in art and so on.
The influence of these celebrities on Wu Huan is the same as the influence of his parents on him, which lasts for a lifetime. Even his name was given by Qi Baishi. When naming him that year, Master Qi Baishi said: "Do nothing and do nothing, do nothing." Nothing is joy, nothing can be happy. But it is ruthless but affectionate, but there is no joy but there is joy. ”
Ordinary people can hardly see celebrities once, but here in Wu Huan, they are the masters who look up and don't look down. Under the influence of so many people, Wu Huan's influence is naturally unattainable by ordinary people.
Also because of the influence of her parents' strong circle of friends, Wu Huan also likes to be lively since she was a child. Like his parents, he is hospitable and affectionate. Also because he likes to make friends, his circle of friends can almost match his parents.
Wu Huan had consciously or unconsciously gathered together the descendants of all the celebrities his parents had interacted with at that time, such as Qi Baishi's granddaughter Qi Huijuan, Xu Beihong's eldest grandson Xu Xiaoyang, and so on, all of whom had become his close friends without exception.
In addition to these, the celebrities That Wu Huan has befriended are numerous.
Xu Xiaoyang once gave an example when asked how big Wu Huan's circle of friends really was, saying: "Wu Huan was the first artist to hold an exhibition on the top floor of the United Nations Headquarters building in New York, and the host of the opening ceremony of the exhibition was Ban Ki-moon, then secretary-general of the United Nations. ”
In fact, Wu Huan's circle of friends is completely beyond everyone's imagination, he has close contacts with the descendants of the rockefeller family, the world's top consortium, and another world-famous consortium, the Rothschild family, also treats Wu Huan as a guest. The Rothschilds held exhibitions at the Louvre in Paris and went to lafayette wineries to taste wine, and they would invite Wu Huan to attend.
Wu Huan and the descendants of the Rockefeller family
Wu Huan's circle of friends can be so large, in addition to the influence of his parents' circle of friends itself, but also because of his identity is too much, he has been a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for three years, famous calligraphers and painters, playwrights, collectors, historians of the Republic of China, social activists...
At the age of 67, Wu Huan, who has retired, is lively every day under the "protection" of a huge circle of friends, and he is simply happy. As a result, the older he got, the more he appeared as an "old naughty boy".
When I first saw Wu Huan, I was shocked by his excellent mental state, he was as loud as Hong Zhong, his body was strong, his eyes were sharp, watching him walk and listen to him, you would have the illusion that he was a young man like us.
Wu Huan's world is almost the same as that of young people, he uses the latest folding large-screen mobile phone, plays vibrato, fast hands, and loves selfies. When we recorded him on the spot, he also posed for himself from time to time, sometimes shrugging the glasses frames down and looking at them obliquely, sometimes lying on the desk to make a grimace.
And the explosive gold sentences during the interview are even more common, after a video conversation section, I feel exhausted, but he can still blurt out all kinds of golden sentences full of philosophical thoughts. For example: "Profound is a disease that needs to be treated by shallowness" and so on.
If you ask specifically, he will also explain to you, for example, when the profound and shallow arguments, he patiently explains: "Shallow is entertainment, culture and other audiovisual arts." Art itself is shallow, because life is too deep, too complicated, too chaotic, so people need to be shallow, and the pursuit of shallowness can be endless. ”
The profundity of Wu Huan's thoughts seems to be natural, but if you understand his life, you have to admit that even this profundity is the result of his "welfare" as a celebrity descendant.
At the age of 3, Wu Huan's father, Wu Zuguang, was beaten into a reactionary faction. After the great change, little Wu Huan began to taste the taste of the world. The ups and downs of life naturally made Wu Huan know how to think at a very young age.
It can be said that Wu Huan's special encounter when he was a child inspired his wisdom early, and his understanding of art, writing, etc., will be more profound than ordinary people.
Wu Huan took a group photo with her brother and sister
Wu Huan believes that all of the above is not the greatest luck of his children as celebrities, and the greatest luck of his being a descendant of celebrities is that it gives him self-confidence that goes deep into his bones, and this self-confidence has roots.
Indeed, as the son of Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia, and as a descendant of the 500-year-old Wu family, he was born with more confident capital than ordinary people.
The Wu family is one of the famous cultural families in China, and there were 43 jinshi in the Ming and Qing dynasties, who were the champions, the eyes of the list, and the flowers. For five hundred years, this family has been full of talents:
"Wu Dianying, the superintendent of the Hubei New Army, the first promoter of the Xinhai Revolution; Wu Zhongxing, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, who was not afraid of the powerful, spoke out and dared to advise, and the "History of Ming" records that he "shook the world with a straight voice"; Wu Ying, the founder of China's cultural and cultural undertakings, the founder of the Palace Museum, and the great hero of the protection of national treasures and cultural relics..."
In such a family, can you be confident from the inside out?
This kind of self-confidence, invisible, is enough to affect a person's life. Wu Huan himself is the existence of this self-confidence that has affected his whole life. Because he is backed by a large family with a history of 900 years, a 500-year-old family tree and a large number of talents, he is very confident in everything he does, so he speaks and does things at any time to give people an indescribable power, which is enough to infect anyone.
Because of this kind of rooted self-confidence, even though he is now 67 years old, he still speaks in the "future tense", and his exit is "I want it when the time comes", "I am ready", "I am thinking about it", "how will we be next".
Wu Huan said his next plan is to hold a global exhibition of Wu's three generations. Such a big idea is spit out from the mouth of Wu Huan, who has been confident and has created countless impossibleies, and you will only sigh after listening to it: "I really don't know what tricks he wants to play after playing this!" ”
Wu Huan's calligraphy works
But every time Wu Huan played, he was serious, and his research on the Wu family was also serious.
After studying the family tree, he clearly saw the ups and downs of countless generations of his family on the family tree, and Wu Huan was also very indifferent to the various encounters in life. He once said:
"The Wu family is not prosperous from generation to generation, usually the first few generations are prosperous, and the back is gone, and some of the ancestors of the family are even poor and starving, and finally they are buried in the corner of the wall..."
It is also because of indifference that Wu Huan has lived his whole life into the casual appearance that the world sees, from a distance, he is seriously playing for a lifetime, and up close, he is still playing seriously!
Li Man and Wu Huan
When talking about my parents, Wu Huan once said: "My parents have an equal influence on me. In my case, half of them are scholars; half of them are folk artists. I am a scholar, writing and painting; I am a folk artist, who is righteous and hip-hop, and does not want to become a scholar. ”
Obviously, Wu Huan finally turned himself into what he wanted to be most in accordance with his original ideals. Such a him must also be his own joy.
Befriending Wu Huan will never be burdened, because he himself will live carelessly, so most of the world he does not care. This kind of "indifference" is specific to life: he has never had any judgment on anyone, and this kind of non-judgmental relationship makes everyone around him extra comfortable.
Wu Huan is the biggest representative of the descendants of modern celebrities, in fact, most of the descendants of celebrities are the same as Wu Huan: they are still celebrities.
For example, Feng Gong, great-grandson of Vice President of the Republic of China Feng Guozhang: a well-known cross-talk actor; Gu Juzhen, daughter of The Republic of China diplomat Gu Weijun: Director of the Department of African Affairs of the Ministry of Political Trusteeship and Decolonization of the United Nations Secretariat; Wang Fei, granddaughter of politician Wang Zhaomin: famous singer and Chinese diva; politician Chiang Kai-shek's great-grandson Jiang Youbai: owner of Taiwan Orange Fruit Design Company...
The reason for this is that Wu Huan's life is the most complete answer.