Father's roots | ambitious

Wen / Yaozhou Wenlian Bai Yongxiang——

Essay on November 6, 2021

"Root carving" is an artistic product of our country, and of course, it is also a cultural heritage. A few years ago, my naughty father had been not listening to me, and when he saw the sky and I were fighting over this carving, I wondered what he wanted to do all day? Isn't it good to stay at home and enjoy happiness, who knows that carving "root carving" is a hobby in his later life. His character is tough, who dares to provoke him and stop him!

My father was from a peasant family, that is to say, my father was an authentic farmer, and his skin was very thick, and no one would listen to him! The father lost his father at the age of three, so the father spent the whole of his life in a fatherless family, which of course made us feel really guilty!

Father lost his father at an early age, so his father did not get a kind of warmth from his father at home, all of which made him and we very sad, but he has never lost, his temper is not good in his life, although he studied little, he only went to school for three years, but his father was very far-sighted, he never obeyed anyone in his life, and in the minds of the people in the village, he is really a capable person, and they all know it outside the village. During the famine years, he went through many hardships in raising children, and suffered from wind and frost, but later he had four generations together! It should be said that the father's life is also extraordinary, but also different.

The father dedicated all his near life to his children, not to mention how in his later years, his father's "tree roots" seemed to have formed an inseparable fate with him! Of course, this is also perfect for a father who likes wood, because the roots are all wood.

In his youth, his father always believed that "serving the people" was his motto in life, that is, he liked to help other family members, so that there were many friends around him. He is highly respected, and Dao Gao Dezhong has won the likes and recognition of many people for him! Later, my father's health was not very good due to his old age, and perhaps the roots of the tree eased some of the loneliness in his later life. The reason why people call him very capable is that he can do everything that others can't do, he can do what others can't do, and the masses look up to him with admiration and admiration! Speaking from the heart, there has never been a people in the vicinity of Xiagaowei who does not know his name.

Facts are always facts, and they must not be half false! On November 30, 2009, my tears almost wet many places in my father's shirt, and the neighbors next to me kept saying to me, this moment is determined not to shed tears, this is not good... But I still watched with tears in my eyes as my grumpy father left the world in my arms. Although my father has been away from us for many years, we really can't finish the words that recall my father.

Much of my father's early years were spent at the Yao County Cultural Center. In the 1970s, the Yaoxian Cultural Center had an extraordinary experience in his father's life, and of course he had planted deep footprints there. I have not forgotten that the newspaper column in the guest hall of the Cultural Center, along with the monthly window on the left and right sides of the door, was made of wood by my father. In those days, my father's exquisite wooden works were approved by Du Pengcheng, the author of defending Yan'an, and The famous painter Xiu Jun of the former Yao County Trade Union! Because my father had been eating with the two writers for a long time during that time, the two writers and the father were very close.

His father was an idle man all his life, and in his artistic career, his root carving art actually reflected the whole of his father's later life. Besides, root carving also reflects a cultural quality of our people! A flying crane bicycle and a very ordinary dung cage accompanied him every morning and returned home, and it seemed that all the territory of Xiagaobu had his father's former figure. I was a businessman in the early nineties, so I went home and saw what my father was doing. As soon as I entered the gate, I accidentally heard "ding-bang, ding-bang, ding-bang..." Successive sounds, and when I went to the backyard, there were tree roots all over the place, some of which had been successfully carved, and some of which were original roots. My wife and I begged him not to do this again, but my father's voice was much louder than mine, "Leave me alone, I'm full, I'm full..." My father's room was about 10 square meters, and later his house was packed with all kinds of root carving artworks, arranged in an orderly manner, looking both natural and wonderful, which was amazing and amazing. Perhaps, in the eyes of ordinary people, these tree roots seem to be just some strange tree roots, but in the eyes of their father, they are rare and rare treasures, and then through the point of his dexterous hands, they have become a vivid and varied picture of heavenly interest!

His father's root carving, he relied on the natural form and deformed form of the tree root to create his own artistic creation object, through his conception, artistic processing and processing. In the shape of the root carving, his father exerted many of his imaginations according to the inherent form of the tree roots, and he believed that it should be judged from the following aspects: one is a work that can fully display the variety of tree roots, and the other is a work that can fully display the beauty of the scars, tumors, holes and holes on the root body; the third is a work that can fully display his own ingenious conceptual beauty and artistic beauty; and the fourth is a work that can fully display his technical beauty of finishing touches and rejuvenation of his clever hands.

Bai Yongxiang (pen name) is a native of Xianfeng Road, Yaozhou District. In his early years, he was a businessman and a teacher, and a member of the Yaozhou District Writers Association and the New District Writers Association. Like text, since the beginning of literary creation in 2016, many texts have been published on many WeChat public platforms.