元宵節裏話快樂

中國的新春佳節，將在元宵佳節之際，給這個年畫上一個句號。 我們許多人都在說這一年年的，新春佳節似乎越來越清淡，而年味十足的年代永遠都隻在記憶裏。 

 

記得30年前的一個元宵節的晚上，隨著密密麻麻的人群，走在玄武湖公園的燈會裏，它們曾經是熱熱鬧鬧的過節的氣氛。 我們當時是怎樣的體驗，現在已無法查詢，隻能用現在的眼光去欣賞那時的生活，仿佛看到了那時的快樂。

 

曾經在求學的年代，隨著自己周圍的環境一起，去背唐詩宋詞，背紅樓夢裏的人物詩詞，卻並不理解背後的故事場景，最終它們也沒有走進我們的生活裏。 

 

或許每一種事物它的存在都離不開它當時的文化底蘊，後人可以在曆史的長河中，去尋找那些曾經存在過的輝煌燦爛，但卻不能複製它們，可以嗎？

 

想像如果我們的文字回到唐宋八大家時代，你我將會是怎樣的掙紮與挑戰？ 那些遺留下來的久遠的曆史名畫，壁畫，雕塑作品，應該是那個時代的結晶，將那個時代的所有的痕跡都孕育在它們裏麵，為後人留下許多可以探討的空間。

 

就像最近一直都在關顧的一個媒體人，她在講蘇東坡和他的詩詞背後的故事，讓那段歲月沉澱下來的他，在久遠今天為我們打開一扇窗戶，看到過去歲月裏的輝煌之外的溝溝坎坎，“看山是山，看山不是山，看山還是山“。

 

我跟著老師學習繪畫，斷斷續續也有十年之久了。發現臨摹別人的畫作，雖常常神不似，但型還是很像的。 但當我自己去創造的時候，卻發現周圍並沒有那麽完美的搭配，可以滿足自己所有的願望。在那個時空的裏麵，所有的事物都不在我希望的位置上，總有某些無法改變的缺憾，為什麽？

 

這個星期開始了一幅新油畫的選材。我選出了十幾幅近幾年我拍的照片，和朋友老師一起評判它們，卻沒有一張非常滿意的照片，最後還是選定了一幅三年前的秋天去明尼蘇達森林小道上的我的一幅不起眼的照片。 已經完成了它的第一步，勾畫輪廓線條，我想這幅畫的過程一定會非常有趣的。

 

也許享受每一件未知事情的過程，遠比我們從一開始就已經看到了結局更精彩，這才是我們不倒前行的動力和源泉。

 

 

【Happy words in Lantern Festival】Chinese New Year will draw an end to this year on the occasion of Lantern Festival. Many of us are saying that this year, the Spring Festival seems to be getting lighter and lighter, and the years with full of New Year's flavor will always be only in memory.

 

I remember that on a Lantern Festival night 30 years ago, with the dense crowds walking in the lantern festival of Xuanwu Lake Park, they used to be a lively festival atmosphere. What kind of experience we had at that time can no longer be inquired about now. We can only appreciate the life at that time with the current eyes, as if we saw the happiness at that time.

 

When I was college freshman, I used to recite Tang poetry, Song Ci, and poems of characters in Dream of Red Mansions along with my surrounding environment, but I didn’t understand the story scenes behind them, and they didn’t enter our lives in the end.

 

Perhaps the existence of each thing is inseparable from its cultural heritage at that time. Later generations can look for the splendor that once existed in the long river of history, but we cannot copy them, can it?

 

Imagine if our writing goes back to the era of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, what kind of struggles and challenges will you and I face? Those long-standing historical paintings, murals, and sculptures should be the crystallization of that era, and all the traces of that era are conceived in them, leaving a lot of room for future generations to explore.

 

Just like a media person who I has been paying attention to recently, she is telling the story behind Su Dongpo and his poems, letting him settle down in those years, and opening a window for us today, seeing the past years Beyond the brilliance, there are ditches and ridges, "A mountain is a mountain when you look at it, a mountain is not a mountain when you look at it again, and a mountain is still a mountain when you look at it again”.

 

I have been learning painting with my teacher on and off for ten years. I found that when copying other people's paintings, although the spirit is often different, the shape is still very similar. But when I created it myself, I found that there was not such a perfect match around me that could satisfy all my wishes. In that time and space, everything is not in the position I expected, and there are always some shortcomings that cannot be changed. Why?

 

The selection of a new oil painting started this week. I selected more than a dozen photos I took in recent years, and judged them with my friends and teachers, but none of them were very satisfactory. Finally, I chose a picture of me on the forest trail in Minnesota three years ago. A humble photo. Having done its first step, drawing the outlines, I think the drawing process will be very interesting.

 

Perhaps the process of enjoying every unknown thing is far more exciting than we have seen the ending from the beginning. This is the motivation and source for us to move forward.

 

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