I played the piano very well since I was a child, and I like it very much. As long as I am at home, I will play for two or three hours every day, and I will play for four or five hours when I am in high spirits. I have a rare electronic organ, and I take it with me wherever I go. I will use it instead of the piano when filming. Sometimes it happens that the crew has the equipment and can also play the accordion and saxophone. Piano is an absolute personal friend to me, and it is inevitable that there will be stagnation in the society. Useless piano practice has become a sharp weapon to relieve my depression. After middle age, I became fascinated with painting. There were no sects and no rules. Grind ink, spread rice paper, hold a brush, then open the map, recall the place where you have been filming for many years, and then draw the scenery with pen and ink. After painting, stick it on the wall of the study, read it over and over again, compare it over and over again until it feels good, and then forget it. There is also a saying that calligraphy and painting are not separated. Later, I felt that calligraphy was exquisite, and I gradually became fascinated. At present, I like to copy ancient books such as Tao Te Ching with a brush. It's interesting to copy and read silently.
I also like chess very much. From Go, Chess, Chess to Military Chess, Checkers, Animal Chess, Flying Chess, Gobang, Huarong Daoqi ... It is omnipotent. However, I only like playing chess with myself. Life is like chess, it's up to you. By playing chess, we can see the depth and breadth of heaven and earth and think about the shallowness of life. There is chess in chess, keeping in good health in chess, losing or winning, winning unintentionally, and being happy unintentionally. Do some manual work occasionally. There is a big room in my home, which is dedicated to the tools used by sugar workers, flour workers, carpenters and tailors. I still take these manual jobs.
Hands. My daughter is abroad all the year round. When I miss her, I will feed a sugar man with water, squeeze his face, or simply cut her a dress and talk about the suffering of lovesickness. It is also a kind of self-comfort. Of course, I am more interested in sewing all kinds of purses for my wife. My wife retired four years ago and likes to do some cross-stitch and so on. Sometimes I sit under the window with my husband. She embroidered her flowers and plants, and I cut my wallet. The leaves outside the window are silent, and the time inside is very quiet, which has an exciting aesthetic feeling.
In fact, my biggest dream is to write prose. Among modern and contemporary writers, I like Lu Xun's essays best, and I have read all his works. On rainy days, I want to write something by myself. However, I have never tried to write a composition, and I find it difficult. To have an environment and mood, we must first turn over a new leaf and have no distractions. I can only watch the snow outside the window, wearing a cotton-padded jacket, with a paper lampshade behind me, lighting a cigarette, but not smoking, writing a composition with a heavy pen in my hand. Some people say that work is so busy and time is so tight, where is the leisure time? In fact, it is still Lu Xun's sentence: "Time is like water in a sponge, just squeeze it." I don't smoke, drink, play cards, don't like socializing, never patronize bars, dance halls and other entertainment places, and rarely attend dinners. Even if I do, it usually lasts less than half an hour. Outside of work, the rest is reading, practicing calligraphy, playing the piano and playing chess, making clothes for my daughter and cutting my wife's wallet. These may all be "whimsical, cleverly pleasing women and children" things, far less useful than inviting guests to dinner. But when people are alive, they need the soul to have a home, so that they can keep themselves, the ID and the true self. Only when you are useless, can you be calm, clean and have a colorful spiritual world, and you can achieve yourself. If we want to talk about the secret of keeping in good health, this is the "mystery" that I get younger and younger as I live.