Lao Chen is not a "cultural person" in the strict sense. He hasn't been to college, but he is a man with a high quality of life. Smoking but not addiction, drinking but not gluttony, his hobbies and interests are in his "book box". Whenever night falls, when he comes home, he will take off his clothes, come to the desk, make a pot of tea alone, open the familiar "book box" and invite Four Treasures of the Study out, so that his pen is full of love and ink ... At this time, Mr. Chen, who is sweating profusely on the highway during the day, quietly walks down and splashes ink like a literary giant.
Mr. Chen is him and so is Mr. Chen. He is an ordinary man, but he is by no means an ordinary man. His name is Chen.
Discover the fun of calligraphy from growing up
Everyone has a utopia that belongs to his own spirit, and calligraphy is a sacred place in Chen's mind. From love at first sight, to the tireless efforts of nearly half a century now, and decades of love with calligraphy, he has countless feelings.
In the late 1980s, student Chen became interested in calligraphy. At first, he just appreciated it. Everywhere he goes, he can't help but stop and admire beautiful calligraphy. When he sees good copybooks, he will try his best to collect them. This has not changed in his years of love for calligraphy. Nowadays, wherever Mr. Chen goes, he always records his favorite calligraphy plaque or calligrapher's inscription on his mobile phone, and then turns it out when he gets home, or tastes it himself or concentrates on copying it.
Lao Chen, who entered the highway industry after graduation, did not let go of his love for calligraphy while picking up road protection tools. At this time, he began to slowly try to create his own works. At first, most of them were copied, and according to the copybook, they changed from crooked to initial shape. Among them, Lao Chenmei uses fewer brushes and old newspapers. In those years, what impressed my colleagues most was that all kinds of brush copybooks and old newspapers practicing calligraphy filled a corner of the office of the Taoist class, and I would write twice whenever I had time. It was also at that time that everyone began to call him "Teacher Chen" affectionately.
But no matter what everyone says, Mr. Chen knows in his heart that calligraphy has become his lifelong mentor and friend.
Comprehend the artistic conception of calligraphy in life
Lao Chen said that his love for calligraphy does not have so many impurities. I smiled and asked him what "impure" meant. He told me that it was pure love, and I didn't care about fame and fortune, nor what others thought. I sat at my desk, picked up my brush, and felt happy involuntarily.
Simple vernacular tells the truth.
Lao Chen loves calligraphy for decades. Although he has not received any formal training, his calligraphy has become more and more professional through years of hard study and serious study. Someone around him has suggested that it is a pity that such a good word is not brought to the calligraphy competition; Others said that Mr. Chen wrote so well that he should try to join a calligraphy association. At that time, more people will know him, and he may even become famous. What's more, tell him directly that it is definitely not a problem to set up a stall on the street in the city during the New Year. Mr. Chen always listens carefully to what others say, and then forgets one by one.
This "forgetting" is an attitude of Mr. Chen. Unlike many "calligraphers" around him, Lao Chen has his own views on calligraphy and life. In his view, practicing calligraphy by himself is a kind of mood adjustment, a kind of mood cultivation, just like a Buddhist practice, and the result is secondary. What matters is the dribs and drabs in the process.
Experience the lifestyle at work.
Writing calligraphy can also tell the story of life. What kind of personality and storm you have experienced can be reflected in calligraphy, so there is a saying that "words are like people". Some people write about vicissitudes of life, and at first glance they know that they have rich life experience. Some people write pearl jadeite, which is comfortable and exquisite at first sight.
Anyone who has seen Chen's calligraphy will be amazed at his unique brushwork, which is not an ordinary running script or a wanton weed. It contains grandeur in calmness and subtlety in vitality. The font is rich, just like him.
Chen is extremely serious and responsible in his work. He has been engaged in the maintenance and statistics of trunk highways for decades since he arrived at Zhen 'an Highway. In the unit, Mr. Chen is notoriously serious. Over the years, he has hardly made any mistakes in his work because of his personal circumstances. Colleagues often say privately that as long as there is any work for Mr. Chen, the word "rest assured" is used.
In the new wave of "poverty alleviation" in China province and city, Lao Chen was transferred to Fu Bao Village as a resident poverty alleviation team member because of his outstanding performance on weekdays. When he entered his new post, he quickly and actively participated in poverty alleviation work, went down to the village, carefully investigated, accurately identified, and set up a card ... Sometimes he even worked overtime until three or four in the morning, and the town and village cadres also praised the new old comrades.
However, when many people around him praised him, Mr. Chen waved his hand and said easily, Isn't this all our work?
A vernacular reveals the frankness and freedom of this middle-aged man.
In a blink of an eye, time slipped away inadvertently around us. For old Chen Lai, calligraphy and he have long been close friends. Every splash of ink is no longer an ignorant attempt, nor is it to get more praise. More, through the bridge of calligraphy, we can establish a dialogue with our own hearts, experience the dribs and drabs of life from calligraphy, and understand the true meaning of life from calligraphy.
The only constant is Lao Chen's love for calligraphy as always and his unchanging initial heart.
He has been out for half his life and came back as a teenager.