Children’s childhood should be lively, happy and unrestrained. They should be curious about many things and continue to explore and discover. This is a process of growth.
But I don’t know since when, people began to pursue a kind of "prodigy". They usually have super abilities in a certain aspect, which are difficult to surpass even by many adults and elites in the same field.
But in fact, children often do not feel happy because they become "prodigies". Instead, their parents' vanity will be satisfied, they will be complacent, and they will show off to new friends: "My child is a child prodigy." A child prodigy."
The method of "genius education"
Therefore, a special education method emerged thirty or forty years ago, which is the so-called "prodigy" education.
This kind of education is more like a program. Through mechanized teaching, children are forced to learn some skills or knowledge without emotion, and finally cultivate a child who is proficient in a certain aspect.
They are usually called geniuses and prodigies.
This kind of genius mainly includes astronomy, mathematics, calligraphy, painting and so on.
Once upon a time, this kind of mechanical education was very popular. Many parents flocked to it, and many children became so-called "prodigies."
A child named Tan Wenxi is one of them. His father implemented "child prodigy education" in his childhood. He practiced dozens of paintings every day, and his father's strong discipline and control made Tan Wenxi become a genius in painting.
The popular child prodigy Tan Wenxi
Forty-one years ago, a photo of Wenxi holding a brush appeared on the cover of "People's Pictorial". For this reason, he is very famous in the world. The famous painter David Hornik also visited him and exchanged calligraphy and painting with him. Hornik also included him in his later memoirs.
In his memoirs, he called Tan Wenxi "Little Picasso" and gave such high praise. He even said that Tan Wenxi will become as good an artist as him.
As Tan Wenxi's fame grew, his father began to pay more and more attention to his "genius education" and took him to visit famous teachers around the world and travel and study.
In those years, Tan Wenxi maintained a high popularity and appearance rate. In Tan Wenxi's later memories, this period was called: playing monkey.
My grades are very bad but I can still go to college
When Tan Wenxi was nine years old, he was already known as a "painting genius" around the world and held a world tour of art exhibitions. At that time, wherever he went, the paintings would be sold out within a few days.
Even Hockney may not have had such a grand occasion. It was precisely because he was busy painting every day that Tan Wenxi did not even finish elementary school. He also entered middle school as an exception. His grades were always at the bottom and his cultural classes were a mess.
When he was 14 years old, an entrepreneur once offered him a huge sum of money to send him abroad to study at a top art school, but he was proud and refused.
In the end, although his grades in cultural classes were a mess, he was still admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts with his painting scores.
Lost everything in an accident
After entering college, Tan Wenxi, who had long been famous, became the focus of the campus. There were too many things for him to choose from. Spending money, beautiful women, a lot of money, and being far away from his father who often scolded him, he can be unbridled and rebellious, and he can indulge at will.
So, on a carnival night before Christmas, he rode a luxury motorcycle and rushed to the isolation zone. He was knocked to pieces with a loud bang.
After several years of treatment, he could barely walk with a cane. At this time, he had become an ordinary person. The honors and benefits he once had had long since vanished with that collision. All he had left was a mutilated body, and he had lost everything.
Become an ordinary person who is trapped by his livelihood
He has changed from a genius prodigy to an ordinary person, and he can never regain the original feeling when he picks up the pen. Finally, the burden of life began to bother him, and everything about him changed drastically.
He is no longer the child prodigy who can make tens of thousands of dollars with just one painting, and he has also lost those flowers. He has no choice but to open a small studio of his own and teach people how to paint. Children barely make ends meet by painting.
Life has turned this child prodigy into a person struggling to survive. It is a pity that the painting genius once came to an end.