"There is a kind of suffering that is choice." This is a sentence from an early poem by Lu Dongzhi. He installed this poem together with other poems as a work of art and hung it in the exhibition hall of the museum, which is particularly eye-catching. It is from these poems that we can read his loneliness and detachment, as well as his inner world full of ideals and dreams.
Taking the road of collecting, Lu Dongzhi said, is an inexplicable fate and the result of choice. After the Cultural Revolution, the college entrance examination was resumed and it was the dream of all young people to enter the university. Lu Dongzhi failed in his first college entrance examination, and the diagnosis of heart disease during his physical examination ruined his possibility of taking the second college entrance examination. This was a huge blow at the time. Therefore, he had no choice but to study hard on his own. In order to achieve attainments in calligraphy, painting, poetry and other literary and artistic fields, he traveled all over Beijing to find teachers and friends. In the process, he met many famous teachers such as Ouyang Zhongshi and Xiao Lao. Soon, his calligraphy works won awards one after another. In 1985, his reportage work won the first prize in the "International Youth" Essay Competition, when he was only 23 years old. Wang Meng, Tang Dacheng, Cong Weixi and other literary veterans admired him very much, so he joined the Beijing branch of the Chinese Writers Association and was recommended to study at the Lu Xun Literary Institute of the Chinese Writers Association.
In 1987, Lu Dongzhi was admitted to the writer class of Northwest University. Originally, I wanted to achieve something in literature, and at the same time, I wanted to get a diploma. But when he set foot on Xi'an, a geomantic treasure land, he was attracted by the rich and mysterious atmosphere of ancient civilization, and collecting archeology became his dream. During his school years, he focused his energy on treasure hunting and pursuing his dreams, and started his initial "archaeology" at the Northwest University library construction site. At that time, he carried a backpack and searched in the deep pits of the Northwest University library construction site that he had sensed in the dark every day. He forgot about food and sleep, and gradually found fragments of pottery and tiles that filled the desks and beds in the dormitory. . This became a legend and a joke among his classmates who were striving to realize their dream of being a writer.
However, he was not satisfied with what he got in front of him. He decided that what he was looking for had not yet appeared. Finally one day, he kicked out a broken stone from the Tang Dynasty. There were six characters in three lines: the first line had one word "you", the second line had two words "Bodhisattva", and the third line had three words "abstaining from color". . He felt that the resonance in his heart and soul was shaken, and for a moment he felt calm. He felt a transcendent comfort and fascination in his heart. He determined that this was the psychic artifact that he had been searching for and destined to belong to. "There is a Bodhisattva who never dwells in color." What a complete sentence and an oracle. From then on, he became even more devoted to collecting, and his infatuation never changed, and he had endless strange encounters. "Collection" changed his life and life.