Don’t carry empty castles, don’t accumulate useless knowledge, return to the simple, white origin, which is water and fire.
Remembering the initial meeting of "One person, one world" in Yan Fu's Calligraphy and Calligraphy Museum
Poetry/Red Leaves and Bamboo Horses
One person searches for a close friend all his life, and the old alley leads to my heart.
Drinking together the tide of the Minjiang River has not subsided, and I am even more thinking about where to find the traces of literature.
Books bring together dreams and spiritual light, and calligraphy and ink share tea with each other and the words are deep at night.
It is not easy to remember the words of the sages before, but the elegance of the stringed songs has reached this day.
"Every branch and leaf is always related to love." Winter is here, the trees are withered and the leaves are falling, and the wind is clear. On a cold night, walking in the long old alleys, there is a trace of fire burning and crackling in my heart.
It is the flames of art that stir, it is art that fills, surrounds and warms us.
I was invited to the Yan Fu Calligraphy and Calligraphy Museum to participate in the "One Person, One World" initial meeting, and I was honored to do so. Entering the "Unique Cave" that carries the heavy handwriting of our ancestors, after twists and turns, we come to the tea room on the second floor.
The aroma of tea has exuded a scent since ancient times, a kind of ambiguity between people and plants, and between people.
Two teachers have already sat down. One is Teacher Wang and the other is Teacher Qiu. They are both very old and are very interested in Fuzhou dialect. The other is the editor-in-chief of the contemporary Fuzhou dialect dictionary. One of them took it as his own duty to teach Fuzhou dialect, and he felt happy teaching it.
Why did the hand that once brewed green and red wine re-enter the elusive and unpredictable language? Maybe this is the so-called destination.
A heart always has a place of peace of mind.
Next came two friends from Nanyin. One of them had met her before. She had listened to international operas at the Tianjin Grand Theater and was intoxicated with the ancient and modern Nanyin. Let’s call her Xiaoting. Right; the other one has been sharing tea for us, just like her name - Xiaoli, and her actual work is also spreading a light fragrance of life.
Next is our teacher Jin, a senior TV host and producer. He also loves Fuzhou dialect and likes to find things in this city that once flowed and now warm the heart again. Several comrades present said that they have watched Teacher Jin host the show since the beginning of television, and she is a goddess-level figure in their hearts.
There is also a royal literati who has written many speeches, but was intoxicated by listening to Kung Fu Panda all night. Behind those eight-part articles, he pursues a free and unrestrained spirit. I think those who can listen to music all day are those who have a simple heart.
A "tea boy" who came later is "Fuzhou's Jay Chou" and likes to use Fuzhou dialect as a rapper. Later, he performed a rapper live for us to express his feelings about riding the Fuzhou subway for the first time. The strong smell of "shrimp oil" and the modern interpretation were amazing.
Including Director Chen of the Calligraphy and Ink Museum, what do such a group of people want to do when they get together?
"One person, one world", everyone is a world, a book that has not yet been formed. What is the world? The world is not a collection of matter, but a collection of your interpretations of everything. Therefore, you are the subject of your world, and this world is only the world you can perceive.
But there are many things that touch the integration and collision between our different worlds.
Tonight’s sharing is here.
We want people to become open books, to show their world and to touch the busy and restless hearts in this fleeting era.
Origin is a love for life. Life itself is a flow. We are born in this universe and have a predestined relationship with all things. We live in Xiaorong City and can travel thousands of miles away.
In the anxious life of the city every day, people have to live in a regulated and unfree state every day. Hamlet said frankly: "The world is a big prison."
However, from the gaps in this hard and cold shell of life, a kind of juice flows out, and a beam of sunshine falls.
That is the collision between our lives, that is the special connection between us and things and people - art.
Several friends here today are not engaged in art work full-time. They all use their spare time to find a kind of fun in life. "If you don't do useless things, how can you spend your long life?" Immersed in my own hobbies, my life is suddenly enriched, and I never know that old age is coming.
In fact, there are such shining moments in everyone's life. It is not about how many achievements you have accomplished in the external world, but the moment when your heart is filled with love and beauty.
Therefore, we must move this kind of emotion to awaken people, cherish their short lives, and once again use an elegant flow to spend this life full of suffering.
This is our original intention, so where to start?
At the meeting, people kept mentioning "where do we come from and where do we go?" This is the fundamental question of life. I can't help but think of Gauguin's painting. Perhaps we have been answering this question throughout our lives.
I think, if we don’t want to go that far, let’s just talk about the land we live on. We don’t think about how far away the Big Bang is, we just talk about living on this little blue planet.
Furthermore, we may be born and raised here, or we may stop in this city due to various coincidences of chance. What does the veins of this city have to do with the blood of our lives?
Blood is thicker than water, and water nourishes blood.
Life is just thicker water.
Therefore, the appropriate way may be to start with the regional culture around us.
Xiaoli talked about a friend of hers who made hand-drawn maps out of interest. At first, she didn’t understand why such a talented person spent so much time making a map. Hand-drawn maps, and sales weren’t that great. Later he told her that in the process of making the map, he wanted to understand the stories behind the points on the map. For example, what kind of story had happened on the street you were walking on? There had been one soul and another soul. What kind of interactions, what kind of joys and sorrows.
It turns out that everything is telling a story.
In an instant, you understand that you are just one of thousands of living creatures. In an instant, you touch the energy flowing behind these things, and you really walk into them.
I also have a friend who spontaneously used his spare time to visit every corner of his hometown to understand the stories behind it, and left behind his poems. Almost every one of his poems was They are all place names.
This is how to find your connection with this city.
There is also the "Mosheng" we planned before, which is the fate between a flower and this city. Why did jasmine become the city flower of Fuzhou, and what role does it play in the lives of Fuzhou people? Beautiful encounter?
Spread it out bit by bit, and you will find that everything in the world is sentient. Everything in the world loves you like a parent. Even a particle of dust tells the story of a person's breath.
Now that we have a direction, how do we start? After Director Chen expressed his original intention, Teacher Jin, who is a person with particularly strong execution ability, suggested that the timetable should be arranged as soon as possible, and she proposed a very important concept - "excavation".
We know that there are many stories in everyone’s life, as vast as the stars. How do we seize the most shining moments?
I remember once reading Zweig's "When the Stars of Mankind Shine", which mentioned, "The greatest luck in a person's life is to discover his mission when he is young and strong."
Of course, there is more to life than that, every process of life can shine.
But we must listen.
Only when we listen to each other and become familiar with each other, just like I am familiar with my own skin, can what I am deeply moved by be moved by others.
How many expressions in this world have fallen into superficiality.
If we had not entered the center of a clam shell like a grain of sand, how could it have wrapped us in a pearl?
"The sea is open to all rivers, and tolerance is great."
Xiaoting said that although some people are very different from you in age, there will be no generation gap. These people generally All have an equal heart.
A heart that is in awe of the unknown, a heart that is willing to listen, a heart that has emptied its own cup.
When we understand all this, we grasp that feeling, that moment like a golden dragon leaping, and that will become the climax of our presentation.
Art is indispensable for "bridges". It is a kind of careful arrangement, and art must break this "bridges".
To excavate and display, there are still people who need to record and flow it.
Here I use the word flow. I don’t want to use the word "communication", because flow is a very natural thing. It is also two-way or even multi-way, nourishing each other. Because we live together in this ocean of life, we are just islands.
In the ocean of art, everyone is the subject and everyone can shine.
What is art? When she filled me up, I felt so warm and happy, I felt like I was in a paradise.
Art is when our life exerts its creativity and beauty. Art is nothing else. Art is a deeper life, elegance in subtlety.
When life flows with her time and breathes with her breath, rather than dancing with the rhythm prescribed by the world, life is art and life is beauty.
Let’s move! We are water.
Everyone shared their thoughts on the event. Teacher Jin made it clear that activities must be geared toward young people. This is a kind of inheritance of life.
Culture, like genes, is passed on from generation to generation. Why do we need culture? Because she is a place of peace. We want our descendants to spend time on art instead of just surviving and competing for fame and fortune. This is a realm of life.
From the lives of our ancestors, we gain energy to continue facing the challenges of this difficult life.
Life is full of suffering. If we have endured so much suffering and still don’t wake up, then we can really be said to be numb.
Later, Curator Song also came and thanked her for providing us with a good activity space, a place with sunshine, wind, and water, and it seemed that there were curtains at night.
Life is like a play, and the play needs a stage. The earth is a big stage, and every temporarily isolated time and space is to gather similar flames.
A sharing session, chatting until late at night. On the way back, all the shops in the three lanes and seven alleys were "closed". Walking on the deserted streets, the beauty of the ancient streets seemed to bloom again.
All things are changing, and the hustle and bustle on the surface will eventually stop. Through the mirror, you can see your true self and the real world.
Life is like water, and meeting you is a rippling flow. May we cherish this small fate together, and do things that really touch us before the small fire of life goes out, to repair our relationship. The relationship between everything and everyone is sowing the fragrance of tea in the soul...
Finally, it ends with a passage from Mu Xin:
André Gide said: "People should always have a sincerity to die."
The first thought of being a human being is to understand that people are going to die.
What is life? Life is a process before death. Based on this, based on this thought, religion, philosophy, culture, and art emerged. But religion, philosophy, culture, and art are all dying - the sun will cool down, and the earth will have an ice age before the solar system is destroyed, and humans will not be able to survive. But the end seems far away. Churches, museums, art galleries, and libraries, all serious and solemn, as they were and will be forever—are actually the landscape before destruction.
I look at things that are not sad with sad eyes.
Even emotions and love don’t matter anymore. Whether you love me or not, whether you treat me well or not, the price has been paid. Only in this way can we be happy. The world is like a ball and can be played with.