Essay about Xidi, Anhui: A trip to Xidi Hongcun
Author: Twilight is getting blue
In the bright spring light, I walked into the longing The ancient villages of Xidi and Hongcun in Anhui have long been listed on the World Cultural Heritage List.
The weather is cool, the breeze is blowing, and the beautiful Yishan Mountain is still sleeping soundly in the morning light. The continuous peaks here are connected with Huangshan Mountain. If Huangshan Mountain is like a majestic symphony, this is the most magnificent movement in the symphony.
We first stepped into the wonderful cow-shaped village? Hongcun, where the lakes and mountains are beautiful and unique. ?The mountain is the head of the cow, the trees are the horns, the house is the body of the cow, and the bridge is the feet. ?It is the countryside in Chinese paintings.
The South Lake known as Niu Tripe is full of painting students. They are sitting, standing, squatting or leaning, intoxicated in the ancient Huizhou buildings with white walls, black tiles and cornices. And in the proud spring scenery. South Lake is surrounded by green willows and the smooth surface of the lake reflects the flowing clouds in the sky and the houses with white walls and green tiles. It gives you a sense of transcendence, as if you are in another world.
The 400-meter-long water bank, like a thin cow intestine, runs through the entire village. It is clear and gurgling all year round. Many families introduce this natural spring water into the fishing pond in the yard. After tea and dinner, they can lean on the railing and watch the fish leisurely. Or let the running water flow around the flower stand and watch the water flowing between the flowers to add a poetic touch.
There are two huge red poplar and ginkgo trees at the head of the village. They are towering ancient trees and have a fairy-like atmosphere. They are a good place for the whole village to enjoy the cool weather and gather together.
After leaving Hongcun, we came to Xidi again. The first thing that catches the eye is a tall archway. This is an archway built with the emperor's approval and private funding. There are two words "Enrong" on the top of the archway. The whole body is made of black marble, with phoenix, unicorn, crane and sika deer carved on it, which is exquisite and simple.
Xidi is a village shaped like a ship. Xidi people advocate Confucianism, are familiar with the classics, and are well versed in ancient and modern times. However, some of them took stock of the situation, bid farewell to their hometown, and went out to do business. After success in business, they also had smooth sailing in their official careers. This business model of combining Confucianism with business, business with officials, and the combination of government and business has created and accumulated huge wealth. They used the money they earned to build exquisite and luxurious houses. Some of these buildings had unique shapes, some were made of exquisite materials, some had beautiful gardens, and some were elegantly decorated. Use unique buildings to show the owner's rich property and prominent status.
The most impressive ones are the couplets from Xidi. ?Happiness comes from hard work, and happiness comes from losses. What's amazing is that in the first line, the word "kuai" is one less and one less is added on the horizontal side of the word "xin", and in the second line, the word "long" is one less and one less is added on the horizontal line of the word "気". It means that people have to work harder and suffer more losses.
I changed the word "小" because I know that the difficulty is not a big one but a small one.
In addition, there are also: The world makes the world wide and the earth is wide, and there is a little seed in the heart to sow the sun. ?For hundreds of years, people have done nothing but accumulate good deeds, and the first good thing is just reading. ?
With simple and incisive philosophy, these couplets encourage people to be positive and induce people to consciously improve their morals, forming the simple folk customs of Xidi and enriching their ancient civilization.
The profound cultural heritage has created many outstanding artists and sculptors. Their stone carving, brick carving, wood carving, and bamboo carving art are unparalleled. They can carve a piece of stone or bamboo at random, as if they were carved on paper. Writing is easy and has endless charm.
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After leaving, I can never get past the dark peaks, the white walls and black tiles, the couplets and mottos, and my soulful dreams are still lingering there.
Friends, please come to Anhui: take a look at our unique and magnificent Huangshan Mountain, and take a look at our ancient and peaceful paradise.
Essays about Xidi, Anhui: Xidi Complex
Hu Chi
Walking around Tunxi Old Street, when the sun shines on those gray Anhui-style eaves When the dust particles were floating in the sunlight, I stroked an inkstone with wavy patterns in the Sanbai Inkstone Studio and sighed softly: I seemed to be walking in an old and warm dream. ?
The next day I went up to Huangshan Mountain. After the rain, the sky was clear and the clouds were steaming and the clouds were shining brightly. The clear and bright rocks, the ever-changing sea of ??clouds, all kinds of strange ancient pines, and the spotless stone steps? When When the clouds and mist shrouded my feet, I danced happily: "This is a real walk in the clouds!" Huangshan was undulating in the sea of ??clouds. Called: "I won't go down the mountain today." ?My father hesitated on the phone and said that you should spend more time in Huangshan! He was originally scheduled to go to Xidi tomorrow, but if he didn't have time, he wouldn't go.
Xidi?!? No! No! I will definitely arrive tomorrow morning! I must go to Xidi!? My voice was short and urgent.
I still can't figure out how, at that moment, the dreamlike Huangshan Mountain faded away in an instant? How could the heart that was stirred by Huangshan Mountain beat like first love suddenly be replaced by another heart that rose up in my heart? Stifled by a desire?
In fact, I don’t have a complete impression of Xidi. I was only attracted by a painter’s “Xidi Series” prints in an art exhibition. Is that Xidi exaggerated by art, that ancient cultural atmosphere, that vicissitudes of bookishness, such an indifferent and peaceful existence? In those intricate residential groups, I read a distant and implicit mood, An inner force of life that spreads quietly across historical time and space. I said in my heart: "Isn't this what I have been looking for? The abode of the soul?" In TV scenic films, I saw stone-carved windows with the meaning of "fallen leaves returning to their roots." I was deeply moved by the big fan with the gentle breeze blowing: How flavorful the people in these old houses decorated their simple life! From the introduction of a friend who lives in Yi County, I learned about Yi County. Taoyuan Cave in the county, I know that Xidi’s rows of ancient residential buildings form a boat shape, and also know the legend of Xidi’s name?
Tunxi Old Street gives me a sense of leisure, like a place where panpipes are played The trance and confused state of mind created; Huangshan makes me excited and confused, it can mobilize all my passions, and I am intoxicated both physically and mentally; but Xidi, that is my long-lasting yearning, it can iron it into the depths of my heart , gently smoothing every smallest wrinkle on your heart.
The most eye-catching thing about Xidi Village is not the dense collection of ancient houses, but the ubiquitous antique stalls. Many old fake antiques match the old houses around so well that even though you know they are fake, you still can’t help but pick them up and rub them, so as to travel through the tunnel of history and feel the ancient atmosphere. The stall owners They are not as anxious as the small vendors in the city. Most of their stalls are high in front of their homes. They sit by the stalls and do other work. That kind of situation is as if they just put their old household items in the sun to dry out mold, and if someone likes it, they will let it go at a temporary price? Xidi people do business so naturally. , full of a profound philosophy of life.
The internal furnishings of ancient houses also show their psychological characteristics. Most of the halls are spacious and bright, with high ceilings. On the banquet of the hall, there is a self-ringing clock in the middle. On both sides of the clock are porcelain hat tubes. On the left side of the hat tube, there are porcelain bottles, and on the right side, there is an exquisite mirror with a wooden carving base. Take the homophone of "calm". Those rich people who have been struggling in the business world for many years outside, when they return to their hometown to take care of themselves, all hope to live a calm life without a sense of competition, urgency and crisis. This mentality has been immersed in this land and has become It has a long history of psychological accumulation. The bedrooms symmetrically arranged on both sides of the hall are relatively small and dimly lit. There is only one flower window in the bedroom that opens towards the hall. The locals told me that the ancestors of Xidi believed that Bedroom activities should be secretive. With spacious halls and small bedrooms, Xidi people design their lives in an orderly manner, forming a psychological pattern that is tight inside and loose outside. They have the courage to travel all over the world and become rich and wealthy, but they can also calmly retreat to the countryside, enjoy a leisurely life with ample food and clothing, children and grandchildren around their knees, and study until they grow old. Walking around Xidi Village, my steps were leisurely and leisurely. Walking into ancient houses is like walking into them many times. Those couplets, those couplets that best embody Xidi culture, seem to have been read a thousand times. Everything depends on man-made things. Don’t say that everything is fate. / Situation is created by the heart. Take a step back and it will be natural. Cherish clothes, food, money and money. Cherish blessings/seek fame, gain, seek victory for oneself, and seek others?. There is a huge iron abacus on one side of the Chenghuang Temple in the county town, with a couplet on both sides: "You have extraordinary calculations, one step, one step further, but who knows that the whole plate is empty/But I am confused about everything, how much is there, how much is recorded, and there is always no difference in the accounts." ?The people here have inherited such mature wisdom about life. It is no wonder that people who have never been exposed to Huizhou culture are always surprised when they first set foot on this land. and calmness; where does such a kind of neither humble nor arrogant, extremely measured attitude come from. A man from a big city passed by this place occasionally and came back not long after he returned. From now on, he will come here several times a year. He said: "Having been exposed to the customs and people here, I can't stand the uniqueness of modern society wherever I go." impetuous. ?
There are two small streams in front of the village. The water flows from east to west, "East Water passes to the West", and "Xidi passes", hence the name.
Will Di Village become the Noah's Ark in the minds of contemporary people?
Essays on Xidi, Anhui: Return of the simple and beautiful Xidi, Anhui from sketching
Ten annual rings, after many hardships In the spring of trekking, the wind awakens a feeling, reflecting the long-folded silence into the painting board, returning the state of mind to nature, listening to the pastoral singing at night?
Walking between the white mountains and black waters, there is his persistent figure; Walking in the changing seasons, there is his perception of life; wandering in the state of nature, there is the movement of his progress? Zhao Zhanyuan is a walker who is fascinated by the brilliance of nature, and a painter who pursues the beauty of the soul. He uses his life points to The scenery that illuminates his soul makes his life shine with brilliance.
Zhao Zhanyuan currently teaches at the School of Art and Design, Qiqihar University.
In the 1990s, he studied in the graphic training class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is a member of the Heilongjiang Artists Association, the Provincial Watercolor Art Committee, and a painter of the Heilongjiang Modern Watercolor Academy.
When you step into Zhao Zhanyuan’s well-proportioned studio, filled with all kinds of painting tools and books, a strong artistic atmosphere hits your face. Some of them are framed and hung, or they are piled densely. Each painting is eye-catching. No matter it is wild grass, or the twinkling frost flowers; or the reed flutes and wild geese, the majestic trees; the mountains and valleys, and the sky full of red clouds? These large-scale watercolor paintings contain infinite feelings for nature, and the expression and expression of nature. The expressions are vividly depicted, vivid, informal, and free, more like an expression of intuition, and like a symphony in music, transforming scales, chorus, and adagio into the sound of nature! Interpret the soul through the picture , it not only expresses the author’s persistence and love for life, but also expresses the generalization and summary of nature and the course of life?
?Since my youth, I have liked to observe the scenery, and I have often been attracted by a kind of Emotions pull. Where the soul and the scenery meet, you are moved by the charm of the interdependence and endless growth of all things. Walking through the four seasons, I put my soul among the mountains, flowers, and trees. The clouds have dispersed, the blue sky is high, the white mountains, the black water, the wind and the strong grass. Through the brush in my hand, I have deepened the tacit understanding between me and nature. In the quiet communication, I felt the vastness of heaven and earth and the movement of soul, and captured the splendid appearance of life. Zhao Zhanyuan's inner monologue expressed his poetic mood of advocating art and worshiping nature. The words in his eyes It glows with radiance, as if the whole person has integrated into this beautiful spiritual world.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, I went boating in the sea of ????art to study hard, traveled north and south to find teachers and friends, the beauty in the world was the great realm, and I guarded my spiritual home in every inch. Nature has become his inexhaustible resource, and art has constituted the never-fading scenery in his heart. Through the dust of time, Zhao Zhanyuan walked alone on the road of artistic creation, worked diligently, and pursued persistently. Days and nights, He has been searching for the original impulse in his heart, and has integrated himself wholeheartedly into his intoxicating passion for creation. Facing these paintings, anyone who looks at them cannot help but be moved by them: Is he really born for art? ?
Looking back on Zhao Zhanyuan’s painting journey, he has always stood at the forefront of art, pursuing it with solid footsteps, and filling the road with the fragrance of flowers: as early as the early 1980s, he had already tried to use tree bark , old cloth, rubbing ink paper, newspapers and other materials, using multiple techniques such as tearing paper, rubbing, blanking, and pasting, boldly practiced and found new ways to create works such as silence, autumn thoughts, sunset and inspired ruins, etc. The combination of folk paper-cut meaning and modern natural materials, textures and diversified forms expands a unique aesthetic perspective and creates a primitive meaning. From simple natural themes, vivid and poetic aesthetic images are sublimated.
In recent years, he has made a breakthrough by creating large-scale watercolor paintings. He is obsessed with abstract lyricism and image expression, paying attention to natural expressions, pursuing the blending and collision of nature and the spiritual universe, and using light and color to write about heaven and man. The unified spirit and vividness of the painting are vivid; the freehand brushwork is full of emotional rhythm. Mining the formal language, paying attention to the aesthetic experience of the soul, using unrestrained brushwork to express the supreme feelings of beauty, in order to obtain spiritual nourishment, the composition is vertical and horizontal, the sacred trees are majestic, the picture is misty, and all things are interdependent, and it has a distinctive personality.
God rewards hard work. He understands the profound connotation of learning from life, masters and nature. He read the works of famous artists, such as Van Gogh, Rousseau, Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-ki, etc., and wrote a collection of essays with more than 1 million words, which he compiled into "The Wasteland Collection" to record his artistic career. Now he The collection of "Talk about Beauty Comprehension" is about to be published; for many years, he has led his students on hiking trips, eating and sleeping in the open air, sketching and collecting scenery every year, and appreciating the accumulation of traditional culture. From south to north, he collected and excavated, and traveled to the northern wilderness glaciers, forest valleys, Experience the Hui-style architecture with white walls and blue tiles in Xidi and Hongcun, the folk customs of ancient towns with a long history, appreciate the exotic customs of the island country's fishing villages, get inspiration from various cultural symbols and solidified music, sketch along the way, concentrate on creation, and explore The hardships involved in the creative path of Western fusion are condensed in a large number of works.
On a hot summer day, he was sketching on a cliff by the sea. The sun was scorching his skin. There was no tree around him. Zhao Zhanyuan, who had been sketching selflessly, had been painting for five or six hours with a blazing calendar above his head. He was actually exposed to the sun. After he passed out on the cliff, the students were very nervous and hurriedly contacted him to send him a car back to his residence. However, when he woke up, he still insisted on completing the work from memory. In the evening, he still gave lectures and demonstrations to the students. In this way, he was truly devoted and continued to work. Once when he was sketching in Xidi, the sky suddenly changed and became as cloudy as the bottom of a black pot. He rented a big parasol to paint. He had just been painting for half an hour when it rained heavily. The umbrella no longer worked, and the rain completely destroyed his paintings. At this time, he felt like his whole body was soaked and washed with water, but this did not affect his passion to continue to create. After the rain stopped, he continued to paint, but there were still many students who accompanied him to paint together until he finished it again. Were the audience and students moved by this?
No matter how hard you work, you will gain something.
Zhao Zhanyuan's work "Island of Life" won the second prize of the Cai Lun Cup Jinjing Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition. He has also won awards at the Provincial Cultural Expo, the Municipal Culture and Art Festival, Qiqihar University and the 300th Anniversary Painting Exhibition of the City. In 2004, he participated in the China-Korea Art Exchange Exhibition. In 2006, he participated in calligraphy and painting exhibitions in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and a tour exhibition for college teachers in Heilongjiang Province. In 2008, he won the Excellence Award at the Heilongjiang Watercolor Biennial Exhibition and the 50 Years of Beidahuang Printmaking Exhibition. In 2010, his works were selected for the third session of the Heilongjiang Provincial Cultural Expo. Watercolor Exhibition, the 5th Watercolor Biennial Exhibition of Heilongjiang Province, and published works in various professional journals. His art has no limits, and he has lofty sentiments and persistent pursuit of art. To education. Be a role model, honest, humble and diligent. Only by hard work can there be harvest. The painting is like the person, a belief took root in his heart.
Today’s Zhao Zhanyuan is like a cold-resistant plant that can remain lonely despite the cold. He is calm on the surface but surging in his heart. Just like the spiritual orientation shown in his paintings, it is because he firmly believes that: Art It comes from sincerity and love for career and life.
In art teaching, landscape sketching has always been an extremely important practical course in major art and design schools. The nature faced by outdoor scenery is extremely rich in color components. Its light and color changes are extremely diverse, and its artistic expression level has unlimited possibilities. It cannot be replaced by the constant teaching model of one scene and one object indoors. Not an embellishment. Life drawing classes include the discussion of artistic rules, the experience of broadening horizons, and the cultivation of life temperament. As a means of cultivating and cultivating students' aesthetic qualities and artistic qualities, training students' ability to observe and feel, and their ability to control shapes, colors, structural perspective techniques, etc., it is of great significance. The perception and vividness of color sketching have infinite depth and breadth to explore when facing nature. In addition, folk culture, folk culture, and exotic customs. The interpretation of traditional and contemporary culture, as well as the collection and refining of materials, all need to be integrated into Qifeng and based on true feelings and profound experience.
Learning from life, learning from masters, and learning from nature are always the rules that students who pursue art should abide by. Countless famous masters have studied ancient and modern times and learned from nature. Art and design are all separated from each other. Instead of observing natural life, we should understand the accumulation of traditional culture through study, dig out creative spirituality from the expressions of natural scenery, and develop the perception and understanding of beauty. Mountains, rivers, land, oceans, gardens, buildings, and endless traditional cultural symbols , all of them give rise to exciting ideas and temperaments, and bring together profound exchanges and dialogues between man and nature.
This art exhibition is a report exhibition of teachers and students who returned from sketching in Xidi, Anhui Province, at the foot of Huangshan Mountain, a quaint and beautiful place at the foot of Huangshan Mountain for Grade 10 students of the Art School. Objectively speaking, landscape sketching is unfamiliar to most students. Watching more and painting less. From indoor still life and figures to the rich and changing nature and the intertwined space of light, students will inevitably face challenges and stress. However, during the trip to Xidi, all teachers and students cherished this limited space. Opportunities for sketching, regardless of wind and rain, indulge in the passion of sketching and face the vicissitudes of Huizhou culture's historical features. Enjoy the small bridges and flowing water, the simple houses with white walls and blue tiles, the humanistic sentiments exuded in the ordinary alleys, and the unique cultural atmosphere contained in the carved beams and painted buildings, and the high hanging red lights. You are all fascinated by them, triggering endless nostalgia for the past. .
During the more than ten days of travel, we left early and returned late, rain or shine, because the beauty of Xidi can be said to change with each step. The mansions, courtyards, ancient roads and folk customs built by the Hu family have been washed away by wind and rain. It is flashy, but it also shows its long history, simplicity and elegance. This place has given birth to countless well-educated scholars and literati. The prosperity of the past can be vaguely seen in the ancient buildings with teahouses and horse-head walls stretching out. The old houses of Mingde Hall, Liushui Renjia, and Hu's Ancestral Hall are well-proportioned. The Hui-style buildings have beautiful eaves and corners. The top floor door pavilions are decorated with stone carvings and green tiles, with unique shapes. The inner halls are tall and mostly made of wooden structures. The doors and windows are hollowed out and carved. The inner courtyards are connected to each other, the alleys are deep, and the creek stretches along the foot of the mountain to the entrance of the village. The spring water is clear in blue-grey tones, and the red lights are hung high, which is very pleasing to the eye. The winding paths paved with bluestones make you feel like you have stepped back in time. , which brings people back to the depths of history...
We have been trekking between Xidi and Hongcun all day long, with the sight of water flowing east to west and the moonlight edict of Hongcun just like a dream coming back at midnight. Silent reflections and dilapidated old walls tell long-lasting stories and the changes of time, from the spring-filled Nanhu Lake to the peaceful painted bridge with rainbows, from the old streets of tea plantation shops to the traditional old study calligraphy and ancient folk customs. Leaving traces of sketching and lingering memories everywhere.
During this trip to Xidi, the schedule for sketching was intense and fulfilling. During the teaching, each of our teachers used concentrated explanations, guidance and demonstrations, and exchanges of styles to integrate composition principles, picture organization and refinement, modeling and color. Key points such as performance techniques and performance techniques are integrated into every link and every piece of homework to mobilize students' subjective initiative. Even if it rains continuously and the sun is high, teachers and students never tire. For a kind of "Xidi Complex", teachers and students have always adhered to the original persistence and persistence. impulse. Art students from dozens of universities across the country spend all day sketching and painting in every corner of the small village, making it a holy place for painters. Sketching also shortened the distance between teachers and students and deepened the tacit understanding between the souls. Teachers and students in the north also left a good impression on the local villagers.
Freshman students are in their prime and their talents are beginning to bloom. Although their foundation is weak, their horizons are not broad enough, and they still have a long way to go in accumulating and exploring, their paintings may be a little raw and naive, but they exude The fragrance of green apples, they carry heavy painting tools and go deep into every corner to paint every day. There is no need to hide it. Here they describe with their hearts, the pure excitement, the troubles of not being able to paint, showing how to face the southern customs and beautiful scenery. , ancient villages, and real touches given by artistic nature. Sincerely, I would like to say: "They paint very well. Although they are immature, they still have vivid artistic spirituality." In fact, what they gained is much more than that.
This art exhibition is also a part of art practice, a sketch report exhibition for freshmen.
We aim to use the teaching display activities to inspire each other, display teaching report results, communicate with each other and learn from each other, and promote each other. We sincerely hope to receive the wholehearted guidance and criticism from all experts and teachers. This is our common expectation and unforgettable Xidi, forever Xidi?
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