Anhui Xidi Essay (2)

Essay on Xidi Village in Anhui Province —— A trip to Xidi Hongcun Village

Author: Twilight turns blue

In the bright spring, I walked into Xidi and Hongcun, ancient villages in Anhui that have been included in the world cultural heritage list for a long time.

The weather is cool, the wind is cool in Xulai, and the beautiful Yishan is still sleeping in the morning light. The continuous peaks here are connected with Huangshan Mountain. If Huangshan is like a magnificent symphony, it is the most magnificent movement in the symphony.

We first set foot on Hongcun, a wonderful cow-shaped village with beautiful and unique lakes and mountains. ? The mountain is a bull's head, the tree is a horn, the house is a cow's body and the bridge is a foot. ? It's the country in Chinese painting.

A south lake called tripe tripe is full of painting students. They either sit or stand or squat or lean, intoxicated by the ancient Huizhou architecture with white walls and tiles, and the towering spring scenery. South Lake is surrounded by green willows, and Pinghu is covered with houses with high clouds, white walls and blue tiles. It has a sense of detachment, as if it had happened in a previous life.

The 400-meter-long water hole runs through the village like a thin ox intestine, which is clear and gurgling all year round. Many people introduce this natural spring water into the fish pond in the yard, and enjoy themselves by watching fish at the fence after dinner. Or let the flowing water bypass the flower stand and watch the flowing water between flowers, adding poetry and painting.

There are two huge poplars and ginkgo trees at the head of the village. The ancient trees are towering and the fairy spirit is faint. It is a good place for the whole village to enjoy the cool and get together.

Out of Hongcun, I came to Xidi again. The first thing that caught my eye was a tall arch. This is a privately funded memorial archway, which was awarded by the emperor. What's above the arch? Rong En? Two words. The whole body is shaped in black marble, with phoenix, unicorn, crane and sika deer carved, which is exquisite and simple.

Xidi is a village shaped like a boat. Xidi people advocate Confucianism and are familiar with classics, but some people judge the situation, bid farewell to their hometown and go out to do business. After their successful start-up, their careers were smooth sailing. This business model of combining Confucianism with businessmen and combining businessmen with officials has created and accumulated great wealth. They use the money they earn to build exquisite and luxurious houses, some with unique shapes, some with exquisite materials, some with beautiful gardens and some with elegant decoration. Use grotesque buildings to express the rich property and prominent position of the owner.

What impressed me the most was Xidi's couplets. ? Every happiness comes from hard work, but it costs less and more. ? What's amazing is, Shanglian? Quick? One less word and one more vertical? Xin? About the horizontal and bottom of the word? how much is it? How many words are missing? Loss? In terms of language. It means that people should work harder and suffer more.

? Learning is good, doing business is good, and it is effective, but it is difficult to keep doing business. Is it difficult to study in China and America? Difficult? In traditional Chinese characters, which one is at the bottom left? Big? The word becomes here? Small? Words, because know the difficulty is not a big difficulty but a small difficulty.

What else is there? The world has widened for three minutes, and there is a small seed in my heart. For hundreds of years, people have accumulated nothing but goodness, and the first goodness is just reading. ?

With simple and incisive philosophy, these couplets inspire people to be positive and induce people to consciously improve their morality, thus forming simple folk customs and enriching their ancient civilization.

The profound cultural heritage has created many outstanding artists and sculptors, whose stone carving, brick carving, wood carving and bamboo carving are all excellent. Carving with stones and bamboo pieces at will is as easy and charming as writing on paper.

Xidi and Hongcun are like a huge picture scroll in the cultural corridor of China, which combines nature and humanity and remains in my eternal memory.

When I left, I couldn't beat the dark peaks, white walls and tiles, the proverbs of couplets, and the dreams of my soul were still lingering there.

Friends, please come to Anhui: look at our strange and magnificent Huangshan Mountain and our ancient and peaceful Xanadu.

Essay on Xidi in Anhui: Xidi Complex

Hu Chi

Visiting Tunxi Old Street, when the sun shines on those gray Huizhou eaves, and the dust particles drift in the sun, I caress them? 300 Yan Zhai? A wavy inkstone in the room sighed lightly:? I seem to be walking in an old and warm dream. ?

The next day, I went to Huangshan. After a rainy day, the clouds in Huangshan are steaming, the clear and bright rocks, the changing sea of clouds, the strange Gu Song and the spotless stone steps. When the clouds are hovering under my feet, I dance happily. This is a real walk in the clouds! ? I was fascinated and dazzled by the ups and downs of Huangshan Mountain in the sea of clouds. After staying at Huangshan Xihai Hotel, I immediately called my father at the foot of the mountain. I won't go down the mountain today. ? Father hesitated on the phone and said, then you should go to Huangshan more often! I was scheduled to go to Xidi tomorrow, but it won't count if it's too late.

Xidi? ! ? Don't! Don't! I will be there tomorrow morning! Be sure to go to Xidi! ? My voice is short and urgent. I still don't understand, at that moment, how did the dreamy Huangshan fade away? How can a heart stirred by Huangshan Mountain like first love be suddenly caught by another desire rising from the heart?

In fact, I don't have a complete impression of Xidi. I was just photographed by an artist at an art exhibition? Xidi series? What is attracted by the exaggeration of art is the delivery of the west, the quaint cultural atmosphere, the vicissitudes of life, and the indifferent and quiet existence in those complicated residential groups. What I read is a timeless state of mind, an internal force of life that spans historical time and space and quietly diffuses. I said to myself, isn't this the apartment of the soul I've been looking for? I saw this message in the TV scenery film. Deciduous leaves return to their roots? So, what about the stone window? Breeze Xu Lai? I was deeply moved by the big fans. What a rich light life the people in these old houses are decorated with! ? In the introduction of a friend who lives in Yixian, I learned about the Taoyuan Cave in Yixian, that Xidi's ancient residential buildings are boat-shaped, and that Xidi's name is legendary.

Tunxi old street gives me a feeling of idleness, like a trance and blurred state of mind caused by playing a flute; Huangshan makes me both excited and confused. It can inspire all my passions and make me drunk. It can be sent to the west, which is my long-standing yearning. It can be ironed to the depths of my heart and gently smooth every tiny wrinkle in my heart.

The most striking thing about Xidi Village is not the dense ancient houses, but the antique stalls that can be seen everywhere. Many old fake antiques are matched with the old houses around, so you can't help picking them up and rubbing them, crossing the tunnel of history and feeling the ancient taste. The stall owner is not as anxious as the street vendors in the city. Most of the stalls in front of their houses are very high. They sit in front of the booth and do other work. That kind of pattern, as if they just put their old possessions in the sun to bask in mildew, and some people like it, they will temporarily increase the price and let them out. It is so natural for Xidi people to do business, full of an enlightened philosophy of life.

The interior furnishings of ancient dwellings also show their psychological characteristics everywhere. Most halls are spacious and bright with high ceilings. There is a clock in the middle of the hall. There are porcelain caps on both sides of the clock, a porcelain bottle on the left side of the porcelain cap and a beautifully carved mirror on the right side. Calm down? . Those rich people who have worked hard in business for many years hope to live a quiet life without a sense of urgency and crisis when they return to their hometown to support themselves. This mentality has been soaked in this land and has become a long-standing psychological accumulation. The bedrooms symmetrically arranged on both sides of the hall are relatively narrow and dark, with only one flower window facing the hall. The local people told me that the ancestors of Xidian thought that the activities in the dormitory should be secret. Spacious hall, narrow bedroom, Xidi people design their lives in an orderly way, forming a psychological pattern of tight inside and loose outside. They not only have the tolerance to travel around the world and make a fortune, but also can go back to the countryside and enjoy a leisurely life with plenty of food and clothing, children and grandchildren around their knees and lifelong study. Walking in Xidi Village, my steps are leisurely and leisurely. Walking into an ancient house, it seems that I have come in many times. Those couplets, which can best reflect the culture of Xidi, seem to have been read thousands of times. Everything is done by people, what's more, everything is done by heart. Take a step back and talk about nature? ,? Cherish clothes, food, money, happiness/seeking fame, profit, self and others? . There is a huge iron abacus in the county town God Temple, and there is a connection between the two sides: you have extraordinary calculations, so you have to go further. Who knows the whole dish is empty/I'm confused about everything, and it never makes any difference how much I remember. ? People here have inherited such complicated wisdom of life. It is no wonder that people who have never been exposed to Huizhou culture are always surprised by the natural generosity and calmness of Xidi people's description and behavior when they first set foot on this land. There is no such supercilious and measured attitude towards life. A man from a metropolis passes by here occasionally, but he never comes back for a long time. He always comes several times a year. He said: no one who has come into contact with the local people here can stand the impetuousness peculiar to modern society anywhere. ?

There are two streams in front of the village. Water flows from east to west. East water coming from west? ,? Xidi? Hence the name.

Xidi, perhaps always a stream moving against the trend of the times, will continue that ancient style and look down from a height. Xidi ancient house is boat-shaped. Will Xidi Village become Noah's Ark in the hearts of contemporary people?

Anhui Xidi Essay: The Return of Simple and Exquisite Sketch of Anhui Xidi

Ten rings, a hard journey in spring, the wind awakens a feeling, reflects the long-lost silence on the drawing board, returns the mood to nature, and listens to the shepherd singing late.

Walking through the white mountain and black water, there is his persistent figure; Walking in the changing seasons, he has the feeling of his life; Wandering in the expression of nature, Zhao Zhanyuan has his progressive movement. He is a walker who is obsessed with the glory of nature and a painter who pursues the great beauty of the soul. He used his life to light up the scenery of his mind, and his life was shining with brilliance.

Zhao Zhanyuan is currently teaching at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Qiqihar University. In 1990s, he studied in graphic training class of Central Academy of Fine Arts, was a member of Heilongjiang Artists Association, a member of provincial watercolor art committee, and a painter of Heilongjiang Modern Watercolor College.

Stepping into Zhao Zhanyuan's studio, there are all kinds of painting tools and books scattered inside, and a thick artistic breath comes to my face, or hangs in a frame or piles up densely. One painting after another makes people look at each other, whether it is weeds in the wilderness or frost flowers flashing; Or a reed flute, a wild goose, a thousand trees; These large-scale watercolors, with mountains and valleys and colorful clouds, contain infinite feelings about nature, vividly depict natural expressions and demeanor, more like an intuitive expression, and also like a symphony in music, turning scales, chorus and adagio into sounds of nature! Interpreting the mind through pictures shows the author's persistence and love for life, and also summarizes and summarizes nature and life course.

? I like to observe the scenery since I was a child, and I am often influenced by an emotion. Where the soul meets the scenery, I am moved by the endless charm of everything. Strolling through the four seasons, I put my soul into the mountains, rivers, flowers and trees. Clouds and fog dispersed, the blue sky hung high, white mountains, black water and vigorous grass deepened my tacit understanding with nature through the brush in my hand. In quiet communication, feel the vastness of heaven and earth and the backward movement of soul, and capture the brilliant posture and shadow of life? Zhao Zhanyuan's inner monologue shows his poetic mood of advocating art and nature, and his eyes twinkle in his words, as if the whole person is integrated into this beautiful spiritual world.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Yihai went boating and studied hard, and set foot in the north and south to find teachers and friends. The beauty of heaven and earth is a great realm, and the spiritual home is guarded between square inches. Nature has become his inexhaustible resource, and art constitutes the scenery that will never fade in his heart. Through the dust of time, Zhao Zhanyuan wandered alone on the road of artistic creation, working hard and pursuing persistently. How many days and nights, he has been looking for his inner impulse and fully integrated into his passionate creation. In the face of these paintings, no one can but be moved: is he really?

Looking back on Zhao Zhanyuan's painting process, he always stood at the forefront of art, pursued with a solid footprint, and blossomed all the way: as early as the early 1980s, he tried to create Silent Ruins and Qiu Si by using materials such as bark, old cloth, rubbing ink paper, newspapers, and other techniques, such as tearing paper, rubbing rubbings, stringing empty space and pasting. Combining the implication of folk paper-cutting with modern natural materials, textures and diversified forms can broaden the unique aesthetic perspective, create a primitive implication, and sublimate vivid glass and poetic aesthetic images from simple natural themes.

In recent years, he made a breakthrough by creating large-scale watercolors. He is obsessed with abstract lyricism and image expression, pays attention to the expression of nature, pursues the blending and collision between nature and spiritual universe, and writes the harmonious charm between man and nature with the light of color. Realism is vivid. Emotional rhythm in freehand brushwork. Dig deep into formal language, pay attention to the aesthetic experience of the soul, express aestheticism feelings with bold and unrestrained brushwork, so as to obtain spiritual nourishment, full composition, towering sacred trees, ethereal pictures, all things living together, and distinctive personality characteristics.

Heaven rewards diligence, and he knows the profound connotation of learning from life, from masters and from nature. He read famous works, such as the biographies of Van Gogh, Rousseau, Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong and Zhao Wuji, and wrote a collection of essays with more than 654.38+100,000 words. Wasteland collection? Describe his artistic career, and now his collection of "Talking about Beauty and Understanding" will be published soon; Over the years, he has led students to hike, have picnics, sketch and collect folk songs every year, and appreciate the accumulation of traditional culture. From south to north, he has traveled all over the Yuan Ye Glacier in the north, experienced the Xidi and Hongcun Huizhou architecture with white walls and blue tiles, appreciated the exotic customs of the island fishing village, gained inspiration from various cultural symbols and solidified music, and sketched all the way and devoted himself to creation.

On a hot summer day, he sketched on a cliff by the sea. The sun is scorching people's skin, and there is not a tree around. Zhao Zhanyuan, who has been sketching in the hot sun overhead for five or six hours, was stunned by the sun on the cliff. The students were very nervous and quickly contacted the car to send him back to his residence, but after he woke up, he still insisted on completing his homework by memory. In the evening, he still gives lectures and demonstrations to students. In this way, he concentrated on sketching in Xidi. Once, it was suddenly cloudy like the bottom of a black pot. He rented a big parasol to paint, and he just painted for half an hour. The umbrella is no longer effective, and the rain completely ruined his painting. At this time, he was soaked to the skin and washed clean, but this did not affect his passion to continue his creation. After the rain stopped, he continued to draw.

No pains, no gains. Zhao Zhanyuan's work "Island of Life" won the second prize of Cai Lun Cup Jinjing Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, and won prizes in the provincial cultural fair, the municipal culture and art festival, Qiqihar University and the 300th anniversary exhibition of Jianshe City. In 2004, he participated in the Sino-Korean art exchange exhibition, in 2006, he participated in the painting and calligraphy exhibitions in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong, and participated in the roving exhibition of college teachers in Heilongjiang Province. In 2008, he won the Excellence Award of Heilongjiang Watercolor Biennale and the 50th Great Northern Wilderness Art Exhibition. 20 10 works were selected for the 3rd Watercolor Painting Exhibition of Heilongjiang Cultural Fair and the 5th Watercolor Biennale of Heilongjiang Province. The works were published in various professional journals, with endless pursuit and lofty feelings for art, which is the cause of education. Be a model, honest, modest and diligent. Only by working hard can you gain something. Painting is like a person, and a belief has taken root in my heart.

Today's Zhao Zhanyuan, like a cold-tolerant plant, can still stick to loneliness after being cold, but his surface is calm and his heart is surging, just like the spiritual orientation shown in his paintings, because he firmly believes that art comes from sincerity and love for career and life.

In art teaching, landscape sketch has always been an extremely important practical course in major art design colleges. The outdoor scenery is extremely rich in natural and color components, and its light and color changes are extremely diverse, and the artistic expression level is infinite, which is irreplaceable by the indoor teaching mode of one scene and one thing. It is by no means an ornament. Sketch class includes the discussion of artistic laws, the broadening of horizons and the cultivation of life temperament. As a way to cultivate students' aesthetic quality and artistic quality, training students' observation and feeling ability is of great significance to the control of modeling, color and structural perspective techniques. The perception and vividness of color sketch have an infinitely deep and wide mining interface when facing nature. In addition, folk customs, folk culture and exotic customs. The interpretation of traditional and contemporary culture, the collection and refinement of materials need to be gathered in Qifeng, based on real feelings and profound experiences.

Learning from life, from masters and from nature is always the law that art students should abide by. Numerous famous artists, without exception, study ancient and modern times, learn from nature, art and design, and can not do without observing natural life, learning about the accumulation of traditional culture, excavating creative spirituality from the manifestations of natural scenery, and developing their perception and understanding of beauty, mountains, land, ocean, gardens, architecture and continuity.

This exhibition is a report exhibition for the teachers and students of the Academy of Fine Arts 10 who came back from sketching in Xidi, Anhui at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. Objectively speaking, most students are not familiar with landscape sketching, and they watch more paintings. From indoor still life and figures into the space with rich and varied light, students will inevitably face challenges and psychological pressure. However, during the journey to the west, all teachers and students cherish this restriction. Taste the simple houses with small bridges and flowing water, white walls and blue tiles, the humanistic feelings in ordinary lanes, the unique cultural atmosphere hidden in carved beams and painted buildings and red lights, all of which make people fascinated and cause infinite nostalgia.

During the ten-day journey, we got up early and got greedy for the dark, rain or shine, because the beauty of Xidi can be described as a change of scenery. The mansions, courtyards, ancient roads and folk customs built by the Hu family, though weathered by wind and rain, are even more quaint and elegant. There have been countless literati here, and the prosperity of the past can be faintly seen in the ancient buildings with tea houses, horse-headed walls and patchwork. The old houses of Mingdetang, Liushuirenjia and Hushi Ancestral Hall are patchwork, and the buildings of Huizhou style are cornices. The gatehouse pavilion on the top floor is decorated with stone carvings and blue tiles, and its shape is unique. The inner hall is very high, mostly made of wood. Doors and windows are hollowed out. Inner courtyards are connected in series, and the alley is deep. The stream runs along the foot of the mountain to the entrance of the village. The spring water is clear in the blue-gray tone, and the red light is very pleasing to the eye. A path paved with bluestone slabs has a winding path leading to a secluded place. ......

We trudged between Xidi and Hongcun all day. At first glance, Hongcun dreamt of the silent reflection at midnight, and the broken old wall told a long story and the change of time. From the South Lake full of spring to the colorful bridge with rainbow still, from the old street in the tea garden shop to the traditional antique study Mo Bao, ancient folk customs leave footprints and lingering memories everywhere.

During this trip to the west, the sketch schedule was compact and substantial. In teaching, each of our teachers has adopted the methods of concentrated explanation, guidance and demonstration, and collecting opinions and exchanges, and cut into every link the key points such as composition principle, picture organization and refinement, modeling color and performance techniques. Every assignment arouses the students' subjective initiative, even if it is rainy and sunny, teachers and students enjoy it for a purpose. Xidi complex? Teachers and students have always adhered to the initial persistence and impulse. Art students from dozens of colleges and universities all over the country tirelessly shuttled through every corner of the village to sketch and draw, which became a sacred place for painters. Sketching has also brought the distance between teachers and students closer and deepened the tacit understanding between hearts. Teachers and students in the north have also left a good impression on local villagers.

Freshmen are in their prime, and their talents are just beginning to bloom. Although their foundation is weak, their horizons are not wide enough, and there is still a long way to accumulate and explore, their paintings, perhaps a little rough and naive, exude the fragrance of green apples. They carry heavy painting tools and go deep into every corner every day to paint without disguise. Here, they describe their innocent actions, their troubles of drawing badly, and show the face of southern customs and its beautiful days. True feelings and freehand brushwork, I want to say: their paintings are very good, although immature, but there is no lack of vivid artistic spirituality? . In fact, they got much more than that? .

This exhibition is also a link of artistic practice, and it is a sketch report exhibition for freshmen. With the help of teaching exhibition activities, we aim to show the results of teaching reports, exchange and learn from each other, and sincerely hope to get heartfelt suggestions and criticisms from experts and teachers. This is our expectation, an unforgettable journey to the west and an eternal journey to the west.

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