Although the Guo family is a Manchu Zhenghuang Banner, their courtyard is not the wealthy mansion that everyone imagines.
Earlier, I have already said that after ** and New China, the Manchu aristocracy has long since declined. Moreover, this courtyard was slowly set up after Mr. Guo was kicked out of his house. It is said to be a courtyard, but in fact, there are three small tile rooms in the main house, a kitchen in the west, a study in the east, and a patio of more than ten square meters in the middle. That's it, at that time, the Yuanmingyuan Painters' Village was already an unattainable luxury for those of us who drifted north.
The Fuyuanmen community can be said to be a very inconspicuous place in Beijing at that time, because it is located in the southwest of the Old Summer Palace ruins and the north of the west gate of the North University, the earliest group of wandering artists in the capital lived here as a "blind stream", forming the earliest prototype of the painter's village.
In 1990, Tian Bin, Ding Fang, and other former staff members of the Art Newspaper, who had participated in reporting on wandering artists in Beijing, withdrew from the newspaper office one after another, and moved to Fuyuanmen Village to paint with artists such as Fang Lijun and Yi Ling, thus forming a center where artists gathered. This is the prologue of the Old Summer Palace Painters' Village.
Since then, more and more wandering artists have come to visit, which has attracted the attention of many **, and the title of "Yuanmingyuan Painters' Village" has spread far and wide, and has gradually become a cultural symbol.
I stepped on the tail of the Old Summer Palace Painters' Village, at that time, Songzhuang in Tongzhou had begun to take shape.
However, the craze on the part of the Fuyuanmen community has not yet declined, and the village is bustling with people, and painters and coal sellers, vegetable sellers, bath openers, women who have lost their feet, and those who later go to graduate school are all mixed together.
Of course, this also makes a great integration of various classes, you may meet someone yesterday and be a blind stream, and after a few days you will become a famous celebrity, or a graduate student of Peking University and Tsinghua University.
A friend of mine lived here and completed the entire course of his Ph.D. in literature at Peking University.
Therefore, the landlords here rarely discriminate against the poor students in Beipiao, and everyone gets along very well. There is a clear difference from the treatment of migrant workers in Pangezhuang in the same period.
The eldest sister of the Guo family works in the management office of the Summer Palace Park, the second brother is said to be a staff member of the Palace Museum, the third brother is a civil servant in the sub-district office, and the fourth and fifth sisters are in the court and the other in the bank.
This sixth is an art teacher in the sixth middle school, graduated from the ** Academy of Arts and Crafts, and then I have been calling her a senior sister (because I also studied computer art classes in this school), however, I am still her fake boyfriend at this time. A lot of things haven't started to happen yet.
To be continued.