Editor's note.
Clear eyes, shining with warm light, around the fire to watch the old **, the memory stopped at the hometown ......
This song "Going Home" is the ending song of one of the short ** episodes of the "Re-reporting Art and Literature Journal: Oral Description" column in 2023. When it sounded, many people, tears wet their clothes.
In the past year, we have meticulously crafted and followed 11 respected elderly people through the long river of time, salvaged fragments worthy of being recounted, and returned to their spiritual home with them.
Using the narration of personal experience, personal experience, and personal hearing, restoring time and recording the times is our original intention to open this column. 11 elders are 11 mountains. Over the past year, we have read from them about youth, ideals, love, perseverance, tenacity, and ......broad-mindedness
Everyone is an oral narrator of their own life and a witness to a piece of history. In the first column of 2024, we switch ourselves to the role of "narrator", confessing the apprehension, exploration and harvest experienced by a recorder in the face of high mountains.
We will carry this harvest all the way.
Looking up at the composition, the chain bridge is from far to near, and the lines are simple, like a musical score; On the bridge deck, the warriors were either squatting, prostrating, or standing, high and low, like musical notes, playing the ...... of the overture of the passionate and enterprising charge
It has been said that the best way to remember a person is to read his works. Standing in front of Mr. Liu Guoshu's representative painting "Flying to Luding Bridge", I couldn't help but think and cry.
On January 6th, Xiao Han, in the eyes of Lu You, "the chrysanthemum branches fall into a bush, and the inoue sycamore leaves are in the air", at the Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, I visited the "New Kinetic Energy - National Youth Oil Painting Academic Research Exhibition". The oil paintings of young master's and doctoral students "crossed" in front of them, and an old voice sounded more and more clearly in their ears: "Life is very short, art is very long, young artists who are in the vigorous period of creation must face the difficulties of the things they are persistent and love in their hearts." ”
Follow the prestige, the Sichuan and American campuses, the ink is fragrant, the flowing clouds are still rolling, Mr. Ran has passed away, and he can't write, but "Danqing sees strange ideas outside of Danqing".
The literary collection is very rich, and the circulation will be superb. When I first met Mr. Liu Guoshu, I was still an ignorant teenager, and the illustration of "Flying Luding Bridge" in the primary school textbook was my initial impression. When I grew older, I read the poems of "Jinsha Water Shoots the Clouds and Cliffs Warm, and the Dadu Bridge Crosses the Iron Cable", and the image memories of my childhood came to my heart, helping me realize the emotional connection and sublimation of thoughts.
really entered the world of Mr. It started with an interview in August last year. At that time, the "Re-reporting Art and Literature Chronicles: Oral Description" column launched by the supplement of Chongqing** "Liangjiang Tide" set its eyes on this 104-year-old famous artist. After receiving the assignment, I was terrified and apprehensive. Oral history is generally understood to be the collection and collation of oral memories and historically significant perspectives by a well-prepared interviewer in the form of transcripts, audio or video recordings.
As a kind of historiography, it has been developed for thousands of years in both China and the West. In the Zhou Dynasty of our country, there was a secretary who specially collected the content of people's speeches for historians, and the so-called "moving is the left to make the book, and the words are the right to make the book". Before writing the Records of the Historians, Sima Qian also visited the elders and asked the elders to recount what he had seen, and in the Biography of the Assassins, he made it clear that he had heard information about Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin from Gongsun Ji Gong and Dong Sheng. Many of the materials in Gu Yanwu's "Daily Knowledge" are obtained from interviews. The Western "Homeric Epic" and "Marco Polo's Travels" are well-known oral history ......
Oral history in the modern sense began in 1948, when journalist-turned-historian Aaron Revens established the first modern oral history archive at Columbia University in the United States to record and preserve meaningful private memories of American life.
However, oral history is ...... "by whom and for whom it is written", "how individual experiences link collective identity", and "how subjective will copes with temporal tension".In particular, after superimposing the journalism side**, how to use the "voice of the past" to reproduce on the spot, and how to avoid high-intensity emotional temperature and ideological strength intervening in the narrative? As the famous American oral historian Donno Rizzie said, "Oral history cannot be defined and mastered by a single definition." ”
Because of this, I was nervous.
It wasn't until he carefully knocked on Liu Guoshu's door that Mr. Wang's humble attitude towards life and his philosophy of "success never live" dispelled my concerns.
Talking about his achievements, as a second-generation Chinese oil painter, an important founder of the "Sichuan School", and one of the early founders of the oil painting major of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, he said, "In my life, I have only done two things: painting and teaching" "The happiest thing is that I can pick up a paintbrush for a lifetime, which makes me very happy; The most satisfying thing is that I have been a teacher all my life, training students to grow up in the cradle of art......".How light and light.
When it comes to the nationalization and development of oil painting, especially in the face of the famous dispute between "Su Pai Ban" and "Luo Pai Ban" in the art world in the 60s of the last century, he is very excited and argues on the basis of reason, which is also based on his realist art concept of combining art and society in the roots of oil painting, which has created the glory of Sichuan Mei oil painting.
When talking about the controversy caused by Luo Zhongli's "Father" in 1980, he wisely expressed the artistic characteristics of painting that "image is greater than thinking", and euphemistically pointed out that the critics were too up-to-date and too rigid......
A successful interview essay relies on interviews for seven points and writing for three points. Subsequently, I launched an in-depth article with the title of "104-year-old "Father of Sichuan American Oil Painting" Liu Guoshu: I Only Do Two Things in My Life, Painting and Teaching", which stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and soon became a "swiping work".
Speechless and choked, hiding tears and eternal mourning. On December 12 last year, he passed away. The article also became his last public appearance in front of **.
The salvage of urban memories gave me a deeper understanding of the importance of oral history.
Looking back at my 2023, the story of walking with "Re-reporting Art and Literature Chronicles: Oral Narrative" is not over yet.
As an "important town of Chinese poetry", from the source of ancient poems in the Book of Poetry and Chu Ci, to Li Duhuazhang in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and then to the creation of new poems by Wu Fangji, He Qifang, Fu Tianlin, Li Gang, Li Yuansheng and other stars, some poets have written poetry and sighed: half of the soul of Chinese poetry is in the mountain city of Chongqing.
Inheriting the Chongqing context, poetry is an important field, and the famous poetry critic Lu Jin is an inescapable figure, Zang Kejia once praised his articles for "clear reasoning, concise and beautiful words, and full of attractiveness".
Entering the world of poetry in Lü Jin, he founded China's first new poetry research institute and trained more than 600 doctoral and graduate students. He founded the famous "Shangyuan School" theory, which still maintains a strong vitality in the Chinese poetry circle. He has published 44 monographs, published 491 articles and essays, and has won the world poetry crown, the "Centennial New Poetry Contribution Award, Theory Contribution Award" and other awards.
In October last year, I published his oral essay under the title of "Lu Jin, the Man Who Picked the Crown of Poetics: Keep Your Dreams, Keep the Sunshine in Your Heart", which not only caused widespread ** in China, but even a Chinese newspaper in Thailand published the full text ** twice**.
Recently, when I contacted Lu Jin again, he was in Hainan and had just won the trophy of the "Annual Poetry Collection Award" of the 6th Boao International Poetry Awards. In the year of the Stick Dynasty, he was still running on the road of poetry, sticking to his life creed: there is no joy in his heart, and there should be no happy people in the future.
This can't help but remind me of the famous saying "Everything is not, only then do you know that I am me", which may also be the deep insight brought to me by "Re-reporting Art and Literature Chronicles: Oral Description".
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