Drawing saved meIf Ma Shilong hadn't understood "middle pot drawing" when I was 20 years old, I would have been a poor old man in the countryside with no pension. What is "Medium Pot Stroke"? Let's tell you a real and humorous story to make your friends laugh.
A Chinese painting given to his alma mater, Ma Shilong
This picture is now hanging in Wanxi Secondary School more than 40 years ago, when I was teaching art class in Bainiu Township Junior High School in Deng County, Nanyang City, once the Basic Education Unit of the County Education Bureau wanted to go to the school to listen to the class, and the above did not say what class to listen to or whose class to listen to. The principal prepares every teacher. I don't think art is an important minor subject, so it's unlikely that I'll take classes.
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong as the principal said, that is not necessarily, let me be sure to prepare for the class and do a good job of preparation. And specifically instructed me that my Mandarin is a shortcoming, and I must pay attention to it.
For example, Ma Shilong, the principal of Chinese painting landscapes, said that last year, an education department from another province went to a certain city in our province to listen to a class without notifying the school and class in advance. Twenty minutes before class, the delegation informed him to listen to the first-grade mathematics class of a certain school, and it happened that the teacher of the class asked for leave in those days, and the school asked a school worker to take him a few lessons.
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong made a class, the teacher asked a student what is the value of five minus five? The student's answer is equal to one. The teacher said that the answer was wrong, and it should be equal to zero. The student asks the teacher what is zero? The teacher was very witty, and then explained in Henan dialect that zero is "Muren Shier", and "Muren Shier" is zero. Now the students understood, but they were confused by the inspection group listening to the class, and they all exchanged heads and asked each other, what is "Muren Whistle"?
This time, the teacher did not win glory for the school.
In Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong said as the saying goes, "I am afraid that there are ghosts everywhere, and there are sifs in the itchy places." "I really won the first prize this time, and I was notified to listen to my art class ten minutes before class. To be honest, I did get a little nervous, but I didn't panic.
I remember when I was in school at the Inner Township Normal School, Mr. Zhao Wenwen once told us that when we went to school after graduation, we should first be calm, don't be afraid, and treat the students as a group of fools, or cabbage all over the ground, they don't understand anything, you just say, don't be afraid of making mistakes, after five or seven minutes, you will speak smoothly.
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong for this class, I am going to talk about the painting method of Chinese painting. I know that the leaders of the Education Bureau don't understand Chinese painting at all, so I just need to talk about it with confidence.
Due to nervousness, I forgot that Chinese painting should be read as "Zhongguo Painting", but I spoke it in the Nanyang dialect and read it as "Zhongcheng Painting". said that the back of the head was booming, and the quick reaction was wrong, now it's over, what should I do? So he hurriedly changed his words, adding that it was not a good painting, but a middle pot drawing. After speaking, the leaders who listened to the class burst into laughter.
I can't take care of these things when I paint landscapes in China, Ma Shilong thinks, you bureaucrats don't understand anything, you only smoke and drink to find fault and joke people, don't you also speak the Deng County dialect at home? I secretly cheered myself up, and I was confident enough to go on a demonstration. At this time, no one in the class laughed, and the classroom was quiet, and they all stared at me with wide eyes.
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong who would have expected that when he was carefully painting, there was an accident. Since I was drawing in front of the blackboard, I accidentally dripped a large ink lump onto the paper of the picture, what should I do? This is a class, and the leaders of the county bureau are listening to high-quality classes! This must not fail and smash the field. I was scared into a cold sweat, what should I do?
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong as I was in a hurry, quickly added a lot of water to the big black dots, the ink dots on the rice paper after the melting of water, slowly from heavy to shallow to spread outward, I immediately added a few strokes, distinguish the shade of the near virtual and real, the black bump became a wonderful mountain, originally to cover up the failure, but the effect is better than the effect of painting with heart. At this time, I heard someone whispering below, saying that these strokes are magic pens, and this mountain is natural and smooth with a pen, which is wonderful.
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong listened to the principal afterwards, the teacher gave you a good evaluation of the class, saying that your painting level is extremely high, and there are few teachers in Deng County who can reach your level.
After hearing this, I was relieved that it was painting that remedied me.
A few months after Ma Shilong painted Chinese landscapes, the county education bureau sent me a certificate of "quality class", haha, hahahaha, things in the world are really wonderful, and they are also very ridiculous! Who can explain clearly and clearly, whether I am good or bad in this class, you say?
Chinese painting landscapes, Ma Shilong's impression of this lecture is that everything in the world, all right and wrong, good and bad, success or failure, profit and bluntness are all arranged by God in the dark, and mortals cannot decide, let alone turn things around!
On March 2, 2024, he was admitted to Guangdong Technical Normal UniversityAbout the Author
Ma Shilong, a powerful contemporary Chinese comic artist, the first person in Nanyang comics, and a Chinese painter, also writes essays, biographies, and reviews. In 1989, he began to publish comics, ** for more than 30 years, has been in "Comics Monthly", "Chinese Comics", "Art Daguan", "Chinese Women", "Liaoning Youth", "Essay Monthly", "Selected Essays", "Yuanyuan Comics" and other authoritative magazines, "People**", "Guangming**", "China Youth Daily", "Satire and Humor", "China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper", "Humor and Jokes", "Rule of Law**", "Workers**", "Farmers**", "Yangcheng Evening News", "Marriage and Childbirth Cartoon News", "China Lawyer Daily", "Health News", "Comic World", " Authoritative newspapers and periodicals such as "Ancient and Modern Stories", "Miscellaneous Newspaper", "New Evening News", "New *** Elderly**", a total of more than 1,000 works have been published in hundreds of mainstream newspapers and magazines at the provincial and municipal levels across the country, and some works have been published in foreign countries. He has won more than 50 awards such as gold and silver awards. For more works, please search: "Nanyang Painter Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Comics", "Ma Shilong Cartoonists", "Henan Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Chinese Painting" and other keywords. Subscribe and follow this account to watch past articles. Thanks for liking, sharing, favorites, and comments. Hotspot Engine Program