He devoted his whole life to the “four carriages” of painting, literature, cultural heritage protection and education

Feng Jicai: I’m 80 years old this year, so I’m short of time

On the ninth day of February (March 11) of the lunar calendar this year, Mr. Feng Jicai will celebrate his 80th birthday. On March 4, in an interview with the reporter of Beijing Youth Daily, Mr. Feng told the reporter that he had an appointment with his mother. At noon on his birthday, they had a meal of noodles together, “This morning, I also went to see my mother, who is 105 years old. I think it’s very rare that I can visit my mother when I am 80 years old. When I have a meal of noodles with my mother at noon on March 11, I think this is a special and profound scene. I will have a lot of touch. Maybe I will write down my feelings about eating noodles in the future.”

Feng Jicai spent his life in the four fields of painting, literature, cultural heritage protection and education. He called it the “four carriages”. For almost 20 years, he became invisible from the literary world and devoted himself to the rescue of folk cultural heritage. Now due to his age, Mr. Feng can no longer run around for the protection of cultural heritage, so he returned to Literature and became a “productive writer”. Mr. Feng said that returning to literature is not to give up the protection of cultural heritage. “This will be my lifelong work”. He lamented that he lacks nothing now, “just time.”

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I like to live “deep” at every important node in my life

Mr. Feng believes that everyone has some life nodes to commemorate, such as birthdays, college days, graduation days, and the wedding anniversary he values, “I like to live a little deeper at every important node in my life. I carve a mark in my memory to make my life a little more vertical. I think sometimes people work hard to leave some memories for the future, so I hope to do something at important nodes to stay.”

How will he spend his 80th birthday? Mr. Feng said he didn’t want to be too ordinary. “For example, when some people celebrate their 80th birthday, many people congratulate him on his birthday. He puts on a Tang costume and puts a birthday man behind him. Next to him, there are fruit baskets and flowers. Everyone bows to him. I don’t want to live like this. I hope to add something.”

For “adding something”, Mr. Feng has two ideas. One is to have noodles with his 105 year old mother, and the other is to hold an activity at Feng Jicai Institute of literature and art, “This activity is not to celebrate my birthday, but to talk about my birthday and do some research. Many writers left their hometown when they grew up, and I have been basically in Tianjin since I was born. I want to have a discussion about the relationship between intellectuals and their hometown and the people in Tianjin through my relationship with Tianjin. I think such a discussion may be beneficial to Literature and society Writers are meaningful. “

Mr. Feng believes that tracing a person’s spiritual source must be inseparable from the influence of his parents and hometown, “My mother is from Jining, Shandong Province. Jining is a place of both culture and martial arts. Literature refers to the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and martial arts is Shuibo Liangshan. My father is from Ningbo, and my family has been literati or officials for generations. I think my parents’ two cultures have an impact on me. Shandong people attach importance to love and righteousness, especially righteousness, kindness and loyalty, and Shandong culture has a kind of masculinity. Ningbo people are more delicate and pay attention to the culture of kindness and filial piety, so I attach importance to myself My hometown, at the age of 80, wanted to study the relationship between an intellectual and the land. “

In Mr. Feng’s opinion, the influence of parents on their children is not a matter of a few words, “it will affect your bones and spirit. When I was 50 years old, I held a painting exhibition in my hometown Ningbo and named it ‘hometown painting exhibition’, which is to respect my hometown and my hometown, which is the birthplace of my life.”

Mr. Feng smiled and said that his first painting sale was in his hometown of Ningbo. At that time, he saw that the he secret prison temple built to commemorate the poet he Zhizhang of the Tang Dynasty was very dilapidated, but lacked the repair cost. He chose five of his favorite paintings from the painting exhibition. After selling, he repaired the he secret prison temple. Mr. Feng said happily, “if I don’t repair it, it may be torn down. After repairing it, it was given to Ningbo Federation of literary and art circles. Now it has become a very important cultural and tourist attraction in Ningbo. I don’t have any utilitarian heart to do this because I love it and it’s something from my hometown.”

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The study and studio are at both ends of my porch. It’s a sweet round trip

Following the launch of “study a world” two years ago, Feng Jicai’s “studio a cave” was newly launched by the writers’ publishing house. Compared with other works, Mr. Feng said that these two essays are the easiest to write, “I recently wrote some strange novels, so I wrote” a world in the study “and” a cave in the studio “to relax myself. It’s easy to write, just like those notes of the Song Dynasty, but I also pay more attention to the language. I use some line drawing language, which is very simple, not carved, not deliberately written, to write a charm in ordinary life.”

The study and studio are two places where Mr. Feng must stay every day. Every object in them gets along with him day and night, “I know the story in everything, and I know what is worth writing, which is meaningful and can not be ignored. When writing, some memories cause some thoughts in my heart, and there may be some sad things, but it won’t make me cry. Because when people reach the age of 70 or 80, they will feel all the things in the past, regardless of happiness, anger, sorrow and joy, and finally they will slowly become a kind of poetry, and there is another in the text A kind of poetry outside. “

Mr. Feng once said: “writing to me is more a way of social responsibility; painting to me is more an expression and expression of personal soul.” When it comes to how painting and writing affect each other, Mr. Feng said that his earliest identity should be a painter. “I have painted for 15 years. Painting is more personal to me, more personal soul and life feelings, a kind of diversion and expression.”

As for literature, Mr. Feng believes that “it undertakes more social responsibilities, thinking about life, and understanding life with readers, which are some of my literary pursuits”.

Both literature and painting affect Mr. Feng, “for example, in my painting, I pursue literariness, poetry and artistic conception, and painting also affects me