Zhuang Gankun

Once, in the northern rural areas of China, many villages had big bowls of rice, especially in Yimeng area, almost every village had big bowls of rice. A large millstone is a stone tool used to crush grain. It is indispensable for generations. How many years? There is no verification yet. But at present, the big bowl has become a rare item, which has been seized by many collectors, especially in some folk tourist attractions.

Coincidentally, the big millstones painted on paper have also become goods snatchers.

As early as 20 13 Poly Autumn Auction and 20 14 Rongbaochun Auction, He Nailei, vice chairman of Shandong Artists Association, founder and leader of Yimeng Painting School, shot 5 1000 yuan and 560,000 yuan respectively!

Why are large grinding pieces favored by folk collectors and calligraphy and painting collectors?

Because the big millstone is a symbol of local culture, there is a strong local flavor hidden inside, emitting a nostalgic nostalgia.

Some people may ask, what is the significance of local culture?

Traditional cultural thoughts and traditional values are precipitated in the local culture, and the excellent values formed by Chinese civilization for 5,000 years are infiltrated in the local culture, while traditional moral norms such as loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith are implied in homesickness.

As a famous painter who grew up in Yimeng area, He Nailei has a deep understanding of the far-reaching significance of local culture, so he focused his attention on the ancient big grinding pieces. He summarized and combined the traditional life scenes in Yimeng area, extracted the "Yimeng life scene painting" with the big drum as the core, and created a unique aesthetic symbol, which made people look like Yimeng at first sight. Although there are many images in Yimeng Life Scene Painting, the basic elements commonly used are as follows:

Big millstone, little goat,

Corn cobs and stone walls.

Chickens crow and ducks sing,

Pumpkins and gourds are full of seedlings.

If the fruit is rich and the harvest is good,

Yimeng people are happy.

In Yimeng area, every village used to have one or two rice bowls, many of which were about the same age as the villages, and most of them had a history of hundreds of years. In those days, it was not easy to build a grinding disc! The geological composition in Yimeng area is mostly brittle limestone, which is not suitable for grinding. The most suitable stone for grinding is granite in the eastern coastal area, which is called sea stone locally. Under the almost primitive traffic conditions, huge millstones with a diameter of about three meters and bowls with a diameter of about one meter have been transported from the eastern mountainous areas to all parts of Yimeng, separated by dozens of kilometers or even more than one hundred kilometers, and how many mountains and rivers have crossed! What a waste of manpower and financial resources! Therefore, the big millstone has become an important property of every village. Some rely on the whole village to raise funds to run offices, which reflects the unity spirit of the villagers; Some are run by one or several big families. Although it is private property, it is used by the whole village, which embodies a spirit of dedication and charity. After a long time, everyone forgot where it belonged. Whether in psychological feelings or in actual existence, they have become the public property and public facilities of every village. For hundreds of years, the grain of every household in Yimeng area has been crushed by this old plate, and their crushed dust has fed generations of Yimeng people! People cherish it, fear it, regard it as a god, and always burn a piece of paper money for it during the Chinese New Year to express their gratitude and respect.

The big millstones are all in spacious places in the village. This place is called the big mill. The Big Mill is a place where villages interpret ethics, rural order and love and hate. The size of the mill varies from tens of kilograms to hundreds of kilograms, and at least two or three people need to cooperate to promote the mill. At this time, the ethics of interpersonal relationships are fermenting and spreading in the mill, and neighbors, relatives, young and old, strong and weak all need to help each other. The young help the old and the weak, the young help the elderly, the elderly help the young, and the grateful help the grateful. Push the mill in an orderly way, usually in the order of first come, then come. However, good ethics will make the usual order change reasonably here. The younger generation will let the elders push first, and the slow things will be pushed first. Before grinding, everyone will have a little humility, and the feelings between neighbors will be transmitted and spread here, making people's hearts warm and graceful.

Of course, the big mill is not only full of spring, but also occasionally has cold showers. Individual strong beams collide with ethics, destroy order, and even cause conflicts, which makes everyone look askance. Some family conflicts and neighborhood conflicts sometimes collide in the big mill. But this does not prevent the big mill from inheriting the special function of virtue, because the big mill is a public facility, so the big mill has become a public place and a place where people gather. When pushing the mill, people can always get together in groups of three or five, and the stories between neighbors are passed here. The length of the Zhang family and the weakness of the Li family, including individual people who provoke the order of the mill, are judged here. A man's heart is a rod, and his conscience has a few taels of silver, which is exactly the same in the big mill. The big mill is like a moral lecture hall. For hundreds of years, the ethical principles and moral norms formed by Yimeng rural society have been circulating on the mill road, surrounding the hearts of villagers and ensuring the simplicity and tranquility of the local atmosphere.

During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the big millstones (including millstones) in Yimeng area were covered with a red halo. No one can count how many Yimeng Dai and Yimeng daughter-in-law wrapped in little feet, walking around with the stars and Dai Yue! How much sweat they have soaked on the road of tempering! How many rations have been run over on the big millstone! The "Six Sisters of Yimeng", who was kindly praised by Comrade Chen Yi, made countless rations for the People's Liberation Army in the form of a big millstone (including a millstone)! Therefore, some veterans who fought in Yimeng area could not restrain their passion and burst into tears when they saw He Nailei's big millstone! The big millstone and the big millstone touched many people's emotions!

However, with the advent of the mechanized era, people no longer need it, and gradually ignore it and no longer regard it as a god. They forgot to burn paper during the Spring Festival. Over time, its sacred color faded. Many people regard them as ordinary stones, cut them into pieces, and use them as stones for building walls and digging ditches. The old mill crushed countless grains and fed countless descendants, but it was finally crushed by future generations. The old grinders and grinders who have worked for Yimeng Mountain for hundreds of years are disappearing step by step.

It is precisely because of the special significance of regional culture that He Nailei, as the founder of Yimeng School of Painting, took pains to describe big grinding films and big grinding films. Under the influence of He Nailei, the works of Yimeng School depict a large number of millstones and millstones engraved with vicissitudes of life.

It is precisely because the Yimeng school left a "portrait" of the earth falling slag for the big millstone and the big millstone that it touched the hearts of countless people; It is precisely because the big millstones and stone mills exude a strong local flavor that people can smell the breath of childhood, the smoke of history and the simple ethical fashion in Yimeng countryside.

Some critics say: "Yimeng School makes people homesick", and the reason why Yimeng School makes people homesick is because its works contain deep homesickness. Under the background of globalization and modernization, there are fewer and fewer cultural relics that can bear homesickness. Preserving cultural relics and homesickness has become the cultural mission and responsibility of people of insight, and Yimeng School has consciously undertaken such a mission.

The local flavor makes Yimeng School satisfy most people's aesthetic feelings, thus affecting most people's hearts and becoming a bridge between Yimeng School and most people's hearts. Yimeng painting school should always maintain its own local flavor, the stronger it is, the more distinct it is; The more vivid, the longer it takes.

Because of the Yimeng school, the big millstone can stand in people's hearts.

Brief introduction of He Nailei

He Nailei, a native of Juxian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, was born in 1953. Member of China Artists Association, former vice chairman of Shandong Artists Association, now consultant of Shandong Artists Association, librarian of Shandong Provincial Government Literature and History Research Institute, president of Shandong Yimeng Painting Academy, first-class artist, part-time professor of Anjiao University, and expert enjoying government allowance.

In 1970s and 1980s, He Nailei made his mark in China painting circle, and his work 1974 "Finishing Mountains and Rivers" won the first prize of Shandong Young Painters' Chinese Painting Invitational Competition.

1986 The work "Walking Green" won the first prize of the National Youth Art Competition of the Ministry of Culture. During 1987, Walking Youth was selected by the Ministry of Culture and exhibited in Australia, Panama, Canada, Mexico, Japan and other countries.

After 1990s, He Nailei's works have been selected into national exhibitions and competitions for more than a dozen times, and won gold, silver, bronze and excellent prizes. 1995 to 1997, many works were invited to participate in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th national flower-and-bird painting invitation exhibitions.

1994, held a solo exhibition in Korea.

1997, went to Japan to hold a four-person joint exhibition of Chinese painting.

In 2008, he held a solo exhibition in Shandong Art Museum.

20 10, "Yimeng Style-Exhibition of He Nailei's Chinese Paintings" was held in China Art Museum.

He Nailei has made great achievements in his personal artistic creation, but he also enthusiastically promoted the development of art in his hometown. He Nailei has served as township cultural stationmaster, county cultural curator, deputy director of county cultural bureau, deputy secretary-general, member of presidium and vice chairman of Shandong Artists Association. His position has been continuously improved, but he has always cared about the artistic needs of the masses and carried out a large number of public welfare activities. As early as when I was working in township cultural stations and county cultural centers, I worked with my colleagues to compile books on the basic knowledge of painting for the masses, and constantly carried out public welfare training activities and cultural activities in rural areas. I often lead the "Cultural Going to the Countryside Team" to ride bicycles to township cultural stations and rural large collections to carry out art counseling, send calligraphy and painting to the masses, and spread calligraphy and painting culture. Under extremely harsh conditions, the training course was held in the county. In the past decades, he has trained and guided thousands of painters and calligraphy lovers. While directly cultivating a large number of artistic talents for his hometown, a large number of people have embarked on the road of loving painting and calligraphy because of his demonstration, guidance and encouragement.

He Nailei is the founder and leader of Yimeng Painting School. In his long-term experience of Yimeng life and his artistic creation of depicting Yimeng, he extracted symbols of Yimeng life elements with aesthetic significance from his own unique aesthetic perspective, and organically combined them to create scenes of Yimeng life with strong local flavor, forming a unique artistic style and aesthetic characteristics, which is unique in contemporary China painting circles. He Nailei painted scenes of Yimeng life, but those scenes of Yimeng life touched countless people all over the world and touched homesickness in all directions. Although it is not the hometown, it is the habitat of the soul. Ancient stone mills, golden corn stalks, round pumpkins, lively and lovely goats, chickens and ducks, and mottled stone walls constitute the spiritual home of countless people. 1998, Mr. Xu Linlu, a master of Chinese painting, was moved to tears after seeing He Nailei's paintings, and said, "I saw your long Mongolian feelings and recalled my childhood. You can't help crying when you are nostalgic. Who says painting can't impress people? Mainly because the painter can't catch his heart. " "Don't leave this treasure land of Shandong, you must draw a good painting style of Yimeng, and you will become everyone", and why is it Lei's inscription: unique, unique.

He Nailei's painting style and theme have been widely studied, inherited and spread among Yimeng children, and gradually formed a team of painters who mainly studied and inherited He Nailei's style. Seeing the continuous development of this team, He Nailei came up with the academic concept of "Yimeng Painting School" and the idea of creating Yimeng Painting School. This idea and thinking have been highly valued and vigorously promoted by relevant experts and leaders, especially by Comrade Yu Qinyan, secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and in the name of Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the "Request for Instructions on Approving the Establishment of Shandong Yimeng Painting School" (Lu Wenlian Zi [201KLOC-0/] No.24) was issued, making it a "Yimeng Painting School". He Nailei personally founded the Shandong Yimeng Painting School Research Institute, giving full play to its academic driving role and organizational leadership role, promoting the academic research, education and training, organization and liaison work of Yimeng Painting School, and making great contributions to the construction of Yimeng Painting School.

He Nailei is an artist with both virtue and art. Over the years, I have been enthusiastic about public welfare and actively repay the society. He has donated more than 240 paintings and donated more than 300,000 yuan to Hope Project and children in difficulty. When he led the Yimeng School to sketch in the hinterland of Yimeng Mountain, he visited many model figures such as Sister Yimeng, Sister Yimeng, and Old Yimeng party member. He not only used these model figures as materials for sketching, but also sent pictures, color TVs and money. He has won top-notch professional talents in Linyi area, top-notch professional talents in Rizhao city and artists with both ability and political integrity in Rizhao city. He was awarded the "First Rizhao Outstanding Contribution Award for Literature and Art" by Rizhao Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, "National Advanced Cultural Worker" by China People's Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Culture, and "Outstanding Contribution Award for Contemporary Chinese Painting" by China People's Ministry of Personnel.

He became the "Yimeng Castellan" by a painting thirty years ago.