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South of the colorful clouds, named after its rich resources, is known as Fuyuan County, the "hometown of eight treasures", full of konjac and black pigs. How many little-known stories are hidden in ordinary people's homes? On the one hand, soil and water have nurtured people, on the other hand, the land also carries a splendid civilization.
20 13May13, my friend Dong Kun and I walked through a deep winding alley accompanied by Song Laicai, a teacher of the Disabled Persons' Federation, and came to the home of Dong, a first-class paraplegic painter.
The sight in front of me shocked me. This is a low and cramped two-story asbestos tile house, less than 3 meters high, covering an area of about 16 square meters. It is built of all kinds of old bricks. Strictly speaking, it is not a house, and even the barn in the countryside is more exquisite than it.
Bow your head into the door, go down the next step and walk into the house. It's very narrow, dark and humid. The electrical appliances and furnishings in the room are extremely old, including a shabby three-person sofa, a small cabinet, an old table, a 14 inch TV set on the table, and no other decent furniture. Two or three people entered the room and found it difficult to turn around and the air was not smooth. A wooden ladder can bow to the attic, which is the top floor, where his parents and two teenage brothers live.
The house is simple, primitive and poor, only the red couplets posted on the door have a little warm color. Even such a house was given by my uncle Dong. Dong Zheng was lying on a wooden bed at the end of the room, surrounded by paintings, books and pen and ink.
In shock, I sighed in my heart: life could have been so simple-just a few pieces of drawing paper and a brush. Life can be so rich, you only need a few pieces of drawing paper and a brush, and your mouth can be full of smiles and satisfaction. Who can imagine? It is in such a dark and humble hut that a person who has no consciousness and action ability below the chest has created countless excellent works in bed.
Dong's father goes out to run electric motorcycles during the day, soliciting money to support his family, and his mother takes care of him at home every day. He basically hasn't left for a long time, such as using water for daily life, washing his face with water and painting, all of which are taken care of by his mother. His mother is an ordinary middle-aged woman with a kind face. Her face is full of vicissitudes and she dresses simply. She warmly brought us water and tea, and said happily that Tao Ping began to enjoy the national rural minimum living security fee in 60 yuan every month last year, and her tone was full of gratitude to the government.
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Unbearable burden of life
Before the age of sixteen, Tao Ping was also a lively and cheerful teenager, jumping between green grass and streams with his schoolbag on his back. He often wanders under the blue sky, thinking about his distant future: he hopes to be a poet who travels all over the mountains and rivers, or a border guard who wears green clothes and holds a steel gun to guard the frontier, or to start a company with beautiful cars and buildings, galloping in the commercial tide of the times. However, at the age of sixteen, an unexpected change shattered all his dreams.
It was 200 1, and Dong Gang, who was still in the third grade of Qingxi Middle School, turned sixteen and went to work in Kunming during the winter vacation, hoping to earn some tuition fees to reduce the burden on his parents. But just a few days after he arrived, he accidentally fell into a pile well on the construction site at work.
The fall of the body, in his feeling, seems to have fallen into the abyss of life. After falling out of time and space in an instant, the sharp stabbing pain in his body made him lose consciousness. When he woke up, he was already in another world: the snow-white wall was in front of him, the infusion bottle was hung high above his head, and the drip of liquid came from the infusion tube.
In the hospital bed of Kunming Red Cross Hospital, the unbearable pain in his back never stopped. His father's suddenly old and melancholy face, his mother's helpless and cherished tears, and a large amount of medical expenses were unimaginable when he was 16 years old.
However, in a daze of pain, he vaguely heard his parents' discussion. The seventh and eighth spinal nerves were pierced by bones. Doctors in the hospital think that surgery is impossible, and they may lose their lives due to wound infection at any time. They gave him critical notices many times, and even the most famous surgeon in the hospital said that they could not be cured. Let's leave the hospital.
A desperate patient who could not be cured in the hospital was taken back to a poor farmhouse in Fuyuan County by his parents. However, in just a few days in hospital, he has spent more than 80,000 yuan in cash borrowed by his parents.
In an unremarkable small farmhouse, parents have to support Dong's other three brothers and face such a patient with pus and ulcers on his back and legs. How do you feel? However, children are the pride and treasure of parents, and ten fingers are connected to their hearts. Parents did not abandon the disabled child because of the hardships of life, but sought medical advice everywhere, continued to give Dong Chinese herbal medicines, and cleaned his wounds day and night.
Maybe it's God's mercy, moved by parents' sincerity, or maybe sixteen years old is too young and full of vitality. As the days passed, the man dragged by death miraculously began to get better.
After careful nursing by his parents, Tao Ping's life was finally saved, but when he was conscious and wanted to move his legs, his legs did not respond and he no longer obeyed the command of consciousness. The most embarrassing thing for him is that he can't exercise at all from the chest down, and he is incontinent.
When he saw his parents helping him clean the toilet, his heart was filled with contempt for life. My parents gave me life and brought me up one by one. Sixteen years later, do you still want to wipe my shit and urine every day? He inevitably hates life. What's the point of living if it only increases the burden on his parents? Especially when he saw his parents' faces aging prematurely because of fatigue and anxiety, and the increasingly poor family, he couldn't stand it any longer.
One day, he pleaded with his mother in tears: "Don't make me a burden to this family, just let me go!" " "The heartbroken mother cried with her son in her arms:" Son, you must live well. Your father and I will support you when the sky falls! "
At this time, it will be his happiness if there are drugs around him that can make him die. However, without other people's help, he can't move, and I'm afraid it's hard to raise money for sleeping pills at home.
In a state of despair, he began to refuse to eat and stared at the mottled and dim furniture in the room with dementia. However, just when he was close to collapse, a clear idea suddenly jumped out of his mind: a man should have a conscience, so I died. If nothing else, can I live up to my parents who take care of themselves day and night and look forward to getting better? Parents who are prematurely senile and emaciated are heavily in debt for themselves. While taking care of themselves, their father is still doing farm work in the fields. Can I stab them again? ..... I can't die! I want to live! If you want to die, you have to repay your parents' kindness and have the right to die. So he began to eat greedily. Although it was a simple meal, he felt extremely sweet, just to give a little spiritual comfort to his hard-working and poor parents.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
From then on, although he was physically miserable, he always had a satisfied smile on his face. He thought to himself, my body can't move, and my mind is still free. Thinking of the success stories of Paul and Zhang Haidi in school textbooks, why can't I do something in bed like them? First of all, he thought of writing, so he begged his parents to contact him with a literary correspondence class. When his parents saw that the child no longer wanted to die, a stone in his heart fell to the ground and a smile appeared on his face. Although bitter and tired, the children are so sensible and full of love, and the shabby and difficult home is full of family happiness.
A year later, although he didn't make any achievements in writing, he felt full and happy in his efforts because he had a goal.
One day, while reading a publication, a painting and calligraphy exhibition column attracted him, and his eyes were fixed on the traditional Chinese painting of the publication, and he couldn't move away any more. The work seems to be alive, telling him in different languages that his soul suddenly entered a magical world. Through one work after another, he felt fresh hearts, some telling him the beauty of the world that is difficult to express in words, some suggesting the happiness of living and struggling in the world, and some expressing the wonderful tranquility of heaven. What a strange world! He was completely fascinated.
From then on, as long as there were painting programs on TV, he watched and listened attentively, borrowed books about painting and calligraphy from his parents, and studied them hungrily. "I want to be a painter and express my infinite nostalgia and love for the world!" At the age of nineteen, he secretly swore in his heart. After a long period of study and experience, he has mastered enough knowledge of calligraphy and painting for more than a year, so he asked his parents to buy drawing paper and a brush and start writing.
However, creation is not so easy. From how to hold a pen to how to draw a decent work without shaking his hand, he has experienced unimaginable difficulties, but he has been practicing. The busy and monotonous life witnessed a painting mountain around him. So he began to contribute hopefully, one, two, ten, a hundred ... how many times he waited hopefully, but nothing happened. Repeated disappointments made him doubt his own path and life, but a more frustrated and brave fighting spirit and indomitable toughness made him never give up.
After many submissions, his works entered the exhibition for the first time in 2007 at the "Welcome the Olympics, Love China" painting and calligraphy exhibition sponsored by China Painters Association. In 2008, he won the Excellence Award for the first time in the 4th China Youth Calligraphy Art Competition sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. He was very excited when he received the award certificate.
"I am no longer a cripple, and I can achieve something in bed." His hands danced happily, like a wheelchair floating in the sky, accompanied by clouds. This is not only the success of his painting, but also the breakthrough of his life. He found a reason for his existence, which no healthy person can understand.
"I'm no longer a basket case! I am no longer lame! " How many times did he wake up screaming for joy in his dream? The joy of success inspired the young man to move forward with high morale. He determined the direction of progress and found his own coordinates. He galloped across the world with a brush, letting youth and life draw the most beautiful trajectory. After studying and creating, he flew in with red bronzed prizes, certificates, certificates and snowflakes, and he finally succeeded.
Haber, a western philosopher, famously said, "Life is a school. There, it is better to say that a good teacher is unfortunate than a good teacher is happy. " Misfortune can make people lose some function or even life, but it can also make people get a new life.
Love and donation, good deeds are like the sun and the moon.
Although the room is very simple now, facing his thin body, bright eyes, young, satisfied and happy expression, standing in a low and dark hut full of awards and certificates, I feel the boundless joy and confidence emanating from his tenacious vitality.
Now, his achievements are obvious to all, and his selfless contribution is also well known. At the charity donation ceremony of "Chinese Soul, Art and Olympics Accompanied" held by CCTV on 20 10, his work "Yun Qi Thousand Peaks Show" was successfully auctioned at a price of 10,000 yuan, and all of it was selflessly donated to the Great Love Dust Clearing Fund of China Social Assistance Foundation to help sick miners. In the face of his achievements, his heart is calm. When he was sitting in a wheelchair facing the CCTV microphone, he slowly and clearly spit out the golden words: "Although my feet have lost the ability to move, my heart is moving and my hands are moving. Although I am also a person who needs help, I hope to help more people with my own efforts ... "Sincerity and strength touched the whole venue, and I was hired as an outstanding painter by China XuBeihong Painting Academy of the Ministry of Culture on the spot. Dong often said: "It is our responsibility and mission to do something for the society, and it will also make my life meaningful."
20111/October, Dong learned that two works were donated to the exhibition "Love and Inheritance of Painting and Calligraphy" sponsored by China Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute and Beijing Yanjing Painting and Calligraphy Institute.
2065438+01April, Jiangsu Hope Project Office and Jiangsu Youth Development Foundation launched the "Dream Realization" activity of Hope Project aimed at helping outstanding poor college students overcome temporary difficulties and realize their college dreams. Dong selflessly donated three paintings and calligraphy works.
20 1 1 August, 2008, sponsored by Hebei Hongdao Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Art and Design College of Nanjing Institute of Technology, Great Wall Celebrity Enterprise Network and Daoxing Tianxia Public Welfare Network, the charity sale of "Daoxing Tianxia" national painting and calligraphy exhibition. Dong donated seven paintings and calligraphy works, and the first one was auctioned in 900 yuan. The proceeds from the charity sale will be used to buy livestock, farm tools and books in Huaigeda Village, Zanhuang County, the old revolutionary base area.
20 13 In April, China Calligraphers Magazine and CCTV Digital TV Painting and Calligraphy Channel jointly launched an initiative to donate paintings and calligraphy works to help Ya 'an disaster-stricken compatriots tide over the difficulties and rebuild their homes with practical actions. Dong donated two works to.
At the same time, the "Lushan Peace and Quiet Year" sponsored by Art Newspaper donated paintings and calligraphy to schools in the disaster area, and Dong donated two paintings and calligraphy works.
Since 2020, the epidemic in COVID-19 has been as fierce as a tiger, which has also touched his heart. He donated two of his favorite works, Voice of the Country and New Green in Spring, online, and all the proceeds were donated to the charity foundation for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
He believes that a valuable person is to actively put into action when the society needs it. Through contact with society, his thoughts jumped out of the family. What he wants is not only to repay his parents, but also to help society. Especially to help disabled people like him who need help. He also hopes to hold a public welfare exhibition when he has the opportunity to show the beautiful things in his heart to readers through his works. If conditions permit, he will also use his professional knowledge to set up a painting and calligraphy training center for the disabled to lead more disabled people to find their own way out.
He understands that the road to art is endless, because he can't see the outside world. Although the subjective thinking in his works has its own characteristics, it is also one-sided. Because he has not received professional study, he still has many shortcomings, and the road ahead is still very long, which also requires him to study more, work harder and constantly enrich and improve himself.
At present, he is an art consultant of the Cultural Center of China Local Fine Arts Association of the Ministry of Culture, a member of the Art Committee of China Calligraphy Research Institute, a special painter of Shenyang Yihai Auction Agency Center and a member of Yunnan Fine Arts Association. He has been awarded honorary titles such as the first Fuyuan Good Man, Fuyuan Most Beautiful Painter, Qujing Good Man, Qujing Disabled Persons' Federation Working Committee Self-improvement Model, and China Working Committee Caring Artist.
At the award ceremony of "Recovering the Good Man", the jury gave him this award speech:
"When this arrogant 16-year-old boy was imprisoned in a wheelchair, he slowly lifted himself up with tender wings. Faced with the cruel plunder of fierce fate, he responded with a stubborn smile. When he looked up at the peak of Danqing and knocked down the art hall with a brush, the grandeur of life came to his face. He embodies a fighting spirit and life belief that transcends suffering, overcomes bad luck and never gives in. This spirit and belief will always bring us questions about the soul and thoughts about life. "
Dong has really become a man flying in a wheelchair. His unremitting deeds will inspire more people to be as strong and unyielding as him, sublimate their lives with practical actions, and make the world we live in a better place.
Shi Yanping