Some people say: aspiring young people are often frustrated. I think this is a bit arbitrary. To prove this point, I will tell you a very vivid story.
Huanxin Men was born in the countryside and liked writing and painting since he was a child. His mother disapproves of her son's hobbies. She insisted that her son should study hard. It was his uncle, a primary school teacher, who gave great support to his nephew's hobby. Huanxin Men's uncle is a painting and calligraphy lover, and he has certain attainments. Under the guidance of his uncle, young Huanxin Men's painting and calligraphy level has made great progress.
After entering high school, a very good classmate of Huanxin Men helped him to contact Sun Min, a famous calligrapher and painter in Shangqiu. Sun Min taught Huanxin Men to start with line drawing, copy ancient and modern masterpieces and practice basic skills. From then on, every time after school or on a rest day, he would run to the fields and sketch from flowers and trees. After painting, he will also attach a powerful official word.
Gradually, as long as the scenery contained in Menhuan's new vision, especially the pastoral scenery, was vividly painted by him. Despite his professional level, Huanxin Men is still not satisfied. He wants to improve his painting and calligraphy to a greater extent, so he often skips classes and steals paintings from an art school. At that time, the art school opened a painting and calligraphy class, but the tuition was very expensive, and the knocker could not afford the money, so he had to make the best choice.
However, Huanxin Men's academic performance in culture has been declining. When he took the national examination of 1984, he failed from Sun Shan. He wants to have a second interview next year, but his mother said to him with tears: Son, give up the second interview, because the family really can't afford it for you. ...
In this way, this aspiring young man who has been crazy about painting and calligraphy since childhood has to accept his fate.
Back home, Huanxin Men was still obsessed with calligraphy and painting. His mother and villagers disapprove of his behavior, but stubborn Huanxin Men firmly believes that he will succeed one day.
At the beginning of 1988, Huanxin Men painted a rural pastoral scenery. When his uncle saw it, he encouraged him to send it to Henan Farmers' Newspaper Office. It wasn't long before the literary edition of Henan Peasant Newspaper was published.
Huanxin Men couldn't believe his eyes, this is his first novel! This is a great encouragement to Huanxin Men. Since then, he has been describing rural pastoral scenery enthusiastically and persistently, and his works have been seen in newspapers and periodicals with great influence throughout the country.
At this time, my uncle reminded him that you should travel while you are young. How long you have knowledge will also help you practice painting and calligraphy.
Huanxin Men accidentally had the idea of going out to work by himself, because his younger brothers and sisters were all at school, and there was no savings at home, so he needed his help to go out to work. After being reminded by his uncle, he immediately jumped out of the farmland and moved to a chemical plant in Kaifeng as a coal hauler.
It is difficult to transport coal. After entering the coal factory during the day, Huanxin Men immediately became black. He had to push heavy coal for a long way. When washing in the evening, he found a thick layer of dust accumulated in his nostrils and throat. After pulling coal all day, he was so painful that he couldn't even lift his arm. How can he have the mind and energy to practice painting and calligraphy?
Gradually, Huanxin Men became confused: Do I have to deal with coal piles forever? What can you learn in the coal pile? Huanxin Men wanted to get rid of this fate, so he made a decision: pulling coal during the day and going to Kaifeng at night to inquire about the famous predecessors in the painting and calligraphy circles. He hopes that his predecessors can show him a bright road.
Soon, Huanxin Men found the address of Wang Baogui, president of Kaifeng Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The famous calligrapher suggested that Huanxin Men go to a professional college for further study and learn professional knowledge systematically.
Huanxin Men doesn't want to study in a professional college, but where did he get the money? But in order to enter the field of painting and calligraphy, he went to work in a factory to earn tuition. After half a year, I barely earned enough tuition. So, Huanxin Men finally got his wish and entered the training class of Henan Calligraphy Correspondence College.
After two years of professional and systematic study, the artistic level of Huanxin Men's calligraphy and painting has risen to a new height. At this time, he is married and has children, and the pressure of life is increasing. Helpless, he embarked on the road of working again.
Since then, Huanxin Men has worked in more than ten cities, including Kaifeng, Anyang, Zhengzhou, Changzhou, Hangzhou and Fuzhou. Every time he goes to a city, he will visit famous local painters and ask for advice modestly. In addition, Huanxin Men also stole paintings from local painting and calligraphy colleges through various channels. (Sun, inspirational quote) In this way, in the work and life of various places, we constantly absorb all aspects of knowledge and quickly turn it into our own creation. By the end of 2003, there were as many as ten sacks filled with Huanxin Men's paintings and calligraphy works, and as many as 800 works were published in major newspapers. Looking at these heavy works, the knocker smiled happily. He felt that the day to realize his dream was getting closer and closer. ...
At the beginning of 2004, Huanxin Men learned from a friend that the National Popular Science Education Base in Fuqing City, Fujian Province was recruiting painting and calligraphy art teachers, so he went to the interview with his resume and previously published works. It is conceivable that the person in charge of personnel immediately refused his request to meet him. However, Huanxin Men made a bold decision: he brought his previously published works and asked the person in charge of Fuqing National Science Education Base to recommend himself.
Huanxin Men's boldness surprised the person in charge of the base, and what surprised him even more was the works published by Huanxin Men. He never imagined that these paintings and calligraphy works were actually written by a migrant worker! The person in charge immediately decided to hire Huanxin Men as the teacher of the base painting and calligraphy training class, but there was a one-month probation period!
On the day of the first lecture, although Huanxin Men's speech was a little blunt and Mandarin was not standard, the students listened carefully. Walking out of the classroom, his head was covered with sweat. When he boarded the platform again, he seemed particularly relaxed and calm. Students are attracted by his exquisite calligraphy and painting skills, and Huanxin Men likes the podium more and more. He prepares lessons carefully and teaches every class.
A week later, the person in charge suddenly announced to him: Your probation period can be over, and we decided to sign a formal contract with you!
Huanxin Men almost jumped for joy, because from this moment on, he really turned and walked into the door of painting and calligraphy.
One day, while giving a lecture, a student suddenly asked: Teacher Meng, I heard that you only have a high school education and are a farmer. Is it true?/You don't say.
Huanxin Men paused a little, then said quietly, that's right. Please don't be surprised, let me tell you my experience. ...
This course became a course for Huanxin Men to tell students about his life experience. He said to them calmly: Destiny and opportunity may be unfair to some people, but as long as you have dreams and are willing to work hard, you can change your destiny. I will never feel that I am three points shorter than you because I am a migrant worker with only a high school education, because everyone has their own specialties. I can be your painting and calligraphy teacher, but in other professional fields, you are my teacher, so we are all equal in class.
Huanxin Men's frankness touched all the students and won their respect, followed by a burst of warm applause.
In the summer of 2004, Huanxin Men's works were compiled into some authoritative classics, and his influence became more and more important. In the second year, he joined Henan Calligraphy and Painting Association and China Calligraphers Association and became a real painter.
In September 2008, Fujian Medical University opened a painting and calligraphy art teaching class and recruited lecturers. Huanxin Men didn't have a good degree, but he was admitted to the university in his own right. The moment he got the letter of appointment, Huanxin Men was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes.
From a migrant worker at the bottom of society to an admirable university lecturer, Huanxin Men really created a miracle. At the beginning of 2009, in an interview, he simply said: I have been obsessed with calligraphy and painting all my life, and there is no reason not to succeed; I have been pursuing the art of calligraphy and painting for decades, and there is no reason not to succeed. As long as you don't abandon your dreams and pursue them, everyone will create such a miracle!
At this point, the story is not over yet. The story of each of us will never end as long as we live. From this respectable Mr. Huanxin Men, we can see a kind of character, and that is persistence. We are all the same. As long as we have dreams and don't give up the pursuit, what kind of miracle won't happen?