Chapter 15 Lack is better than abundance

The magazine interviewed Liu Zhenwei and made a small feature titled "Peach Blossoms in Troubled Times in Liu Zhenwei's Movies" to check the peach blossoms in his movies. In his movies, there will always be peach blossoms, from "New Fist of Fury", "East and West", "Fang Shiyu II Who Fights the Front", "Citigroup Shaolin", "A Chinese Journey to the West: Moonlight Treasure Box" to "Under Heaven "Unparalleled", "The Great Sage of Love Epilepsy", there are always peach blossoms.There are not many peach blossoms, sometimes it’s just a branch, sometimes it’s just a clump, sometimes it’s in front of the window, sometimes it’s outside the door, sometimes it’s painted on the envelope.Sometimes, only the petals are sprinkled down one after another, but the peach blossom tree cannot be seen.What's more, those peach blossoms didn't appear for a long time, and the peach blossoms had already disappeared between the eyes opening and closing.But as long as you think of Liu Zhenwei's movies, you will think of peach blossoms, inexplicable brilliance, and unexplained joy, all at the same time.The reporter asked about the origin of the image of peach blossoms, and he replied: "Maybe I think peach blossoms are a symbol of happiness. When I was a child, every Chinese New Year, my father brought peach blossoms back and put them in a bottle. I thought, 'Wow, I am very happy to follow these ten days. Yes, there is a red envelope for me.’” What amazes and sympathizes with me is that the reason for such a stubborn scene about peach blossoms is one or two peach blossoms in a bottle, and these two peach blossoms, after a few After years of spreading, it became such a bright and grand scene.Regardless of whether it is a director or a writer in the mainland, the chances of seeing the peach forest are probably far more than that of Liu Zhenwei who grew up in the concrete forest of Hong Kong. So attached to a branch of peach blossom.For a while, critics focused their fire on the fact that Chinese novelists today have completely neglected the description of scenery.However, Li Rengang, the director of "Three Kingdoms", talked with Lang Tian about his landscape paintings, and when mainland painters always wondered how Hong Kong people living in the city painted landscape paintings, they said: "Because we usually You can’t see (famous mountains and great rivers), so once you see them, you will have a deeper shock and feeling than them, so you can draw better landscape paintings than them.”

This may not be the root cause, but sometimes, it is really "the lack is better than the abundance".Because it is not enough, because it is frugal, and because there are only a few introductions, people in it should always use their own experience and imagination to fill it up, and they must always be ready to mobilize their reserves of sensibility, so that everything in front of them can expand, spread, and enrich in their hearts. Get up, and engrave the imprint deeply, so, "lack is better than abundance". The little prince only had one rose, so he cultivated it carefully and devoted his affection, making this rose a unique rose that only belonged to him.If he has a rose garden, he may not really own a single rose.Just like Feng Zikai's comics describe: "Thousands of flowers can be seen, but only two or three are pleasing to the eye." The rich world may just be cheap to the blunt of emotion and the lazy of sensibility.Therefore, in the 1980s, when materials were scarce, it seemed more abundant than today. Bit by bit, because it was not easy to get, it made us study it repeatedly and benefited a lot.And the small town I lived in, in my opinion today, looks like a colorful, profound and incomparably exotic land, and this is all because "lack is better than abundance".