Chapter 11 this flower is called liking

A few days ago, I was watching a Beijing opera fan contest broadcast on TV. A young lady sang an excerpt from the famous Cheng Pai drama "A Dream of a Lady in Spring".She said that no one taught her, but she had a tape, listened to it repeatedly, chanted back and forth, and sang it down.The host expressed surprise that such a genre of singing, such a heavy aria, could be mastered by listening to the tape, and asked her what is the secret of success?She smiled and said, "Because I like it." One of the meanings of our life is aesthetics.This point is often overlooked by many people.No matter how much money you made, if you start

If you can’t consciously enjoy aesthetic pleasure in the end, then there are major flaws in your life.But the true aesthetic realm is non-utilitarian.The fancier who sang the excerpts of "A Dream of the Boudoir" participated in the competition, appeared on TV, and was able to sing an excerpt of another Chengpai famous drama "Tears from the Barren Mountain" on the same stage with popular professional actors. Applause, but apart from her relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues, probably not many people watching TV will remember her name. "The dream of spring dissipates with the clouds, and the flying flowers chase the water." After the incident, she probably returned to the normal state of her life and continued to get close to Peking Opera as an amateur.A professional Peking Opera actress told me that she is very envious of such fanciers, because she got close to Peking Opera out of sheer liking in her heart. Of course, she herself also likes this industry, but faced with the sluggish box office and the pressure of awards and professional titles , the popularity of fellow students who changed their careers to act in TV dramas, the superficial performances that have to be participated in to suit the curiosity of tourists...they often lead to no love, only boredom and resentment.

A person who can integrate his job with his hobbies is a lucky person.But generally speaking, utilitarianism is inevitable in one's job. The high point is social responsibility, and the low point is to support the family. Even if you are not obsessed with fame and wealth, you must not ignore the return on investment. I am afraid it is difficult to blindly focus on aesthetic pleasure.Therefore, outside of our job, developing a hobby space without utilitarian factors has become an indispensable part of our life.But ordinary people's hobbies still only stay at the level of physical fitness and psychological adjustment, and they don't know how to get great love and freedom through aesthetic life experience.

My study in the suburbs is not far from the middle reaches of the Wenyu River in the northeast of Beijing. Taking advantage of the clear autumn air, I went to the riverside where there is still some wildness, and painted a lot of watercolor sketches.I have no relevant professional training, and I can’t talk about painting skills. I do it spontaneously, but when I paint, I feel comfortable all over the body, as if the willows blowing the ground, the swaying reeds, and the dense Polygonum rubrum by the Wenyu River...all are there. Whisper with me; when you finish painting, you can randomly place the watercolor paintings that are not completely dry in the study room, and listen carefully to the love song played on the stereo, enjoying yourself like flying in the sky.

Watching TV yesterday, I happened to see a documentary from Shanghai Satellite TV. It introduced a group of women with an average age of about 50 years old. Most of them are retired or laid-off workers. They organized a dance team and hired a dance teacher. They are more than 30 This dance teacher is not from a major and has no professional performance experience. He used to be a salesperson in charge of the fruit counter in a food store. Because he likes to dance, he watched the dance programs on TV and related videos at home. I tried to imitate and try to figure out how to do the dances performed by other people, but I could also make up some dances and teach them to the group of women. They all thanked the male teacher, who was younger than them, for making their teenage dreams come true; now The dance teacher relied on the modest remuneration they raised to support him. It was a poor but dignified life. It could be seen from the camera that he liked it all over his face.So I thought, I don't have the basic skills given by the class to painting, just like he does to dancing, but because I really like it, maybe what I draw out of the painting escapes the craftsmanship and contains innocence after all, which is different from listening to tapes. And the voice of the woman who sang "Dream of the Boudoir of Spring" is the same. She enjoys herself and can also give others a little happiness.

So I decided to take advantage of the beautiful autumn colors to paint some more scenery of the Wenyu River. One day, I would invite a few friends to a rural study to hold a private art exhibition to please myself and others.I met a retired cadre walking by the river. He picked a small silver flower and put it in the breast pocket of his jacket. I asked him, "What's the name of the flower you picked?" Wrinkles are also like a flower in the wind, answering me: "This flower... just call it like it!" It's rare to like it!Do you have such a flower in your heart?