BEIJING, May 17 Kunming electric question: Zhaizhu period of three generations of green snow Strait Love
Author Yao Wenhui
"It's faster to get out of the soup." Yu Yong directed a young girl who just graduated from Kunming College of Fine Arts and Art Design last year to make tea, and turned to the reporter and said with a smile, "This is a twenty-year old Taiwanese oolong. After coming to Yunnan for so many years, I am actually used to drinking Pu'er, but today I still want to invite you to drink this one. "
His Naxi wife Ms. Xi Meiying sat demurely on the side of the tea table. When Yu Yong occasionally couldn't remember a person's name, place name or year, Xi Meiying helped him recall.
Lvxuezhai Art Museum is a two-story building located in the southeast corner of Guandu Ancient Town, Kunming. Yu Yong said that since the Art Gallery was moved here in December last year, it soon caught up with the new coronary pneumonia epidemic and had to be closed for more than three months before it was opened to citizens and tourists.
Outdoors, Kunming in early summer is sunny; indoors, the oolong tea fragrance is mixed with the fragrance of real wood, 氤 氤氲 氲.
The picture shows Yu Yong carving new works. Photo by Liu Ranyang
Yu Yong was born in Taipei in 1957 and his ancestral home is Yantai, Shandong. When he first came to Yunnan in 1989, he was just an ordinary Taiwanese tourist, and more than thirty years later passed. It has been 22 years since he lived in Yunnan in 1998. However, compared with the "Green Snow Chai" plaque collected by the Green Snow Chai Art Museum, these years are not long. This plaque, which lasted more than half a century, records the legendary story of two generations of artists crossing the Taiwan Strait.
Li Lincan, the former deputy dean of the Taipei National Palace Museum, is Yu Yong ’s professional teacher in learning the history of Chinese art. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts enrolled by Li Lincan moved west to Kunming. In 1938, he went to northwestern Yunnan for field art investigation. He was deeply attracted by the Naxi Dongba culture and became a pioneer in the study of Naxi studies in China, so he fell in love with the ancient city of Lijiang and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. In 1949, Li Lincan moved to Taiwan with the "Central Museum", and he has been in the Taipei Palace Museum for a long time. However, he never missed the northwestern Yunnan, and he wanted to return to Lijiang in his soul. The study in Taiwan and Canada is named "Luxuezhai".
"My teacher's biggest wish in his later years was to return to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, but he was sick and ill, and he was weak and lacking in strength. But he still cares about some things in Lijiang, and even knows how to build a weather station in Lijiang. I think The teacher has a special care for Lijiang. "Yu Yong fell into a deep memory of the past.
In 1988, 75-year-old Li Lincan solemnly cut a strand of white hair, hoping that this strand of white hair could grow with Yulong Snow Mountain. In April 1991, this strand of white hair with infinite thoughts was transferred from abroad by his friends to Lijiang, Yunnan, and buried in Yunshanping at the foot of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The old man's wish was finally realized. In June 1999, Li Lincan died of illness in Canada.
The picture shows Yu Yong's work "Qian Mo". Photo by Liu Ranyang
Li Lincan's attachment to Yunnan greatly affected Yu Yong's life plan. "I came to settle in Yunnan, partly because I like the climate and mountains and waters, and partly because of my teacher. He has a stroke in Canada, I went to see him, he can no longer speak, but he knows exactly what I am talking about At that time, I told the teacher that I wanted to go to Lijiang to develop and do a cultural career. The teacher very much agreed, and later pointed to the "Green Snow Chai" plaque on the wall. I knew the teacher wanted me to take this plaque to Lijiang. Come."
In this way, Yu Yong carried the "Luxuezhai" plaque across the ocean in 1998, came to Lijiang, Yunnan again, and stayed in Lijiang. He opened the Green Xuezhai Art Museum in Lijiang to promote Chinese tea culture and pottery culture, and founded the first Taiwan-funded museum in Yunnan, and the first private collection museum in Yunnan, the Lijiang Folklore and Private Museum, displaying the Naxi people. Folk supplies.
Yu Yong ’s museum soon became a popular site in Lijiang. After a period of time, many tourists came here to gather here. Many tourists came here, and various media were competing to report. However, the good times did not last long. The museum had to be closed after two years due to the excessively advanced business philosophy. This became a regret for Lijiang Tourism and a pain in Yu Yong ’s heart.
In 2014, at the invitation of Ziyun Jade Bird · Yunnan Cultural and Creative Expo Park, Yu Yong and his wife Xi Meiying moved the Green Xuezhai Art Museum to the Kunming National Economic and Technological Development Zone, and lived in the ancient city of Lijiang for 16 years. In 2019, the scenic spot of Guandu Ancient Town in Kunming will be upgraded and renovated, and Green Xuezhai Art Museum will be invited to settle in. At the end of the year, Green Xuezhai will be relocated to become a cultural tourism business card in Guandu Ancient Town.
Yu Yong likes to do it by himself since he was a student, making stone carvings and wood carvings. There are many calligraphy and painting antiques and tea and tea set collections in the two-story small building of the Green Snow Museum, more of which are various sculptures of Yu Yong in the past two decades.
"Yunnan is a multi-ethnic province with diverse cultures and beautiful landscapes. For those of us who are engaged in sculpture art, we can get a lot of creative inspiration. And Yunnan is naturally rich in nature. Many of my sculptures are based on natural things. A piece of stone, a piece of decayed wood, a piece of residual pottery, etc., such things can be seen everywhere in Yunnan. I find it interesting, and it can be used as it is. "Yu Yong said.
The picture shows Yu Yong's wife showing the "Luxuezhai" plaque to reporters. Photo by Liu Ranyang
In 2006, Yu Yong found a piece of stone with a central grain like a map of Taiwan on the edge of the Jinsha River. After careful carving, he created "Treasure Island Taiwan". In 2013, Yu Yong held a solo exhibition in Beijing. This piece of art aroused strong attention from all parties and was finally permanently collected by the Great Hall of the People.
On the second floor of Lvxuezhai Art Museum, there is a work about half a person tall that is very eye-catching. Borrowing Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossoms" and "Qianmo Traffic", the name "Qianmo" is Yu Yong's recent work. "Qianmo" takes the world cultural heritage Yuanyuan terraces in Yunnan as a design element, adopting a combination of fragrance wood and hypoallergenic, silk and wood, curve and straight line, physical and light and shadow, etc., showing the viewer a paradise Sight.
"I have received traditional Chinese cultural education since I was a child, but the contemporary and avant-garde nature of the works I create make me think it should belong to contemporary art. In fact, traditional art and contemporary art are not contradictory, art is in the end expressed The media of creators' inspiration and world view. "Yu Yong expounded his creative concept in this way.
The Green Snow Museum is free and open to the public all year round, and has held art exhibitions and art forums for many times. Yu Yong is also a visiting professor at Kunming College and has about 200 class hours a year. He also provided students with job opportunities. The young girl who makes tea is named Zhang Liying and has officially entered the job. On the day the reporter interviewed, two other students from Kunming College practiced in the Art Museum. Yu Yong smiled and said that when he retired, they would be the new generation of "Luxuezhai Lord".
"I am very willing to pass on Teacher Yu's Green Snow Chai." Zhang Liying said a little shyly.
Yu Yong still often thinks of Lijiang, but now he has the opportunity to return to Lijiang. 16 years ago, due to various reasons, he had to endure the pain and closed the museum in Lijiang. Today, Yunnan is advancing the construction of the Great Dianxi tourism loop. Relevant tourism developers have asked him to cooperate with him to prepare for the reopening of the Lijiang Folk Custom Museum.
After drinking the old oolong from Taiwan, I drank Pu'er again. The reporter got up and said goodbye. Yu Yong returned to the workbench and continued to sculpt his new work. The bamboo shadow outside the window was slanting, and a tree of camellia bloomed colorfully. More and more tourists in the ancient town are wearing masks, showing that they are still in the period of prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, but more people are willing to go outdoors to enjoy the sun. When passing by Lvxuezhai, tourists stopped and looked around the house curiously from time to time. (Finish)