中国的新春佳节，将在元宵佳节之际，给这个年画上一个句号。 我们许多人都在说这一年年的，新春佳节似乎越来越清淡，而年味十足的年代永远都只在记忆里。
记得30年前的一个元宵节的晚上，随着密密麻麻的人群，走在玄武湖公园的灯会里，它们曾经是热热闹闹的过节的气氛。 我们当时是怎样的体验，现在已无法查询，只能用现在的眼光去欣赏那时的生活，仿佛看到了那时的快乐。
曾经在求学的年代，随着自己周围的环境一起，去背唐诗宋词，背红楼梦里的人物诗词，却并不理解背后的故事场景，最终它们也没有走进我们的生活里。
或许每一种事物它的存在都离不开它当时的文化底蕴，后人可以在历史的长河中，去寻找那些曾经存在过的辉煌灿烂，但却不能复制它们，可以吗？
想像如果我们的文字回到唐宋八大家时代，你我将会是怎样的挣扎与挑战？ 那些遗留下来的久远的历史名画，壁画，雕塑作品，应该是那个时代的结晶，将那个时代的所有的痕迹都孕育在它们里面，为后人留下许多可以探讨的空间。
就像最近一直都在关顾的一个媒体人，她在讲苏东坡和他的诗词背后的故事，让那段岁月沉淀下来的他，在久远今天为我们打开一扇窗户，看到过去岁月里的辉煌之外的沟沟坎坎，“看山是山，看山不是山，看山还是山“。
我跟着老师学习绘画，断断续续也有十年之久了。发现临摹别人的画作，虽常常神不似，但型还是很像的。 但当我自己去创造的时候，却发现周围并没有那么完美的搭配，可以满足自己所有的愿望。在那个时空的里面，所有的事物都不在我希望的位置上，总有某些无法改变的缺憾，为什么？
这个星期开始了一幅新油画的选材。我选出了十几幅近几年我拍的照片，和朋友老师一起评判它们，却没有一张非常满意的照片，最后还是选定了一幅三年前的秋天去明尼苏达森林小道上的我的一幅不起眼的照片。 已经完成了它的第一步，勾画轮廓线条，我想这幅画的过程一定会非常有趣的。
也许享受每一件未知事情的过程，远比我们从一开始就已经看到了结局更精彩，这才是我们不倒前行的动力和源泉。
【Happy words in Lantern Festival】Chinese New Year will draw an end to this year on the occasion of Lantern Festival. Many of us are saying that this year, the Spring Festival seems to be getting lighter and lighter, and the years with full of New Year's flavor will always be only in memory.
I remember that on a Lantern Festival night 30 years ago, with the dense crowds walking in the lantern festival of Xuanwu Lake Park, they used to be a lively festival atmosphere. What kind of experience we had at that time can no longer be inquired about now. We can only appreciate the life at that time with the current eyes, as if we saw the happiness at that time.
When I was college freshman, I used to recite Tang poetry, Song Ci, and poems of characters in Dream of Red Mansions along with my surrounding environment, but I didn’t understand the story scenes behind them, and they didn’t enter our lives in the end.
Perhaps the existence of each thing is inseparable from its cultural heritage at that time. Later generations can look for the splendor that once existed in the long river of history, but we cannot copy them, can it?
Imagine if our writing goes back to the era of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, what kind of struggles and challenges will you and I face? Those long-standing historical paintings, murals, and sculptures should be the crystallization of that era, and all the traces of that era are conceived in them, leaving a lot of room for future generations to explore.
Just like a media person who I has been paying attention to recently, she is telling the story behind Su Dongpo and his poems, letting him settle down in those years, and opening a window for us today, seeing the past years Beyond the brilliance, there are ditches and ridges, "A mountain is a mountain when you look at it, a mountain is not a mountain when you look at it again, and a mountain is still a mountain when you look at it again”.
I have been learning painting with my teacher on and off for ten years. I found that when copying other people's paintings, although the spirit is often different, the shape is still very similar. But when I created it myself, I found that there was not such a perfect match around me that could satisfy all my wishes. In that time and space, everything is not in the position I expected, and there are always some shortcomings that cannot be changed. Why?
The selection of a new oil painting started this week. I selected more than a dozen photos I took in recent years, and judged them with my friends and teachers, but none of them were very satisfactory. Finally, I chose a picture of me on the forest trail in Minnesota three years ago. A humble photo. Having done its first step, drawing the outlines, I think the drawing process will be very interesting.
Perhaps the process of enjoying every unknown thing is far more exciting than we have seen the ending from the beginning. This is the motivation and source for us to move forward.
