Panama joke

Liu (1889 ~ 1978), a folk artist. Hui nationality. Tianjin people. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, he began to learn brick carving skills with his grandfather Ma Shunqing. Ma Shunqing is a famous brick carving artist in Tianjin. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, he developed Tianjin brick carving into a folk art independent of architecture, and created the superposition method, which expanded the three-dimensional space and made his works distinct. Liu Jicheng and developed Ma Shunqing's method of sticking bricks and created Tianjin's unique brick carving style. Known as the "brick carving Liu", he is good at three-dimensional and semi-three-dimensional through carving. The landscape, flowers, figures, birds and animals carved on the square brick are vivid and ingenious, which has high artistic appreciation value.

Kite Wei:

It is a kite made by Wei Yuantai, a famous kite artist in Tianjin, so it is called "Kite Wei". Wei Yuantai, 1872, from Tianjin. He grew up as an apprentice in a vegetable shop and was interested in making kites. In order to improve the attainments of flying kites, he repeatedly studied the flying posture of birds and insects and the proportional relationship between their various parts, and applied it to kite making. In the past, kites were mainly hard wings, with simple shape, monotonous color and strong integrity. The kite he tied can be unfolded and folded. A big kite more than a foot long can be folded and put in a small envelope for easy collection and carrying. He developed nearly 200 kinds of plane, bow, three-dimensional, linear and pocket kites. It is rich in national characteristics in coloring, and absorbs the blooming method and cold and warm contrast tone used in ancient architecture painting, which is more suitable for high-altitude flight. 19 14, he took a kite to the Panama World Expo and won the gold medal and certificate. Now Wei Yuantai's nephew Wei and grandnephew Wei Yongchang have inherited his career. They all worked as craftsmen in Tianjin Arts and Crafts Factory and trained many apprentices. The new samples they designed are famous at home and abroad.

Liu Aauto Quicker

Everyone's childhood is a rich man of time. Spending money is inexhaustible. Sometimes I feel bored at home, or my father thinks I'm too noisy and sends me out to play, so I can't help but go to the street near my home to watch Liu juggling.

Liu Aauto Quicker is a fat man, who sells sweets on the ground. He took a small wooden box painted green and put it where he stood. There is a horizontal board full of holes in the box, and rows of cheap red candy bars are inserted in the holes. He tricked the children into buying candy. The trick is very simple, commonly known as "small bowl nail". There is a piece of yellow cloth like silk handkerchief, two small white porcelain tea bowls and four round red glass balls on the ground. These three ordinary props make him elusive. He has a tea bowl in each hand. You clearly see two red balls under each bowl. You didn't even blink. Hey! All four balls actually ran to the bottom of a tea bowl. Did the ball go through the ground? In this way, he turned the two bowls over and over, shouting and pointing, as if there was really an invisible god doing his assistant. Four balls came and went, and he couldn't guess where they were. This trick is more difficult to change than the magic on the stage. The stage only faces the audience. The local tyrants in the street are surrounded by a circle of people, and people's eyes come from all directions, so it is easy to see the flaws. Once, I saw his fingers move very fast and put a ball on the buckle under the bowl. I couldn't help shouting:

"It's under the bowl on the right, I see it!"

"Did you see it?" Fast hand Liu Mingliang's big eyes flashed at me in surprise, and then he said to me with a serious look: "No way! You must be right. If you guess wrong, you have to buy my candy. "

"all right! I am right! " I saw it with my own eyes, so I insisted. Self-confidence makes my voice loud.

Who knows that Liu, who is quick, laughed and suddenly turned the bowl to the right.

"Look, where is it?"

Hey, why is there nothing under the bowl? Only the bowl mouth is pressed on a round mark on the yellow cloth. Did the ball pass through the yellow cloth and run under the bowl on the left? Liu seems to know how fast I guess, and reaches for the tea bowl on the left. There is nothing in it! The ball is flying? He put two empty bowls together, held them on his head and shouted, "Come on!" " When you shake the tea bowl with your hand, it actually rattles. When you open the bowl, there are actually four more balls in it. Strange, strange, strange!

People looking around sighed in surprise.

"how about it? You lost! But if you lose here, you will never be fined. Just buy a piece of candy to eat. " This kind of sugar is made of pure sugar, so you can eat it alone. "

I turned red with shame. I bought a lollipop in the laughter of everyone and stood behind the circle of people. From then on, I stood in the back and didn't dare to squeeze into the front to talk. His tricks are really amazing in my eyes. This is also a person I really admired when I was a child.

He was only in his forties at that time. He is in his prime of life, full of energy, with thick flesh and heavy muscles, white teeth and red lips, and eyebrows as black as a brush. He squatted there like a standing white elephant. While juggling, while selling sugar, bright and protruding eyes look around and take care of all directions; Keep telling funny jokes. A pair of chubby hands, round fingers but flexible rotation, four balls flickering in these hands. I had a strange idea at that time. His hands seemed to be double-layered and the ball was always hidden in the interlayer. Alas, childhood thoughts will no longer exist now.

This pair of extremely agile hands is probably the origin of his nickname "Fast Hand Liu". He calls himself that, so everyone in our neighborhood knows his name. My childhood was spent in this simplest and never-ending local trick, in this mystery that has never been solved, and between his mysterious and delusional Arturo. How many strange pleasures did he give me?

People and things that accompany childhood will always disappear with the disappearance of childhood. I haven't seen Kuailiu very often since I went to middle school. I just met him occasionally when I passed the intersection. He was still so excited to become a "small bowl ear", with a small green wooden box full of lollipops beside him. At this time, I am a sensible big boy. I won't imagine his hands as double-layered, but I still can't see any flaws. I couldn't help but stand there and watch it with great interest for a while. I dare say that even the best plays in the world, Ibsen and Shakespeare, can't be watched hundreds of times like me.

I went to high school abroad. When people leave, their childhood and adolescence in their hometown are like closed books. Those beautiful stories, friendly characters, and drunken scenes in the past are like fresh petals sandwiched in the pages, and then become dry memories. Who can revive the past? My dead grandmother, my missing best friend, my mother's black curly hair, those long-lost beautiful books, the little white cat with green eyes that ran away … and Liu Kuai.

In the summer vacation of my sophomore year, I went home for my holiday. One day, I saw a dozen children yelling at the street corner not far from home. When I looked closer, my heart was pounding. It turned out to be Liu and Aauto Quicker! He still sells sugar and juggling, but he has changed a lot. I haven't seen him for ten years. It seems that he has spent twenty years. Looks like an old man. The wooden box lying alone beside me looks sad. It's broken, dark and sticky, and I can't see any green that was pleasing to the eye before. The hole for inserting sugar on the horizontal plate is the bamboo stick of lollipop, which has been enlarged for many years, and the lollipops inserted on it are staggered. Look at him again. What about the meat on his shoulders, back, stomach and arms? The full curve disappeared, and the sharp bone shape protruded everywhere under his clothes. My face seems a little small, my eyes are dull, and I don't have the spirit of looking around and looking healthy. I was particularly moved by these hands-he obviously changed hands! The veins stood out on the back of the hand, and the black fingers were covered with wrinkles, shrinking into a ball like an old silkworm that vomited all its silk ... So, all the mysterious breath and peerless skills disappeared from these hands. He grabbed two torn tea bowls and rummaged around clumsily. Four balls hit the edge of the bowl for a while and fell out of his hand for a while. His hands are failing! The children shouted, "There's the ball!" "It's in your hand!" "It's somewhere between your fingers!" In this cry, he panicked, his hands became more and more ineffective, and he shook the cable so that he didn't know where the ball was. No wonder there are only a few children watching around.

"In his hand, yes! Never under the bowl! " Cried a fat bald boy.

I also clearly saw that Liu, the fast hand, was holding the ball on the ground when he buckled the tea bowl. This action is slow and pure, and the mistake is very obvious. The children clamored for Liu Aauto Quicker to let go, but Liu Aauto Quicker clutched tightly and smiled awkwardly at the children. This smile, wrinkles are crowded together, like a crumpled paper ball. He almost said in a pleading tone:

"In the bowl! I have nothing in my hand ... "

How could Liu, who was so arrogant in those days, speak in such a tone? These childish and earnest children are determined to let Aauto Quicker Liu let go. How can he open his hand? When he opened it, it was all over. I really don't want to see Liu in Aauto Quicker fall into such an embarrassing, helpless and helpless situation. How I wish he was like that time-because I was smart, I exposed him and forced him to perform an elusive trick. The ball suddenly disappeared and came quickly. If he plays that game again, let these ignorant children see Liu's real Aauto Quicker, and they will be dumbfounded! But he's old, and there won't be another full moon.

I walked among the children, pointed to the wooden box next to me, and said to the fast hand Liu:

"You are all wrong, the ball is on this box!"

The children were at a loss by this sudden remark and all looked at the wooden box. At this moment, I caught a glimpse of Liu, the Aauto Quicker, and stuffed the ball into his bowl as quickly as possible.

"Where is the ball?" The children asked me.

Liu went over and opened the bowl on the ground, quickly held out his hand and said:

"Look, here it is! How's it going? You are wrong. Buy a candy. This sugar is made of pure sugar, and you won't lose anything if you eat it alone. "

The children were fooled. Stop yelling. One or two children paid for the sugar, and the rest dispersed in a hubbub. Then it was just me and fast Liu who got out of the predicament. I turned around and he was looking at me. He certainly doesn't know me. He frowned with gray eyebrows, and his weather-beaten face and gray eyes were full of doubts. Obviously, he doesn't understand why I, a strange young man, should help him.