Reader magazine: He holds up the painting dream of 5000 people!

Lin Zhenglu, a native of Putian, Fujian, is a philosopher, artist and art educator. He is the founder of Shuangxi Antai Public Welfare Teaching Center and the master planner of the cultural and creative industry project in Pingnan County, Ningde City, Fujian Province.

The man in white on the right is Lin Zhenglu in the speech.

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He held up the painting dreams of 5000 people.

The call of the inner world

Lin Zhenglu was born in rural Fujian. He is a bookworm who loves reading. He always taught himself a whole semester course one month before the start of school, handed the homework in the textbook to the teacher at one time, and spent the rest of his time thinking about various philosophical questions: where did human beings come from and where to go? ...

It is such a "schoolmaster" who has profound thoughts on the life of the universe, but he fell out of Sun Shan in the college entrance examination. At that time, the proposition composition was "On those who are near the ink are black", and he wrote "Those who are near the ink are not necessarily black" and got zero.

Because of his envy of college life, he began to eat and drink in high school students who were admitted to colleges and universities, skipped classes and went to many colleges and universities to listen to countless classes. At that time, China's painting career was booming, so he started it. He went to Shenzhen, Hongkong and Canton Fair ... His business grew bigger and bigger, and he soon became one of the China giants in this industry.

However, after commercial success, Lin Zhenglu was cheated and went bankrupt, then got up, went bankrupt again, got up again and went bankrupt again ... After four bankruptcies, he began to calm down and think about life. After learning from these mistakes, he decided to stay away from business circles.

One day in 2008, Lin Zhenglu painted the first painting in his life. When the pattern gradually became clear on the drawing paper, he was shocked. He used two idioms to describe that feeling: an epiphany, an awakening. This joy of finding himself is something he has never experienced before.

Anyone has the ability to read pictures and recognize symbols, and anyone has the ability to restore world images to two-dimensional images and symbols. "Anyone who accepts positive psychological guidance and uses scientific methods can draw a good picture and exert his artistic potential. Everyone is an artist. " Lin Zhenglu said. After the first painting, he created many works one after another, not to seek the market, but to respond to the call of his inner world. No, those paintings have attracted the attention of the industry. Therefore, he began to teach painting and decided that it would be his lifelong career.

Let them see the other side of themselves

In 2009, Lin Zhenglu was hired as the artistic director of 523 Art District in Hai 'an County, Jiangsu Province. His view that "everyone is an artist" was regarded as a joke and an idealist's utopia at that time.

The ups and downs of business let Lin Zhenglu know how to keep his feet on the ground. He comes from the countryside and is well aware of the lack of cultural and artistic education resources for ordinary people. So he plunged into the countryside and created a precedent for free painting teaching in rural areas.

On the threshing floor in rural Jiangsu, Lin Zhenglu spread out his painting tools, and let the children draw and chat with the villagers. When she saw an old woman holding her embroidered handkerchief, Lin Zhenglu was shocked and urged her to draw a lotus flower on the handkerchief.

With everyone's encouragement, grandma drew a lotus flower exactly like a handkerchief on the canvas. When painting, the whole threshing floor was silent When a summer lotus blooms on the paper after the rain, the threshing floor is still silent and the children's eyes are wide open. Finally, a child broke the silence: "Grandma, why do you look like this lotus just picked from the pond?" The old woman who was unknown all her life became the red man of that day. She began to teach the children to draw lotus flowers. After that, many villagers heard voices and picked up brushes shyly ... Looking at that scene, Lin Zhenglu wanted to cry. After tossing and turning for half a lifetime, he finally found this heavy joy. Since then, he has used his work to support his ideals and traveled to rural areas in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian and other places to teach painting for free.

In his hometown of Fujian, Lin Zhenglu saw the decline of the countryside. The old house in the century-old town has decayed because of disrepair, and it has lost its former glory and pride. The wheel of the times is rolling forward. Shouldn't these villages, which embody human artistic wisdom, be protected, publicized and remembered?

A decision took root in Lin Zhenglu's heart. He used all his savings to build a 2,000-square-meter studio in Shuangxi Ancient Town, Pingnan, Fujian, and provided all painting tools for free.

The first is the villagers in Shiliba village. The most active are children, who mix watercolors curiously. The villagers watched nervously, clutching their skirts and keeping their mouths shut. Lin Zhenglu encouraged them to come in. An aunt put the food on the ground, wiped her muddy hands on her clothes, and walked into the studio with awe-inspiring "giving up life for righteousness" and picked up a brush. After only half an hour, a big goose appeared in her fence, and even the water droplets in her webbed were drawn.

When the painting was finished, she looked up and patted her chest and said, "You scared me to death. I thought the goose at home ran out of the circle. " Lin Zhenglu almost commented on the painting with tears in his eyes, and he felt that the fire of hope was quietly lit in the studio.

My aunt's "Giving My Life for Righteousness" made the villagers see that the threshold of art is not as high as expected. The villagers came one after another. After a hard day's work, they put down their farm tools, picked up their brushes and painted the days in their eyes and hearts. Many people, startled by their own paintings, saw the other side of themselves and the other side of their tired life.

Shuangxi, a century-old town, is boiling because of this studio. Painters flocked from all over the country. Most of them are zero-based painters, who come with curiosity and disbelief and stay or leave with unique discoveries.

Art is a complete life experience.

"Art is not behind closed doors, nor is it a game of a few elites. Art is a complete life experience that everyone can have. Everyone can be an artist. " This is Lin Zhenglu's basic theory about artistic subject.

Lin Zhenglu's dream is constantly fermenting. He set up teaching points in Kuixia Ancient Village and Longtan Village to facilitate the villagers there to learn painting. And he himself, running between three teaching points every day, comments on everyone's paintings. Sleeping four or five hours a day is already a luxury.

Poor and thin, he has become a person who spins like a top in rural Fujian, and has been inspired by his ideals.

Today, Lin Zhenglu has been stationed in the rural areas of Fujian for more than three years, and is the beloved "Teacher Lin" of the villagers. Some villagers have embarked on the road of professional painters because their paintings have been accepted by the market.

However, Lin Zhenglu's vision is still far-reaching. He loves dilapidated ancient buildings and disabled children in rural areas. He knows that the degree of civilization of a society depends on its attitude towards the disadvantaged groups. Therefore, he took the initiative to undertake the heavy responsibility of repairing the ancient buildings in the ancient village. When he had no money, he went to beg alms. What moved him was that the villagers began to raise money for it. They said, "This is our own business. It's okay to do something."

The establishment of an art center for disabled children is Lin Zhenglu's greatest concern. As a "detail control", he pays attention to every corner of the studio-the height of the easel, the height of the window, the barrier-free threshold, and even the cups for drinking water are designed by the children themselves ... He often stays with the children to understand their physical inconvenience, so as to improve the studio design and adjust the teaching progress. He was glad to see the children immersed in creation. He knows that no matter what hardships children will experience in the future, as long as they are influenced by art, their lives will not be too difficult.

At night 1 1, the double happiness studio is still brightly lit. Some people are painting, some people are whispering to Lin Zhenglu, some people are staring out of the window in a daze ... so they are called "the most beautiful night in China".

When Lin Zhenglu turned off the last light in the studio, it was usually midnight. The night in the country is so charming that he can't bear to rest. Now, he is planning the next development of the art center-he knows that he is setting a bigger goal, with no end, only one full life after another.

So, don't waste your life.

Note: Lin Zhenglu not only propped up the painting dream of 5,000 people! In fact, there are far more than 5000 people, and so far, it has reached tens of thousands! The original author still knows the previous data.

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