Li Kuchan: Why do you say that suffering is the only way for famous artists to eat rickshaw drivers and practice Zen as a master of Chinese painting?

As the saying goes, "Suffering makes life", but in fact, suffering also makes art. Only after suffering can they precipitate their own gains and make their works more meaningful. Artists are more sensitive and affectionate than ordinary people. They need to completely open their tentacles to feel the diversity of life and turn this feeling into works of art. ..

Life full of setbacks seems to be a compulsory course for artists to advance. With such a master, his life is full of misfortune and bitterness, but his achievements are beyond others' reach. He is Li Kuchan, a master of Chinese painting.

The origin of the word "bitter"

Li Kuchan's background can be said to be very poor. 1899 was born in a farmer's home in a county of Shandong province. His original name is Li Yingjie, and the word is over three. Despite the poor family conditions, Li Kuchan has great interest and talent in painting since he was a child. His parents, relatives and friends were very pessimistic about him, thinking that it was a waste of money for children from poor families to learn painting, but Li Kuchan still studied art at his own insistence.

Li Kuchan worked very hard in the process of learning painting. Finally, with his hard work, 19 16 won the favor of Sun Zhanqun, a painter in China, and took him as an apprentice, teaching him to mainly learn to draw lotus flowers. Under the guidance of Master Sun Zhanqun, one study is six years.

During these six years, he fully demonstrated his talent for painting. After that, Li Kuchan was admitted to the Western Painting Department of Beijing Academy of Fine Arts. However, due to his poor family, Li Kuchan still couldn't afford a few tuition fees, so he chose to pull a rickshaw at night in exchange for tuition and living expenses.

At that time, most of the students who were able to learn art were students from good families. While other students are enjoying their wonderful college time, Li Kuchan has been busy making a living after school besides finishing her studies. His behavior was also seen by his classmates. Perhaps out of encouragement or sympathy, Li Kuchan's classmates gave him two words to show encouragement, which later became his new name, that is, Kuchan.

If life is just a spice, there are all kinds of ups and downs, then suffering is actually just one of them. Life will be happy only if there is joy in pain. The word "bitter Zen" is actually an attitude towards his own life, so Li Kuchan accepted the word and loved it very much, and used it for the rest of his life. Even if future generations say that Li Kuchan is famous for his bitterness, life is even more bitter, but perhaps for him, suffering is just an accumulation and experience of life.

Academic success, learn from Qi Baishi.

Although Li Kuchan's college life is not as colorful as other students, he never relaxes himself academically. In the second year after he was admitted to Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, he won the favor of Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, and finally went to study painting under Qi Baishi.

There are actually many twists and turns in telling the story of how Li Kuchan entered Qi Baishi's door. Li Kuchan has always been very strict with his studies, and at the same time, he worships his teachers. Before graduation, Li Kuchan visited Qi Baishi many times and told him that he liked Qi Baishi very much, and expressed his desire to learn from his teachers.

But at that time, Li Kuchan was just a poor student. When he met Master Qi Baishi, he had no money to prepare any gift. So he expressed his embarrassment, but Qi Baishi was very moved after listening. In addition, the two are actually fellow villagers. Under such circumstances, Qi Baishi agreed without saying anything.

It is said that when Li Kuchan learned that Qi Baishi had promised to accept himself as an apprentice, he was very excited and even knelt down to kowtow to Qi Baishi immediately, expressing surprise and gratitude. It can be seen that emotional sincerity is always the best persuasion strategy.

In this way, Li Kuchan, who lives in poverty, was accepted as a disciple by Qi Baishi. Qi Baishi not only doesn't charge his tuition, but also often keeps him at home for dinner. Li Kuchan was very moved by what Qi Baishi did, so he was more eager to learn painting, and soon he became a young professor of Chinese painting.

Everyone's life is like a rough sea, even in a calm moment, it is full of alternating moments of wind and thunder. However, those who have a firm belief and face-to-face blows will eventually win the rainbow of life after tasting the bitterness of life. Li Kuchan has a steady income source after becoming a professor, but he still needs to travel around to make a living.

He even went to the work-study club affiliated to Peking University for half the time, and worked as a worker in the workshop of a machine parts processing factory for the other half. As a young student, his passion and drive are very admirable. I have to say that his life at that time was also very full and energetic.

From a poor student with a full meal to a respected young professor, Li Kuchan's youth was "bitter" in such a struggle. However, he walked steadfastly, honestly and persistently. On the road he loved, he never cried bitterly and was tired, which is perhaps the most attractive place in Li Kuchan.

Unfortunate marriage, children die young.

Li Kuchan has superb painting skills, which is undoubtedly a godsend skill. Under this charm, he has also become the object that many girls like. However, Li Kuchan's road to love is also very bumpy. He has been married three times in his life.

195 1 year, Li Kuchan was still studying in the second middle school of the provincial capital, but his family married him a wife, Xiao, who was six years older than him. Li Kuchan never knew about this marriage, but she was told when she was about to get married, which showed that there was no emotional foundation between them. 1927, Xiao Wei gave birth to a daughter, but died of illness soon. Because he and his wife Xiao didn't know each other, Li Kuchan soon forgot the pain of losing his wife.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/928, less than one year after the death of Li Kuchan's first wife, he met his second wife, Ling Yinglin. Anyway, this Ling Yilin is actually Li Kuchan's school sister. Two people * * * studied copying with Qi Baishi, and their family is very rich. It can be said that she is a good girl, and because she is from a scholarly family, the whole person is very temperament.

Ling Yilin also appreciates Li Kuchan's talent and ambition. She has always had a crush on Li Kuchan. Driven by this feeling, Lin often helps clean the room and asks for painting skills. After a long time, there was ambiguity between the two people, and they also got everyone's blessing after they were made public. Finally, they walked into the marriage hall hand in hand.

But it didn't last long. After getting married, Lin suddenly found that all her previous illusions were shattered. Li Kuchan's pure light turned out to be only the vulgarity peculiar to farmers, and she began to feel that her married life became boring. In the sixth year after marriage, Ling Yilin made a move that surprised everyone. She published her divorce revelation in the newspaper, and attached a notice that she and her lover Zhang Ruogu were about to get married.

This is undoubtedly like a bolt from the blue for Li Kuchan. What makes him more miserable is that shortly after his divorce from his wife, his youngest son Li Jing died in infancy because of lack of mother's care.

Pick out these two things casually, either of which is a fatal blow to ordinary people. For Li Kuchan, it also made him lose confidence in love. Although life is hard, Li Kuchan's desire for creation has never been halved.

Take pleasure in suffering and draw an eagle to achieve success.

At that time, life in Li Kuchan was like a low-pressure hood, which often made people breathless. However, Li Kuchan is not an ordinary person after all. In this environment, he can still enjoy himself and practice his painting skills.

Li Kuchan has been practicing the skills of drawing lotus flowers in his study career, and then he gradually explored the method of drawing eagle. And he likes the eagle's perseverance and kingliness. In the process of honing painting skills again and again, the image of the eagle in the works seems to coincide with Li Kuchan's resolute attitude towards suffering.

During the Cultural Revolution, Li Kuchan was also arrested and tortured in prison, where he suffered a lot. However, Li Kuchan survived very strongly and eventually became the lowest-key master of Chinese painting. Today, Li Kuchan's works "Song Ying" and "Summer Map" are still displayed in the Great Hall of the People, which shows that his painting skills have long been affirmed by China painting circles.

Life has never really been desperate. No matter how much you suffer, no matter how many hardships you have experienced, as long as there is a seed of faith in a person's heart, then one day he will be able to get out of the predicament and let life bloom again.

"Zen" is to cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's mind. In the face of the hardships of life, everyone calmly regards it as a ladder to success. A person is bound to achieve something after suffering. Qi Baishi once praised his student Li Kuchan. He said: "A fool sees a thing as nothing, so he can learn from it. Seeing one thing can be two things. "

No one's life is smooth sailing, and it takes big waves to create a broad mind. When God closes a door for us, he will definitely open another window, and the light coming through this window will definitely give us the belief to persevere. Persevere in the face of suffering and strive to live a wonderful life. This kind of life is enough, and of course it will not fail us.