Tie Horse Pile--Jia Ping ao

In the 90 's in the last century, Xian people were keen to collect pastoral relics. First, I saw in the courtyard of the Provincial Museum of mass art a large pile of horse-tied stone piles, and then see in the forest in the forest in the forest of the two rows of the long row of horse stone pile, and then in the Northwest University's Playground corner saw hundreds of tie horse stone piles. The tie horse stone pile originally is the rural people ordinary objects, like stone stone grind, suddenly is regarded as the art treasures, from Tongguan to Baoji, 800 in the Guanzhong Plain on the harvest of the horse stone pile is extremely crazy.

It is said that some people in the city of hundreds of acres to do the garden, specializing in the tie horse stone pile, and I now live in XI ' an Academy of Fine Arts is tens of thousands of pieces of stone are everywhere, in addition to Shek Kwu, Pillar Foundation, Shishi, Stone sheep, stone horse, shimen beam, shimen pier, stone roll, stone trough, the most or These tie the horse stone pile has half person high, has one half high, has the hand can encirclement, has four hand also not to be able to surround, all is four ribs, the Qing shi, the hand touches the long time to start greasy black bright. And the top of the reins are carved in the image of people or animals, animals more for lions as monkeys, characters are strange or hippie or angry or mad or silly, vivid and expressive. I get up every morning, the fixed lesson is to go to these stone before static meditation, I think, these thousands of years old stone must have spiritual, they used for the past people, for the past peace and good luck. In the construction of their rituals, in the construction process in the switch, in place to have their attention, and even set the spell, then they will certainly be good for my body and mind.

The collection of any cultural relics, active, seems to be some personal behavior, in fact, the last is the state, the society all, it is the cultural relics, is the hand of countless people, rather than people in the collection of them, rather, they are in the rotation of the collection of people. At the beginning of the last century, Yu Youren and hpwever by virtue of their power and wisdom, a large collection of the tombstone in the clearance, they had the agreement, Tang before the Yu Youren, Tang after the return to the Hpwever, nearly a century later, Yu Youren collection of tombstone are vertical in the Steles Museum, and Hpwever will those tombstone shipped back to Henan hometown, now also become a " Thousand Qiantangzhi "Museum. Yu Youren and Hpwever is a calligrapher, they only collect the tombstone, and later there is an art educator Wang Ziyun, he good painting, good sculpture, camped stepped across the guanzhong, manner and inspected the Guanzhong stone carvings, written reports and bring back a large number of physical rubbings. However, Yu Youren, Hpwever and Wang Ziyun did not notice the tie horse stone piles and the like, may then guanzhong stone carving too much, during the war years, they are concerned about those who are facing the destruction of the Crown House, the temple, the emperor Mausoleum of things, tie the horse stone piles and so on too folk, have not too late to enter their vision.

The relics on the ground are selected by a stubble, which is like the selling apricot on the street, the customers pick up and sell to the end, until these tie horse stone piles and other things are collected, only to find that these folk objects their artistic value is not more than those collected in the tombs of the official home of the Temple of things low. Xi ' An is a cosmopolitan tourist city, but most of the tourists just follow the guide to the temple to the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Museum, where the ants in the nest crowded, sweating, will be a lot of money thrown out. Where do they know to ride a bike to some units and people to see more playful stone-tied stone piles? I'm glad my new home to Xi ' an Academy of Fine arts, look up to the low-eyed on these treasures, others are in the "mutton Paomo" in the Pavilion to eat XI ' an dinner, I sit at home tasting "meat pinch bun" taste.

I am in the XI ' an art Institute of the tie Horse stone pile forest, each time is repeating a sigh: so many tie the horse stone pile! So I thought, how many horse-tied horse stone pile on the number of horses, then, in ancient times, the Guanzhong plains have how many horses, these horses are from when the disappearance of it? Now walk towards the plains, Never see a horse again, even a horse's vassal mule, Donkey, and even the dung of cattle is seldom seen.

There is such a story, said that some people learned the ability to reduce the dragon, but he learned the ability to reduce the dragon when the world has no dragons. Today, horses are left to us by the stone piles that tie the horses, as we planted the wheat and received the wheat straw. A lot of things we have lost, no, is a lot of things have abandoned us. The tiger no longer from us, the eagle no longer from us, even the wolves do not come, accompanied by our only stupid pig, a flattering dog, and then fly mosquitoes and mice. On the tourist spots in Xi ' An, the tiger is sold everywhere. I went to visit a stone carving a lifetime stone stone mason, he carved the lion famous, but he went to the park in the iron cage to see a live lion, he said to me: it is not like a lion. Humans have been reduced from strength to weakness, and animals that used to be common and symbiotic with our ancestors have now become our new totem art. When we admire these works of art, we have tasted the bitterness of our people more.

In the Guanzhong plain, I was one of the fans of the wave of stone carving in a chain of horse-rock piles. Last autumn, we drove past the northern shore of the Weihe River three counties, just to a village, a child twisted into the lane to run, while running side shouted: Xian people come! The door of the gate in the lane immediately clanked clanked Open, out a lot of people surround us, and chicken fly dog bite. I said: Xi ' an people to come, and not the devil into the village?! They said, "Are you here to buy a horse-tied stone pile?" The village has been acquired three times. We still do not forget, but also in the village search, indeed found in a home corner is a root, but the top shelf full of corn cob, in another manger there are two, and there is a family, said he used three paved steps, if you want, you can dismantle the steps. This makes us happy if crazy, but the angry things happen immediately, they are on the wild speculations, each root must out 2000 yuan, otherwise can only see the non-active. That's what farmers do, when the first time a decade ago someone collects a horse stone pile, they say stone, you can take it and take it, help you put the horse stone pile to the car, also made you eat, bought wine, take a picture in the hospital door loudly yell, let the Village People know Xi ' an people came to their home. And a little know Xi ' an people like these old stones, what works of art, suddenly put Clods also as a gold Shuangtuozi. That time, we were plainly eating a big loss to buy five tied horse stone piles.

Also in this acquisition, we obviously feel the rural depression, almost to any village, can see few young people, in the village or in the roadway standing and sitting is a lot of old people and children, asked whether there are tied to the stone pile, they use white and many black eyes puzzled to see you, and then puzzled to see the car parked next to the Say: That's got to pay for it. We said of course to pay, they just tell you have or not, and said: There are cattle trough, there are shimen pier. LED you to see, perhaps there is a two, not broken is the carving has been damaged to lose shape, but they can take out the shimen pier, cattle trough, and stone bringeth, hit woogie of the foundation son, smashing garlic mortar, are modern objects, said: Buy it, we lack money ah. I can see that they are really short of money, ragged clothes, sallow, each old man's back neck is wrinkled, sun black like sauce, you can not give birth to compassion.

Those who are sympathetic will have hateful places, and these people, and you on the starting point, or bite a dead number, and then the sound of his meal, eat finished again and again out of the tongue to lick the bowl, no longer make a sound, and the other is glib, so you have no talk back machine. The sale is finally made, our car is blocked in another lane, because someone's home in funeral, a group of people like ants, anxious to shout quickly to the neighboring villages shouting people, they have the strength of labor has very little, must two village or three village of Green strong Labor can be a coffin carried to the grave. In a funeral music, two villages of young people in partnership to carry out the coffin out of the village, I can not help but have a kind of desolation, for thousands of years, the farmer is a grass a tree from the soil and grow out of the soil, and now the farmers are a lot of away from the land. The horse left us a tie horse stone pile, in the city to become art ornaments, farmers lost the rustic, wandering in the urban street labor market, they are pulled up the tree, the root of the soil and all in the water shook clean, this tree can move live elsewhere?

Driving the acquisition of a horse-rock pile of cars to go to the city, I suddenly questioned my role, this is in the rescue of folk art, or this impetuous era of an accomplice or hack?

When the Xi ' an Academy of Fine Arts assigned me a house on the downstairs floor, the window is the early planted three tie horse stone pile, I had because the window has these three tie horse stone Pile and proud of, and now, I am sad for it: there is no time for my horse, there is no horse era I only guarding the horse stone pile and cry.

From Reader 2014 23

Tie Horse Pile--Jia Ping ao