The survey and cognizance of the outstanding Feng of folk culture

Feng from the writer's identity into the field, doing folk culture of the outstanding heritage of the census and identification, but also do the Chinese minority culture and ancient village protection, not to be left like his body of the cross.

"My age is no longer interested in the prize, the ups and downs of life and flowers are too much to see, this I am not interested."

The annual Montblanc International Art Sponsorship Award, Feng became this year's winner, he stood on stage, over seven years, temples white, but when it comes to folk art, always with strong feelings, he just want to have a place to voice, on the spot to Montblanc donated 15,000 euros bonus to photographers Zhengyunfeng.

Since the the 1990s, China's folk art in the gradual disappearance of the disappearing, he is like a guardian, constantly in the call and rescue, he has traveled in the past 20 years in more than 10 provinces of the villages, all over the visit to the folk, research clan civilization.

On the way he walks, he met too many folk culture of the Silent Guardian, as he met the Zhengyunfeng, more than 20 years ago, Zhengyunfeng sold his possessions, bought a small boat, in the Three Gorges River closure before the interception of water to take a number of 100,000 photos, record the topography, natural landscape, human form, And, of course, the big migration of the Three Gorges immigrants.

Feng, he has many kinds of identities, has done professional basketball players, workers, salesmen, teachers, but also because of "God Whip", "the Lamp prequel", "High women and her short husband," the completion of the novel works to let the public know the identity of his writer.

Feng's works are always with a strong sense of civilian, he described the "rainy days short husband desperately stand on the heels of his wife umbrella" picture, depicting the people of all sentient beings phase. But he is also a painter, his works do not rigidly adhere to the simple shape, maverick and far-reaching implicit, but his first half of the proceeds have been put into doing things now, to protect the intangible cultural heritage is like his body of the cross.

From literature to folk

The Seventies or eighties of the 20th century was the peak of Feng's writing, he wrote novels, essays, and screenplays, but from writing to the field, "My conversion was very natural".

For the old city of Tianjin, Feng has always had special feelings. "I lived in Tianjin for more than 50 years, the" Cultural Revolution "in the bottom of the social roll over more than 10 years, that is, rolling in the old City, to meet all kinds of society, all kinds of people, this is the foundation of Feng novel writing, which is also the root of Tianjin.

After entering the 1990, China began a large-scale transformation of the Old City, a street and ancient villages were demolished into rubble, and then completely disappeared from the land, Tianjin Old Town was included.

In 1994, Feng spent more than a year call planners, architects, historians and anthropologists to study every inch of the city of Tianjin, and, of course, more photographers to take pictures of Tianjin Old Town, in the winter of 1994, there are always photographers wearing pink vests in the hutong courtyard of Old town of Tianjin shuttle, They took a total of more than 30,000 photos and a lot of video data, which cost Feng hundreds of thousands of yuan.

He selected more than 2000 photos collected for 4 albums to the government officials, each sent a set, he wrote on the title page: "This is your dear land." But these personal efforts have not been able to shout at a fast-starting train.

Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce site was demolished, just back from France Feng stood on the ruins of the old street to tears, for the disappearance of the movement ruins, and was temporarily retained in the Tianjin Old Street evaluation Clothing Street did not go through its 1999, 600 years of history to draw a full stop.

In those years, to do the salvage of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Feng did not have much money. "There is no way, we can only sell paintings." In the 2004, he worked during the day and began painting at night, often drawing to the early hours of the next morning, and completing more than 30 paintings in seven or eight months. The exhibition sold about million yuan, together with the famous Taiwanese actor Mr. Zhao's 1 million yuan donation, finally collected Feng Folk Culture Foundation's 2 million yuan registered capital.

2006 Feng again opened a painting, watching Feng there selling paintings, his friend Liping also in the scene of tears. "Painting all let others pick away, there is a kind of walls feeling, I was very sad, but also feel that there is a power", Feng the same day to sell the painting 3.58 million yuan all donated to the foundation.

Since 2005, Feng also began to enter the field, he walked through Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and other more than 10 folk culture provinces, and constantly into those who have been close to weathering of the ancient courtyard. Now Feng spends most of his time in those villages, doing the census and identification of the outstanding folk culture and the investigation and protection of the Chinese minority culture and ancient villages.

Watch your own culture

In China, in the 10 years before 2010, about 90 villages disappear in one day and 90,000 villages in a year, but as Feng always said, "ancient villages are the bottom of Chinese culture." Through so many villages, ancient towns, see the scene along the way always let Feng heartache.

He saw some wealthy towns and villages near Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, built a miniature Eiffel Tower, the local children to the Eiffel Tower, in some small villages in Guangzhou, farmers built a small louvre, and China's cornices, walls carved beam, has not many people care.

Feng's sensitivity to literature and art made him easily touched by folk culture. He had seen some farmers dance when they had a good harvest, pure and beautiful, worship lamp mountain, Mercy Hall, Roof caches ancient paintings version, the beauty of these folk culture in his eyes will be full of Reiki, but now the paper-cut into machine shears, Shadow is also machine pressure, the original folk handicraft art into the industrial era of the machine Age products, They no longer carry the attributes of heritage.

Hunan Longhui, a small county only more than 1 million people, but there are Han, Hui, Yao, Miao, Mongolian and other 24 nationalities live there. When Feng went to the place, the girls wore the clothes there to show him, the above is embroidered pieces of the past dynasties, they usually will be placed in the box, called Daughter Box, is only the new year, festivals, auspicious or married, they will take out wearing, complex embroidery patterns inside have their own different symbols and moral. But now the embroidery film has been completely changed to animation, they are plain, perfunctory, in line with the needs of tourism.

"So many years of urbanization and finally the people of urbanization", the original farmers a little bit away from their familiar farming culture, with land, production, and even the original neighborhood and memory of all fragmented, ordinary people's days and towns in the settlement, like weeds, but their culture has no way to take root in town, "in the Heart, They will never be able to adapt.

What to do after 70 years old

Feng always said, "folk culture to call 120", he is like a doctor, once a phone call to hear a good neighborhood or village to be demolished, he will always run, but he can not escape the deep sense of powerlessness.

Someone once said to him, "You say something good, what is destroyed the fastest", at that time he was not convinced, but now he was speechless, he looked at the old city of Tianjin was basically demolished, looking at the last house on the street was taken away by enterprises, then become neither fish nor fowl. "

"I'm a loser, and all the things I want to do end up dying, I've seen so many beautiful things that finally disappear." Every year, Feng will go to Europe a few times to see Europe's present, but every time I see Europe for the preservation of culture and cherish, he would feel sad, "we are too numb to their own culture.

All these years he was always asked, "Feng you write a novel?" "But when Feng started work, he thought," the novel must be put down. He had been gone over the years with too many written material and ideas, and even the whole idea of the novel had been written, but he had packed a box and placed it on the bookshelf.

Feng officially began to work on the protection of cultural heritage that day was his 60 birthday, which made him feel happy for more than 10 years. "The Chinese nation has created too many splendid cultures, we know that there will never be more, in the process of cultural heritage inspection, the greatest happiness for him may be to constantly discover the talent and wisdom of the Chinese, but when he was 70 years old, Feng began to do something new: Ancient village protection.