“I love folk toys and I played in childhood and I’m still playing when I’m old,†said the old man Lee Cun-song, playing with a fancy-faced dog, saying, “You can have a university in a small toy.â€
He pointed at the colorful little face of a big bun on the table and said: "These are the flowers of Shanxi and are used for sacrificial offerings." His home is full of clay pottery, bamboo, bamboo, iron and lead. Tablets made of rustic baubles. "People buy antiques, I buy new directors." The folk toy big collector said cheerfully. Because of emphysema, he buzzed in his voice when he spoke, but when he talked about folk toys, he never stopped talking.
He claims to be "old." On the wall of the living room of his family, there is a script written by the famous cartoonist and calligrapher Huang Miaozi: “The grasshopper is a dragon, and the ground is endless. ."
Li Cun-song was born in Shanghai and his family was poor. At the age of 15, he graduated from junior high school and went to a pharmacy as an apprentice. Get up at 6 am every morning to clean the back door and close the door at 10:30 in the evening. This was his hobby. When he was an apprentice, he never broke his dream as an artist. He joined the underground party at the age of 18, learned to paint with the famous printmaker Li Hua, and joined the Chinese Woodcutting Association at a young age. He rounded the dream of the painter.
In order to pursue the national style of prints, he often went to Shanghai's incense store to collect Buddha statues, door gods, folk prints, and then pondered. After the liberation, he transferred to the Chinese Artists Association in Beijing. Influenced by such famous artists as Huang Yongyu, Zhang Guangyu and Huang Miaozi, he began to collect folk toys, rabbits, cloth tigers, shadows, puppets, etc. what.
Li Cunsong’s collection of folk toys is increasing. In the early 60s of the last century, he was invited to host the China Folk Toy Fair with the collection of 580 folk toys. Whether in Moscow, Kiev or Leningrad, the exhibition caused a sensation and the extension was extended to six months. Decades later, the Russian government awarded him the “Pushkin Medal†because of his outstanding contribution to cultural exchanges between China and Russia.
After returning home, Li Cunsong's momentum was even more abundant. With money, he went into the collection. The “Private Toys†special stamp designs issued by China selected his collection.
Many folk toys are hidden in the backwaters and no shortage of efforts is made to collect him. "If folks don't go to folks, what folk art?"
In Shangou, a tribal area of ​​Shaanxi Province, he took a ride on grain carts. He walked for a day in the sandstorm, and finally bought a pottery monkey from the hands of the mountain people. In order to catch the temple fair in Fangyanshan, Zhejiang, he walked for more than 80 miles and only bought 4 small stone fish from Qingtian carving. In the Tea House in Chengdu’s Well, he learned that there was an old entertainer with a clay figurine. He took the mud and paint, and asked the artist to sew a few gadgets that had disappeared.
In the “Cultural Revolutionâ€, Li Cunsong, who is already one of the leaders of the China National Museum of Art, became a “modificationist successor†on charges of “pulling feudal zombies out of coffins and poisoning peopleâ€. He contained more than 30 boxes of thousands of folk toys collected by the Red Guards and was taken away by the Red Guards. Every time he criticizes him, these things are the evidence that he collected the “four oldsâ€.
After the decade of catastrophe, some of the remaining folk toys of the Red Guards were returned to Lee Cun-song. A colleague joked: "Old Lee, you have too many things. You can't finish." Lee Cun-song only smiled. He returned to the old business, searching for folk toys in the world.
Li Cunsong was quite proud of his ability to "recognize treasures." Once, at the Henan Folk Art Exhibition, he saw a kind of hand-paste mud toy called "mud dog" and was ecstatic. In order to verify the "root dog" of the "mud dog", he deliberately ran to the temple fair in Huaiyang County, Henan Province, and went to visit his hometown. “This is simply an illustration of an exotic bird described in the ancient book Shan Hai Jing,†he said. “This is the oldest of the clay toys I collect. I call it the Living Stone and the Totem.â€
Hua Junwu, the master of comics, praised him for his eye-catching eyes: “In the thousands of toys, the same toys have different levels of coloring. The ones he picked out must be top level. I still have a collection. There are a few pieces he gave in the year!"
In addition to the collection of more than 20,000 pieces of folk toys, Li Cunsong also edited albums such as Folk Toys, Chinese Native Toys, Complete Works of Chinese Fine Arts, Folk Toys, Paper Cutting, Shadow Play, and met many folk artists. The artists who produced folk toys such as Beijing Yuren, Ganyu County Muddy, Yucheng Wooden Toys, Gaomi Jihu, and Zhangzhou Puppets all received his advice. He helped the artists save these endangered folk toys, many of which were collected by Chinese and foreign museums. "I just said no practice, only give them ideas." He smiled modestly.
After retiring, Li Cunsong was not idle and continued to communicate with folk artists. Right now, he wants two more books - "Collection" and "Beijing Folk Toys." "When I wrote the plan, the publisher did not accept it and said that it was a loser," the old man sighed. "Oh, get hold of it, or else I will go with both hands and the book will not come out."
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