By junior high school, the number of people in their fifties began to decrease. In high school, there are only a dozen left in our village, and the last one admitted to the university is almost the same number. There are all those who study PhD and graduate school, but none of them study art and sports.
My brother is two years younger than me. At that stage, people began to study art and sports, initially to enter high school. Along the way, they are developing well now. One of them went to Handu Yishe as soon as he graduated, belonging to an old employee. A rush to enter the fitness industry to catch up with the national fitness, cities in universities, our small counties and ordinary people open gyms. One of my cousins is also studying art and physical education, both of whom were diverted from high school. My cousin was admitted to a good university and went on to study as a graduate student. Now Chengdu is buying a house, getting married, and working as a teacher in a university. It's a good life.
Art sports are still relatively rare. Others are graduate students in Chinese Academy of Sciences, and some are studying abroad. But none of these people make a living by music.
If I have to find it, it can only be a girl a few years older than me. When I was in junior high school, she came to the school to teach music. Her father is good at playing suona in our village, so she knows musical instruments. By chance, she studied music. But after so many years, there are no musical talents in our village. Although I heard that a child can sing very well, he has a good sense of music and can sing any song accurately.
Disappeared in the vast sea of people These skills have not become their means of making a living.
Why have students of fine arts and physical education had it for so many years, but no music? The decline of money and rural culture may be one reason. In the past, musical instruments in rural areas depended on funerals, but now the custom has changed and they are not allowed to play. Coupled with the market influence, those who know this have long since disappeared. As for piano, violin and other musical instruments, it is even more impossible. First, expensive.
Compared with the current prices of wheat, corn and apples, I calculated an account for the villagers. We are a small village at the foot of the mountain, close to the mountain in the north. There is not much arable land per capita, 6 cm in wheat fields and 7 cm in mountainous areas where fruit trees are planted. There are four people in a family, and each family has almost one acre of wheat fields and one acre of mountains. One season of wheat and one season of corn can be harvested in a year, and apples, poplars or old peaches can be harvested in mountainous areas.
At present, the yield per mu of corn is about 1200 Jin, 0.85 yuan, 1020 yuan. A kilo of wheat 1.5 yuan, about RMB 1500 yuan. Apple 1 ten thousand Jin, 1.4 yuan, 1.4 million yuan. The whole figure is 16520 yuan. This is completely cost-free, without considering the risk and the highest possibility. What can I do with the money if I don't go out to work? A high school student doesn't count the living expenses of about 2,000 a year, and the minimum standard for a college student is about 6,000. It should still be enough. What if you study music and art?
Second, there are no teachers. Perhaps the only possible instrument is the harmonica. My parents bought me two, and no one taught me or played them.
Art sports can exist because of the low learning cost. You don't need too many extra things to draw. If you are good, a pen will do. When I was a child, my teacher often took us to write big characters in art class. Actually, I have two young aunts who are very talented in this field. They are eight or nine years older than me, and they are also rural, and no one teaches them. But the picture of a beautiful woman drawn by one of my aunts can be confused with the real one. The same is true of sports. Children in rural areas climb mountains and play around all day, and their bodies are often stronger.
Suddenly ramble about these things, because there are two topics related to the countryside recently. One is giuliano from the Italian countryside. He is the author of many picture books in the library. He was born in 1960' s and was my father's contemporary. He grew up in a mountain village and listened to his grandfather tell all kinds of stories. No one in the family is engaged in the art industry except his mother who is a tailor. But his closest place is Raphael's hometown, where he studied. He lives near Bologna and went to this illustration exhibition when he was a student. The artistic atmosphere and talent let the world see his paintings step by step. However, at my age, students with extremely high talents have no such soil at all.
Of course, it is impossible for everyone to become a master of picture books, and it is impossible to achieve it. Mozart may be one of them for thousands of years. Many of the children I mentioned are not particularly talented, but stand out from the crowd and are unlikely to become masters. But if there is such soil, they can settle down by virtue of their favorite roads or advantages.
My primary school classmate, who is good at art, went to high school and studied pharmacy in an unknown university. After graduating from college, he disappeared. It is said that he is doing pyramid schemes.
Yesterday, I had dinner with my friends. I said that sometimes I feel that rural life is already very good. Why does everyone have to work hard in the city? He mentioned an argument with a friend in the car. Friends of a auto quickey think a auto quickey provides a platform. Maybe a disabled person can make four or five thousand dollars by making videos. If there is no faster car, he may have to beg in the street. A friend is arguing with his friend. Finally, he said that he had come to a point. Tianqiao busking and Mei Lanfang singing are both buskers, but there are still differences about which way he chooses to busk. There is no difference between the two, and both should exist.
What I think is, if an entertainer on the overpass has Mei Lanfang's voice, is it possible for him to earn a good life by singing opera? It is this possibility of circulation that is the most precious. As an individual, perhaps no matter what occupation you are engaged in or what lifestyle you choose, you should always keep an open mind and be creative.
Finally, I have to sigh the correctness of Huang Renyu's words.