Fan Wen:
This is an interview with Ding Cong Not Old by Hu Degui.
In June 5438, the warm sunshine in Xiaoyangchun+10 filled every corner of the city, and it was quite warm in spring. When we visited the famous cartoonist Ding Cong in LAM Raymond Hotel, it was more like a spring breeze. As soon as we saw Ding Lao, he quickly gave up his seat. His wife, Sister Shen, made Longjing tea brought from Hangzhou for us. The topic naturally starts with Ding Lao's health.
Ding Lao 19 16 was born in Shanghai. This year, he is an 8 1 year-old man, but he still has real black hair and ruddy face.
I asked Ding Lao: What is your regimen? So 80 is not old?
Ding Lao smiled happily and said, this is really a thank you to my breeder! Pointing to Sister Shen's wife. One sentence made everyone burst into laughter. At home, Sister Shen is a veritable parent, busy inside and outside. Personality is that during the exhibition, Ding Lao was hospitalized due to physical discomfort, and Sister Shen's home exhibition ward turned around, which brought the exhibition to a successful conclusion.
We talk like a family. I asked Ding Lao what his hobbies were. Ding Lao Qingyin said with a smile: I don't keep cats or feed birds. Sister Shen interjected: I only grow grass, so I can serve. But he wants to add a poisonous word!
Ding Lao took over and introduced: Comrade Shen planted cactus plants with thorns all over his body. He added humorously: anything with thorns is of course poisonous weeds. Everyone in the room seems to get the message and laugh at each other.
I have known that Ding Cong was a famous cartoonist since I was young 50 years ago. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, his satirical cartoons had a far-reaching influence. The statue of a good citizen who satirized the corruption of Kuomintang government officials and forbade ordinary people to speak during the fifth grade examination in 1945 was deeply impressive.
Long-term engaged in various pictorial and stage art design revision work. After the founding of New China, he served as vice president of People's Pictorial. After 1957, his creation was interrupted for well-known reasons, and it was not until 1979 more than 20 years later that he re-created satirical cartoons.
At that time, Xiaoding was already an old man among the flowers. However, he actually came to a youthful glow, and his new works continued. After 1980, he published Illustrations of Ah Q, Ding Cong Comic Series, Ancient Interesting Pictures, Today Interesting Pictures, etc. Recently, he published Painting a Hundred Metaphors.
This book was written by Mr. Chen Siyi and painted by Ding Cong. It was first published in every issue of Reading magazine, and Wang Meng, Yan Wenjing, Wang Chaowen and Fang became the preface of the book. Although this book is written in the form of ancient prose, every sentence is telling a story. No wonder readers flock.
When I took out the Dictionary of Contemporary Cartoonists in China for Ding Lao to sign, Ding Lao said with a smile: Don't look at my name in this dictionary, it's just a name. Don't look at me, because I have the least T prefix! As he spoke, he inscribed the book.
When I read it, he really wrote about Ding Cong, a nominal consultant. Everyone says Mrs. Ding is modest. After P, we discussed how to be humorous and how to make people laugh. Ding Lao said with a smile: it is normal for an honest official to make a report and people to talk about anti-corruption, which is not ridiculous;
If a corrupt person talks about anti-corruption on stage, it will have a funny effect. However, just making people laugh is superficial. True humor is to make people think after laughing, sigh and even cry after thinking. Humor and satire must be hidden in well-meaning laughter in order to pierce and dissolve evil and succeed.
Speaking of Ding Lao's pen name Xiaoding, Ding Lao's introduction is: Xiaoding, simple and easy to remember and write. Didn't he catch young men all day during the Kuomintang period? Xiaoding means not a strong person, but a small person, that is, a nobody. Talking and laughing, although Ding Lao is as cheerful and active as the younger generation, we still respect Ding Lao because, in any case, we have to deal with an 80-year-old elder.
Ding Lao is not old, he is not in the mood to die. His rich creation is of course related to his life accumulation, image accumulation and skill tempering. Not everyone can achieve perfection.