No excuses: Xi Fu - street artist who seeks happiness
Motivation A Life / / December 19, 2019
The sea is not afraid of water, not afraid of people happiness
© Chinese proverb
Xidan - this is one of the districts of the Chinese capital. There, not far from Tiananmen Square and Houhai lake, there are many large shopping and entertainment venues, inviting its gloss.
It was there, in the transitions Beijing subway station "Xidan" creates an amazing street artist by the name of Fu Xi, which means "seeking happiness".
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Biography 34-year-old Xi Fu, you can tell just a few sentences. The nurse dropped her baby - a boy was injured. All life is suffering from horrible pain. Hands motionless. He lives with his parents. Earn 12.5 euros per day. He knows the art of calligraphy.
All this is true. Or rather its "dry residue". In fact, Xi Fu - a unique person, not looking no excuses.
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Feng Jing - go forth boldly
The nurse really dropped Xi Fu, when he barely born. Because of the injury kid lost a number of motor functions. Xi Fu can not control his hands and experiences frequent severe pain in his back and shoulders.
Lives Cu Fu in one of the areas of poor Peking - Daxing. There's no infrastructure for people with disabilities: no ramps or 'buttons help. "
Xi Fu learned to do everything himself, with the help of the legs: there, shave your head, turn on the music, ride a motorcycle.
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Parents Xi Fu - Tung and Xifeng Yu Deqing - live very modestly, the situation of their house just out of politeness can be called "austere". Money for quality medical care at the family does not have.
That is why Xi Fu every day for three hours down into the subway to earn 100 yuan (about 12.5 euros), revealing the world the ancient art of calligraphy.
書法 - letters Way
Calligraphy in the East - is more than just a beautiful letter. It's more subtle form of painting.
In China, calligraphy received a kind of development - it was the first of the arts who have been theorizing. Chinese Chouf ( "Way of writing") uses five styles: seal script, deprive, Xingsheng, tsaoshu and Kaisha. It is believed that possess at least one of them is subject to the hand is not any man.
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Xi Fu mastered the art of calligraphy with the help of the feet. At age 18, he began attending Art Center Daxing, where a teacher Ren Zhijun free taught him painting. Teachers noticed that the boy is talented, and began to teach him the basics of calligraphy.
Fu Xi may not work more than 3 hours, or - terrible muscle pain. But stubbornness made him listen to his teacher of calligraphy Liu Shenveya almost all day.
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As a result, after 6 years of study, in 2003, Fu Xi announced that he is well mastered the art of calligraphy and can become a free artist.
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Now Xi Fu every day down at Xidan station lays feet rice paper, ink pours, takes the brush and cleverly displays the wise old sayings. For example, "Zhu Zhi Chang Le" - "know the pleasure - this is happiness." When asked what he wants, he answers:
"The work of street artist gave me a lot of friends and made me happy. I want to open my own show in the future and be able to continue doing what I'm doing. "