My heart is full of smoke

After dinner, when I wanted to drink water, I found that the cold kettle was empty, so I poured a cup of hot water. When the water became warm, I sat down to read the news. I was stunned to see Meizhi wrote on FB, "The famous painter Ouyang Naizhan passed away and walked in style. After 91 years of wonderful art life", I held my breath to read the entire text, put down the phone, took a deep breath, and sighed, when the time came, I still had to leave... My mouth seems to have accidentally chewed a prickly ash, a The slender hemp meaning slowly drilled from the mouth to the heart, circle after circle, wrapping the heart tightly. Holding back the sourness in the corners of his eyes, he picked up the phone and read the text again. He picked up the water glass at hand and took a gulp of water. Before he could spit it out, the hot water had already run down his throat and rushed directly into his heart. Pain, tears flowed down. The mournful black mist floated gently over Hong Kong in my heart again.

Not many of my friends know who Ouyang Naizhan is. At a dinner party, I don’t remember why I mentioned Ouyang Naizhan, and my friends laughed when they heard that, the name is so interesting, it reminded him of Niizhan Toast (cream jam toast). After I added that Mr. Ouyang's son was Ouyang Yingji, my friend immediately said, "Oh, that diet show host, Naizhan turned out to be his old bean." I can only express my contempt for my friends with anti-rolling eyes. My life has nothing to do with Ouyang Naizhan. The so-called connection is probably because I once followed his students to learn watercolor painting for a while. The teacher mentioned that Mr. Ouyang still likes to sketch everywhere when he is old. At that time, I was full of worries. Every time I went to the studio, I wanted to let go of myself, but I didn’t follow the style of gossip and ask the teacher more about Mr. Ouyang’s interesting stories.

Ouyang Naizhan was born in Guangdong in 1931 and lived in Hong Kong at the age of 7. He is a painter cultivated in Hong Kong. He has witnessed the great changes in Hong Kong and has always had an unswerving affection for Hong Kong. He is known as a civilian painter. Ouyang Naizhan is good at watercolor and ink painting, and follows the orthodox technique. That's why his works faithfully capture the style of old Hong Kong. Ouyang Naizhan’s sketches are all over Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories. He often says that he is painting his own life. He especially likes to paint the streets of old Hong Kong. He uses colors to bring out the endless hustle and bustle of the streets and the human touch in the crowd. It is a melodious love letter to old Hong Kong. I have always disliked the heaviness of oil paintings, only the lightness and translucency of traditional Chinese paintings and watercolor paintings, of which I prefer the latter. The colors used in traditional Chinese painting are usually monotonous, always trying to reflect a kind of high-spiritedness in the indifference. The watercolor painting is rich in color, and the proper rendering and free and easy lines can outline the solidity of the mortal world and elicit the beautiful soul. All the elements I am addicted to: old Hong Kong, watercolors and lines are all covered by Ouyang Naizhan's brush. He easily expresses the emotions I don't know how to express in his paintings.

I have always believed in the saying that Xiang Yuxin is born. Ouyang Naizhan has a self-contained appearance, rich and elegant, and is definitely a good, affectionate and handsome male protagonist in the center of Cantonese fragments. In September 2014, Ouyang Naizhan was interviewed by Xian Liting. The article was published in "Apple Daily". One of the headlines - I can see the world in one eye, and I still remember it to this day. Xian Liting is good at writing characters, and this one is the best one I have ever seen written by Ouyang Naizhan. The experience of Mr. Ouyang, his childish side, and his views on art and politics are all well written. Hearty. At that time, Ouyang Naizhan and other painters jointly launched a gallery in Central, which coincided with the bubbling of the Occupy Central movement. Xian Liting would inevitably ask her husband's views on politics. That's right, "I want to express my opinion, but I can't explain it." Although Mr. Tong admitted that politics was his blind spot, he also showed that no one can escape the influence of politics. Regarding the ink cat painting that he painted with one eye open and one eye closed, the husband said, "Looking at it with one eye means you are not too serious." An old man in his 80s who accompanied Hong Kong wave after wave, what else? The world is something he can't see through?

After the 1990s, everything in Hong Kong began to become too lively and noisy. People often felt that they were floating on it. No matter what they looked at or what they did, they were in a hurry. Even if it is applied to the wasted years in Hong Kong, there is only a lingering astringency in my heart. The old Hong Kong has been dead for a long time, and the little thoughts left behind will eventually be swallowed up by the time vortex... There are fewer and fewer things to pay tribute to, and only the desolation is left. However, even if time and reality completely obliterated the old Hong Kong, Mr. Ouyang Naizhan's works kept the old Hong Kong alive, and the reason why these paintings are attached to me is not only because of my admiration for Mr. It's more because - those vivid memories hide a period of my own unforgettable years.