The annoyance and displeasure of three middle-aged men who raise boys: Ma Boyong, Shi Xiaojie, Chen Jiayong, Ma Boyong, Chen Jiayong, and a middle-aged man
The "Everyone Doesn't Worry" illustration exhibition currently being exhibited at the flagship store of Duoyun Academy, featuring the intersection of three people and two books. The exhibition title "Everyone Doesn't Worry" was coined by writer Ma Boyong, and it originated from painter Shi Xiaojie's illustrations of Chen Jiayong's food essay collection "We Don't Worry About Eating" and Ma Boyong's "Too White Venus Is a bit Worry". There is a word "trouble" in the title of both books. In addition, Shi Xiaojie's solo exhibition "Rabbit's Beard Lost" was launched in Xintiandi. Rabbits without beard must have some "trouble". Each of the three people has a word for "annoyance", and the exhibition must be "not annoyed". The delightful ideas connect this casual and unique paper-based gathering, hoping that readers will smile when watching the exhibition.
Chen Jiayong said that the original functional paper for "We Don't Worry About Eating" was selected from Kangsong watercolor paper, with two sizes of 185g and 300g. "In the process of painting, the painter has been nagging me that he is hungry while painting. I said: When I sent you Kangsong paper the other day, I was very rich and asked if you would bring some cooked food and Xiaolongbao? You said nothing, just Kangsong watercolor paper."
Ma Boyong said that since ancient times in China, "literature" and "painting" have never been separated. Literature embodies the meaning of painting, while painting embodies the style of writing. The two have different paths and come together. In modern times, Feng Zikai once said in "Painting and Literature": "Chinese painting mostly contains elements of literature."; Wang Zengqi also described in his book "Literature and Painting" that "the mind and hands are at hand, paper and ink are intertwined, and things happen in an instant, and they are very diverse.". "My collaboration with Teacher Shi was the same. At an ordinary dinner party, I was a writer and he was a painter. We met for the first time and had a great conversation. When the wine was over and we parted ways, we didn't make any promises or promises. I assumed that he would come to illustrate my next book without any courtesy; he assumed that he would come to draw without any humility, so the matter became like this. It can be seen that not only is there complementary elegance between 'literature' and 'painting', but also a tacit understanding between 'literati' and 'painter'."
Interestingly, that dinner was organized by Chen Jiayong, who loved to eat.
These three have one thing in common, they are all the fathers of their sons. At the "No Worry to Everyone" exhibition, three people with the theme "Recently Worried: From Being Unknown to Being Liked" talked about both creation and art, as well as sharing the "annoyance" and "annoyance" of middle-aged and ordinary fathers entering and leaving the workplace.
"Actually, my first collaboration with Teacher Shi was not this book," Ma Boyong said. This book, "Too White Venus is a bit annoying," was his first proactive communication with the editor, stating that he had designated an illustrator. When I went to Shi Xiaojie's studio to discuss cooperation, he suddenly received a phone call from his wife, "My son is going to submit a small newspaper tomorrow, and I don't have time to do it now. What should I do? I asked Teacher Shi for a favor, and he really helped me draw one. I dictated the content, he drew it on his iPad, and then printed it out."
In the series of illustrations that Shi Xiaojie painted for Chen Jiayong, Chen Jiayong's favorite is also a father son themed painting, which depicts the father and son holding ice cream in the back, corresponding to the plot of "Japanese BBQ" included in the book. "The father son relationship is very delicate, and the son is often closer to the mother. How to establish and maintain the father son relationship is a difficult problem. I established a connection with my son through food, and we often eat barbecue together, chatting while eating. After finishing, the barbecue restaurant will send ice cream, and the father and son each hold an ice cream, which is very warm and happy."
"If you want to complain about your son, you can have a special session." Ma Boyong said a joke, "At the end of last semester, his son did not do well in his math exam, and his mother sent him to the teacher to make up lessons and ask him to do the paper every day. This morning I received an angry phone call from his mother. My son said that he made many mistakes in the paper, and his mother was very angry. He stubbornly said that his father was not good at math when he was a child, and I checked on the Internet, and my father failed in math. I can't refute him, but I can only tell him that you did these questions carelessly, and my father really can't do them. We are not the same. Communication can only be carried out on an equal footing, or father and son roast to each other, which can promote relations."
Shi Xiaojie's child is younger, and Ma Boyong would share his life experience with him, "Don't expect too much. Put away fragile things at home, such as porcelain, and give advice like this."
"Among the three of us, I am the oldest. What worries me the most is that my child is too young and I am too old," said Shi Xiaojie.
Ma Boyong also liked the father son silhouette painted by Shi Xiaojie. "I think of the ending of the German manga 'Father and Son', where the father and son walk hand in hand towards the moon, feeling both beautiful and sad. Initially, I thought illustrations were decoration, but my own experience was that illustrations were not just a bonus for text, but a combination of the two, creating a one plus one greater than two effect. And the whole process went through, and I realized that making illustrations is not that simple. It's not about the first party placing an order and telling the second party the requirements."
Speaking of Party A and Party B, Ma Boyong also exposed a hidden identity of himself. He used to work in a company for 10 years as an office worker, and a large part of his job was as a design consultant for Party A. His new book "Tai Bai Jin Xing is a bit annoying" tells an alternative workplace story about a journey to the West - a major project jointly launched by the Heavenly Court and the Western Heaven to obtain scriptures from the West. Tai Bai Jin Xing Li Changgeng was tasked with planning the 981 difficulties to ensure that Tang Monk could safely complete the process and smoothly obtain scriptures to become a Buddha. The old immortal thought everything was under control, but little did he know that the big trouble had just begun: expense reimbursement, work reports, personnel arrangements, notes from various immortals, hidden thoughts from various monsters, countless intricate details that could not be sorted out, and endless trivialities... When the truth about the chaos in the Heavenly Palace surfaced, involving countless causes and effects, Li Changgeng realized that his path to becoming a Golden Immortal became increasingly elusive.
Chen Jiayong is a seasoned "workplace" person. As the first prize winner of the first New Concept Essay Competition, he once had the myth of "one essay entering Peking University". "After graduating from college, I suddenly realized that I really enjoyed working and almost attended all the classes in the cultural industry." Two books were published in college, and after 16 years, Chen Jiayong finally published a new novel called "The Boss is Missing". This book, "We Don't Have Worries About Eating," is his fourth book. "For most people, as long as they are awake, there are two things that cannot escape. One is work, and the other is eating. While most people find work annoying, there is actually happiness in work. Eating is a happy thing for most people, but sometimes you also worry about what to eat, where to eat, and who to eat with." Chen Jiayong said, these three troubles are exactly the three themes of his book. "What to eat is important, where to eat is important, but eating with friends and cherished people may be far more important than the first two."
