Summer is just a dream of watermelon: a melon is a world, without which it is not cold.

Foreword | I hope that interesting souls can get a broader and better imagination.

One night last summer, I ate and chatted with some friends in my yard to cool off. The porch light slightly illuminates the large vegetable fields in the yard through the glass; Insects can always be heard between talking and laughing, and the sound is far and near, and it seems to come from outside the courtyard wall; Several big trees clung to the courtyard wall, enclosing a deep sky with a curved moon. Sometimes the plane flashes small lights and glides slowly like a star ... A gust of wind blows over the leaves overhead, rustling and refreshing. Take the wind to the moon and chew a big mouthful of watermelon. The sweetness and coolness of this night should be regarded as drilling into the heart.

"The rural life here is too comfortable. Every time I get tired after work, I want to sit here, eat, drink and think nothing ... "Chen, an editor living in this city, chanted while eating melons. "Hungry dream in the grass! This is the name of my next book. What do you think? " I held up a watermelon and said to him, "Now that there are Yayoi Kusama and Yayoi Kusama, we just need to eat, drink and be merry!" Lao Chen paused, asked what "hunger" was several times, then laughed, and then held up the watermelon: "Why don't you make a book about watermelon, a summer book, and give it to people here and now?"

Unexpectedly, the intersection of brain holes caused by a hot summer night really grew into a big watermelon.

I don't like blowing air conditioners in summer, so my studio will be hotter. I draw watermelons just to cool off the heat, and sometimes I draw fruits such as lychee, cherry and strawberry, but I seem to have a special liking for watermelons and draw the most. Since five or six years ago, I have painted some pictures every summer, which can often achieve the effect of "quenching thirst by looking at melons". The watermelon in the picture is bigger than the man's, like a hill and a small house. Everyone is eating melons to their heart's content, so don't worry about whether they can support their stomachs or not. What an ideal world for eating!

Watermelon painting has been comfortable for a long time, and it is not complete without painting in summer every year, just like watermelon is basically white without eating several times in summer. Sometimes, in order to paint more vividly, I bought watermelons and painted them while eating, so that the sweet and refreshing taste penetrated into the painting and passed out with ink painting. Although the pen and ink are clumsy, I hope the painting can directly convey the joy and satisfaction of eating melons.

Painting, painting, I began to imagine, trying to use other things in life to transform watermelon seeds, meat and skins. In my imagination, seeds can be raindrops, flesh can be clouds, and skin can be the coat of many things … as if "anything can be a melon". Seeing things with melons is like dreaming, which is interesting.

I like the red and green collocation of watermelon, which refers to the inside and outside of things respectively. This is a pair of colors that can be spatialized. Green is smooth, red is rough, and the texture is the opposite.

I think watermelon seeds are also very interesting. They have always been a little annoying and inedible in my childhood memory, but spitting melon seeds will also give people a feeling of happiness and freedom. Too many seeds are annoying, and too few seeds are not delicious. Maybe watermelon seeds do have a refreshing effect on watermelon pulp. Small and hard, the soul is revealed.

Watermelon pulp is the best plastic material. Like a sponge, what looks solid is actually a bubble of juice. Maybe it's more accurate to say it's like jelly, because it easily breaks into two petals. No, it may be another kind of soil. The red soil dug with a spoon is a cave, similar to a cave. It can be dug into any shape if you dare to think about it.

Guapi always gives people a feeling of unease, because it is really a bit slippery. By making good use of this characteristic, melon skin can slide naturally in water, waves and snow. Lovely, the skin of melon exists to protect the pulp and melon seeds. It is a big spherical shell, which has a good space shaping potential. Is a responsible role, but like an egg shell, afraid of falling off.

In this short book, apart from a glimpse of my dream of eating watermelon, I also carefully selected the summers that the ancients such as Tao Yuanming, Wang Wei, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Lu You, Zhu Yunming and Yuan Mei lived in. These classical poems and folk songs were all born in summer, some were hot and distressed, some were refreshing and comfortable, and they were arranged in order according to the changes of solar terms. Because I feel that computer fonts still lack soul, I copied the favorite content of each poem with a brush. Although the words don't convey the meaning, it seems to be in line with the feeling that the dream is reversed and erratic. People who ask for it are interested, so they are informal.