Write an essay on Dong Sugar

Surname Lu, name Danlin, Shuzai Shun Ziyi name Mangrove Room, born in 1896 in Sanshui, Guangdong, blind in the left eye, fitted with porcelain eyes, early years of anti-theft foot shot, a life-long slight limp. I know a few seniors in the old Shanghai and Lu Danlin familiar: Mr. Lu most of his life seems to be in Shanghai. Panyu Ye Gongchuo most trust this old township, many things are asked Lu Danlin handle, even the bank passbook to him for safekeeping. I have long admired the Republic of China literati Lu Danlin's name, but also the old members of the South Society and members of the League of Leaguers, decades of sporadic knowledge of some of his deeds, and occasionally buy a few pieces of the old collection of the Mangrove Room, but unfortunately, I want to write about Mr. Lu wanted to write a few years so far.

In 1967, I was taken to see Lu Xiaoman expert Cui Daxi's old Zhou took me to visit a very interesting old gentleman, country face, eight beards, rosacea nose square chin, at first glance, like a fertilized Maitreya Buddha. I read several letters written by Lu Danlin in his home, but also saw a small ink stone, engraved maple leaves engraved mangrove room Tibetan seal, said Lu Danlin gave him a souvenir: "Mr. Lu in Hong Kong edited the period of "Windy" we often meet," he said. "The mainland changed its flag and we broke off our correspondence. What a strange man, what a good man!" I was young and did not care much about the past as recounted by the older generation, and did not take note of the old gentleman's escapades about Lu Danlin, which are hazy after decades. Old Mr. said he and Ye Gongchuo tea at Lu Yu also often talk about Lu Danlin temper, I read some of the books, newspapers and magazines.

Lao Zhou is an old-school people, passionate, forty just over like a careful old man, friends hobbies not only remembered but also everywhere into the full, I said I suddenly love to read Bao Tianxiao article, he remembered that the old Mr. clipped a bunch of Bao Tianxiao article, said it might be worth borrowing to take a look at. Mr. Lao lives in Kowloon Song Wangtai near a small street of the old upstairs, a lot of books, old newspapers, old magazines, newspaper clippings, a bag of brush characters classified into categories clearly noted. That afternoon, the old man heard that my last name is Dong was very happy, turned from the desk to hold out the cookie tin box to ask us to eat Dong sugar: "a friend in the New Territories just made a good send over, what a coincidence!"

Dong Sugar is said to be a dessert invented by Dong Xiaowan. The old man said Dong Xiaowan and Bao Paijiang retired Rugao Water Painting Garden Yan Yue building, artists often in the garden poetry and paintings, Xiaowan with frost sugar, caramel, sesame developed this candy to entertain the guests, everyone praised, near and far, decades later became Rugao famous souvenirs. I ate two pieces of really fragrant and crispy and not greasy, the old man smiled like a bright light on the whole face as bright as: "eat out of your sweet sister of the Dong family fascinating place it!" He said his early years in Shanghai, a calligraphy and painting friends at home to eat is also Dong sugar, in the presence of several Chinese women's painting and calligraphy will be female painters, Xie Yuemei Gu Qingyao Song Ruoying are in, Feng Wenfeng soon also came. The old man praised Feng Wenfeng, a Guangdong Heshan people of the official script is remarkable, the painting is regular see not much creativity.

In the past forty years, I have met Feng Wenfeng quite a few paintings quite a few words, but also bought a fan painted by her, wrote a "looking for Feng Wenfeng", but for a long time have not had the chance to encounter a Feng Wenfeng's excellent official script. Recently, guangzhou friend LiangJiYong for me in Shanghai to find FengWenFeng write to LuDanLin a small couplet, small only forty-eight centimeters high, the old framing work extraordinarily exquisite, that the method of calligraphy is really exquisite and subtle: "wash tung wipes the bamboo NiYuanZhen, more than the amount of rain and sunshine TangZiXi," on the upper section of the master of mangrove, the lower sign FengWenFeng, a few seal is simply the best, LuDanLin "Red Tree Room Collection" Zhuwen square seal even red seal color are like gelatin so attractive.

I heard Lu Danlin taste unique, never with the custom, do not like Liu Shian Deng Shiru He Shaoji's words, send him do not want to know Qi Baishi never want to Baishi old man's paintings, Feng Wenfeng's home to see the wall hanging a famous painter's small painting screen, he even insisted on Feng Wenfeng to take the paintings, Feng Wenfeng hesitant, he couldn't help but tear down their own hands. I have a Pu Xin She to Lu Dan Lin painting landscape sketch, painting is really good, no wonder Mr. Lu want. Feng Wenfeng and he is a close friend, to him to write this pair of see the slightest dare not sloppy.

We drank dragon well and ate Dong sugar while listening to the old man scolded Feng Wenfeng's husband, Deng Zhonghe, said he was originally Feng's houseboy, but also has a wife and children, Feng Wenfeng wanted him to join the family after the overnight outbursts, and whoring and gambling, married three or four concubines, Feng Wenfeng said, "The first favorite, the one who is annoyed with me, and now he took the third and fourth concubines, annoyed at the second and third concubines, dry me! It's none of my business!" From then on, she kept a police dog and a famous cat, and opened a studio for calligraphy and painting, and when she got tired of living in Shanghai, she stayed at her mother's house in Hong Kong, and I heard that even Dr. Sun Yat-sen took pity on her, and went to the pier to pick up her boat. Her father, Feng Shi Han, writing clerical script as famous as Deng Er Ya's seal script, Feng Wenfeng first inherited the family's learning, the more they write more and more down, the old man lamented her life as a talented woman: "Rarely is that handwriting with the same invention as the Dong Sugar very much!" A wobble a dream, Lu Danlin seventy-two years old, the old man withered in the following year, the old man Zhou died of disease in North America, Dong Sugar is also long lost, Shanghai suddenly out of Feng Wenfeng ink to me, and it is written to the Red Tree Room in clerical script, late at night to touch the pursuit of indistinctly similar to Bao Paijian, "Shadow Plum An Memory of the words of the" in the half of a section of the rhyme, even if the water painted no garden, the moon no building, Dong Xiaowan pen of the lonely mountain of the feeling of the passing of the depth of the feelings of the vague sheep constantly.