49 year old chalk Weng, creating a unique font for life and creating business opportunities
reporter Kong Yutong
Cui Xianren, there are always a number of visitors. Reporter Kong Yutong photo
with the help of micro-blog netizens everywhere, at noon on the 12 day, he was found in Yantai, Shandong. At that time, he was writing on the road in Weihai, Qingdao.
"old man" is called Cui Xianren, who is from Suihua, Heilongjiang. He was not old at all. He was only 49 years old, but his hair was white, his face was severely burned, and his age was blurred.
at present, founder staff have initially reached a cooperation intention with Cui Xianren, and will develop his unique and striking chalk character.
[b] Qingdao net friend burst out [/b]
11 dusk on the evening of 11, a Qingdao net friend said that he saw the "chalk Weng" in Weihai Road near Taitung, Qingdao, and also attached a scene photo. Founder staff and reporters rushed to Qingdao.
12 more than 12 noon, has been looking for the founder of the morning, and finally saw the "chalk Weng" beside the women and children wholesale market. "We stood on the overpass and saw a man wearing a hat and sunglasses slowly walking to see that the burn degree on his face should be the person we are looking for."
chalk Weng then found a piece of open space, opened the bag, took out a stereo, then rolled a black artificial leather slowly. At 1 in the afternoon, he pulled out a chalk and began to write.
he used his left middle finger and ring finger to hold a piece of chalk and squeezed it with his right hand. "The softness of humiliation is a wonderful way to prolong the years." when he writes a sentence, he changes a color chalk. He needs to write a fine brush, picking up a rusty knife and sharpening the chalk.
like many street performers, when he writes, he plays pop songs on one side. Passers-by surrounded and dispersed, some of them would drop a few yuan. Whenever this time, he would raise his head and say "thank you".
4 p.m., "chalk up" gets up for dinner. The staff of Fangzheng company greeted them and explained their intentions. "What can I do?" The chalk Weng listened and laughed in surprise.
is about to cooperate with "chalk Weng" for
dinner, the reporter can see his face, white hair, ears, nose almost burnt out. Because the skin is too tight and the mouth can not shut up, when he eats noodles, he has to clip it up and bite it quickly, or he will slip out of his mouth.
the founder's staff told him that he wanted to develop his character into a font library and spread it to the whole country. "Cooperation? What can I do? It would be good to be able to improve life. " He said he was Cui Xianren, 49 years old, who was in Wangkui County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang. Because of an accident, he was burned to the present. In these years, from Heilongjiang to the south, he has gone through more than 10 cities to write and sell, because his wife's intervertebral disc is out of work, and the whole family lives on his words. Wang Haichao, founder of
founder, said that they initially planned to give Cui Xianren a sum of money, so that he could write with ease and then develop it into a font store by the company.
for the name of this font, Wang Haichao said, the company will respect the views of the elderly, may be named after him.
"do I really need to do business in the street?" The old man laughed and asked.
"we are willing to give him all the proceeds from the development of the font to improve his life." Wang Haichao said.
"chalk Weng" Cui Xianren:
for life, to practice a good word
12 days, in the bustle and bustle of Weihai on the Qingdao Road, Cui Xianren is lying for nearly 3 hours, a stroke, without modification, the written Chinese characters like a square written.
little does it know that Cui Xianren can write such a good character and is forced by life.
in order to live, he picked up pen
in 1993, because of an accident, Cui Xianren's face and hands burned badly. He was stifling, began to practice calligraphy. He tried to use his mouth and his feet, but he could not hold the brush at all.
later, his wife's disc herniation became more and more serious, and his family's livelihood became a problem. "One day, my neighbor told me that you can't depend on others, you can go out and get the main points."
he went to the surrounding areas, but there was no money at all. "You are begging, you look down on it." The neighbour's words reminded him that he thought of his own words.
after two years of thinking, I got a good word
"I wrote regular script at the beginning." Cui Xianren said later that he thought he could write a more distinctive character.
he began to study with the dictionary and deformed the traditional characters. "Like painting, make it more beautiful." On the side of the Qingdao street, Cui Xianren gave reporters a few deformations to the reporters: a point, written as a S or a heart, and sometimes like a willow leaf, and sometimes a crescent moon...
Cui Xianren said that he used his imagination for more than two years to write such a character. When he went to entertainer, he obviously felt a lot of admiration.
"can improve life best"
in 5 years of takeaway skills, Cui Xianren has adapted to this kind of life.
"can you think of the words you created one day for others?" The reporter asked.
"who would have thought of that? Thank you for being kind."
he had a son working in Hangzhou. He said he and his son were "unable to care for each other".
"did you ever think about it later?"
"no, if you can cooperate, it will be better to improve your life." Do not continue to write. " Cui said.