Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, at the foot of Jin Gangtai in the Dabie Mountains, is an old red revolutionary area that has produced General Hong Xuezhi, a place that has left the footprints of many revolutionary pioneers and valuable spiritual wealth for the region. Zhou Sen grew up listening to the legends of the revolution, and the deeds and spirit of the heroes left a deep impression on his mind, which also contributed to his tough and strong personality since childhood. Zhou Sen's tough childhood gave him the experience and motivation to get out of poverty and serve this hot land, which formed the goal of his life in his early childhood, and from then on he had compassion for the disadvantaged groups in society.
All Zhou Sen's memories of the era in which he was born are of poverty and hunger. His childhood was like that of most of his rural contemporaries: digging dung, chopping wood, cutting wheat ...... and doing endless farm work all year round on top of school. A chance insight in a language class changed the course of Zhou Sen's life and his destiny. His left hand backward book has exceeded the speed of regular people with the right hand to write the right word, put the pen to the sword, almost a waterfall.
What Zhou Sen has always kept in his mind during the process of learning to write is what his great-uncle Zhou Shijing said when teaching him to write when he was still an ignorant child. To write a good word first of all to do three high: the first is the eye high, that is to say to see more, especially see more of the works of everyone, take the law on, see more of the mind's eye, naturally, will see the doorway. The second is the hand high, that is to say, to practice the hand strength, practice to the hand intention to the pen to the feeling. To put it bluntly, that is, the hands should have kung fu. The third is a high person, this is the most rare, is to say that the person's style is high, far-reaching, ambitious, meteorological high, to become a person with a great deal of knowledge, great wisdom, big heart, big temperament.
Every east rises and west falls in the day, after dealing with daily work affairs, Zhou Sen let himself calmly watch the tip of the pen moistly kissed one after another piece of rice paper, watching one after another big word in his left hand under the more and more beautiful, more and more stylish and stylishly fluttering, he immersed himself into the kind of concentration realm he was intoxicated by: dedicated to the service, drill hard and high, forget about their fatigue. Sunset does not rest, oblique food. Ten days a stroke, months several pills of ink. Leader like soap, lips and teeth often black. Although in the crowd, no time to talk about the play, show finger paddling, to grass 600 wall. Arm through the skin scraping, finger scratching broken, see gills bleeding, not stopping ......
Zhou Sen 1992 business trip to Guangzhou, coincidentally happened to be held there, "China's Hundred Jedi Expo", he was a left-handed reverse book of the traditional Chinese
When Zhou Sen traveled to Guangzhou in 1992, he happened to be there at the "Chinese Hundred Masters Exhibition", where he shocked the land of Southern Guangdong with a traditional left-handed calligraphy in reverse, winning the Grand Prize. 200 pieces of artworks were taken away from the collection in three days. The Chinese calligraphy and painting appraiser Jia Jinghong wrote an inscription for him: "A masterpiece of Chinese calligraphy". The award in Guangzhou was an important turning point in Zhou Sen's life. When he held an exhibition of his calligraphy works in Shanghai, Liu Bingsen, the vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, inscribed the inscription, "A unique master of the art of calligraphy" for him. In view of Zhou Sen's artistic achievements, the State Postal Bureau issued 300,000 sheets and 50,000 sets of Zhou Sen's works on "postal" postcards to the whole country, in order to promote his moral character. He eventually learned his craft and became a world-famous left-handed calligraphy artist from an unknown calligrapher.
The world-famous Zhou Sen, who is known as "the first Chinese left-handed backhanded calligraphy artist", was once entangled in a heap of interests, and surprisingly, he chose to "escape" by becoming a monk in a monastery. During the period, he has never given up his left hand back to the book, in the practice of polishing calligraphy, calligraphy in the understanding of life, invisible many Buddhism Zen into his pen, engaged in charitable work into his wish, but also the achievement of the direction of his future development.
With the relentless pursuit of the art of calligraphy, Zhou Sen left his hometown, and in a few years he almost traveled to the mountains and rivers of his country, visiting famous calligraphers and speculating on calligraphy inscriptions. That is, he went abroad to study calligraphy, his mother died, at this time in Guangzhou, Zhou Sen is somewhere to study calligraphy, is at a low point in his life. When he got the sad news of his mother's death, the old man had already passed away a few days ago. Due to the economic conditions of the limitations of the funeral home, he knelt more than a mile, although it is rotten knees, but when he rushed back to his hometown, his mother into the ground has been two days. He did not make it in person for the hard life of his mother to send the end of Zhou Sen's heart a lifetime of regrets can not be erased. He knelt at his mother's grave and sobbed uncontrollably. Tired of crying, he saw his mother in the moon when he was born, drinking the chicken stewed over and over again, stewed for a whole month, as if he saw his mother just gave birth to a child, because of the lack of nutrients and pale face. Over 12 years old birthday mother in order not to let his children inferior, eat dyed red eggs, in the family even buy red paint a few pennies can not come out of the case, she tiptoe feet tear off the red paper has not yet completely faded "door pair" on a piece of paper, dipped into the water to the red paper smeared on the eggs, barely made a red egg. ...... Zhou Sen secretly vowed: Mom, I did not give you the end of the old age, later I will become famous and have the ability to, must be well provided for like you mother of mercy!
Zhou Sen has never forgotten this vow.
In May 2000, Zhou Sen happened to learn from a friend that there were 10 widows and orphans in their 70s in a home for the elderly in Yingyang Town, Dengfeng, Henan Province, who were living in misery because of economic hardship, and his heart could no longer be at peace. He personally traveled from Beijing to Dengfeng to meet with the 10 old people. Seeing the faces of the old people who have gone through vicissitudes of life and suffered from the ravages of hard life, Zhou Sen met his parents as heartbreaking and affectionate. Elderly homes because of financial constraints and poor, no essential living facilities. Zhou Sen made up his mind: we must help them, so that the elderly to spend a decent old age! February 17, just after the Spring Festival, Zhou Sen braved the cold and once again rushed from Beijing to Dengfeng. This time, he gave the "parents" brought 100,000 yuan in cash. In order to show his son's "filial piety", he also braved the cold wind, specially for the "parents" to buy 10 bags of rice, 10 bags of flour, 10 boxes of apples, 50 kilograms of pork, as a gift to them to pay tribute to the New Year. 23. The 23 "parents" were thrilled to see their "sons" return. An old lady kept wiping her tears, pulling Zhou Sen's hand and said: "Children, how can you be so thoughtful? This village is a biological son of the elderly, some can not enjoy such treatment ah ......" The old people gathered around Zhou Sen, scrambling and "son" nagging family life. Zhou Sen held the old people's hands, looking at the old people's faces bloomed like chrysanthemum smile, forgetting the tiredness of the journey. The family-like harmony of the atmosphere, so that the people present were touched.
From 2000, every Chongyang Festival, Spring Festival, Zhou Sen will try to find time to Dengfeng, Henan Province, to visit the elderly, concerned about all aspects of life of the elderly, eat well, wear warm, what is the body of the uncomfortable place. Every time he brings gifts to honor the elderly. Elderly people were moved to tears, pulling Zhou Sen's hand and kept asking for warmth. Zhou Sen said: "Because my own mother is gone, I take these old people as my own parents, to serve or filial piety, to do some of my ability to give them a little money to see them on New Year's Day, I also want to get back to my parents together with the feeling of life." In order to let these old people have a happy old age, Zhou Sen before and after the donation for the old people's home accumulated more than one million yuan, and the old people also take Zhou Sen as their own son. According to Dengfeng City, Yingyang Town, the director of the home said that the year before last, there are a few old people in the home is not very good health, Mr. Zhou Sen heard about it after the flight back from Beijing, to the old people to see a doctor, but also a piece of a group photo. Unfortunately, those old people are now gone, and when he passed away, he still put Zhou Sen's photo in his pocket, and the scene was very touching.
Respecting the elderly is a traditional virtue of the Chinese people, and there is no better way to educate the next generation than through personal experience and feelings. Zhou Sen with his own personal experience shows that the value of the calligrapher's life is not only reflected in the calligraphic attainments, but also reflected in the care of society, for the elderly to create a better environment for the elderly, in the view of Zhou Sen is part of the matter. Looking at the old people's faces blossomed smile, he felt that everything is worthwhile. Now, the home in the local government and the people's unanimous initiative, the name changed to "Zhou Sen home".