The 70 -year -old grandma spent 10,000 pieces of garbage in 50 years, and there was nowhere to be at home, but she cried countless netizens: This is not my grandma!

Author | Putting a good house source | Putting a good house ID | IHAOFANGZI is prevailing in the wind of "breaking away", "hoarding" seems to be an unhealthy habit. Even if it develops into an accumulation, it has become a psychological disease that needs to be treated. However, whether in cities or villages, you can always see uncle and aunt picking up waste and picking trash. What is magical is that this is not their economic source, just "get used to" -the older generation who has been used to suffering, some things are not garbage and can continue to be used. So picked it back and let it "make your best" on one day, and it is also a kind of frugality of ahead.

Zhao Xiangyuan, the mother of the white -haired elderly artist, who is picking up the wasteland, is such an old lady. In her life, more than 10,000 tattered, incomplete, and even never used items: old clothes, tableware, lunch boxes, soaps, bird cages, bottle caps, toys ... She was reluctant to throw away. The "garbage" in the eyes of these outsiders constitute her figurative and real life.

Zhao Xiangyuan's more than 10,000 items were displayed in 1938. Zhao Xiangyuan was born in Taoyuan, Hunan.

In her childhood, her life was pretty good, but after the age of 15, she suddenly fell in her family. She could only earn some meager home uses by the mother sellers, to do needles, and to do zero work. Zhao Xiangyuan, a young age, has realized that life is not easy. During the holidays, she will do zero work with her mother, and her life is difficult and difficult.

Because Zhao Xiangyuan and his mother had no money, they couldn't afford new clothes. The mother and daughter also learned to change the old clothes -dyeing old clothes with new colors, and slightly sewing and changing one or two places. And the rest of the clothing head can be used to use it in the future.

That is, during this period, Zhao Xiangyuan developed the habit of retaining the old things. He always thought that he would use it someday in the future so that they could use it. Such a habit can be seen everywhere in her later marriage.

After marrying her husband Shiping, Zhao Xiangyuan gave birth to two children, but still had a constraint. In the era when the material was scarce and the supply was supplied by tickets, in order to handle a big family, she must be carefully calculated -to recycle things that can be recycled, and she must not lose it or buy new ones. Even, she kept thinking: "When the children grow up, they can stay for them." When Song Dong was young, he remembered that his mother always bought cloth heads for clothes, because the cloth did not need to use a limited cloth ticket to buy.

At that time, Zhao Xiangyuan's cloth head was full of concerns and fear due to lack of material and supply. For example, buying soaps requires a ticket, and each person only supplys half a month, which is far from the use of their three people. Fortunately, some single guys who do not wash their clothes in person will take the initiative to give the ticket to Zhao Xiangyuan who buy soap. Over time, soap is no longer worried that it will be used up, but the habit of hoarding has been continuing. Zhao Xiangyuan said: "Later, I saved them as a souvenir that those young men supported me.

Different from the soap representing friendship, Zhao Xiangyuan does not need any special reason to collect bottle caps. Originally, she just wanted to sell a plastic bottle to make a little money, but was later interested in the bottle cap of the same color -Huang Qiaoyong, red and made a pair. Let's talk about it. "Even later she considered taking a bottle cap as a chess, red is a car, and green is running." You can divide it without writing. "

Similarly, the color of the lid color is also one of the collection of Zhao Xiangyuan.

In addition to cloth head, soap, bottle cap, toothpaste, Zhao Xiangyuan's home also has a bunch of flower pots, because her father -in -law loves to raise flowers. It's just that in that era, the flower pot was very expensive, so her husband Shiping studied the craft of iron mold casting pots. However, since the death of the father -in -law, the flowers in the family have no one to take care of, leaving only the empty pots, which has also become a memorial that Zhao Xiangyuan guards.

There is also a toy that son and daughter played from childhood, and she never lost. Zhao Xiangyuan can tell the stories behind them. She has collected these old -age objects crazy, and she has even exceeded the category of diligence and frugality.

Toys left by Zhao Xiangyuan

但在赵湘源看来，即使那些旧古董早已没了实用价值，却有着宝贵的情感价值：“这许多物品不是标本，而是活过的生命。岁月给我们留下了这许多痕迹，但也带I went to many things. I left these things everywhere to continue their lives. "But until the death of the husband Shiping, Zhao Xiangyuan's hoarding became more serious and gradually became a" disease ". She cannot accept the reality of her lover. She needs to be immersed in complicated items, just like hiding in a huge "cocoon" to feel warm and safe.

Zhao Xiangyuan's room

But this also made her fall into the "prison" of memories and manufacturing, and she couldn't continue to walk forward -Zhao Xiangyuan refused to throw away anything, and the room was filled with various items accumulated for many years. The space became forced, and her attachment to the past has reached an almost "pathological state."

Husband and father -in -law's cage before their lifetime, Zhao Xiangyuan is used to see things

At first, his son Song Dong would often organize the room for Zhao Xiangyuan, but there were always unnecessary conflicts. In addition to the huge differences in the lifestyle of the two generations, there is also an insurmountable gap in conceptual. Song Dong is not unable to understand the helplessness and emptiness that the mother needs to be filled with the object after losing her lover, but I just hope that she can eat well, dress well, and live well. Therefore, he found another emotional exit for his mother. Art -using an exhibition called "Things" to show Zhao Xiangyuan's life -hoarding objects and the philosophy of her life.

However, Song Dong's original intention was not to create a great artwork of an era, but just wanted to "treat" the mother. Help her liberate from the "cocoon" she built, because it also contains too many heavy, facing past memories. He stacked the doors of more than 10,000 items collected by Zhao Xiangyuan in his life in the exhibition hall.

In 2009, the "Things Toricing" displayed at the Modern Art Museum in New York

However, the most important thing for "Things" is not these amazing items, but their owner -Zhao Xiangyuan himself. In Song Dong's idea, he hoped that his mother could participate in the exhibition throughout the process. She can communicate with the audience freely and tell them the story behind this item.

It turns out that Song Dong's judgment and decision -making is correct. Putting these tens of thousands of items in the form of exhibitions can not only change the current state of obsession with old things, but also improve her original congested living environment. At the scene, Zhao Xiangyuan came forward to look forward to the exhibition audience introduced their cherished "collections", telling the stories behind them, or humor, or touching. At this moment, she is more like an artist than her son Song Dong. But in order to complete this art work, she spent her lifetime.

The items that make up the "Things Trimous" are not ordinary itself. And Zhao Xiangyuan's accumulation of old things was reluctant to throw away, and it was very common in older generations who had experienced material scarcity. It is just that these old things that seem like garbage, with their complicated and close connections with each other, can make countless people feel the weight and thickness of ordinary people's lives. The reason why "everything is used" is used as the core concept of this exhibition is because it summarizes a philosophy of life of the Chinese. In this era of "fast -moving consumer goods", perhaps the lifestyle of the older generation has long been out of date, and the accumulation seems to be too pathological, but its cherishment and emotional attachment to items still worthy of our learning.

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