There is a "flower grandfather" in Shanghai, as long as it does not rain, every morning at 5:30 am he will be punctual in the community "stall": a multi-layer movable rectangular table, on which are placed different sizes of wire rings, various colors of mesh cloth, and thick and thin silk threads... What is this doing? Curious people often come forward to watch: it turns out that they are making flowers! To be precise, it is to make silk mesh flowers.
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The grandfather who made flowers is named Wang Fuming, and he is 93 years old this year. He is a retired cadre of the Logistics Department of the Xinjiang Military Region who has been on the border for decades, and currently lives in the Gumei Recuperation Center for retired military cadres in Shanghai.
After retirement, he never stayed idle, and then a chance encounter with silk mesh flowers, which he did for more than ten years, and was affectionately known as "Grandpa Flower".
Grandpa Hua not only likes to make flowers, but also often gives small flowers he makes to others, and has now sent more than 6,000 flowers, which can be said to be a realistic version of "send you a small red flower".
The picture shows some photos taken by people who received small red flowers
Wang Fuming first came into contact with silkscreen flowers in 2003, when he was in his seventies and saw several aunts in the community making silk mesh flowers, there were many kinds of lilies, peonies, roses, in his words, "suddenly attracted."
Wang Fuming just stood by and watched until they were almost finished, and he asked, "I also want to learn, will you accept me as an apprentice?" ”
According to his recollection, the aunts laughed at the time: "We don't have gay men, and can we do it at such an old age?" This can not be three days of fishing and two days of drying nets. ”
Wang Fuming immediately expressed his determination: "I have a characteristic of this person, that is, I will do what I identify to the end." Therefore, he bowed three times to a big aunt, Huang Pinfen, which was considered to be a worship of the master.
At the beginning, such a meticulous manual work was indeed somewhat difficult for Wang Fuming: to first wrap the wire into a circle, and then put the mesh on the iron ring, which is a "petal", and then use the silk thread to fix the petals together, and finally pinch the petals into different shapes...
Materials needed to make silk mesh flowers
To tell the truth, Zhou Zhijun just looked at it and felt very troublesome, but Grandpa Hua was such a flower, and he did it day by day.
Since 2003, he has been making silkscreen flowers for 18 years. As he became more and more, Grandpa Hua began to create with silk mesh flowers, which were combined into floral works with different shapes.
"I sometimes go to the City God Temple to buy materials, there are a few shops to make silk mesh flowers often have innovations, I just stand on the side to watch, some steps I know, is equivalent to stealing to come back haha." Grandpa Flower said.
Every "July 1st" Party's birthday, "August 1st" Founding Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day... He creates with silk mesh flowers.
This year, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, he and others in the retreat spelled out the words "always follow the party" with red silk mesh flowers.
In life, a white-haired grandpa flower always receives people's help and kindness, in order to express his gratitude, grandpa flower began to give small flowers made by hand to others...
I often go out to take the bus, the subway, people see me a white hair to give me a place, I feel very embarrassed, I can be physical, can stand, young people work is also very hard, they sit on the subway to rest is also very necessary.
For the young man who gave him a seat, Grandpa Hua felt that it was not enough to say thank you, and he remembered the silk mesh flowers he had made, so he tried to give the small flowers to the strangers who gave up their seats, as well as couriers, masters who repaired water and electricity, sanitation, doctors and nurses in hospitals... Now, Grandpa Hua goes out every day, and other things are not brought, but the flowers must be carried with him and can be given to others at any time.
At first, he made corsages, but in the past two years, he has figured out ring flowers himself.
"Generally, male comrades send corsages, and female comrades send ring flowers. The people who received the flowers, they were very happy, the effect was very good, and I kept sticking with it. Grandpa Hua said that the oldest person he sent flowers to was 98 years old, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea; the youngest was a small doll who had just been born.
Until now, Grandpa Hua got up at five o'clock in the morning, went to the yard to make flowers at half past five, generally did 9:30 to close the stall, caught up with the rain to do in the community's activity room, every day so insistent, he set himself a daily task volume, at least 20 small flowers a day.
Why did you set yourself this "task"?
Grandpa Hua said, "Because there are many people who like small flowers, and there are specially entrusted people to ask for it, it is not enough to do less", in his opinion, the days of making flowers every day are very fulfilling, and what is happier is that everyone likes what they do.
Source: Thoughtful