Yelang was the first country established by national ancestors in Southwest China during the Spring and Autumn Period. It can be traced back to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and was recorded by the Central Plains regime. It lasted about 300 years from the Warring States to the first year of peace in the Western Han Dynasty. Although there is a dispute between Hunan Province and Guizhou Province about the location of Yelang's ancient capital, according to Wang Deyu, a researcher of Yelang Culture Research Association in Guizhou, history shows that Yelang's ancient capital is located in the north of Guizhou. According to two points, one is the historical data about Tang and Meng's envoys to Yelang in Han Dynasty, and the other is the developed degree of the region at that time.
According to the historical records of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Tang Meng once sent a doctor as a special envoy to Yelang. At that time, Tang Meng entered the Yelang border from Hejiang, Sichuan today, and this route only reached Chishui, Xishui, Yelang's hometown, and Tongzi in northern Guizhou today. But in Tongzi, there are still historical sites of Mengdu Bridge and numerous Yelang sites. Located in Tongzi County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, Song Peilun was born in Meitan County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province.
Song Peilun heard people talk about the ancient Yelang country from an early age, including wars, nationalities and legends. It was magical and beautiful, and planted mysterious seeds in his young and curious heart.
At that time, Song Peilun often looked at the stone castle hidden in overgrown trees and weeds on the opposite mountain outside his home. The old people told him that it was a relic left by the ancient Yelang Kingdom. Perhaps from then on, Song Peilun gradually had a vague outline of an ancient Yelang country in his heart. I don't know the mystery and magic buried in Song Peilun's heart when he was a child, which aroused his yearning for art. Song Peilun chose to study art and has been engaged in related work.
In the aspect of fine arts, Song Peilun showed his artistic talent, his cartoons won the "Gold Medal Award", he invented the wood hot stamping process, and obtained the national patent of 1985 in China; 1986, Song Peilun's work "Mask Face" won the "Innovation Award for Combining Traditional and Modern Stage Art" at the 6th Prague International Dance Art Exhibition. Up to now, four of Song Peilun's personal works have been collected by China Art Museum, among which 20 woodcarving masks have been collected by Beijing International Art Park. Along the way, Song Peilun's artistic attainments became deeper and deeper.
Because of his outstanding artistic talent and achievements, Song Peilun was invited to the United States in 1994 to participate in the "splendid china" miniature landscape construction activities, and created many works, such as Yelang Castle, Yelang Totem, Yelang Face, etc., which won wide acclaim for its mysterious artistic color, unique cultural heritage of the ancient oriental countries and Song Peilun's personal artistic attainments. Song Peilun visited the "Presidential Mountain" during his visit to the United States. The experience of this visit is like a bright light, which provides illumination for Song Peilun's future creative path in Yelang Valley.
The theme of the trip to Presidential Mountain is that there are already four presidential portraits, but the four famous presidential portraits are not the bright lights that illuminate Song Peilun's future creative path in Yelang Valley. What really brightens Song Peilun's heart is that there is also a huge statue of the Indian hero Crazy Horse Song and Dance Show.
The creation of giant statues of Indian heroes lasted for more than 60 years, which condensed the artistic creation efforts of three generations of Indians and their pursuit and yearning for the hero's "Crazy Horse Song and Dance Show". Through their own artistic creation, the wonderful legends of heroes are condensed in their hearts, which becomes the highest respect for heroes, the pursuit of beauty in their hearts, and the most ideal creation and application of art. This is the highest value of art.
At this moment, the ancient Yelang Kingdom in Song Peilun's mind coincides with the statue of the hero "Crazy Horse Song and Dance Show". The hero "Crazy Horse Song and Dance Show" in the Indian family who completed this huge statue is Song Peilun's dream of Yelang ancient country.
"Why can't I visualize a beautiful legend like the Indians and tell you the story of Yelang in my heart in the language of sculpture and pass it on?"
In this way, Song Peilun began his arrogant dream. After leaving the American green card, he stopped his artistic work in that era, engaged in social and commercial activities, took out all his savings and returned to his hometown of Guizhou with his family, and embarked on the road of realizing his dream.
Song Peilun's ancient dream of Yelang will naturally come true in Yelang's hometown, and he began to look for a pure land for his ancient dream. At that time, there were no people in a radius of more than ten kilometers, with mountains, Cang Shu, bamboo and streams winding clearly among them. The crisp birdsong and the rustling of leaves in the breeze break the silence in the valley from time to time. The sun is shining and the air is fresh.
It is primitive, natural, quiet and unpolluted, quietly immersed in its own time, as if it had never been disturbed for thousands of years. Song Peilun also discovered many bare karst rocks, and his keen artistic intuition clearly told him that these rocks were raw materials for his artistic creation and were easy to obtain.
After in-depth investigation, Song Peilun learned that all the villagers nearby had the skill of beating stones, which made him feel that all aspects of creating the ancient Yelang dream were here.
As a result, Song Peilun used up all his savings and borrowed money to rent nearly 300 acres of sloping valley here, as well as all kinds of materials and labor costs needed to build Yelang Ancient Valley. In the twenty years that he finished this masterpiece, he was not only penniless, but also owed millions of foreign debts.
Although the villagers lack cultural knowledge, life has become their best "art" teacher. Villagers live nearby, digging holes to get materials, as well as pigsty, cowshed, fort ridge, courtyard wall and so on. Everything you need for life is piled here with stones.
After years of stone-beating, they not only accumulated rich masonry experience, but also formed random stones in practice, which made the built buildings have a simple and natural aesthetic feeling, which is exactly the same as Song Peilun's natural, rough and original creative style and concept. So Song Peilun borrowed the villagers' stone method to build his Yelang Valley. Only the east wind can bring everything. Song Peilun started his own creation of Yelang Valley. It takes Nuo culture as its foundation, Nuo mask as its embryonic form, and layout and details are conceived according to the original ecological landform. When the work is presented, it naturally changes with the terrain.
This trend from artistic creation, masonry technology to overall layout has unified the natural, primitive and rugged atmosphere, so that the Yelang Valley we see now seems to be a real life with thoughts, feelings, flesh and blood and soul.
Such a charming place is destined to be shared. It has a strong artistic atmosphere and profound cultural heritage, attracting tourists from all directions. Up to now, Yelang Valley is not only a good place for artistic creation, but also a place that national tourists yearn for. In the view of tourism, Yelang Valley is the source of unlimited business opportunities and contains huge commercial interests.
As soon as Yelang Valley appeared, it attracted many tourism companies and commercial developers to discuss cooperation with Song Peilun, and also proposed ways to make money by developing, expanding and creating derivative products. Therefore, Song Peilun could easily become a billionaire. abstract:
Although Song Peilun gave up a stable and superior life in the city to realize his artistic dream and lived in seclusion in the mountains for 20 years, he spent all his savings and millions of foreign debts, but Song Peilun never thought of using all his savings to build this Yelang Valley and earn commercial profits.
Song Peilun built Yelang Valley in line with the original intention of artistic innocence, only for the ancient dream of Yelang and only for the soul. Song Peilun also has a wish to build Yelang Valley, that is, to let people who love culture and art like him have a home to go to Guizhou, where they can stay away from the hubbub and concentrate on their creation.
Song Peilun's Yelang Valley does not pursue commercial interests, but such a good work will be valuable. Song Peilun may be more willing to stick to his true colors and become an priceless art millionaire than a billionaire.