Some meat by the office of the exhibition

    Habitual thought, art exhibitions and meat, elegant vulgar, two to fellow. Yesterday, longevity district town adjacent sealing drive, town of farmers market crowded bursting at the seams. " Butcher carpenter in the office of the exhibition ... ..." The crowd gathered at a butcher watching strange:" that Chairman Mao portrait like yo"," Andy Lau the Zhang Ye painting as Sai"," the horse painting was like" ... ...

    Butcher, a middle-aged man wearing a stained with pork apron, cheerful looking people, to put down the meat cleaver, picked up the pencil to draw people to explain. The man is famous in the local butcher carpenter, said the country artist Li Huailin.

    Li Huailin's paintings are full of sketches, celebrity portrait, child portrait, and pandas, horse, tiger and other animal image, painting is not perfection in one's studies., but with a strong country style. Lively, some villagers took out 5 yuan,10 yuan, have to buy their own like painting.

    Gambling away a small building

    Butcher" edge edge drawing, do not delay!" The use of leisure, bet against Li Huailin and the Chongqing evening news reporter Kan on mountain. Li Huailin this year 54 years old, adjacent letter of the town village six groups. Neighbors eyes, he is a brave man. Reform is earlier, he went to Guizhou to make a living, became the village 's first enter the arena. See after go from village to village to sell pork to make money, Li Huailin returned home to dry up the butcher carpenter living, became the village people to get rich first.

    " Pockets bulging, people are empty." On 2004, Li Huailin fell in love with the table:" pig meat every day only a few hours, the remaining time to soak in the table, all cards are common. Wife never quarrel with me, but be of no avail." Li Huailin summary: Gambling gambling, the more gambling thinner. After two years, he accumulated over the years to cover small Western-style money lost everything.

    Gambling addiction.

    In 2004November a frost in the morning, resistance to bet on Li Huailin from mahjong," loses a fat pig money, is the idea of manage these hands ... ..." Frustrated in the he heard, at the same time, the village a person playing mahjong lost property, wife hanged Dutch act. It touches on the great Li Huailin, he secretly determined, gambling.

    One day, read the daughter produced a sketch, asked: " Dad, I draw you, like?" " So like, so like!" Li Huailin was surprised at the same time, his mind flashed an idea: simply, I also learn to draw off gambling. Just do it, on the afternoon of the same day, Li Huailin bought two pencil and paper, secretly copy family towel on the horse gallops map. " Be afraid of being laughed at, I was hiding in the corn straw reactor in painting, was hiding in his pig pen painting ... ..." Said Li Huailin, before he sold, pork is play cards, later, only to be free, he would hide painting.

    " Painting than pig. The first time I put my picture" of steeds" to take his wife and daughter, they actually are all thumbs. I just know later, actually painting very bad, they are because I paint and gambling, encouraged me." So, love on Li Huailin from the wall of the star according to the quilt surface patterns, hoe, shovel from the corner of the room to the kitchen pots and pans, from the front room after the Li Zihua mountains ... ... He sees what painting what.

    A former gambler" painter"

    " At first, he is completely enjoyment gambler." Li Huailin's wife Luo Chengxian says, the husband at home draw after one or two years suddenly put your picture next to get the meat does art exhibition," I wasn't nearly eaten".

    A fair day, next to Li Huailin in the meat with a rope will draw together, hanging on the wall display. " Draw a hang out it caused a sensation." Luo Chengxian said, the painting to Li Huailin the butcher has brought business opportunities, many people see strange at the same time, by the way to buy a piece of meat to go home. Even money, let Li for his portrait. Li Huailin was greatly encouraged in 2008, November, he devoted to longevity of older university enrollment" study", butcher carpenter painter, country artist name in the local spread.

    In response, Li Huailin self summary : "in fact, most main is to find spiritual sustenance, never before realized, mixing time by playing cards. Start small, then deeper. Drawing let me have a spiritual sustenance, licensing natural quit the addiction."

    Ferry town of Taiping Village village to country tells a reporter, Li Huailin studied painting at the local spread, affecting a lot of" Friends of Ma", began to alienate the mahjong table.