An ALS patient's, self taught 6 pieces oil paintings (2019-2021）（as one of my hobbies）, Renlin Xia

When I was young, I drew pencil drawings and traced comic strips. In middle school, I moved up to brush drawing. As a student at Nanmo 南洋模範中學 Middle School, Zhang Dening 張德寧 was a good painter and I felt inferior to him. When I was in college, especially during the Cultural Revolution and working at the rural areas, I tried to use watercolor and oil paints. I remember painting the standard portrait of Mao 毛, going to Anyuan 安源, and "a piece of red" 一片紅. In 1970, I worked with Qian Yixin 錢一心, we were Second Shanghai medical school clasmates, at the Xinyuan Farm in Yili 伊犁, Xinjiang, and painted oil scenes of the farm and Mao's portrait, which escaped us four or five months of back-breaking hard labor. After that, I never touched the brush again because I was running around to make a living. When I moved to Chicago, I often went to art museums as a joy of life. After a lapse of 47 years, I watched an oil painting video program in 2019 and was brought back my childhood dream. I bought brushes, easels, and paints, downloaded the pictures from website, without any teachers, and copied six of them, though I painted ugly. Now I have stopped painting for health reasons after I was diagnosed as ALS patient in March 2021. Thanks for watching！Renlin Xia, MD
我编辑的这个视频，包括2张我的照片，二幅说明，和六幅我的塗鴨。背景音乐 “ Help Me Make It Through The Night ”是一首鄉村音樂民謠，由Kris Kristofferson創作詞／曲。 鄉村（也稱為鄉村country或西部western）是一種流行音樂流派，起源於藍調 (blues)、教堂音樂（如南方福音Gaspel和靈歌）、或英/美民間音樂形式。 乡村音乐的特点是曲调简单，节奏平稳，朗朗上口, 带有叙事性及浓浓的乡土气息；亲切热情而不失流行元素, 有較强的传唱度。多为歌谣体、二部曲式或三部曲式 。 為很多劳工阶层喜爱，故也称为蓝领( blue collar)音乐。素材来源自民谣、或宗教音元素。内容包括生活、爱情、宗教、家庭以及对美好生活的憧憬。乡村音乐的两个最重要的组成部分是弦乐伴奏(通常是吉他或是电吉他，还常常加上一把夏威夷吉他和小提琴)及歌手的声音。歌手的嗓音是乡村音乐的标志（民间本嗓）；乡村音乐的歌手几乎总有美国南部的口音，鼻音较为清晰，至少会有乡村地区的口音。演唱时服饰随意。歌声在假声跟真声之间，来回盘旋。形式上，通常以独唱。或小和唱的形式为主体（我常听的是Kris Kristofferson & Lorrie Morgan二人合唱版本）。伴奏乐器，包括吉他、键盘器、口琴、小提琴、鼓和班卓琴等。随着流行(pop)音乐元素的增加，容纳钢琴, 电声扩音的乐器。今日乡村音乐中大多数吉他都是电声的 。pop更注重市场，country相对来说比较小众，纯粹一些。現今乡村音乐的风格更为独特，不仅具备乡土特征，同时赋予流行音乐色彩。Blue Grass （兰草音乐）是乡村音乐的一個支派。关于這首歌歌词，坊间有不同的解读。引用幾句歌词: Shake it loose and let it fall, Lay it soft upon my skin, Like the shadows on the wall（摇晃妳的美发, 让它輕輕落下, 洒在我的皮肤上, 輕盈地就像燈影撒在墙上）。Yesterday is dead and gone, And tomorrow's out of sight（昨日一去不复，明天遥不可及）。珍惜當下, 何謂珍惜，眾人众解。詩篇 30:5 – “……哭泣可能會持續一夜，但歡樂會在早晨到來。” 根據原歌词是渡過漫漫長夜，我選用第一幀照片為暗色背景(夜晚），第十幀背景些為明亮（凌晨）。谢谢观看。大家保重。夏人霖
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