我的老家是个距湖南岳阳县城百里,交通不太方便的小村庄。村里手头稍微宽裕一点的人就数张福兴了。他比我年长十多岁,我称他福兴哥。他是个初中毕业生,文化程度不高,但却好学,聪明能干。他自15岁起跟师傅学雕花板,能雕一手好花,方圆几十里娶亲嫁女的农民都要找他雕花板和画花。记得1978年底我回家探亲时,曾去他家看望他。他堂屋里摆满了装饰在各式各样床上的 My hometown is a small village away from Yueyang County, Hunan Province, where traffic is not convenient. Zhang Fuxing was counted in the hands of the village a little more generous. He was ten years older than I, and I called him Fuxing brother. He is a junior high school graduate with a low level of education, but studious and capable. He studied sculpture at the age of 15 with the master to carve a handful of flowers, a few dozen miles to marry a female peasant are looking for his carved panels and flowers. I remember when I went home to visit relatives in late 1978, I visited him at his house. His hall was filled with decorations in a variety of bed