他好学,是个聪明人。——这是四十年前,拜“泥人张”学艺的郑于鹤,给我留下的印象。如今,他虽然还是那么爽朗,朝气不减当年,但毕竟是鬓发飞霜了。我对他的认识,自然也比过去的那点印象要深入得多。郑于鹤很善于去发现美和表现美;他更懂得如何把握并大胆自如地突出装饰美的种种意趣。正因为他具有这样的艺术秉赋,再加上数十年如一日地刻苦劳作,在坚持以严肃态度献身于艺术的同时,也严肃地塑造了他自己,成为一个城实的、有才华的雕塑家。大概是六十年代初,我在北大荒一个劳改农场的半间小图书室里,从一份过期的《人民画报》上 He is a smart person. - This is the impression I made four years ago when Zheng Yuhe, a student of clay figurines, worshiped me. Today, though he is still so hearty, vigorous then, but after all, is a hair cream. My understanding of him is naturally much deeper than the impression of the past. Zheng Yuhe is good at discovering beauty and showing beauty. He knows how to grasp and boldly highlights all the interesting aspects of decorative beauty. It is precisely because he has such an artistic talent, coupled with decades of hard work, while insisting on a serious attitude to art, but also seriously shaped himself, to become a real city, talented sculptor. It was probably in the early 1960s that I was in a small library in a labor reform farm in the Great Northern Wilderness, from an expired “People’s Pictorial”