Chapter 533 532 "Seeing through life and then loving life, this is Shi Tiesheng's idealism"
Song Tangtang went to the United States to attend his cousin's wedding.
Fang Minghua started living alone at home again, but after moving to a new home, there were many things to take care of, so it didn't seem boring.
The first is the calligraphy and painting hall on the third floor. Fang Minghua specially invited Wang Xijing, the president of the Xijing Chinese Painting Academy, to help decorate the calligraphy and painting hall.
Wang Xijing is in his forties this year. He is in the prime of life. He is good at traditional Chinese painting, especially portraits. When he saw so many paintings and calligraphy by famous people from the Republic of China in Fang Minghua's private collection, he was immediately impressed.
"Chairman Fang, I will help you decorate the calligraphy and painting hall according to the highest standards of our calligraphy and painting academy. I don't want any compensation, but I have a request." Wang Xijing said.
“What are your requirements?”
“In December this year, our art academy will hold a Chinese painting exhibition in Xiangjiang. I would like to lend you a few paintings for the exhibition. Not many, just these two. "
After saying that, Wang Xijing pointed to the two paintings hanging in the middle of the hall.
The first one is Zheng Banqiao's "Ink Bamboo Picture", which Fang Minghua bought for 3,000 yuan in 1983. Bought from Yan Bingchu, a great collector in Xijing.
3,000 yuan in 1983!
The other one is "Picture of Jia Couple", Zhang Daqian's masterpiece.
As expected, he is the dean of the Painting and Calligraphy Academy, he has a good eye!
These two paintings are treasures in Fang Minghua’s collection of paintings and calligraphy.
Fang Minghua was a little reluctant, but Wang Xijing did help in this matter. Not only did he send experts from the painting academy, he also came over to do it himself.
"Chairman Fang, don't worry, I will never damage these two paintings of yours. When you come back from the exhibition, you can ask Mr. Yan Bingchu to help you appraise them. I know that Mr. Yan and you have been friends for many years." Wang Xijing finally said.
The other party had reached this point, so Fang Minghua had no choice but to agree.
I said "No, I trust you.", but what I was thinking in my heart was that when I come back from the art exhibition in the future, I will definitely ask Mr. Yan to help me take a look.
In addition to the calligraphy and painting hall, Fang Minghua was also busy buying some chrysanthemums and the like to decorate the small courtyard, and also raised a puppy and a kitten.
The kitten is a very ordinary tabby cat, brought from Grandpa Fang Minghua’s house, but the puppy is a four-month-old German Shepherd!
And it's not an ordinary shepherd dog. It was brought from the army by Song Tangtang's brother Song Yuemin - a police dog that had not passed the examination for the establishment.
You have your own private courtyard. Xijing has always been a "city of thieves", so it is necessary to keep a tall and powerful shepherd dog at home.
Of course, I also found playmates for my two babies, and named the kitten and puppy Doumiao and Douya respectively.
Since the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the United States to attend Li Li's wedding, Fang Minghua picked up and dropped off the children every day during this period.
Now the two children have gone home and are playing in the yard with the little bean sprouts. Fang Minghua has moved a bamboo deck chair and sits in the yard drinking tea and reading a book. The little bean sprouts are nestled in his In his arms, his eyes were as wide as bells, watching the little master playing with the bean sprouts.
What Fang Minghua read was not a magazine or a book, but a newly written essay: "The Temple of Earth and I" sent by Shi Tiesheng who was far away in Yanjing, with a letter attached.
In the letter, Shi Tiesheng said humbly that he had recently written an essay and asked Fang Minghua to help him read it to see if it worked, and asked him to help revise it. Oh my god.
Do you still need my help in revising "Me and the Temple of Earth"?
Of course, if there are typos in your draft, I can help you look at it.
Fang Minghua read this prose very carefully.
Actually, Fang Minghua saw this article before he came to this era.
However, what we are looking at now is not the cold words on the printed version, but the handwritten version written by Shi Tiesheng.
Looking at the slightly familiar fonts on the graph paper, I remembered every bit of my relationship with Shi Tiesheng. When I read this prose again, I had a different feeling.
In the quiet light that fills the garden, it is easier for a person to see the time and see his own figure
Heaven does not change and Tao does not change. The old cypress trees stretch out their branches and leaves for thousands of years, clouds move in the sky, birds fly in the clouds, the wind touches the grass, and the weeds take root from generation to generation.
Conscience, in fact, understands everything. However, understanding does not necessarily prevent the evil of human nature.
Fang Minghua read it carefully and then suddenly stood up from the reclining chair. The frightened little bean sprout jumped away from his arms with a "swish", not knowing what the owner was going to do.
Fang Minghua walked into the living room and picked up the landline phone placed next to the TV cabinet. He wanted to call Bai Miao.
“Hey, Bai Miao, I’m Minghua, and I’d like to recommend a very good prose to you!”
"It wasn't me who wrote it, it was Shi Tiesheng. Let me tell you, publishing this essay will definitely increase the sales of this issue of the magazine!"
"Okay, okay, you can send someone to pick it up, but the original manuscript Don’t lose it? Leave it to me. I want to keep it.”
Of course, Fang Minghua didn’t forget to call Shi Tiesheng in Yanjing to tell him about this: “I’m sorry, Tiesheng. I gave the essay to Yanhe."
"Is it good? Let me tell you, once your essay is published, I dare you not to go to the Great Wall when I go to Yanjing. When you go to the Ming Tombs, you must visit the Temple of Earth.”
In December, Yanhe magazine published this essay on the editor’s recommendation. In addition to the editor Bai Miao’s review, it was unprecedented. Yes, former editor-in-chief Fang Minghua wrote a special article about his own feelings after reading this prose.
"Seeing through life and then loving life is Shi Tiesheng's idealism, a process-based idealism. Although it is the true meaning of life derived from personal suffering, although it is only a personal philosophy of life, however, Its meaning construction rules and ideal implementation methods will undoubtedly have universal enlightenment for China at the end of the century when nihilism spreads after the crisis of faith."
"As far as this prose itself is concerned, some people say it is a novel, but it is. I firmly believe that it is prose. The biggest difference between prose and novels is that the latter can be fictional, but the former cannot, because it is too thick and sincere, and it is definitely not something that the novel, which is characterized by fiction, can carry. So it must be prose.”
However, there are definitely differences between novelists writing prose and essayists writing prose. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the author will always refer to the grammar of some novels into prose creation. For example, he will pay more attention to the arrangement of the overall structure of the work, more attention to the vivid and expressive character depiction, more attention to the various functions of scene description, and even Will shift the narrative perspective appropriately to make the prose more readable. "The Temple of Earth and I" can be regarded as a model of innovation in this area
The successful reference of characterization techniques is like no one who doesn't know Lin Daiyu after reading "A Dream of Red Mansions". Many people are familiar with it after reading "The Temple of Earth and Me" Remembering a disabled Yannian and his mother. If you read again, you will see the beautiful but mentally retarded little girl, the middle-aged to old couple, the outstanding old man, the man who catches birds, the young man who loves to sing, the middle-aged female engineer and the unlucky one Long-Distance Runner
This article titled ""See through life and then love life again, this is Shi Tiesheng's idealism - thoughts after reading "Me and the Temple of Earth""" was also published in this issue of "Yanhe" magazine superior.
Some readers think that this is not only a post-reading review, but also an example of prose writing skills.
In mid-November, Song Tangtang and his party returned from attending a wedding in the United States, along with a newlywed couple.
(End of this chapter)