Chapter 729 728 "Minghua, are you coming out?"
"Minghua!"
Xichuan also saw Fang Minghua and greeted him.
"Xichuan, long time no see. Are you coming to Xijing on a business trip?" Fang Minghua asked with a smile.
"Yes, I went to Xijing Academy of Fine Arts to do some errands. I wanted to come and see you after I finished my errands. I just went to your Writers Association and said you weren't here, so I came to look for you at home." Nishikawa said.
"It's okay. I usually don't go to work. Let's go to my house to chat." Fang Minghua greeted warmly.
Xichuan followed Fang Minghua to his house, and they drank tea and chatted in the living room.
"Xichuan, you quit being a reporter and went to teach at the Central Academy of Fine Arts?" Fang Minghua asked.
“Yes, reporters are too tired, and my personality is not suitable for running outside. CAFA is short of English teachers. I didn’t study English at Yanda, so I went there. Anyway, my wife I also teach there," Nishikawa explained.
Nishikawa’s daughter-in-law is Jiang Jie. After graduating from Central Academy of Fine Arts, she stayed at the school to teach and is a sculptor.
"Now, Haizi and I have both returned to school. I teach English and he continues to teach his aesthetics." Nishikawa finally said.
In 1992, Haizi ended his three-year treatment at Yanjing No. 3 Welfare Institute and was finally discharged from the hospital to start an ordinary life.
Last year, I was invited by Capital Normal University to take a class. It was not about literature and poetry but about his old profession - aesthetics.
After Haizi graduated from Yan University, he was directly assigned to teach aesthetics in the Philosophy Teaching and Research Section of China University of Political Science and Law, which is also his old profession.
"How is Haizi's health now?" This is the question that Fang Minghua is most concerned about.
"It's okay. I haven't had another attack since I was discharged from the hospital, and the dosage of medicine is gradually reduced. I heard the doctor said that if I continue like this, I can stop taking the medicine in half a year." Nishikawa replied.
“That’s great!”
Fang Minghua was very happy to hear this. It would be best for Haizi to return to a normal life.
"Oh, by the way, Haizi got married during the Chinese New Year last year."
"Married? Why didn't you tell me? I'll go have a wedding drink too." Fang Minghua was very surprised.
"Didn't you go abroad? I didn't know until I called your work unit." Xichuan said:
"That girl is from Yanjing and a nurse in a hospital. At first she liked the poems written by Haizi, and later I think he is a good person. They fell in love for a while and then got married."
"This is a great news." Fang Minghua was very happy: "No, I will go to Yanjing that day to find them. Drink this wedding wine!"
"Welcome, welcome, he lives near Shichahai now. The girl's parents have a courtyard house, and this is the only daughter, so they will live there when they get married. Damn!
Marrying a girl and getting a courtyard house is a winner in life.
However, Haizi won the Best Poetry Award at the First World Chinese Literature Award. His poems were sold well in the society and he also earned a lot of royalties.
You can’t buy a courtyard house, but you can still buy a house in Yanjing like Yu Hua did.
"But Haizi rarely writes poetry now. Apart from teaching, he usually writes some theoretical things about poetry." At the end of the sentence, Nishikawa sighed.
This is the side effect of medicine. Killed the talent of a talented poet.
Fang Minghua didn’t feel much regret: “It’s not bad to write poetry theory. Even if he doesn’t write poetry now, the things he published before are enough to prove that he is an excellent poet!”
That’s true.
Nishikawa nodded.
Suddenly he looked at Fang Minghua and said, "Minghua, are you coming out of the mountain?"
"Come out of the mountain?"
Fang Minghua was confused by Xichuan's words.
"I am not one of those masters in martial arts novels who wash their hands in a golden basin and retire to the world. What kind of mountain should I come from?"
"I mean poetry, I hope you can be as good as you have been for twelve years "Previously, I was the deputy editor in charge of poetry at Yanhe, and I paid close attention to the poetry world," Nishikawa said.
Oh.
That was in 1984. After Fang Minghua served as the deputy editor of "Yanhe", he published a special issue of "College Poetry Issue", which published excellent poems by a large number of young poets including Haizi, Zhang Zao, etc., which had a great response in the poetry world. .
Later on, every issue of "Yanhe" would publish some excellent poems, basically written by budding young poets.
More importantly, he took a clear-cut stand against spoken poetry at that time, and had a public debate with Shang Zhongmin, one of the representatives of the "Third Generation Poetry Movement" at the time, at Northwest University, and later published several articles Regarding poetry articles, he systematically elaborated his own ideas on modern poetry and had a great influence on the poetry world.
However, after he was promoted to the editor-in-chief of "Yanhe", he focused more on avant-garde novels. In addition to writing his own, he also wrote some theoretical articles on avant-garde literature, and slowly became popular in the poetry world. It was quiet, and traces of him were rarely seen, so Nishikawa said this again.
"Minghua, you have also seen that the debate in the poetry world is fierce now. The "folk writing" promoted by Yu Jian, Han Dong and others is different from the "folk writing" that Haizi, Tang Xiaodu, Chen Dongdong and others insist on. Intellectual writing "takes tit-for-tat positions."
Nishikawa continued: "I think it is actually a continuation of the debate between the third-generation poetry movement in the mid-1980s and obscure poets such as Bei Dao and Shu Ting at that time."
Fang Minghua nodded.
Nishikawa does have some truth.
The backbone of the "folk writing" movement is the original "Third Generation Poetry Movement" activists, Yu Jian, Han Dong, and Xu Jiang. They always insist on colloquial writing. It’s just that the large number of poets Shang Zhongmin, Hu Dong, and Wan Xia in the original Sichuan Province are missing.
On the side of "intellectual writing", Xichuan, Haizi, and Chen Dongdong have inherited more of them, led by Bei Dao and Shu Ting. Some poetic ideas of the hazy poet.
But
It is already the mid-1990s, and poetry has begun to lose the rich and nutritious land it had in the 1980s.
Fang Minghua did not answer this question directly, but said: "Xichuan, before I went to the United States and returned to China, I was invited to participate in a poetry salon in San Francisco. The attendees were all domestic poets and writers who are now living in the United States. , such as Bei Dao, Yang Lian, Duoduo, Huang Xiang, Zhai Yongming, Ouyang Jianghe. There are also writers Zha Jianying, Yan Geling, editor Li Tuo, etc. "
Hearing Fang Minghua slowly say the names of these people. , Xi Chuan couldn't help but widen his eyes.
These were once all-powerful figures in the domestic poetry circle, and some of them were still his idols.
"The problem we discussed at that time was that foreign poetry is still popular, but domestic poetry is declining day by day. What is the problem."
Fang Minghua recalled everyone speaking at the time, and Xi Chuan listened carefully.
These poets who have gone abroad but are always paying attention to the trends in the domestic poetry scene, their speeches are indeed very sharp.
Onlookers know clearly, but the authorities are confused. Perhaps this is the reason.
"Minghua, did you speak? What did you say?" Nishikawa asked.
(End of this chapter)