"Yunyou" everyone's former residence: the secret of writing in the writer's house
Judging a writer, most people stand at the end of the timeline and discuss their height in the history of literature, such as "people's artists" and "contemporary literary masters". But to "know" a writer deeply, you need to devote more effort: read his works, observe his manuscripts, delve into his ideas, and if you have the chance, step into the room where he has lived and peek into a certain from the life track Some secrets that can only be "sacred."
It's just that not everyone has the time and energy to pursue the writer's footprint across thousands of miles, and not everyone can grasp every detail after entering the former residence. Recently, the People's Literature Publishing House organized a live broadcast of "Return to the Literature Site, Yunyou Everybody's Former Residence". Lao She wrote the "Tea House" Dan Shi Yuanyuan, Shen Congwen's birthplace Phoenix Ancient City in Xiangxi, Xiao Hong's childhood pursuit of freedom in northern Xinjiang Hulan, Shanghai Wukang Road Ba Jin writing garden... The former residence of everyone is no longer just a travel The identifier on the map becomes vivid and perceptible under the explanation of experts.
When the trajectory of the author’s life is “embedded” by the expert in each specific place of the former residence, the classic story in the work coincides with the real scene “cloud”, which makes one wonder: how exactly the writer and his writing grew from where he lived In the house?
He Ting, the presenter of the former residence of Yunyou Lao She, is a senior librarian of Beijing Lao She Memorial. He has been working in the museum since 2005. After entering the former house, you can see two tall trees through the shadow wall. He Ting directs the live view of the first perspective: "Can we turn around and look around."
In 1953, the Lao She and his wife planted these two persimmon trees. Every October, the thin-skinned small round persimmons were covered with branches, and they looked beautiful and red. "Because of these two persimmon trees, Mrs. Lao She named this courtyard'Dan Persimmon's Yard." Speaking of this, He Ting added with a smile: "Dan is the red'Dan'. When I spoke before A child asked me, there are two persimmon trees, why is it called "Danshixiaoyuan" instead of "Shuangshixiaoyuan"? So I have to add an explanation every time."
The Danshiyuan is located at No. 19, Fenghu Hutong, Dengshikou West Street, Beijing. It is the place where Mr. Lao She lived and wrote for a long time since he returned from the United States in the 1950s. this. In the exhibition hall, He Ting detailed the life of Lao She in the exhibition: born in poverty, lost his father at an early age, and relied on his mother to wash clothes to support others. Lao She followed her mother and developed many good behaviors: hardworking, orderly, clean, and flowers.
Concierge, living room, study, compartment... With the expert's lens, the shadow of Lao She's family flashed in every corner of the former residence. The colorful wooden small shadow wall in the main yard retains the blessing written by Mrs. Hu Bangqing, the wife of Lao She. On the west wall of the living room, the mottled traces that were not originally decorated are regarded as natural landscape paintings. Lao She will hang the traditional Chinese paintings from time to time, making it a flowing collection and display wall.
The living room of Lao She received many important visitors, as well as neighborhood leaders, gardeners and milkmen. In Mr. Lao She's circle of friends, he has never divided three, six, nine, etc., and can talk and laugh together. He Ting said: "At this time, Lao She often chatted with medical workers and with amateur workers. He also wrote a book specifically-"Writing with Workers and Comrades."
For writers, the study is the battlefield. Lao She chose the most secluded house in his former residence as a study, but the study was not well lit, and only the morning sunlight could shine in. Lao She’s life is very regular and simple: get up at 6 o’clock and punch a set of punches after getting up; write on the desk after a meal, writing 2000 to 3000 words a day without interruption; eating lunch at 12 and going out for business in the afternoon; eating at 6 Dinner, chat and read books after dinner, and went to bed at 10 o'clock.
On the desk in the study, Lao She maintained a strong creativity, and completed all the works after 1950. The representative works are "Tea House" and "Longxugou".
In the small courtyard, Lao She loved flowers and raised more than 100 kinds of flowers when he had the most chrysanthemums. He wrote in "Planting Flowers": "If the storm or the weather changes suddenly, the whole family must be mobilized to rescue the flowers and plants. Hundreds of potted flowers must be quickly rushed to the house, causing pain in the waist and sweating." He moved the large fish tank in the courtyard under the tree and planted goldfish under the flowers. He keeps cats, holding cigarettes while holding cigarettes, and there are always cats on the roof among the flowers.
He Ting said: "We used to joke that people who like to come to the Lao She Memorial are people who are still studying. Why? Either he was still in school and the teacher asked him to come; or he himself likes to read very much. I like Laoshe, so he comes. We hope that after everything returns to normal, the audience friends can come to our showroom and come to Mr. Laoshe with us."
If the Danshi small courtyard carries the memory of Mr. Lao She’s later works and pushes open the door of Xiao Hong’s former residence, you can see Xiao Hong’s unique temperament and the starting point of the work style.
Xiao Hong wrote in "Biography of Hulan River": "In 1911, in a small county town, I was born in the home of a small landlord. That county town is almost the eastern and northernmost part of China-Heilongjiang Province-so one year In the middle of the month, there was snow floating for four months." Xiao Hong's former residence built in the Xianfeng period in Qing Dynasty was the property of the great grandfather of Xiao Hong's family in Hulan. He was born here and spent his childhood and youth.
The stories in "Hulan River Biography" are spread out one by one, and the time recorded in the text gradually fainted into the scene. Following the trajectory of "Hulan River Biography", Zhang Haining, executive vice president of the Xiaohong Research Society of Heilongjiang Province, took the audience and walked slowly through the place in the work: the Dongfang room where Xiao Hong's mother labored and the main room where Xiao Hong was born , The back garden where I played with my grandfather in my childhood, the granary and mill in the west courtyard...
During the walk, why did Xiao Hong become Xiao Hong later, the answer hidden in the former residence was revealed a little bit.
Under the lens, the specifications of Tu Kang in the main room are still arranged according to the appearance of Xiao Hong when he was born. In his childhood, Xiao Hong was very naughty. When he was chased and beaten by his mother, Xiao Hong “chuckled” and climbed up the tree in the yard. In many works, when Xiao Hong recalled her mother, there was a fear of being beaten.
"Unfortunately, when Xiao Hong was 9 years old, her mother died, which also created a gap between Xiao Hong and her loved ones, because no one could talk to her." Zhang Haining said, "Although the mother is very strict, but My mother still loves Xiao Hong very much, which also caused Xiao Hong to have many phenomena unique to Xiao Hong in the course of his interactions with outsiders."
As the "two people with the lowest status" in the family, Xiao Hong and his grandfather Zhang Weizhen lived in the west side of the box. Grandfather likes to recite Tang poetry and Song Ci. Xiao Hong's childhood enlightenment education was completed by his grandfather. After waking up every morning, my grandfather led Xiao Hong to recite poems on the kang. Xiao Hong liked to recite Du Fu's "Quiet". "Why does she like to recite this poem? Xiao Hong said to herself,'Two yellow orioles ming cui willows', the yellow orioles are edible'yellow water pears'. Haining said, "This shows the kind of childlike children, she particularly likes it."
Xiao Hong's grandfather didn't scold or interrupt her because her granddaughter explained these poems, but looked at her with a smile. Accompanied by his grandfather, Xiao Hong's interest in poetry grew stronger. Mr. Mao Dun once commented on Xiao Hong's "Hulan River Biography": "It is a narrative poem, a colorful terroir painting, a string of sad songs." Later generations called Xiao Hong's works "poetic novels", perhaps, This is because Xiao Hong followed his grandfather to recite Tang poetry on the bed of his former residence.
Zhang Haining said: "As soon as Xiao Hong mentioned his grandfather, he thought it was the grandfather who gave her all the love, longing and hope, so Xiao Hong always remembered her grandfather with warm strokes."
Store room for stealing candied dates, powder room with mushrooms on the roof, elm and cherry trees in the backyard... The camera is aimed at these corners one by one, and time goes back in time, as if there will be a young Xiao Hong running through the courtyard in the next second, ready to drive the duck into the well of the western courtyard; and it seems that Feng can be seen in the next second The crooked child lived in the thatched cottage and smiled with a row of white teeth. Zhang Haining commented: "Xiao Hong is relatively a pessimistic writer. Many works do not have a bright tail, and many people criticize her. The last chapter of "Hulan River Biography" gives us a bright tail, which is in Xiao Hong's other works. Among them are rare."
In "Hulan River Biography", the back garden described by Xiao Hong's pen is very high and very blue. But when the spectator "Yun You" was in the former residence, he saw the sky in the camera is overcast, and patted the earth wall. The earth wall echoed, as if talking. "Reread Xiao Hong's words about the back garden in the back garden. We feel that Xiao Hong's writing of the back garden is not as simple as writing a vegetable garden, but is talking about how people get the kind of freedom that transcends life. Xiao Hong longed for freedom all his life."
Zhang Haining recalled that many readers had traveled thousands of miles to Xiao Hong's former residence and came to the back garden, just to find the place that gave her free space for life. "Xiao Hong wrote the process of desolation in the short story in Hulan River Biography. So in the back garden, Xiao Hong not only expressed happy childhood stories, but also wrote Xiao Hong's thoughts about life."
Reading is usually a personal activity, and the former residence of the "Yunyou" writer provides an online "habitation place" for gathering and sharing. In the future, the camera will also cross mountains and rivers, take a look at Zhu Ziqing's "Sanheyuan" in Yangzhou, Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, and Wuzhen Water Town where Mao Dun was born... Following the expert's "Cloud Tour" tour, the writer seems to invite the reader to do one Second Soul Encounter-where they lived and in their books.
Yu Bingyue Source: China Youth Daily