◎ Our reporter Li Xianghong
Zhu Hong appreciates Liu Qing's famous saying: "A writer takes 60 years as the unit." According to Zhu Hong's understanding, it takes 60 years for a writer to understand the world and 60 years for a writer's works to come out. Cao Pi said: "Covering articles is a great cause of the country and an immortal event." Therefore, Hong Chu thinks that Liu Qing's theory is based on xelloss, so Hong Chu's feeling is obviously based on xelloss. If the writer only seeks for rice and sorghum, then the vertical axis is insufficient.
19 years old, university campus
1979 Zhu Hong 19 years old. This year is a watershed and turning point in his life, because this year he was admitted to Shaanxi Normal University.
When the seeds of literature were sown, Zhu Hong was at a loss. However, he belongs to the kind of person who is early and wise. As a teenager, he studied some myths, stories and novels. He learned about Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Little Hero Yu Lai, Big Landlord Liu, Shao Jianbo, Liang Shengbao, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. Hong Chu has the habit of not studying every day. Maybe this habit was formed in primary and secondary schools. But when he wanted to be a writer, he didn't know. Zhu Hong believes that once the writer's ideal is born, he will go along the track only he knows, like a bullet leaving the chamber, and he can't fall down or turn back. Father once intended to let him take over and go to the factory, but he denied it. The math teacher once asked him to take the science exam, because science enrolled more students than liberal arts, and he denied it. His firm idea is to study liberal arts and write instead of going to college and writing while farming. At that time, he didn't know Tao Yuanming, and he didn't know that writing while farming was Tao Zi's way of life.
Entering Shaanxi Normal University changed Zhu Hong's fate. However, to his annoyance, he did not study in the Chinese Department, but was admitted to the Department of Political Education. But one thing is clear, writing can't give up. Later, he selectively went to the Chinese Department to attend classes and learn to write papers. I can't stop writing this for more than 20 years. Hong Chu remembers that his first novel was published in the supplement of Xi Evening News, 198 1. 1.2, which was the first page after the newspaper resumed its supplement. In addition to knowing Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Mo Bosang, Pushkin, Chekhov, Hemingway, Tagore, Kawabata Yasunari and Tolstoy, he was also fortunate to know the writers Hou Yanbei, Liu Qiming and Liu Lu who were all teaching in the Chinese Department at that time. Liu Lu also introduced him to Jia Pingwa and Lu Yao. 1984 After graduating from university, he was assigned to Shaanxi People's Publishing House as a literary editor.
29 years old, meditation in the field
29 years is another watershed and turning point in Zhu Hong. He has the habit of making important decisions on the spot. So when he is free, he goes out. He goes to Shenheyuan, Fan Chuan, the north bank of Weihe River and the bank of Bahe River ... At the age of 29, he defined writing as his own way of life.
Zhu Hong said that he would eventually write a novel, but he would concentrate on writing prose first. Breakthrough is not easy, and innovation is even more difficult. He has gone through three paths: first, reading can not only touch the souls of sages, but also learn from their artistic forms. The second is thinking, learning without thinking is useless. Hong Chu is very thoughtful. He thinks that thinking is like a blade that will get brighter and brighter, and grinding is thinking. The third is to cultivate between nature and human cultural heritage. The years after the age of 29 are a severe test for Zhu Hong. In the 1990s, many writers changed their customs or abandoned their writings to do business. Zhu Hong is proud that he has neither changed his mind nor catered to market writing to increase his wealth. He is devoted to writing and bears hardships and stands hard work. "A spoonful of food, a spoonful of drinks, in the dark, people can't bear to worry, go back and not change their fun. It's good to go back! " This is Confucius' praise for Yan Hui, and Hong Chu is willing to learn from Yan Hui.
When Hong Chu was in college, he told Mr. Li Zhengfeng, a famous scholar in Angola, that he would publish a collection of essays before he was 30 years old. Zhu Hong achieved his goal and published his own book at the age of 29. Since then, his writing has stood upright and achieved fruitful results: Selected Prose of Zhu Hong 1989 Shaanxi Normal University Press. The Road to Love 1990 Shaanxi Tourism Publishing House. Xilou Hongye 199 1 Shaanxi People's Education Publishing House. Baiyuan 1993 Shaanxi People's Education Press. Step on the dream 1994 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House. Song Jieyou 1996 China Workers Publishing House. The medicine name is Huanglian 1997 Shaanxi People's Publishing House. Sean's On Bamboo, eight collections of contemporary young essayists in China, 1997 Dunhuang Literature and Art Publishing House. Give up 1998 Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House.
39 years old, small house.
Oriental Publishing Center introduced a book it published as follows: "History in the crevice is a profound and painful reflection on China culture for more than 2,000 years, China people breathing in the crevice, and distorted and strangled humanity ... This book traces the tenacious evolution of humanistic spirit and the living landscape of people of all walks of life in China from a new perspective in terms of history, culture and system. This book has been reprinted three times and four times, and won the best seller list in Shanghai in 2006.
So far, Hong Chu still clearly wants to write this book. He borrowed a room in Shaanxi Foreign Investment College, and for several months he was the only one in the whole corridor. This stage is the most read stage, and he made dozens of notes. Eating on the student's stove, he was still reading and writing while the student was asleep. He used three broken electric stoves to keep warm on a cold winter night. When he couldn't stand loneliness, he shouted under the tree in the backyard of the college ... In order to write this book, Hong Chu went to Qufu, Shandong Province to feel Confucius' hometown; Go to Yixian County, Hebei Province to experience Jing Ke stabbing Qin; In Hong Tong, Shaanxi Province, in Susan prison; Visiting the Forbidden City, thinking about the despair of Ming Sizong; Wu Sangui's entry mentality ... After the publication of this book, Shaanxi Writers Association held a seminar for Zhu Hong, which was strongly opposed.
However, Hong Chu is not proud, but full of worries. He believes that a writer should be a thinker, meet the growing spiritual needs of the audience, infiltrate the elements of advanced culture in his works and shine the light of art. A writer is essentially a seeker and a loner. Once a writer becomes a star, he begins to go downhill, and he insists on a state. Hong Chu said: "Everything in the past is preparation. My real writing will start at the age of 49! " Zhu Hong revealed a message to reporters: He planned to write a novel based on social life in the 1960s and 1970s, and he has been making preparations for this. He has interviewed nearly 100 clients, and he is willing to run around looking for them. He searched a lot of documents and enjoyed it. It's hard to get the encouragement from the school leaders. What's even more touching is that he got the research funding.
Since about 1999, Zhu Hong has always had an idea to find a place to write with peace of mind. He is very grateful to his alma mater, Shaanxi Normal University, for transferring Zhu Hongxian to the School of Journalism and Communication and then to the College of Literature by introducing talents. Hong Chu said that the leaders of schools and colleges are very supportive of his writing, creating the best creative environment for him. Hong Chu is full of sincere thanks for this. He is not willing to disappoint his supporters and helpers at all. He said he would work hard.
(Shaanxi Daily, original issue of this article, 2007-1-13rd edition)
Hit the reader's heart with a speculative voice
-the feeling of reading Zhu Hong's prose.
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Hong Chu, in the form of life, is polite and has a good eye. People say "laugh before you speak", behave themselves, and sit humbly, which not only shows traditional etiquette, but also shows modern civilized behavior. No matter a stranger or a stranger, you will feel a kind of courtesy and respect. I don't remember how many years I've known him, and I haven't seen his reserved posture, let alone his unruly romantic behavior. It would be a big mistake to judge him as a clever and smooth person, and in the first few years I knew him, I still stayed in this superficial impression. Later, I heard an anecdote from Hong Chu that he met a girl from Jilin when he was on a business trip in Beijing, and he fell into a state of obsession with a casual acquaintance. He took the train, took the bus and walked, sleeping all the way to a scattered village in Changbai Mountain, and finally met again and watched it again. I confirmed the rumor to him, and he calmly described the hardships and firmness along the way: "I just want to see that baby again." It's beautiful. I have never seen such a beautiful girl, and I have never seen her again. "
The girl in Changbai Mountain is undoubtedly the goddess in Zhu Hong's aesthetic perspective. He ignored the lack of money, the laws and regulations of the administrative organs, and even more ignored the moral norms and various discussions in the market, and went straight to pursue the ideal goddess. That kind of courage and firmness later made me not only deeply understand his inner personality temperament, but also reminded me of his creative attitude and unique writing atmosphere, just like pursuing a girl in Changbai Mountain and pursuing the spirit and the literary god of the spiritual world with independent persistence and self-confidence.
My strongest and most prominent reading feeling is Zhu Hong's speculation. I definitely feel the power of thinking and speculation, which is often hit and even shocked. In Zhu Hong's meticulous and keen speculative writing, my intuitive feelings are always prompted by a rational passion; It urges people to go to a strange and fresh cognitive situation, expand their psychological mirror image, and achieve an unprecedented psychological peace. The Remnants of Sima Qian and the Death of Socrates, A Perspective of the Relationship between the Noble Women of Maweipo and his many chapters on historical events of historical figures all show his extraordinary speculative voice. In these historical events and figures repeatedly written by predecessors and contemporary writers, when the author can't avoid them, he must dig out even a little bit of his own unique discovery, otherwise it will be difficult to avoid getting lost in piles of papers on the same topic. Think of Yang Guifei, I used to wander in front of Maweipo clay yard; Think about Sima Qian. I climbed the stone steps as steep as a ladder and bowed. In the end, I didn't say a word, because I couldn't turn over the vast amount of words. This is why I admire Hong Chu's speculative strength. He didn't stay in the established concept, and didn't repeat what others said; His thinking does not follow the usual path, but presents a reverse and parallel backchat; He showed the feudal China in the East horizontally and Greece in the West at the same time, and vertically integrated the social laws of more than 2,000 years ago with the contemporary life. With reference to the analysis, he touched the pulse and speed of the inner world of the characters in various positions, showed the freshness and speculative power of thinking, and naturally produced the effect of shocking and directly hitting the readers' hearts. Hong Chu's speculative voice jumped out of the usual groan of almost the same thought, and the smug mediocrity, narcissism, complacency and even boasting paleness and superficiality all withered instantly in the illusion of self-appreciation. Hong Chu aroused readers' extensive psychological reaction, which was the best and most reasonable reward for his thinking and speculation, and also inspired thinker Hong Chu to continue to think and speculate on history and reality. I gained confidence because of this. Don't think that life now only sells soft meat, and hard and powerful thoughts will definitely resonate strongly in the depths of life.
Even the prose of personal life experience can still feel the color of speculation. Zhu Hong was born and lived in the countryside. Instead of indulging in complaining about suffering, he still questioned and speculated on reality. In other words, "lend a helping hand", a trivial matter of life quite similar to Mr. Lu Xun's "a trivial matter", has become a thing of the past with a little carelessness. Lu Xun found greatness in the coachman and also showed his own "smallness". In the predicament of several key steps in life, Zhu Hong has a clear insight into a person's narrow and gloomy inner world. What makes him outstanding is that instead of hating and remembering old grievances, he regards him as a warning mirror in life, opens his heart to the world and gives his enthusiasm and warmth to those who need help. This dialectical philosophy of life shows the writer's personality and mind, which is unforgettable.
Zhu Hong also has lyric prose, which is another kind of emotion and sentiment he experienced alone. The White Plain is a masterpiece with individual colors. As far as my impression is concerned, almost all kinds of essays that eulogize the yellow land, recall the yellow land and criticize the yellow land are dug up. Zhu Hong's yellow land is a special scenery-white Yuan Ye. This white color is not snow-white in winter, but the color of wheat stubble left in Yuan Ye after wheat harvest. This kind of meticulous observation, keen color feeling and spiritual feeling triggered by Zhu Hong are unique, almost reaching into the life level, but not everyone can easily get it. I saw the difference from this. Although anyone who is familiar with or knows a little about the yellow land can express his literature, the colors are quite different. Another example is "Wangchuan Shang Jing", and its scene fusion is really striking. Entering the scenery described by Zhu Hong is a choice and a separate choice of aesthetic taste. I think of the classic exposition of my predecessors on prose writing: "I wander with my heart." Describing the scenery, first of all, is in writing skills, and secondly, it describes what the scenery is not, what things are left behind, which shows the writer's aesthetic taste and emotional tendency, and the writer's personality jumps from things to songs. Wandering in the heart is the display of the writer's mind, spirit and soul. "Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later" is an inner wandering. Hong Chu's smoothness and wandering heart in various specific scenes are more speculative and rational, not only in his hometown Baiyuan, but also in Wang Wei's Wangchuan. His independent wandering mood can only be fully perceived in reading.
Zhu Hong, a speculator, sometimes seems a little paranoid. I can't accept the alien dialectics of "gender equality" in that article about women. The purpose of equality between men and women is that men are superior to women under feudal ethics. Men and women should be equal in the sense of human rights and humanity. Limited by their own physiological characteristics, it is an indispensable responsibility to take full care of women when choosing social occupations. But we can't generalize. If so, it will confuse the minds of Madame Curie, a genius and many women full of creative wisdom ... Limited by space, I will talk with Hong Chu about different views in small talk, and I will also learn from him a little speculative ability and courage.
(This article was originally published in Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, September 2005, edition B 10-19)