In the era of self-media, "poor travel" has become a very popular word, many people have joined the team of poor travel, and many big coffee-level "poor travelers" have emerged on the Internet.
I came to Guihu Forest Park in Xindu District, Chengdu today to introduce you to a master-level "poor tourist". This predecessor, he is not only a famous Writer in China, but also a "poor traveler" at the level of a grandfather. He is the famous writer of Xindu- Mr. Ai Wu.
Xindu Guihu Forest Park is a large leisure park built in the style of imitating Guihu Lake in the 1990s, where the buildings are hidden, the flowers and trees are sparse, small and chic, the environment is elegant, and it has a typical Jiangnan garden style. The tomb of Ai Wu is located on the banks of the Yinma River in Guihu Park in Xindu District, in a grove of green trees not far from the ruins of Xueshiyan.
The tomb of Ai Wu is made of red sand boulders, and at the top of it stands a bronze statue of his bust. Behind him is a stone tablet with an inscription that records his life. The stone stele on the front is engraved with the words "Tomb of Ai Wu". These words are Ai Wu's good friends and Ba Jin's handwriting from Chengdu's hometown.
There is a square piece of marble at the front of the tomb, on the upper part of which is engraved a motto of Ai Wu: "Man should be like a river, flowing, flowing, flowing forward unceasingly; like a river, singing, singing, rejoicing, bravely walking on this bumpy, thorny road." ”
In 1904, Ai Wu was born in Qingliu Town, Xindu County, Sichuan Province, in a farmhouse surrounded by bamboo forests and flowing water.
In 1925, Ai Wu ran away from home to escape arranged marriages and began his budget journey. He traveled all the way south, and for six years, he walked to Kunming, wandered to Burma, wandered to Southeast Asia... Spend the day and night with horse herders, pole-lifters, opium smugglers, and even horse thieves who live at the lowest levels of society.
In the winter of 1930, he was arrested for participating in activities against British colonial rule in Burma. In the spring of 1931, he was escorted back to China and went to Shanghai in May of the same year.
After returning to Shanghai, he joined the Chinese Left-Wing Writers' Union and has been engaged in literary activities all his life, starting to publish novels. During his time in Shanghai, he published short story collections "Night in the Southern Kingdom", "Journey to the South", "Pastoral Song in the Mountains", "Night Scene", novellas "Spring", "Basho Valley", and the prose collection "Drifting Miscellaneous". Most of his works reflect the suffering lives of the underground people in the southwest frontier and Burma and their spontaneous resistance struggles, opening up the subject areas of new literary creation. The legendary stories he describes, the characters with specific characters and the charming and beautiful scenery of the border villages make the works full of lyrical atmosphere and romantic atmosphere.
After 1949, Ai Wu served as the director of the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture, a director of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and an honorary chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
It can be said that Ai Wu was one of the first writers to bring the life of the lower class society in the southwest frontier region into modern literary creation. Through his description, we know the life of ordinary people in the mysterious southwestern border area.
I remember that in the early 90s of the last century, the country began to set off a "Ai Wu fever". At that time, movies and television were filming Ai Wu's "Journey to the South", and some drama troupes were also rehearsing "Journey to the South". One of the most influential was the TV series "Journey to the South" starring Wang Zhiwen, which also won the Golden Panda Award at the first Sichuan TV Festival.