The Seagull News Agency of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics recently held an annual literary salon at Zhong Shu Ge on campus with the theme of "Farewell". Everyone discussed "farewell to people", "farewell to the times" and "farewell and rebirth", or started from their own stories, or took literary classics as an example to share their understanding of "farewell".
During the discussion, Gu Chenyu said that when he read his grandmother's farewell to Aisha in "Grandma's Apology Letter", he was also saying goodbye to his favorite outsider, "Looking back now, Grandpa is actually like the grandmother in the book, using his way to silently heal the immature me." Gu Chenyu said that these loves that are not recorded by language will always be engraved in their hearts, reminding themselves that they will always be loved and worthy of being loved. Song Mingtao said: "I think that farewell is the BE (bad ending) aesthetic of real life, a beauty that embraces regret. 'Helpless flowers fall, déjà vu swallow returns', embrace this inevitable regret, and live out the freedom and smoothness of life in acceptance and turning. ”
This literary salon also adopts the method of scene interpretation to introduce topics. News agency members took the stage to perform classic fragments of farewells in literary and artistic works, and invited the audience to guess the provenance of the clips. "This person may never come back, maybe tomorrow..." Feng Yang Suqin and Teng Meiming restored the story of the thunderous, thunderous, rainy night that happened when their grandfather died in "Border City". Huang Jiaqi and four other people worked together to bring everyone the classic picture of "1900" disembarking and returning from the ship in "The Pianist at Sea". The students' acting skills are slightly green, but they sincerely express their understanding of the farewell, and at the same time let the students think more deeply about the meaning of the farewell.
Teacher Tang Xiaoliu said in his concluding speech at the event: "There is no standard answer to how to say goodbye and how to look at goodbye, even if you are unwilling to say goodbye, there is no problem in staying where you are." Perhaps in the eyes of many people, saying goodbye requires a sense of ceremony, but in more cases, the farewell is "Poetry" in "My Father and Me", Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age" or "Long Days", which is passively abruptly stopped. He encouraged the students that people will not stay at the age of 18 forever, but they can always keep the psychological state of 18 years old, saying goodbye not only looking forward, but also going back to the past, and constantly saying goodbye to their past selves and reuniting. No matter what kind of state, I hope that everyone can learn to say goodbye and say goodbye.
■ Reporter Liu Chiwen Courtesy of the interviewee
■ Text editor Yang Lu Xu Ping
■ Column Editor-in-Charge Shu Zhengyu ■ Column Editor-in-Chief Zhang Jinzhou