"Hard" life and "soft" article - read Mr. Li Xiaogan's "Look at the Gathering"_Shenzhen News Network

Mr. Li Xiaogan had a "Wenqing dream". The so-called "literary youth" is also called "literary youth". There are many different definitions of "Wenqing" on the Internet, and different eras have also given it different meanings. In the late 1970s and early 1980s of our generation, many young people had "literary dreams", especially those who studied liberal arts in college at that stage. This "dream" actually began in the high school era of Mr. Li Xiaogan, who participated in the city's essay competition and won the first place, and the article was mimeographed as a model text. I can imagine that the sense of accomplishment is no less than the thick, illustrated book printed today. It was a real first love feeling. Around 1978, a climax of ideological emancipation and literary creation swept the country, and Mr. Xiaogan was fortunate to enter the Sun Yat-sen University that southerners yearn for. At that time, the literary journals compiled by the students on campus were once Luoyang Paper Gui, and he was once its active author. Mr. Li Xiaogan is recognized by everyone as a "talented man", and we often attribute the talent of "talented" people who work in government organs to "being able to write". But what can be written? It's very different. In society, if you can write a sensational novel, you may not be able to write simple official documents. Kumon is written by people who are very admirable, but they cannot write content that is touching. To write good literary works, you need a sensitive and delicate heart to dig out moving content in the life that people are accustomed to. You can call it having a "Wenqing" heart. Writing good official documents is just the opposite, to completely abandon the self, filter emotions, pay attention to clean and accurate. Writing official documents is the basic skill of politics, so most people try to work hard in this regard when they reach such a position, and over time even the mode of thinking has changed. Mr. Xiao Gan entered the institution as soon as he graduated from college, and training himself to write "hard" articles is definitely a compulsory course, and he is of course highly skilled in this regard. But he has always insisted on literary creation. When I met Mr. Li Xiaogan thirty years ago, he already had 10 years of experience in the organs, but his face and conversation could not hide the bookish atmosphere behind the "official language", or "Wenqing". He was once the youngest department-level cadre in Shenzhen at that time, and his work was related to foreign propaganda, and he often went in and out of the country. By the standards of our generation, every aspect is a specimen of success. But he has always insisted on the old habit of personal writing since middle school, and while writing beautiful official documents, he has constantly published prose in the newspaper, and in the 1990s he published a number of monographs, and joined the China Writers Association with fruitful writing achievements. Later, he held higher and higher public offices, became busier and busier, and was forced to give up personal writing for a period of time. At a time when many people finally defined the image of Mr. Li Xiaogan as a city leader, he was about to leave his leadership position and published "Look at the Gathering". This collection includes decades of "soft" articles, selected to be published in the upcoming year of "Ear Shun", which has the meaning of giving an account of his life. Since I have been away from work for many years, I did not study until this year. The book is divided into five parts: "Looking at the Hometown", "Watching the Clouds", "Exploring the Sea", "Lanshan" and "Watching Movies", including family background, growth experience, outlook on life in middle age, overseas snapshots, literary criticism and film criticism. Although I have read some of the articles, the arrangement of the whole book makes me feel that I can read it as a self-transmittal, especially the two parts of "Looking at the Hometown" and "Looking at the Clouds". In the "Wangxiang" series, the author recalls the history of his hometown and family, and his own growth process. The author's description of the style, houses, food and customs of the Chaoshan Plain is very kind to me, who has lived in Chaoshan for thirty years. The best things to write about are childhood experiences and relationships with fathers and daughters. The intellectual family background laid a good foundation for the author's talent. When he was a teenager, he experienced the Cultural Revolution, and his parents were imprisoned and fought, which made the author taste the cold and warmth of the world, and also shaped the author's sensitive heart. The father's love for the author's childhood and the scene of watching the author play football on the college playground are vivid and jump on the paper. The detailed descriptions surrounding my father's later years and before his death are even more touching. For example, the book writes that when the father lived with the author in his later years, he often had to find an excuse to go upstairs (where the son lived) at night, and this kind of detail that wanted to communicate and was afraid of affecting the son could not be imagined without experiencing it in person. Genes are the background of life, it makes us not forget where we come from, and its continuation arouses our touching on the inheritance of life, which is also fully expressed in the author's description of the birth, naming, travel and return of the daughter. How to give a good name to your daughter, this routine action can be sprinkled with thousands of words. In the process of sending her daughter to study abroad, she first used calm language to describe the trivialities, then mentioned that she was unwell, and finally described the irrepressible cries of her wife on the return flight, and the constant feelings for her daughter broke out, just like the professional film director showed it with a montage, which made people emotional. In the "Looking at the Clouds" series, the author shows the true color of learning philosophy. The impact of mobile phones on social life, the taste of drinking tea and the culture behind them, the years, years, gains and losses in life, the perception of distance, the dialectical view of merit and "rare confusion", the understanding of humor and feelings, it seems to be idle talk, but in the process of relaxed writing, there will be inadvertently glittering things. The author is good at wide collection and extensive quotations, ancient poetry, domestic and foreign social observations, historical palms, handy, just right. Among them, "Dead Topic" is a relatively heavy topic, the author starts from the experience of a classmate, and talks about this topic in ancient and modern China. Finally, he wrote very seriously: "Just as each of us cannot choose to be born, we cannot refuse death, and it is precisely because everyone faces death that it is more meaningful to live; precisely because life has an end, we must cherish the process even more." And by working on it, there may be something eternal in life." Whether it is the global travel in "Exploring the Sea", or the literary criticism in "Lanshan", or the film criticism in "Watching Movies", it also shows the author's "literary and artistic" side. The so-called "literary" people, non-commercial taste also. Many of the comments have unique feelings and words. This category of things that have a sense of life, the author himself classified as a "soft" article. The author himself said that he was too busy with official duties to write such "soft" articles. Yes, life always shows a "hard" side: survival, fame, workplace, social, social roles, we can't avoid it, but in the "hard" life, "soft" perception and expression is equally important. The perceptual and aesthetic value of "Wenqing" nourishes us, inspires us, and makes our life have a certain thickness on our "hard" life path. If "Wenqing" represents non-utilitarian, spiritual world-seeking, aesthetic, affectionate, and selective people, then I hope we all have a "Wenqing" heart. (Original title: "'Hard' Life and 'Soft' Articles – Read Mr. Li Xiaogan") window. HLBath=1; window. HLBath=1;