It was a good time.
There are no worries, no worries, some are all dreams and the pursuit of literature and art. At that time, for a sugar pill, as soon as school was over, he ran to the rural medical cooperative and opened his mouth wide. At that time, the children who envied the sheep herding in the village could sing "Sister Find Brother Tears", "Our Life Is Full of Sunshine", "In That Distant Place", and even prayed that my elderly father would buy a lamb for me.
I developed a great love for literature after I went to junior high school. Although my school is not a well-known middle school, the literary atmosphere is very strong, and the teachers and classmates love to write. Under the initiative of Teachers Cao Daichao and Qiu Rongxiang, our school established the "Spring Shoot" Literary Club, and I was admitted as a member in the first grade of junior high school. Mr. Qiu is my Chinese teacher and homeroom teacher, and he asks us to write at least one essay a week. The compositions of Fan Mingjiang, Ding Zhenjun, Gong Li and other students are often read in the class as model texts, which makes me very envious.
At that time, it was a great thing for an ordinary school to produce two writers. I still clearly remember that Teacher Zhang Zhonghai had a big beard and a look of untrimmed edges. He didn't like to talk, and he taught and wrote poetry every day. He likes to eat by the flower bed in front of the office door, put the rice bowl on the flower bed, and will bury his head in the meal and bow his head and meditate. Sometimes I pick up my rice bowl, put my feet on the flower bed, hold it high as if I had drunk it all, and then rush back to the office behind me. Maybe the inspiration came, and I didn't know why he was so weird. His fame predates Thatknojima, Gucheng, and Quicksand River, and his poems are all about dirt, and when vernacular literature prevailed at that time, a phenomenon called "dirt poetry" was formed. Many of his poems were published in The Poetry Magazine, and later many literary magazines asked him for manuscripts. One of his poems, "The Little Girl Who Swept the Leaves", moved me, made me cry, made me think deeply, and I still recite it to this day.
There is also a teacher, Yi Wei (pen name), who wrote novels and was our geography teacher in the second grade of junior high school. I remember one night in self-study, he was giving us a lesson, the mailroom teacher sent a letter, and his debut work was published in "Youth". That year was 1984, and this paid off, and Ichime soon became famous. He was a meter and eighty-tall child, with a white and pure face, a milky white turtleneck sweater and a dark brown casual suit, which was probably the look of Ken Takakura. He became a male god in the minds of many girls at that time, and of course became my idol. He tutored me in writing many times, and one of the novellas, which he changed for me no less than ten times, wrote the epilogue himself.
Mr. Si Min is a writer who has been delayed by education, and he has spent his life on education, but he has no time to write. After his retirement, Mr. Si wrote a large number of literary works, among which "In that Era", which was published by Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House in 2017, has high literary value and historical research value, and is highly praised by industry experts. Teacher Si also immersed himself in the study of Chinese characters, and compiled more than 400,000 words of Chinese character identification dictionaries.
At that time, many people were full of dreams about literature, and so did I. I remember that after the publication of Ji Yu's "Wind and Flow Song", I frantically recited this long poem and imitated and wrote a lot of poem manuscripts. Later, he received a collection of poems signed by Mr. Ji Yu himself, and if he obtained the most precious treasure, he has treasured it to this day.
In that environment, the students' creative enthusiasm is very high, and naturally it is also fruitful. Fan Wei, a third-grade student, under the guidance of Teacher Si Min, published "Pancake Fragrance" on "Hugging Calves", becoming a new star in the literary creation of our school. Brother Fan Wei borrowed me a copy of Lu Yao's "Life" at that time, and there was a passage in the book: Gao Linsheng took out a melon from his pants pocket. Fan Wei brother made a comment: The pants pocket is so big? This had a great influence on me at that time, and I began to comment on the literary works of famous artists with a critical eye, and I also began at this time.
There is also a scholar named Ren Chengye, under the guidance of teacher Qiu Rongxiang, he published an essay in the "Zaozhuang Daily", known as "The Beauty of the Mountain Pavilion". The writing is delicate and full of love and praise for his hometown. He is a great talent, the harmonica is particularly good, Ren Brother is now specialized in songwriting, composing and singing in one, many works are popular.
A nation that loses literature has no dreams. It's hard to imagine what a nation without dreams would look like.
(Author: Li Guangchang)