In the 1980s, when literature was extremely hot, a "White Bird" won the 1984 National Outstanding Short Story Award and was selected as a first-year textbook in the Changchun edition of the Renjiao edition, so that the Chinese literary circles remembered the name of Hunan writer He Liwei.
Before interviewing He Liwei, we were all aware of his public identity: a well-known writer and painter in Hunan. After the interview, our greater perception is that we are not just in dialogue, but through the keen emotions of a writer, we are in contact with the feelings of people and the city at zero distance.
He said, "The city is inseparable from him even if he has traveled all over the world." The Hibiscus King is because of the stubborn memory of the homeland on his taste buds. ”
01 A city has become a steady stream of wells in his creative career
He Liwei, 67, has lived in the city of Changsha all the time.
He is very familiar with this land and the city, and as a local writer, his life and experience are naturally derived from the place where he was born and raised.
He Liwei said, "Every writer is a well of creation, and my creation is the well that flows out of the continuous water, which is my Changsha!" "Urban culture is a big dyeing vat, and people living in it will certainly be affected."
02 I want to wear my hometown slippers to walk around the world
Many people know that He Liwei enjoyed a great reputation in the literary world in the early 1980s, but they do not know that the history of his painting is almost as long as his writing.
He Liwei once painted a literary cartoon "I want to wear the slippers of my hometown to walk around the world", which expressed his pursuit of freedom and his confidence in his hometown with literature and painting. Wearing the slippers of his hometown without restraint, but also to maintain the true color of Hunan people to go to the world, this work is still hung in the parlor of the San Francisco Consulate.
The "My Changsha" City Humanistic Video Exhibition curated by He Liwei shows "My Changsha" through the true records of ordinary people from all walks of life in Changsha. This writer, cartoonist, and photographer, full of the lively pyrotechnic atmosphere of the world, flashes the light of intellect, and shares with us the close dependence of people and cities.
03 My Hibiscus King complex is the most primitive stubborn memory of the taste buds
He Liwei's complex for the Furong King brand comes from two channels. One is the homeland feelings of Hunan people born in the 1950s and the city for 67 years. On the one hand, it is becoming more and more modern, and on the other hand, it retains the bits and pieces of his memory and the fireworks of the city's culture.
He Liwei has lived in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, and on weekends he drives around to find the taste of Hunan, he said, "First let the taste of his hometown comfort his stomach." There are many things in Hunan that connect Hunan people spiritually, in cultural memory, and in life experience."
He Liwei is an old smoker, and at the age of 12, he secretly took his father's cigarette and hid to smoke. As a friend of all over the country, he receives cigarettes from friends every year, but our human taste buds, the first memory is extremely stubborn. It made him finally feel that Hunan's local smoke is easy to smoke, and at the same time, the original taste in their memories is the most powerful and most suitable for their own taste, so many of our Hunan foods, including cigarettes, wine, and many of our living habits, these things carry our love, attachment and love for our hometown.
"Hunan three absolute world, Wang Yan ghost wine Xiangfei tea", "Furong King", "drunkard wine", "Xiangfei tea" has also evolved into a landscape of Hunan city well culture, has become a brand that people talk about after tea and dinner.
At the age of sixty, He Liwei's literary creation entered a new active period, and the city and life have always accompanied his creative process, He Liwei said, "I once painted a painting, and the inscription of that painting is that I don't know what culture is, but I know what is change."
Huxiang culture has been advancing with the times and changing since thousands of years to the present. Hunan people have the courage to take responsibility and dare to be the first, even in contemporary times. Our Huxiang culture and city life have a profound impact on the people of a region. It is infiltrated with the behavior habits and ways of thinking of local people for generations, affecting every choice and judgment of people, and moisturizing things silently.
Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News