Date 101 City
The writer is inextricably linked to the city in which he/she lives. The city nourishes and fulfills the writer's writing, and the writer's life and writing are immersed in the city. In the night of Friday, the "Dating 101 City" column meets you again, let us date different cities in the text of different writers, feel the fireworks of the world, and enter the spiritual home of the writer.
Writer Yu Hua said that everything he wielded in his pen was inseparable from the town where he was born and grew up.
In 1960, Yu Hua was born in a small county town called Haiyan in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Yu Dafu's "Autumn in the Old Capital" is lonely and melancholy, Lu Xun's "Hometown" is sad and melancholy, and "Nostalgia" in the afterglow is unrequited. Yu Hua said, "There are countless places that people can go, and the places that can go back are actually one or two." "That's home.
Writing is about going home
In the last issue of the second season of "Readers", Yu Hua was invited.
Host Dong Qing said, "The relationship between Yu Hua and his hometown is mutually successful, just like Lu Xun and Lu Zhen, Márquez and Macondo Towns. ”
Yu Hua's childhood was basically spent in the hospital. Because his father was a surgeon, Yu Hua and his brother often pushed the door in to see his father operate. Father saw the brothers and said, get out.
Because there is no bathroom at home, every time you go to the toilet, you have to go through the morgue. There are no doors in the morgue, no doors in the men's restrooms, and no doors in the women's restrooms. Why? Because once the door is installed, it is moved home to make furniture at night. In such an environment, Yu Hua was not afraid at all, and even took a nap in the morgue in the summer.
Yu Hua used a poem by Heine to ridicule his lunch break on the stone bed in the morgue — death is a cool night.
He was often awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of his bereaved relatives, so that when he was very young, he was able to distinguish between various cries.
Yu Hua, who grew up in a hospital, had her first job as a dentist in her hometown. The reason for giving up being a dentist instead was that I didn't want to see other people's open mouths every day. In the whole 5 years of dentist career, Yu Hua pulled out 10,000 teeth for others.
Yu Hua once said that the human mouth is the place in the world where there is no scenery.
Because he wanted to work at the cultural center, he decided to write a novel. Since there was no literary foundation, I bought a copy of "People's Literature" to study. After reading two pages, I began to write, and after writing it, I posted it to various magazines, and the results can be imagined. Every time the postman sent the manuscript, he threw the envelope directly outside into the yard, and as soon as the father heard the clicking sound, he said to his son that the manuscript was coming.
The turning point took place in Beijing.
In 1993, Yu Hua left his hometown and went to Beijing, just like his hometown ancestors Xu Zhimo and Ba Jin.
Therefore, Yu Hua experienced the life of "North Drift". After leaving his hometown of Haiyan and arriving in Beijing, Yu Hua once said in "Other People's City": "For Beijing, I am just a tourist who has not left for a long time; Beijing is someone else's city for me." ”
Many times, only when people leave their hometown can they find the spiritual sustenance and see the possibility of a twist in fate from a new perspective.
The land is the home of the body
What does it mean for Yu Hua to go out of his hometown?
Yu Hua tells a story from "One Thousand and One Nights": There is a rich man in Baghdad who sits on the mountain and eats the sky, squanders all his property, and then becomes a poor man. So every day he dreams about whether he can return to the rich life of the past. One night the rich man had a dream in which the wise man said to him, "Your wealth is in Cairo."
Desperate for wealth, he took his bag to Cairo the next day and was arrested at the police station, where the rich man told the police that he had come to Cairo in search of wealth because he had a dream about wealth.
After hearing this, the police chief said, you stupid man, I have had two such dreams, saying that my wealth is in Baghdad, and the scene depicted in the dream is his home. When he got home, he dug deep and dug out his wealth.
For Yu Hua, his hometown of Haiyan is the one who "only when you leave the place you are most familiar with and you come back do you know where the real wealth is."
In this sense, the choice of leaving his hometown and returning to his hometown has made Yu Hua a success.
Writers and the hometown of growth have always achieved each other. Yu Hua's works, from "From Eighteen Years Old to Go Out" to "Alive" to "Shouting in the Drizzle", his words are like a cold blade, carving out the vicissitudes of the world.
Yu Hua said that his hometown is the place where he feels most secure, so once he decides to start writing, he will return to his hometown.
Back in my hometown, my mind has a sense of belonging, which is a real sense of reality.
Yu Hua also truly repaid the feelings of his hometown with his works. That is: I'm going home to write.
Over the years, the hometown has been healing Yu Hua, not only in the state of mind, but also in the body. Hometown is a magical place, and an experience has made Yu Hua always remember it.
In 2014, Yu Hua had severe eczema, cracked hands and feet, and was in poor physical condition. He returned to his hometown for a while. Nourished by the terroir of his hometown for several months, Yu Hua, who had not taken any medicine, became well.
This is a healing from the homeland.
Haiyan is a small county in Jiangnan on the north bank of Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang Province, and is known as "the land of fish and rice, the house of silk, the state of etiquette, and the land of tourism". Haiyan's three contemporary business cards are: Qinshan Nuclear Power, Bu Xinsheng and Yu Hua.
These three business cards illustrate the characteristics of Haiyan from three aspects: high-tech nuclear power shows that Haiyan, an ancient county of the millennium, has always kept pace with the times and is full of vitality; Bu Xinsheng has opened the prelude to the reform of urban industrial enterprises, showing the character of Haiyan people who have always dared to be the first in the world; the birth of writer Yu Hua tells the world that Haiyan is a place where Zhong Lingyu shows and humanities gather.
Search the city one more time
Excerpt from "Shouting in the Drizzle": Yu Hua's self-prologue
Completed seven years ago, this book has restored my memories to the passions of the past. I read my own language again, the language full of courage and confidence, the language that seemed to describe the ruler, the language that tried to end something with a sentence, which infected me today, and its rhythm was like the "crackling" sound of bamboo as it burned.
I thought, this should be a book about memory. Its structure comes from the feeling of time, or rather the feeling of known time, that is, the time in memory. This book attempts to express that people are more confident in facing the past than in the future. Because the future is full of adventure, full of invincible mystery, only when these are over, surprise and fear are transformed into humor and sweetness. This is why people love memories so much, like a flowing river, which ripples permanently and widely in different languages of different peoples, supporting our lives and reading.
Because when people can't choose their own future, they cherish their right to choose the past. The beauty of memories is that they can be re-selected, they can recombine those unrelated past events to obtain a new past, and they can constantly change their own combinations in order to obtain a different experience. When a man sits alone on a park bench, letting the corners of his mouth smile at sunset, his lonely image seems to deserve sympathy, but who can appreciate his wonderful journey at this moment? He was sitting in the carriage of memories, and his life had begun anew, and this time it had been carefully chosen by himself.
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