University presidents, presumably elite, suits and shoes, at least over 50 years old, some even white-haired sideburns, but in China, one person broke this record!
At the age of 34, after the recommendation of several predecessors, he became the youngest liberal arts professor at that time without any experience.
At the age of 42, he became the youngest university president in China!
He is the elite of the literary world, and at the same time, he is also the "shameless literati" in the mouths of his peers, he is Yu Qiuyu.
Walking on the street, if you ask others to know who Chen Danqing is? It is estimated that most people don't know, but if you ask who Yu Qiuyu is, basically everyone knows!
Some people in his "Cultural Journey" began to read it in high school, and have been reading it until now, even if the skin has been yellowed, they are still reluctant to throw it away!
Cultural Journey also performed a miracle at the time, selling a staggering 450,000 copies, and this book alone supported a publishing house.
But just when Yu Qiuyu was on fire and "Cultural Journey" was in hand, he was seriously attacked!
Chen Danqing shelled Yu Qiuyu as a "shameless literati," and some people denounced Yu Qiuyu as a "cultural businessman" who "chased after the stink"
But Yu Qiuyu never cared, let alone explained, he thought that writing good works was his responsibility!
The famous literary elite was scolded and attacked by thousands of people, and the biggest reason for this was Yu Qiuyu's personal emotional life.
Yu Qiuyu's original match was Li Hong, and the two met at the Shanghai Theater Academy, when Li Hong's test results were among the best. But because of the problem of family composition, it was brushed down, Li Hongqi was angry, so he went to the college to find leadership theory, just when Yu Qiuyu was in charge of enrollment work, the two people met in this way.
Li Hong
When Yu Qiuyu was at a low ebb, Li Hong worked alone in Shenzhen, and during the New Year, Li Hong called and said that she could not go back in the New Year, and she had always been particularly concerned about her husband, and she only said a word, then you take good care of yourself over there.
And the coldness of the two people's feelings began with the appearance of a man named Ma Lan, Ma Lan is a Huangmei opera actor, very good-looking, he likes Yu Qiuyu's words, and Yu Qiuyu also remembers her.
In 1992, Yu Qiuyu ended his 13-year relationship with Li Hong. Then he married Ma Lan, who was 16 years younger than himself, and for the relationship between the two, his wife Ma Lan said: If there is a next life, I will marry him
Yu Qiuyu cheated and abandoned his wife, which is why people say he is a prodigal son.
For a time, Yu Qiuyu became the target of public criticism, in this regard, Yu Qiuyu also said that personal life is a part, and he thinks that the more important reason is that he has written many bestsellers!
According to 2002 statistics, among the top ten best-selling books in China in the past ten years, Yu Qiuyu alone owned three books.
One of the most popular is the "Cultural Journey" that almost everyone has!
Naked resigned to the northwest, traveled thousands of miles to write "Cultural Journey"
The reason why Yu Qiuyu is a cultural elite and his works can be loved by the public is because he is a literati who writes with his feet.
In 1991, Yu Qiuyu decisively resigned from the position of president of the university, so he took a torn cotton jacket and went to the northwest, he wanted to find the roots of culture!
Lowering his scepter, he picked up the pen of the literati.
From Dujiangyan to Mogao Grottoes, from desert hidden springs to Yangguan Baixue, from Kashgar in the western region to the Wind and Rain Pavilion...
Compared with the author who built the car behind closed doors, Yu Qiuyu practiced what he preached, using his feet to measure the geographical longitude, latitude and historical depth of the Chinese land.
This undoubtedly gives thousands of readers an opportunity to look at the motherland's great rivers and mountains without leaving home.
In order to find the soul of Chinese culture, in the form of prose, the city monument culture is exhausted one by one. He traveled all over Yangguanxue, Dujiangyan, Mogao Grottoes, West Lake Dream, Wujiang Boat, White-haired Suzhou... Perseverance over and over again touches the soul.
Every city that Yu Qiuyu passes through, every mountain that yuqiuyu climbs, and every river that passes through is not like the average tourist who travels for relaxation, curiosity, and travel, but a dialogue with history and culture. He traveled thousands of miles and trekked through mountains and rivers to touch the most fundamental connotation of the Chinese nation, in order to ignite a fire that was about to be annihilated in the hearts of the world.
Mr. Qian Zhongshu once said: If you don't read, if you travel thousands of miles, you are just a postman.
And when you have read Mr. Yu Qiuyu's "Cultural Journey", you will understand more clearly that reading is another form of tourism.
The famous writer Bai Xianyong once said: Mr. Yu Qiuyu once again awakened the dignity of prose established by the Tang and Song dynasties.
Yu Guangzhong, an essayist, said: "Chinese prose, after Zhu Ziqing and Qian Zhongshu, came out of Yu Qiuyu. ”
And Jin Yong put Yu Qiuyu at the same height as Lu Xun.
For more than 20 years, the book "Cultural Journey" has received countless honors:
It is the most influential literary book in the past thirty years voted by Shanghai readers;
It is the top 10 in the national literary book ten-year ranking list, and even the top 10 in the global Chinese book ten-year ranking...
It has also been selected as the most recommended extracurricular book in the country's middle schools, the book that Chinese parents mail the most to the children of studying abroad, and the recommended book for extracurricular reading in the new curriculum standard middle school, and many articles have been selected as the Beijing high school Chinese textbook, which is the humanistic spiritual enlightenment book written by the master to the children.
When you are tired, you may wish to give yourself some time to see the "Cultural Journey", under the leadership of the tour guide Yu Qiuyu, you will be able to appreciate the real beauty and beautiful text of China and the world.