Feng Yidai
Speaking of modern well-known translators, many people first think of Xu Yuanchong, who won the "Northern Lights" Outstanding Literary Translation Award.
Many people know that Feng Yidai, who was the same era as Xu Yuanchong, once mocked Xu Yuanchong's translation as too flowery, and everyone just laughed at it as a literati.
What everyone does not know is that Feng Yidai is actually difficult for many translators to look up to in the translation industry.
But the modest Feng Yidai claimed to be just a dragon runner. He has a collection called "Dragon Set". But as Qian Zhongshu said, where is he the dragon set, he is the dragon head, the dragon head!
Feng Yidai, Zheng Anna
Feng Yidai's academic achievements are very high, but after all, there are not many people in academic circles, and more people know him because of his two relationships - the first love Of Zheng Anna and the dusk love of Huang Zongying.
Feng Yidai is a translator, many people think that he is from a science class, but in fact, he is a serious science and engineering man who studied business administration in the department of economics, and he learned translation halfway because of his first love Zheng Anna.
On a midsummer night in 1934, Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was being staged in the amphitheater of Hujiang University.
Feng Yidai and Zheng Anna got together precisely because of this, but one is an actor on the stage and the other is an audience on the stage.
The elf played by Zheng Anna is beautiful and cute, and a fluent American English has conquered the audience and Feng Yidai.
Feng Yidai looked at the elf on the stage in a daze, couldn't wait to get to know her, and even at that moment he was sure that he wanted to stay with her for the rest of his life.
Feng Yidai was in love with Zheng Anna at first sight.
Anna Zheng, Feng Yidai and their families
However, as a talented and beautiful Bai Fumei of the English Department, Zheng Anna has many suitors, and at the moment she does not know Feng Yidai's "little transparent".
Feng Yidai also opened the road of chasing his wife like a little boy who had just opened his heart.
Good things are not much grinding, just when he inquired about Zheng Anna in many ways, he was surprised to find that they actually chose the same elective course.
In order to let the goddess notice him, he not only sat in the front row of the classroom early to wait for him, but also racked his brains to create "chance encounters", all kinds of cheeky "no words to find words", and finally won the goddess a smile.
In order to narrow the distance between him and the goddess, Feng Yidai began to write letters, first one every two or three days, and later one a day.
You come and go, they gradually become acquainted, gradually open the general little couple to see the stars and the moon together, from poetry and songs to the ideal life of life.
Their common hobby is British and American classical literature, and the two who know more and more deeply are more and more tacit understanding, and they hate each other late.
After graduating from college, in order to make a living, Feng Yidai became an employee of an insurance company, but he fell in love with an English genius, how could he be at ease to be a financial man.
Although it was very hard to work during the day, with the support and encouragement of Zheng Anna, he still insisted on literary translation at night.
Zheng Anna, Feng Yidai
I thought that life would go on so quietly. However, the heavens did not go according to people's wishes, and soon after, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and Feng Yidai was sent to Hong Kong.
War can prevent each other from gathering, but it cannot cut off lovesickness, and the two people on each side of the sky have to tell each other about lovesickness.
In the end, Feng Yidai could not bear the pain of lovesickness and wrote a letter to ask Zheng Anna to come to Hong Kong to get married.
On June 3, 1939, five years after their first sight on the stage of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", they finally married at the Hong Kong Hotel.
He was handsome, she was beautiful, and she was a match made in heaven.
After marriage, they were qinser and ming, and lived a beautiful life of two people in a house with three meals and four seasons.
They have common hobbies, they will read a book together, listen to a song together, watch movies together, full of warmth and romance.
They have a common career, Zheng Anna, as a talented woman in the English department, will not be at ease to be a housewife at home, she helps him translate and proofread, and gives her own advice at the right time.
Feng Yidai's family
Happy days are always short-lived, and in 1941, Feng Yidai left his wife and children to take up a post in Chongqing. The two lived together again.
Soon, the Pacific War broke out and Hong Kong fell, and Zheng Anna went through several trips to reunite with her family in Chongqing.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Yidai was determined to resign from the government and concentrate on academics, and Zheng Anna became his staunch supporter.
Feng Yidai's "World Morning Post" was run, but because it preached anti-civil war and sympathized with the workers' strike movement, the newspaper became a thorn in the eyes of the rightists, and it lost money one after another, and soon it was suspended.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they devoted their knowledge to the vigorous construction of socialism. At this time, they can do their favorite work - Feng Yidai participated in the preparation of the International Information Bureau, and Zheng Anna worked as an interpreter in the international department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
They worked diligently, felt relieved and proud of the founding of New China, gathered less and left more, and they cherished the time they spent together.
But life always rises and falls, and it didn't take long for such a stable day to rise and fall, and life was up and down again.
In 1957, Zheng Anna accompanied a delegation back to China, and as soon as she got off the plane, someone warned her to stay away from Feng Yidai.
The home is cold and cold, and it has lost the warmth of the past. Feng Yidai pretended to be indifferent, but Zheng Anna knew that this was just a disguise that did not want to affect her.
At that time, Zheng Anna's career was very good, and when the leaders of the country, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, received foreign guests, they also served as interpreters for them.
Feng Yidai thought that the best way to continue to protect Zheng Anna was to divorce her, but she firmly stated that no matter how the situation changed, she would hold his hand.
If there is a wife like this, the husband will ask for it.
Inevitably, they separated the two places until four years later, when they could finally see each other.
Even though the radiant elf on the stage had become an aging old woman under the baptism of time, he still recognized her at a glance in the crowd.
Letters from Feng Yidai
Before Feng Yidai's smiling faces were fully unfolded, he saw her dull right eye, and tears fell from her heartache.
She was blind in her right eye due to the delay in treatment, but she only said lightly: "It is unfortunate to lose only one eye." ”
After that, they returned to Beijing and called his dilapidated little study "Listening to the Wind Building", no matter how big the wind and rain, as long as there is one roof to protect them from the wind and rain, it is enough for them to live in peace.
In this small room, he continued his translation career, and occasionally translated inappropriately, she pointed it out in time.
He worked silently and gradually broke out of his own world, and with the publication of "West Window Comic Pen" in "Reading" magazine, his name became more and more known.
But she just stood silently behind him, the woman behind the successful man.
Feng Yidai, Huang Zongying and friends
To support his translation work, she held up a magnifying glass and used her only right eye to look for information, and she helped him review the manuscript, revising for him where the argument was not rigorous or sloppy.
A small desk in the "Listening to the Wind Building", two pairs of reading glasses, two old people who do not seek fame and fortune, the years are quiet.
The most romantic thing in the world is to grow old together slowly, however, there is always one who falls off the line first.
In 1991, Zheng Anna died of a stroke. His midsummer night elves went to heaven one step ahead of him.
Feng Yidai had experienced the ups and downs and joys of the world, and originally planned to end up alone with his love for Zheng Anna, but heaven also cared for lovers and let them accompany them when they were old.
Feng Yidai was 80 years old when he married Huang Zongying.
Huang Zongying
Huang Zongying was sweet-looking and famous "sweet sister" when she was young, and young people may not know her now, but people born in the 1940s and 1950s basically grew up watching her movies.
Her representative works include "Home", "Nie Er", "The Crow and the Sparrow" and "Rhapsody of Happiness".
She is not only a well-known film actress, but also a well-known reportage writer.
Her reportage works "Big Wild Goose Love", "Beautiful Eyes" and "Log Cabin" occupy a place in the "history of modern Chinese reportage".
In particular, she wrote "I Personally Listen to the Dialogue between Mao Zedong and Luo Zhainan" in her later years, which shocked the literary world and had a far-reaching impact.
Letters written by Huang Zongying himself
If love is like a glass of wine, then the love of young people in hot love is like old white dry, warm, and the love of Feng Yidai and Huang Zongying is a glass of yellow wine, the longer the years, the more mellow.
They are both from Zhejiang, and they did not know each other too late. At that time, he had Zheng Anna by his side, and she had Zhao Dan by her side. Both pairs are fairy lovers. They are all content with their marriages and deeply in love with their lovers.
Although Huang Zongying is constantly filming, she is also a good wife who knows cold and knows heat.
She has a broad mind, not only regards the two children born to Zhao Dan and Ye Luxi as her own, but also adopts two children of Zhao Dan's old partner Zhou Xuan, and later gives birth to two more.
Huang Zongying's family
As a mother of 6 children, she made the home proper, so that Zhao Dan had no worries. In order to give Zhao Dan a chance to leave the country, she also personally wrote a script for him, but unfortunately she could not shoot it.
In 1980, the depressed Zhao Dan died young, leaving Huang Zongying alone in this world.
Many friends persuaded Huang Zongying to remarry, although Xu Niang was half old, but there were still many suitors, but she resolutely refused.
So Feng Yidai and Huang Zongying, two people who were walking alone in the world, met as they walked.
At a very fortuitous dinner party, Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai met. Huang Zongying saw that the always neatly dressed and personable personable was actually dressed sloppily, and she was not good at saying anything on the table, but her heart was not a taste.
After returning home, Huang Zongying, who dared to love and hate, wrote a letter to her brother, saying: "I want to marry Feng Yidai, if I agree, I will forward this letter to the second brother, if you do not agree, even if I did not say."
Huang Zongying and his siblings
Huang Zongying's brother also admired Feng Yidai and respected his sister's choice. In this way, the two began to pass on the book of fish and geese.
The two, who had long been acquainted, began to talk about twilight love.
In the late autumn of 1993, after writing many love letters, Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai decided to work together for the rest of their lives.
Huang Zongying flew from Shanghai to Beijing, and Feng Yidai asked for a "small bread" and went to the airport with his daughter to pick her up.
He was happy in his heart, but he was also a little nervous, he used to be casual, now he was kind and loving, and suddenly the relationship between the two changed, even if he was used to talking about love, he didn't know how to say the first sentence after meeting.
I entered the airport and waited for a long time for the Plane from Shanghai to arrive.
Suddenly seeing Huang Zongying's familiar white velvet hat in the crowd, Feng Yidai's heart couldn't help but flutter like a teenager.
Huang Zongying was very happy to see Feng Yidai and rushed to Feng Yidai like a young girl.
Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai
Maybe love really has the ability to rejuvenate people. At this moment, they are like young boys and girls in a heat.
Feng Yidai's daughter duly sent Huang Zongying a bouquet of red moon flowers.
Without saying a word, Feng Yidai and Huang Zongying could only look at each other relatively.
The air suddenly became quiet.
In order to break the embarrassment, Feng Yidai somehow suddenly came up with a sentence: "I also wrote an article this morning." ”
Huang Zongying smiled lightly, and Feng Yidai's daughter held back a smile on the side.
In order to congratulate the two newcomers, relatives and friends sent them a lot of flowers. A friend enthusiastically said that flowers can be stored forever after steaming.
So the half-convinced Huang Zongying was really a "bride for three days, washed her hands and went into the kitchen" the next day, while saying that it was impossible, while steaming flowers.
Although Huang Zongying said that it was impossible, he also had a small expectation in his heart, but when he opened the pot, he was dumbfounded, and the flowers were all transformed, leaving only a rubber leaf.
The two looked at the hot leaves in their hands and laughed. The marriage between the two began with a laugh.
After getting married, Huang Zongying, who has always lived an exquisite life, gave up the comfortable house in Shanghai, and calmly and beautifully huddled with Feng Yidai in a small house in Beijing, and their love nest was called "Seventh Heaven".
Feng Yidai, Huang Zongying
Happy knotted them all from Jane.
But no matter how simple it is, a group photo should always be there.
There are photos, hanging in the study of the "Seventh Heaven", or two.
But it is not a group photo of the two of them, but a group photo of Feng Yidai and Zheng Anna and a group photo of Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying.
It is indeed rare that they know each other's past well, and they also respect and understand each other's past. There are new people, but do not forget the old people.
Feng Yidai Zheng Anna, Huang Zongying Zhao Dan
On the first day of Huang Zongying's arrival at the "Seventh Heaven", she found that many things in the family were incomplete, and she suddenly felt that she should be the hostess of this family, and the next day she began to buy groceries on the street and began to be a hostess who took care of Feng Yidai's diet and living.
Feng Yidai became more and more refreshed under the care of Huang Zongying. With a difference of 12 years, Huang Zongying's memory is always much better than Feng Yidai's, and the words he does not remember are solved by asking her.
And Huang Zongying also frankly said that he loved Feng Lao's kindness and profound knowledge.
Both see each other as their spiritual pillars.
In 1999, Feng Yidai was 86 years old and Huang Zongying was 74 years old, and they were both plagued by long-term illnesses.
In the hospital, Feng Yidai said emotionally that he wanted to pick up Huang Zongying, so the old lady teased him: "If you want to hug, hold it steady, don't throw me on the ground, I won't spare you." ”
The old couple laughed like children, and the hospital ward was full of laughter.
The days with Huang Zongying were always so happy, which made Feng Yidai a little afraid that time would pass too quickly.
He knew he was running out of time and hoped the rest of his life would be sweeter. Because of Huang Zongying's company, he can face death calmly: I also want to revise my will, and add a sentence: I will greet the beauty of black with a smile.
"Pure Love"
At the last moment of life, because of love, Feng Yidai can laugh at every moment of life even if his body is suffering.
In 2005, Feng Yidai died. Later, Huang Zongying published the book "Pure Love", the crystallization of her and Feng Yidai's love.
Just as he can understand the group photo of Feng Yidai and Zheng Anna hanging on the "Seventh Heaven", Huang Zongying is not surprised at all about the will of Feng Yidai and the original Zheng Anna after his death, and he is also very understanding.
In 2020, 15 years after Feng Yidai's death, Huang Zongying also passed away.
With the death of the hero and heroine, this twilight love has also pulled down the curtain.
Romance is not the patent of young people, as long as it is true love, even if it is not too late.
Feng Yidai funeral
In the long journey of life, no one can accompany you through all the roads of life, and everyone can only accompany you for a while.
Cherish the people who are walking with you, cherish the present, and be kind to those who are walking with you, this is open-mindedness.
But don't forget that the people who have walked with you have buried their good memories deep in their hearts, which is a matter of great affection.
And Feng Yidai and Huang Zongying are such people who are serious about righteousness and open-mindedness.