Night Rain 丨 Liu Yong: Mr. True Color is a Poet - Reading Teacher Lü Jin's "How Many Words are in the Heart"

Mr. True Is a Poet

——Reading Teacher Lu Jin's "How Many Words are in the Heart"

Liu Yong

Last September, I went to The home of Teacher Lu Jin with my colleagues for the first time, and Teacher Lu Jin gave me a copy of his new book "How Many Words are in the Heart". Go home and read it and can't bear to let go, reading is very enjoyable, very enjoyable, there are a few articles that make me endure, laugh heartily, excited to report to Teacher Lu that I want to write a post-reading feeling. I didn't think that Teacher Lu took it seriously and asked me to "finish before the Spring Festival". Seeing the lanterns hanging high on the street, the neon flashing, and the taste of the year getting stronger, I felt that Teacher Lu Jin had been smiling and squinting at me: "The Spring Festival is coming, you must talk and count." ”

As I learned more about Teacher Lui, the more difficult it became to write after reading this. Teacher Lu has many titles, and has won many awards in the field of poetry, the first new poetry research institute in China that he founded had caused a sensation in the poetry industry that year, how can I, a person who is a talented and shallow person who can't even talk about poetry " half-understanding " , talk to Teacher Lu? Thinking about it, I think that Teacher Lu will not ask the "readers" who write "after reading" to be doctoral students, so I am relieved to think about it, and quickly pick up his new book and re-read it.

The text is like its own person. At the invitation of the supplement department of Chongqing Evening News, Mr. Lü opened the "Lü Jin Column" in the literary supplement of the evening newspaper from the end of 2010 to 2012, which was expensive in Luoyang and was well received by readers, and later edited into a book and published, entitled "Traces of Time". Subsequently, he published a collection of essays, Sunset And Past Feelings. This book "How Many Words in the Heart" is also an essay published by Teacher Lu in major newspapers and periodicals in recent years, and the style is still "seemingly handy, but in fact it is exquisitely crafted". The book is divided into four parts: poetry and preface, interviews and speeches, past events, and essays. The content of the first two parts is closely related to his profession and is more academic; the last two parts are mostly travel notes and capricious, which is easier to read. However, whether it is writing people's memories or commenting on books and poems, Teacher Lu's words are full of frankness and humor.

Frankness is Teacher Lu's consistent attitude towards people and things, strict requirements for students' learning, rigorous and serious about academic research, but he is very concerned about friends and students' lives, and treats each other frankly. And humor is reflected in his attitude towards life, he is good at finding the shining things in life, and the embarrassing things, difficulties and even troubles encountered in life will eventually be swept by his pen and dissolved into other "happy things" in his heart. Therefore, his humor is full of insight, often showing great wisdom and foolishness, lifting heavy weights, and letting the grand propositions of those times dissolve in the details of ordinary life.

Teacher Lu is very good at telling stories, he recalls the past and the past, paints and paints colors, so that readers have an immersive feeling. What impressed me the most was that he wrote "First to Chongqing", which is actually to write about his experience of reporting to school (formerly Southwest Normal College) on the first day of his college graduation and admission to college. Several high school students who grew up in the Chengdu Plain came to the mountain city of Chongqing for the first time, and not only saw the number of ladders and heights in the mountain city, but also saw the steepness of the mountain road and the song of the mountain bay. After taking a train from Chengdu and then transferring to a car, after a day and a half, we finally arrived at Beibei District, where the school is located, at noon. In the face of the sweltering heat and hunger, several students came up with a clever trick and called the school office to "ask the dean to come to the station to pick us up." As a result, a tall man in an old military uniform came, with a skillful series of military orders: Stand up - look to the right - walk in unison, they had to obediently carry their heavy luggage up the first step that could not be seen from the end, and from then on they entered the life of the university. Teacher Lu's writing is very restrained, there are several articles recalling the deceased in the book, the language is plain, but the words are soaked with deep affection. For example, he wrote that he had brought his nanny "Zeng Zeng" since he was a child, a poor woman who could not read, but was very simple and kind. Zeng Zeng had been born from Teacher Lu for more than two months until he was seven years old before leaving, and then Teacher Lu went to see her, and although her own family was surrounded by disciples, she always "had to take out a small cloth bag from the yellow rice bucket in the dark" and stuff money for him. "Zeng Zeng" still had to make him a pair of cloth shoes every year, sometimes not even her own son, and when she was dying, she still carried the cloth ticket and money to buy new clothes for Teacher Lu. Although there is no "long song to cry", this thick mother-child love jumps on the paper, and the image of this thin woman like the vast mother earth also makes the reader feel empathy.

In today's noisy world of sentient beings, "poetry and distance" is still the dream of many people's hearts. In the usual life of chai rice oil and salt, perhaps poetry, like music, can reach the depths of our hearts from time to time, making us stop and look up at the stars alone. After all, Teacher Lu is a critic of new poetry, so the content of the whole book is mainly related to poetry. Whether it is interviews, speeches, or writing poets and commenting on poems, it reflects his love and attention to new poetry.

Professor Lu Jin once said that the most important scientific research achievement in his life is the China New Poetry Research Institute, which has always advocated the study style of "truth-seeking, innovation and efficiency", and has trained more than 600 doctors and masters. In the new poetry world, he advocated that new poetry should be constantly innovated, and at the same time he also advocated that new poetry creators should absorb more of the aesthetic nutrition of traditional classical poetry, he believes: "It is not normal for a person who writes new poetry to know nothing about thousands of years of classical poetry." At the same time, he has also made pertinent criticism of the current new poetry criticism and theoretical research on many occasions, believing that impetuousness, the pursuit of fame and fortune, and the lack of responsibility and mission are the diseases of the times of some poetry critics. At the Forum to Commemorate the Centenary of New Poetry at Peking University, he gave a keynote speech entitled "Dialectical Reflection on a Hundred Years of Modern Poetics", in which he expounded his aesthetic thinking on the study of new poetry in recent years from several aspects, such as "the publicity and individuality of poetry", "the public and minority of poetry", "the language of poets and everyday languages", "the 'being' and 'non-existent' of poetry writing skills" and "the dual-track development and unipolar development of new poetry poetic styles".

Teacher Lü Jin said that he "lived in the world of poetry all his life", and "Lü Jin" is the pen name he used to write poems and submit articles since he was a child. All his life, he read poetry, wrote poetry, discussed poetry, and talked with poets about poetry, tasted poetry, and poetry, which was really a poetic life. Of course, life is not always poetic and romantic, but he always lets himself not forget "poetry". His life motto is Bai Juyi's poem: "There should be no joy in the heart, and there should be no happy people upwards." He said that as long as there is no sustenance, no hope, and no yearning in the heart, people will always be free, always full, and always optimistic. This is the most touching part of Mr. Lu Jin's book, and it is also the most prominent feeling I feel every time I chat with him.

It is difficult to write a short article about my feelings of reading "How Many Words Remain in my Heart", so let 'how many words stay in my heart"!

(The author is a member of the Standing Committee of the Beibei District CPC Committee and the Director of Propaganda)