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I have the honor of being signed by Zhao Heng's masterpiece "Two Ten Years" (Zhonghua Bookstore, February 2020): "Memories of childhood and adolescence, Mr. Yuehua a little." Zhao Heng Gengzi Meng Qiu. Zhao Heng's wife, Wu Liyu, wrote a pronoun to her husband's work, "Common Memories.". When the "Two Ten Years" had not yet been published, the "Generation Sequence" was first published in the "PEN Meeting" supplement of Wen Wei Po. 68 years of hair small, 47 years of marriage. Wu Liyu's husband Jun - delicious and fun, maverick, love life, very sunny, pay attention to life interest, study windows are bright and clean. He would buy flowers to decorate the room according to the seasons, and post the Spring Festival by himself. For example: "Shen Qing is healthy and healthy again, and the summer is cold to twenty-four spring." "This is a New Year's greeting from the anhui aunt who came to take care of their lives for more than 20 years. This friendship across the centuries is awe-inspiring! On the eve of the Spring Festival last year, Zhao Heng replaced the couplet with "has been in charge of domestic affairs for half a year, and will be a dry city for another twenty years", expressing their husband and wife's good wish that their aunt will stay for a few more years.
Zhao Heng and Wu Liyu wrote inscriptions.
Zhao Heng and Wu Liyu took a photo of Xin Ugly Dahan.
Zhao Heng has three sets of houses in the same unit in the two articles of Unity Hubei, and two sets of doors on the fourth floor are the husband and wife's respective study. While engaging in the study of the history of the Five Dynasties of Sui and Tang Dynasties and Dunhuang Studies, it is a typical academic school, with the door closed; on the other hand, it is engaged in the study of Beijing history, opera history and gastronomy, which is full of leisure and people. Husband and wife rule across the door, do not borrow books from each other, but ask each other about each other's research field, it can be said: "The history of the small building map is divided into two sides, and the half column and the bright moon are read." But Wu Liyu looked forward to the early release of this book and gave her husband a lot of encouragement. Zhao Heng has a base, a foundation for life, and a strong memory, he lives up to his wife's expectations, reminiscing about the ten years of life in Dongsi Erjo from the age of 5 to 15 in the past rare years, and writing about that era and those people with delicate writing.
The book is divided into two parts.
The previous part, "My Life in Nijo", mainly writes about family history and family affairs. The "Xiangping Zhao Clan" (present-day Tai'an, Shandong) began its career. Zhao Heng was a jinshi of the third year of Daoguang (1823); Gao Zuwenying and Gao Shuwen were the same list jinshi of Daoguang twenty-five years (1845); Zhao Erzhen and Zhao Erxun were the same list jinshi of tongzhi thirteen years (1874), and great-uncle Zhao Ercui was a jinshi of the fifteenth year of Guangxu (1889). Although his great-grandfather Zhao Erfeng was not born in the right way, he was a capable talent, successively serving as minister stationed in Tibet, acting governor of Sichuan, and concurrently serving as the minister of border affairs in Sichuan and Yunnan. Zhang Shizhao inscribed: "In the late Qing Dynasty, Cen Yuan was the most famous." Like General Zhao, Kawabe Yang Yingsheng. "Praise qi Wenzhi martial arts are far above Cen Chunxuan and Yuan Shikai." Zhao Erxun was the governor of the three eastern provinces and the general of Fengtian, and zhang Zuolin was a relative of his children. When Yuan Shikai was in power, he was hired as the director of the Qing History Museum. When Duan Qirui was in power, he served as the interim president of the Senate. In this traditional sense, the Imperial Examination family and the eunuch family entered the Republic of China, and future generations also attach importance to quality education. His grandfather, Zhao Shize (Zi Shuyan), graduated from the Kyoshi Guiguan Academy. His father, Zhao Shouyu, and his mother, Wang Hao, graduated from Fu Jen University. However, Zhao Heng's two ten years of time have been soaking in the opera garden, going to the restaurant, visiting the book stall, collecting stamps, and are "non-mainstream" children who wander outside the campus, and Longfu Temple, Wangfujing, and Dong'an Market have become his happy land. He breathed in the free air of stocking and tasted a rich spiritual feast, "but did not become a cunning", becoming a very special alternative of that era.
In 1955, Zhao Heng moved into the first year of the second article.
In the winter of 1959, Zhao Heng and his father were in front of the former residence of Dongsi Ertiao.
Zhao Heng's old grandmother did not read any books, and after becoming a side room at the age of 20, she was sterile, but she was respected by the family and the guests who came and went. Her family courtyard was photographed by the Dongsi Street Office separated by a wall, the street wanted to be replaced by an office, and the office leaders repeatedly went to the door to do the work, and the old grandmother did not agree. The problem was reflected in Dai Jingyuan, then secretary of the Dongcheng District PARTY Committee and mayor of the district, who visited the door twice to talk about the family history of the Zhao family, about the difficulties of the street, and praised the old grandmother's high consciousness and culture, and Zhao Heng was present to listen. After the old grandmother accepted the replacement plan to move into the new house, Dai Jingyuan also paid a special visit once, which made her very moved, gave a thumbs up and said: "This is the real Eighth Route Army!" ”
The next part, "The Various Characters Of the Nijō No. 7 Courtyard", mainly writes about relatives and the past. Zhao Heng's maternal grandfather, Wang Yulin, was an industrialist and banker, and in his early thirties he became the director of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Beiyang Government and founded the Xingbao Coal Mining Company in Mentougou. Maternal grandmother Qian Yunhua was born into a famous family, and her sister Qian Tong was Xu Baoqi's wife, and Xu Baoqi and Yu Pingbo were also Lang's uncles. Zhao Heng's father's colleague and mother-in-law, Zou Dezhang, studied medicine at Soochow University in his early years and dropped out of school due to war and migration. She was the granddaughter of Shangshu Zou Jialai of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Her uncle was Zou Shuwen, a botanist studying in the United States, and her uncle was the agronomist Zou Bingwen. Zhao Heng's father-in-law, Wu Jing, holds a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and served as the deputy director of the Technical Committee of the Ministry of Coal after the reform and opening up. Wu Liyu was brought here for the first time by her mother when she was four years old, Nijo Seven. "I couldn't figure out how my life could be mixed up with the owner of this little bed!" This is fate, both a match made in heaven and a door-to-door pair.
Zhao Heng's grandfather Zhao Shize was a famous collector, and his father Zhao Shouyu was responsible for and actually presided over the "Twenty-Four Histories" and "Qing History Drafts" for nearly 20 years, and there were many literary historians, translators, leading figures in the pear garden industry, and antique jewelry merchants. Song Yunbin, a literary historian, was personable, elegant, and deeply familiar with medical practices, and he heard that people around him who were sick would take the initiative to diagnose people's pulses and prescribe prescriptions. "Song Yunbin's Diary" wrote three times that Zhao Heng, who suffered from asthma, was "out of the clinic" to prescribe prescriptions. Because Song Yunbin was sideways in the official field, in addition to Confucianism, he had a little more "official spirit" than other scholars. "Four Little Famous Dan" Zhang Junqiu is the righteous son of Zhao Heng's grandfather, smart, hardworking, and generous, after becoming famous, he does not forget the kindness of his father's acquaintance, every year Chinese New Year's Eve midnight, he will come by car, enter the house and pick up the sofa cushion and throw it to the ground, kneel down on both knees and prostrate himself, "East House Niang" (two articles) and "West House Lady" (ten articles) are not left in both places. There are also Professors Yang Shanquan and Zhao Luorui of the Department of Spanish Languages of Peking University, archaeologist Chen Mengjia, young scholars Bian Xiaoxuan and Xu Pingfang, son-in-law Puzuo of the Zhao family, He Cijun, who is cautious and cautious, Xi Xiaobo, who loves to talk and laugh, and Hua Huilin, who meets people who are unladylike... Their interests and hobbies and life experiences are closely linked to the changes of the times and the political situation, from which we can glimpse the life of the middle and upper-class figures in Beijing at that time.
Zhao Heng used a lot of pen and ink to write about small people, so that his two lives were filled with fireworks and worldly flavors. The cook Feng Qi, likes to play a little privilege in the distribution of hot water in the kitchen, the distribution of dates in the courtyard, etc., and the maid Chunhua has some eyebrow ambiguity, and later became a cook at the head of the central government, became a state cadre, and came back to visit the old owner's family in a clean and neat Zhongshan suit. Male maid Lao Xia, very much respect the old-fashioned duty in traditional culture, do not explode foul mouth, do not do fly camp dog things, do not flirt with women, shave his head once every half a month, wash his coarse cloth pants clean, a lifetime to the big family errands, and finally by the Zhao family to preside over the sending of his aftermath. Old goods dealer Lao Ru, Mu Ne Dun Hou, and Yan Yue, collect things very patiently, not afraid to grind their mouths, the things handled are generally good, earn the money of sellers or buyers to earn in the bright, good credit, good popularity. There are also Fu Xixian, the former concierge of the former Zhao Mansion, who is very nostalgic, Mrs. Zhu Er, who is good at praising people, Wang Qiuli, who works tirelessly, Xu Zhenbo, who is extremely shrewd, and so on. They may be at ease with the encounter, or angry and strong, or from time to time, or their fate is uncertain, which can be touched and felt, and it is lamentable.
I also read Zhao Heng's righteousness from the book. The master of bicycle repair in Sanjokou was a friend of Zhao Heng until the 1970s. After a car repair, the master ordered to eat ten crystal elbows on the mouth of Senlong, Zhao Heng waved a big hand, and the two rode away. Zhao Heng moved out of the two roads to live with his parents on Cuiwei Road, and used the pocket money he saved to buy a bottle of Moutai wine for Fujian Xiang, a cook who likes to drink. "The wise do not shy away from relatives." Fujian Xiang was recommended by Zhao Heng's mother's nursing mother, Fu Ma, who received a "special allowance" every month and was responsible for "monitoring" Zhao Heng's every move, and the couple was Zhao Heng's mother's "concubine troops". The first time I visited Zhao Heng, he instructed: "Tell the fat man, just say that you are looking for me, and he will find you a parking space." "I followed the order, and the fat security guard gave him enthusiastic guidance and avoided the difficulty of parking. Zhao Heng and the Five Elements and Eight Works can be called brothers, and they can become magnetic fields wherever they go, which is not unrelated to his deep understanding of people and sophistication without losing his authenticity.
Zhao Heng's memory of the East Four-Two, both Yangchun White Snow and Xia Riba people, both white cloud dogs and worldly people's hearts, left precious text fossils for the gradually distant 50s and 60s of the last century.