Night Rain 丨 Zhang Gang: Repair the fence to plant chrysanthemums about the wind pavilion

Repair the hedge planting chrysanthemum about the wind pavilion

Zhang Gang

About Wind Pavilion, located on the demarcation island in the southeast of Hainan Province, the first 5A-class island scenic spot in the mainland. This is the dividing point between Lingshui County and Wanning County, and the dividing point of the north-south climate of Hainan Province, and it is just on the so-called mysterious 18th parallel north.

A few days ago, my two sons bid farewell to their Wanning friends and went there. Bathed in the warm sea breeze after the interpenetration and fusion of tropical and subtropical climates under the sun, listening to the natural sound of the waves lapping on the shore, overlooking the dots of sail shadows at the junction of sea and sky, and hanging out in a daze for a short time, the inner feeling is comfortable and beautiful. Therefore, I wanted to write a small poem and leave a beautiful thought.

At about 8 o'clock on December 29, 2021, I was sitting at the table searching my stomach and thinking about it, and Mr. P of the University of Chicago sent me a few photos, and I was momentarily excited: Do you continue to write poetry or look at the photos first? Hesitate for a moment, or choose to read WeChat first, write poetry, push back, not in a hurry.

Mr. P said the photos were a Japanese garden and a lake view of Michigan in the bitter cold next door to their home.

The snow-covered Japanese garden is miserable and nothing to look at, and the photo of the blue-green lake surging several meters high in the cold wind is eye-catching. When did this scientist brother become a photographer again? Smart people are really a hundred ways to pass.

I returned a picture of the snow scene in his hometown that Mr. Y had just received, and he praised it as a professional framing.

I reported to his brother that Xiushan Senior High School intends to compile local teaching materials, and I was fortunate to receive a notice yesterday that one of my own poems and an essay may be selected for its "Selected Reading of Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature"; this middle school has been very powerful in recent years, with a high reputation in the Yu'e-Xiangqian Border Region, and the number of students admitted to Peking University Tsinghua University every year remains about 8, and the stability of the undergraduate key line is more than 2,000; ask him if he has ready-made works, if there is, I suggest that he agree to recommend us to the school to include. I hope that his elder brother will make further contributions to the descendants of the original hometown.

Mr. P has been a well-rounded person since childhood, and if he wants to, the quality of his works is definitely far above mine.

He quickly replied in Xiushan native language, real, humble and humorous. The gist is that he has written some scientific and technological articles in his lifetime, the format of scientific and technological articles is relatively fixed, there is data and views to write, there is no talent for writing poetry articles, nor has he had the opportunity to read more, write more, and practice more in that regard; there is no use of Chinese to write things for many years, although English writing is not good, now he is more accustomed to writing in English, which is forced by work and life; the country used to call foreigners "devils", call themselves people, from the perspective of writing articles, he often feels that he is really a bit" Man is not a ghost and no ghost" means it.

I replied with a thick little girl's high-fived and laughing expression, and then said that the next time I accompanied him back to Xiushan, the big professor, I would volunteer to suggest that the school ask the old man to use his pure Xiushan official language that he used almost all the time in WeChat to make a wonderful report that learned from China and the West, blended ancient and modern, and was mysterious, and people and gods were happy and praised, maybe after the students listened to the report, someone would set a new goal in life, that is, to take him as a teacher, work hard, and strive to be a chair professor at the University of Chicago!

He did not reply in time, I was in a hurry, and sent another one: From December 30, 2021, I will get up early every day, from 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock to write essay-style essays about each poem I have created this year, and strive to write one essay every two days, first the text after the poem, and seek the effect of combining pearls; next April, I will send it to the publishing house for review and revision before my birthday, and strive to carry out the first launch ceremony and sign the book sale at the Xinhua Book City of the Liberation Monument before the anniversary of Chongqing's direct administration, that is, before June 18.

He replied: "There is concentration! Being in the current position is particularly valuable. I believe that you have already entered the realm of enjoying writing; my personal opinion, when an individual really is doing something, he will definitely creatively and seriously devote himself to doing it well.

I said that I wanted to take him as a teacher, take it more seriously, innovation and creation can not be said, anyway, we must do solid work. At the same time, I teased him that my personal feeling was that his ability to accurately dispatch words and sentences in English might not be as good as his ability to accurately use Xiushan tuyu to make sentences; of course, in front of him, I did not know English.

He didn't reply right away, probably laughing silently.

Then, he said that he did not have a high understanding of the so-called realm, and felt that from the perspective of doing things, enjoying doing was already a fairly high realm. Because of work habits, it is not said that it is the highest realm of doing things, because there is no way to quantify the realm. He appreciated that I used the word "solid" well, and the English word rigor was similar to it, and to put it a little further aside, one of the most important traditions of the University of Chicago and emphasis was rigor.

Then he sent me a resume that a boy (his aunt's son) who had been born and raised in "Over Here" (the United States) had written out of college, saying that the boy's ability to use Chinese was quite good.

There are two photographs, one is a white paper with handwritten font and the other is a group photo of a young man and woman. The piece of paper was the boy's handwritten resume, with his name, contact details, and "Hobbies: Sleeping," "Roundup: I'm fine." Passionate about teaching Chinese. I love to eat. Helpful, diligent work" and so on, plus punctuation, about 60 words, the handwriting is very exotic, some of the side of the head "planted other people's land, deserted their own fields", missing arms and legs of Chinese characters and punctuation mistakes missed nearly 10 places, I can't help but laugh.

The photo is a group photo of the young man and his girlfriend who looks like a Chinese, the handsome man embracing the beautiful woman, the beautiful woman snuggling up to the handsome man, clean, refreshing, and the happy smiles on the faces of the two young people who fell in love are as bright as the sun.

I said to Mr. P: That personal resume reminds me of Xiushan's words after the break: Zhang Laohan read the "Cultural Revolution" big character newspaper - dangerous egg risk, dangerous egg risk!

I am limited to the country and live in a remote corner of the southwest, if I go to the United States to play a game like this handsome guy when I was young, then this life will be "a thousand times" compared to now.

I went on to tell him a story: Shortly after the overthrow of the "Gang of Four" in 1976, after Deng Xiaoping proposed that practice was the only criterion for testing truth, a large-scale theoretical training was carried out throughout the country to unify the ideological understanding of the whole country. A cadre from a certain unit in Xiushan County, who was a college student from a worker, peasant, and soldier, returned to the unit to attend classes after training in the county. He seems to have understood the truth that practice is the only criterion for testing truth, but he has been talking for a long time that the audience below can't get the point, and the audience is booing and booing, making him blush and swell, and he is overwhelmed for a while, and in a hurry, he suddenly broke out, and used Xiushan's "universal word" (egg) to solidly fly out the most hard-core expression: To put it bluntly, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, that is, no matter what egg you say, you must try to know the egg!

In a hurry, the lecture was connected to the ground. The grassroots cadres who participated in the training all understood it at once, and they all talked about it one after another: Oh, why didn't you say this earlier? Early egg said so that everyone is afraid that the early egg is awake alive, you talk about eggs for most of the day, on the last sentence shake the egg spread, understand!

I told Mr. P that people like us are convinced of Deng Xiaoping, and that we like and value "only after trying to know" whenever we do things, and that it is purely coincidental that our thinking and behavior are similar or the same to a certain point of the spiritual value pursued by your school.

He laughed and agreed with me.

The small talk-style WeChat communication time seems to be a little longer, but our mood is particularly comfortable. What is the reason? That's because the friendship between friends for decades without impurities nourishes the body and mind, that's because the common memory, the feeling of empathy warm the soul, even if there is a little bit of roughness of the "Lower Riba people" in a specific region, it is also a vivid and vivid life experience, and the words are not rough!

In fact, if you think about it, which one doesn't like to be clean and refreshing? I am interested in the Hainan Boundary Island Yufeng Pavilion, don't you like the pleasant sea breeze, fresh air, clear sea water, vast sea view, beautiful atmosphere and the romance and poetry of its name?

Like beautiful interpersonal relationships and beautiful natural landscapes, they are all "about the wind pavilion" rich in high negative oxygen ions, all of which are necessary products and luxuries for high-quality life, and should become an important goal for us to aspire to a better life, and they are worth our hard work and diligence to achieve.

Because of the beauty, I remember the Yofeng Pavilion on the island of The Hainan Boundary Island; in pursuit of beauty, I want to build a Yofeng Pavilion in the new year, in the original hometown, in my heart; at the same time, I pray that every friend has a Yofeng Pavilion, facing the sea, and the four seasons are like spring!

Special Poetry Yuz -

About the Wind Pavilion

Deity at 18 degrees north latitude

Most likely hidden in the Wind Pavilion on the island of the Dividing Continent

The hurricane is approaching and no longer muddy

Typhoons are gentle into birds clinging to people

The barbarism and cruelty of the barbarism are reduced to invisibility

The air is as endless as the South China Sea

Fresh and peaceful healing and pure

Take a big gulp of sweet warmth

Spring 2022

I want to go back to my hometown and build the same scenery