Teacher Cao is our guest. It was the special theme of Father's Day that year, "Before We Become Orphans."
He is wise and courageous, has a huge reserve of knowledge, has a strong ability to dismantle problems, and most importantly, he uses his wisdom to grasp the rhythm of all dialogues, perfect enough to stop
Just like life.
Now, he willfully ended the conversation, leaving us with thoughts.
——From Tian Yanyou, founder of Humble Culture
In the early morning of February 11, 2022, the famous media personality Cao Jingxing died in Shanghai at the age of 75.
Cao Jingxing, born in Shanghai in 1947, entered the History Department of Fudan University in 1978 and served as a writer, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Ming Pao.
In 1997, he entered the television industry as the editor-in-chief of "Zhongtian News Channel", and in 1998, he entered the work of Phoenix Satellite TV, and successively served as the director of the speech department of Phoenix Satellite TV, the host of the program "Current Affairs Lecture", the news commentator of Phoenix Satellite TV, and the deputy director of Phoenix Satellite TV Information Station.
Since February 2009, Cao Jingxing has been commenting on domestic and foreign current affairs news on the central people's radio news comprehensive frequency Voice of China in the morning prime time.
Mr. Cao Jingxing's father is also a famous journalist and writer, he is Mr. Cao Juren.
Mr. Cao Juren was a figure spanning four sectors of politics, history, journalism and literature, an introductory disciple of the master of traditional Chinese studies, Zhang Taiyan, who had close contacts with Lu Xun and wrote the "Commentary on Lu Xun".
The reason why Mr. Cao Jingxing is passionate about journalism should also be influenced by his father, and Mr. Cao Jingxing has also shared the story between him and his father on different platforms.
In his speech, he recalled: "There was a writer in Poland named Henrik Szyncki, and one of his short stories called 'The Lampstand Watch', was a lonely old man watching a lighthouse, and my father compared himself to a lighthouse.
"It can be said that his mission, his life, cares about our entire country, cares about our nation.
"The reason why he told him to abandon his university teaching position and become a war correspondent was to resist Japan."
Cao Jingxing gave a speech on the Humble View + platform
For Mr. Cao Jingxing, Mr. Cao Juren's spirit and personality have influenced his life.
"Why on earth are you alive?" Why on earth did you come to live your life?
"He himself (my father) once had a poem that he copied quite a lot, also for my sister, and actually for our children.
The sea is slow and difficult to dissolve the wine,
The scholar has a pen like a knife.
Battlefield blue blood into a rainbow shadow,
The origin of life is to laugh and laugh.
"He was originally a nihilist, he compared himself to duckweed, and his own symbol was called the crow. But in a big situation, like the Japanese had fought, he went to the battlefield and really did his thing. ”
His father's sense of mission prompted him to review the historical materials as a historian a hundred years later when compiling the historical materials of the War of Resistance, striving to be fair and true, worthy of the soldiers on the battlefield, and even more worthy of the next generation of readers.
This is also what Cao Jingxing once did.
Cao Jingxing with his family (the first from the right is Cao Jingxing)
Maintain the state of lifelong learning, cultivate Mr. Cao Jingxing to develop the habit of reading frequently, and also use him for life.
"He (the father) was not there, but he left us with a reading environment. The house was full of books, and all of us in the family were reading books.
"From my mother, my sister, my brother, we usually read books, so I grew up reading books.
"When I had my birthday, I remember my birthday when I was nine years old, and he bought me 'Water Margin' in Beijing. Because I killed "Water Margin" in the first grade of elementary school, and then the second grade of primary school showed me "Water Margin Sequel", followed by "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue".
"In this environment, reading has become the most important part of my life, I can not eat, but I can not not read.
"It wasn't until later that I did the news and commented, and I had to thank me for starting to read books at a young age and growing up in a family that read books.
"Another one is that you see things bigger. Because inside the family you are a relatively large pattern. Because of my father's presence, he would let me pay more attention to more things.
"Watching adults do big things and talk about big things from a young age, many things are more complicated.
"For example, when he returned to Beijing at that time, of course, I would also ask my mother why she wanted to go back to Beijing, and simply vaguely learned that there can be communication between the two sides of the strait, which is a very big change in my idea - things in the world are not so simple, not white is black, it turns out that there can still be interaction and influence between white and black."
For Cao Jingxing, the inner spirit and belief that his father inherited influenced him in a hidden way. As a journalist, he has always insisted: do not tell lies, do not say what he does not believe.
In 2017, there were many organic rice on the market that was difficult to distinguish between true and false, and Cao Jingxing came to the origin of organic rice to communicate with breeding experts and personally go down to the field with rice farmers to plant seedlings and cut rice. He said: "I am willing to use the conscience of a media person to guard the conscience of a grain of rice; I am willing to do my best as a media person to make every grain of organic good rice get the harvest it deserves." ”
Image source Cao Jingxing Weibo
Cao Jingxing has loved journalism all his life, and on weekdays, his WeChat circle of friends is like a small media that aggregates domestic and foreign news, with more than fifty or even nearly a hundred forwarded messages, he said: "I think WeChat can also become a channel, that is, a channel hosted by me alone." ”
The last update was forever fixed on February 7.
Picture source Cao Jingxing circle of friends
After suffering from cancer, Cao Jingxing faced and seriously considered the issue of life and death for the first time. At this time, looking at his father's "Floating Over the Sea of Life", there will be a thought of dialogue with him in the next generation.
He said: "I have also floated over the sea of life, and I am still struggling to get ashore, the process is hard, but it is also worth it." Every day there are new experiences, and every day we get new insights from the people and things we encounter. ”
The life force is so tenacious that the 73-year-old returned to the streets shortly after surgery.
Cao Jingxing's Weibo has also been updated, since February he will post a video every day to promote Shanghai Spring Festival cuisine, the latest Weibo below, he is also in the message area and netizens interact.
Some netizens left a message saying that they have been chasing the video released by Cao Jingxing, and the spiritual life is not as desolate as before, Cao Jingxing replied to the netizen a "holding fist" expression at noon on February 8, 3 days ago.
Subsequently, Cao Jingxing's active and rich WeChat circle of friends stopped updating, and the "personal news agency" left everyone.
Good friend Yang Jinlin sent a condolence, saying that Cao Jingxing often talked about his impression of his father and lamented that it had been less than a month since he spent his life with his father.
Mr. Cao Jingxing, all the way good, always missed.
Quoted from Green China Magazine, No. 480, 2017.7B
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