Let life shine with another brilliance
Text/Tan Talk
He studied financial accounting and is a senior accountant. He has served as the chief accountant of two state-owned enterprises. The highlight of his life journey, shining in the field of business operations...
And this collection of poems in front of me today is another kind of brilliance of his life!
I met him in the coal mine on the land of Central Hunan Province.
By the way, it was more than half a century ago. In the summer of 1968, I was demobilized from the army and came to the coal mine and arranged to work in the political work group of the Red Rock Mine. Soon, four graduates were assigned from the university. The person in charge of the Mining District Revolutionary Committee (i.e., the Mining Revolutionary Committee, the leading institution of the mining area that year) told me to arrange their work. At that time, they were not arranged according to the major they studied, but according to their family origin. Among the four people, those who came from landlord families, who were assigned to the coal mining team with the hardest work, those from middle peasant families, those who came from mechanical and electrical teams, and those who came from poor peasant families, and who were already members of the CPC preparatory party, were retained in the mining organs. His family consisted of small land rentals and was assigned to the boring team.
He and I met like this. He was short, thin, and had a good-looking face. Because we were all single at the time, the unit arranged for us to live in the same dormitory. Since then, two happy bachelors have been together day and night. Every evening, in our dormitory, there will be a melodious sound of bamboo flutes. That's him playing. As soon as he had time, he couldn't help but feel the bamboo flute, stand by the window, and play the flute very intently. The melodious, beautiful flute sound brought a thread of vitality to the mining area. After graduation, he was assigned to the coal mine, and he also brought a bamboo flute with him, which must be a person with a lot of literary and artistic cells and a lot of interest in life. Since then, the image of this little man has remained deeply in my heart.
Soon, the mining area organized a Mao Zedong Thought literary and art propaganda team. The job fell on my shoulders. When deciding on the candidate, I naturally thought of him and my roommates. He became my first choice. Soon, the propaganda team was organized. A group of lively, cheerful boys and girls in the mining area have gathered into this team. With him day and night, I found that he was versatile, not only playing the flute well, but also composing lyrics and writing, and also writing screenplays. He wrote a small opera, and the performance effect was particularly popular! Brilliant. Such a young man naturally provokes the love of the girl! Soon after, it was reported in the propaganda team that he and Xiao Xiao were in love. In those years, the first criterion for girls to choose a mate was each other's family origin and political appearance. Xiao Xiao's family has been poor peasants for generations, and his family composition is small land leasing, although it is the object of unity, but it often makes people feel that they should keep a distance from it. The news reached Xiao Xiao's mother, causing fierce opposition.
During the Spring Festival, the leaders of the mining area led us to visit the military family to pay respects to the new year. At that time, Xiao Xiao's brother was an active soldier in the army. We went to her house to say goodbye to the New Year. I took the opportunity to do her mother's job. Her father was the secretary of the party branch of the mine construction company (team), thin and tall, known as Xiao Zhishu. The mother has no job and is a family member. The surname Tan is my own family. I vigorously set up with her, and praised Xiao Xiao for having vision, looking for this friend, how talented, how good character, how... At this moment, I stayed at her house for a long time. When I got back to my dorm room, I pushed open the door and it was full of smoke. Fang Zhi was in trouble. At that time, because it was a rainy day, the cloth shoes I was wearing were wet, so I used an electric stove and put them under the bed to bake cloth shoes, which caused a fire, and my bedding clothes were all burned. Not long before, my sister got married, and I paid my sister more than 300 yuan in demobilization and demobilization. When I came to the mining area to report, I also advanced half a month's salary for living expenses. This is good, the quilt cover is gone, how to live in the future? At this time, someone joked for me: Aren't you in love? Get married, get married, and two people just need a quilt. That's how I got married awkwardly... What a bitter, but sweet mine life! It remains unforgettable in the imprint of my life.
Lovers eventually become dependents. Soon, Xiao Xiao's mother finally accepted his tasteful and talented son-in-law.
Soon, I left this coal mine, went to the newspaper offices in Beijing and Changsha, went to the writers' association in the province, and came here and there... As for him, he also went from the mine to the mining department, returned to his major, became the chief of the mine finance section, and became the general needle master of this 10,000-strong mine. At this time, their finance department assigned a new person. This newcomer, surnamed Liu, became his colleague, his subordinate...
Years later, I went to Guangzhou to participate in an event. One day, I walked through the street in a cart arranged by the organizers. Suddenly, I saw a short man riding a bicycle in front of me, and his face was extremely familiar. I blurted out, "Huang Yonglin! The trolley roared past. The driver couldn't help but give me a strange look. Afterwards, he was really transferred to Guangzhou to work. It was dug up by a large real estate company. Served as the chief accountant of this large enterprise.
When I saw him again, it was many years later, in a coal mine in Guizhou. At this time, he retired from the big enterprise in Guangzhou. His colleague and subordinate in the coal mine finance department at that time also went to the sea in the tide of the market economy for many years. At this time, he was already the chairman of Guizhou Wantian Coal Industry Group. He invited his former direct leadership to be his subordinate today, as the deputy general manager in charge of finance of the group.
During this period of time, Yonglin witnessed the process of hard work, continuous development and growth of this private enterprise, and his poetry was greatly developed. Although he specializes in finance and accounting, he has always loved literature and art. Especially for the old style poetry, it is quite cultivated. With passion, he wrote many poems praising the hard work of this enterprise. A few years ago, I received a book from him that sent me. This is a unique book, and he uses his own handwritten rice paper to praise the old style poetry of this private enterprise. Beautifully framed and antique. I loved it. At this time, I specially purchased an office building for the collection of autographed works given to me by my friends, called "Hundred Friends Book House". I also treasured this unique handwritten book, along with the works signed and sent to me by Zang Kejia, Liao Mosha, Wang Meng, and others, in my Baiyou Bookstore...
When Yonglin was eighty years old, his subordinate, Liu Zuchang, now the chairman of the Wantian Group, encouraged him to print and publish the poems he had written over the years. He also asked me to write something in front of me, and I gladly agreed.
My heartfelt congratulations to my old friend! This is another brilliance of your life blooming!
Tan Tan, born in 1944 in Lianyuan, Hunan, is a member of the Communist Party of China, a deputy to the 13th and 15th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China, an alternate member and member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the sixth, seventh and eighth vice chairmen of the China Writers Association, and now the honorary vice chairman of the China Writers Association. In 1959, he entered the factory as an apprentice, joined the army in 1961, demobilized and returned to the coal mine in 1968, and successively worked as a welder, a propaganda officer in the mining area, and a journalist. In 1978, he was transferred to workers' daily as a reporter, in the same year he was transferred to the literary and art department of Hunan Daily, and in 1984, he was transferred to the Hunan Provincial Writers Association as a professional writer, and later served as executive vice chairman and secretary of the party group. In 1995, he was elected chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature. His works "Bending in the Mountain Road" won the National Excellent Novella Award from 1981 to 1982, the novels "Wind and Rain Mountain Middle Road" and "Mountain Wild Love" won the first Ugin Award in China, the long autobiographical literature "Life Road Bend" won the Fourth National Youth Book Award, and the novella "Mountain Mist Dissipated" and "What Song Do You Leave Behind" won the first and second National Ugin Awards. In 2002, he was rated as the first batch of outstanding experts in Hunan Province.