One afternoon in recent days, it was raining lightly. Chongqing's Kaizhou New City and Hanfeng Lake are shrouded in hazy smoke and rain. Zhou Chengfang, a young writer, held a cup of black tea and sat in her small and warm study, opening the floodgates of memory.
Since his first literary work was published in the supplement of Chongqing Evening News in 2005, in the past 16 years, Zhou Chengfang has used his pen to plough and cultivate deeply in Kaizhou, a fertile land that has accumulated thousands of years of humanistic history and culture. Whether it is Zhao Jiachang, Puli River, or Hanfeng Lake and Fairy Cave, she has written into a thick article. At the same time, Zhou Chengfang also injected the blood of culture and thought into this ancient land with his unrelenting nostalgia for his hometown, so that every grass and tree has emotion, and one mountain and one water have spirituality.
Today, Zhou Chengfang is a member of the Chongqing Writers Association, the vice chairman of the Kaizhou District Writers Association, and has won honorary titles such as The Model of Jianjian And the Top Ten Outstanding Youths of Kaixian County, and has published the essay collection "Zhu Yan Who Does Not Change".
XiaoFang showed a talent for literature
One day in the mid-1970s, an ordinary family in Zhaojiachang Old Street on the Puli River heard the cry of a newborn baby girl. According to the popular style of the time, the parents named the baby girl "Xiaofang". Today, many years later, Zhou Chengfang's relatives and friends like to affectionately call her "Xiaofang".
The famous contemporary writer Zhou Erfu said in the fourth part of the novel "Morning in Shanghai": "It is easy to say that this kind of thing is easy to say; it is really difficult to say that it is difficult; some people sing all their lives are just a singing Taoist; some people are highly talented and intelligent, and they are artists without much light." Zhou Chengfang's parents were not writers, but she showed a talent for literature from an early age. When she was in elementary school, Zhou Chengfang's compositions were often used as model texts by Chinese teachers and read them openly in class. When she was in junior high school, Zhou Chengfang participated in the whole school essay competition and always won the first prize. When she was in high school, she competed in a county-wide speech contest, defeating a strong opponent and winning the first place...
"Xiaofang is really versatile!" Zhou Chengfang's name is getting louder and louder on campus, and she herself has become a rising literary star in the local area. However, Zhou Chengfang was eager to go out of the Zhao family field, soar to the wider sky, and fight to the deeper sea.
In order to realize her wish to "go out", Zhou Chengfang studied diligently and was admitted to the Chinese Department of Chongqing Three Gorges College as she wished, leaving the land where she was born and raised.
Wanderer homesick sending love literature
"Don't ask me where I'm from, my hometown is far away. Why wandering, wandering far away, wandering..." After Zhou Chengfang graduated, she went to the main city of Chongqing and became a tour guide who went south and north. "Being a stranger in a foreign land alone, thinking of my relatives every festive season." Zhou Chengfang often misses her hometown and relatives in the dead of night.
In 2005, by chance, Zhou Chengfang searched for the "Kaixian Writers Network", and there were many works by local writers on the webpage, which felt very kind. She registered an account nicknamed "Zhu Yan" on the "Kaixian Writers Network", opened a column "Zhu Yan Goes to the End of the World", and published some travelogue works on it. These travelogue works are vivid, interesting, distinctive, and very popular with netizens, so Zhou Chengfang was rated as one of the top ten online writers in Kaixian County.
Soon, Zhou Chengfang lost a cat in his home. She wrote an article about the interesting things in the process of finding cats, and submitted them to the supplement of Chongqing Evening News with the mentality of trying it out. A month later, the article was published. "A stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves". Next, Zhou Chengfang, as a tour guide, wrote a number of articles, which were successively published in various newspapers and periodicals.
In 2008, Zhou Chengfang collected dozens of essays published in newspapers and forums into a collection of essays, "Zhu Yan Without Change", which was published by Liaoning Education Publishing House. To this end, the Kaixian Literary Association at that time also held a new book launch for her at Xinhua Bookstore. Soon, Zhou Chengfang joined the Chongqing Writers Association, becoming the first female writer in Kaizhou and the only female writer in Kaizhou to join the Chongqing Writers Association.
The spiritual home of the countryside
In 2007, when the whole country was in full swing to prepare for the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhou Chengfang returned to Kaizhou and Zhao Jiachang with her luggage that had been wandering for a long time.
Zhou Chengfang did not have time to express the nostalgia of reuniting with her hometown and relatives for a long time, so she threw herself into a tense and busy entrepreneurship. Gradually, she rarely opened the computer to type on the article, and did not even have time to sit still and read a book. However, that yearning and pursuit of literature has been integrated into her blood and will never fade.
From 2008 to 2009, a large-scale relocation was carried out in Kaizhou District. Zhao Jiachang, located on the banks of the Puli River, is within the scope of the relocation of migrants and is about to be demolished. After Zhou Chengfang heard about it, she made a special trip back to Zhao Jiachang and used her camera to photograph the buildings, grass and trees of the old street before the demolition. However, before Zhou Chengfang could pour the photo out of the camera, she accidentally lost the camera and more than 10,000 yuan in cash on the way back because of an urgent business trip to Shanghai.
Zhou Chengfang was not distressed when the money was lost; what hurt her most was the hundreds of photos saved in the camera. That was her lingering thoughts about Zhao Jiachang.
Every writer has his own homeland. The same is true of Zhou Chengfang. Zhao Jiachang was demolished and disappeared forever. None of this can be changed. However, writers can rebuild a spiritual home with their own words. Since then, Zhou Chengfang has successively written a batch of reminiscence essays. In this batch of essays, Zhou Chengfang wrote about the 3 old streets of Zhao Jiachang, the Puli River known as the "Big River Dam", the unique way of cooling off on summer nights in Zhao Jiachang, and the unforgettable experience of watching TV when she was a child... She used these emotional words to build an eternal spiritual home.
In recent years, Zhou Chengfang has worked tirelessly and published more than 100 literary works totaling more than 100,000 words in newspapers and periodicals across the country, such as China Audit Daily, Chongqing Daily, Chongqing Evening News, Yangtze River Daily, Tonight News, West China Metropolis Daily, etc., and has repeatedly won awards in various appraisals inside and outside the city.
Today, Zhou Chengfang is using her spare time to read and recite classical poetry, broaden her horizons, and hope to make new breakthroughs in the field of literature.