Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
The wonder of love may lie in the fact that although it is an ancient theme of human beings, every person bathed in the light of love still feels a freshness and purity that others cannot replicate.
On Valentine's Day, which has a romantic atmosphere in the air, it is undoubtedly very appropriate to read the book "Junsheng I Am Not Born". "I Was Born Before I Was Born" is a memoir. The author and heroine Zhang Yanping is a veteran journalist who has worked at Xinhua News Agency for many years. In the book, she writes her love and life story with the scientist Yang Nansheng. The moment when the love between the two people sprouts is recorded and presented, so that readers can also experience the beauty of love.
True love is broad and rich in content. In the book, Zhang Yanping also uses her senior journalist's expression ability to express her lover's scientific research career, lofty ideals, and feelings of home and country very completely and fully. Therefore, this is a memoir of the wife recording the true love between her husband and her husband, and it is also a reportage work that presents the dedication and sacrifice of aerospace scientists with a pure heart from an objective point of view. At the end of the day, because there is love, it is also a long love letter to a lover.
Zhang Yanping and Yang Nansheng
The only medium of love for each other is love
Who is Yang Nansheng? This is not a name that is universally familiar to the general reader. However, the scientific research he is engaged in has made great contributions to the country. Born in 1921, Yang Boy graduated from Southwest United University in 1943. After that, he went to the UK to study and obtained a doctorate degree in mechanical engineering in natural philosophy with honors. After the founding of New China, he broke through the obstacles and returned to the motherland with the ideal heart of the "real country", first participating in the development of China's first Jiefang brand car at the Changchun First Automobile Manufacturing Plant, transferring to the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a researcher and academic secretary, and then transferring to the 1001 Design Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences established for the development of satellites, joining the scientific research team led by Qian Xuesen, and participating in the research and development of China's first launch satellite launch vehicle. For decades, he has been working at the great northwest scientific research base under difficult conditions, dedicating all his efforts and talents to the cause of rocket science. In 2018, the publication of "The Biography of Yang Nansheng", which was hosted by the Solid Power Research Institute of the Aerospace Group, let more people know his long-term and unknown contribution to the public.
As a veteran journalist, Zhang Yanping has won the "Yangtze River Taofen Award", the highest award in Chinese journalism, won the first prize of the China Journalism Award for his long-form newsletter "Why Soma Flowers Are So Red", and wrote a biography of "Mu Qing". When she met Yang Nansheng in 1984, she had just graduated from the Chinese Department of Shandong University for two years. One is a big scientist, the other is a fledgling journalist, and the two still have an age gap of more than 30 years, but because of an interview, the love between the two still happened.
Regarding this love that crosses the age gap, Zhang Yanping wrote in the book: "To this day, I firmly believe that love and friendship have no obstacles to the age gap, and Zhiyin must exist in the hearts of those who are deeply related to life, life and beauty. ”
For many years, Yang Nansheng's old colleagues and subordinates have been rumored that the reason why journalist Zhang Yanping fell in love with their Mr. Yang was because she was touched by Mr. Yang's great contributions and noble spirit to China's aerospace industry. In this regard, Zhang Yanping also admitted in the book that he was "quite ashamed" and "this is a reasonable inference for people who love Yang Nansheng." As for the passers-by in society who watch the hilarity, either asserting that this woman's brain is in the water, or affirming the old man's judgment that he has money, I can only understand one thing: there is a class of people in the world, when he encounters super-mundane things that he cannot understand, he will use his own value scale to turn this matter into a commodity in his grocery store that conforms to his values. For this type of person, I just have to be dismissive. Yang Nansheng and I love each other, the only medium, only love. For this world and the country, what kind of person is Yang Nansheng? It wasn't until the last years of his life that I slowly figured it out. The reason for this is that he has trained his lifelong habit of secrecy; second, in his eyes, I, a super 'scientific blind' who can't even distinguish between addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, the things he has studied in his life are nothing less than magic for me, and cannot be told. ”
"It is not easy for people to know each other, but the soul will eventually know the soul"
In 1986, Yang Nansheng and Zhang Yanping crossed the age gap of more than 30 years and came together and lived happily for 27 years. On March 5, 2013, Yang Nansheng died at the age of 91.
During the period of acquaintance and love, there were nearly 200 letters between them, talking about literature, talking about poetry, talking about music, etc. In the more than 3 years after marriage, they wrote letters, waited for letters, and read letters, Yang Nansheng wrote 96 letters to Zhang Yanping, and Zhang Yanping wrote 98 letters to Yang Nansheng. Yang Nansheng's love letter is full of youthful vitality of life and is not lost to young people. Every letter, the other party read it many times, excited, tearful. I also rose and fell with their joys and sorrows, rejoicing, choking, and weeping. The letters are particularly well preserved and numbered, and their love letters are not the usual mediocre clichés, and they discuss life, music, poetry, literature, etc. warmly and seriously. Yang Nansheng leads and influences Zhang Yanping with his rich experience and noble character, with his world view, outlook on life and values. He is both a husband and loves, cares, takes care of, and embraces his wife like an older brother and a father. Zhang Yanping is not only a wife, but also trusts, warms and nourishes Yang Nansheng like a daughter and a mother, comforting Yang Nansheng's wounded heart in the first half of his life.
A few years after Yang Nansheng's death, Zhang Yanping used his diary to talk to his lover, remembering the bits and pieces of their time together, and wrote 76 diaries with a total of more than 3 million words to express his feelings for his lover. "I've been a journalist all my life, interviewed countless people, written about many people, and Yang Nansheng was one of the first interviewees I knew in my journalistic career, but I was almost the only one who hadn't written any manuscripts. After a long 37 years, after he came into my life and left my life, I finally embraced him with words. Deeply grateful for the most beautiful love he gave me in the world, deeply grateful for the spiritual nirvana that his fiery life brought me, without him, there would be no me today. May he receive this gift of love in heaven and rejoice in the growth of his beloved Little Pingping. ”
One is a big scientist and the other is a big journalist. But what makes love happen is not career achievement, but the equivalence of the soul. The simplicity and purity of the two, romantic and beautiful, convey the message that "a serious soul deserves to be loved, and the love that grows in the heart can be entrusted". "The memento of love has never been the gifts you gave me, not even those sweet text messages and photos, but the changes you left on me, like the changes in the terrain left by the rivers." 」 Zhang Yanping wrote in his creation talk: "I would like to hold this book in front of the world, because I believe that what this book conveys about love, about life, about soul, about suffering, about growth... And all the bright, warm, beautiful, timeless beliefs in life will be in another, ten, a hundred... Countless channels of connected minds find its acquaintance and resonance. It is not easy for people to know each other, but the soul will eventually know the soul. Imagine what it would be a joy and happiness to have so many souls in this world who are close to each other, quietly sharing each other's life information in different time and space. ”
(Photo courtesy of Cultural Development Press)