Feng Jicai: Slash "Post-80s"

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Guangming Daily reporter Chen Xue

On March 11, Feng Jicai celebrated his 80th birthday, when he visited his 105-year-old mother, ate a bowl of noodles, and took a few photos. Some publishing houses published his recent situation on the public account, and received tens of thousands of views and nearly 100 messages. The long message even converged into a condensed personal history of Feng Jicai:

"'Ten Years of a Hundred People' is really a classic that can't bear to read for the second time" "The most impressive thing is the text of Mr. Lao's "Pearl Bird"" ""The Strange Man of the World" (the whole book) read it 3 times, and also specially bought a pair of customized poker, if nothing else, to appreciate the paintings on the poker" "When I was a child, I read Mr. Feng's novel, and later I saw Mr. Feng's book on cultural heritage protection"...

Many readers were surprised that Feng Jicai was already 80 years old. In fact, his creations are even less senile. Just as 2022 began, he published two new works: the essay collection "A Hole in the Studio" and the short story collection "Danube Gorge". Two years ago, he also published a long novel, "The Artists," and another collection of essays, "The World of the Study," and since winning the Lu Xun Literature Prize in 2018, Feng Ji seems to have entered a prolific period of creation.

Recently, Feng Jicai did an online interview with the media across the country, and he still looked back on his "slash life" and talked about the latest writing plan: "I just lack time, I hope to have more time, because I want to do too much." I have four carriages: literature, art, cultural heritage protection and education. ”

"At the age of 80, I still write because I love it." Feng Jicai said.

The picture shows that on October 12, 2021, Feng Jicai just finished writing the short story collection "Danube River Gorge". Profile picture

"You old man is OK, you can continue to write"

In the preface to his new book "A Hole in the Studio", he wrote: "Writing for me is more of a way of responsibility to society; painting is for me, more expression and expression of personal hearts." That's why I call it 'one world' and 'one hole in the sky' respectively. ”

"I love literature, even though I've been away from literature for 20 years." Some people say that Feng Jicai once had a "mystery of disappearance", after the emergence of the literary world, Feng Jicai once interrupted the creation of novels, devoted himself to the protection of cultural heritage, and when he met with the public again, he brought most of the articles such as "Feng Jicai's Ten Years of Woodblock New Year Painting Rescue Archives" and "Folk Culture Dial 120 Emergency Call for Help" and other articles that appealed for cultural heritage.

Feng Jicai sighed: "At that time, when I saw the writers of the same generation, especially when I saw young people produce new works, I would have some bitterness in my heart, but the rescue of cultural heritage was too important, and I had to do it." ”

In August 2018, Feng Jicai's short story collection "The Strange Man of the Ordinary World" (Zuben) won the Short Story Award of the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award. The award speech reads: Feng Jicai's "Strange People of the World" (FootBook), fine gold and jade, with a little victory over more, marks the "absolute sentence" realm of small novel creation. Feng Jicai, who calls himself an "old writer", is greatly encouraged, "In 2013, I was over 70 years old, my mobility was poor, I spent more time in the study, and literature could not help but return to me." Winning the award helped me relive that literary feeling. It seems to tell me, 'You old man is okay, you can continue to write'. Isn't that a spiritual encouragement? ”

He went on to write that today, he swims from Tianjin Bay to the Danube.

In 2020, Feng Jicai's novel "Artists" was published, which uses the feeling of a painter to write a painter and depict the life of an artist. The recently published "Danube Gorge" is to re-examine fate from a new perspective of life. Feng Jicai said that after 20 years of separation from literature, there is now time to write, and the feeling of literature often comes rushing in, because in the past 20 years, there has been too much time to suppress writing, too much to see, and too much to know.

"When I have literary ideas, I will go to my study to bury my head and write, and maybe when I write at a certain time, I will have the feeling of painting, so I will go to the studio." Feng Jicai said, "I have two rooms, one is the study, the other is the studio, at both ends of the corridor of my house, this is a sweet round trip, these two things make me feel very happy." ”

"I'm tied to cultural heritage protection"

Why he devotes himself to the cause of cultural heritage protection - this is a question that Feng Ji has answered countless times in the past 20 years. He went out of his way to answer the question, even as an appeal and protection.

"If you saw your child about to be knocked down, would you just go and shout?" He recalled that in the 1990s, real estate advertisements hung on the streets of Tianjin, saying that in the future, people would not think that this was Tianjin, but Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. Feng Jicai said, "I was anxious as soon as I saw it." "For him, seeing culture destroyed is like his own child being knocked down and having to come to the rescue."

He has initiated the rescue project of China's folk cultural heritage, and during his tenure as the chairman of the National Expert Committee on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, he has led many cultural workers to carry out folk culture rescue, census and registration.

Feng Jicai did a dedicated and professional job in the protection of cultural heritage, and he also saw the power of speaking in it.

At the turn of the century, the "demolition" and "protection" of Tianjin's Yiyi Street was a hot event. Feng Jicai once recalled that on January 28, 2000, Guangming Daily published a front-page report that "Tianjin's 600-year-old street is about to be demolished, and experts and scholars call for the rescue of cultural heritage." Later, Feng Jicai went to Jiayi Street to see that the building was demolished and dilapidated, and when the street was in tears, he did not expect that this scene was captured by the reporter of Beijing Youth Daily, and then published a full-page report with the title of "Feng Jicai Crying Old Street". When talking about these pasts, Feng Ji was moved again: "This article has a great impact on the whole country, and I especially thank the reporter, which is the meaning of the media." ”

"I am tied to the protection of cultural heritage, and if I were to go back to my physical strength at the age of 60 now, I would still have to put down my novel and devote myself to the rescue of cultural heritage." Feng Jicai said that there are still many things to do in the field of cultural heritage protection. His current focus is to promote the establishment of relevant disciplines, cultivate more professional talents for the country, and deepen the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage.

Feng Jicai told reporters that he will continue to create, "when people reach the age of seventy or eighty, they feel all the joys and sorrows of the past, and finally they all become a poem."

Guangming Daily ( 2022-03-25 09 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily