It was a young man in his twenties, looking at the blank scroll, and he couldn't figure it out. This is a mathematical volume, but he was born in a traditional family of education, and these advanced mathematical symbols are completely invisible to the monk.
Helplessly, he could only hand over a white roll. The moment the paper was placed in the hands of the invigilator, he knew that his college career might never have a chance to start again! But he still wanted a last shot.
The next one is the Chinese language exam, the whole paper has only two questions, so candidates can choose one of the two to answer. With the accumulation from childhood and the irrepressible cry in his heart, he chose the more difficult one without thinking about it - to describe his feelings about life.
And his composition is only a short 28 words: life is always chasing the illusion, but whoever sees the illusion as the illusion, he will sink into the bottomless sea of suffering!
The three-line short poem entered Mr. Wen Yiduo's eyes and became the opening brick for him to open Qingdao National University.
A family of books, full of ambition
On October 8, 1905, the Zang Ke family was born in Zangjiazhuang, Zhucheng, Weifang, Shandong, a declining landlord family.
The county where the Zang Ke family was born belongs to the ancient Langya, spanning thousands of years, Qin Shi Huang also came here, and the stones here are carved with calligraphy and paintings, and until now the local area still preserves the famous Langya carved stones.
Zangjiazhuang is located on the eighteenth floor southwest of the city, perched on a remote hill.
Zangjiazhuang is also surrounded by two mountains, one is called Changshan Mountain, the other is Mal Mountain, Mr. Dongpo when he was in Mizhou, he liked to climb Changshan, and also left a poem here "Try to sweep the North Terrace to see Ma'er". A thousand years of cultural heritage has haunted this small village.
The whole Zang family village is filled with a strong literary atmosphere, and the Zang Ke family is one of the best. Zang Kejia's grandfather and great-grandfather both served the Qing court and achieved small and small meritorious names in the former Qing Dynasty.
In addition to the strong literary color of such a bookish family, it is naturally indispensable to bring a few hints of feudal tradition. This feudalism also allowed the father of the Zang Ke family to inherit, not to mention that the father of the Zang Ke family still graduated from the Law and Politics School.
Treat the rules more seriously. However, when Zang Kejia was eight years old, his mother died of illness, and his father also suffered from lung disease, coughing for many years, and later his condition gradually became more serious and began to cough up blood.
Therefore, although the Zang Ke family is a literati family, his family is declining day by day, and he is always in the predicament of poverty.
When he was young, the Zang Ke family has always played with the children of poor families, and it is also in this period of personal contact with the poor people that the Zang Ke family has understood the hardships of life since childhood. He is well aware of the difficulties of farmers, and he also has a deep understanding of poverty.
Until now, the Zang Ke family can still remember the nursery rhymes they sang with their country friends: the old partridge of the mountain, the tail is long, the daughter-in-law has forgotten the mother, the mother has been carried to the kangtou, the noodle soup has been eaten, after eating the noodle soup, he thinks of his mother, his mother has changed into a shell lang, touched the south wall and touched the north wall.
This wanton play lasted until Zang Kejia was eight or nine years old, and Zang Kejia began to go to private school.
Zang Ke's grandfather and father both loved poetry and were deeply baptized by Confucian culture, and the two old men were serious and unsmiling, and now they have a little taste of old pedantry.
For the little Zang Ke family, he always dared not go near his grandfather. But whenever my grandfather read the poem, all those seriousnesses left him, and his perennially unsmiling face was full of affection.
His grandfather taught Zang Kejia to read poems, and taught him word by word, not only with his mouth, but also with his hands. Although at this time, the Zang Ke family did not quite understand what these poems meant.
But his grandfather's love deeply affected him, and even if he didn't understand it, he could memorize it well. My grandfather not only read poetry well, but also wrote well.
Every year during the Spring Festival, my grandfather always wrote the couplet by hand. The couplets in the hall house change every year, and every year the grandfather writes the poems of his predecessors.
The young Zang Kejia stood aside to help his grandfather press the paper, watching his grandfather's pen walk the dragon and snake, and the large stroke of the pen was the most brilliant Chinese poetry.
Zang Kejia's treatment of literature was almost easy, and when he was twelve years old, Zang Ke's family went to the village's primary school. However, in two or three years, he could memorize more than sixty ancient texts, such as the long text "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion" and "Hanging Ancient Battlefield".
Zang Kejia could recite it completely when he was old, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Nearly seventy years apart, I can still recite it, I only chewed bones in those years, and now I finally understand the taste, and I have also benefited a lot." “
In addition to his literary attainments, the patriotic feelings of the Zang Ke family have also been there since childhood.
In the private school of Zang Ke's family, the teacher's most often lamented that the greater China, thousands of years of history, is now wasted by little Japan. The authorities blindly tolerated it, and all 40,000 descendants of Yan Huang became slaves of the country.
Although Zang Kejia was young, he also felt sad about it, and a strong patriotic flame slowly burned in his heart.
In 1919, the "May Fourth Movement" became well-known throughout the country and reached the ears of Zang Kejia, who was still studying. This year, Zang Kejia was only twelve years old and had just been admitted to the "First Higher Primary School" in the county.
Qiu Jiming, who was studying at Peking University, returned to his hometown to propagate new ideas, and Zang Kejia listened to these previous ideas, and "democracy" and "freedom" are words rarely mentioned in textbooks.
Zang Kejia followed Qiu Jiming around to publicize and led the students to hold up a small flag and sing aloud about freedom.
After studying in college for three years, Zang Kejia learned more about these new ideas from Beijing, and he also wanted to do something practical for China, and whenever he thought about it, he felt that his heart was full of pride, and he wanted to do what he was best at - writing poetry.
The poet's verses are the most touching and will last forever. It was also when he was in high school that Zang Kejia's father died of lung disease, and this year, his father was only 34 years old. Losing his mother at an early age, losing his father at a young age, Zang Ke's family suddenly became an orphan.
Three lines of short poems, appreciated by Smell One More
In 1923, due to the death of his father, the Zang Ke family postponed the graduation time of high school for a year and a half. After graduating from high school, Zang Ke's family came to shandong province to study at the First Normal School.
After experiencing the death of his father, Zang Kejia's thinking became more mature, he desperately wanted to dedicate himself, and Zang Kejia wanted to become an educator and use his pen to awaken the numb Chinese.
In the whole school, Zang Ke's Chinese language scores are among the best, and his compositions are highly acclaimed. With the encouragement of his teacher, Zang Kejia tried to write poetry in the vernacular.
Zang Kejia also submitted his poems to "Yu Si", which was a major domestic magazine at that time, and often only published the works of literati. But Zang Kejia impressed the editor-in-chief with his own articles and published the articles of this unknown young author.
This year, Zang Kejia was 20 years old, and this was also the first time he published his works in a major national journal. The Shandong First Normal School where Zang Ke's family studied has always been an advanced and active school.
Principal Wang Zhuchen often invites people with lofty ideals to come to the school to give speeches to broaden and enlighten the hearts of students. In this free and inclusive school, the trend of new culture is quickly sweeping through every corner.
It was also at this time that Zang Kejia read books extensively, holding ancient and modern Chinese and foreign masterpieces in his hands and studying them carefully. But soon, the harmony in the school was destroyed.
Beginning in 1926, the Feng warlord Zhang Zongchang acted recklessly in Shandong, and the whole of Shandong was shrouded in darkness. At that time, Zang Kejia often felt breathless, and he once fell into depression and could not lift his spirits.
It was also at this time that Zang Kejia read Guo Moruo's book "Revolution and Literature", which stated that "complete individual freedom cannot be pursued under the current system." ”
In a word, let the Zang Ke family Mao She suddenly open, he knew that it was not him who was wrong, but this decadent and repressive society. Zang Ke's family immediately went to Wuhan to find the revolutionary government in Wuhan.
At the beginning of 1927, Zang Kejia was admitted to the Wuhan Central Military and Political School and joined the army in attacking Yang Sen and Xia Douyin. Unfortunately, this revolutionary activity ended in failure. Afterwards, the Patriotic Party was counterattacked by the Kuomintang, and Zang Ke's family fled back to Shandong.
But these revolutionary years engraved in the bones of Zang Ke's family also brought him a lot of feelings, and Zang Ke's family took notes on this period of time.
In 1930, Qingdao National University ushered in the annual college entrance examination. At this time, the mainland education system has not yet been unified, and the college entrance examination is also independently issued by each school, and the candidates apply for their favorite schools and participate in the school's examinations.
At that time, the college entrance examination of Qingdao National University only had two subjects, one was mathematics and the other was Chinese. Since he was a child in a private school, Zang Ke's Chinese language is first-class, but his mathematics can be said to be ignorant.
Zang Kejia heard that Qingdao University was going to take the mathematics test, and he had no hope, but he still wanted to try it and prepare for the next year's re-examination. The math exam began in thirty minutes, and Zang Kejia handed in the papers.
He handed in a white scroll, there was no way, he really couldn't read a word. The invigilator also remembered the white-papered student. The next exam is Chinese language, which can come to the home of Zang Ke's family.
There is only one question in the whole Chinese examination paper, one is to ask the candidates why they applied for Qingdao National University? The second is to ask candidates to describe their feelings about life.
In the two questions, the candidates chose one question to answer, and Zang Kejia chose the second question without even thinking about it.
In this exam, he turned in his papers in advance, and his exam paper only had his own three lines of short poems: Life always chases the illusion, but whoever sees the illusion as the illusion, who sinks into the bottomless sea of suffering!
At the time, writing poetry was not a trendy thing to do. In the face of Zang Kejia's three-line short poem, some people regard it as a masterpiece, and some people do not comment.
The dean at the time, Mr. Wen Yiduo, was one of the admirers of the Zang Ke family, and he tried his best to defy the public opinion and gave the Zang Ke family a high score of 98 points on the Chinese language examination paper, which was the highest score among the candidates that year.
Subsequently, the candidate with zero score in mathematics was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages.
Some people are dead, but he is still alive
Receiving the acceptance letter of Qingdao National University was also something that Zang Kejia did not expect. After entering the school, Wen Yiduo personally found Zang Ke's family and wanted to meet this student who had written down the illusion.
The two met and hated each other late, and Mr. Wen Yiduo transferred Zang Ke's family to the Chinese Department and personally taught him.
Zang Kejia's biggest gain at Qingdao National University may be to know Wen Yiduo, it is said that Maxima is often there and Bole is not often there, Wen Yiduo once brought Zang Kejia a lot of poetry inspiration, and it was also under the recommendation of Wen Yiduo that Zang Kejia had the opportunity to enter the university for further study.
In 1934, Zang Kejia published a collection of poems, "The Black Hand of Evil", which completely overwhelmed the entire literary world and a new literary star rose. Not long after, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, and the Zang family actively threw themselves into the revolutionary cause.
In 1938, Zang Kejia joined the National Anti-Enemy Association of Literary and Art Circles, followed the troops, and went to the front line of Taierzhuang three times to interview, recording the most real life and the most urgent battle situation on the front line in the midst of artillery fire.
After returning, Zang Kejia wrote the information he had collected into a manuscript, and a long report made of blood, "The Blood Battle of the Northern Front of Jinpu", appeared in major newspapers. Subsequently, Zang Kejia went to the front line of Suizao to engage in cultural propaganda work to resist Japan and save the dead.
It was also at this time that the Zang family met their wife, Zheng Man, and the two married in August 1942, after which they raised four children. The eldest son Zang Leyuan, the second son Zang Le'an, the eldest daughter Zang Xiaoping and the second daughter Zheng Suyi.
In the past years of military service, Zang Kejia watched the young soldiers around him die on the battlefield, bleeding all over the ground, thinking that every inch of rivers and mountains was exchanged for their lives. The revolutionary army does not take the masses for a single point, and the masses love to wear this group of revolutionary fighters.
Zang Kejia felt inspired and wrote poems such as "Huai Shang Yin" and "From the Army". During the Liberation War, Zang Kejia repeatedly called for an armistice, putting peace first and not destroying the precious peace because of personal interests.
He also wrote poems satirizing those who preached battle. In Chongqing, Zang Kejia was invited by Chairman Mao to attend a literati forum, at which Zang Kejia emotionally recounted his desire for peace.
Subsequently, Zang Kejia went to Shanghai to edit monthly magazines such as Galaxy River, uniting a large number of progressive writers. When Zang Kejia said that he wanted revolution, he never meant just talking.
In December 1948, the white terror in Shanghai spread, and in desperation, Zang Ke's family changed to Hong Kong. In 1949, under the arrangement of the party organization, he came to Beiping. Later, he served as an editorial board member of Xinhua Monthly.
This year is also the eleventh anniversary of Lu Xun's death. In order to commemorate Lu Xun, Zang Kejia wrote the famous poem "Some People".
Although some people are dead, they will always live in people's hearts; some people are still alive, but they are only walking dead, and they do not know what to do and what not to do all day long.
Zang Kejia's poetry is always inseparable from the poor masses, he has seen too many difficulties and parting, so he tells his dissatisfaction with the dark society and the suppressed anger in his heart.
He wrote about the hard-working peasants, writing that they "have sorrows, sorrows, hopes, and new life, and I have given a vivid life, with my deep feelings." "He used poetry to convey suffering, and he also used poetry books to fulfill hopes.
In his pen, there are soldiers, fishermen, coachmen, maids, prostitutes, small characters constitute his entire poetry world, his limited ability can not change the status quo of these grief, can only use the pen to record all the pain, write the most real state of life of the lower class.
At 20:35 on February 5, 2004, Zang Kejia died of illness in Beijing at the age of 99. He was fortunate to be able to see the prosperity of new China throughout his life, and his toiling masses finally ushered in their own dawn.
On February 5, 2009, Zang Kejia's wife, Zheng Man, died in Beijing at the age of 90, and on June 21, 2017, Zang Leyuan, the eldest son of the Zang ke family, died of illness at the age of 88.
On December 21, 2021, Zheng Suyi, the second daughter of the Zang Ke family, was interviewed and told the reporter of China News Network about the experience of her father Zang Ke's family at the Whampoa Military Academy. ”
When the Reporter of China News Network asked about the recent situation of his brother Zang Le'an and his sister Zang Xiaoping, Zheng Suyi smiled and said: "Now my brothers and sisters, who are very old, are at ease in their own homes, they often talk on the phone with them, and they will go to visit their father's grave together every year." ”
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