Reading during the May Day holiday, with everything in the world.
Shi Tie sheng's words, flashing the light of life, give people the power to calm.
"Life is such a process, a process of constantly transcending our own limitations, in which we encounter pain, transcend limitations, and thus feel happiness."
In 17th-century Britain, an essayist named Thomas Brown wrote the immortal book Of Ong Buried and wrote the philosophical phrase "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun in our bodies."
In 20th-century China, this flame-like pure sun rose in the body of another Chinese writer and burned for 59 years with its powerful vitality until the last second of life.
To this day, we still mention this iron-as stubborn warrior of life so often, Stetson.
Shi Tiesheng is one of the most admired writers in contemporary China. His writing is perfectly isomorphic with his life, and in his own "night of writing" he utters the most sound and fullness of thoughts with his mutilated body. What he experiences is the suffering of life, but what he expresses is the clarity and joy of existence, and his wise words illuminate our increasingly dark hearts.
About the Temple of Earth
As many readers have said, the Temple of Earth is to Shi Tiesheng as the sorghum field is to Mo Yan. When shi tiesheng is mentioned, it is inevitable that he cannot avoid his temple of earth.
Years later, Shi Tiesheng recalled his encounter with the Temple of Earth, and still deeply believed that it was a fatalistic existence: "I often felt that there was a fatalistic taste in the middle: as if this ancient garden was waiting for me, and the vicissitudes had waited there for more than four hundred years. ”
In 1972, this young man, who was in his youth, stepped into the door of the hospital at the age of 21. When he was discharged from the hospital a year later, he was confined to a wheelchair.
But God still "arranged" a good place for this soulless young man to "take refuge."
One afternoon fifteen years ago, I entered the park in a wheelchair and prepared everything for a soulless man. "At that time, the sun was getting bigger and redder along the eternal path. In the calm light that fills the garden, it is easier for a person to see time and see his own figure. ”
- Shi Tie sheng, "Missing the Temple of Earth"
Since then, the burning and pure smell of grass and trees after the summer rainstorm in the ancient garden, as well as the slight bitter smell of falling leaves after the autumn frost, have often urged him to go to the garden to see.
So many years later he laughed and said, "I have been under every tree in the Temple of Earth, and almost every meter of its grass has had my wheel marks." ”
In this ancient garden, he repeatedly thought about "death" and constantly questioned "life.".
The young man who had hidden the wire under the bed was gradually disappearing, and he was beginning to understand: "Death is something that does not have to be rushed."
A man, born, is no longer a matter of debate, but merely a fact that God has given him; God, in handing over to us in fact, has assured its outcome, so that death is a matter that need not be rushed, death is a festival that is bound to come.
- Shi Tie sheng, "Missing the Temple of Earth"
Of course, the Temple of Earth also allowed him to meet some people. For example, the beautiful but intellectually handicapped little girl he had helped, the young man who "didn't sing well" but still sang loudly, a couple who walked in the garden from middle age to old age...
When Shi Tiesheng first entered the literary world, he was often afraid of being exhausted because of his disability in his legs and not being able to live closely, but when he collided with these different "lives" again and again, God had already planted the seeds of creation for this "unsatisfactory" young man.
He was destined to step into the land of literature, just as he said to the temple of earth: "Since I inadvertently entered this garden that afternoon, I have not left it for long. ”
About fate
Because of the Temple of Earth, Stetson broke into the path of literature; and because of literature, Stetson poured into the lives of countless readers.
But in fact, many people do not know that this young man who joined the team from Beijing to Qingping Bay was an envied child when he was young, and he was also nicknamed "Little Flying Man" in middle school because of the school's 80-meter hurdles champion.
At that time, he was proud and happy because of his excellent sports cells...
Until the age of 18, Shi Tiesheng, who responded to the national policy, went to the countryside to Qingping Bay in northern Shaanxi. The people here are simple and simple, and the villagers are distressed by the "heart family" from the city, so they unanimously agreed to arrange a light job for him to raise cattle.
Although the two years of hard cattle breeding gave Shi Tiesheng great comfort, the humid cattle breeding environment at that time also indirectly induced the onset of his leg disease, until a downpour during cattle grazing directly "poured" him into the hospital.
Since then, his illness has become more and more serious, and his legs have betrayed him.
Years later, when Stetson looked back at his years in Qingping Bay, what would he think? Is it a regret that the prophet did not go to feed the cattle? Or do you feel that life is really hard?
Later, Shi Tiesheng wrote this "My Distant Qingping Bay", recording this second dream that haunted him like the Temple of Earth.
In the distant land in the article, some of them are just the industrious figures of those kind and simple villagers who are busy farming all year round.
The "broken old man" who worked hard and did not complain, who longed for the beautiful situation of "eating white steamed bread with all his strength", never complained that he did not stay in the big city to live in western-style buildings--a farmer who would blame himself for the slaughter of the cattle he raised that saved people, and would also help others in poor days, a peasant with a simple appearance but a heart like gold.
The red calf in his life who had "high shoulders, long waists and strong legs, and could pull a big plow with a single set."
Together with the peasants on this land, it injected life into The "scarred" years of Stetson.
In "My Distant Qingping Bay", suffering gradually recedes, and the exploration of the life philosophy of "symbiosis of sorrow and joy, and interdependence of misfortune and happiness" comes to the stage of life.
This is a silent argument issued by a stubborn soul in the face of impermanent life under the action of time; it is also a natural expression of calm and forgiveness after experiencing the baptism of years. The soul is ironed, and life begins to become calm and calm.
About mothers
During Stetson's hospitalization, when his legs had just been diagnosed with disabilities, the "eccentric" nurse arranged for him to face the ward with windows facing the street, and the cheerful conversation of his former friends who often came to visit the ward, accompanied Stetson through the most comfortable time of his twenty-one years old.
When God laid the mystery of the fate of this once-dashing young man, he also created a problem for a mother.
After being discharged from the hospital, Shi Tiesheng also had a period of "ignorance".
At that time, he felt that all the misfortune was inflicted on him, and people began to become moody.
He often left home like a madman to go to the Temple of Earth, but he did not know how his mother watched his distant figure after he left home, not far from the ruins of the broken wall that he faced alone, and how she searched along his wheel in this vast garden.
Later, Shi Tiesheng finally opened a way in the literary world, but his mother died before his glory of winning awards.
He mentioned this ordinary and stoic mother more than once in articles such as "I and the Temple of Earth", "Autumn Nostalgia", "Acacia Tree" and other articles, and also began to wake up after her mother's death, struggling with this unavoidable suffering, and also began to understand her mother's words: "To live well..."
In the days after Rotary asked for directions, Stetson experienced a more fatal blow than the paralysis of his legs: he suffered from kidney disease and developed uremia, but he lived more and more clearly like a child.
In the dialysis gap of "busy with illness", he successively wrote "Sick Gap Broken Pen" and gave himself an interesting "Good Luck Design".
He re-examines the years of suffering that he thought he would never mention, and can also calmly ridicule himself in front of everyone that "the profession is sickness, and the side job is writing."
About the present
Now open the web page and search for the figure of this great man, what we see is The cheerful smile of Stetson, as if the traces left by the pain of the disease have not been troubled on this gentle and resolute face.
Under a smile, it is full of stretched love and sincerity.
In the past few years when the word "difficult" has been the head, in those days when the epidemic is roaring and the spirit is chaotic, we have always missed this great writer, loved his words full of infinite vitality, just as we loved this indomitable giant whose body can rise up the sun.
As a classic masterpiece of great influence in his life, "Missing the Temple of Earth", the book not only includes the author's inseparable prose titles such as "I and the Temple of Earth" and "Missing the Temple of Earth", but also includes short and medium stories such as "Grandma's Star" and "My Distant Qingping Bay", as well as excerpts from the rarely included novel "Retreat Notes".
"Listen to the thunder in the silence".
The famous passages included in "Missing the Temple of Earth" profoundly reflect the splendid life course of Shi Tiesheng's suffering and laughter. He wrote to himself, and in the air of the unpretentious scrolls was the profound introspection of the great soul that had repeatedly chewed on suffering after the lead had been washed away; his wise words illuminated our increasingly dark hearts.
Suddenly, he had turned into a ray of light and gone, in the day of "going with the flow".
He has left us with love, tenacity, wisdom and open-mindedness, and continues to illuminate countless people who are working this road in the world, bright and warm, just like his smile.