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Li Tingting: "Post-90s" Unequal - Rong Ge is still faintly poetry

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Li Tingting: "Post-90s" Unequal - Rong Ge is still faintly poetry

(Mr. Wei Yang)

Mr. Wei Yang lay on the hospital bed, trying to listen to us. But he couldn't say anything anymore.

When I said goodbye, I got up and shook his hand, leaned over and shouted in my ear, "Teacher Weiyang..." His fingers were slightly cold, but I could feel that he was exerting a lot of strength and gently shook me back.

This is the last time I saw Weigong on the afternoon of July 20 this year.

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Last winter. afternoon. The sun came in through the window, and the warmth shone softly on a single sofa. Mr. Weiyang, 90 years old, is trapped in the sofa, recalling the delicate and dense past.

He said that his memory is not as good as before, and many things cannot be remembered. But the clearly shaped details of the story still fall on the shoulders. Like the heavy snow that drifted on the Yalu River 70 years ago. Speaking of heaviness, he sinks deeper and deeper into the couch and has to reposition to tell the next story.

Before the age of 17, his name was Zhang Kaiming. In March 1947, at the age of 17, Zhang Kaiming was admitted to the Taoyuan Normal School founded by Mr. Song Jiaoren, and during the Liberation War, he and his classmates founded the progressive journal "Hu? at? at? 》。 What kind of world is this? What kind of life will it be? Where should we go? Three question marks, ask the world.

At the same time, he gave himself a pen name, Wei Yang. "Not halfway through the meaning. He said he was still young and it was just getting started. ”

In 1949, Wei Yang and his brother embarked on the road to join the army. In September of the same year, the Korean War broke out, and they passed through Wuhan and came all the way to the northeast. When entering North Korea, heavy snow poured on his body, "Some comrades did not have time to change their coats, and their hands and feet were frozen." Some even a company died there, but still in a fighting posture, frozen there..."

He wrote this scene into the poem "Give Me the Gun":

Comrade Matsuichi let go, Let go of his hand, give me the gun...

The red flag was planted on the top of the mountain, and the position was already ours. Remembering the scene when you fought with the enemy, which one did not say: Lao Zhang, you are a hero!

……

Your teeth are clenched so tightly, your eyes are still open, can you not rest assured for your mother? I'm going to write to her old man, and please promise me to be her son.

Matsuichi let go of his hand, it's the comrades who are picking up your gun! Give me the gun, let me rush forward and complete your unfinished mission!

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Soon after entering Korea, his brother was killed in a bombing. I hid from my mother and wrote to him in the tone of my brother. At the same time, I myself was more nervous, in case I also sacrificed, wouldn't it be a bigger blow to my mother? But there is no way, in that case, everything can not be determined, can only be so put on the line of death..."

In June 1953, Korea ceased hostilities. Returned to the motherland from decades of gunfire and bullets. Crossing the Yalu River again, he and his teammates asked to get out of the car and walked across the dividing line with their feet. He wrote his mood at this moment into the poem that became popular later, "The Motherland, I Am Back":

The car crossed the Yalu River, as if flying like the motherland, I came back, the motherland, my mother-in-law!

After the poem was published in the People's Daily, Wei Yang's name became a sensation. His poems describing the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were read in colleges and universities, and Yang Jingying, a young girl who was studying at Harbin Institute of Technology at the time, established a letter contact with him.

The maiden's first gift was a selection of Lermontov's poems. Wei Yang, who was recuperating at the Jiaohe Army Hospital, wrote her name on the title page and dropped the "April Jiaohe". Soon, he was transferred to Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and before leaving, he sent her a letter: "I am leaving the northeast, and there is a girl." ”

Nearly 70 years later, his wife Yang Jingying can still clearly recite the love poem of Hikmet that Weiyang copied and sent to her: "I sit on the earth / Look at the earth / Look at the grass / Look at the midge / Look at the light blue flowers / You are like the earth in spring, dear / I look at you..."

Take a long-distance train, embark on the road to the south, and complete the marriage contract with Wei Yang. Recalling the past, she cried several times, "I just think this person is the best." As a person who wants to be together for the rest of his life, he is the most reliable. ”

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In 1956, Wei Yang transferred from the army to work for the Magazine of The Yangtze River literature and art in Wuhan, and then transferred to Changde Daily as a reporter. In 1960, he was transferred to the Hunan Writers Association as a professional writer.

During his tenure as the chairman of the Hunan Writers Association, he has been selected for 7 consecutive national outstanding short stories, and a total of 9 works in Hunan have won the honor. Zhou Libo, Ye Weilin, Han Shaogong, Cai Zhihai, Peng Jianming, He Liwei, liu jianping were on the list, becoming the only province in the country to win the "seven consecutive championships".

At the same time, Sun Jianzhong, Shui Yunxian, Tan Tan and other 4 people won the National Excellent Novella Award. At the end of 1982, the first Contradictory Literature Award was announced, and among the 6 award-winning works, Hunan occupied two seats, namely Mo Yingfeng's "General Yin" and Gu Hua's "Furong Town". Hunan writers gained the reputation of "Literary Xiangjun" and also opened the "Golden Age" of Hunan literature.

Mr. Wei Yang, who was loyal and fair in his dealings, played an important role in promoting the stability of the literary situation in Hunan at that time and the revitalization of the Hunan Literary Xiang Army, and has since been respected by everyone as "Wei Gong".

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Before meeting Mr. Weiyang last year, I added his WeChat. Mr. Weiyang, 90 years old, is called "Xiaowei" on WeChat. He said: "I am a post-90s Xiaowei. ”

I asked my wife, Yang Jingying, "Then what do you usually call Mr. Weiyang?"

"Oh, we are very feudal, before we were embarrassed to shout anything, once crossed the road, he passed first, a strong forward, I can't go over here, I am in a hurry, I 'feed and feed' across the road shouted for half a day ..."

"He is not in good health, but he does not want to tell people, including I do not say it easily, nor do I casually reveal it... He looks very complicated, but he is actually very simple. ”

"When he was young, everyone called him unfair. Now that he was old, he called himself Xiao Wei. ”

We asked him to read aloud one of his poems as a conclusion. He thought about it and chose "If I Live Again":

Suppose, if I were to live again, I would still like to have the bitter childhood scented wild vegetables make me understand the taste of hunger, the worn-out single pants make me understand the cold of March 9, my book, the earth and my school, the earth

【Epilogue】

The sun has sunburned the sofa slightly hot. The wife was watering the plants on the balcony. When he was not speaking, he looked at the flowers and grasses in front of him, occasionally owed himself, and pulled himself back from memory.

70 years ago, he crossed the frozen surface of the Yalu River and returned to his homeland. Those delicate and dense past events, through 70 years of time, like fine snow, covered the sky, falling on the old man's frosted white hair in front of him. Wei Yang, 90 years old, also crossed the battlefield and river of his life.

【Weiyang Introduction】

Wei Yang, born in 1930 in Linli, Hunan, was originally named Zhang Kaiming. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a first-class literary creation, and enjoys special allowances from the State Council.

In 1949, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1950, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as a literary and artistic writer and field correspondent. In 1957, he transferred to the Wuhan Writers Association as a professional writer. In 1960, he was transferred to the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature as a professional writer. In 1980, he became the vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature and the vice chairman of the Hunan Writers Association. In 1985, he became the chairman of the Hunan Writers Association. He retired in 1995.

His works include: "Motherland, I'm Back" (poetry collection), "Yang Xiuzhen" (long poem), "If I Live Again" (poetry collection), "Giant Bird" (novel collection) and so on. "If I Live Again" won the 1980 National Poetry Award for Young and Middle-Aged People.

[Editor-in-charge: Deng Zhengke]

[Source: New Hunan Client]

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