Wang Anyi, born in Nanjing in 1954, moved to Shanghai with his mother in 1955, went to Anhui in the 1960s to join the team, began to publish works in 1977, and is now a professor of the Department of Chinese of Fudan University, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, and chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association.
She is the author of novels such as "69th Junior High School Student", "Long Hate Song", "Peach Death", "Everywhere Tyrant", "Tianxiang", etc.; novellas "Xiao Baozhuang", "I Love Bill", "The Age of Hermitage", "Three Loves", "Moonlight Seduction", etc.; and she is also the author of many short story collections such as "Wang Anyi Short Story Chronicle" and "Shaved Degree", as well as non-fiction works such as "Monologue", "Looking for Shanghai", "Stories and Storytelling", "Spiritual World" and so on.
"Long Hate Song" won the 5th Mao Dun Literature Award.
More and more people understand that Wang Anyi is not only an excellent writer in China, but also an outstanding professor of literature.
Wang Anyi was born in March 1954 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
Wang Anyi was originally from Tong'an County, Fujian Province, his mother writer Ru Zhijuan, and his father, the playwright Wang Xiaoping, who was deeply influenced by his mother since childhood.
In 1955, he moved to Shanghai with his mother Ru Zhijuan and attended primary school in Shanghai. In 1972, he was admitted to the Xuzhou Cultural and Labor Troupe, played the cello in the band, and participated in some creative activities. In 1976, he published his prose debut "Forward" in Jiangsu Literature and Art. In 1980, he participated in the fifth literary seminar of the Chinese Writers Association.
Wang Anyi's mother, Ru Zhijuan.
Like the example of Ru Zhijuan and Wang Anyi's mother and daughter who are both important contemporary novelists, I can't think of two. This has been the case since I listened to contemporary literature classes in college, but at that time my mother, Ru Zhijuan, seemed to be the center of gravity, "Lily" was a must-talk in class, and I borrowed "Tall Poplar Tree" from the library to read. As a daughter, Wang Anyi was still a "rookie" at that time.
On the evening of October 14, 2019, in the library lecture hall of the Pingfeng Campus of Zhejiang University of Technology, Wang Anyi started from his mother's ancestral hometown of Shaoxing, and talked about the past when his great-grandfather started a business from Shaoxing to Hangzhou and built a large mansion in Pu'an Street, Hangzhou. When it comes to grandpa, Wang Anyi is described by the three words of "no controversy", the family business is "defeated" in the hands of grandpa, and the large mansion is moved into many people after 1949 and has become a large courtyard. My mother was born in Shanghai, because of the decline of the family business, I had to go to Shanghai to join my grandmother's sisters, in fact, my grandmother's ancestral home was in Nanxun, Zhejiang, surnamed Pang, and later went to Shanghai Tianxiangli.
Wang Anyi's mother died when she was three years old.
In Wang Anyi's view, her mother has always liked literature.
Wang Anyi's father was born in Nanyang Overseas Chinese, and his personality was probably extremely upright. At this time, it was also the period when his mother Ru Zhijuan's "Lily Flower" was published, fortunately, Mr. Mao Dun made a very high evaluation of "Lily" in the article, which seemed to turn the situation around, not only as an affirmation of the mother herself, but also as a salvation for the whole family.
Wang Anyi's mother, Ru Zhijuan, has a really charming personality!
I read a collection of commentaries on Wang Anyi's works (Wu Yunqian's "On Wang Anyi"), which said that Ru Zhijuan "was the kind of person who would also put a few wildflowers into the barrels of a soldier's gun during a period of intense war."
Ru Zhijuan's growth was not smooth. His mother died early, his father did not know the end, he was orphaned when he was young, wandering and wandering, living in an orphanage, living on the help of relatives, and living a life of relying on people's sniffles. It was not until he joined the New Fourth Army that he experienced the warmth of the collective. According to the "original family" theory that is prevalent today, Ru Zhijuan is probably not related to a good personality, right? Therefore, people's personality may also have the opportunity of "naturalization". Wang Anyi said that her mother has always maintained a beautiful spirit, and the oppression of life has not shrunk this spirit, but has filtered it more carefully and purely.
However, the drifting of the young also left a little "sequelae" for Ru Zhijuan, that is, she was particularly nostalgic for family life, liked to let her family gather around her, liked the hot atmosphere of the family, she was the center, all kinds of things had to be taken care of by her, very tired and annoying, but she was probably happy to do this, making up for the lack of loneliness when she was a child.
Wang Anyi and his mother have a deep affection, so they are also very fond of family.
I don't know wang an enough person, but just by virtue of the generous and accommodating world she wrote, I think she will probably be an accommodating person. If so, Wang Anyi's personality is very much related to her mother's care and influence.
Wang Anyi's father.
Wang Anyi was born into a literary family, and his mother Ru Zhijuan was also a famous writer, but the public knew little about her father, the playwright Wang Xiaoping, but his drama "Sentinel under neon Lights" was well known.
Wang Anyi said that when she was young, she did not dare to ask her father about his life, and later published an article recalling his father, which also attracted the concern of his father's old comrades-in-arms, saying that she did not understand her father too well, "Your father is an intellectual, and his status is very high." ”
Born in Singapore, Wang Xiaoping threw himself into the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement with literary and artistic creations in Nanyang in his early years, and in the year of the weak crown, he crossed the ocean to the battlefield filled with flames in China, and then traveled to the northern Jiangsu base area, the central Jiangsu Liberated Area, the central China Liberated Area, Shandong and other places, isolated from the news of his family who were far away from the ocean. After 1949, Wang Xiao squared re-contacted his family, but the old grandmother had died of sorrow and his parents had died of old age. Wang Xiaoping's desire to use the military salary raised to send money to his relatives to show filial piety could not be realized due to the reasons of the times. It was not until 50 years after leaving home in 1989 that Wang Xiaoping returned to Singapore, and his parents had long been buried underground.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a choreographer and leader in the Theater of the Political Department of the East China Military Region, the Nanjing Repertory Theatre of the Political Department of the General Political Department, the Repertory Theatre of the Political Department of the Nanjing Military Region, the Frontline Repertory Theatre of the Nanjing Military Region, the Jiangsu Film Studio, and the Jiangsu Provincial Repertory Theatre; in 1962, he was transferred to the Shanghai People's Art Theatre as a director until his retirement in 1982.
Mr. Wang Xiaoping is an excellent director and artist. As early as the period of the army's cultural and industrial troupe, more than ten major plays and more than ten small plays directed by him all produced strong repercussions and won the praise of the vast number of commanders and fighters. After entering Shanghai Renyi, a large number of plays directed by him, such as "Fierce Battle on the Seashore", "Sentinel under Neon Lights", "When The Ginger Blossoms Bloom", "Red Nose", and "Deep Love", have won the love of the vast number of audiences with their rigorous, qualitative and extremely emotional tension characteristics; at the same time, some of the treatises on stage art written in the early days have also had a great influence on the majority of theater workers, especially military theater workers.
Wang Xiaoping's family can be called a "literary and art family", but although his father is quite accomplished in literature, Wang Anyi frankly admits that his father did not interfere too much in his own path to literature: "When I first started writing, my mother often looked at my first draft and gave me advice or something. Later, when I wrote too much, my dad said to my mom, 'Don't you instruct others, let her write it herself!' In the cultural circle, Wang Anyi is notoriously good at word of mouth, which may be related to the good tutoring she has received since she was a child. Although his father advocated letting Wang Anyi follow his own literary path, he has always paid attention to his daughter's creation. Later, Wang Anyi's novel "Long Hate Song" was adapted into a drama, as the old choreographer of Shanghai Renyi, the old man was also very concerned, unfortunately, the old man could not see the drama that was about to be performed.
Media: Have you ever had any regrets?
Wang Anyi: It is my regret that I did not go to college. If I can go to college well, it will help me even more. When I entered Fudan University in 2004, I also chose two teachers' classes, one was Fu Jie's "Pipe Cone" and the other was Luo Yuming's "The World Speaks New Language", and every time I listened, I had to grab a seat, their classes were very popular, and the ground was full of people. For a semester of course, I basically did not fall behind. Because I know that I lack the cultivation of classical literature the most.
Wang Anyi and her husband Li Zhang.
Wang Anyi has expressed the importance of marriage more than once in his works: "A woman's marriage is the destination. Marriage is important enough to affect a woman's life. ”
Before finding this destination, Wang Anyi first went to Huaibei Su County to join the team, and later in order to return to the city, he spent many twists and turns and was admitted to the Xuzhou Literary and Labor Troupe. At one point, she felt that life was full of turmoil. However, entering the literary troupe became a very important experience in her life, because it was there that Wang Anyi met Li Zhang. "At that time, there were many singles in the literary troupe, and everyone was in a hurry to fall in love." Wang Anyi was a cellist in the literary troupe at that time, and in the literary troupe, I heard that she was single, and the suitors came hula, including Li Zhang. Li Zhang is talented, simple but humorous, so he naturally impressed Wang Anyi.
In 1981, 27-year-old Wang Anyi and Li Zhang received a marriage license. At that time, Wang Anyi had been transferred back to Shanghai for three years, but Li Zhang remained in the cultural troupe. Originally, the two people planned to get married after returning to Shanghai, but Li Zhang was unable to "return to the city" for a long time, so the two people simply married first. After five years of Li Zhang's transfer back to Shanghai, the two people can be regarded as officially ending the husband and wife life of the two places. After Li Zhang returned to Shanghai, the marriage status of the two people not only returned to normal, but Wang Anyi also gradually developed a regular writing state. Because Li Zhang worked in the publishing house, sat in eight-hour shifts, and lived a particularly regular life, under his influence, Wang Anyi began to write in the morning, read in the afternoon, and accompanied his family at night.
From holding hands to now, the two people have gone through more than thirty years of ups and downs. In fact, before meeting Li Zhang, Wang Anyi once went to fortune telling, and the fortune teller solemnly told her that she should marry a horse, but she married Li Zhang, who was "not a donkey and not a horse", and she still lived happily. Other people's families are husbands singing women," but Li Zhang joked that their family is "women singing with husbands." At home, Li Zhang took care of housework such as grocery shopping, laundry, and dishwashing, making time for Wang Anyi to write; When traveling abroad or attending seminars, Li Zhang often accompanies Wang Anyi, bringing her luggage and taking pictures for her.
Although all that is covered is trivial, but Li Zhang in Wang Anyi's eyes, but never the image of "little man", encounter some small things, she will ask his opinion, ask him to "approve", take the matter of learning to go online, Wang Anyi once felt that it was to catch ducks on the shelves, after asking Li Zhang, she said to her friends with great interest: "Our family Li Zhang approved, you don't have to learn to go online!" She also does not think that there is anything wrong with men carrying baskets to buy vegetables, "If the man's responsibility is only to play a majestic man and let the woman who bears the weight appreciate and love, then the man is officially depraved." ”
For more than thirty years, two people have found their own place in marriage, in the eyes of friends, one of them is a good wife, the other is a model husband, and the relaxed and comfortable state of marriage also makes the two people more comfortable in the development of their respective careers. Wang Anyi is well-known online, but her husband, Li Zhang, does not even have a photo.
Wang Anyi's husband, Li Zhang, was the conductor of a certain orchestra in Xuzhou when he was married, and later transferred to the Shanghai Music Publishing House as an editor, and edited and published the literary biography "Loneliness and Transcendence - The Biography of the Piano Monster Jeggold".
Wang Anyi was easy-going and messy.
In people's daily impression, Wang Anyi is not particular about clothing, her theory is: every day at home, there is no need to buy too much "work clothes", no matter how expensive clothes, may not be able to wear once a year. But she has a "dress", a silk cheongsam, a faint sea blue color, and at the grand celebration party of the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong Writers Association in China, she did add color to the delegation of Chinese writers.
That day she specially wore a "banana collar", blue printed cloth "short kan", "ethnic" and fashionable, where someone pulled her to take pictures, she was particularly cooperative, as soon as the camera aimed at her, she had a bright smile on her face, stood there with her head held high, and the tall and straight figure also carried a little model's "style".
Wang Anyi never took the initiative to talk to people, and he seemed quite arrogant.
As long as you have the opportunity to get close to her, you will feel that she is particularly easy-going, no matter what you eat and live, no matter what you talk, take pictures, no matter what the occasion, she is not screwed at all, easy-going is a mess.
Some scholars or literary critics classified her as a "continuation" of Zhang Ailing, placing her in the tradition of "Haipai literature" to comment.
But I finally thought like this: to evaluate Wang Anyi's literary creation, it is best not to classify her as a "pile", and it is best not to use the word "responsibility", and the four words "life, life" should be used as the most appropriate.
Wang Anyi's family can definitely be called the "house of literature".
Her mother, Ru Zhijuan, plays an indispensable and important role in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, her father was a famous director and playwright who directed the dramas "White Haired Girl" and "Cuckoo Mountain"; her sister Wang Annuo was the editor of a literary magazine; her younger brother Wang Anmast was engaged in literary and artistic research; and her husband Li Zhang was the editor of the Shanghai Music Publishing House.
However, the most creative in this literary house is Wang Anyi.
His father, Wang Xiaoping, once had a sequence: "Over the years, An Yi is the champion of our family's creation, Ru Zhijuan is the runner-up, and I can only be regarded as a palace army." ”
After writing so much, Shanghai seems to be a city that Wang Anyi can't get around, and the "Long Hate Song" that brought her fame is even more meticulous in Shanghai. But for Wang Anyi, choosing Shanghai seems to be a "no other choice" choice. "Except for the middle team and the cultural and labor corps, I grew up here since I was a child, but if I can choose again now, I may not choose Shanghai." In her eyes, Shanghai is not actually the best stage for an artist. "The history of this city is too short to mature her culture and language; the Chinese written language is a northern language, and The Shanghai dialect is not ranked at all; there are too many materials in the city, and it is too far away from nature." These are all innate shortcomings for a writer. ”
But she was used to living in Shanghai and was reluctant to go anywhere else.
Wang Anyi: Zhang Ailing looks at the world coldly, and I look at the world with hot eyes.
Wang Anyi: Many people have misread and said that I am a descendant of Zhang Ailing, but in fact, our world view is not the same. Zhang Ailing's explanation of life is too simple, in a word, life always has to go downhill. I'm not like that, I'm more optimistic than she is, I don't want to push things to that extreme, I wish I could be a little more comfortable. In a word, Zhang Ailing is looking at the world coldly, and I am looking at the world with hot eyes.