Wang Zengqi's history is also very poor, because he doesn't study. The history teacher assigned homework on the general history of the West, and he drew a map of the Macedonian Empire.
Because of the teacher's recommendation, I have been reading "The Complete Novels of Wang Zengqi" recently, and I have not read Mr. Wang Zengqi's words before, and I feel that his words are different from many people's words after reading them.
His writing does not pursue a magnificent artistic conception, nor does he pursue cumbersome and heavy lyricism, but he cares about soothing and calm expression. He said, "Tarzan is too majestic, so I never write about Tarzan." "I don't care about profundity, neutralization is what I'm after. Therefore, what he writes about is the trivial daily life of all living beings, and the Yaxing where flowers bloom and fall.
He is good at learning the way of literary expression from the oral language of the people, not only deliberately absorbing nourishment from the oral language of the people, but also paying attention to all kinds of words on the street, and can feel the fragrance of the spoken language from various notices and confessions on the street.
Mr. Wang Zengqi's works are read separately, the sentences are bland and tasteless, and when read together, they are full of charm. He once embodied language as "flowing water". Roaming in his prose, he feels the gentle and delicate emotions like water, and this hot spring gradually flows into the reader's heart, with its warmth and quietness, so that the reader can taste this emotion with a touch of nostalgia, and a little Beijing nostalgia.
1. A childhood that does not lack love
Because I like the charm of his writing, I am also full of curiosity about his life. Mr. Wang Zengqi was born in 1921, his birthday is very special, born on the 15th Lantern Festival of the first lunar month. That day was already very festive, and the Wang family was even more happy. The Wang family is well-off and belongs to the old-style landlord family. In such a family, Wang Zengqi lived very comfortably, although he was born in troubled times, he lived very freely from childhood to youth.
Mr. Wang Zengqi's grandfather was an old-style literati doctor, but his father was a very interesting person with a compatibility of old and new ideas, and Mr. Wang Zengqi was greatly influenced by his father throughout his life. His father liked to draw and carve seals, so he learned from his father when he could draw later; his father also liked to play the pipa, like to play the huqin, and knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting; his father also liked to cook, all of which deeply influenced him, and the most important features of Mr. Wang Zengqi's articles were related to eating; Wang Zengqi's father liked boxing, horizontal bar gymnastics, and ancestral healing methods, and his father was really an all-round player.
Mr. has such a father who has a wide range of interests and is full of childlike fun, and they get along more often like brothers, they fight crickets and fly kites together, and they are really close father and son. When Wang Zengqi fell in love for the first time at the age of 17, he wanted to write a love letter to a girl but couldn't write it, so what should he do? His father gave him an idea, saying that it should be written like this here, and it is not appropriate to write it like this. In fact, his father had an arranged marriage and never wrote a love letter, but he seriously helped Wang Zengqi come up with ideas, which shows that he and his father have a very real relationship.
Wang Zengqi in his youth
After Mr. Wang Zengqi's essay "Salted Duck Eggs of the Dragon Boat Festival" was written, it made the salted duck eggs in his hometown Gaoyou famous. About salted duck eggs, there is such a scene, Xiao Wang Zengqi and his father took a chopstick to try the color of salted duck eggs, father and son hunched their waists, took chopsticks to poke the red oily egg yolk, and then took a sip on the mouth, it was very delicious to think about. After eating the salted duck eggs, the eggshells could not be idle, so they went to catch fireflies and put them in the duck eggshells, how beautiful they flashed and flashed.
Wang Zengqi lost his mother at a young age, his mother died of lung disease when he was three years old, and later his stepmother also died when he was a child, and then he had a second stepmother. This stepmother has been with him for a long time, he also has a lot of respect for her, and he has a deep affection for his stepmother.
Second, he is a scumbag
Mr. Wang Zengqi's family background is very good, so he has received a good education since he was a child, all the way to the small and medium schools, and finally admitted to a very famous university - Southwest Associated University.
When the Japanese invaded China, the National Peking University, the National Tsinghua University, and the private Nankai University established the National Changsha Provisional University in Changsha, and opened in Changsha. Due to the bombing of Changsha by Japanese planes, in mid-February 1938, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, Changsha Provisional University moved west to Kunming in three ways. In April 1938, it was renamed National Southwest Associated University. This university has a very important academic position in Chinese history, and also has a very important label significance, this university has produced many celebrities, such as Deng Jiaxian, Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao, Zhu Guangya, Chen Fangyun, Huang Kun, Tu Shouyi, Liu Dongsheng, Wang Xiji, Ye Duzheng, etc.
Although Wang Zengqi was admitted to the United Nations General Assembly, he was a proper scumbag.
This is not offensive to Mr. He's very bad at math, for example, when he does math geometry problems, he will omit all the proof steps and only write the conclusion.
His English is also very poor, he never takes notes in class, he stays up late the day before the exam to copy his classmates' notes, which leads to oversleeping the next day, and when he goes to the classroom, the exam is over, so he gets a zero score in English.
Wang Zengqi's history is also very poor, because he doesn't study. The history teacher assigned homework on the general history of the West, and he drew a map of the Macedonian Empire. I asked you to write an academic analysis with a point of view, you drew me a picture and handed in an assignment, and your painting had high artistic value and no academic value, so I gave him a score of 37. The score of Southwest Associated University is not the same as now, two semesters in one academic year, 37 points in this semester, if 83 points in the next semester, the total score is 120, and the average score is exactly 60 points, and the two grades are considered passing. The score in the first semester is not high, so the second semester must be turned over, so Wang Zengqi found two students from the history department to sit on the side, he copied the answer and scored 85 points, the average score was just right, and the history class was passed.
Wang Zengqi played with his father since he was a child, but he was frail and sickly, so sports were very bad. At that time, the physical education teacher of the United Nations University was called John Ma, and Mr. Ma didn't like him very much, and he never took physical education classes because he was not good at physical education, so he gave you a failing grade.
Because he failed both English and physical education, Wang Zengqi studied for five years in the fourth year of his bachelor's degree, and he specialized in English and physical education in the fifth year. When he graduated, the school assigned him to work as a translator for the U.S. military, which was an allied force at that time, and U.S. military planes flew to Chongqing to drop millions of tons of supplies, making great contributions to the anti-Japanese war at that time. Asked a person who failed English to work as a translator for the US military, Wang Zengqi disobeyed the assignment, and was expelled from the school without getting a college diploma.
Among all the subjects, Wang Zengqi stood out in Mandarin, and his articles were particularly well written. The reason why Southwest Associated University is famous is because in modern history, many literati who can be named are mostly in this school, such as Zha Liangzheng, Shen Congwen, Wen Yiduo, and many teachers are in this school. Wen Yiduo admired Wang Zengqi very much at that time and often gave him the highest score. Once, a classmate asked Wang Zengqi to write an essay on his behalf, and after writing it, Mr. Wen Yiduo said very happily: "The writing is so good! The writing is even better than Wang Zengqi." ”
Wang Zengqi ran away from any class, and he also ran away from Zhu Ziqing's class. Originally, Zhu Ziqing wanted him to stay in school as a teaching assistant, but he often didn't attend classes, so this opportunity was lost.
However, he never ran away from Shen Congwen's class, but he said that Mr. Shen Congwen's class was very bad, saying that Mr. Shen would not be able to lecture, a teacher who understands himself will be able to tell you is two different things, there are many people who learn by themselves and are rich and rich, but he can only write and not speak, some teachers have five points of things that can be said for eight points, and a master has twelve points of talent, but you can't speak, and your two points can't be given to students. Mr. Shen Congwen is such a teacher, he was complained by Zha Liangzheng, Zhu Ziqing, and many people at that time, Shen Congwen was very unwelcome to come to Southwest Associated University, but Wang Zengqi liked Mr. Shen Congwen very much.
Mr. Wang Zengqi did not know the taste of sorrow when he was a teenager, although he had the pain of losing his mother when he was a child, but there was a father's love at home, and his father kept looking for his stepmother, and his stepmother was very good to him, so Wang Zengqi's childhood, youth, and youth were carefree. When he was in college, why didn't he go to class, he went to Kunming City all day long to go to teahouses, restaurants, various consumption and entertainment places to play, to see new things, and lived day and night upside down every day.
3. Be happy even if you are in tribulation
In his life, he was proud at the beginning, and he couldn't find a job in Shanghai after graduation, but Mr. Shen Congwen introduced him to the job, and there were many nobles to help him, and his life was still very smooth.
Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Zengqi was in his thirties and was about to enter middle age, and he had no political ideas. At that time, the most famous writing schools were the Beijing School, the Shanghai School and the Left Union, and the representative of the Beijing School was Zhou Zuoren, although Zhou Zuoren had stains in history and had the name of a traitor, but Zhou Zuoren was very insightful in writing. He said that writing should be carried out according to human nature, advocating a return to the truth of human nature and human feelings, and showing the art of life by expressing emotions and depicting dreams. The Beijing School attached more importance to the beauty of literature itself, did not want to be more entangled with the times, and opposed writing for the purposes of politics, revolution, and commerce.
If the Beijing School belongs to a pure literary school, then the Left League is a school of writing that set out for the revolutionary struggle, and the representative figure is Mr. Lu Xun, the elder brother of Zhou Zuoren. The writing genre for business is the Shanghai style, with a strong commercial atmosphere, and more for the market economy, and we are like this now, writing from the reader's taste. Writing from the perspective of literature itself, or appreciating the principles and stance of the Beijing School. Shen Congwen later became the head of the Beijing faction, and Wang Zengqi became a young man with high hopes for the Beijing faction.
In that special period in 1958, there was a saying that 95 percent of the people in a unit were good and 5 percent were bad, which meant that every unit had to find out one or two rightists. At the meeting of the rightist faction, Wang Zengqi happened to go to the toilet, and in order to make up the quota, the unit designated him as a rightist. Wang Zengqi was sent to Zhangjiakou for labor reform. It was only when he was in the labor camp that he realized the feeling of the countryside and the many subtleties in the literature of his teacher, Mr. Shen Chengwen.
Whether a person can live or not depends on how he faces suffering, and Mr. Wang Zengqi is very optimistic even if he has experienced hardship. During the Cultural Revolution, he was assigned to the potato research station, he was very poor at mathematics, let alone physical chemistry, and a liberal arts student could not do research, so the unit leader gave him a task to draw potatoes.
He studied all the varieties of potatoes, and there was no photographic equipment at the time, so he would look at the various varieties of potatoes every day and draw them carefully. After the painting, a fire was made with cow dung, and the potatoes were thrown in and roasted. In that era of lack of food and clothing, Wang Zengqi was never hungry. He once said self-deprecatingly: "There is no second person in the country who has eaten so many potatoes like me." ”
He paints and eats every day at the Potato Research Institute, and he feels very happy. Even something as simple as throwing potatoes into cow dung and roasting them is very vivid when he writes about them. In 68, he was rehabilitated. A person who didn't want to touch politics, but he was involved in politics again, he was taken under Jiang Qing's command, became a model playwright, and participated in the creation of the model play of "Shajiabang".
In this play, there is a word that we are still familiar with - as soon as people leave, the tea will be cold. It is what people later said "people go tea and cool", this word is not an idiom, it is a word created by Mr. Wang Zengqi and later widely used by people.
4. Eating and drinking can also be art
The biggest feature of Mr. Wang Zengqi is that it is delicious. He said that a person's taste should be a little more mixed, sweet in the south and salty in the north, spicy in the east and sour in the west, and he has tasted all kinds of delicacies in the southeast, north, and west of our motherland. His hometown, Gaoyou, is famous for his article "Salted Duck Eggs of the Dragon Boat Festival". He wrote about many delicacies in the article, such as bean juice in Beijing, bacon in Hunan, Ma Lantou in Jiangnan, and hand-handled meat in Shuofang...... Read his article, don't be hungry at night, it's like "A Bite of China".
Wang Zengqi is not only delicious, but he is also very good at cooking. He once entertained a Taiwanese guest, and the dried tofu he made was so delicious that the guest not only ate the dried tofu, but also drank up the soup. When a guest came, mainly to visit him, he had to get something to eat. He didn't peel an apple. He made a honey radish, cut it up, added honey, tied it with a toothpick, tied it one by one, and took it out for the guests to eat. The food is pleasing to the eye, and the guests don't eat any of it, and they are happy just looking at it.
His daughter said, "If you peel an apple for someone, they're here to talk to you about business, what kind of honey radish do you make?" He thinks that when this thing is brought out, people will be very happy to look at it, so many people say that he is the last literati doctor in China. What are the characteristics of a literati doctor? Life is like poetry. But if I make you a honey turnip, it's like a poem, and one day someone else will tell it, and it's a story.
When he was still in the Southwest Associated University, he once fell out of love. After falling out of love, I didn't get up for two days and two nights, lost my soul, and was in extreme pain. His good friend Zhu Dexi told him, "Don't sleep! Get up and have breakfast." As soon as he heard that he was going to breakfast, he got up. The two of them had no money, so they brought a dictionary and sold it at the market for two dimes and six cents to eat rice noodles. A bowl of rice noodles costs three cents, and two people are exactly one bowl per person. After eating, I didn't have any worries, and I went back to school happily.
Wang Zengqi was hospitalized with cholecystitis in his old age, and his friends came to visit him, and he pretended to be serious: "I like smoking, drinking, and eating delicious food, and I want to quit all these and live for ten more years, but in order to live for ten more years, I will give up my fun, and I will not will." ”
When he was dying, he especially wanted to take a sip of tea, but the hospital did not allow the patient to drink tea, so he said to the doctor, "Doctor, give me a sip of tea." The doctor knew his time was running out, so he allowed it. He said to his daughter, "Bring me a cup of turquoise and translucent Longjing tea." You see, he didn't forget to say the adjectives "green and translucent" at this moment. The daughter hurried to brew it, and when she brought it over, it was already "cool away".
5. Interesting soul
Mr. Wang Zengqi's life, compared with those who have been camping all their lives and unscrupulous means, he is really cute. Let's go back to Wang Lao's literary works, his style is very simple, and this short essay of "Fruit Shop" is an excellent portrayal -
There are several fruit shops in Jiangyin, the largest one is the one facing Shoushan Park on the main street, there are many fruits, they are big, full and fresh. As soon as you enter the door, you will be greeted by a strong fruity aroma. The most prominent is the sweetness of bananas. This fragrance is not from time to time, strong and light, bursts and bursts, but from morning to night, it is so fragrant, a long-lasting, eternal fragrance. Fragrant and intoxicating.
I have been to many places and walked into many fruit shops, but they don't have the strong fruity aroma of this fruit shop. The scent of this fruit shop reminds me a lot, and I will never forget it.
Because I was in love that year, my first love.
This passage is compatible with two characteristics, one is eating. What a deep thought he has for fruits, and his emotions are carried on fruits. The other is Wang Lao's writing, which at first glance looks very plain, like clear soup noodles. In his own words, my article has no adjectives, nothing complicated. He has never written any long stories in his life, he is known for his prose, there is no painstaking design in the structure, and the writing is plain and simple, eloquent. Elegance and simplicity are the characteristics of Mr. Wang Zengqi's writing.
Wang Lao's life, in his early years, he was a fun-loving gentleman, and in the second half of his life, he was a very interesting little old man, he was a literary master with both talents and interests. He is talented and interesting, and only an interesting person can be truly talented, and an uninteresting person cannot do literature or art. I hope that we will also be interesting people who can make the people around us feel extremely happy because of your presence.
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Author: Zimu Youji, female, post-70s, property manager, part-time yoga teacher, dream seeker with junior high school education. What you can do in life is to maintain health, reading, writing, fitness, micro-shooting, and maintaining health every day. Find wings and silence for yourself at night, and body and language for yourself in the morning. Because of happiness, so not lonely, because of pain, so not afraid, because of innocence, so not kitsch, because of love, so do not give up.
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