""Me and the Altar of Earth" cured my spiritual internal friction", "Every sentence just speaks to your heart"...... Recently, the topic "The whole network mouth for Shi Tiesheng" rushed to the hot search. In recent years, a large number of young people have re-read and discussed Shi Tiesheng.
The data shows that the number of views of Douyin's "Shi Tiesheng" related topics has exceeded 3 billion, and the number of readings on related topics on Weibo has reached 30 million+, and his "Me and the Temple of Earth" ranks among the top three on many non-fiction lists, and many sentences in "Broken Pen in the Gap" and "Retreat Notes" are frequently "out of the circle" on social platforms.
So, why do this generation of young people like Shi Tiesheng and love to read his articles?
Shi Tiesheng Source: "People's Literature Publishing House" WeChat public account
One
On the Internet, there is a high-score answer on "Why read Shi Tiesheng": "If you feel lucky in life, then you should read Shi Tiesheng." If you feel that life is full of misfortunes, then you must read Shi Tiesheng. ”
When you're lucky, take a look at Shi Tiesheng and settle down to experience the bittersweet journey of life. He claimed that "his profession is sick, and his spare time is writing" - he was paralyzed in a wheelchair at the age of 21, suffered from kidney disease at the age of 30, uremia at the age of 47, and lived on dialysis until the age of 59. When you're in misfortune, read his books and feel how optimism can be used as a shield to choke fate. Shi Tiesheng broke up life's suffering, enlightenment, and open-mindedness into novels, essays, and poems.
So, why can Shi Tiesheng's works withstand the long years and impress this generation of young people?
His life is full of tears and light. Before he was paralyzed, Shi Tiesheng was a "boy like the wind". Like many people as a child, he often played football and frolicked with the neighborhood children, and was especially good at the 80m hurdles. After being paralyzed, he also complained about the injustice of fate and the great change in temperament, and finally found an "outlet" in literature, and wrote hope in despair. Therefore, in his writings, the understanding of fate and death is profound and true.
His life experience is condensed into a series of works, from which we can read his heart. wrote about himself in "Me and the Altar of Earth": "He was stunned by fate, and he thought that he was the most unfortunate one in the world. Later, he realized: "Death is something that does not need to be rushed, and death is a festival that will inevitably come." Eventually, he found the answer. He wrote in "The Broken Pen in the Gap": "Life is meaningless, and it is 'I' who gives life meaning." ”
The family affection he writes is delicate and forbearing. Literature opened a window for Stetson, and his mother helped him open a door. Accompanying Shi Tiesheng in a wheelchair for 7 years, his mother encouraged him to go out with gentle and firm perseverance. Shi Tiesheng wrote in "The Acacia Tree" that his mother first "found some strange medicine for me to take", and then found out that he was writing a novel, saying, "Then write well." Finally, one day, when Shi Tiesheng promised his mother to go to Beihai to see the flowers together, she was so happy that she sat down and stood up for a while.
This time the agreement became a farewell, and on the day of seeing the flowers, "she went out and never came back." It turned out that Shi Tiesheng's mother had a very serious liver disease at this time, and she often couldn't sleep all night in pain, but she kept her son secret. This became the regret of Shi Tiesheng's life, and he realized his mother's love in "Me and the Altar of Earth": "For the first time in many years, I realized that not only are my ruts everywhere in this garden, but there are also my mother's footprints where there are my ruts. It made countless readers sigh.
The beings he writes are diverse, vivid and real. Sitting in a wheelchair, Shi Tiesheng is a keen observer and a deep thinker. He quietly watched the people around him, recording their stories delicately. In the pen of this disabled writer, the "pictures of all living beings" are vivid and vivid on the paper.
In "Me and the Altar of Earth", there is a mentally handicapped but beautiful little girl, her brother is always by her side, Shi Tiesheng sighed, "I almost screamed in my heart, or wailed." And in "My Distant Qingping Bay", he portrayed the old white man who loves to sing and has a voice like a broken gong, despite living in poverty, he is still helpful. These depictions allow young readers to see the diversity of the world.
The café at the entrance of the Temple of Earth in Beijing "Me and the Temple of Earth"
Two
There are endless famous Chinese modern and modern literary artists, why does Shi Tiesheng, who takes suffering as the theme of his creation, become a "mouthpiece for the whole network", so that young people want to "be friends" with him?
His outspoken attitude resonated with the sober perception of young people. Unlike many writers, Shi Tiesheng writes about the essence of life nakedly, without hiding it at all. He writes about human relationships, saying that "most of the interactions between people are superficial." He wrote about life, saying that "there are only two kinds of life in the world: one is a miserable life, and the other is called a very miserable life." He wrote about fate and said, "Don't talk about justice."
These seemingly "pessimistic" words are actually a mockery of fate, but they provide positive emotional value for young people who have long been tired of chicken soup for the soul. Many young people are in favor of hard work but refuse to blindly involute, approve of marriage and have children, but reject moral kidnapping, and know that they must pursue their dreams, but they also understand that life is not easy and inevitable and counterproductive. After the squeeze of study, work and life, they often think about the meaning and direction of life, and they happen to find resonance in Shi Tiesheng's words.
His tenacity not to bow to fate matched the aggressiveness of a young newborn calf. In the face of paralysis, he was in pain, but he never admitted. At first, many people looked at him with strange eyes, and he wrote: "Look at the gaze of others like a ghost fire, and boldly go on your night path." He once said, "I didn't die, it was all because of friendship." His friends Mo Yan and Yu Hua played football and let him guard the goal, Shi Tiesheng was very happy, he liked others to treat him as an able-bodied person.
Young people who promise that "my generation is not a Penghao person" are full of hard work for the future, but they will inevitably suffer all kinds of setbacks and fall into a period of confusion. Some netizens shared that they had suffered almost desperate setbacks, but found strength in Shi Tiesheng's words: "Don't be easily hurt by other people's words." You can't determine the length of life, but you can expand its width. ”
His optimistic attitude coincides with the ease of young people. Although he saw the essence of life clearly, he still chose to live optimistically and move forward bravely, which is the most touching part of Shi Tiesheng. In almost all of Stetson's photographs, we can see him smiling. He wrote: "Since suffering has pushed me to the edge of a cliff, let me sit down on the edge of this cliff, and look at the mist under the cliff, and sing a song to you." "Freedom and freedom are one of the characteristics of today's young people. The optimism that Shi Tiesheng cultivated in the midst of suffering is a great encouragement to young people. Some netizens said: "I read a kind of open-mindedness that transcends life after a catastrophe, it is Shi Tiesheng's experience, and I also want to fight." ”
More and more young people are reading Shi Tiesheng and have gone to the Temple of Earth to check in Source: Internet screenshot
Three
In recent years, literary masters such as Lu Xun, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Shi Tiesheng and other literary masters have "circled" young people. On the one hand, the suffering of life is an important theme of their creation, and young people who have experienced confusion, helplessness, and resentment find emotional resonance and soul resonance in their words; on the other hand, the writer himself has a very tense personality, real, interesting, and undignified, and has become the spiritual idol of many young people, and some people describe them as "a gust of wind that smooths the folds of life".
Young people refuse to be preached, they need to be sincere and accepting. Many writers and actors have become the "mouthpieces" of young people, because they can say what young people want to say but don't know how to express for a while. As Yu Hua once said, "Young people don't need us to criticize education." They are disgusted with "daddy" preaching, and they look forward to more like-minded friends.
Lu Xun, Shi Tiesheng and other famous artists have left us, but young people can still draw strength from their words. It can be seen that good works are not divided into old and new, and they are meaningless in the era, but in sincere emotions and profound thoughts. This is also a kind of inspiration and spur for the current creation, pay more attention to people's spiritual world and emotional needs, and only then can literary and artistic works open up new horizons.
When we read others, we are also reading ourselves. "Hometown", "Autumn Remembrance" and "Me and the Altar of Earth" in Chinese textbooks may not have caused too many ripples in our hearts when we were young. When we reunited with the classics one day when we grew up, we were hit by one of the sentences, a scene, and an emotion, and we realized that the Chinese textbooks of that year were "honest and not deceiving". Therefore, topics such as "I didn't really finish middle school until I was 25 years old" and "compulsory education has completed the closed loop at this moment" have aroused heated discussions.
Screenshot of the text of "Autumn Remembrance" Source: "CCTV News" WeChat public account
There is a saying on the Internet: "Education is long-term and lagging. "The articles we read when we were young and the fragments of memories we left behind need to be understood by our life experiences, until one day we suddenly realize that this may be the time when education is completed. As Stetson said, "The bullet that was inadvertently fired as a teenager hit me in my twenties ten years later." Therefore, good words can withstand the scrubbing of time and can extend their eternal vitality in continuous reading.
Shi Tiesheng walked on the edge of life, he said: "I have to live until I can count the past life, you can laugh with me, so death has nothing to do with you and me." "I hope that after we have gone through thousands of roads in life, we can still have this open-mindedness to look at life with a smile.
Source: WeChat public account "Zhejiang Propaganda"
Author: Zhijiang Xuan
Editor: Pan Xi
[Disclaimer: This number is the official public welfare account of "National Reading Promotion", and this article is reprinted for the purpose of conveying more information. If there is a source label error or other inaccuracies, please contact us. We will correct it in a timely manner. Thank you]