In history, what is the story of Yu Qiuyu?

Mr. Yu Qiuyu is a contemporary Chinese writer, scholar, an important figure in the contemporary literary world, and a well-known contemporary Chinese cultural scholar and essayist.

Li Bai wrote the first homesick poem in China, but why didn't he go home when he was old, and later read all his poems, and he understood one thing, that is, his home is a home in a broad sense, a home in a philosophical sense, and a home in the sense of a poet, when he raised his head to look at the bright moon, he would think of his hometown, because his hometown was generalized, and then as long as he saw the moon, he regarded the moonlight shining on the earth as his hometown, as long as there was a poetic existence, There is a beautiful existence, he sees it as his hometown, so he wanders the rivers and lakes, travels all over the world, and finally, a Japanese scholar said in a book that the very important reason why Li Bai does not go home is that he always puts himself in a foreign land, which I feel very good, I have a home, but my life is often to experience this sense of foreign land, and experiencing the sense of foreign land is actually the continuous expansion of the spiritual home. And constantly questioning the spiritual home, the sense of foreignness about the spiritual home that I was already familiar with, and then my spirit expanded.

When Yu Qiuyu had doubts about his familiar spiritual home, he completely resigned from all his positions in the city and began his own cultural travels. This cultural traveler, walking on the land of China, but also walking on foreign and strange lands, walking and writing at the same time, his books caused a great sensation, and no other literati has received so much praise as him, and at the same time attracted a lot of controversy. I recently wrote a book called "Walkers Without Borders", which seems to give people the feeling that I am a person with no limit to his steps, and he must have a starting point, so this starting point, in fact, has been controlling this boundless footsteps, so the starting point is not only the starting point, it is a shelter in the strict sense, only when I return there, I will remember, our ancestors traveled again and again, and came back again and again, it is a tragic journey, for all the people of our Yu family who are out there, She has a very sacred meaning. In the village where Yu Qiuyu was born, the Yu family still retains an empty house, and when his works were famous at home and abroad, it became the former residence of readers who came to visit, but Yu Qiuyu still used to call it his old house. Such a rainy day will always bring back many memories, when 57 years ago in the autumn, in the continuous rain, a baby's cry, brought joy and hope to the family, the grandmother who presided over the family, gave the baby a romantic name: autumn rain. Her surname is Mao, since she married the Yu family, she is called Yu Mao, her original natural name has disappeared, it is a grandmother without a name, just know her surname Mao, this grandmother without a name, gave herself a name, her own Yu Qiuyu's name is taken out by her, so simple, because it is a boy born when it rains in autumn, one of the things she does, what she does with her eldest brother, is always knocking on the back of her old grandmother, she has suffered too much, I have taken on a lot of hard work. When talking about the Yu family, we have to thank two women who are not surnamed Yu, one is our own grandmother surnamed Mao, who we don't know what her name is today, and the other is her own mother, who was a beautiful girl in Shanghai and could be a beautiful woman in Shanghai, actually married into this house and became an extremely ordinary housewife, her surname is Zhu, that is, a woman surnamed Mao and a woman surnamed Zhu supported the family, and made this family a fortress of civilization in this village.

This is the earliest family portrait of the Yu family, and in this photo, we can also see the old grandmother imagining her story from afar, and Yu Qiuyu's mother appeared in her son's essay many later, and she was called a believer. The little child in the middle who was wearing dark clothes and pursing his mouth was Yu Qiuyu, who was six years old that year. For a long time, this village includes several surrounding villages, probably the most educated, or really literate is their own mother, from Shanghai, to flee their own mother, the rest are illiterate, so because of the mother's literacy, because of the mother, has a relatively high culture, this house has become a place for my mother to read letters, write letters, keep accounts, and see a doctor, she is not a doctor, that is, our family bought a lot of medicine from Shanghai, so they were smeared, okay, In this way, after his mother, after liberation, he served as a teacher of literacy, and the peasants in the whole village wanted to learn culture, so their mother would teach, which was very lively, and after their mother was pregnant with her eldest brother, it was not very convenient for her to do this, so she handed it over to herself to take over this class, at this time she should be a little more than seven years old, less than eight years old, so with the change of the situation at that time, this is the situation, and there are more exchanges with the outside, and many farmers go out to build roads, Or which factory to go to, etc., there are often a lot of people here, and I am reading letters to the villagers, and then I write letters for them, and I have been doing this since I was seven years old, so this is what I read and write by myself, strictly speaking, this is the first class, and later, I understand all the joys and sorrows of the people in the countryside.

The days under this roof are happy and simple, and many years later, Yu Qiuyu regards this place as the starting point of all his cultural behaviors, and all his behaviors have been controlled by this old house, which has given too many spiritual resources. I now think that I can't leave the land at all, I think that I must be a person who flatters the land, I have a sense of the soil, I grew up like this, and at the same time, while understanding the land, I am full of optimism and confidence, which is closely related to the deep impression left on me in my childhood. How long does it take to come here from the old house, about a quarter of an hour, my child walks a little slower, the child walks a little smaller, at most twenty minutes, half an hour, jumping and jumping over, I am very happy to see Shanglin Lake. As long as we are the water chestnut, the lotus season, we come to the lake, to what extent, that is, there are not so many boats, we will bring the foot basin at home, bath, foot washing foot basin to come, we sit on the foot basin, adults can take the boat, can swim the village uncles can go into the water, protect our big bathtub, he is afraid that it will turn over, he will push and protect, we pick ling, catch fish, this is our paradise. This is probably a very good explanation, sometimes there may be a very good state of assembly, quiet mountains and quiet water, it does not appear in the endless sea, there are no mountains, nor dense layers of mountains, there is no water aura, it is very well assembled, there is not only the aura of water, but also the sense of flow, and the solemnity of the mountain, the uprightness of the mountain, it has all of them, and the state of the assembly is particularly good. And no matter how far or far they go, they know that in the end their burial place must be on this mountain, because in their opinion, there is no better place to be.

When he was eleven years old, Yu Qiuyu was going to Shanghai to study, although he often came back in the days to come, but, in his memory, although there was no sense of ceremony, it was a farewell in the real sense. Very early morning, hazy eyes, especially want to sleep, for the farewell at all no feeling, because I especially want to sleep, early bus, the family sent themselves to the bus station, I went to Shanghai alone, I was thinking that my mission to Shanghai is to come back to tell my old classmates, how fun Shanghai is, the whole purpose of going to Shanghai is to tell them the fun things in Shanghai.

As you know, because of my later reputation in the cultural circles, there are many people who are constantly researching, what they are doing these days, and have all kinds of questions, and some people even write a lot of articles, estimating what you are doing, and estimating what to do, but none of them will guess that they are here, and they are hiding in the library arranged by the president of the Kuomintang, arranged in the library arranged by his son, and in the library that they have not used, watching these books spend a day and a day I spent every day here, week after week, month by month, so I gained great peace in that chaotic era, and the relationship between my hometown and myself, apart from what I felt in my old house, that is, in that place I knew my relationship with the land, I did not expect that my hometown gave me another relationship, that is, my relationship with the magnificent Chinese civilization.

I pursue the pure devotion of a culture, because whether it is my reading or my own writing, it is the purest kind of life immersion, and I can't give it up, so when I become a pure dean, I cut everything purely and purely, and it is very difficult to cut it off, but if you want to be pure for the purity of culture, although you have a hunch at that time, I would rather bear these insecurity, rather bear the rights, And no right to the public figure he will inevitably encounter the wind and rain, he also has to face the pure culture, this I think it is related to the cultural feeling I have been immersed in, in addition to the immersion in this room, of course, there is another immersion, these two immersions make me understand what culture is, I have seriously reflected on it after I arrived in Shanghai, that is, what are the defects in my enjoyment in Fenghua, I have seriously reflected, after reflection, I feel that this enjoyment must be good, but its flaws are, We are now suddenly facing a reform and opening up society, our contact in Fenghua is basically Chinese ancient books, you know, what I lack, a full understanding of world civilization, so I wrote a lot of academic works, after writing, I have been a university leading cadre for many years, and after all of them are done, I bid farewell to all this and start my own cultural travel, such a process, in fact, it happens to be the stage of life here, and later in Shanghai The study of the life stages of foreign classics constitutes a kind of logical connection between the front and back, and if I look back on it carefully, it has a very natural logic, and when this great logic is put into practice, I feel a kind of rational satisfaction.

Leaving this building is a completely different feeling from leaving his hometown, and many years later, Yu Qiuyu also called this place his home. Where is our hometown, it is always a question of philosophy of life, then if a higher discovery, that is, the concept of home, must be in the spiritual realm, just as the spiritual realm is always in front of one's eyes, but it is never possible to completely reach the other side, home is a kind of existence on the other side.