The Paper's reporter Fan Jialai
Mr. Xu Yuanchong, a famous translator and professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University, passed away at his home in Beijing on the morning of June 17 at the age of 100.
"The Japanese were going to fight in Nanjing, and the school was ordered to be dissolved..." In the recently released documentary film "Post-90s", there are many precious memories of Xu Yuanchong. When he talked about his college studies, he once had tears in his eyes and choked up for a long time.
At the time of filming, Xu Yuanchong was translating Wilde
Xu Bei, the director of "Post-90s", once recorded his impression of shooting Mr. Xu Yuanchong. "After two years, I saw Mr. Xu Yuanchong again. As soon as I entered his house that morning, I saw him eating a piece of cream cake around a bib. He was much older, but at the same time like a baby. His wife passed away and his life changed drastically, but what remained unchanged was his preoccupation with translation, which Shakespeare had finished translating and now began to translate Wilde's work. Xu Bei wrote. His voice was still so loud that he would laugh shyly and triumphantly when he talked about the four Girls he had fallen in love with. ”
"Post-90s" records Xu Yuanchong's years of studying at Southwest United University, in addition to him, there are more than ten students including Yang Zhenning, Ma Zhitu, Yang Wei, Wang Xiji, Pan Jiluan, etc., who recall some of their feelings in the past when they were in school, and the trajectory of their lives changed after many years. These Southwest United University students are now 96 years old. This is the source of the title "Post-90s".
The film records that in 1951, the 30-year-old Xu Yuanchong returned from studying in France and hoped to publish a book while becoming a teacher, but encountered the winter of translation, until the next thirty years, his translations were filled with boxes, and the replies received were always "not published"; later, he won the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Translation Culture". Under the lens, he still struck the keyboard one by one: "The difficulty lies in self-awareness, it is expensive to persist, and it is not easy to persist for nearly a hundred years." ”
In his "Xu Yuanchong: Forever Southwest United University", he once carefully recalled the experience of Wen Yiduo, Feng Youlan, Qian Zhongshu and others teaching him, and his mental journey of studying at Southwest United University. "I remember that on May 25, 1939, Mr. Wen Yiduo gave a lecture on the "Book of Poetry and Tsai Wei", and he said: 'In the past, I used to be in the past, and The willows were yiyi; now I come to think, rain and snow.'" It is a famous sentence throughout the ages, which writes out the people's wartime pain and reaches the realm of scene blending. When he spoke, he also twisted the beard left at the beginning of the War of Resistance, exuding infinite emotion. ”
Eat cake. The Paper's reporter Wang Yi photographed
He also wrote about his impression of Qian Zhongshu: "A lesson Mr. Qian gave on April 3, 1939 was "A Pair of Woodpeckers", and he used a dramatic and anthropomorphic method to tell this bland story with sound and color, turn science into art, and make prose poetic, which has shown his talent for writing "Siege of the City" later. ”
Hearing the news of Xu Yuanchong's death, Xu Bei first expressed her condolences in the circle of friends. Suddenly, Mr. Xu Yuanchong left. In my heart, he is the one who can live forever. It turned out that he would also be gone. ”
"Another candle went out, and my heart was empty." Xu Bei said.
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