He, from the salesman who sells soy sauce stinky tofu to the secretary, to the business leader, to the editor of the enterprise newspaper, every step of the transformation is related to reading, in his own words, reading recreates his life. He loved books, collected books, lectured, wrote books, and books were the whole of his life. The bibliophile introduced to you today is Mr. Feng Chuanyou, who was once known as one of the "Top Ten Reading Figures" in the country.
●When I was young, I became acquainted with books
Born in 1954 in rural Shandong Province, Feng Chuanyou's mother took him to his uncle's house where he worked in Dalian when he was a child. The uncle did not buy him toys, but bought a set of "Yue Fei Biography" villain books. At that time, the rural children, before going to school, could not read, could only look at the picture, the words under the picture did not know a single one, what the picture showed what it meant, and they could only guess blindly. This also attracted him to want to know the meaning of the words below the picture. Since then, the little Feng Chuanyou has had a very strong desire for literacy.
In the fifth grade, Feng Chuanyou used the herbs and tree seeds he collected in his spare time to sell fifty cents to the supply and marketing cooperative, met his friends, and ran to the Xinhua Bookstore in the county town to buy the first villain book he had always expected to have and was also his own - "Triumph Uprising". Soon after, Feng Chuanyou came into contact with his first novel in his life, "The Song of Ouyang Hai", these childhood reading memories made Feng Chuanyou cherish and unforgettable, and later, these experiences were recorded in his collection of reading essays "Warm Stone Zhai Reading Secretary".
When he was in the sixth grade of primary school, Feng Chuanyou came to Baotou, Inner Mongolia, the city where his father worked, and he did not expect that his father, who did not have much literacy, actually had a small box of books, which were all books that he had never seen in the countryside, including half of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Giving Everything to the Party" and "Old Communist Youth League Members" about the revolutionaries, "The Gunshots of the Secrecy Bureau" and "Various Cases", and "Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "Flower Lanterns" of The Good Han Qinqiong of Wagangzhai who had heard in the countryside, as well as the translated novel "Seagull". He plunged headlong into these books, and he couldn't get them, thus developing the habit of reading, and still today.
Feng Chuanyou, who had just arrived in the city, quickly broadened his horizons with reading, allowing him to quickly integrate into the city children. Feng Chuanyou, who loves to read, won the first place in a school-wide essay competition and was favored by mr. Cheng Quanzhong, the poet and teacher of the class teacher at the time. In that special era, in order to improve Feng Chuanyou's literary accomplishment, Mr. Cheng Quanzhong took the risk of lending his own collection of books to Feng Chuanyou to read.
In 1975, Feng Chuanyou, who had just joined the work force and had only two years of high school education, could only start as a salesman who sold soy sauce stinky tofu. After work, Feng Chuanyou is still unable to release the scroll.
On New Year's Day 1976, the People's Daily published mao Zedong's two poems, "Water Tune Song Head, Heavy on Jinggangshan" and "Nian Nu Jiao, Bird Question and Answer", And Feng Chuanyou took advantage of the time when he was not busy during the night shift to copy down and recite them, and then carefully studied the guide articles in the newspaper, and went home to use a few reference books and "Selected Poems of Tang" to check the allusions in the words. Five days later, the unit held a meeting to study Chairman Mao's two poems, and as a result, Feng Chuanyou, who finally came to power, was impressed by the more than three hundred people present as soon as he exited. The leader said that there are still such talents in our unit! As a result, Feng Chuanyou was not only rated as an advanced worker, turned positive a year later, but also served as the deputy director of the workshop, and then was seconded to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and three years later transferred to the company as a secretary.
From store salesman, company secretary, bureau secretary, vice president of commercial building, commercial building secretary, radio host, and later joined the enterprise newspaper as an editor. Such a changeable life experience did not prevent Feng Chuanyou from reading.
Therefore, whenever I recall the past, Feng Chuanyou will always sigh and say: Because reading makes my work and life colorful, reading makes life successful.
Feng Chuanyou searched for books at the Beijing Buyi Bookstore
● A question that affects a lifetime
Feng Chuanyou, who loves to read, also loves to buy books. Feng Chuanyou, who began to buy books independently from his middle school days, said: "In the early years, when buying books, mainly local Xinhua bookstores, first bought at the counter, and later developed into books to buy; later there was a business trip, every time I went to a place, after work, visiting the bookstore was the first; then various publishing houses set up mail order departments, and then increased the mail order channel; then there was a book stall, and there was another place to buy books; now it is mainly online shopping." ”
So far, Feng Chuanyou's family collection of about 12,000 books, there are several years of average annual purchase of about 300 books, book friends donate about 200 books, subscribe to 10 kinds of newspapers and periodicals every year, the average daily reading time is 2-3 hours, and the weekend holiday time is longer. Feng Chuanyou said that each book has a different history, each book has a different story, and what he cherishes most is Chinese and foreign classical masterpieces, history, books and reference books.
Literature and history books are the focus of Feng Chuanyou's collection. He said with a little pride: "Needless to say, the collection of literary classics is not to be said, and the single twenty-five histories (twenty-four histories plus Qing history manuscripts) have a set of Zhonghua Bookstore point school books, a set of "simplified punctuation books" of the China Literature and History Publishing House, a set of "Zizhi Tongjian", and a half set of Bai Yang's "Modern Language Edition of Zizhi Tongjian". In addition to literature and history, the major categories I have focused on buying are reference books, such as "Shuowen Jiezi", "Kangxi Dictionary", "Cihai", and "Ciyuan" each have several versions; "Modern Chinese Dictionary" has complete editions from one to seven; "Four Corners Number New Dictionary" has several versions since the early 1950s; "Hanyu Da Zidian" and "Hanyu Da Dictionary" not only have a full set, but also have a simplified edition and a pocket edition; there are also "Chinese Historical Dictionary", "Philosophical Dictionary", "Logic Dictionary", "Legal Dictionary", "Chinese Historical Place Names Dictionary", "Chinese Name Dictionary", "Chinese Historical Dictionary", "Chinese Historical Dictionary", "Chinese Historical Dictionary", "Dictionary of Chinese Historical Place Names", "Dictionary of Chinese Historical Names", "Dictionary of Chinese History", "Dictionary of Chinese Histor The Great Dictionary of Economy, the Concise Encyclopedia Britannica, and so on; various specialized dictionaries include the Lu Xun Dictionary, the Jin Ping Mei Dictionary, the Dream Dictionary of the Red Chamber, the Dictionary of The Book of Han, the Great Dictionary of Reading, and so on, and there are about hundreds of reference books of various kinds so far; another focus is on local literature and history and the history of frontier nationalities, such as the twenty-volume "General History of Inner Mongolia" and the twelve-volume "Suiyuan Tongzhi Manuscript", which has a bookcase; and another focus is on the book and dialect category, and there are more than three bookcases. ”
The experience of purchasing reference books made Feng Chuanyou unforgettable for a lifetime, and he has always encouraged him to read more books on the road of life.
After joining the work, Feng Chuanyou insisted on studying, and when he was studying at a working university, he once visited the bookstore with two classmates in Baotou, and on the reference bookshelf, he suddenly found that there was a "Glossary of Opera Words" written by Mr. Lu Zhan'an, and he asked the salesman to take it. Feng Chuanyou casually said to the classmates around him while flipping through the book: "The author of this dictionary is the grandfather of a classmate of mine in high school, and the old man also compiled a "Glossary of Novel Words", and my classmate once gave me one. Then he added, "It is remarkable that I have written two books like this in my lifetime with my personal knowledge!" ”
At this time, the young saleswoman who handed the book to Feng Chuanyou casually said, "How many books can you write in your lifetime?" How many books can you read in your lifetime? She smiled and said, not without a naughty look, but like an old friend who pushed her heart. Her voice is not high, her tone is not heavy, although it is not Xingbang's words, but it contains a thousand jun power! Yes, how many books can a person write in a lifetime? How many books can a person read in his lifetime? How many books can you really read? This seemingly simple question was raised by a girl who had never known each other, and she may have said something unintentional, but it hit Feng Chuanyou's heartstrings hard.
In 2018, feng Chuanyou, a book published by the Inner Mongolia Education Publishing House and created by Feng Chuanyou, printed this passage that had a deep influence on him on the back cover, "How many books can you write in your life?" How many books can you read in your lifetime? ”
Visit Mr. Chung ShuHe, Mr. Chung Shu He inscribed the name of the book for him - Warm Stone Zhai
●The study room named Onan ishisai
In 2009, Feng Chuanyou was invited to join a local bank, edit the newspaper Baoshang Times, and found the reading edition of Baoshang Shusheng.
Since 2005, Feng Chuanyou has participated in the 12th National Reading Seminar at his own expense, three sessions at public expense, broadened his horizons, made book friends, and contacted a wider range of authors.
Feng Chuanyou loves books, not only reads books himself, but also promotes reading, often invited to give reading speeches, which seems to be educating others, in fact, it is a real self-education, and the feelings he has received are indescribable.
Once, he was invited to a middle school in Baogang to talk about the science class of the college entrance examination in one month, and he and his classmates said: "You still have one month to take the college entrance examination, you can listen to me, you can also review your homework, after all, the college entrance examination is more important than listening to me." As a result, none of the students reviewed their homework, and they had planned to give a late self-study class, but after one class was finished, the students did not do it, and he had to continue to teach two full evening self-study classes. Afterwards, he said that he was so touched that night, the children were either not fond of reading, but lacked proper guidance; science students were not unloving of literature, but also lacked proper guidance.
After years of book collection, Feng Chuanyou named his study "Warm Stone Zhai". Mr. Ah Ying, the editor-in-chief and writer of Shandong's "New Thai Literature History", wrote in an article entitled "Visiting Nuan Shi Zhai": "It is a three-bedroom house, of which the study occupies two rooms and a living room, the two chaoyang rooms are occupied by books, there is also a book wall in the living room, and the one on the north side is used as a bedroom." Outside the study room hung a plaque inscribed by Mr. Zhang Dongsheng, former vice chairman of the Baotou Calligraphers Association, and in the middle of the two study rooms hung a picture of the word 'bookworm' written by Mr. Liu Wenqi, vice chairman of the Baotou Calligraphers Association. The bookcase of the warm stone is filled with two layers of books inside and outside, and the sofa and coffee table are also stacked with books. ”
Nuanshizhai has a collection of more than 10,000 books, mainly literary history, economy, local historical materials, miscellaneous histories, food culture, and reference books. Among them, three bookcases are bookcases for books and words, with more than 2,000 volumes.
There are about thirty signature books of Mr. Jiang Deming's works, more than thirty signature books of Mr. Han Shishan, and signed books of Wen Jieruo, Shen Changwen, Niu Han, Yuan Ying, Zhong Shuhe, Liushahe, Chen Zishan, Huang Bao, Tie Ning and other famous artists. "Warm Stone Zhai has become a place visited by many book lovers. Han Shishan, former editor-in-chief of Shanxi Literature, Li Chuanxin, writer of Shiyan, Dong Ningwen, editor-in-chief of Nanjing's "Open Volume", Han Sanzhou, writer of Beijing, Tan Zongyuan, editor-in-chief of "Fangcaodi", Gong Mingde, scholar of Chengdu, Huang Yuenian, scholar of Gansu, Ah Ying, editor-in-chief of Shandong's "History of New Thai Literature", Yu Xiaoming, editor-in-chief of Shandong "Diary Magazine", Zhang Yang, a bibliophile in Shenzhen, and Xiao Jinjian, editor-in-chief of the late Changsha "Bookman", have visited Nuanshizhai and other experts, scholars, bibliophiles and writers.
Looking at the room full of books, Feng Chuanyou humbly called himself a reader. He said that readers can buy some good versions to read and collect according to their own hobbies and combined with their own work. If you have really thought about the addiction of collecting books, you can choose one or several themes and buy relevant books as completely as possible around the theme.
In the heart of the bibliophile Feng Chuanyou, whose reading and collecting is an integral part of his life, he said: "Reading has changed my life. No matter what profession you are engaged in, you should read, the so-called living to old age, reading to old age, reading has long become a part of my life. (Readers' Daily all-media reporter Yin Hua)