"Young Lang" Su Shuyang died of illness

On August 18, 2017, In Beijing, Su Shuyang was interviewed by a reporter from the Beijing News. File photo/ Beijing News reporter Wang Jianning photo

At the age of 80, representative works such as "Dan Heart Spectrum" touched a generation; the farewell ceremony of Su Shuyang's body was held, and Xie Fei, Jiang Kun and others bid farewell

Name: Su Shuyang

Gender: Male

Age: 80 years old

Origin: Baoding, Hebei

Cause of death: Death

Date of death: July 16, 2019

Posthumous occupation: famous playwright, writer, writer, poet

Su Shuyang was gone.

For the younger generation, his name may not be so familiar. But the old Beijingers, who are fifty or sixty years old, are kind to Su Shuyang. In 1978, when his "Dan Xin Spectrum" was performed, it was not too much to say that there were thousands of empty alleys in Beijing.

He has many identities, "Dan Xin Spectrum" let him enter the drama world as a playwright; when "Xizhao Street" was released, Su Shuyang appeared in the film industry as a film literary writer; "Homeland" came out, and he became a novelist; later he wrote history, around the millennium, "China Reader" sold more than 10 million copies in two years.

His works include the life and social outlook of Beijingers, depicting human nature and the times, praising and criticizing. In the eyes of those who grew up watching Su Shuyang's works, Su Shuyang's writing is like the stone in the alley, every day when you pass by, you will be hammered, but when you pass by, you will miss the stone, go and walk again, and then grind it.

He always had the heart of a child, calling himself a "young man who has not been deeply involved in the world". In his eyes, whether it is writing or creating, it is "doing something as far as he can." In 2017, Su Shuyang said in an interview with the Beijing News reporter that writers should cure people's heart diseases.

Yesterday, the farewell ceremony of Mr. Su Shuyang's body was held in Babaoshan, and more than 400 people from the literary and art circles, film and television circles, and literary circles, including the famous director Xie Fei and the cross-talk artist Jiang Kun, sent him on his last journey.

In the early years, a room and a table were bare-chested for creation

Su Shuyang's son, Su Ting, is a witness to his father's creation. In the 1960s and 1970s, there was only one room in the family, and there was a table, and Su Shuyang was lying next to the table, writing word by word.

"He works during the day and writes bare-chested at night on a desk that is broken and creaky."

In such an environment, Su Shuyang wrote "Dan Xin Spectrum", "Xizhao Street", "Left Neighbor Right House" and other "blockbusters".

It is difficult for young people today to imagine the "redness" of Su Shuyang's works back then. Jiang Kun told reporters that Su Shuyang's 1978 drama "Dan Xin Spectrum" had an impact on the society at that time and on the entire literary circle, which people cannot imagine now. "My family lives next to Renyi, and every day I see people buying tickets in front of Renyi's door. My father came back after watching the show and said to us: Ren Yi is back! With his pen and his understanding of art, Mr. Su Shuyang has played a role in the inheritance of Chinese drama. ”

The famous director Xie Fei believes that Su Shuyang's works are to express life, express the artist's exploration of art, and meet the needs of the audience. "It's not like now the work is mainly entertainment."

"His work is linked to the fourth generation of directors, and we are all educated in the fifties and sixties, and we are more obsessed with the realistic method of creation." After the Cultural Revolution, we all inherited the tradition of realism, works either from the present, or from the past, there are praises and criticisms of society, and the works are more solid and weighty. Xie Fei told reporters.

In an interview before his death, Su Shuyang said that he lacked self-confidence in literature. There are only two principles that are a little bit emboldened: first, write about people, write about living people, and write about people; second, write about the life and soul of our nation.

He commented that his literary creation was to go barefoot, only to grind the soles of his feet thicker and work hard.

"Still a young man who is not deeply involved in the world"

Despite the fruitful works, Su Shuyang often calls himself "a young man who is not deeply involved in the world".

Su Shuyang's wife, Zuo Yuanping, also often said that he was "too naïve and too stupid."

In 2017, when the Beijing News reporter went to interview Su Shuyang, he took a photo for him, and in the photo, he put one hand on the table and the other on the chair, and his head was slightly raised, revealing a childlike innocent and cunning look.

He summed himself up — he hadn't betrayed his friends, he hadn't bullied anyone, he hadn't walked through the back door, he had done everything himself, he had meant it, and he was telling the truth.

He was often invited to participate in various activities, and the "Hundred Family Forum" repeatedly invited Su Shuyang to give a lecture, but he refused.

In an interview, he said that he had only done something and could not talk about anything that was very successful. "My heart is always trembling. "Hundred Pulpits" invited me to go I did not dare to go, I felt that my 'bench depth' was not enough. I can say a little bit about the written things, but what to take at the bottom of the back, I think I am far away. ”

If there are really some activities to come forward, Su Shuyang will "sneak out" with a few good friends when it is time to eat and enter the table.

Su Shuyang's friend of decades, Mi Nanyang, told reporters, "We are willing to eat with good friends and chat, talk about literature and couplets." ”

"Once at the dinner table, someone came out of the Shanglian 'YuanBai can dye Guan Shan Yue'. Yuan Bai is the word for Qi Gong, which refers to Li Ke Dye, and Guan Shanyue is also a master of calligraphy and painting. Mi Nanyang recalled, "Someone came out of the lower league 'Ai Qingfang cheng gobi boat', these three people are poets, painters, calligraphers, not a profession nor a level, this is not OK." Later, I took a 'snow stone illuminating Qinling Cloud', the snow stone is white snow stone, the light is Lu Guangzhao, they are all painters like Qinling Cloud. ”

Su Shuyang sat on the seat, and when he met the right one, he naturally exuded praise, "We applauded together", frank and true.

25 years of anti-cancer, see old friends laugh and answer "how great is still alive"

Su Shuyang also encountered difficult periods, which put his creations in difficulty.

"It was difficult to get into the creation at the beginning, and the environment was not good at the time, but after the first work was published, it has been on the rise." Su Ting said. "But in 1994, he couldn't create for a long time, which was very painful for him."

In 1994, Su Shuyang was diagnosed with kidney cancer. That year's Lantern Festival, on his way home from a party, he found that the things in front of him were hazy and swirling, and he couldn't even see the steps. After admission, the result given by the hospital was kidney cancer.

At first, he did not want to accept reality, sneaked out of the hospital, went to the park to drink, while drinking while enlightening himself, fifty-six is also walking, sixteen is also walking, twenty-six is also walking, what is the way to get here?

Slowly he figured it out, and in May 1994, his right kidney was removed. Postoperative recovery is a long tug-of-war, he constantly encourages himself, gradually relaxing his heart, "the heart is one inch wide, and the illness is a foot away."

After his illness, Su Shuyang wrote two other masterpieces, "Chinese Reader" and "Tibet Reader", combining his academic accumulation in the major of cpc history in the People's Congress and combining it with literary brushwork, and presenting it in the form of prose.

In 25 years, Su Shuyang has experienced 4 more cancers, and when he meets his old friend, he is "still alive".

"He first got cancer, I was by his side, his tenacious optimism, no one compares." Meet and say to me: You see how great it is, you are still alive. Hao Jinming, vice chairman of the Beijing Television Artists Association, recalled to reporters.

Mi Nanyang recalled many past events with Su Shuyang as if it were yesterday. "Last year, a few of our friends had dinner together, and everyone was alive and well, and no one was allowed to leave, but he just left."

"I'm too sick to write a play"

At the end of his life, Su Shuyang still wanted to create.

Su Ting's feelings about seeing this situation are very complicated. "A year ago he was so sick that he wanted to write a play. To be honest, as a family member, I don't want him to be like this, but as a peer, I admire him very much, and he is really a mountain. ”

Hao Jinming went to see Su Shuyang during the Spring Festival this year, and was pulled by Su Shuyang to chat for two hours. "He was already very weak, but he still pulled me to talk about creation and life."

In his later years, Su Shuyang's body could not keep up, but his brain never stopped.

When Hao Jinming was preparing "The Little Woman Under the Gate of Zhengyang", the two often exchanged creative ideas, and a chat was a night. "How to tell this story, how to embody this character, the two for this matter, from 6 o'clock to 10:30 o'clock, have been talking, not talking about it, he will not let go, do not scatter."

Mi Nanyang also often received a call from Su Shuyang on the big night, "We are all the kind of people who once the idea comes, no matter how late, we have to get out of bed to record this 'spark'." ”

When Hao Jinming was 50 years old, Su Shuyang, who was also a teacher and friend, gave him a poem, "The road has been crossed, the bridge has passed, the ditches and ridges have been crossed, the big rivers and rivers have also crossed, I did not expect that the small river forks were still flooded; the wind blew, the rain poured over, the frost and snow were all waded through, the grassland sand plains were also visited, the foreign peaks we climbed, who knew that the flat ground also fell..."

This is not a poem about a person, it is a poem written for a generation.

Beijing News reporter Wang Jun