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Nobel Peace Prize,
is recognized worldwide as the highest award in the field of peace,
And so far,
The only one in China,
Women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,
It's her.
In this life, she was too tired and too painful,
But in the end, what she brought to China and even the world,
It is the warmest and greatest light of love,
She's 96 years old this year.
She deserves to be known and remembered Chinese!
She is: Nie Hualing.
In 1925, in Yichang, Hubei,
A baby girl was born in an officer's house,
The officer named the child Nie Hualing,
The birth of this child,
Both are the luck of this family,
It is also the misfortune of this "home".
Because in the year she was born,
The mother found herself "cheated on marriage",
The husband hid the fact that he was married!
The mother suddenly collapsed,
Just as she was about to commit suicide,
It was Nie Hualing who had been crying for more than 4 months,
Let the mother suddenly give up the idea of suicide.
Nie Hualing later said,
Mother is a poor man tormented by an unhappy marriage,
And the future of herself,
But why not.......
When he was 11 years old, his father died,
Nie Hualing's mother was alone with her four children,
Left the Nie family.
Orphans and widows, in those war-torn times,
Living a bleak life of displacement,
Nie Hualing's 3-year-old brother died of illness due to lack of money.....
One after another lost loved ones,
For the sake of a place to live,
Nie Hualing followed her delicate mother,
Exhausted in the cracks of the war.
They took a small boat from Yichang up the river,
Passing through large and small shoals,
Several times the boat was almost capsizing,
Finally arrived at Sandouping in a thrilling way.
Over here
Nie Hualing spent the most beautiful time,
Play by the river, sprinkle joy in the mountains,
Forget the sorrows, forget the chaotic world...
But Nie Hualing's mother felt worried,
Although my mother did not read a book,
But you can feel the knowledge,
The impact on a person's fate.
14-year-old Nie Hualing was sent to town by her mother.
It was the first time she had left home.
Embark on the path of study alone.
Nie Hualing cried and begged her mother not to send herself away.
Mother's fierce heart:
"You have to go, there is no future without reading,
Our family will not survive! ”
Nie Hualing wrote in her recollection:
"I was fourteen years old, right there.
My mother burst into tears and watched me take a small fire wheel to Padang.
The mother who kept waving was isolated on the riverbank,
In my tears, more and more blurred,
I've been wandering ever since..."
A time away from home,
She was destined to wander in this life.
A photograph of Nie Hualing's mother in 1926
In 1943, Nie Hualing was admitted to national central university.
The days of study are difficult and difficult,
The bun is as hard as a stone,
Dubbed "Nibbling Bomb";
Brown rice, weeds, gravel, sand,
Mixed with "Eight Treasure Rice",
They have all become human delicacies.
To fill your stomach,
She scraped the paste off the bottom of the pot,
Even, sometimes you have to grab food with your dog.
Nie Hualing contracted malaria,
Fortunately, she was lucky to survive.
And the pain of the broken mountains and rivers,
More than the suffering of hunger,
Seeing that the great rivers and mountains were ravaged by the Japanese,
Nie Hualing indignantly joined the torrent of anti-Japanese activities,
She took a boat down the river to comfort the wounded soldiers of the War of Resistance.
Sing for them, write family letters...
Maybe at that time, in her heart,
A silent seed of great love,
It has already been quietly planted.
Stormy days,
It finally ended in 1945.
Nie Hualing also has her own small home,
She married her college lover Wang Zhenglu,
However, she thought of the warmth of home,
But it is just another "hell on earth."
The Wang family is a big family,
There is an old mother on the top, children and grandchildren on the bottom, and three generations in the same house.
Nie Hualing is no longer free,
The role she plays from now on,
It is to serve the daughter-in-law of the family.
Get up in the morning,
The first thing is to go to the upper room to greet the old lady,
Pour the urinal for the old lady and wait for the old lady to get up;
Then take the washbasin to the kitchen and fill it with hot water,
Wash the old lady's face.
Such a day made Nie Hualing feel for the first time,
Myself as a new woman graduating from college,
In this guy,
It is the existence of such a "servant",
She felt that she,
"Like a lost foreigner."
In 1949, under the strong advocacy of Wang Zhenglu,
Nie Hualing, along with her husband,
Took his mother and brother to Taiwan Province,
On this lonely island,
The family nestled in a small house,
Sometimes there is a typhoon blowing,
The thin house will creak,
It's like it's going to crack at any moment.
The barrenness of life made Nie Hualing miserable,
The husband does not know when he became depressed,
The livelihood of a large family,
It all depended on Nie Hualing alone.
Introduced by a friend,
Nie Hualing in Free China Magazine,
Found an editing job.
"Free China" was founded by Hu Shi and edited by Lei Zhen,
Nie Hualing's literary skills,
Get a good ride here.
As the youngest and only woman among them,
Nie Hualing has been here for nearly 11 years.
Lin Haiyin's "Old Things in Seongnam",
Liang Shiqiu's prose and verses in the afterglow,
All were published by her hand.
Joy of work,
Can't hide the sadness of her life,
Nie Hualing's face always had a faint sadness,
To support the family,
During the day, she works as an editor at a magazine.
Go to a school in the evening to teach English.
She was still pregnant,
Laboriously pedaling bicycles up the hillside every day to commute to work.
But what about her husband?
Because I can't adapt to a poor life,
Personality has changed dramatically,
He was depressed, decadent, and disregarded....
Nie Hualing and Wang Zhenglu took a family portrait for the last time
Just when Nie Hualing was struggling to support this family,
The eldest brother who served in the Air Force,
Tragically killed in a plane crash;
My mother died of cancer again...
These bad news one after another,
It was almost about to destroy Nie Hualing.
And her husband was in her most vulnerable moment,
Leaving her and her two young children behind,
Went to the United States alone.
The pain of losing a loved one,
Marriage in name only,
Nie Hualing,
How many blows from fate can you withstand?
The roof leaks in the overnight rain,
One day in 1960,
Because of the criticism of the Taiwan authorities by "Free China",
Old Jiang was angry,
The main backbone of "Free China" was arrested,
The magazine was forced to cease publication.
Nie Hualing, who is an editorial board member,
It is under very close surveillance.
But in this case of the wind and the crane,
She is still stubborn:
You can catch me,
But you can't deprive me of the right to speak and write!
In just over two years that may have caught her in the next second,
Nie Hualing insisted on working hard and wrote:
"Emerald Cat", "Lost Golden Bell" and other novels,
With the pen as the sword,
Expressing her feelings is worrying about the country, loving and hating freedom.
She said,
"It was a skylight in my dark life."
Maybe this life is too bleak,
Fate finally,
Brought her a warm light.
In 1963,
At a writers' exchange party organized by a friend,
Nie Hualing met an American poet,
His name was Paul Ingres.
Although Nie Hualing at that time was carrying the heaviness of life,
But she herself was always in the best shape.
Her students once described her this way,
"Wearing a cheongsam and high heels,
Dressed up exquisitely and beautifully. ”
And the first time I saw such a Nie Hualing,
Paul listened to her talk about her turbulent past,
Listen to her talk about how she raised two children alone,
When it comes to creation,
Nie Hualing's eyes had a brilliant light...
Paul was astonished, such a woman,
She has experienced so many storms and pounds of life,
But it can still be so optimistic and strong.
He was already in love with her,
And naturally, on a date after date,
Nie Hualing also fell in love with this tall and warm man.
At Paul's sincere invitation,
Nie Hualing finally decided,
Leaving this sad place in Taiwan Province,
Come to Iowa, USA, and run into Paul's arms.
A friend who knows her well says:
"Nie Hualing is a very strong woman,
Only people like Paul Ingres,
In order to make her a bird and a person. ”
Soon, Nie Hualing and Paul held a wedding,
They live in a red building in Iowa.
In his spare time, he drove to the beach, paul swam,
Nie Hualing read a book on the side,
The years are quiet, the sun is warm,
Nie Hualing said:
"We were really happy then."
Nie Hualing and Paul's home, the Red Chamber
But Paul felt it keenly,
There is a place in the wife's heart,
Hidden heavy hearts.
He learned later,
That was Nie Hualing's constant sorrow about the motherland.
She has been wandering all her life,
Wandering on the river, wandering from elementary school,
Wandering from the mainland to Taiwan,
He wandered from Taiwan to the United States.
She wants to go back to the motherland but always can't go back,
Brought her endless pain,
It also brought her endless thoughts.
In order to make up for this deep love and affection,
Nie Hualing Chinese,
Write an immortal chapter:
"Emerald Cat", "A Little White Flower", "Taiwan Anecdotes",
The Lost Golden Bell
"Beyond a Thousand Mountains, Long Streams of Water", "Thirty Years Later"...
She insisted on using her native language,
Because this is her only connection with the motherland.
And after that,
Because of a whimsical thought on her part,
To China, to the world,
All brought about a groundbreaking change...
One day in 1967, Nie Hualing suddenly said to her husband,
"Why don't we start an international writing project?"
Invite writers from different countries,
Come here to write, different cultures and stereotypes,
Everyone's perspective is different,
More interesting things will definitely collide! ”
"Are you crazy?" Paul was at first very much against it,
Because behind such whimsy,
Need huge amounts of money to support,
As well as all kinds of trivial matters need to be implemented.
But Nie Hualing insisted,
He smiled and said, "Let's work together!" ”
thereupon
A world-renowned literary organization:
"International Writing Project",
It was born in 1967.
Nie Hualing will invite outstanding writers from all over the world every year.
Visit Iowa for several months to exchange,
We write, discuss, read, and travel together.
This is the history of world literature,
A scene that has never been seen before:
from different cultural backgrounds,
with the creators of the growing environment,
Sitting around a dining table,
Literature was discussed intensely,
There are often some incredible sparks that collide.
There are two writers, one is Egyptian,
One is the Israelites,
Because at that time the two countries were at war,
Two writers at the dinner table at first met and glared at each other,
Throw the wine glass directly at the other party, and the sword is rattled.
When we say goodbye after three months together,
These two writers actually cried with headaches...
Enemies become friends,
They think this is the reason for Nie Hualing and Paul,
Because of this couple,
Give people true love and care.
In 1979, China and the United States established diplomatic relations.
Nie Hualing just learned of this news,
Invite Chinese mainland writers right away,
Come and participate in this writing project.
In 1983, the famous mainland writer Ru Zhijuan,
Brought her daughter to Iowa by invitation;
Then Ding Ling also came, and Chi Zijian also came.
Chi Zijian said:
The earliest active writers of Chinese literature in the new era,
Opened the door to the world.
In a way,
Racial hostility and estrangement have been eliminated.
And then later,
Wang Zengqi, Bai Xianyong, Yu Hua, Mo Yan,
Ba Jin, Bai Yang, Wu Zuguang and other Chinese writers,
And the first two years,
The remnant snow of the popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature,
All came to Iowa.
On a whim, emotionally, it actually happened.
This is Wang Zengqi's evaluation of the "International Writing Project".
so far
There are already more than 150 countries and regions,
More than 1400 writers, poets,
He sat around Nie Hualing's table.
As hostess and organizer,
She is hospitable,
Every week, I take writers to expensive restaurants for parties.
Everyone said she was generous.
But she used her old computer for years,
Slow stuttering but always reluctant to replace.
Because she and her husband for this matter,
Almost ruined...
In 1976, more than 300 writers from all over the world,
Joint nomination of Nie Hualing and his wife,
Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She's the only one so far.
Chinese women writer nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,
She has been called "architect of the World Painting Organization",
"The First Man of the World Literary Organization",
"The Mother of world literary organizations".
In 1991,
This pair of sages in the world literary circle have been separated,
Paul was one step ahead of her to another world.
The children were worried that she was an old lady who could not take good care of herself,
I want to take her to live with her.
But she never said yes,
Because the roots of the International Writing Project are in Iowa,
How could she give up and leave?
For 30 years,
Nie Hualing supports the operation of the "International Writing Project",
She lived in that red house and never left,
Even the facilities of the house have not been changed.
In a room,
There's a wall covered with masks,
It's a metaphor for different people, different cultures,
People of race and background, they used to meet here,
Discuss literature, culture and life with each other,
Today
The masks were getting older, but she was still guarding them.
Because here,
Chinese writers are still in line with the international literary scene.
The only platform with the highest reputation.
12 years after Paul left,
She wrote a biography, Sansheng III:
I on the continent, fugitive;
I in Taiwan, suffering;
I was in america, dead.
This is a true portrayal of her life,
Later, it was filmed as "Three Lives Image",
Writer Yu Hua said,
After watching Nie Hualing's "Three Lives Image",
I can't read biographies for ten years.
Because of her fate bitter and complicated,
Represents the change and heaviness of an era.
Nie Hualing once gave an interview,
Looking back on her life, she smiled frankly at the camera:
No hatred, no regrets, no complaints,
The time is up and running away with the wind.
This year, Nie Hualing is 96 years old,
has retired from the International Writing Program,
But she's still working as a consultant for the organization.
We are still paying attention to the development of the world literary scene.
The famous writer Wang Zengqi once said,
Nie Hualing has been in the United States for more than twenty years,
But from the inside out, she was still a Chinese.
"I am a tree,
Roots in the mainland, stem in Taiwan, branches and leaves in Iowa. ”
Mainland China, Taiwan, Usa,
The experience of each of these three places,
It's like a lifetime of twists and turns.
Her "Three Lives iii",
Suffer too much,
But the final metamorphosis is also amazing enough.
Experienced escape and wandering,
But she danced in the abyss,
No amount of suffering can ever be extinguished,
The tenacity of her Chinese!
In the international literary world,
She opened the door to the world for Chinese writers,
Lighting a beacon for Chinese literature,
Illuminate the sky of world literature!
A flower that never fades,
Let us bless her 96-year-old together,
Peace and happiness!
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