Yangtze River Daily, May 9, how to cherish yourself in the fast-paced, anxious urban life, how to find inner happiness and courage in the hustle and bustle? In her latest collection of essays, "Calmly Through the Hustle and Bustle", writer Chi Li responds to our current life and spiritual conditions around many key words in life, such as food, self-worth, happiness, time, marriage and so on.
On the afternoon of May 9th, Chi Li was a guest at the Deer Bookstore on the banks of Wuhan's East Lake, talking to veteran media personality Ai Xiaoyang and well-known TV hosts, and sharing with more than 200 readers on the spot how to discover the beauty of life with a normal heart and how to make happiness a kind of ability.
Chi Li's new book debut sharing meeting scene. Photo by Wan Jianhui, reporter of the Yangtze River Daily
The new book begins with a soup of vegetables, hot dry noodles, and rib root soup
"Calmly Through the Hustle" was recently published by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House, and the collected works are Chi Li's column articles published in Shanghai's Xinmin Evening News in recent years, which is the latest work launched by Chi Li after the novel "Big Trees and Small Worms". Among them, "Happiness is actually an ability" and "If you haven't eaten Caixue" and other essays have received 100,000 reads and forwards on the Internet, and more and more young readers have fallen in love with Chi Li and Wuhan.
Before the launch ceremony, Chi Li accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily. Chi Li said that writing novels is a manual work, prose is easier, and alternating novels and essays is her old habit. Regarding "Calmly Through the Hustle and Bustle", Chi Li said: "In this book, I want to convey to the reader a kind of attitude towards life: calm! No matter how tense the rhythm of the world is at the moment, I am at ease, just like the four seasons of the year, the same as the spring ploughing and autumn harvest in the four seasons, not in a hurry, what to do. Understand that life cannot withstand excessive tension. ”
Chi Li wrote about her cherishing and love for daily life in "Calmly Through the Hustle and Bustle", and the first three articles of the book wrote about Wuhan cuisine: "If you have not eaten vegetables", "Just fall in love with hot dry noodles", "Winter is coming, do you want to drink bowls of pork rib lotus soup". In the book, it is written that sweet and not greasy egg flower rice wine is served with hot and hot dry noodles, and in the winter, you must eat Hongshan cabbage, and then a bowl of rib lotus root soup that is warm to the bone. These piping hot words tell about the tenacity and ability of life to be happy, and explore the ability and methods to obtain happiness.
Chi Li told the Yangtze River Daily reporter that where to play in Wuhan, there are punch card Internet celebrity recommendations, what to eat, she is willing to recommend. For example, hot dry noodles, must be eaten too early, the best sesame paste, the best noodles, be wary of merchants using peanut butter instead of tahini. When a friend comes to the house, she will go to the supermarket to buy the best tahini and make her own hot dry noodles. Including the vegetables and pork rib soup, she made it herself, and her friends said it was delicious. Many Wuhan people still don't know how delicious these three things are, how to eat them, her experience is to eat with an aesthetic mood, to eat just right, these she wants to recommend to everyone.
Chi Li said that social development is too fast, among her peers, she feels that she is calm, even so she often feels anxious and stressed, such as dependence on mobile phones, such as online shopping, fortunately, she tries to resist, such as going out to come back tired, even if dozing off, but also cook noodles by herself, resist the temptation of takeaway.
Spend all your time with your child and resist educational anxiety
For young couples, the issue of childbearing and child education is also a central issue of anxiety, Chi Li said, she wrote a book "Growing up with her daughter", her experience is to accompany the whole body, to create a good learning environment for children. In the stage of conceiving a child, she did not eat soy sauce and peppers for 10 months, when the child was a child, she accompanied her to read every day, and when she left the child on a business trip, she did not exceed 7 days, giving the child an excellent learning space at home, cooking for the child, and not letting the family interfere with the child's learning.
Chi Li said that like many mothers, she not only hopes that her children will grow up healthy and happy, but also hopes that their children will achieve worldly success in the middle school entrance examination and college entrance examination. Before the middle school entrance examination, the child's math score was not good, and it was very heart-wrenching. At that time, a math teacher was willing to click, she rode a bicycle to the teacher's house, sat on the outside steps and waited, and then rode the car to take the child home. Her daughter did not go to peiyou class alone in the class, and was later admitted to a foreign school. In this way, I also told my daughter that she could grow up smoothly without being the same as everyone else.
As for the current popularity of primary and secondary school students to cultivate excellent tuition, the competition for further education is intensifying, and the children's burden is heavy, Chi Li believes that this momentum must have a day to wear their heads.
Chi Li said that for children with different characteristics, targeted education should be carried out, and the children's play time cannot be occupied by excess homework and tutoring, and children should not bear the weight of life at a young age. It was the beauty of her childhood that made her a writer, although there were also unsatisfactory points at that time.
Chi Li profile
Chi Li began to publish literary works in the early 1980s, and her novels "Troubled Life", "Don't Talk About Love", and "The Sun Is Born" ("Life Trilogy") are the works of the literary genre of "New Realistic Novel" in the new era of China.
Over the years, he has won the National Excellent Novella Award, the Lu Xun Literature Award and more than 80 literary awards. Many novels such as "Coming and Going", "Miss You Early", "Who Do You Think You Are", "Life Show", "Cloud Break" and many other novels have been adapted into movies, TV series, dramas, Peking Opera, Chu Opera and French dramas. His works have been translated into French, English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and other languages, and are continuously published overseas.
The main works can be found in "Chi Li Classic Anthology", and the prose collection "Boil until the Water Becomes a Pearl", "Come on Child", "Li", "Stone Book", "Growing Up with My Daughter", and the poetry collection "Chi Li Poetry Collection · 69". The recent novel "Big Trees and Little Worms" depicts the century-old fate of three generations and arouses the attention of all walks of life.
(Yangtze River Daily reporter Wan Jianhui)
【Editor: Zhang Ling】