In the January 1978 issue of the magazine People's Literature, a distinctive reportage, the Goldbach Conjecture, appeared. The protagonist of this reportage is the famous mathematician Mr. Chen Jingrun.
In the 1970s, literary works were generally celebrated by workers, peasants, and the People's Liberation Army. Intellectuals belong to the object of reform and education, they are "stinky old nine", and they should be among the "criticism and criticism of stink", so how can they be praised with great fanfare as the protagonist of a literary work? For the first time, "Goldbach Conjecture" enthusiastically praised a controversial scientist, making the three words "Chen Jingrun" spread throughout the land of Shenzhou and become almost a household name.
Chen Jingrun
The author of "Goldbach Conjecture" is Mr. Xu Chi, a reportage writer who came out of Jiangnan Town and Nanxun in Huzhou.
One
Xu Chi, formerly known as Xu Shangshou, was born on October 15, 1914 at No. 6, Demao Lane, Nanxun Town, Huzhou. Demaolong is an alley that juts out to the north behind the most central shop in Nanxun Town. Inside this alley, all the local rich people living in Nanxun are living. In fact, Xu Chi's family is a famous and prestigious family in Nanxun.
Xu Chi
The Xu Chi family has lived in Nanxun for generations and has flourished since the late Qing Dynasty. In 1852, Xu Chi's great-grandfather Xu Yanqi won the examination to lift a person - this was the first person in the Xu family, which was a great event at that time. Later, Xu Yanqi entered the official field and served as a cabinet secretary and a military machine Zhang Jing of the prime minister's affairs of various countries.
After Xu Yanqi, the Xu family has a wealth of talents, and has repeatedly won in the examination hall of the imperial examination, and there are many people, xiucai, itch students, tai students, and chinese students in the examination. To Xu Chi's father's generation, he still had a flourishing literary style. Xu Chi's father, Xu Yibing, studied at the Omori Sports School in Japan, and after returning to China, he founded the Chinese Gymnastics School with Xu Fulin, Wang Jilu and others, which was the first modern sports school in China.
The Nanxun people have a tradition of doing business, and the richest dozens of rich merchants are known as "four elephants, eight cattle and seventy-two golden dogs". The Xu family is no exception, with no shortage of entrepreneurs who have gone out of business. Xu Chi's cousin Xu Yitang, who earned a lot of money from the operation of Husi, was one of the "Seventy-Two Golden Dogs".
What is valuable is that the Xu family has always paid attention to chongwen and re-education, and poetry and books have been passed down from family to family. Xu Chi was born in Nanxun's famous and prestigious family, and received a good family education from an early age. Such a background must have a profound impact on Xu Chi's future embarkation on the road of literature.
Nanxun
Nanxun is a typical Jiangnan water town. The alleys and long streets here, the waterholes and the thin waves here, left a deep impression on Xu Chi. So that sixty or seventy years later, he also enthusiastically used 66 "crystal crystals" to praise the "hometown of crystal crystals" - Nanxun Ancient Town.
Two
Xu Chi grew up and embarked on the road of study. In 1927, at the age of 13, Xu Chi entered Nanxun Middle School. In the autumn of that year, Xu Chi came to Shanghai and entered the attached middle school of Shanghai Guanghua University. In 1931, at the age of 17, Xu Chi was admitted to Soochow University. In 1932, when Xu Chi went north to participate in the Anti-Japanese War, he borrowed from Yenching University. During his studies at Yenching University, Xu Chi embarked on the path of literary creation, publishing his prose debut "Before the Beginning" and some short poems in the "Yanda Monthly".
In the 1930s and 1940s, Xu Chi published a large number of novels, essays, and poems, and once served as executive editor of the quarterly magazine "Zhongyuan" edited by Guo Moruo. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xu Chi did not go to the Liberated Areas like other literary and artistic youths, but returned to his hometown of Nanxun and taught at Nanxun Middle School. In April 1949, the liberation of Nanxun was imminent. Xu Chi led the students to Huzhou to meet the People's Liberation Army.
He couldn't suppress his excitement: "What a beautiful morning! The roadside was full of wildflowers, and I walked along, picking them until I had a large bouquet of brilliant, colorful, and beautiful flowers in my hand. This is the first PLA I've ever met. ”
Three
After the founding of New China, Xu Chi went to Beijing to attend the first Wen Dynasty meeting and witnessed a historic scene.
Xu Chi's English was very good, and in his early years he had translated Shelley's poetry collection "Tomorrow", Romain Roland's "Tolstoy's Biography", Ehrenburg's "The Fall of Paris" and other literary works, so he was assigned to the International Press Bureau, responsible for editing the English journal "People's China". In 1950, when the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, Xu Chi went deep into the Korean battlefield twice and wrote battlefield communications such as "Eyewitness of Pyongyang's Bombing" and "Walking Through the Ravaged Land".
As a witness and participant, Xu Chi passionately ran on the construction site of New China and wrote a large number of communications and reportage works reflecting socialist construction. In January 1957, representing the highest level of Chinese poetry, the Poetry Journal was founded, with Zang Kejia as the editor-in-chief, and Xu Chi as the deputy editor-in-chief to preside over the editorial work. In 1961, Xu Chi responded to the call and moved his family to Wuhan, Hubei Province, to support the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
Of course, what really made Xu Chi a nationally famous writer was the "Goldbach Conjecture". In the 1970s and 1980s, Xu Chi published many reportages reflecting the work and life of intellectuals, making the names of scientists such as Chen Jingrun, Li Siguang, Cai Xitao, and Zhou Peiyuan resound throughout the country. However, Xu Chi did not forget his hometown of Nanxun. At the end of the 1980s, at the age of 75, Xu Chi began to write a long autobiographical novel "Jiangnan Town". In order to write this work, Xu Chi deliberately learned to use the computer, and slowly typed out the deep love for his hometown on the keyboard...
In March 1993, "Jiangnan Town" was published in writers publishing house. In June 1996, part of the chapters of the sequel to Gangnam Town were published in the large literary journal Gangnam. Six months later, Xu Chi committed suicide by jumping off a building at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan at the age of 82. "Jiangnan Town" became the last work of Xu Chi's life.
Today, although Xu is no longer in the world sooner or later, the "Jiangnan Town" he left behind is still circulating in the human world, and his hometown Nanxun, which he misses day and night, is still running day and night. Every year, many literature lovers and tourists come to Nanxun, take a walk and take a look at the Xu Chi Memorial Hall in nanxun Wenyuan, and have a soul dialogue with this old writer that transcends time and space.