There have been many times, friends have asked me at the dinner table, probably meaning that lao wa your unit is of course a cultural unit, then you say which cultural person in your unit is the most famous?
But whenever I was not drunk, I would skim the skilled Zheng Pu and recite a small paragraph of poetry aloud to all of your slightly small friends with affection:
Among the countless blue eyes and brown eyes,
I have a pair of jewel-like black eyes,
I'm proud, I'm Chinese!
Among the countless white skin and black skin,
I have earthy yellow skin,
I'm proud, I'm Chinese...
Friends who know will suddenly realize, ah! Wang Huairang turned out to be from your unit. And those who are not interested in poetry will also say, oh oh oh, I have heard this poem, I have heard it.
Lao Wa's unit once had a group of celebrities who had a certain reputation in the domestic literary and poetry painting circles. However, if we put aside the geographical restrictions in the province and enlarge our influence into a wider and wider motherland, the poet Wang Huairang will definitely be the brightest star in our unit. His poems "I am proud, I am Chinese", "Our Glorious Name: Henan People", "Chinese, People Who Do Not Kneel" have caused great repercussions in China, and he has also become one of the famous contemporary poets in China with these masterpieces.
At first glance, when Lao Wa first went to work, Huai Rang was not yet 50 years old. But in the eyes of my young man, they are already an out-and-out old senior at this age. Wang Huairang, who was born in 1942, was the editorial board member of our unit for a long time, and he was also the director of the Literary and Art Department. A total of about a dozen people's literary and artistic departments were full of talents and celebrities in those years.
In addition to Wang Huairang, there are poets Feng Tuanbin, Dong Lin, Gao Jinguang and Zhang Mingming in the Literature and Art Department, literary and art critics Niu Qingpo and Yang Changchun, and female writer Wang Gang.
At that time, the commissioners commuted to work by bicycle by themselves. Riding to the door will go to the duty room to find a pump to inflate his slightly deflated tires. Once, after taking a bath in the bathroom hall of the unit, Lao Wa carried a towel to the duty room to find Xiao Ning Sanmao's colleagues to play. Seeing The Old Conductor of Huai Jean a young female reporter pumping up her own bicycle. Skimming Jiyuan's strong Mandarin, he smiled and said to the reporter: "Be bold, be bold, come a little, come again." Okay, then there's a bang. ”
Xiao Ning took over Huai Rang's old bicycle, while helping to inflate his bicycle, while laughing and saying to Huai Rang Lao, Wang Lao, to cheer up the bicycle, you can write a poem, the name is bold. Hahaha.
Huai Rang habitually stroked his big back with his right hand, took the bicycle across his legs and slid up while laughing and saying, I think it is okay, but the name of the poem can be taken, Xiao Ning is a. Then, in the laughter of a crowd of idle people at the door of the unit, dashing away.
After New Year's Day 2008, our department is ready to prepare a frugal and lively Chinese New Year customer association to welcome the Spring Festival. Thinking about this poem that summarizes the past and looks forward to the future, I still want to ask Huai to write a poem in person. The department leadership level has fully communicated with Elder Huai Rang, and I am the person responsible for the specific landing.
In the eyes of the former literary and artistic youth Lao Wa, Huai Rang Lao has some poetry, which is quite a bit of Mayakovsky's characteristic charm. The large paragraphs of arranged verses are suitable for reading aloud on large occasions, with enthusiasm like fire and momentum.
At that recitation, Huai Rang lao originally recommended the famous reciter Yu Tongyun in our province.
He said to me, if you give the poem to Yu Tongyun a week in advance, he will definitely recite it skillfully and full of emotions. But later, due to the limited funds, our cooperation with Teacher Yu did not materialize. Instead, he invited a colleague with a strong voice from another department of the unit to read the poem with the manuscript. The live effect is also very good.
At that time, Elder Huai Rang had been retired for five or six years.
After that activity, our department invited Huai Rang lao to dinner at a restaurant near the unit to express his gratitude. After retirement, he was less bound by work, lived a more fulfilling and dashing life, was frequently invited by various cities to teach and collect styles, and his mental state was very good.
Elder Huai Rang told us that there will be fewer constraints after retirement, and if those excellent enterprises and excellent entrepreneurs like my poetic style, I can collect style, I can create, and I can praise the great progress and rapid development of our great motherland in the past few decades of reform and opening up.
Colleagues at the table even nodded their heads, saying that this passage of nostalgia for the old man was permeated with the enthusiasm and passion of the poet.
The reddened face of the drink made the old man happy to hear it, and he raised his wine glass and said loudly: "Eating with young friends, I feel that I am young and energetic in an instant, let us toast for a happy life!" ”
More than a year later, on April 7, 2009, the famous poet Wang Huairang died of illness in Zhengzhou at the age of 67.
Remembrance of nostalgia for the old.