"Donald Duck" on the battlefield: Tang Shizeng's journalist road

A "Donald Duck" who shuttles through the battlefield is not responsible for funny, but a witness to a period of history. He was not a professional journalist, but as early as when he was studying international politics at Peking University, he became very interested in the "journalist" industry. In his working career, compared with the resume of peking university international politics department, China University of Political Science and Law teaching part-time graduate students, more remarkable is that from 1990 to 1993, he served as a reporter for the Middle East branch of Xinhua News Agency, interviewing a series of military and political leaders.

Tang Shi once worshipped heroes since childhood, which was largely influenced by his grandfather, who escaped the killing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom when he was studying abroad, returned to his hometown to turn out all the bones, used blood to find the bones that were fused, and thought that his relatives were buried one by one. Grandma can speak fluent English, can read and write since childhood, and Grandpa won the first place in Jiangsu Province at the age of 16. The family environment with a strong cultural atmosphere also had a great impact on the growth of Tang Shizeng in the future. Of course, under the relationship with his grandfather, Tang Shizeng's thinking is also relatively feudal, and every time he escapes from death in the battlefield, he will feel that he has not been able to give birth to a great-grandchild for his grandfather. This is why he was particularly obsessed with his son in the future. And his father, in his mouth, is an honest man, he even said that his father is a little stingy, but such a stingy father, but he is very willing to buy toys for his son, in the words of Tang Shizeng, his toys can fill several rooms. Because his father said his son was born to play. And the quality of the toys his father gave him was also very high, and the electric train was still very important for Tang Shizeng today, and his concept of time and political system was largely derived from the beginning of cultivation at that time. He was a man of freedom, and he could feel it in many of his articles or books in his free writing.

Before the outbreak of the Gulf War, his keen "sense of smell" cultivated by studying international politics captured the strange changes, and even lost a love for this purpose. He placed the identity of Xinhua News Agency in a very important position in his life.

His journalistic journey has not been smooth, on the contrary, it has been bumpy. But he is a person who is good at summarizing the experience of failure, and his experience is ultimately a guide to success, "self-discipline, self-deprecation, self-examination" is his philosophy of life. Zhang Yue, an old friend of Tang Shizeng, wrote in an article: Tang is a person with huge character defects, especially at the practical level, his ability to survive is very poor, often close to "idiot". And Tang Shi once said that "everyone's world view is different, so there may be a gap in everything, and I am the kind of people that Patton said, 'The cattle cultivated in the Middle East are very funny, for example, cattle, horses and donkeys may cultivate with camels, but whoever cultivates with camels is painful.'" ”

When he returned from the bay in the last century, honor poured in like a tidal wave, but only he knew it, and the after-effects of the bay also tormented him - he was exposed to depleted uranium bomb radiation and suffered from aplastic anemia. Although he has now published six best-selling books and is very talkative in front of people, it is hard to imagine that he is a major depressive person, even taking a handful of pills every day. Even when someone asks about his experience as a war correspondent at that time, he still tells people in high spirits, but after they disperse, they show a very disappointed expression.

After the Gulf War, his health passed little by little, and he himself was under great pressure, writing in his book: "Due to overwork and continuous struggle, my hands were shaking before I was 30 years old, and the photos I took became more and more virtual. Zhou Zexin, the old leader of the Middle East Branch, saw my arms shaking and once asked me if I had Parkinson's disease... However, I was young and strong, except to admit that I had torn the ligament of my right ankle in Qinling in 1998, and one leg was thick and one leg was thin, and I was strong enough to race against King Kong. Although the illness devastated him, he was still calm and optimistic, and even came up with the idea of having a son, spending several years to accompany his wife and children, recording the bits and pieces of life, and he called that period the book he had devoted the most to his life, and he made three wishes in Jerusalem: to be a good journalist, to marry a good girl, and to have a good son. So the book is called My Third Wish.

"20 years ago, I was thin and slim, wore simple red clothes all year round, and even if I didn't eat for 3 days, I just slept for half an hour and still walked on my bike. Now I am an old man in my 40s, even if I cover it tightly, I will still catch a cold, 'walking against the wind and wearing clothing', there are families with sons, life is difficult, and I have snored like thunder before I put down the dishes and chopsticks, and I have become a burden to others. "For a while, depression filled his mouth full of crazy words and was very excited. From his words, it is not difficult to see his inner struggle, in the prime of the year, but the body is like a lamp dry oil, and even what should be the top pillar of the family has become a burden on the family.

But from his works at that time, we can feel a strong humanistic feeling, and he recorded everything he witnessed with photos. Including his many times in the future, he continued to be a war correspondent, but all this stemmed from his pursuit and love, constantly surpassing himself in exploration. Because of his identity as a war correspondent, most of his photos originate from the battlefield, and also reflect many human thoughts: war and peace, progress and backwardness, progress and pursuit of life, and some of the topics of human nature that we have been discussing.