On April 21, the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature released an obituary through its official WeChat, and Shu Yi, honorary member of the National Committee of the China Writers Association, former director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, librarian of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, and a famous social activist, died in Beijing at the age of 86 at 14:16 on April 21, 2021 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Shu Yi
In 1935, Shu Yi was born in Qingdao, Shandong, when Lao She was teaching at the College of Literature of National Shandong University. In 1953, Shu Yi graduated from Beijing No. 2 Middle School and entered the Preparatory Department for Staying in the Soviet Union at the Beijing Russian Language Training School. In September of the following year, he studied in the Soviet Union and studied wood hydrolysis in the Chemical Process of Forestry at the Kirov Forestry Technical University in Leningrad. In 1959, after returning to China, he was assigned to the Chinese Academy of Forestry to engage in scientific research.
In 1978, Shu Yi was transferred to Beijing Guanghua Timber Factory as an engineer, and later promoted to professor-level senior engineer; in the same year, he began to collect materials, providing the most direct and authentic historical data for the study of Lao She, and his first work "Lao She's Childhood" was serialized in the People's Daily. In 1984, he was transferred to the Chinese Writers Association and participated in the preparation of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, successively serving as deputy director and executive deputy director; in May 2000, the new museum of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature was completed, and he served as the director. He spent nearly 20 years erecting a monument to modern Chinese literature. From 2002 to 2007, when he was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he devoted himself to the protection of the city's cultural relics and cultural heritage.
Shu Yi published his first collection of essays in 1986, his creation has always been based on prose, biography, and engaged in the study of modern Chinese literary works, has published "My Kite", "Lao She", "Modern Literary Treasures" and other monographs.
In April 2005, when he was invited by Shandong University to participate in the "Century Echoes- Series of Commemorative Activities of Famous Figures of Shandong University", he was interviewed by this reporter to reminisce about his and his father's bits and pieces of old affairs.
Shu Yi, behind it is a photo of his father, Mr. Lao She
Mr. Shu Yi in Jinan:
Never call "Lao She" as a father
Qilu Evening News reporter Zhang Hongbo
Mr. Shu Yi came to Jinan again, this time at the invitation of Shandong University to participate in the "Echoes of the Century - a series of commemorative activities for well-known figures of Shandong University". As the only son of Mr. Lao She, Shu Yi was well aware of his father's attachment to the city where he had taught for several years, so he came to Jinan countless times, and every time he came to Jinan, Shu Yi had to go to Daming Lake, Baotu Spring, and the West Campus of Shandong University (formerly Qilu University) for a walk - these are the places that Mr. Lao She once described in the article, and they will not move and never change.
Walking along, Shu Yi returned to Jinan nearly 70 years ago, when Shu Yi was just a two-year-old child, and Lao She was a professor at Qilu University in his early 30s, thin and fleshy, who was also walking in the streets of old Jinan.
Today's West Campus of Shandong University and the former campus of Qilu University, the green maple trees are tall enough to shade the sky, and the sunlight can pour down through the little gaps in the leaves, leaving a mottled fragment on the stone road. Shu Yi, 70, couldn't speak when he stroked the tree for half a day: "Just like Mr. Lao She wrote in the article, 'Those white stone benches, with maple trees on them to open umbrellas, have become my temporary study.'" Holding a book in your hand, you don't necessarily read it; reading the shadows of trees on the ground is more interesting than reading a book...'"
This is a characteristic of Shu Yi, who never calls Lao She a father, but respectfully calls him "Mr. Lao She", and his explanation is: "I have always been engaged in Lao She research work, and I do not want to study him from the perspective of my son, but from the perspective of a researcher, calling him 'Mr. Lao She' can always remind me to be fair." ”
This is also a tradition of the Shu family, everything is serious, I would rather cut with you word by word, and there is no confusion. Walking under the old grove, we discussed with Shu Yi several novels that Mr. Lao She completed during his four years of teaching at Qilu University: "Daming Lake", "Cat City", "Divorce" and so on. Shu Yi explained to us very seriously: "All of Mr. Lao She's novels are completed in the summer, never occupy a little working time, that is, others ask him to write short stories, he is also busy at night to finish work, and then pick up the lamp to write a little, a month to complete a short story." ”
Nearly half a hundred years old, he turned to literature
In front of a small building where Lao She once lived on the West Campus of Shandong University, Shu Yi took a picture of Zhang Xiang, and Zhang Wensheng, director of the Lao She Memorial Hall in Beijing, who went with him, said in a loud voice: "It's too similar, just like Mr. Lao She sitting there." ”
The elegant Shu Yi did not squeak at the side, and some people could not understand his thoughts.
This is Shu Yi, no matter what he does, whether he does it well or badly, people have to associate him with his father.
In the 1950s, the Lao She family took a group photo. From left, Lao She, Hu Huqing, Shu Li, Shu Yi, Shu Yu, Shu Ji.
I heard that Shu Yi's sister's name is Shu Ji, the reason is that he was born in Jinan, but the traditional characters of Ji zi are particularly difficult to write, Lao She and his wife are particularly regretful, swear that the name of the second child must be very simple, and later became a stroke down "B", they hope that the son's future life can also be simple, but unfortunately the only son's life is not simple, the first half of his life follows the father's fate ups and downs, the second half of his life in order to fill the father's three "gaps" (Lao She has more than 30 years of history without detailed written records), After 43 years of forestry chemistry, he entered the halls of literature.
Fate is really interesting, when Shu Yi was for his father, when he was nearly half a hundred years old, he turned to literature, and this just went against his father's original wishes, the father did not want his son to engage in literary creation, his wish was that his son would pull a car in the future, he said that literature should have genius, but the son did not.
But Shu Yi has been proving that he has this ability, not because he has published 11 books such as "My Kite", "Little Green Stick", "Dreams and Tears", but also because his name is increasingly associated with the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, the temple of Chinese literature.
You have to pick up your tail and be human
Initiated by the great writer Ba Jin himself and begun to prepare for the construction of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature in 1984, it integrates a variety of functions as a museum, library, archive, data research and exchange center, and is not only a monument to modern Chinese literature, but also a treasure of modern Chinese literature. From the preparatory stage of the Museum of Literature in 1984 to the opening of the new museum in 2002, Shu Yi, then director of the Museum of Literature, was the actual host of this work. Brick by brick, grass and wood, every book and every manuscript here is full of his painstaking efforts and ingenuity.
As the curator, Shu Yi is also very far-sighted, and his ambition is to "bring all the literary phenomena that occur on the land of China into the vision of the modern literature museum", and even "I will put it away, including banned books".
Unfortunately, When Shu Yi, who has achieved such results, faces the media, he repeats his father's words and deeds over and over again, and can never talk about himself.
Once, Shu Yi couldn't help but say to a certain media: "I think my prose is still very good, and some people also talk about it like this, Shu Yi's prose is really well written, I overheard it overheard on the side..." After saying that, I laughed proudly. But then I didn't hear Shu Yi say this again, because he was Lao She's son, and he had to be as humble as his father, "To be Lao She's son, you must clip your tail and be a man." Shu Yi said himself.
Finally, the reporter asked him very seriously: "If you are not Lao She's son, would such a sacred museum of modern Chinese literature choose an engineer who is halfway out of the house to be the curator?" Shu Yi solemnly replied: "It does not matter whose son it is, it is impossible for a person to gain a foothold in society by eating the meals of his father's generation." He can be blinded by one or two people, but he cannot be respected by society. It may be okay to start at the beginning, but not after a long time. ”
"However, I am the son of Lao She and have also given me a lot of convenience, can know many celebrities, and have many favorable conditions than ordinary children." Shu Yi really admitted. Qilu
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