"Thirteen Invitations" has completed the fifth issue, as the most important interview program in China at present, Xu Zhiyuan has allowed himself to break through the boundaries of interviews, whether it is a city alley or a park forest, Xu Zhiyuan got rid of regional restrictions, so that the interview itself became a part of life.
In the fifth season, we met Gao Yi, a master of sinology, and Wang Baoqiang after fading prosperity; we met Xu Haofeng in the hutong compound, and we also admired Qian Liqun, the leader of the humanistic spirit of Peking University.
In the high-quality interview of "Thirteen Invitations", we saw the profound concern of the program itself for the humanistic spirit; Xu Yuanchong's encounter was enough to give us a huge surprise.
In the end, the ending was left to Qian Liqun, which is enough to see that the program group itself and Xu Zhiyuan himself have the greatest respect for Chinese intellectuals.
For audiences who do not set foot in the humanities and social sciences, Qian Liqun is not a familiar name; after all, literature itself has been far away from the usual care of life.
But if we go deep into the history of Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature, Qian Liqun is even more of a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. In particular, in the general education textbook "Thirty Years of Modern Chinese Literature", which he co-wrote, we can appreciate his clear literary history.
Qian Liqun was born in 1939, and after serving as a high-ranking official in the Republic of China in his early years, he received a good education from an early age; unfortunately, at that time, the war was raging, and it was not easy to maintain self-growth in the chaos of war.
His father, Qian Tianhe, held a high position of power, but after retiring to Taiwan, Qian Liqun's family was inevitably politically implicated; Qian Liqun, who graduated from Peking University, had to be sent to the mountains of Guizhou to support education; and life in remote areas brought new insights to his life.
In the interview, we saw that Qian Liqun always had a photo of his father, and in the complex feelings for his father, we also appreciated the uncertainty that time gave Qian Liqun to grow.
During his time teaching in Guizhou, he gave time to the future; in addition to completing his own educational tasks, the study of Lu Xun brought him spiritual comfort.
Lu Xun's anger, rationality, and strength were somewhat contagious to Qian Liqun, and he turned his understanding of Lu Xun into his own unyielding to fate. But what we didn't expect was that this stay was 18 years.
From youth to middle age, the most precious 18 years of life stayed in Anshun. When Teacher Qian Liqun returned to Guizhou, the intimacy of his old colleagues was seen in detail, which dispelled the harm of time to this intellectual.
During the period, after Qian Liqun reunited with them, there was laughter and no barrier at all; at this time, Qian Liqun completely opened himself, and even after a few laps of mahjong, Qian Liqun seemed to see his young self again.
Guizhou's special meaning to Qian Liqun is also psychological, and now he regards Guizhou as a spiritual place of belonging. After retreating to the ups and downs, he and his friends were at ease and settled outside the square.
Here we do not mean that Qian Liqun has lost his enthusiasm for life, but from the conversation with Xu Zhiyuan, we see his keen sense and accurate recognition of the current situation.
Especially in the first half of the program, Qian Liqun shows a high sense of concern for the current society and the world, and has become an important intellectual force on the side of social change.
When talking about the epidemic affecting the world, he summed it up as a historical change and historical crisis unprecedented in a century. It can be seen that when the moment concerning the fate of all mankind appeared, the 80-year-old professor did not stand idly by and saw farther than the average person.
After all, the humanistic spirit of the epidemic era expresses such a grand proposition, which is not only the work that Qian Liqun alone has to do, but also the sense of mission that a generation of intellectuals should have.
The impact of the epidemic on us can be imagined, And Qian Liqun here attributes his era to the post-globalization era, which shows that this is a crisis that concerns every individual; in the face of the crisis, the emergence of contradictions, conflicts and resolutions.
In addition, the great sense of separation between the individuals and groups in which we live is keenly captured by Qian Liqun, and the writing of the sense of the era of separation has been completed, which has universal significance.
The sense of mission of the times inspired Qian Liqun's humanistic care, and also adhered to the original heart that he and his generation of intellectuals should follow.
Qian Liqun's love for literature began with Lu Xun, who became the most important channel for him to intervene in the entire literary scene, but all this was not the focus of Qian Liqun.
In Lu Xun, we see the pathology of the universality of human nature at that time, but Qian Liqun used his deep understanding of Lu Xun to transform it into the original childlike heart and love for the world.
Lu Xun is dead, but his humanistic spirit is alive. Perhaps because Qian Liqun's life is far more bumpy than others, when dealing with various sufferings, he cannot struggle or even self-destruct like Lu Xun himself.
While adhering to his own spiritual value, Qian Liqun has added an open-mindedness. In his own words: look at everything around you with a new eye and return to a very simple state.
As a generation of Lu Xun research experts, Qian Liqun carries the source and context of the development of China's modern and contemporary literary history behind him; in Qian Liqun, the spirit of the older generation of intellectuals is gradually gone.
When we look back at the generations of Hong Zicheng, Qian Liqun and Chen Pingyuan, it is not only about the scholarship itself; it is their understanding of people and history through scholarship that makes the listener use it for a lifetime.
Behavior teacher training is the best for Qian Liqun, who has been a lifelong teacher, and his life ups and downs have created a tolerant character. In life, he and Cui Kexin support each other, and their tolerance and strength constitute a solid quality of their lives.
Their open-mindedness about children eventually evolved into reconciliation over the issue of life and death, and when we were always attached to the present moment of life and feared death, Qian Liqun used an almost natural attitude to lead by example and show the difference in his life.
Of course, we will clamor for Qian Liqun to sell his house and go to a nursing home; we will lament the pain caused by the death of his wife to his old age. But after Qian Liqun classified the emotional part of life as a part of the daily life, it seemed that there was nothing to beat him.
In August 2019, Teacher Cui Kexin passed away; when Teacher Qian Liqun talked about her, her inner admiration even came out of nowhere. From the words, we can even feel her full respect for Madame.
Teacher Qian felt that his sharpness was all in words, and the support in life also allowed Qian Liqun to gain great energy of gratitude.
It is Cui Kexin's inner strength that forms part of the background of her life; the complementarity of strength and Qian Liqun's personality jointly completes the realization of their respective values. Together all their lives, and their own achievements, perhaps this is the best husband and wife state of Teacher Cui and Teacher Qian.
At the end of the fifth season of "Thirteen Invitations", there is a shocking scene. When Qian Liqun sat on a bench and looked at the sky, his spiritual power seemed to have become a part of the sky, constituting the strongest background of the spirit of contemporary Chinese literati.