In the terrible Nanweier Hutong, in my father's room I saw his diary during his stay, sorry, I was only six or seven years old at the time, and I didn't know how to respect privacy. There are two pages that left an impression on me: One page reads: "Last night I stayed at the house of a Japanese prostitute..." On one page, it is written: "When I receive a letter from Magnolia, I have neither emotion nor greetings, but I just ask for money. ”
This is Wang Meng's description of his father, Wang Jindi, in his "Autobiography".
Since ancient times, China has paid attention to the secrecy of His Holiness and the son to the father. Exposing the father's ugly deeds to the public is the greatest rebellious thing in the world. However, Wang Meng dared to expose his father's shortcomings and make his worst past public.
In this regard, Wang Meng once laughed at himself: he seemed to have some "Oedipus plot" of "killing his father". When Wang Meng wrote this, he felt that "maybe this is disobedience, a sin in heaven, and an act of misdeeds", but out of the nature of a straightforward book, Wang Meng still wrote it.
Wang Meng's father, Wang Jindi, was born into a famous family and graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University. From a young age, he enjoyed reading foreign masterpieces. And Wang Meng's "Meng" character comes from the male protagonist of Dumas's "La Traviata" - "Amun".
After graduating, Wang Jindi went to Tokyo Imperial University, a top university in Japan, to study education. After returning from his studies, he returned to his homeland and became the principal of the Municipal Senior Commercial School.
Compared with the brilliance of Wang Jindi's academic qualifications, his level of family governance is difficult to compliment. Wang Jindi has drunk foreign ink, is open-minded, and especially advocates "foreign things". Wang Meng said:
"He loves new cultures, worships Europe and the United States, and likes to make friends with foreigners."
Even if the income is not high, Wang Jindi must spend a huge amount of money to take the children to eat Western food. He taught them the etiquette of Western food, such as how to order food, how to use knives and forks, how to drink soup, and how to place tableware. While admiring Western food, Wang Jindi did not forget to criticize how chaotic it was to eat Chinese food.
And Wang Jindi's indiscriminate spending of money also made his wife Dong Yulan feel sad and always said: "How much to spend!" How expensive! "And Wang Jindi?" Even if you have to run out of food immediately after eating this meal, you can happily invite people to eat. After all, starvation is a small thing, and face is a big deal!
Soon after, Wang Jindi lost his job as a principal, and he did not understand the practice, and his life became worse and worse. And what makes Dong Yulan even more angry? It was Wang Jindi who was a rationalist with "good words" who was enthusiastic about doing some big things and publishing high-minded theories on saving the country and governing the people. As for the "small things" of running a family, Wang Jindi can't do it well.
The poor and lowly couple mourned, and Wang Jindi and Dong Yulan had many fierce conflicts because of economic problems. Wang Meng once described:
"They crushed each other, and they crushed each other as stones. Each can only give hurt and pain, and do their best to make a difference--how to give each other a little more harm in the key places, in order to achieve a little more joy of victory. ”
When Wang Meng was 7 years old, he also peeked at the diary written by Wang Jindi during his stay in Japan. One of the pages reads, "Last night at the home of a Japanese prostitute," while the second page reads: "When I receive a letter from Magnolia, I have neither emotion nor greetings, but I just ask for money. ”
In fact, long before Wang Meng was born, the idealistic father and the realist mother had already developed discord. From the beginning, the two were not suitable.
With the poverty of life, Wang Jindi and Dong Yulan have reached the brink of divorce. Because even if Wang Jindi is poor, he will buy some useless things. For example, when the family ran out of food, he also bought a thermometer with a meager salary, because he thought it represented science. Another time, when the family was too poor to open the pot, Wang Jindi went to the Commercial Press and bought a set of Snow White and seven dwarf dolls for the children.
For Wang Jindi's wild splurge, Dong Yulan gritted his teeth in hatred. She nicknamed Wang Jindi "Foreign Six" and specifically ridiculed him for his total Westernization. In order to make Wang Jindi pay more money, Dong Yulan did not hesitate to visit the celebrities his father interacted with and accused them of how irresponsible and misbehaving Wang Jindi was.
One day, Wang Jindi drank flower wine and returned home drunk. Dong Yulan took advantage of his lack of attention and took out all the money in his pocket.
Another time, Wang Jindi was found drinking flower wine and Dong Yulan had a big fight. When the sister-in-law and mother-in-law heard the news, they immediately came to help them, and they couldn't stand Wang Jindi. In order to drive away the three women, Wang Jindi had to resort to one last move, taking off his pants...
In this way, Wang Meng's childhood was spent in the constant quarrels of his parents, which was simply wonderful and absurd. However, Wang Meng portrayed his father so badly, which did not mean that he did not respect him.
Wang Jindi may have achieved nothing and never saved any savings in his life. But in the face of his father's tombstone, Wang Meng still believes: "My father's greatest contribution is to walk out of Longtang Village." ”
At that time, the greatest hope of the rich families in Longtang Village was to let their children become addicted to opium, so that they would not leave the countryside for the rest of their lives, and would not pursue the useless "science" and "revolution".
However, Wang Jindi bravely came out, although he was exaggerated, did not rule production, and admired foreign countries, but the idealistic him still deeply implanted new ideas into Wang Meng's mind. Therefore, Wang Meng would say, "If my father had not walked out of Longtang Village, what would Wang Meng's life have been like?" ”
In fact, Wang Meng's family is like a microcosm of old China, constantly colliding and frictioning between ideals and reality. But no matter how absurd and unrealistic the ideal is, it can still change the world silently. The reason why China has been able to get rid of the situation of poverty and weakness is that it does not have the credit of these unrealistic ideals?
Therefore, in Wang Meng's heart, his father, no matter how many shortcomings, deserved his life's respect. And these stories, Wang Meng will definitely write straight, record the stories of his father and mother.
Wang Meng is like this, writing seriously, living with sincerity, and writing for 67 years. His more than 10 million words, more than 100 works "Long Live Youth", "A Young Man from the Organization Department", "This Side of the Landscape", etc., are all representative works of contemporary Chinese literature. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and is known all over the world.
He was minister of culture, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, and was on the Writers' Wealth List. Last year he was awarded the top national honorary title of "People's Artist".
In his later years, Wang Meng cherished and loved traditional Chinese culture and focused on the study of traditional cultural thought. He integrated the essence of the Analects, Mencius, Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, and wrote a four-step book entitled "Chinese Wisdom for Young People" with 85 years of life experience, 60 years of writing experience, and 55 years of teaching experience.
On June 20, 2014, Wang Meng gave a lecture on the theme of traditional culture in the Shaanxi Auditorium
In this set of books, Wang Meng broke the unchanged full-text reading mode of the four classics for thousands of years, broke the interpretation of the original text commonly used by "Kong Menglaozhuang", but cut from the perspective of study, work, communication, cultivation, and emotion, which is closely related to modern people, so that the first philosophical questions on the tall are truly integrated into the lives of contemporary people, so that "ancient for the present" is no longer a slogan.
Jia Pingwo, Feng Qiyong, Ren Jiyu and countless others were amazed by it, and Jia Pingwo even wrote an inscription "Mr. Tongtong" to Wang Meng.
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