Friends went to prison, but Yu Qiuyu wrote a letter of "congratulations", and 4 years later, his friend took a skill out of prison

In 2000, Ma Lan, who had left the stage, decided to accompany her husband Yu Qiuyu on the "Millennium Journey". "Millennium Journey" is a cultural expedition aimed at exploring ancient civilizations, a television program, and a source of material for Yu Qiuyu's books. The "Millennium Journey" began in Olympia, Greece, and ended at the Great Wall of China, lasting more than 4 months, spanning more than 40,000 kilometers and traveling to 10 countries around the world. Along with Yu Qiuyu, the audience revisited the birthplace of the four ancient civilizations and the three major religious birthplaces, exploring, deciphering, and understanding the evolution and rise and fall of ancient civilizations.

"We have deep feelings, feel good, our thoughts are synchronized, we belong to the same sight, and the relationship from beginning to end is very harmonious and close. We are both husband and wife, artistic partners, we have great respect for each other's parents, and my cultural activities are related to my profession and my wife's profession. "I can see Yu Qiuyu's true feelings for his wife." Most of the social activities, Yu Qiuyu and Ma Lan will attend hand in hand, so that the light emitted by the two stars is more brilliant than the other.

In order to devote himself to study, Yu Qiuyu still adheres to the principle of "no newspaper subscription, no computer, no Internet access, and no mobile phone". Modern information is so rich and ever-changing, yu qiuyu's lifestyle is indeed difficult to accept. Someone asked him: "As an observer of society, don't you worry that you will be out of touch with the times?" He smiled and replied, "It's not out of touch, I still watch news programs on TV, and I'm basically qualified to be a news commentator." I don't surf the Internet, I don't read newspapers, and I don't have time to take in a lot of information that has gone through the air — my blog was made for me by two girls. I don't attend meetings and never even have a cell phone. To find me, you can only call my wife or secretary's mobile phone and let them sift through. If we want to keep our minds open and empty, so that it is possible to face the long heavens and the earth and meditate on the value of life. "He said he wanted to live quietly." I don't print business cards, I can't drive, it's a fortune teller, I can't drive. I don't believe it all, and I don't listen to it. ”

In the early summer of 2003, CCTV was going to shoot some of Yu Qiuyu's early life clips, and several choreographers especially hoped that he would lead them to find the house where he had been sick and had been studying in a mountainside in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, where he had been studying—an old building originally called the "Zhongzheng Library".

"At that time, I lived in a small room in the old building through the relationship of a teacher in my early years, and the whole old building was by myself most of the time, and I went through almost all the ancient books that Chiang Kai-shek asked his son Chiang Ching-kuo to read, and even today's proficiency in opening those old bookshelves still frightens the real administrators." Yu Qiuyu said that at that time, he had no relatives, no food to eat, and even less could he find telephones, post offices, television, and newspapers, and he was completely exiled and closed. Outside the abandoned old building are dense trees, outside the trees are layers of mountains, and the top of the mountain is thick clouds.

Over the years, Yu Qiuyu has developed a habit of reading: never turning from east to west, tasting shallowly, never seeing stitches and needles, and not releasing the scroll; to read books, first close the door, unplug the phone, put away the spirit, stabilize the breath, and there can only be one book on the table. He also told an interesting story: a friend was imprisoned for 4 years because of an offence, and Yu Qiuyu wrote to the prison to congratulate him, a busy man, on the opportunity to study quietly, and suggested that he major in English. Four years later, his friend walked out of prison with a 600,000-word translation.

From academic research and school leadership to field trips and essay writing, Yu Qiuyu has undergone many thorough interruptions and transformations, leaving every time when others think they are in the best state, starting from scratch over and over again. He said: "I'm a walker and don't want to hang around somewhere for too long. It is easy to bury the hope of a comfortable cottage, it is easy to stay in life with a rich spring, and any stay is self-rupture, any settlement is a trap for creation, any position will induce competition, and any competition contains damage. ”