Looking back at the pandemic, it has been nearly two years, and this time has reshaped many aspects of our lives, and it is also like a pause, forcing us to pause to think.
During these two years, I exchanged letters with my friends and formed a collection of "Letters from Yu".
"Letter from Yu" is like a retrospective spiritual heterotopia, where we hope that we can get the ideal life, with fear and love for this era; we wonder if we can once again find a way of dialogue, establish the possibility of deep communication, and reach the wider world together.
This long correspondence brings a lot of understanding and wisdom, and rather than stumbling alone in the darkness, letter after letter is more eager to establish a dialogue between you and me, just like lighting a torch in the night and reflecting each other's faces.
The new book "Letter from Yu" is now open for pre-sale, and the following is the afterword I wrote for the new book, some words, I would like to tell my dear friends.
Text | Good luck
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Dear Friends,
It is an honor to have this letter read by you. For me, writing a letter is as old as digging a well to fetch water, as nostalgic as riding a green-skinned train, as cheerful as drinking soda, as soulless as missing someone. People always have to go through a little tribulation, anxiety, wandering, counting their fingers, waiting for it, only to feel that the things in front of them are real and credible, and the things they get are extremely valuable. This is similar to how I have been communicating for more than a year, writing letters carefully, doubting the childishness of my thinking, and waiting for the letter to be nervous, expecting that each reply will flash with golden words.
Writing letters takes a lot of time, avoids convenience, and slowness is its characteristic. Unexpectedly, some teachers wrote replies by hand, drawing one by one, pouring more emotions and thoughts, and the paper was uneven because of the ink. Some letterheads have gone and never returned, because the other party is plagued by special conditions, or can not pretend to be enthusiastic about life, so they can not write, and some say that he wrote to his girlfriend when he was in elementary school, was caught by his parents, and vowed not to write again, and my attention was all focused on the fact that he already had a girlfriend in elementary school. I am even more grateful to the teachers and friends who wrote back to me, and I am glad that they did not write to the shadow of their childhood.
In the beginning, I didn't know what kind of people I could write to, how far I could write it, or what kind of soul I could meet. The process is like sitting in a drifting boat, the river is babbling, the fish are accompanied, the foothills on both sides are flickering words, the diffuse water mist is the haunting worry, the birds overhead are our commas, and every pier is the end, allowing the drift to drift.
In the process, I realized that we were originally like islands with each other, but now we are moving closer. At the same time, writing a letter is not only written to the other party, but also to yourself, it is a spontaneous question, but also a self-purification, suitable for people like me whose thoughts are chaotic, let the inner voice flow out, through the clouds and mountains, pull out the layers of thorns, and gradually see a real self.
Some letters raise questions that I have not thought deeply about in the past, such as social phobia written by Shen Dacheng, such as Teacher Li Ge mentioning that literary and artistic youth have become mothers, such as the question raised by Ah Zao - our faith is still not there in this era. After the letter was written, I was often in the anxiety of waiting, and I would regret that there was no response, such as my letter to director Jia Zhangke, during which time I almost re-watched all his films, but he has rarely appeared since the Pingyao Film Festival. I really want to spend the time reading a letter into their lives and knowing what they think. Of course, anxiety and regret are also an inevitable part of the whole thing.
Obviously, the letters we wrote were ready for everyone to read, but I tried to be as honest as possible and expressed the fear and love in my heart. If you've read the whole book, I'm sure you've noticed our discussion of many issues. The confusion that had been knotted in my heart had now been completely dispelled, I benefited from some unexpected ideas, my original idea of being in a semi-finished state had been shaped and consolidated, and if thinking was a territory, many places were lit up.
Friends I thought I knew very well at one time showed me in the letter that they had never shown before. We always think that the status and speech people make in the circle of friends and on Weibo is all they have, and these communications prove that it is just an illusion. When the distant teacher Shi Kang talked about the flowers he planted, the writer talked about his life at home, and Teacher Miao Wei said that he no longer longed for the distant places like in the past... I find that everyone's life is dynamic, with different concerns about the world, different aesthetic tastes, and the self-transformation we experience is not as easy as the fragmented information presented on the phone.
"There is faith!" When I was a child, I often heard such a call, which was not emotionally informed, but predicted that more information would come to you, and I did not know whether it was fireworks or cold winds, whether it was a wisp or a desperate feeling. For me, the best thing about this book is that it brings me back to my past experiences. The size of the book is limited, there are many correspondences that are not included, and the letters are precious, likewise thank the authors of the letters. Now more than ever, I wish the communications program could go on forever, humbly asking questions and answering sincerely, and these conversations will be my most cherished memories.
In the process of writing this book, I have had a lot of self-doubt and received a lot of help; I am a person who is very afraid of rejection, but I have received many responses. Thank you to each of the communication teachers, friends, thank you CITIC Publishing Dafang published this book, thank you Shi Hongjun, Cai Xin teacher trust, thank you cat brother, Bianbian, Xiaoqi, Tian Tian and many other colleagues for their efforts, thank you designer Liu Kai for the cover of the book, thank you Teacher Zhao Song for giving me expectations and requirements, thank you Liu Ping for accompanying me for many years, all the way to give me encouragement. Although every meeting with you is always sword and light, without mercy, but behind it is a thick and indissoluble warmth, especially suitable for me, an author who is easy to screw and overly emotional, so that I will no longer be shaken by any doubt, criticism, weakness. At the end of my youth, without you there would be no such book as The Letter from The Feather.
Well, I've written my letter here first, and I hope that you and I can put the understanding we gained from reading the letter into our lives. The book itself is a good wish – we are all "faith" people all our lives.
Good luck
January 10, 2021
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