On November 17, 2023, "Seeing Words Like Faces", Lao She's letter and manuscript were exhibited in QingdaoIt has been 57 years since Mr. Lao She left us.
In Beiping Lake that year, Mr. Lao She's despair jumped into the lake, but the book floated on the water, which was a collection of *** poems.
That year, Mr. Lao She's ashes were not allowed to be kept, and his urn contained only a pen, a pair of glasses, a packet of jasmine tea, and that's it, this writer, who caused a huge sensation in the literary world, left lightly, and even the title of people's artist was deprived, and the Nobel Prize in Literature had just been nominated.
That morning, Lao She said to his granddaughter with a smile, "Say goodbye to grandpa." ”
Good bye.
There is simply one sentence on the tombstoneA nobody in the literary world sleeps here.
But we all know that he is a great writer who is well-known throughout the country, and his "Four Worlds in the Same Hall", his "Camel Xiangzi", his teahouse, and his Longxugou have caused a huge storm in the country.
Qingchun is the name given by his parents, when Lao She was born was Lichun, Qingchun means to celebrate the arrival of spring, the meaning of a bright future.
Mr. Lao She's spring was not good at that time, his father was a protector of Manchuria, and he died on the battlefield, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and it was the frenzy of the great powers to carve up China. Mr. Lao She's father died guarding the land where they lived, guarding Beijing.
Mr. Lao She's mother worked as a laundry worker to make ends meet. Their family had no money and could not afford to go to school, and finally got Master Zongyue. It was also the sponsorship of Liu Dashan, who was rumored at that time, that Mr. Lao She was able to enroll.
It is precisely because of the appearance of Master Zongyue that Mr. Lao She renamed himself "self-sacrifice" to give up the meaning of self, and even later believed in ** teaching, he believed in goodness, and later he picked up the pen and used words to convey the guiding goodness.
Master ZongyueLater, Mr. Lao She was admitted to Jingshi No. 3 Middle School, and then he had to drop out of school because of tuition fees, and later went to a publicly-funded normal school.
Despite the tinkling of poverty, although it is almost difficult to make ends meet. But later, when he was persuaded by the northern suburbs of the Teacher Education Bureau, when he saw the local Education Bureau's forces, those old forces, the corruption, and the withering mountains and rivers, he was unwilling to go, so he chose to leave.
Later, he taught Mandarin at Nankai High School in Nanjing, Tianjin, and it was during this period that he actively participated in social service and used all his leisure time to supplement English, which is why he later visited the United States and later had a complete version in the United States when the third volume of his Four Generations Together was destroyed and incomplete in China (in that special era).
From the third volume of "Four Generations in the Same Hall", we can see that although there are slight differences, but the general idea remains the same, from which we can also see the depth of Lao She's English skills, and for Lao She, who is a "half-way monk", has poor economic conditions, and is self-taught English, this is very difficult.
Later, Mr. Lao She successively published "Lao Zhang's Philosophy", Erma, etc., because of "Lao Zhang's Philosophy", Lao She was also known as a humorous artist, and he used humorous words to describe the deep world.
Erma's article writes about a series of love entanglements between Lao Ma's father and son who went to England to start a series of love entanglements with Wendu's mother and daughter, which are full of cultural differences and national and regional discrimination.
Wendu mother and daughter, when they heard that some Chinese rented their houses, they were repulsed, "Chinese are bacteria, Chinese eat mice", but later when Erma entered to offer tea, they laughed again.
Later, in 1932, Mr. Lao She wrote the well-known works such as Crescent Moon, Divorce, and The Story of Cat City.
Later, Lao She came to the Department of Literature of Shandong University as a professor of Chinese. In order to better complete the work "Camel Xiangzi", Mr. Lao She resigned from his professorship and worked hard.
In the end, the dream of "Camel Xiangzi" presented in front of our eyesXiangzi, who wanted to have his own tricycle but failed several times, was not the epitome of Mr. Lao She's hard work, but he repeatedly hit a wall at that time.
It also reflects Lao She's hope for a kind of redemption, hoping that China at that time could usher in a kind of redemption, to redeem this group of camel Xiangzi, and to redeem the group of people who were living in misery.
In 1944, the first volume of Mr. Lao She's "Four Worlds in the Same Hall" was published, and in 1944, it was just the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, which also corresponded to the funny Japanese in the third volume of Mr. Lao She's "Four Worlds in the Same Hall" The Japanese in the alley were given a new military order, that is, everyone must make ten Chinese friends.
It reflected that the Japanese army was already at the end of its strong crossbow at that time, and the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan was imminent.
In 1951, Mr. Lao She was awarded the title of People's Artist.
Mr. Lao She writes words to pursue vulgarity and whiteness, he advocates removing the bright clothes of the petals, revealing the beauty of the text, he said that no writer is separated from the life of the people, and there is no writer who does not process the language of the people.
Mr. Lao She's writing is based on the life of citizens, showing the life and thinking of the people at the bottom, and showing their suffering fate, such as the figure of Xiangzi as a coachman in "Camel Xiangzi", and the people at the bottom in the small sheepfold alley in "Four Generations in the Same Hall", including Li Siye, who died in the end, Sun Qi and his wife, a foreign coachman, Xiao Cui, a foreign coachman, and so on.
They are all people at the bottom, Lao She uses the most affectionate brushstrokes to show the thinking of different people in that era about the country and the fate of the nation, and the hesitation, entanglement and survival psychology in it, showing a unique picture of Beijing customs and customs.
He is Mr. Lao She, he was born in Beijing, nourished by Beijing's culture, and at the same time, his pen has long and shaped a new Beijing world, created in his unique Beijing flavor**.
The depiction of human nature contained in the works constitutes an all-round display of the cowardly sexual psychology of the people at that time, constituting a history of national criticism.
He deserves to be called a people's artist.
Hu Feng said that Lao She is a person who has experienced the ups and downs of life and is sophisticated. Lao She's son said that his father was an extremely contradictory person. He often sits alone at the table and thinks hard, very serious, but once a friend comes, he becomes so thoughtful, so enthusiastic, secular and literary constitute two unique qualities in him.
But at that special time, such a people's artist was criticized, became a person who was beaten and beaten by a group, when his wife felt that she wiped the blood from Lao She's face with a towel, but found that the towel could no longer be washed, just like Mr. Lao She's heart at that time.
So he chose to leave in such a resolute way, sleeping in the lake like a lotus, washing away all the dirt, getting rid of all the distractions of the world, sleeping here, never waking up again.