The Year of the Rabbit is about to pass, the Year of the Dragon is coming, and Zhou Rui is very busy, in addition to being busy with daily corporate culture planning, he is also busy publishing his own anthology. It is reported that a number of poetry collections and reportage collections that have been published in the past are not counted, and recently they have been busy with the republication of "The Biography of Chen Xin" and the printing of the speech collection "Let Honesty Hold Up the Blue Sky of Investment Promotion". Congratulations!
I met Zhou Rui about 40 years ago. At that time, I was working at Huanggang Newspaper, and he was working in his hometown of Xishui. I love my hometown and come back often. One day, I met a young poet who worked in a news unit in Huangshi and also returned to his hometown, and we happened to live in the county ** guest house on the right bank of the Xihe River. He said that there will be two little brothers who write poetry to come over, just to have lunch together, because I was in charge of literature and art in the political propaganda department of the newspaper at that time, and I used to recite new poems for a few years in my hometown, a few years earlier than the young Zhou Rui, but later changed my career to write news. I was at best an amateur writer who was a poet of his generation, and I was certainly very happy to meet them.
Zhou Rui was working in the lower towns near the county seat at the time, and as soon as he nodded at the age of twenty, his poems were published in some newspapers with national influence, and a collection of poems was published. Before we met, I had heard that his poems were well written, and I had read some of them. At that time, I felt that his new poems were full of youthful vitality, and they were very advanced and avant-garde in that era, just like a breeze blowing from the Xishui River in front of the ** guest house in March County, which was exciting and intoxicating. Not only is the theme, imagery, expression and style of the poem very different from the poets of our time, but many sentences are refreshing to me, and it is far from being comparable to our literary youth of ** poetry, he should be the same era as Gu Cheng, Beidao and Haizi. Although Zhou Rui was a fledgling at that time, he had already emerged in the new poetry world at that time, allowing people to see the vigor, new atmosphere and future of his hometown poetry. I remember that at that time, Mr. Wang Ying, a famous poet among the four major peasant writers in his hometown, praised him. From the new poems of his generation, I have a hunch that after Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Red Candle" and "Dead Water", another round of poetry is surging ......on the shore of Xishui and Wangtian Lake
Later, he came to the policy research office of the county party committee, became one of the chief writers of the county party committee's organ publication "Xishui Newsletter", and often participated in the drafting of some important documents and reports of the county party committee. I was very sorry at the time: Xishui has an extra pen to write materials, but southeast Hubei is likely to lose a promising young poet!
Of course, the material for a poet to write about current affairs is different. I remember that later, when the whole people went to the sea to do business, the party and government organs were not spared. In my impression, Zhou Rui, who works at "Xishui Communication", has also changed shape. While writing official documents, he also wrote newsletters and reportage, and spent his days generating income for the "poor government research" that was stretched thin. He became a rare capable person in the unit for a while. Looking back on that unbearable era now, although I think it is ridiculous, as a life experience, I also think it is very interesting. If he writes too many articles like that, it is inevitable that he will be criticized, and it is said that some of his peers at that time wrote anonymous letters and splashed his dirty water. This made him feel very unhappy.
This is also the sorrow and misfortune of cultural people in that special era!
I smiled wryly at the time, "Don't say the eldest brother and the second brother, who said whom, it's not all the same." At the beginning of reform and opening up, "crossing the river by feeling the stones.""In order to complete the income-generating task, "the eight immortals cross the sea, each showing their magical powers", as long as they can generate income, try everything, do everything, and everything is a gust of wind, the party, government, military and civilian studies are like that, who can be single? We are not the same, the so-called "Sven sweeps the floor", "insults Sven", and the current situation is also. In fact, at that time, I felt that Zhou Rui still had a high level of culture in his bones, although we knew each other, he rarely came to the newspaper to find me for the matter of generating income and sending articles. I am sometimes very stubborn, and I don't care what others say about the people I think and the things I identify, and the same is true for the talented Zhou Rui. It is difficult for people to live in this world, it is not easy, although everyone has their own difficulties, but they all have the freedom to pursue and find their own happiness and living methods, as long as they do not violate the law and discipline and do not violate the moral conscience of being a man, they can live how they want, and they can live how they feel they want to live. Later, "put things in order", the organs and institutions stopped generating income, everyone was relaxed, and I had time to go back to Xishui, so I wanted to meet my past acquaintances and friends, including Zhou Rui. I haven't seen him in years, and I'd love to meet him and hear him talk about those years, but I just can't see him. I thought at the time, wow, praise or depreciation, how could a person who was so angry in his hometown disappear back then? Although I occasionally hear him still talked about in society, most of them don't know why he "disappeared" from people's sight like that. Later, it was said that he left the party and government organs, and some people speculated that he probably went out to "run a single gang."", to live the kind of free life and life that I want to live. Later, I heard that he was forced to work in a low-key manner for nearly 20 years, he worked silently, and the county leaders arranged for him to assist the old writer Mr. Ye Xianen in publishing the biography of the pang'an, and according to the main leaders of the county, he went deep into the fields, the renovation of both sides of the river, the relevant enterprise units, the renovation of old communities and the epidemic prevention and control duty site, published more than 300 news newsletters, research and suggestions articles, and gave full play to the due role and responsibility of a political research worker. He also exerted the spirit of perseverance, attracting two enterprises at his own expense to take root and blossom in Xishui, and he also promoted the start of production of an agricultural processing enterprise before he was retired, with a daily output of 3 to 5 tons of vermicelli. He not only understands the way of attracting investment, but also understands the difficulty of protecting business and securing business, and he has done his best to track and serve the investment promotion enterprises, and has been unanimously praised by the investment promotion enterprises! He deserves it"Advanced worker of the political research system of the provincial party committee"Title.
Now, forty years later, when I had no intention of looking for anyone and no one was looking for me, he came to me, a retired old man who had long been useless. I rarely go out, and I don't know that forty years later, he will live such a free life, busy with other cultures, and at the same time, he also plays with the quaint and fashionable calligraphy and painting culture that is popular nowadays. Around him, a group of old calligraphers and painters from his hometown gathered, writing and ink all day long, living and fragrant, drinking tea, and laughing at poetry and books.
On that day, in the downtown area of the county, his three-storey small building was full of the fragrance of Hanmo Ruisong Academy, new friends and old friends, literati and scholars, gathered together, after a good cigarette and good tea, calligraphy and painting, after singing, I saw that the sunset in the west was gone, night fell, the moon rose in the east, the sky was full of stars, and the street was full of lights. It is said that he often entertained these "county treasures" of his hometown in this way. He even gave them the keys to his Ruisong Academy, he was not at home, the old calligraphers and painters regarded this place as their home, writing here, painting here, exchanging calligraphy and painting skills here, and there were ready-made good cigarettes and tea on the coffee table for the old artists to enjoy before going out, everything was free, even pen, ink, paper and inkstone. At noon, the old artists want to drink two sips, there is a lot of good wine upstairs, just take it, the old artists are interested, you can also cook by yourself, and the fish and meat in the refrigerator and all kinds of fashionable vegetables are also ready-made. Ruisong Academy has become a cultural salon for old artists.
This is a kind of feeling, a kind of cultural person's chivalrous courage!
This is probably the other side of Zhou Rui, who loves culture and traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting in his bones.
After a small gathering this summer, Zhou Rui said that he wanted to ask me to write a preface when he published a collection of speeches, and I thought he was joking with me after eating, and I didn't care much, but I just said in my heart, what kind of pot am I, you Zhou Rui don't invite those celebrities to write the preface, what am I, and the knowledge and fame required to write the preface and some expectations of the person who was written are 108,000 miles away, and the eight poles can't be played, and I don't want him to come really. Once when he went to his Ruisong Academy to see several old calligraphers and painters, he solemnly took out two large copies of his "speech.""With a sincere and sincere face, he asked me to write a preface for its publication. I was stunned, isn't this a big joke? What can I do? When he handed me two large drafts, he did not forget to say, "Will.""I was a "soldier": "You can refuse, or you can extend the time a little longer!" "
Sincere, sincere and almost barbaric, I can't laugh!
I haven't seen each other for nearly 40 years, and I'm no longer me, and he is not the Zhou Rui who wrote poetry, newsletters, and reportage back then. I'm old, and I don't have the sharpness I had back then; Although he is close to the age of sixties, he still has the temperament of the year and the temperament of a poet ......, alas, is also a person who runs for "six", still thinking about culture, doing culture, and busy publishing books, which is not simple. Although I don't have to make it difficult, I know that I should be interesting, and I can't say "no" anymore, but I don't dare to call the words "preface" anyway", Preface for others is a matter of famous and celebrity, and my virtue and talent are not worthy of the word "preface"!
In the face of such Zhou Rui, I can only do my best.
Zhou Rui's forthcoming 200,000-word speech work brings together the speeches he has written for him or her over the years in different industries and at different times and on different occasions, many of which have won awards and even changed the speaker's life.
To tell the truth, the speech itself requires the speaker to have a high comprehensive quality, and the difficulty of writing a speech on behalf of others can be imagined, not the diamond who dares to take this "porcelain work", not to mention that the speaker is generally going to win the award, and the success of the speech is often inseparable from the high-quality speech text. It requires the writer to have a fairly high level of political theoretical literacy, rigorous logical thinking skills, and familiarity with different speakers and their professions. In addition, rich emotions, abundant passion, brilliant writing, touching stories, brilliant details, penetrating language, and so on are all essential. Finally, the speaker's understanding of the text and the speaker's skills and level of speech.
Zhou Rui's speeches are always surprisingly successful, and those different speakers have won awards and become famous, this is his ruthlessness, no wonder so many people have asked him to ghostwrite. He is willing to help others do these difficult things because he has the confidence in this area, and always brings surprises, honors, and progress to people. So there are always people who come to ask him for ......
Zhou Rui is a loose person, he can see a lot of things, but also put down, he likes to be eclectic, do what he likes to do, live his favorite days, over the years, he with his own skills, with a pen not only to write their own works, help others to write, more often for the enterprise to engage in cultural planning, he often carries a bag alone, today on the high-speed rail to a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, tomorrow in the Airbus to the northwest, the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow with a certain boss to the Three Gorges on the highway, Some local enterprises are indispensable to him, and many business owners in other places are also willing to pay for him.
This is an era of big culture, all aspects are in urgent need of cultural injection and nourishment, especially enterprises, Zhou Rui in this good era, like a fish in water, he has a lot of friends in the business community in the economic field, he has his cultural rivers and lakes, he is very busy, his days have been on the road, he is happy to walk in the colorful world outside, and he is used to it, he feels that in his cultural rivers and lakes, a big bowl of wine and large pieces of meat, free, call friends, unrestrained, live a more flavorful life. The outside world is very exciting, there is more suitable soil for him, he has a poetic pen, today here, tomorrow there, happy, not only has his own dignity, but also realizes his own value. He is a literati, he eats by culture, he shakes the pen all his life, makes a living by writing, makes money with the pen in his hand, he realizes cultural values, and gets cultural people, so he has his own days and lives a different scenery from others. He has this ability, this self-confidence, this courage, and this awareness. He is different from many literati in history who are ashamed to talk about money and profit.
This is Zhou Rui's ......
He is full of energy, and at the same time he is obsessed with writing books and publishing books while engaging in cultural planning in the enterprise, doing something for the old generation of calligraphers and painters in his hometown, the old are worth it, the old are happy, and create an environment with residual heat. According to experts, there is a decade of the best time in life from sixty to ancient times. Zhou Rui is about to enter the golden threshold of this decade's good times, I believe, and I eagerly look forward to him, there are more achievements and gains! (Hu Guomin on the night of November 25, 2023).