During the Spring Festival in 2024, in the lively festive atmosphere, I hid in the hut and quietly read Professor Wang Jingjing's essay collection "Where to Wake Up Tonight". This book takes the author's life experience as a clue, simple and elegant, fresh and clear, seemingly casual and idle narration and trivial mortal things, but full of strong warmth, permeated with the flavor of life, reading thousands of thoughts, resonance with the same life. Opening this book, along with the author's emotional rhythm of reminiscing about the passing years, we also walked into the life of the water town in the countryside of Xiangbei, recalling the innocence of his student days, experiencing the people and things in his memory, and revisiting the ordinary and unforgettable true feelings and ...... in the world
After reading the whole book, what I feel most strongly is the deep nostalgia for his hometown and homeland revealed by the author's pen. In "Three Thousand Miles of the Ancient Garden", the author depicts a beautiful picture of the shore of Dongting, where there are both the vast smoke waves on the shore of Shanbo Lake, the fishing boats singing at night, the thousands of rice waves, and the ten thousand acres of lotus ponds, which are like a fairyland on earth; There are also colorful cultural scenes, such as the myths and legends passed down by word of mouth, the inspirational allusions of "Reading at Night", and the historical past of Fan Zhongyan's reading platform. Professor Wang Jingjing is extremely nostalgic for his hometown, because this scenery of grass, trees, mountains and rivers carries "all the joys and longings of his childhood". The author can't forget the scene of a midsummer night, when a bamboo bed was placed on the Lishui embankment to rest and cool, when the elders talked about the harvest and the children listened to the story, and from time to time there were bursts of laughter, which was yesterday; I can't forget the thrilling scene of stealing fish in the pond with my playmates such as "floating on the water" and "flying on the grass", and digging birds' nests in the trees; I can't forget my mother's hometown dishes such as fried leeks with oil residue, egg glutinous rice balls, and fried chili paste small fish. As a fellow villager, when I read the description of my hometown in the book, my mind seemed to return to my hometown for a moment, and the familiar ditches and ditches, farmland and fish ponds appeared in front of me, and the laughter and laughter of the villagers came to my ears, and I felt extremely quiet and fulfilled in my heart, which must be the charm of my hometown!
One side of the water and soil raises one person, a person was born and grew up in Sri Lanka, and the growth experience of his hometown will be cast in the depths of his mind and become his spiritual background and cultural genes.
As the first college student in the village, the villagers told the author when they saw him off: "You can only make friends with Xinyizi and get close to elegant people", and the author still remembers it many years later. In the book, it is mentioned that although his father is illiterate, he is a decent and fair person, and he is willing to give charity, and he has taught the author many times to value love and righteousness, and at the same time taught him not to lose his true character as a peasant. Once, my father took the initiative to ask to read an article he had written, and when I heard the author finish reading an article about the circulation of cultivated land, my father said meaningfully, "Well, I understand the article that I wrote and spoke for the peasants." "Those who fall into the ground think of their trees, and those who drink their streams cherish their sources." Anyone who has read the author's economics research works knows that he has always adhered to the position of speaking for the peasants, and this academic ethics and interest are rooted in the little influence of his hometown life.
The author is the son of a farmer, who came out of the countryside step by step. His life experience is worth thinking about and experiencing from a small place to a big stage and a big city, especially today's young people. After reading this book, I also have a strong feeling that the author is like a close friend, sharing his life experience and life insights with sincerity.
In the article "Remembering Teacher Shi", the author said that Teacher Shi has a mantra called "use your brain", and later this sentence became the author's motto, what to do, you have to ask yourself "use your brain". "Using your brain" is a kind of thinking quality, which emphasizes that we should be good at deep thinking, grasp the essential laws of things, and find ways to solve problems. Over the years of my work, I have deeply realized that whether it is writing materials or doing work, a general underlying migration ability is to have a clear idea of doing things, and to be able to grasp the essential information of things, rather than fragmentary information, so as to guide oneself to make correct decisions and judgments. And a person who doesn't know how to use his brain and is not good at using his brain is often busy and self-moving, but he has little effect and is difficult to grow.
In the article "True Buddha Only Speaks Common Words", the author emphasizes that "whether you write an article or give a lecture, it is to make people understand and resonate", no matter how profound a knowledge is, it can be expressed in plain language, and for lectures that you don't understand, you will get up and leave. In the article "Speaking of Literary Style", the author pointed out that literary style is related to the party's style, and he has a painful feeling about articles that have nothing to say and empty reports that are full of empty words. What is simple and sincere is the most touching and will always live on in the world.
As the saying goes: Life is unsatisfactory in ten **. The world is complicated, family trivialities, workplace pressure, among which everyone is experiencing bittersweet and sour. But looking at this book, you can't find discouragement and pessimism, you can't see the depression and decadence of the will, only the tranquility and calmness that has passed by time, giving people a kind of power for good. A description in the preface of the book: "On this quiet night, when the silver moonlight shines into the study, I look up at the stars alone in front of the window, and I can't help but sigh: Where will I wake up tonight?" Reading this, I fell into contemplation, and felt that the author had seen how many life landscapes and how many times he had experienced before he could boil such an indifferent state.
I am confident that if I live for 200 years, I will be hit by water for 3,000 miles", the author has the stubbornness of Hunan people who "harden the village and fight dumbly" and dare to be the first in the world. However, the author mentioned luck many times in the book, Chen said that he had "nobles" to help him at the juncture of his life, and lamented that the companions along the way were swept away in the torrent of the times. The author points out luck, which is not superstition, but highlights Professor Wang's soberness and transparency. People do not work hard to have good results, believe in luck and chance, in order to actively strive for the end of knowledge, so that you can reconcile with yourself, break the "thief in the heart", and lead to a peaceful and diluted state of life. As emphasized in the "University", "Knowing and then having a certainty, being certain and then being able to be quiet, being quiet and then being able to be peaceful, being at peace and then being able to consider, and then being able to get after thinking." ”
A few years ago, there was a Mexican movie "Dream Travel" in China, one of the core ideas is "death is not goodbye, forgetting is", indeed, if no one in the world remembers themselves, it represents a real death. This book "Where to Wake Up Tonight" is a stop to look back at the way people came from, and a collective memory and praise of those unforgettable people and events. Through this book, more people know a place called Huangjiatai, see the backs of those who have left, and make the past existence more meaningful and powerful. Friends, let's open this small collection full of life emotions and wisdom, activate the dusty memories, look back with the author on those warm and mixed feelings of the past, and pay tribute to the touching moments.
Zhang An).