Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Song Hao
This year is the ninth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and mr. Feng Jicai, a writer and cultural scholar, has his eightieth birthday. In an interview with the media a week ago, he said that he had made an appointment with his mother to eat noodles with her. My mother is 105 years old.
"I think it's rare that I'm 80 years old and can still visit my mom. When I wait for noon on March 11, my mother and I will eat noodles together, and I think this is a special and profound scene, I will have a lot of touches, and maybe in the future I will write down the feelings of eating noodles this time. ”
Many people know Feng Jicai's name today, not only because of the texts such as "Pearl Bird", "Clay Man Zhang", "Tall Woman and Her Short Husband" in primary and secondary school textbooks, as well as those popular literary works, but also his work in the field of cultural heritage protection.
Do you remember the illustration of "Pearl Bird" in the textbook?
The four fields of painting, literature, cultural heritage protection and education, he himself called the "four carriages" dedicated to his life.
Feng Jicai is widely known as a writer, but for nearly 20 years, he withdrew from the literary world and devoted himself to the rescue of folk cultural heritage, until he was too old to run and inconvenient, and returned to literature.
But returning to literature is not about abandoning the protection of cultural heritage, Feng Jicai said, "This will be my life's work." He felt that there was still a lot to do, and often sighed: "I don't lack anything now, I lack time." ”
In recent years, his "Artists", "Ordinary Strangers", "Studio a Hole in the Sky", "Danube Gorge" and other publications can be described as highly prolific. In April last year, the Qianjiang Evening News and Zhejiang Xinhua's "Spring Breeze Yue Reading List" was announced, and Feng Jicai won the Platinum Book Award of the Year for his novel "Artists".
The 80th birthday of this old writer loved by the whole people, Jingdong Mall also launched the "Mr. Feng Jicai 80th Anniversary Book Special Session".
The hourly news reporter met this long-looking old writer for the first time last year, shook hands with him who was more than 1 meter 9 tall, and his first impression was: "It is not a loss that the professional basketball team plays center!" (In 1961, at the age of 19, he joined the Tianjin men's basketball team as a center forward.) Later, due to injury, he withdrew from the sports world and transferred to the Tianjin Calligraphy and Painting Society, specializing in painting. ）
On the evening of April 27, Mr. Feng Jicai delivered an acceptance speech at the Spring Breeze Reading Ceremony:
When I received the trophy from Jingze and Yu Zong's hands, I felt a kind of strength, and I took this strength as a kind of support, which was my personal feeling. This year, I should be 80 years old. I am much younger than Ma Zhituma, my mother is a contemporary of Ma Lao, and she is 105 years old this year. But my feeling for myself is still 60, a generation younger than my actual age.
I'm still doing three things, one is writing, one is cultural heritage preservation, and the other is education.
Writing goes without saying. Immediately after today's award ceremony, I was about to rush to Xitang, where we invited experts from traditional village conservation at home and abroad to hold a seminar on scientific conservation. I also struggled for one thing in the university, that is, to establish cultural heritage as a first-level discipline, and everyone knows how difficult it is to establish a discipline, and it takes a lot of effort.
For me, writing is not good to say whether it is amateur or professional, anyway, I feel that I am professional when writing, but when I do cultural heritage protection, my writing is definitely amateur. So in recent years, some media have said that I am back to writing. But I find it difficult to say, and I can only smile bitterly, because literature is the cause of my spirit, the cause of a society that I am in awe of, and the protection of cultural heritage is something that our generation cannot bypass or avoid, it is an epochal, of course, it is also a historical mission, and we must do it.
Because during the transition of the times, if our generation does not defend our heritage, the next generation will not have it, and there must be a group of people who come out to do this, and I cannot refuse.
Some people say that when a person gets older, he will have less and less resources to create, but I don't think so. I now have a feeling that a writer is better off living in a different era.
I remember when I was young, in my 40s, living in the Humanities Club, and the president at that time was Mr. Yan Wenjing. At that time, I wrote too hard, I had cardiac dysfunction, people are not good, Yan Wenjing wrote me a letter, this letter I still keep, he said in the letter, "Feng Jicai, no matter how much you have to live, only if you live more, you can see life completely, you can really see through life." ”
I think it would be a blessing for a writer to come through a different era.
For example, I wrote about the era of spiritual supremacy in the 80s, when we were one thing, and now the era of consumption that pervades the vulgar social view may be another look. If a person passes through these different times, his outlook on life, values, and sense of destiny will definitely change. But if a person can still stick to the original, his life must be another scene, another realm.
So faced with what I want to write and what I want to do, I certainly need to choose because I'm running out of time. At 80, you don't know how much more time God can give you. When I was 75 years old doing cultural heritage rescue, I made a speech, and at the end of the talk, I said, everyone rest assured, I still have to do cultural heritage protection, if God wants me to do more, give me a little more time.
I don't know how much time I have left, but I have to find the necessary, important things to do. Therefore, today, I regard all aspects of the creative process, including the support of readers, as my love and encouragement.
I can only do a little more for our nation, for our culture; write a few more books, for the sake of readers, to repay everyone.
Thank you!
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