One
Brother Xue Yiran, director of the Innovation and Research Department of the Suzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the "Suzhou Pass" in my eyes - the alleys of Suzhou, the bridges of Suzhou, the tea of Suzhou, the gardens of Suzhou, the artists of the past and present, the food and chefs of Suzhou...... He has written them all, not just one or two articles, but one book after another. Many books are often printed by publishing houses, and you have to understand Suzhou and enter Suzhou to read Yiranjun's books. He told us about Suzhou, and we all listened very religiously and really learned.
He was born in Dongtai, Yancheng, and after graduating from school, he went to Suzhou to be a son-in-law with a girl he loved, and as a result, he did a lot of things for the city of Suzhou. The natives of Suzhou can't do it. He is extremely smart, has great wisdom, in the nineties of the last century I ran the "Oriental Star" magazine, asked him to open a column for me, every month I received his manuscript on the day I will be very happy, at the dinner table at home I read his article, read and read I will laugh, that is a kind of heartfelt laughter, appreciate the laughter. I would have had an extra glass of wine for his article.
We met in Suzhou in 1988 and have been playing until today. He was the bridgehead for me to enter Suzhou, and many friends in Suzhou met through him, and some of them have become friends who have been playing for a long time.
He writes about me, affirms me, and I am certainly happy; But I know that there is a big part of this affirmation, which is the affirmation of the brotherly friendship between us, and the affirmation that both of us have been able to overcome all kinds of difficulties to get to this day.
Two
Lin Hai was four years younger than me, and he had a lot of turbulent experiences when he was young - he was born in Nanjing, and then went to Qinghai with his father, and then transferred to Taizhou to study in middle school. After doing a lot of farm work, he was admitted to Xinjiang University in 1978 and studied Uyghur language. After graduation, he was assigned to work in the Xinjiang Department of Agriculture, and then worked as a reporter and editor in the District Science and Technology News; Later, he was transferred back to Yangzhou to take care of his mother. He worked in the Propaganda Department for more than 30 years before retiring.
He has always had the blood of poetry in his veins, and it was a matter of time before he became a poet. During the Spring Festival this year, I visited my sister and had a long chat with him. There are no barriers to communication, and we can think of many people and things together. In the past two years, because his daughter was in England, he spent more time writing poems alone under the moonlight thousands of miles away. I feel that he is at a kind of creative peak, the death of Mr. Qi Bangyuan, the 90th birthday of the poet Ye Lu, etc., he has a poetry line on the same day. He recently sent me a set of several revised "Childhood Narratives", with 32 songs, more than 1,000 lines, intercepting the most impressive fragments (or events) in his memory of the city he lived in in his childhood (including teenagers) as an entry point, and conducting in-depth exploration, the vision of childhood and the current cognition are cross-blended, and the turmoil in his heart can still be more accurately conveyed after more than half a century, so that peers who have experienced the same era have strong resonance and empathy. This group of his poems is not only unique and unique in terms of expression, but also in the fact that the mental journey of a teenager he discloses actually condenses an era, a specific era that we have all experienced, and its ups and downs, thunders and lightning are all in its flesh and blood description. Thus, the image of a poet who is upright, kind, passionate, and more forbearant may remain in the last outburst jumps on the page.
Three
Zhang Jiawenjun, who was far away in Kunming, only got a one-sided relationship. It was the winter of 1988 (or a year later), and I went on a business trip to Beijing to visit Hong Zhu, a young poet who had just graduated from Wuhan University and started working at the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Company. I met Zhang Jiawen in Hong Candle's office, and the two of them were about the same age. Jiawen studied at Yunnan University, and had just graduated at that time, and was assigned to work as an editor at Kunming Daily. Jiawen is a farmer's child, who doesn't talk much and is extremely simple. After that, he often sent me newspapers, and the layout he edited was called "Ten Thousand Lights". I also often write for him, and he is very polite and calls me Mr. Wang. In fact, he had already published many prose poems that highlighted his talent and rich in the regional characteristics of Yunnan, and some prose poets such as Geng Linmang gradually noticed Jiawen's works in the early nineties, and many of them wrote comments for him many times.
He was a very good poet and a good editor, and he was very committed to his work - during the years when he presided over the "Lights of Ten Thousand Homes", he was impressed by many famous writers in China. He is also very serious about the editorial work, every time he uses your manuscript, he will definitely send you a sample newspaper, and he will write a few greetings in the blank space above the page. Last fall, I moved to organize my old belongings and found that most of the yellowed stacks of the Kunming Daily, which had published my articles, had his handwriting on them. Later, Jiawen became the leader of the newspaper in these years, but he always remembered me as an old author, and asked the editor of the supplement to ask me to write a manuscript. Not long ago, he sent me a WeChat message saying that he would retire next spring. I couldn't help but be surprised, he was clearly a timid young man in my mind.
Four
It was around 1988 that I had a written correspondence with Brother He Wanmin. At that time, he was working as an artist in a movie theater called Meigu County in Liangshan, Sichuan, and because of his love for movies, he wrote a lot of film reviews and contributed to the "Merry Generation" magazine where I worked at that time. His handwriting is exceptionally good, and I enjoy reading his manuscripts; He has his own unique vision for the analysis and evaluation of films, so such manuscripts are often used. I later started another publication, and he still supported me with the best articles. This relationship lasted for about a decade. Later, I lost touch due to job transfers. Interestingly, twenty years later, we met in the same article in a journal in the Northeast. The editor-in-chief of this publication was very enthusiastic and gave my WeChat business card to Wan Min. Both of them were very excited, and talked about their respective life paths over the years through a long series of voices. This young man in my eyes is worthy of the years, he has worked hard in his studies, and has written many books about the past and present life of Daliangshan, which is known as a "living map" that leads the world to go deep into Liangshan; He is also well-read and has written a large number of book reviews and reviews covering multiple disciplines and categories; Soon after graduating from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, he was summoned by his hometown "Liangshan Daily" to join the company, and went from editor and reporter to deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper. In April last year, he was invited to participate in the seminars and activities organized by the China Newspaper Supplement Association in many places in Jiangsu, so that a pair of friends of more than 30 years finally met. We talked about the wine in Jinling, and felt that fate treated us well.
Not long ago, he got my little book, and I was the first to publish a reading review article without insight, which touched me very much. He invited me to go to Liangshan many times in his letters, but I don't know if I can get my wish in this life.
Five
An Wulin, a friend who has never met, a friend who loves children and flowers. He said that he loves children because he has written and published many fairy tales and children's poems for children, and some of them have been translated by translators and exported abroad. I saw from his circle of friends that the latest output of the book is called "Children Counting Stars", published by Qingdao Publishing House, and the export country is United Kingdom. said that he loves flowers, because he planted all kinds of flowers in the yard of his home in Beijing, and he often photographed flowers in various shapes and sent nine square grids. He happily transplants or changes the soil for the flowers he has planted, removes the surrounding weeds, and picks up some stones that affect the appearance. He talks to the flowers, looking for inspiration for his writing.
I haven't read his work in its entirety, but judging from a recent poem he took that included in the book, his poems are fresh, simple, and good at grasping the picture. In this little poem entitled "Summer", he wrote: "In the summer / The cicadas are as smart as children / The children throw their clothes on the banks of the river / Enjoy the coolness of the river / The cicadas hang their clothes on the hooks of flowers / Enjoy the shade of the leaves / The laughter of children wafts in the river / The song of cicadas wafts in the trees."
As a writer of children's literature, An Wulin is very influential among children, and he is often invited to give lectures to children in primary and secondary schools, children's palaces, and libraries across the country, or sign his books for children. He must be a very cheerful person, and I found that he is happy to show the content of his life in the circle of friends - sometimes I see him in a hotel in a foreign country, spread out a table of books, it is more than 10 o'clock in the evening, and he is still signing books under the lamp. Through WeChat, I took the liberty of asking his resume, and learned that he was a native of Xia County, Shanxi, and at the age of 22, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Shandong University without examination, and after graduation, he was assigned to Shaanxi Automobile Manufacturing Factory as a secretary. Later, because he wrote some excellent children's literature, he was introduced as a special talent by Beijing Publishing Group, and settled in Beijing for several years. He is currently the planning director of a children's publishing house.
He got my book from a friend in Beijing, and got to know me a little better, and then he communicated and interacted with me in a literary friend group. On weekdays, he also likes to collect old books, and several times he saw some of my studies from old books and periodicals in the seventies and eighties of the last century, and then solemnly took photos and sent them to me, and said that he would send me the books and periodicals he received. I was deeply touched by his enthusiasm.