Ye Shengtao corrected his composition word for word.
Xiao Fuxing said that he was curious about and loved art when he was a child. Before liberation, Xiao Fuxing's father came to Beijing from his hometown of Cangzhou. 1947, his eldest son Xiao Fuxing was born, and his family lived in Polishing Factory Street in the south of Beijing. For his hometown, Xiao Fuxing has no childhood memories. "Although I went back to my hometown when I was a child, I was not impressed.". It was not until his mother died that he buried his mother with his father in his hometown. This was the first time that Xiao Fuxing really went back to his hometown.
Xiao Fuxing still remembers that my sister l5 got her first job when she was 15 years old, and she painted various badges in the Liulian badge factory in the south west riverside of Beijing. Use something called burning blue, similar to shiny broken glass, stick it in the mold of the badge, and burn it on the badge with an alcohol blowtorch. That's what my sister does. Piece-by-piece counts, and she doesn't lift her head for a day. She can make more than 200 badges and earn tens of yuan a month. Counting it, making a badge can only earn a few cents. At that time, my father was paid in 70 yuan every month. My sister's money played a great role for the Xiao family who was struggling at that time. At that time, Xiao Fuxing's family of six people lived a tight life. I heard that a director of the railway department who customized the railway badge at the badge factory said that the Beijing-Baotou Railway being repaired needed people and earned more money. My sister did not listen to the dissuasion of the whole family and quickly resigned from the Liulian badge factory.
These impressions of Xiao Fuxing's childhood are still in his mind today, but the hardship of his family at that time did not obliterate Xiao Fuxing's love for life and appreciation of beautiful things. After embarking on the literary road, his essays often take music as the content, which stems from his love of music as a child. "At that time, my family was poor, and it was impossible to engage in music now, so writing some essays related to music is also a continuation of this childhood dream."
"When we were young, there was a neighborhood in the yard where our mother was a doctor, which can be said to be an intellectual family. His brother-in-law is an overseas Chinese in Indonesia and brought a vertical tape recorder from abroad. " This tape recorder, which was regarded as a "rarity" at that time, left Xiao Fuxing with fond childhood memories. The neighbor boy is a few years older than Xiao Fuxing, and he likes reading aloud very much. "At that time, the radio drama" Lin Hai Xue Yuan "was being broadcasted, so he read aloud to the tape recorder and played it to our children after recording." At that time, Xiao Fuxing was in primary school, and he was surprised and excited to hear the voices of his neighbors' children on the tape recorder.
Reviving the love of literature may be influenced by my father. His father is an employee of the tax bureau and likes reading books. Xiao Fuxing recalled that when he was young, his father had told him many stories he had read in books, such as the classical Bao Gong 'an case and the Water Margin. "My hometown is very close to Ji Xiaolan's hometown. My father once told me some anecdotes about Ji Xiaolan."
When he was still in primary school, Xiao Fuxing's first literary work was Shanghai Literature and Art.. "The book I bought in the street was amazing after reading it. It turned out that in the world of literature, it can be unconstrained. At that time, I also copied some literary works, such as "Ganjia Poetry". " In the third grade of primary school, Xiao Fuxing began to contact the composition class. "The teacher who teaches this course is Zhang Wenbin, the new class teacher. He is in his 40 s and has a strong foreign accent. I can't hear where it is." Teacher Zhang was very strict. At that time, Xiao Fuxing was quite afraid of Teacher Zhang, and he could still clearly remember the appearance of Teacher Zhang standing at the podium table. "Straight waist, raven hair and fluffy hair, standing straight, always remind people of the idiom" Be angry and rush to the crown ".
However, this formidable teacher has a unique way of teaching, which makes Xiao Fuxing recall and admire now. Under the leadership of Teacher Zhang, Xiao Fuxing and his classmates went to the Children's Cinema on Chang 'an Avenue to watch movies before their first composition class. Up to now, Xiao Fuxing still clearly remembers that the movie was "Shangganling". Many years later, he used fresh language to recall that happy childhood episode: "At that time, the children's cinema was just built, and it was completely new inside and outside. The seat of my ticket is upstairs, with layers of chairs from low to high, like a little Vivi on a terrace. As soon as the movie started, a white light shot from the small square hole in the projection room behind me, passing over my shoulder like a silver silent waterfall. I really want to reach out and grab it, and I want to stand up naughty and show a strange shadow on the screen. What makes me feel fresh in particular is that there is a small lamp under each row of seats, which emits a soft and somewhat dim light, so that the small audience who are late don't have to worry about finding a seat. "
After watching the movie, Mr. Zhang assigned a composition for everyone to write about this movie. He said, "Write what you think and think." Xiao Fuxing narrated everything he felt when he watched the movie. Unexpectedly, in the second week's composition class, Mr. Zhang read Xiao Fuxing's composition aloud to the whole class, and gave praise and comments on it. Xiao Fuxing, the teacher's suggestion for revision, has now been forgotten, but his strong foreign accent still makes Xiao Fuxing feel so kind in retrospect. This successful attempt made young Xiao Fuxing interested in writing for the first time.
From then on, Xiao Fuxing fell in love with composition, and the composition class became his most anticipated course. When commenting on the composition, Mr. Zhang often reads Xiao Fuxing's composition. Teacher Zhang also attaches great importance to him, and often says to him after class: "Read more extracurricular books!" " In Xiao Fuxing's eyes, Mr. Zhang has become kind, especially his hard hair is no longer "furious" and has become much softer.
When peking academy was in junior high school, Xiao Fuxing began to write short stories and essays. At that time, there were two wall newspapers "Hundred Flowers" as big as table tennis tables in the school, and teachers and students could contribute. On the second day of junior high school, Xiao Fuxing had a whim. He said to his classmates, "Let's run a wall newspaper ourselves!" Just do it, they did a "Little Hundred Flowers" wall newspaper, and Xiao Fuxing was selected as the editor-in-chief, and each issue posted a 400-word manuscript on a small blackboard and put it in the classroom. Later, the small blackboard was placed in the corridor and was well received by the teachers and students of the school.
The article that is really printed in type is A Portrait. That was when Xiao Fuxing was in the third grade. His composition "A Portrait" was recommended to participate in the Beijing Children's Essay Competition and won the first prize. "The prize is a Xinhua Dictionary". What Xiao Fuxing will never forget is that this composition made him and Mr. Ye Shengtao, then Vice Minister of Education, have a precious "literary fate of forgetting the year".
That summer vacation, the teacher took a mimeographed "A Portrait" to Xiao Fuxing and told Xiao Fuxing that Mr. Ye Shengtao had revised the composition word for word. It turned out that Ye Shengtao attached great importance to this essay contest, reviewed and revised all the winning works, and wrote a comment at the back of each article. Later, these award-winning works, together with Ye Shengtao's comments, were compiled into an anthology, My Sister and I Fight for the Champion. To Xiao Fuxing's excitement, Ye Shengtao also invited the award-winning students to visit him. "At that time, Mr. Ye Shengtao was around 60 years old and approachable. He gave us a lot of encouragement. At that time, I was a child, and I was very happy to get advice from a great writer. This is also the first time I have seen a great writer. "
Ye Zhishan, the eldest son of Ye Shengtao, was also a "noble man" who helped Xiao Fuxing when he first set foot on the literary road. 197 1 winter, Xiao Fuxing, who had jumped the queue to Qixing Farm in the Great Northern Wilderness, was sent to feed pigs at PigNo. l8, which is far away from the farm. There are 200 pigs in the Pig, including the squad leader, a local farmer, even Xiao Fuxing, and a stray from Shandong. There are only a few people, and there is nothing to do, and no one can be seen. Loneliness and desolation are like a net wrapped tightly around Xiao Fuxing's heart.
In this situation, Xiao Fuxing wrote prose and his own life of jumping the queue. He wants to send the prose to Ye Shengtao and ask him for advice. But at that time Ye Shengtao was listed in the list of downfall, and Xiao Fuxing dared not contact him, so he sent the letter to Ye Zhishan, Mr. Ye's eldest son. Ye Zhishan wrote back to Xiao Fuxing soon, saying that it was well written and could be published, and revised Xiao Fuxing's prose word by word, and made comments. Some articles changed greatly, so he copied it again and sent it back for fear that Xiao Fuxing could not read it clearly. Ye Zhishan was the president and editor-in-chief of China Children's Publishing House at that time. He had just returned from the May 7th ultra-leftwing in Henan and was "idle" at home. Like his father, he cared and helped Xiao Fuxing, a young man he had never met before, and gave Xiao Fuxing great encouragement and confidence. Now recalling Ye Shengtao's father and son's encouragement and care for themselves, Xiao Fuxing's inter-lingual gratitude naturally shows, "It was they who gave me selfless help and played an important role in my literary career".
3 1 year-old "old age" enters Chinese opera
Now, whenever the Central Academy of Drama enrolls students, students flock from all over the world, sharpening their heads and squeezing into the door of Chinese opera. Xiao Fuxing graduated from Chinese Opera, but he became attached to Chinese Opera by accident. In l966, on the eve of Xiao Fuxing's high school graduation, art colleges enrolled students in advance, and the Central Academy of Drama came to Huiwen Middle School to recruit students who could create and perform, hoping that the school would recommend outstanding students. "At that time, the school recommended me. The teacher asked me to have a look. " Xiao Fuxing worked as the president of the Jiao Jiao Student Union in middle school, organized literary activities and performed small programs, but his ideal was to enter Peking University, and he didn't know much about Chinese opera. "The dean specially found me and said that you can go. You can't be forced if you don't want to take the exam." So, Xiao Fuxing entered the examination room of Chinese opera. He remembered that he performed a small program and told his own experience. "The teacher who interviewed probably felt that my conditions were suitable and took me backstage." Xiao Fuxing passed the interview and the second interview. In May, Chinese Opera sent Xiao Fuxing an admission notice. However, the "Cultural Revolution" broke out, and Xiao Fuxing's road to further studies was ruthlessly cut off.
But his fate with Chinese opera has not been interrupted. In l974, Xiao Fuxing returned to Beijing from the Great Northern Wilderness with great joy, and his status as an educated youth in the countryside turned into an unemployed youth in the city. At that time, Xiao Fuxing, who was 27 years old, couldn't find a job for a long time and was given a cold shoulder, so he had to be a substitute teacher in a primary school. In l976, he went to Beijing East Railway Camp No.2 Middle School to teach Chinese as a class teacher. In the spring of that year, Xiao Fuxing called the reception office. There was a newspaper on the desk. He accidentally found a central drama and a college enrollment brochure, and his heart was pounding. The Chinese Opera Admission Notice requires candidates to be between 18 and 3 1 year old. Xiao Fuxing was just 3 1 year-old, and had published poems and novels in Poetry Magazine and People's Literature. When he went back with a newspaper, he told his colleagues. Those teachers all said that if you haven't stopped reading and writing, just take the exam again and you will be admitted. Encouraged by his colleagues, he signed up for the exam and won it as soon as he passed it.
1978, when Xiao Fuxing walked into the Central Academy of Drama with a notice, l2 years passed and he had mixed feelings. Laugh at yourself as a "second palace." "In Chinese opera, I studied the screenplay, but my interest is not there. The screenplay is a collective creative work, which is not suitable for me. But Chinese opera has also taught me a lot. " After graduating from Chinese opera, Xiao Fuxing stayed in school to teach. "There are classes every week, and I feel that teaching delays time." Xiao Fuxing's interest lies in writing, hoping to pursue a career in writing. "The dean kept me and gave me great freedom", but he went out of Chinese opera without hesitation and became a professional writer.
The son said "look down" on the professional writer father who can only write.
In recent years, the publishing industry has heated up emerging young writers such as Han Han, and for a time young writers have been heated up. In this regard, Xiao Fuxing said: "The growth rate of children far exceeds our expectations, and it is inevitable for the times to write their own lives and emotions. However, the overheated commercial operation at present has the nature of encouraging young people to write, which is harmful to innocent teenagers. Juvenile writing is not a unique phenomenon in China. I have read Crazy written by a German boy, Benjamin Lebert, who is 16 years old. In my opinion, being too light and too commercialized is far from the essence of literature. "
Xiao Fuxing's son, Xiao Tie, began to publish a composition in the Pupils' Language Newspaper in the fourth grade. After his writing "Transfer Students" set off a whirlwind of juvenile writing in the literary world, he turned to devote himself to the review of the college entrance examination, was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, and became one of the youngest members of the Chinese Writers Association. He published several novels and the response was not bad. During the whole university, Xiao Tie has been in a state of disappearance, and it was not until seven years after he became famous that he published the novel Flying Killer.
Regarding the choice of his son, Xiao Fuxing said, "It's really distressing and comforting". He said, "My son has been a' good boy' since he was a child. After the first novel came out, he would be on cloud nine, but he soon understood what he should do. The college entrance examination is a hurdle he must pass. " Talking about the difference with other young writers of the same age, Xiao Fuxing said, "In fact, my son's rebellious thoughts are also there, but they are not easily manifested on the outside."
It is reported that although Xiao Tie likes writing, he still looks down on Xiao Fuxing, the father of a professional writer who can't do anything except writing. Xiao Tie wrote this novel after intense study. Xiao Fuxing said, "Xiao Tie still hopes to be a scholarly writer who is both knowledgeable and able to write books. How many novels can't be written after learning is done? "