Wu Shuang, the daughter of Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia, is a famous singer and playwright. She graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in her early years and is a coloratura soprano singer. She later studied Western music in the United States for 6 years. Representative works "Bright Trilogy": "Don't Worry About Your Looks", "Beautiful Women", "Father and Daughter". He is the author of works such as "Don't Ask Who My Parents Are", "Wu Shuang Sees People" and the TV series "New Fengxia Legend".
Wu Shuang is very persistent, especially reading. In her own words, she loves reading to death. "Ke" means "to fight". Once Wu Shuang's energy came up, no one would be her opponent. Even "A Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four classic Chinese classics, would be defeated by her. At that time, Wu Shuang is still a child.
Perseverance defeats "Dream of Red Mansions"
Wu Shuang is the youngest in the family. Although his two brothers also like reading, only Wu Shuang is a book lover. She was the best at grabbing books in the whole family. Some books were borrowed from outside, so she grabbed them first and held them. She has been very interested in the dense black characters since she was a child. Mr. Wu Zuguang has a large collection of books. When he was seven or eight years old, Wu Shuang began to look through his father's bookshelf frequently. However, he was not very literate at that time. He wanted to read these books but could not. Understand, she was anxious and felt uncomfortable. At that time, she was most interested in the light green-covered "Dream of Red Mansions" on her father's bookshelf, but it was in traditional Chinese and could not be understood. Wu Shuang couldn't help but feel very uncomfortable. Mr. Wu Zuguang wouldn't let her read this big book, so Wu Shuang read it secretly. I secretly read it, but still couldn't understand it, so Wu Shuang's persistence came back. She began to "kill it" piece by piece. When she read a piece, if she didn't understand something, she would ask her father. In this way, she and this "Dream of Red Mansions" has been "dead" for ten years, but "Dream of Red Mansions" just couldn't defeat the persistent Wu Shuang and ended in a disastrous failure.
Today, decades later, recalling this experience of "breaking" the book, Wu Shuang still has a face of joy and happiness. Wu Shuang firmly believes that as long as you want to do something , nothing is impossible.
The reading method was broken by his father
During the ten years of the "Cultural Revolution", Wu Shuang began to read excessively. She would try to borrow and read whatever books were circulating in the society, especially Chinese and Western classics. Wu Shuang clearly remembered that there was a book called "The Grudge of Monte Cristo". It somehow leaked out of the library and into the society. Everyone passed it around and everyone only had three days to read the book. After three days, It would be passed to another person, so that when the book was passed to Wu Shuang, it had already been torn.
The craze for reading at that time was like the craze for star chasing today. Today, if someone mentions Jay Chou to you and you say you don't know it, you will definitely be called "old-fashioned"; back then, people all read "The Return of the Old Woman," "A Dream of Autumn," "War and Peace," "Red "And Black"... If you haven't read it, others will call you an "outdated youth". Wu Shuang would never be left behind, so she read world famous books desperately because she felt ashamed not to read these books at that time. .
This kind of disorderly reading lasted for nearly ten years, and was finally broken by my father. When the "Cultural Revolution" was about to end, the control was not strict at that time. Once his father came back from the May 7th Cadre School and found that Wu Shuang's reading was irregular. He read whatever he caught, so he found a writer named Zhang. Her uncle gave her guidance. Uncle Zhang's family had not been raided and had thousands of books. He taught Wu Shuang how to read regularly. Because Wu Shuang is a girl, he asked Wu Shuang to read books about successful women first, and then read books about classics and dramas. Wu Shuang was most impressed by "The Autobiography of Duncan", "Wuthering Heights" by the three British Bront? sisters, "Jane Eyre", "Agnes Gray" and Zhang Ailing's books.
In addition, she also read some novels like Jack London, not only their novels, but also their autobiographies.
Wu Shuang especially likes to read a set of "Vientiane" magazines from Uncle Zhang's house. Under his guidance, Wu Shuang read a lot of books. For Wu Shuang, this is the most precious reading time in her life.
Later, Mr. Wu Zuguang discovered that Wu Shuang always read some books that were very feminine, so he instructed her that she should read some must-read Chinese classical books, such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Historical Records" ", "The Scholars", Yuan Opera, etc. But girls will be girls after all. Wu Shuang doesn't like reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or "Water Margin", but Wu Zuguang said that you must read these books. If you like literature, you must read these books. .
Reluctantly, Wu Shuang began to memorize large sections of "Historical Records", which was originally very boring for her at that age. She couldn't understand, so she just memorized it. Later, Wu Shuang's persistence came back and she started to "die" again. ?" "Historical Records". When she was seventeen or eighteen years old, Wu Shuang started to memorize Tang poetry again, whenever she had nothing to do. In the late period of the "Cultural Revolution", when there was no school to go to, Wu Shuang would pick out the books he thought he should read at home every day and memorize the poems he should memorize. These past few years have become the happiest time of studying in Wu Shuang's life.
When today, many years later, the busy life and work make her lament that she no longer has time to study, she will happily think of that time, when it was as dark as night and everyone was in danger, to Her loving father actually created a time for her to read without any scruples!
Later, Wu Shuang began to learn piano and music. Until now, she no longer has time to study to her heart's content, which has become her biggest regret. Therefore, Wu Shuang wanted to write an article - "Unable to Read".
When the bookshelf is full, my heart feels at ease
When fighting with books, Wu Shuang always wins; when fighting with his father for books, Wu Shuang still wins, as if everything is full of comedy , maybe her persistence and obsession with books moved God, so Wu Shuang always stood by her every time she encountered problems related to books. With books, Wu Shuang's life becomes fun; with Wu Shuang's company, the value of books becomes even more precious.
Wu Zuguang’s home has a large collection of books, and he is known as the “number one book collector in Chaoyang District.” Wu Shuang especially likes his father’s books. Looking at the bookshelf full of books, Wu Shuang feels at ease. But one day at the end of 1998, Wu Zuguang suddenly decided to donate some of his books, probably more than 5,000 volumes, to the Beijing Theater School. When the Beijing Theater School came to pick up the books, Wu Shuang saw that they had taken away the books in packages, and she became anxious and said that I still want these books. Wu Zuguang said no, we have too many books at home, Wu Zuguang said Shuang refused and had a fight with his father. Later, the people at the Beijing Theater School became embarrassed and said, father and daughter, please stop arguing and let her keep whatever books she wants. Finally, at Wu Shuang's insistence , Wu Zuguang made concessions, and just like that, more than 100 books were intercepted and became Wu Shuang's favorite. Although many books were taken away, fortunately, not long after, many new books were added to the house. Wu Shuang became happy when she saw that the bookshelves were filled again.
In 1981, Wu Shuang received a scholarship from an American university and studied abroad. When he got there, inspired by all kinds of life, Wu Shuang turned to writing books. Writing and reading books have become almost all of Wu Shuang's life. Wu Shuang said that this is her favorite and the two are indispensable.
The romance is just the past tense
Wu Shuang's favorite book is "A Dream of Red Mansions". When she was sixteen or seventeen years old, she could finally understand it. Wu Shuang read this book over and over again. Each time she read it, she deepened her understanding of it. Wu Shuang felt that this book was so well written. In the past, I only read about the romance in it, about Jia Baoyu falling in love, and later about how Jia Zheng got into politics, how Jia Yucun fooled people, and the lives of the little people in it. The more I read, the more interesting it became. She can memorize large sections of this book. Among China's four great masterpieces, Wu Shuang believes that only "A Dream of Red Mansions" has the most social and literary significance. Its literary level, literary value and originality are unmatched by the other three.
Wu Shuang loves houses and crows, and also likes to read various research articles and books about "Dream of Red Mansions". Someone once said to Wu Shuang: "When you can understand the book that comments on "Dream of Red Mansions", you will have reached a certain level." Even Wu Shuang's later writing was deeply influenced by "Dream of Red Mansions".
Wu Shuang also likes to read books by Bai Xianyong and Zhang Ailing. They are both very successful writers deeply influenced by "Dream of Red Mansions".
Being busy at work and having less time to read, Wu Shuang chose to read short stories and some scripts. This had a great influence on her dramatic writing. She read Molière, Shakespeare, Wilde, Bernard Shaw, China's Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, and the plays written by her father Wu Zuguang.
"There may not be 10 playwrights among 100 writers. The creative level of playwrights is higher." Wu Shuang is now a writer and a playwright.
Accumulate experience and shorten the maturity period
Everyone needs to accumulate experience, especially your knowledge base. If you read more books, your maturity period can be advanced. , you can also advance the time for your results, which is a shortcut.
The richer a person's life experience is, the more creative you can be to society. If you study in advance and read more books, your explosive power can be advanced. Reading a lot can replace your experience.
It is said that "traveling thousands of miles, reading thousands of books", Wu Shuang said that her life experience abroad has also increased her experience, which is equivalent to reading. She is most grateful to her parents for teaching her how to study and for sending her abroad. Thumbs up, Wu Shuang said: "Awesome!"
"Reading can make people creative in society in advance. Hahaha..." Wu Shuang's hearty laughter revealed Somewhat proud of this concluding sentence. Wu Shuang believes that if a person wants to get good results nowadays, he has to go through several stages such as elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, and graduate school, and reading more can shorten this time period.
Among the roles of playwright, singer, and writer, Wu Shuang’s favorite role is the role of writer, because this kind of creation is independent, free and unconstrained. Wu Shuang revealed that she is currently writing a book "Our Family", which is not about family history, but about various aspects of life in Wu Shuang's eyes.
Wu Shuang likes to write about small characters because she thinks they are the most difficult to write about. In order to get to know the little people more deeply, she could chat with the old lady selling popsicles on the street for hours, and she could also eavesdrop on two women talking about family affairs and private matters. These are the sources of her creation.
If you want to succeed, you must first learn to be a human being
On weekdays, my mother Xin Fengxia likes to say: act on stage, and be a human being off stage. As a mother who was a folk artist, this sentence was her very deliberate code of conduct throughout her life. A famous saying often written by his father Wu Zuguang is: Unyielding is the most noble thing, and the richest thing is poverty. The way in which these two cultural celebrities' parents conduct themselves can actually be explained as a reason and a source of their career success. Therefore, Wu Shuang always said that her parents are her first role models in getting along with others in her life.
"I think that in a person's life, achievements may not come first, but how one behaves must be the primary factor in success."