Don’t forget why you set out in the first place just because you have gone too far

I thought I would keep writing, but little did I know that it was forgotten by me as I kept thinking about it, and it passed in a flash. So long. When I opened it again, I regained the memories that I had forgotten, and when I saw how I felt in the past, a faint sadness came to my heart. "Don't forget why you set out in the first place because you have gone too far." This is what I saw in a friend's main business, and it touched me deeply. Often we always get confused and lose our direction because of this ever-changing life. I once deviated from the track of life, gave up my original dreams, and abandoned my principles due to various reasons. The nightmare-like memory is so clear and real. The sigh of the setting sun, the worries of flowers blooming and falling, maybe life is inherently unhappy! The lost love always makes me feel uneasy and worried, because after all, I am no longer the perfect me. The me who was ignorant about everything has grown up, and I have gone too far and forgotten why I set out in the first place... There are too many beautiful things in the world, and I have always been yearning for and pursuing the beauty that I don’t have. , and finally don’t know where to end up, and lose yourself! So, don’t forget why you set out in the first place because you have gone too far, stick to your original intention, you will achieve success, you will get happiness, and your life will be perfect!

Who still remembers the ambitions of his youth? Where have all the promises made in my youth gone now? No matter how far you go, never forget the dream you had when you set out. Only with dreams in mind can you go further and further.

Yes. , a person must not forget his original intention.

Don’t forget why you set out in the first place just because you have gone too far

In fact, for us, life should be like this. We must learn to persist in being ourselves, and don’t forget why we set out in the first place. What is the purpose of coming? It is very important for us to learn to follow our inner feelings. Otherwise, we will always feel a little uncomfortable. Don’t forget why we set out in the first place just because we have gone too far

Love and hate parting, regretful. The original heart is always pure and kind, but it has gone too far and no longer knows the original intention of love. Departing from the sincerity and pursuit required by love, it is difficult to maintain the definition of love and the greatness of love. Don't forget why you set out because you have gone too far

Yes, no matter how many storms you go through, no matter how many times you experience the beauty of the world, you should never forget your true heart, and your beliefs and original thoughts should not be distorted. That's what you want, that's your original belief, that's what you're firm about, that's your own heart.

"Don't go so far that you forget why you started." This sentence first came from Gibran's poem "The Prophet".

Text: We have gone so far that we have forgotten why we set out.

Later, this sentence became the title of Xu Hong's personal biography "Don't forget why you came out because you have gone too far."

This is a philosophical book that starts from a documentary. It records the history of small people; it is a book of revelation that uses images to arrive at it. It thinks about how to use images to understand the world. Starting from people’s livelihood and arriving with images. Tell the stories of ordinary people on the most official platform. Chen Fei is regarded as a spiritual leader by Cui Yongyuan, Bai Yansong, Chai Jing and other CCTV people. This book brings together Chen Fei’s classic comments, lecture essences, reporting articles and images in the CCTV Commentary Department during his lifetime, showing the essence of documentary thinking from concepts to methods, from column management to new program development. This book consists of eighteen articles, deconstructing his thoughts from eighteen angles, showing the interestingness of a documentarian with profound thoughts and poetic expressions. 20 chapters including the preface. Appendix 6 interviews. A 60-minute CD in memory of Chen Fei is included with the book. Thoughts after reading "Don't forget why you set out because you have gone too far"

One of the landmark figures in Chinese TV documentaries, one of the founders of the famous Chinese TV column "Oriental Time and Space", and a senior executive of CCTV Comrade Chen Fei, a senior journalist, unfortunately passed away at 0:23 on December 23, 2008, at the age of 47, after battling gastric cancer for nine months. With his passing, China's television industry has lost a tireless explorer and practitioner, CCTV has lost an excellent journalist, the news center has lost a dear and respectable comrade, and the family has lost a A beloved relative.

From 1985 to the present, in his 23-year television career, Comrade Chen Yu has dedicated his classic works, brand columns, valuable theoretical wealth, youth, and dedication to the Chinese television industry. For health and for life.

——Excerpted from "The Life of Comrade Chen Yu"

At that time, there was an outpouring of tributes to him on the Internet, not only from the CCTV News Center where he worked, but also from the television circles across the country. , media circle. In the east hall of Babaoshan Cemetery, nearly two thousand people stood in the cold wind of winter, lining up in a long line, waiting to say their final farewell to him.

Many of Chen Fei’s colleagues and colleagues regard this farewell as “a tribute to a spiritual power” and “a farewell to an era.”

Chen Fei’s life belongs to the burning years of CCTV’s news reform. Started in the spring of 1993, the morning program "Oriental Time and Space" was hailed as the news commentary department of the TV personality "Yan'an". This was an era when "idealists gathered to wave their banners".

Therefore, when we started to store the eulogies on the Internet and began to collect and organize Chen Fei’s information, we knew very well that what we were doing was not just commemorating a person. Behind Chen Fei's individual fate is the deepest imprint of the golden era of CCTV News and Commentary Department. His journalistic concepts, spiritual pursuits and personality strength can all be found in the "tribe of idealists" who were similar, close friends and comrades-in-arms, and he was their representative.

Although this era has gone forever, and although Chen Yu died young, the legacy left behind is precious and rich and should be passed on. As you move forward, you need to look back. Just like Kahlil Gibran's famous saying quoted by Chen Fei many times: Don't go so far that you forget why you set out.

1

The organization work starts with "Chen Yu's Quotations".

During his lifetime, in the television circle, some "Chen Fei Quotations" were passed down by word of mouth, including CCTV and some local satellite TVs. After his death, among the commemorative texts about him that could be collected on the Internet, we found many articles that mentioned Chen Fly's proverb-like style of discourse and mentioned "Chen Fly's Quotations". "CCTV News Weekly", an internal magazine sponsored by the CCTV News Center, also has a special page for "Chen Yu's Quotations" in the 150th special issue of "Chen Yu Forever", which published 12 of his quotations.

The name "Quotations" originated from the "South Campus" where the news commentary department of CCTV is located.

Directors and reporters who have worked here have all experienced Chen Fei’s film review. This department director is different from others in reviewing films. He often talks while reviewing, and after reviewing, he also summarizes and comments. For a ten-minute film, he would spend half an hour or even more analyzing and discussing it, and quickly extract some opinions, or "aphorisms."

As a result, Chen Fei reviewed the film and became a scenery in the "Southern Academy". Whenever he sat in front of the editing machine, he seemed to be attracted by a magnetic field, and many people would suddenly gather from nowhere, forming a human wall around him. I saw everyone taking out their notebooks and busy writing down his insights.

Chen Fei spoke in a quotation style. He is good at induction and analysis, has a philosophical and speculative color, has very clear logic, and has a broad outline, which is easy to remember and spread, so several articles were quickly circulated. For example: everything that happens in life is an opportunity for us to shoot, not an obstacle to our shooting; don’t look for what you want in life, but try to feel what is happening in life; we are not expressing a certain existence , but trying to find the reason for existence; and so on. So much so that Chen Fei himself often quoted it later. When reviewing films and chatting with his subordinates, he would pop up: No. 8 of Chen Fei's Quotations, No. 13 of Chen Fei's Quotations and so on.

Once, a director of "Eastern Time and Space" hitchhiked in Chen Fei's car, and there was an interesting conversation about quotations in the car:

The director asked: "Is there really such a book of Chen Fei's quotations? It can also be printed with mimeograph. It's very useful."

Chen Fei chuckled: "I'll wait to publish it later."

" Then I will write down what you said now."

Chen Fei said seriously: "If I really want to write such a book, I have to find someone who doesn't know how to make movies. As soon as I get started, I make a film and shoot it, and I watch from the side and see what problems are encountered and what problems are solved, so that I can remember all the quotes."

Most of his quotations have a strong practical and operational nature, covering the entire process of television news production. There are also some quotations, and the focus ranges from programs to columns, and from columns to channels. Especially in the later period, he worked tirelessly to build new TV concepts and devoted himself to launching batches of new program formats.

Chen Fei said: "When you make one film, you can only talk about the creative experience. After making ten films, you can talk about the creative experience. After making a hundred films, you can talk about the creative rules." Summarized and refined from personal creative experience and film review practice of "watching countless films", behind these practical and highly operational "quotes" of Chen Fei, there are profound concepts, which are his views on television. Thinking about attributes and ontological laws. This is a process of continuous introspection, including re-examining the relationship between TV people and audiences; understanding the communication characteristics of mass media; respecting the rules of image communication; finding expression techniques that belong to the TV body; the creation concepts and rules of documentary images, etc.

When compiling quotations, we are often shocked by Chen Fei's "foresight". In fact, Chen Fei had foreseen and thought about some of the old problems and new problems encountered by current TV news programs, columns, and channels several years ago, and even had his own answers. Looking back now and listening to what he said back then, I have to sigh: Chen Fei has a wisdom that cannot be caught up.

The first feature of this book: it is structured and edited with "Chen Yu's Quotations". There are only 20 chapters in the book. Except for the preface, the titles of the remaining 19 chapters and the subtitles of each section are all quotations from Chen Fei, totaling 108.

There are also some underlined words in some chapters, which are also "Chen Yu's Quotations" with certain influence. In making such a design, on the one hand, we strive to restore Chen Fei's unique way of expressing words and fully reflect his thoughts; on the other hand, we also hope to help him realize his last wish: "I'm waiting for it to be released in the future!"

2

I met Chen Fei at an international award-winning TV program seminar in 2003. During the tea break, a handsome young man with long hair rushed towards me and introduced himself as if he was familiar with it: "I am Chen Fei. Teacher Xu, I must get to know you."

Later I asked him why he wanted to know me, and he said, "Just go by your intuition. You are different from other university teachers."

I still have the letter he handed to me. The business card: "Eastern Time and Space" red, green and blue, a logo that looks like eyes. Chen Yu is the chief producer. There is also a line of Arabic numerals written in ballpoint pen. At that time, he asked for a pen from the hand of the person next to him and wrote seriously: "This is my mobile phone number."

From then on, this number became the main contact method between Chen Yu and me. In fact, it is not used that much. My strong interest and concern in him began when he came to my home for a long conversation in the summer of 2004.

That day, cicadas were chirping in the trees outside the window; Chen Fei was eloquent at the table inside the window. From about nine o'clock in the morning, we chatted until afternoon.

I still have a vivid impression in my mind: He raised his hand to look at his watch, looking surprised: "Oh, why is it so fast? It's already past 3 o'clock." He stood up neatly, He put out the cigarette in his hand and smoothed back his long hair: "It's time for me to go. Let's go back to the station to watch a movie. We didn't talk enough today. Let's talk next time."

Save time for lunch , and before we knew it, we had been chatting for more than 6 hours. Basically he talks and I listen.

Speak slowly and in a calm tone. Chen Fei's expression has the power to go straight to the core, like a sharp knife cutting through a mess, solving a problem in just a few words. I don’t remember exactly how many problems were solved. I just remember that the topic of that long conversation was about TV documentaries and TV news, covering almost everything from documentary concepts, topic selection, shooting, to columnization and channelization. He kept asking questions, then briefly discussed them with me, and then answered them directly himself.

My first impression at the time: "He really understands TV, is proficient in business, is very eloquent, and is talented."

Chen Fei finally talked about the purpose of looking for me: he wanted to establish A training course system for TV media people, especially documentary training courses.

He asked me: Am I a good teacher? Is what I'm telling you about valuable?

I said: "Of course. It can not only train people in the industry, but is also extremely valuable for university journalism education. I have never heard of such a thorough and clear course that integrates theory with practice!" At that time, I invited him to give a lecture at Peking University.

Later, he was busy and so was I. We had some phone calls and discussed the content of the training courses and the procedures for running the training courses intermittently. Three years passed in the blink of an eye. In the summer of 2007, he came to my home for the second time and had another long conversation of more than 6 hours. This time, Chen Yu has discussed with me in detail how to organize international training. Not long after he returned from the United States, he did some research, had some updated plans, and even drew a training road map.

I very much support his idea, and I very much hope to take advantage of this opportunity to directly introduce training courses into the practical teaching of journalism at Peking University. I am a journalist by training. After working in journalism for nearly 30 years, I switched to university teaching. I am well aware that current university journalism education is “castle in the air”, ungrounded, and theory is seriously out of touch with reality. It would be my long-cherished wish since I started teaching to invite a leading figure in the industry like Chen Fei, who has both theoretical literacy and practical experience, to teach, train students, and establish a practical journalism teaching model that connects universities with media practice.

I told him this, and he said sincerely: "Mr. Xu, I am actually really interested in education and training, and I am very willing to do something with you. According to my Experience, learning to use images to narrate, the sharpness of thought and the ability to think independently take three to five years to fully develop from a college graduate."

This judgment later made me think. When I was sorting out Chen Fei’s lecture videos, I heard it several times.

The last time I saw Chen Fei was in front of his hospital bed. When I said goodbye to Chen Fei that day, I extended another invitation to him: "When you get better, don't work at CCTV. TV is too tiring. Come to Peking University and teach in our college. You must You are a good teacher. My students and I are waiting for you."

Chen Fei is gone and it is impossible to appear in the journalism practice class at Peking University. But he left behind some lecture videos, as well as training videos for some CCTV columns and some local TV stations. When sorting out these materials, I often had the feeling of deja vu, which brought me back to the long talks that Chen Fei had twice at my home. Many of the things he said at that time were also some of his ideas for establishing training courses.

The second feature of this book is that it is structured and edited according to the framework of a practical television news textbook.

There are 18 topics from Part 2 to Part 19. Each topic has its own system and is connected with each other. Each topic is marked with "keywords". The subtitle of the book title: "Chen Yu, we listen to you" also means that you have entered Chen Yu's training class and his lectures are still continuing.

Of course, this is not a news textbook in the traditional sense. I want to be an "alternative" that breaks the rules.

3

It took a lot of time to sort out the information left by Chen Fei. It took a lot of effort to find and refine Chen Fei's quotations.

My doctoral candidate Zhang Haihua once worked in the "News Investigation" column and has a special affection for this work. She spent nearly a year searching for materials, stripping tapes, and typing words. At the end of 2009, we produced a first draft of more than 80,000 words. But Chen Fei's colleagues who had read the draft were not satisfied.

I was not satisfied myself: there were bones in the first draft, no meat. Chen Fei's lively and vital words are separated from the background and context, and limited to a conceptual framework set by ourselves, almost becoming a dry dogma.

In fact, when he started working on it, Chen Fei’s subordinate and close friend Li Lun reminded him: “Chen Fei’s ideas often come from practical experience, so his work, life and thoughts are inseparable from each other. There are many delicate connections, and the selection criteria must be both rich and demanding."

I stopped writing for a year. On the one hand, I am looking for new text styles; on the other hand, I am also thinking about whether it makes sense to do this and whether I can afford it.

In order to improve journalism teaching, I opened Weibo on Sina at the end of 2010 and a blog at the end of 2011. The *** of interactive writing on the Internet and the charm of Weibo’s “National Broadcast” opened a door for me. One day, I suddenly thought: Why not put "Chen Yu's Quotes" online to try it out? Let’s see how netizens react?

So, on the third anniversary of Chen Fei’s death, I started to launch a series of blog posts called “Chen Fei, we listen to you” and used my Weibo to promote it. When the first two articles were published, I had not yet found a suitable framework that could carry all the content. I was writing, publishing, experiencing, and adjusting while I was crossing the river by feeling for the stones.

The response was unexpectedly enthusiastic. Almost every Weibo post has been forwarded hundreds of times, and the number of views on the first blog post exceeded 60,000 within 30 hours. I was moved by the enthusiastic messages and comments from Chen Fei’s comrades, colleagues, subordinates, and colleagues. They have not forgotten him. Netizen Laoji Shengli said: I look forward to writing a book so that more friends can understand Ah Fong’s thoughts and experiences, and give us an opportunity to reflect on Ah Fong. Netizen @陈亚文_ski said: Don’t be anxious, take your time. His stuff will once again exert great power.

Publish each article: style, style, voice, and gradually find the feeling in the writing. It has basically determined what was said before: the basic framework of using the structure and editing of "Chen Yu's Quotations" to form a book, and using the structure and editing of TV news practical teaching materials to form a book.

Post every post: The number of blog posts read, collected, and reprinted continues to increase. Three blog posts have been read more than 100,000 times in a short period of time. The intensity of comments is also increasing. After posting the sixth blog post "The power of structure can change the depth and direction of the narrative", I clearly felt from the messages and comments that more and more netizens are paying attention, not only from the media circle, from bosses to reporters; From all walks of life. My current colleagues, teachers majoring in journalism and communication in colleges and universities, also gave great recognition. Netizen @50 couldn’t help but said: This year’s postgraduate re-examination question chose an article by Teacher Xu about Chen Yu.

Many netizens have been following this series. After a long time between postings, they asked: Is there any more? When will the book be written? The urging from the Internet made me dare not slack off, because this is what everyone expects from Chen Fei.

The third feature of this book: it maintains certain features of online writing, and the entire book is presented, structured and edited in the form of a series of blog posts. Thirteen of the 20 articles were published on Sina Blog. At that time, in order to facilitate online reading, the word count of each article was limited to about 3,500 words. When the book was completed this time, in addition to adding 7 new articles, the content of these 13 articles was nearly doubled. Some of the feedback from netizens was directly adopted in the blog post, and some was placed as an "attachment" at the end of the relevant blog post.

Thanks to the Internet for its support and thanks to netizens for their interaction. Without the Internet, this book would not exist in front of you today.

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