Master is still on his way.
Yesterday (17), Ba Jin, a great literary master, passed away. Chengdu is Ba Jin's hometown. Please follow the memory of the master.
Our reporter's footsteps, see eye well. ...
Last night, the cold wind in late autumn swept the streets of Chengdu. By the eye well of Tongshun Street, half a foot high rouge flowers are still swaying in the wind. Although there are no flowers, the leaves are still green in cold weather.
"If you find the right eye, you can find my childhood footprints," Ba Jin once said. People come and go, and I approach this well, which is perhaps the most famous well in the history of China literature-just like Mr. Bing Xin's White Cat, a well or a cat worships things because of people.
The well has dried up, and the borehole is covered with two flaky stones. The territory of four or five square meters is surrounded by stone railings, which is isolated from the surrounding modern high-rise buildings and shops. There is a stone tablet standing at 1994 by the well. /kloc-in the past 0/0 years, two small corners of the monument have been destroyed, and the inscription on the monument is also incomplete. ...
Standing by the well, stroking those rough stone railings, I was thinking, when Ba Jin is not a respected literary master, but a child or teenager, will he swing around the ground with crisp springs like all children in Chengdu? When Ba Jin was lying in the ward of Shanghai, at the last moment of his life, did he think of Chengdu's hometown and the binocular well that carried his childhood? Morning Post reporter Luo Julang
Ba Jin's childhood footprint
In addition to Ba Jin's description of "home" in Fifty Years of Literature and Me, Ba Jin's younger brother Li Jisheng also confirmed a few days ago: "My hometown is Tongshun Street, also known as Binocular Well. That's my grandfather's property. My grandfather worked as a county magistrate several times in the Qing Dynasty. Later, I resigned and quit. He bought a house in Chengdu for a few dollars. "
Remember an old well and an old tree.
Yanjing, Tongshun Street, Chengdu Municipal Government, where the Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe of Chengdu Military Region is now located, is the former residence of Ba Jin in his youth. Many of his major works are written in the background of the father-in-law's home, such as Riptide Trilogy, Home, Spring, Autumn and Resting Garden. Many readers who like Ba Jin include one.
Some foreign readers want to visit this old house in Chengdu, but with the changes of the city, all they can remember now is an old well and an old tree.
In memory, the young painter created "home"
Ba Jin's former residence also leads to many stories: a young painter painted an oil painting called "Home" with this big tree as the background. This oil painting has participated in many exhibitions at home and abroad and won favorable comments. Ba Jin gave the pictorial that published this painting to Mr. Tsutomu Minakami, a famous Japanese writer. Because of this, Tsutomu Minakami wrote a letter and a book to the young Japanese painter, and interpreted a story of Sino-Japanese friendship. This painter is He Dehua, the director of the Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe of Chengdu Military Region.
Textual research experts carefully restore "hometown"
Old man Zhang Yaotang spent many years studying and producing a precious picture of Ba Jin's hometown restoration in the Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe. Zhang Yaotang, former head of the Flag Art Troupe, said, "I came to Chengdu in September 1952. It is said that the courtyard where we live is the former residence of Ba Jin, and there are five wells in it, one of which is the well that Shu Zhen jumped in the novel Autumn. There is also a small lotus pond. Some people say that this is the place where Mingfeng committed suicide, but opinions vary. I have lived in this yard for almost 30 years. What is Ba Jin's home like? We have a responsibility to find out about it. "
Li Zhi, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Ba Jin's nephew, once said that Ba Jin's former residence was restored in the 1980s, and Ba Lao was unwilling to spend state money to do anything for himself. Ba Lao said: "As long as my eyes are good, I can find my way to childhood. If I want to commemorate it, I can write a sign. "
□ Ba Lao regrets
The trilogy lacks the label "Chengdu"
Feng Shuimu, an old writer in Chengdu, recalled a conversation with Ba Jin at 1967 earlier. Ba Jin modestly pointed out the shortcomings of Home Spring and Autumn Annals. Recalling the situation of that year, Feng Shuimu was very excited. "My ideal at that time was to be a writer, and Ba Jin's works had the greatest influence on me. 1967 65438+In February, I made a special trip to Shanghai to visit Ba Lao. At that time, Ba Lao was wearing a blue tunic suit and corduroy cotton shoes. He is picking up stones in the yard of the Shanghai Writers Association, and his Review is hanging on the wall behind him. "
Knowing that Feng Shuimu was from Sichuan, Ba Jin happily started a family relationship with Feng Shuimu. He said: "When I see my hometown people, I also think of my hometown food. What I want to eat most is Sichuan pork miscellaneous sauce noodles. " When Feng Shuimu said that his favorite novels were Home, Spring and Autumn, Ba Jin said, "To tell the truth, I think the biggest regret of Home, Spring and Autumn is that they didn't point out all the streets, bridges and rivers in Chengdu. After reading my book, many people don't know that I wrote about Chengdu. Even Cao Yu wrote a southwest city in the script of the drama version of Home. "
□ Balao complex
I like eating rape heads in Chengdu best.
Ba Lao has many old friends in Chengdu, and Che Fu, a famous scholar, is one of them. Earlier, 90-year-old Che Fu recalled the days when he was with Ba Lao, saying that he had never talked about literature with Ba Lao. "Chengdu is still unfinished and has no time to talk about anything else."
Che Lao and Ba Lao became attached to Sichuan Scenery magazine in 1930s, and then became good friends. Che Lao humorously recalled that he was a "gourmet ghost" and a restless person who liked to look for delicious food everywhere. He knows almost all the old restaurants in Chengdu. Ba Lao will not "let him go" every time he goes back to Chengdu, asking him to be a guide to find food. Pointing to 1993' s last photo of Ba Lao in his hometown, he told reporters that every time he went to Shanghai to visit Ba Lao, he would bring more than 30 kilograms of vegetables unique to Chengdu. Green vegetable head and rape are both vegetables that Ba Lao likes to eat.
□ Remembering Ba Lao
Some handwriting
The reporter saw the book 10 signed by Ba Jin in the local literature department of Chengdu Library. It was a precious gift brought back from Shanghai by Li Zhi on May 1, 1988, and now it has become a treasure in the collection. According to Mr. Liu, director of the local literature department, Chengdu Library also has two manuscripts of Ba Lao. Mr. Liu said: "These two manuscripts, one is the postscript to a book and the other is the feeling after reading, which are very precious materials in our literature department." The reporter saw that among the 10 books signed by Ba Jin, there is a Chinese version of Cold Night, and there are four Russian and French versions of Exploration Collection, Essay, Untitled Collection, Disease Collection, Truth Collection and Cold Night. Mr. Liu said, "1988, Li Zhi went to Shanghai to visit Ba Lao. Our library asked Li Zhi to bring some Ba Jin's books to Shanghai for signature. As a result, Ba Lao also sent us 10 books. "
It is understood that these books, as treasures, are not lent out.
A bronze statue
To commemorate Ba Jin's centenary birthday, a bronze statue of Ba Jin designed by Sichuan sculptor Yan Yongming was completed in Chengdu in early June 2003. On June 20th, the largest bronze statue of Ba Lao in China was placed in Huiyuan Square, Baihuatan Park in Chengdu.
The bronze statue of Ba Lao, wearing a Chinese tunic suit, glasses, scarf and bamboo pole, is strolling forward. Sculptor Yan Yongming said that the bronze statue is 2. 1 m high and made of 1 ton fine copper. It is the largest bronze statue of Ba Jin in China. Yan Yongming said that Ba Jin is a writer who cares about people's sufferings, and the bronze statue shows the spiritual realm of Ba Lao as a whole.
memorial hall
The new Bajin College of Literature was completed in the north trunk road of Longquanyi last year. Fu Heng, vice president of Ba Jin College of Literature, said, "The local government in Longquan has spent a lot of effort on the new museum. The layout of the new museum adopts a symmetrical quadrilateral structure. The building in the middle is the tallest, with two floors. The bronze statue of Ba Jin is placed in the middle of the lobby on the first floor, and all materials and physical exhibits are displayed on the second floor. " The main building of the new building includes Ba Jin Memorial Hall, comprehensive building, exhibition building and pavilion gallery, with gray tile white walls, lattice windows and sloping roofs as the main components. The simple residential style corresponds to the simple and harmonious style of Ba Lao. There are scattered gardens among the buildings, and representative plants unique to Chengdu such as bamboo and hibiscus are planted. There are pavilions, bridges and flowing water in the park.