-"Reading for pleasure"
With Mr. Jiang Yang gone, there are no more "three of us" in the world.
Mr. Wang's life spanned a century and experienced ups and downs. However, she always bears the weight of life with an indifferent attitude. She lives in a spiritual "high place", but she lives in peace with an "indisputable" character; Her writing is simple and plain, but meaningful and humorous, sad but not hurtful, full of wisdom, openness and playfulness of "walking on the edge of life".
Mr Jiang Yang once compared reading to "invisible" door-to-door service. You don't have to say hello or disturb your host. Therefore, we chose to link her words into reports and interpret Mr. Wang's life in this "invisible" way.
Before his death, Mr. Wang hoped to quietly leave this world in the simplest way and reunite with two other people. Please allow us to express our apologies in this way.
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Kindness and friendliness
My life is not empty. Because of the three of us, my life is full and interesting.
My life is not empty; Because of the three of us, my life is full and interesting. It can also be said that the three of us have not wasted our lives, because it is us.
The Three of us is actually the most common. Who has no husband, wife and children? Our home is very simple; The three of us, it's simple. We have nothing to do with the world and others, but to get together, stay together and do what we can. When encountering difficulties, Zhong Shu always bears them with me, and the difficulties are no longer difficult; With the help of my aunt, whatever is bitter and hard can become sweet and moist. If we are a little happy, we will become very happy.
1July, 935, Zhong Shu was less than 25 years old, and I was only a few days away from 24 years old. We got married and went to Oxford, England to study together. We are far away from home, no longer in the shadow of our parents, and we are all a little scared; But with two companions, we can live alone. At Oxford, I was pregnant with a child. Zhong Shu told me earnestly: "I don't want a son, I want a daughter-just one, just like your daughter." I am not satisfied with "liking me". I want a daughter who looks like Zhong Shu.
1938 After returning to China, Suzhou and Wuxi have fallen due to the Japanese invasion of China, and my mother's family and her husband's family took refuge in the isolated island of Shanghai. Life in enemy-occupied areas is hard, but we are always self-sufficient. Self-sufficiency is victory. Although Zhong Shu has been troubled by bad luck, he feels that family is better than separation. He vowed: "From now on, we will only die and never part."
I became famous before Qian Zhongshu. After several plays I wrote were put on the stage, he was introduced as "Jiang Yang's husband" in the cultural circle. But I think Qian Zhongshu is more important and valuable than myself.
My credit is to keep Qian Zhongshu naughty and arrogant. This is the most precious place of Qian Zhongshu. He is naughty and naive, and with extraordinary wisdom, he has become a knowledgeable and funny Qian Zhongshu in the eyes of everyone. His arrogance is loved by many readers.
Zhong Shu once teased A Xuan, saying that there was an ugly child in Fortress Besieged, and that was her. Jane believes this, but she doesn't care.
There is no ending like a novel or fairy tale in the world: "They will live happily ever after." There is no simple happiness in the world. Happiness is always accompanied by troubles and worries.
Zhong Shu was admitted to the hospital in the summer of 1994. I go to see him every day and send him food, vegetables and soup. Jane was admitted to the hospital in the winter of 1995, at the foot of Xishan Mountain. I call her every night and visit her every week. But when we meet in the hospital, we have to hurry. Three people live in three places, and I can also be a liaison and often deliver messages.
1In the early spring of 997, Jane passed away. 1at the end of 998, Zhong Shu passed away. The three of us were separated. I lost it so easily. Good things in the world are not firm, colorful clouds are easy to disperse, and glass is fragile. Now, I am the only one left.
Zhong Shu escaped, and I want to escape, but where to go? There's no escape. I want to stay in this world, clean up the scene and do my duty.
Country and people
We are stubborn people in China. Although hundreds of millions of "we" are strangers, we all belong to the same body and are related to each other.
During the occupation of Shanghai, we suffered a lot and saw the world in cold weather. Husband and wife often regard our daily feelings as wine and savor them carefully. This taste is worth tasting, because trouble breeds wisdom.
In addition to teaching in a missionary university, Zhong Shu also added two students to attend church services. But our life is getting harder and harder. It's not easy to talk about rice.
We are stranded on an isolated island in Shanghai, with our hearts on the front and rear of the war of resistance. At that time, all patriotic intellectuals crowded together. For example, my husband and wife, Chen Xihe, Fu Lei, Song Qi and so on. I often meet at Life Bookstore or Fu Lei's home to talk about the international and domestic war situation and prospects. We are completely different from writers and intellectuals who voluntarily participate in the "Greater East Asia Glory Circle" and do not associate with each other.
1945 After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the joy of victory was short-lived, followed by widespread disappointment, followed by rumors flying all over the sky and panic. We don't panic when people panic.
If we want to escape, we are not desperate. But when a person is at a critical juncture, what determines his future may always be his most basic feelings. We never sing patriotic songs. I don't like singing and I don't like listening. But we don't want to run away. We just don't want to go to our parents' country. We can't leave our family. China is a weak country with deep national humiliation. We don't want to go out and be second-class citizens. We are cultural people, love the culture of the motherland, love the writing of the motherland and love the language of the motherland. In a word, we are diehards in China and don't want to be foreigners. We dare not be optimistic about ourselves, but stay quietly in Shanghai, waiting for liberation.
I think, the night before liberation, many people ran abroad in fear. Why are neither of us willing to walk a few roads? Is your mind improving? Is the consciousness high? Silently, I often quote a sentence from Liu Yong: "My clothes are getting wider and wider, but I don't regret it. I am thin for Iraq. " We just can't bear to part with our motherland and Iraq-that is, we or us. Although hundreds of millions of "us" or "us" are strangers, they all belong to the same body, are closely related and are inseparable parts of themselves.
I asked, "Do you regret staying?"
He said, "Back in time, I am still the same."
Text and translation
I'm just an amateur author. I've sorted out all my articles, half of which are translation and half of which are creation.
I think reading is like visiting-"invisible" visiting. If you want to meet an admired teacher or a famous scholar, you don't have to say hello in advance, and you are not afraid to disturb the host. Open the book, break into the house, turn a few pages and enter the room; And you can always go, always go, and you can't get to the point. You can leave without saying goodbye, or you can find another smart person and confront him.
When I first chose liberal arts, I was interested in reading good novels at home and abroad, experiencing the art of writing novels and helping me write good novels. But I was almost eighty years old before I wrote a novel that was not long enough; In my 80 s, I destroyed 20 chapters of novels I wrote and decided not to write novels. Because I was not born to write novels. All my novels are still in the stage of trying to write. I have to be ashamed of my ambition. I didn't succeed. I am not a professional writer; The works in the anthology are all random. I'm just an amateur writer.
A few essays and novels in my early years were my homework in class when I was studying in Tsinghua, or I got them occasionally when I was studying in Oxford. After returning to China, I lived in occupied Shanghai. Forced by my livelihood, I wrote several plays for my family's daily necessities. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, I became a teacher in Shanghai for the first time. After the victory of the Liberation War, I worked as a teacher in Tsinghua University, writing short stories and essays in my spare time and occasionally translating. After the "Bathing" (ideological transformation) movement, I was transferred to the College of Literature to do research and write academic papers. If you make mistakes in writing a paper, do translation work and write some necessary papers. Looking up the dictionary often in translation work will hurt my eyesight. In order to maintain my eyes, I "work with my eyes closed" and write short stories. While studying and writing academic papers, I also wrote novels and essays, and also wrote a novel. After I retired from 1987, I wrote articles at will. After Qian Zhongshu died, I sorted out his legacy, translated another work, improvised and wrote more than a dozen long essays.
The Spanish of Don Quixote has not been checked by me, but it was checked four times in our school and published in March 1978. I revised it again nine years later. Afraid of the outdated version, I found several new versions and did some collating work, and found that my original version was still a new version. As for my translation, I don't think it is good enough. Recently, it has been slightly revised, but when I am old, I only hope for later translators.
All the articles have been sorted out, except for some, and the rest are roughly classified. Half is translation and half is creation. Creation includes drama, novel and prose.
All failed works and works that cannot be corrected will be deleted. Articles that preach evil are also deleted. Because of the hateful behavior, of course, it should be "pass the parcel", but once exposed, the parties have repeatedly covered it up, proving that "everyone is ashamed and disgusting"; I should still be loyal and tolerant to others. Articles written under duress will be deleted, even if every sentence is true. "One win" is desirable. Although it was a small article, I stayed.
Life and death
I stand on the edge of life, looking back on the past and looking forward to the future, and I want to explore the value of life.
I have reached the edge of my life, and to go further means "go", "go", "go" and "go". Chinese and foreign examples all use these words to soften the unpopular and inevitable word "death".
"Birth and death" is the law of life, and no one can escape.
I stand on the edge of life, looking back and looking forward to the future. Looking back, I have lived all my life, all my life, for what? I want to explore the value of life.
Life is really bitter. Life is really hard in this materialistic world. You deliberately be an honest man who doesn't compete with the world, and people will use you and bully you. If you are a little talented and good-looking, people will envy you and crowd you out; if you make generous concessions, people will invade you and hurt you. If you want to protect yourself, you must protect yourself at all times. If you don't fight with others, you have to be indifferent to the world, and at the same time you have to keep your strength and be ready to struggle. If you want to make peace with others, you should first deal with them, and you should be prepared to suffer losses everywhere.
People need exercise. People have excellent qualities, but also many bad qualities are mixed together, just like a stubborn iron that needs to be quenched in fire. After repeated quenching and a lot of tempering, the stubborn iron can be turned into steel for casting swords. Gold also needs to be burned to remove impurities before it becomes pure gold. So do people. We learn wisdom from worry and refine virtue from pain. After different degrees of exercise, a person obtains different degrees of self-cultivation and different degrees of benefits. Just like spices, the more refined and ground, the stronger the fragrance. Proverbs: "Ten grinding Jiu Nan makes a hero"; "People are refined in the world, and knives are grinded on stones"; "The hammer is a sharp weapon, but it is difficult for people to do so." Self-cultivation-training yourself is the most important requirement for being a man.
I have reached the edge of my life. I don't know how far I can go. My life is involuntary, but I know very well that I will go home soon. I want to clean up my pollution that has been polluted for a hundred years and go home. I don't have the feeling of "climbing Mount Tai and being small in the world". I just live a quiet life in my own land of Xiaotian.
The world is like a melting pot, burning a batch of souls with different qualities and different from the original. What can I know about these souls? I was just imagining things. I can't ask or answer. Confucius said, "If you don't know life, how can you know death?" And "if you don't know, you don't know." . I can only ask myself so much.
"I don't argue with anyone, and I don't care who I argue with; I love nature, followed by art; My hands are baking, and the fire of life keeps me warm; The fire has gone out and I'm ready to go. "
(I compiled it according to the Complete Works published by Jiang Yang People's Literature Publishing House in August 20 14)
Brief biography
Yang Jikang, pen name Jiang Yang, writer and translator, member of Honorary Department of China Academy of Social Sciences and researcher of Institute of Foreign Literature, was born in Beijing in July191,and married Qian Zhongshu in July/935. He has written plays such as Satisfied, Creating a False Reality, Game World, translated high-level translations such as Gil Brass and Don Quixote, and written novels such as Bath, Essay, Six Chapters of Cadre School, and Invisibility Cloak. In his later years, he continued to work hard. At the age of 90, he created essays such as "The Three of us, Walking to the Edge of Life-Asking and Answering".