Zhao: Books are friends forever.
According to common sense, professional writers make a living by writing. However, Zhao, a member of the 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Committee, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association and a famous contemporary essayist, has written more than 40 literary monographs such as prose, poetry and reportage, and his works have won various literary awards at home and abroad for dozens of times. However, for himself, he has always felt that "writing is still an amateur". He said, "If I have any major, I must study." . In the preface of the newly published book Zhao Reading Essays, Zhao once again declared that "the greatest benefit and happiness is reading"
Zhao, a Shanghainese, has been a bookworm since he was a child. He never cares about the time and place when he studies. "As long as you pick up an interesting book, you can get lost in it and forget everything." Zhao often walks to read, eat, sleep and go to the toilet. From comic books, fairy tales and myths, to The Journey to the West, Romance of the Gods, Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, to 300 Tang Poems, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Notes from Yuewei Caotang and A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhao Zong thinks that "these books are much more interesting than the history of textbooks".
From the senior grade of primary school to middle school, Zhao began to contact China modern literature and foreign literature. No matter what books he gets, he usually reads Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Ba Jin and Bing Xin, and also reads some foreign literary masterpieces borrowed from the library by senior three, such as Anna karenin, Don Quixote and Resurrection, War and Peace, Les Miserables, and The Life and Death of Monte Cristo. In particular, Zhao found a new collection of poems published by a publishing house in a second-hand bookstore in Shanghai, which made him even more excited. This new collection of poems contains all Pushkin's poems, translated by Cha Liang Zheng and published in 1955. They became Zhao's favorite books in middle school. It can be said that Zhao wrote poems later, which had a lot to do with reading these poems. Zhao cherishes these books. In order to reduce wear and tear, he carefully wrapped the covers with transparent paper, but they were still worn by Zhao. Zhao later recalled that at that time, "I read too much, gulped down dates and read without any rules." However, it is this kind of reading that broadens my horizons, increases my knowledge and makes me deeply fall in love with literature. "
After graduating from high school, Zhao left Shanghai and went to Chongming Island to "settle in line". Among the few printed materials in his humble schoolbag is a book called Weeds. In reality, many novels are often fresh when they are read for the first time, but dull when they are read for the second time. A book like Weeds can make Zhao Lihong "read it again and again", because reading such a book "can make you relive it again and again and always taste a new charm." Zhao thought at that time, "if Mr. Lu Xun didn't have that thick dozen books, but only a thin" Wild Grass ",he would also be a great writer."
In the long years of "jumping the queue to settle down" in the countryside, Zhao Lihong "once felt lonely and helpless, and his future was bleak", but it was the books that Zhao lived with day and night that changed his outlook on life. Under an erratic oil lamp, it was the book that accompanied him "through many warm and happy times" and made him "gradually enrich and enrich", and it was also the book that "helped him choose his life goal".
/kloc-resumed the college entrance examination in 0/977, and Chair Zhao was admitted to the Chinese Department of East China Normal University with excellent results. In the university library, Zhao can choose "good books, like flowers and plants in spring, dazzling". 198 1 year Zhao went to work in MengMeng after graduation. At that time, Zhao lived in Pudong, and it took a long time to go to work in the city by bus through the Huangpu River tunnel every day. Because "the time in the car is particularly difficult", Zhao holds a good book every day and turns the difficult time into a happy moment. On the bus, Zhao can always concentrate on reading, and no noise can disturb his mood. Even if someone pushes him or pushes him, he is ruthless and ignorant, because he is "hiding in a book for a pleasant trip."
In the early 1980s, Zhao, who has now become a member of the Chinese Writers Association, wrote an essay entitled "The Soul of Poetry", telling the story of him and "Selected Lyric Poems of Pushkin", expressing his nostalgia for the poet and his complicated feelings for that gloomy era. Berren, a sinologist in the former Soviet Union and editor-in-chief of Moscow Publishing House, translated this short article into Russian and introduced it to Russian readers. After the publication of the prose collection Soul of Poetry, it won the China Excellent Prose Collection Award in the New Period. The group poem "China, My Dear Motherland" formed a symphony choir and won the "Five Ones" Project Award in Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. 1987, Zhao was hired as a professional writer of Shanghai Writers Association.
Nowadays, the times are ever changing. However, Zhao's obsession with books has never changed. Zhao Lihong, who owns seven or eight bookcases and thousands of books, said: "As long as I am alive and can think, I will never leave my books and abandon these lovely and respectable friends." I think these words should be from Zhao's heart.
Overseas Edition of People's Daily (2006 5 4 38+0 04)