Reading "The Ordination": A Tribute to Mr. Wang Zengqi, a Lifestyle Master

Good-looking skins are all the same, but interesting souls are unique.

There are many stars in the history of Chinese literature. My favorites are Lu Xun, Qian Zhongshu, Shen Congwen, Feng Zikai, and Wang Zengqi.

Lu Xun is sharp, Qian Zhongshu is humorous, Shen Congwen is delicate, Feng Zikai is warm, and Wang Zengqi is cute.

Just as you will not miss "Diary of a Madman" by Lu Xun, "Fortress Besieged" by Qian Zhongshu, and "Border Town" by Shen Congwen, you will definitely not miss "Order" by Wang Zengqi.

"Ordained", published in 1980, made Wang Zengqi enter the history of literature. The daily joke between Mr. Wang and his children - "Be polite to me, I will enter the history of literature in the future" has become a reality. The old man who has been writing all his life finally became famous at the age of 60.

The life of the lovely old man has carried many labels - "China's last pure literati", "lyrical humanitarian", "China's last scholar-official", "inheriter of Beijing School novels".

This year is the 21st year that Mr. Wang Zengqi has traveled westward. Let us miss this interesting old man by reading this collection of "Bar Mitzvah" novels.

The novel collection "Ordained" contains 23 classic novels by Mr. Wang Zengqi.

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The writing style of the first chapter "Revenge" will surprise and surprise readers. Because it is a short story that is most unlike Wang Zengqi. Some commentators say "Revenge" is the originator of Chinese stream of consciousness.

"Avengers never fail", Mr. Wang used a very short space to tell the story of a swordsman who was full of love and hatred and finally gave up his hatred in one go. While reading, I felt a sense of chivalry and Zen.

In order to reflect the loneliness and sorrow of the swordsman who spends his life seeking revenge, as well as the nostalgia and yearning for the world, the article uses more words to describe the beauty of nature.

For example, "He suddenly felt that it was autumn, from the sound of bees. He felt light and refreshed from the sound. The whole world was filled with autumn at the moment."

"The smell of moss, the smell of hay. The weathered stones cracked beneath him, making sounds and smells"

"Fish, how high do you live? Are you still not sleeping in the water? Goodbye, the dampness of the moss; Goodbye, the softness of the hay; Goodbye, you are holding a sour stone under your blade."

"Dreams on water are floating. . The dreams in the mountains are struggling to fly out."

The words of stream of consciousness are also worthy of our careful reading and understanding - "Darkness becomes a lotus, layer by layer. Inside. He made a circle next to the black lotus. A light green star appeared on the lotus, swirling up and disappearing into the mist."

"Time flies outside the cave. A roll of white clouds passes by the entrance of the cave."

"He simply forgot the sword on his back, or he disappeared completely, leaving only this The sword was gone. He shrunk, shrunk, until there was no more. Then, he came back, came back, well, his face turned from green to red, and he filled his body."

Mr. Wang Zengqi once said, "Good words are like an old man carrying his young grandson, looking forward to the affectionate ones and relating to each other."

This article "Revenge" needs to be read at least twice before it can be read. Taste it.

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Mr. Wang Zengqi, who loves life, can find the joy of life wherever he goes.

In the first sentence of "Lao Lu", Mr. Wang said, "The time we spent last summer was really fun."

During those days, Mr. Wang Zengqi was teaching at Kunming China Construction Middle School. At that time, the teaching staff of this middle school was quite strong. From the principal to the teachers, they are all students of Southwest Associated University. But the conditions for running schools are very poor. The school fund was raised by performing a summer play. The school is located in an abandoned warehouse with no glass windows.

Those days were the days when the teachers had one or two meals of rice, borrowed money to buy oil to stir-fry wild amaranth, took turns drinking local soju on credit, and raised funds to buy candles. A day to talk at night by candlelight.

Mr. Wang once wrote in a memoir: "Each teacher has a bedroom, a bed, a table and a chair. What else do you want? It's good." Carefree and cheerful No less, read and write. There is a strong flavor of Lao-Zhuang philosophy throughout the school: adaptability to nature. Very open-minded and optimistic.

In the morning, the teachers each read in the room and went for a walk on the mountain. When the time was almost up, they greeted each other to "pick weeds".

In the afternoon, the teachers drank tea in a small tea shed at the school gate. "Looking at the distant mountains and grass, the carriages and horses, and watching a strong wind blowing up a very fine loess, reflected in the sun The light is like light clouds, and the sky behind the loess is so blue that it seems to be flowing down." When the sun turned to the west, I went to look for dinner again.

In the evening, the teachers gathered in a room of future scholars and professors, from far and wide, recalling the scenery of their hometown and talking loudly. One candle is used as a measure, and when the candle is exhausted, it will disperse.

Mr. Wang described in a cheerful tone the teachers picking wild vegetables in the corner of the school - "One of us has not yet started picking vegetables. He picked amaranth, picked some wild jasmine leaves, and picked gray amaranth." As for the vegetables, I don’t even know what kind of thistles are coming, so I have to have someone else identify them.”

Writing about Lao Lu picking vegetables: “He is extremely expert, both fast and accurate.” From time to time, he gave us pointers on which dishes we could eat and which ones we couldn’t eat. According to him, there were simply too many to eat.” Readers who read this, are you wondering? Like me, I laughed out loud first, and then felt sad in my heart.

These days in Mr. Wang's eyes are beautiful and peaceful: "The sun shines during the day, it is warm and peaceful, completely like a slightly modified spring."

"The fact that a meal can be served like a meal, and there is a sweater in the old rattan box allows people to dream a little about the future."

Mr. Wang Zengqi’s son said that his father always showed the most beautiful things to everyone and kept the painful things in his heart, because he felt that even when he was desperate, he must give it to everyone. A glimmer of hope that will never end.

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Mr. Wang Zengqi is good at narrating personal stories about small people from anecdotes and anecdotes. He uses simple and direct words to slowly describe the hardships, hardships, forbearance and difficulties in the world.

The Song Dynasty's son is a talented man, the wealthy but extremely frugal 8,000-year-old man, the skilled obstetrician Chen Xiaoshou, the honest bricklayer Chen Si, the benevolent Chen Niluo, the hard-working Li San, the lonely and kind-hearted Mr. Grandma, Wang Er who loves to listen to books, Ye San, a fruit vendor who loves to draw and knows how to draw, etc... The image of each character is full of humanity and sadness, revealing the ideals and wishes under the oppression of life.

Mr. Wang praised Lao Lu for his perseverance and honesty: "Lao Lu is a jujube tree growing out of the sand." He was also concerned and worried about his current situation: "This spring, I will see another Come on, when is the end of the year? Lao Lu, when will we go back?"

Chen Xiaoshou, an obstetrician with superb medical skills and dedicated to saving people, does not get the respect he deserves. From the nickname everyone calls Chen Xiaoshou, we can see the contempt the world has for his profession. People would not ask him to help deliver babies unless absolutely necessary. But Chen Xiaoshou didn't care. As long as someone invited him, he would immediately mount the white horse and gallop away. Chen Xiaoshou went to great lengths to help the group leader's wife deliver the baby, but the group leader thought: "How can I let him touch my woman! This kid is such a bully! The group leader feels aggrieved."

The novel ends abruptly with Chen Xiaoshou being shot off his horse by the regiment leader. The ignorance of the world and the cruelty of society hit people's hearts.

Grandma Kan and the eight elm trees she planted are a rural folk custom painting - Grandma Kan lives outside an alley, with two thatched houses. In front of the door, there is a Haichao Nunnery. , and further ahead is a river with a small bridge on the river. There are open spaces on both sides of Grandma Kan's house. On the left side are tall grasses, and on the right are eight elm trees planted by Grandma Kan. Children from the alley often come to play in the open space.

After Grandma Kan died, when the eight elm trees were sawed down, they gave off a strong fragrance. The elm tree probably contains Grandma Kan's leisure, indifference, and vague sadness.

Some people say that Mr. Wang Zengqi chose to respond to everything with innocence due to his understanding of worldly affairs. Knowing the world but not being worldly is the most kind-hearted maturity.

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"Ordained" is Mr. Wang Zengchu's iconic work. It is a love story between a boy and a girl, and it is a love story between a monk and a girl.

When "Being Ordained" was published in the tenth issue of "Beijing Literature" in 1980, it is said that many readers were frightened: Why is it not about theology and religion, but such a love story!

At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Wang Zengqi used his usual humor to tease Mingzi about going to become a monk in the Water Chestnut Nunnery - his hometown is not called "monkhood", but "becoming a monk". Just like some places produce pig weavers, some places produce mat weavers, some places produce barrel makers, some places produce cotton players, some places produce painters, and some places produce whores, his hometown Out of the monk.

In Mr. Wang Zengqi’s view, monks are just like butchers, craftsmen, painters, and bitches. They are nothing special and are just human beings. The life of a monk is also a kind of life, and there are also the seven emotions and six desires of being a human being, but they are expressed in different ways.

There is no such thing as "clean rules" in Xiqi'an, "no one even mentioned these two words." The old monk who sits all day long does not recite the Buddha's name and breaks his fast during the New Year. Master Renshan never wears cassocks and wears monk shoes barefoot. The second master, Renhai, has a wife, and they live a peaceful and loving life. The third master, Rendu, can sing folk songs that make people blush and make their hearts beat. He has more than one lover.

Minghai has three major qualifications for being a monk: face like the bright moon, voice like a bell, smart and good memory.

Xiao Yingzi is pretty and graceful. The white eyes are duck egg blue, and the black eyes are black. When he is calm, he is like clear water, and when he is flashing, he is like stars.

Minghai and Xiaoyingzi met on the boat and made a private decision for life on the boat. A beautiful love story is always related to a boat. It reminds me of Cuicui and the ferry sent by Nuo in Shen Congwen's "Border Town".

Xiaoyingzi is lively and cheerful, and makes no secret of her admiration for Akiko. He was proud of Akiko's good voice and excellent paintings, and deliberately stepped on Akiko's feet with his bare feet.

"Minghai looked at her footprints and was dumbfounded. There were five small toes, the soles of the feet were flat, the heels were thin, and a piece of the arch of the foot was missing. There was something about Minghai that he had never seen before. He felt itchy in his heart." Mingzi's heart was disturbed by Xiao Yingzi, and she decided to go to Shanyin Temple to receive ordination and become a qualified monk.

Xiaoyingzi rowed a boat to send Mingzi to Shanyin Temple to receive ordination, and then went to pick her up in person after receiving ordination. In the dining hall where many monks were eating porridge quietly, I shouted to Akiko loudly: "I'm leaving!" What a considerate and thoughtful girlfriend who showed her love bravely. If Cuicui could be so frank and frank with Nuo Song, and not so reserved and shy, maybe there would be no endless longing and waiting for her later.

The scene where the two confessed their love on the boat was the most exciting. Xiaoyingzi said: "You don't want to be an abbot!" "Okay, it's not appropriate." "You don't want to be a novice monk either!" "Okay, it's inappropriate." Xiaoyingzi lay next to Mingzi's ear and whispered: "I will be your wife. Do you want it?" Mingzi's eyes widened. "Yes!"

A few words of love, pure and beautiful. It inherits Shen Congwen's quiet, simple, poetic and tender novel style.

At the end of the novel, there is a description of pink bubbles, which is poetic and beautiful - "The purple-gray reed spikes are silvery, soft, slippery, like a string of silk threads. . In some places, there are cattails, which are bright red, like small candles. There are green duckweeds, long-legged mosquitoes, and small white flowers with four petals on the water chestnuts.

A green stake stirred up in surprise, grazed the reed ears, flew away and flew away. "

The title is "taking the precepts", but it is actually "breaking the precepts". It is a celebration of beauty and humanity. Even the pure land of Buddhism has the steaming smell of fireworks and beautiful emotions.

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Cai Dehui is an assistant professor at Southwest Associated University. He is talented, willing to do research, and has insights. When others can't stand the food in the cafeteria and work outside, Cai Dehui eats boiled kidney beans and "mushroom and taro tofu" in the cafeteria every day. ”, without taking a day off in four years, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to his passion for botany. In the eyes of many people, this knowledge is boring, but Cai Dehui enjoys it.

Although Cai Dehui has no knowledge of matter, He pursues and yearns for things, but always maintains a good demeanor in appearance. He does not buy any clothes, but he is neat and clean. He washes his own clothes, washes his quilts, mends his own shirts, and does needlework. Compared with those who "care about their mouths but not their bodies," "Goose in the Gutter" classmates, Cai Dehui's work in life is as good as his professional academics.

Such a young scholar who could have achieved high achievements in plant taxonomy, but because of He died of tuberculosis due to malnutrition.

People will think of him when they see the timer and sundial he made with chopsticks, and think of him standing by the well in the school building, looking up and smiling.

Gao Beiming in the article "Migration" studied under Juren Tan Zongyu. He was a scholar at the age of sixteen. After the imperial examination was suspended the next year, he graduated from the Jian Normal School and taught in the "Fifth Primary School". He was exempted from the rule and served as a fifth and sixth grade teacher. Chinese. Although he cannot display his talents, he teaches seriously, is meticulous, and is highly respected.

Mr. Gao does not like to socialize and does not participate in factional disputes. He teaches students according to their aptitude, regardless of their family. Kanpinxue.

Mr. Wang Zengqi has mentioned the novel "Relocation" many times, which shows how much he likes it.

Wang Zengqi very much agrees with Gao Beiming's teaching philosophy: "Teaching and teaching people. Understand the students, know yourself and the enemy. Regardless of the student's level, repeating what is taught is blind teaching." "Looking at and guarding the students is like pouring water into a bottle, knowing the depth at any time." Teaching materials must be systematic and focused. Classroom lectures should be combined with extracurricular reading. Mr. Gao also printed and distributed Bai Juyi's New Yuefu and Zheng Banqiao's family letters and paintings to students, and compiled his own teaching materials to help students advance to higher education. These explorations of teaching methods were extremely rare and rare in Chinese education at that time.

Unfortunately, as fate would have it, Gao Beiming finally "moved" from the fifth primary school to the county middle school, and then was "moved" back to the fifth primary school.

Gao Beiming's daughter, Gao Xue, wanted to fly out of the small county town, but she couldn't. They also failed to realize their vision of "migrating" and finally died in depression.

Two generations of the Gao family finally "did not migrate".

Ji Taomin was the first great painter in the county. . Fruit seller Ye San understands Ji Taomin's paintings. He can tell what is good about his paintings and what they express in one sentence, and he also dares to point out what is wrong with his paintings.

Ji Taomin wrote "Guo San" for Ye San. "Ye San, the seller, is my teacher. I am ashamed that painters have so little knowledge." I gave the painting to Ye San and regarded him as a connoisseur.

As a painter, he is not ashamed to ask questions and bow down to an ordinary fruit seller. Asking for advice is a rare artistic quality. Mr. Wang Zengqi believes that people who love art are equal regardless of their status.

Cai Dehui, Gao Beiming, and Ji Taomin are open-minded by nature. , be indifferent to fame and fortune, adhere to one's own ideals and principles, do not lower oneself, and do not look down upon others. These natural and accessible true temperaments and ways of doing things are exactly Mr. Wang Zengqi's values:

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Mr. Wang Zengqi said, "I swallow my suffering and only talk about food, beauty and warmth."

Every article written by Mr. Wang will more or less talk about food. . In the world of food, you can taste the beauty of the world even in hard times.

In the cold sword light of "Revenge", there is also the warmth of eating: "A plain candle, half a jar of wild honey. His eyes can't see the honey now. The honey is in the jar, and he is sitting on the couch. But it’s full of honey, thick and thick.”

During the difficult days in Kunming Middle School, Mr. Wang happily told us the process of making fried bean shell insects: “Pinch off the head and tear it off. For the nail wings, put a little oil in a hot pan, stir-fry them, and then take them out of the pan. After serving, sprinkle heavily with pepper and salt. He said, "Not only vegetables, but also meat dishes can be found everywhere."

In "Eight Thousand Years", in order to contrast the extreme frugality of Eight Thousand Years, Mr. Wang Zengqi made the local dinner tea Detailed description of "Evening tea is mostly a bowl of dry noodles - chopped green onion, lard, soy sauce, shrimp roe, dried shrimps as ingredients, with noodles inside; or a few sesame balls, oil dumplings, beaten into shallow molds with white iron , pour thin noodles into it, stuff it with shredded radish, and fry it until cooked. "

At the Southwest Associated University, the food stalls outside the new school building have different flavors and are served both in the north and the south. "The most popular. The most delicious is the egg pancake: mix eggs with flour, add a lot of chopped green onion, and fry it on the pan. After frying, the pancake will be browned on both sides and can be about one foot in diameter. "It's very satisfying." How many readers, like me, remembered the food stalls at the back door of the university, the old days of ordering some fragrant and oily stir-fries with my classmates, and the old times when I met the senior I had a crush on.

In "Chicken and Duck Master", he described his father's extremely detailed washing and scraping of duck paws: "Every metatarsal web was opened and looked at carefully, as if he was doing a delicate handiwork." The duck's paws are white and clean, and they are neatly arranged in a row. The four duck wings are also white and clean, and they are arranged in a row. Even the two duck gizzards are very cute. It's extremely beautiful. He used the horn-handled knife that I was very familiar with when I was a child to gently draw a slight recess in the maroon that shone with steel blue, and when he turned it over, the stamen-yellow stuff came out. Rinse it several times and put it between the duck's feet and wings. It looks very precious, like a rare fruit."

There are also various fruits from Sai Chenghuang, Professor Gao Chongli's house. Steam pot chicken, Wang Erjia’s secret smoked beef... Mr. Wang Zengqi gives aesthetic value to food and is full of passion for life.

Mr. Wang Zengqi’s "Duck Eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival" included in the middle school textbook allows people working in foreign lands to read this paragraph at night - "The characteristics of Gaoyou salted eggs are that they are fine in texture and rich in oil. The protein is tender and oily. "It's so special that it can't be found anywhere else." The delicious taste of salted eggs wafting out of the book soothes every wanderer's nostalgia for his hometown.

Some people say that after reading Mr. Wang's "Duck Eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival", they will immediately have the urge to go to Taobao and buy a box of duck eggs. Because only in this way can a wandering heart be settled.

To borrow a sentence from a certain foodie: "I don't think about life, I only think about what I will eat tomorrow."

A tribute to Mr. Wang Zengqi, a life master.