Xu Zichen: The "pole" of reading was withdrawn, and the shadow was still shared before going to bed

I have read many times from different perspectives. This time I talk about reading and future.

The significance of reading is in the present, more in the future. There is an idiom called immediate shadow, the pole stands, and the shadow immediately shows; reading is also immediate. The difference is that the "pole" of reading is withdrawn, and the shadow of reading continues. Nourishing.

Reading can indeed lead to the future

I grew up in the countryside. In the late 1970s and early 1970s, in a relatively backward village, a child had almost no concept of the future, and so on the world. I have never visited the county town 40 miles away, and I have always imagined it as the second largest city second only to Beijing. At that time, the reading conditions could be imagined that there was no book reading. A few decent books in the entire village were turned over by countless people, and in the end it was not the same. Two novels I read in elementary school in elementary school, when I was in the Chinese department of college, I learned that one was "Golden Avenue" and the other was "Sunshine".

At the age of 10, I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, and my classmates brought a book "Little Spirit Tour the Future" to the school. Because of this book, he became the most popular person in the class. We have never read such a book. If he understands the market economy, he can keep this book and make a fortune. He didn't make money, but he made other things. Every morning, I had to put two cucumbers planted in our yard and brought him to him. A week later, I borrowed this book. This is the first science fiction novel I read. I didn't look at it as a science fiction novel. At that time, I didn't know that there was a science fiction.

I have forgotten the story, and I have always remembered a detail. It is said that in the future, we can drive the car to the sky, that is, the aircraft. In the sky, the car is not hindered, and it comes on the face, killing it in the oblique thorns, and the squeezed next to it will automatically go the wrong layer, each finds the appropriate flight space. In short, you will never crash. This future is in 2000. I am very envious of this aircraft. I think this is a bit like my idea.

On the New Year's Eve, my dad has to ride a bicycle to take me and my sister to the uncle's house. I sat on the beam in front, my sister sat on the seat behind. The family was in Linyi, Shandong, and there were many hills, and they kept going uphill all the way. If you ca n’t go on the slope that is too long and too high, we will walk down from the bicycle. The happiest is going downhill, half a month of money, the flying general pleasure. I will unlock the coat button in time, let the wind blow the clothes hem, and imagine that I am a bird. The downhill is the best way. At that time, I thought that if all the place from one place to the other is all downhill, then it is fine. You can not worry about when you get on the bicycle. Bicycle's pedals and chains are also saved. My sister thinks that this idea is unrealistic. If it is going downhill when I go, it will be all uphill, and it is even more important. So I thought again that if there is a downhill road from my house to my uncle's house, there is still a downhill road from my uncle's house to my house, will this problem be solved? The trouble is how to make a place both at a high and low place? No operability. "Little Lingtong Roaming Future" solves this problem. By 2000, one aircraft encounters another aircraft to fly above it or below it. Suddenly, it is suddenly, that is, it can be high or leaning to the lowest point. There is a aircraft, and there is no need to cultivate two ways between my house and my uncle's house.

I didn't understand science fiction at that time. "Science" is just a half -knowledge, and "fantasy" is unknown at all; only inexplicably believes in "Ke" and forgets what "fantasy" is. I look forward to 2000. It was 1988, and I looked at it 12 years later. Since then, I have thought of 2000 times a year, and then we can go up and downhill at that time. Time is approaching 2000 every day, and I am getting more and more excited and more tense. In fact, I have a long age. I have understood that it is a fantasy, but the expectation has penetrated into the bone marrow, knowing whether it is fake or secretly praying for miracles. I was the most nervous in 1999. I am convinced that it is impossible to go up and downhill in the sky next year. I feel very sad at all. I have a strong sense of loss, and I feel that it has passed for 11 years. So that in 2000, everyone opened the lights and cheered, but my heart was full of lingering loneliness and unwillingness.

Because of "Little Spirit Tour the Future", it became a node in my life in 2000. From the age of 10, it was my future. I am 44 years old this year. It is really a coincidence. In 2000, I am 22 years old and is in the middle of my current life. In fact, in these years, I have always regarded this year as the most important point in my time coordinates. As long as you start from this point, whether you go forward or back, I can always start the imagination of the future smoothly. And memories of the past.

The novel is an art about imagination and memories. There must be a starting point for imagination and memories, which gave me this point in 2000. To be precise, "Little Lingtong Roaming Future" gave me the original point for the future and to turn around. From the most basic time, "Little Spirit Tour the Future" proves that reading can indeed lead to the future.

Find a sentence that belongs to your own

In the abstract sense, we can also prove that it is enough to reach the future by reading. This is also the story of another book I want to say. Mr. Qian Yanshu's novel "Siege". At the moment in China, a scholar does not know that there are not many "Siege". We all know that this is a classic good novel, especially its language, wisdom, and humor, which is amazing.

I am very fortunate that in an environment with a very thin reading atmosphere, I have a sensitive consciousness of the beauty of Chinese and the beauty of wisdom. I read "Siege". At that time, when I was in the first grade of junior high school, I had a friend who had a higher level and recommended this novel to me. There are still such wonderful and wise Chinese in this world. You have to laugh once when you read it once, and you have to think about it once. I first experienced the shock in the literary sense.

Realizing its beauty, but unable to understand its beauty, so read it over and over again. In the age of reading resources, I have never seen books that look better than it. I have to read twice a year, once in the winter vacation, once in the summer vacation, and read it to high school. Many chapters in the novel can be recited in a large paragraph. High school chanting in the county town, there is a good library in the school, there is a decent bookstore near the school, and there are many opportunities to contact literature. But the meaning of "Siege" to me is unable to replace other works. After seeing the wise, after reading, I started to imitate. Talking and writing are the tone of "Siege". According to my classmates, when I was in high school, I opened my mouth to "money."

Of course, that stage passed quickly. I have neither the talent of Mr. Yan Shu nor his knowledge and humor. I realize that I can't speak with a fake throat, and I have to find my true voice. In the words of Mr. Chen Zhongshi, he wants to "find his own sentence". Now my writing and speaking style is very different from Mr. Qian Yanshu. My text may not find Mr. Qian’s shadow in my text; "Plant" the "grass" of literature. In 1997, when I decided to be a writer in the first grade of college, when I saw a middle school at a glance, I was nesting in a dilapidated vine chair at home to read the mighty time of "Siege".

"Siege" wrote the old story of the 20th to the 1940s. I saw my future in the old time more than half a century ago. Therefore, in the sense of literature, reading has given me a real future that rely on it. Reading makes me a writer.

First of all, be a good reader

As a writer, if you ask me, which is more important to read and write, I will tell you a answer that will not say wrong when you travel: reading is more important.

To be a good writer, we must first be a good reader. Reading is the mother of writing. Of course, reading is not just staring at the book every day. The ancients said that reading thousands of books and walking thousands of miles; both reading books and no books. The so -called Qiu Yuli in my heart is like a god. This is also the story of the third book I want to say.

My novel "North". From the decision to the finalization, it lasted for 4 years. The novel is written in the Beijing -Hangzhou Grand Canal. If Wu Wangfu has been excavated from the ancient ditch, the Emperor Sui Yang rejected the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, and then to the Yuan Dynasty ancestor Kublai Khan to penetrate the Beijing -Hangzhou Grand Canal. So far, this river has flowed for 2500 years. How many stories have happened in 2500, especially in the past 100 years since the late Qing Dynasty, how many times have been launched around this big river that runs through the north and south of China, how many times have been changed, how many national righteousness, love and hatred, A novelist, letting you have the imagination of the world, it is difficult to effectively restore the historical scene. This does not include hydrology and geography, rural style and folk customs along the total length of 1797 kilometers. If you just sit in the book and build a car in the middle of the book, how big the manuscript paper is paved in front of you, your thinking will be cramped, and your pen will be indifferent. How to do?

read. Read the word books, and read the wordless book: read various historical facts and materials, and make the case work. At the same time, open your legs, come out of the book, walk to the wilderness, and walk to the river. Since writing novels in 1997, the canal has been the background of my novel. I have also left intermittently and read the canal for more than ten years. However, the canal really wants to write "North" as the hero. In the first three years of writing in 4 years, I sat down again and concentrated the evil to make up for nearly 70 related information. At the same time, I left the Beijing south across the three forks and went south. With problems, I took the Beijing -Hangzhou Grand Canal again. The field survey is reading on the earth.

Lu Fangweng said: The paper must be shallow on the paper, and he knows that it will do it. Sincerely, I do n’t bully. The terrain of China is complicated, and the north is high in the north. From Hangzhou to the north, how to let a large water run to high places and not go to the scene to study those complex terrain. A river can turn over the gap of forty meters high, and the twists and turns flow all the way north to Beijing.

I am a dull person. Without reading and walking, I will never write "North". In my opinion, in today, all complex writing is read -style writing, and it can only be read -style writing. Our writing must also be based on a large number of reading.

In the past years, through reading a book, as a reader, I arrived in the future; as a writer, I also reached a book of my own book by reading a book of a book."Little Lingtong Roaming Future" and "Siege" and "North Upper" are just three cases of reading to the future.Everyone's growth road is full of such sober road signs. These road signs are read again and again, which is a book.Every time I read, every book, tell us: the next stop, the future.April 14, 2022, Zhichunli

Xu Zichen, born in Donghai, Jiangsu in 1978, graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University, and is currently the deputy editor of "People's Literature".The novel "North Upper" won the Tenth Mao Dun Literature Award.There are also "Jerusalem", "King City Ruhai", "Running through Zhongguan Village", "If the Snow Seal the Gate", "Qingyun Valley Fairy Tale", "Qingcheng" and so on.

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Author: Xu Zichen

Text Editing: Gu Xuewen

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