[Memory] "Sichuan Daily" opened the window I watched the world.

Sichuan Daily

Open the window I watched the world

Luo Xueya

The years are like songs, and the journey is like a rainbow. In my journey for more than 60 years, the rainbow that helped me open the world window, which is the Sichuan Daily.

In 1975, when I graduated from middle school, I went to the countryside to a remote small village that did not pass on the road and did not even have a radio line. For me, a girl who grew up in a brilliant and roar of the machine, it was very uncomfortable with such occlusion, backwardness, and loneliness. Every day, listening to the captain ringing the rust rails hanging on the hill tree, the sunrise is made, and the sunset returns. The dark night is particularly long and isolated from the world.

One day, the captain knocked on the bell and shouted to open a member meeting. He took out a stack of newspapers and told me to read two. At first glance, the Sichuan Daily was really bright. Although it has been expired for a long time, for me, it is a window to see the outside world.

That day, I met the Sichuan Daily, and since then, it has formed a unremitting bond for nearly half a century. The captain went to the commune to open a Sannan club every month (cadres of the commune, brigade, and production team), and I brought back a stack of "Sichuan Daily" each time, and I asked him to ask him. If you want more times, he simply gives me, but after I read it, I will return it to him because there are many members who ask him a newspaper.

Every time I got the Sichuan Daily, I went back to the educated youth house and read it thirsty, and even every word in the middle seam was not missed. As a result, my educated youth diary, in addition to remembering some flowing accounts for farming, is copying newspapers. Seeing wonderful articles, excerpt a little; see the remote words, copy the dictionary. After copying a lot, I learned to write, and I tried to submit the submission according to the submission address in the newspaper.

In the autumn of 1976, the captain opened the Sanqian meeting, and he shouted from a distance: "Xueya's poetry newspaper!"

I picked up the newspaper to find out. It was the Sichuan Daily on October 10th. In the middle of the 3rd edition, I published a small poem: "Chairman Mao's instructions of the Zhenhe Mountain", although it is only a four sentences in 4 sentences. Poetry of oil, but it is enough to excite me, and the confidence of writing and submission has doubled.

Soon, I was very famous. Even the communes tuned for a special publication and manuscript. The commune school also asked me to give a lecture.

One day, I received "Longchang Literature and Art" sent by the County Cultural Museum, which published an allegro and a new poem I wrote. When I smelled the fragrance of ink, I was inspired by a sudden inspiration: I applied for a oil printing publication myself.

So, I immediately contacted a few educated youths that love literature and good at engraving steel plates to apply to the commune: to establish a "Red Star Youth" in the name of the commune committee committee (our commune is called Red Star Commune). Soon, the commune approved our application and equipped us with a full set of oil printing equipment such as oil printers and steel plates, pens, and white paper.

If we get the treasure, we carefully put the oil printer on the table of my educated Youth House House. At that time, our only teacher was "Sichuan Daily". Everyone was passively organized and checked, and learned the editor of the Sichuan Daily and engraved. In less than a week, the first issue of "Red Star Youth" was issued. Although there were only 4 pages, more than 100 copies were printed. At the Sanqian meeting, they sent to various production teams in the whole commune.

Unexpectedly, this small oil printing paper, in the occlusal village that we didn't even have a radio, caused a great response, and many literary youths in the surrounding communes took the initiative to contact me. Our manuscript is getting richer and richer.

In the winter of 1977, the Sichuan Daily brought good news to restoring the college entrance examination. Although I did not have a high school education, I could only apply for the secondary school, but I was confident that I had poured into the thousands of horses and won the wooden bridge on the road to catching the examination. I was admitted to the health school and put on a white coat.

In the later days, whether in the front line of medical work or administration in the office, I never let go of the Sichuan Daily. In the long years, it has become my life partner who is not allowed to give up. Today, I still follow it, and I have been working hard to publish more than 600 poems and prose in newspapers and periodicals in the country. More than 200,000 words have been compiled.

Today is the 70th anniversary of the "Sichuan Daily". I want to bow deeply to you, thank you for more than 40 years of companionship, and thank you for warming my ordinary life without regrets.

Write on September 1, 2022

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Source: Sichuan Provincial Local House Work Office

Author: Luo Xueya (retired medical staff, member of the Luzhou Writers Association, Member of Longchang Writers Association)

Picture: Fang Zhi Sichuan (pictures of this article are from the "Sichuan Daily" WeChat public account)

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