Qian Liqun: I hope to write "cute people" with their tombstones

Text/Shu Jinyu

Some students said to Qian Liqun: You are a cute person.

Qian Liqun thinks this is the highest evaluation of teachers. He said on many occasions that he hoped that he would write a line of words on his tombstone in the future: "cute person".

The audience who has watched the movie "Three Mao Shi" may still remember the Master Kuang in it. However, it is estimated that few people associate the "wide boy" with the famous professor Qian Liqun at Peking University.

Qian Liqun

That's right, just Qian Liqun. He has played a movie, likes Peking Opera, sings blackheads, and has published photography collection. But his most obsessed and most loved things were determined in the 1960s: one is a good teacher, and the other is to study Lu Xun with spare time. Both of these things, he devoted his enthusiasm for life. As a teacher, he shows a way of existence of life to the students, so that students know that people can live for their ideals, live for faith, and even become a moment of sacred memory in students' lives; talk about Lu Xun, Lu Xun's life Integration, Lu Xun, who claimed to be "ancient board and stubborn", "talks about Lu Xun, then Lu Xun said down and do it down for more than 50 years.

After the beginning of autumn, the afternoon sun was spilled without reservation, and it was dazzling. The summer campus at Peking University was much quiet, and Qiu Chan's hissing occasionally adds a bit of poetry to the yard in Jingyuan. Professor Qian Liqun, a professor at Peking University, was helped to walk into the conference room slowly. This was the first time he went out for 152 days after being closed for 152 days in Taikang's nursing home. Red and white crossbar T -shirts, light -colored trousers, in addition to inconvenient movement, the Qian Liqun of Crane Failor looks good, it is still a hearty laughter, with a slightly hoarse but magnetic sound. It is still familiar to us. The charm is full of money.

According to Professor Li Baiyang, Mr. Qian's writing volume is about 20 million words, and two -thirds of the works were published after retirement.

When people are old, they will return to childhood

Qian Liqun has two dreams: one is a poet's dream, and the other is a children's literature dream.

In the eyes of his student Wu Xiaodong (Professor of Peking University), Teacher Qian is passionate, imaginative, and curious. These are the characteristics of poets. However, Qian Liqun does not write poetry. The "insufficient view" left by the poems and poems may be more inner temperament. His children's literature dream is the seed buried by a teenager, so that the purpose of applying for the journalism of the Chinese Department of Peking University is to hope that after graduating from the university, he can interview it everywhere after graduating from the university, and then write it as a child literary work.

Qian Liqun and Jin Bo

In college, he quickly found that he was not suitable for creation. Because he often ignores the details, and the memory of the details is poor. How can I leave the details? Therefore, Qian Liqun completely let go of the dream of children's literary writers, but did not expect to fulfill this dream in the nursing home after dozen.

The matter originated from the children's literary writer Jin Bo, who lived in Taikang Nursing Home, gave Qian Liqun a book. Qian Liqun was attracted. As soon as the two were shot, they collaborated and published the comments of the Insect Impression (one of the "Natural Notes" series).

Qian Liqun attaches great importance to the Impression of insects. In addition to fulfilling the dream of children's writer, this comment also creates a new academic style, restored the traditional Chinese impression criticism. "When people are old, they have to return to childhood. Childhood is not only my own life propositions, but also Jin Bo's life proposition. We are the old people to talk about childhood and have a life return." Follow and expectations. They hope to advocate parent -child reading and use family education to supplement existing education. This is a great ambition.

Pension life enters the stage of re -learning

Qian Liqun and his wife stayed at the nursing home on July 14, 2015. He said that his nursing life began from entering the nursing home. At first I just wanted to make my life comfortable in my old age, and I didn't have more ideas. But for a long time, he gradually began to consider "how to take the last journey of this life".

Qian Liqun and his wife Cui Kexin

In recent periods, Qian Liqun has published more than a dozen pension notes one after another, which has received widespread attention. Although when studying Lu Xun's "After Death" and other related works, he thought about the issues of life and death, but really faced life and death and turned it into his own life propositions. Qun and his wife Cui Kexin were diagnosed with cancer (Qian Liqun suffered from prostate cancer, Cui Kexin suffered from pancreatic cancer), and "life and death" became the subject of life that they could not avoid.

1975: Tongtong Wall with Kexin

And the biggest and last difficulties encountered by the elderly, naturally how to face the problem of "old, sick, and dead". This is not necessary to avoid. He also made a serious and difficult thinking with his wife because of his wife's illness and travement, and wrote the article "" My Love for You "for discussion. Both he and his wife believe that this is a life issue that everyone will face sooner or later. If you are sick, even if you are seriously ill, you should actively treat it; but once you suffer from incurable diseases, you do n’t have to treat it. You do n’t have to treat the time of life. Both he and his wife pursued the meaning of life in his life, and he had to chase to the end, and he had to fight for the quality of life until he died. His wife even rushed before death, finished what he wanted to do, and personally hit the thing behind him, arranging the final life as much as possible, and always holding the initiative of life firmly in his own hands.

Qian Liqun and his mother, in Nanjing in the 1960s: The most profound family memory of life with his life experience and life experience, Qian Liqun's "Pension Research Notes" wrote several articles, he quickly found that there must be New gains must be re -learning in this strange field. "This means that my elderly life must consciously enter a new stage of" learning ". Learning at home and abroad at home and abroad, both feels after reading and played at the same time. He thinks that this "unjustly" article is exactly his pursuit.

Epidemic life: seeking unchanged in the change

In 2002, 63 -year -old Qian Liqun retired and entered the elderly stage. For 20 years, he has maintained a strong creativity.

His experience proves that the elderly cannot be underestimated in the longevity era.

This time the epidemic broke out and was closed in the nursing home, Qian Liqun started new thinking. His life experience tells him that he must not be dominated and overwhelmed by anxiety, and you must jump out. So calm down and think. The disaster of the epidemic made him see clearly that the so -called real "old -age care" is to obtain the stability and peace of life and life. So, how to "constitute a contradiction and tension between the chaos of the outside world and the stability of the individual", and how to "get a spiritual plenty of plenty of spirit and calmness" is a major issue and problem of "life life". Once it is handled well It will become a major art and creation in life. This itself is very tempting.

He remembered the sentence of Chinese modern writer Shen Congwen: "Seeking unchanged in changes." "The most noticeable thing about this epidemic disaster is the adherence of ordinary people. It is this time the natural plague raging, prompting us (including myself) to understand and start thinking about the meaning of daily life that is used to seeing us. , Eternal value of indispensable, thus obtaining 'everything must pass, life will continue' beliefs. "

1981: After the "Cultural Revolution", the first graduate student of Peking University's modern literature and tutors took a photo with the mentor. From the left in the front row: Le Daiyun, Tang Yan, Wang Yao, Yan Jiayan, Sun Yuzhi; from the left: Zhao Yuan, Qian Liqun , Wu Fuhui, Ling Yu, Wen Rimin, Zhang Meishan, Chen Shan

Qian Liqun also discovered the meaning of "leisure life" for the elderly in the epidemic -after retirement is a "enrich the spiritual home, enrich the inner life, pursue life's meaning, enhance the realm of life, practice life wisdom, and achieve self -improvement". " A good time is the best stage of self -life. Therefore, he believes that to promote "healthy leisure life", one is to pursue the "creativity, diversity, and personalization" of pursuit of pension and leisure life, and the other is to highlight and emphasize "interest". When we look back at our lives in our later years, we always feel that there are many regrets. Of course, it is impossible to "re -take the road of life". Essence

Ideal life state

Sometimes Qian Liqun feels that he is misunderstood. Most of the academic circles and readers value his ideology. In fact, he is more literary, but literary nature is covered up by ideology. And a person is very rich and complicated. The "Natural Notes Series" with Jin Bo is his "other side", and the collection of photography is also his "other".

Qian Liqun values ​​his only collection of photography "The other side of Qian Liqun". He often likes to say "instant eternal". It expresses an intuitive, instinctive induction, not only has strong intuition, but also retains the richness of the original ecology and unspeakableness. This is not reached by language.

"I think my photography works are even better than the value of my academic work, because for me, the relationship with nature is more important, and my nature is closer to nature." Qian Liqun said that only in nature, only in nature Among them, he felt free, comfortable and comfortable, and in the crowd, he often had a sense of disagreement.

Qian Liqun hopes that his "nursing life" can restore human nature, sincerity, and true temperament, obtain the relationship with nature, the relationship with others, and the three major harmony of your own relationship, to adjust and improve your human nature and your human nature and your human nature Life.

He made such arrangements for his pension life: close door writing, to sink the deep history and heart, and sublimate his spiritual world to a broader and free state; walking in the courtyard every day is not only exercising, but also It is even more to appreciate the natural beauty of plants and flowers and rocks and blue sky, and there are new discoveries every day. Use photography to record the instantaneous insights when you meet nature; at the same time, try to make your interpersonal relationship simple and simple. All of these arrangements will eventually return to their hearts and pursue the tranquility and serene of the soul.

1985: "Three Swordsmen in Yanyuan" Huang Ziping, Qian Liqun, and Chen Pingyuan Talking (this is a group photo in 2000)

Qian Liqun said that when people reach their old age, when they look back on their lives, they have to ask: "Who am I?" When he was 83 years old, he made a summary of this issue and said, "I am a thinker, the wander of the thought wander,"".However, he also hopes to add a sentence: a central subject and goal I think is "looking for the" spiritual warrior ", for himself, and for the younger generation of the Chinese generation who keeps close contact with him.Edit: Liu Qihan

Source: Character

- END -