What are the successful factors of Yu Guangzhong's life experience?

When I was young, Jiangnan was "quite idyllic". I come from Jiangnan in a broad sense, from Changzhou and Nanjing, from Xiamen, and also from Sichuan Waer and Wuling. This is mostly related to family and historical origins.

Because my father is from Yongchun, Quanzhou, my mother and wife are from Changzhou, and I was born in Nanjing and lived in this city until I was 9 years old. I also went back to Quanzhou with my parents. Therefore, these places can be said to be my hometown.

The last time I left the mainland was in Xiamen. Xiamen is located in the south of Fujian, which is very different from Nanjing and Changzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. However, the style of writing in these three places is extremely prosperous, especially in southern Fujian, which is closer to ancient poetry and prose, and closer to the ancients. I have a mixed accent now and can only speak Mandarin. When I was a child, Mandarin had a Jiangnan accent. Now the common dialects will be more standard, but there is still a local accent in it.

I lived in Nanjing when I was a child because my father worked in Nanjing. In my impression, although there were Jiangnan industries like Wuxi at that time, it was still quite rural in general. For example, many people raise silkworms and like flying kites, and they still retain the ancient style. My mother's relatives are all big families, and there are many rooms to live together. Of course, they don't have the high officials and dignitaries in A Dream of Red Mansions, and they are probably equivalent to the middle class now. There lived calligraphers, teachers and entrepreneurs.

"Going back to my hometown is still embarrassing."

1992, I went back to the mainland. That's not the hometown I knew when I was a child. At that time, I was invited to Beijing. Although I have returned to the mainland, I have never been to the north when I was a child.

I know that there are hutongs in Beijing, not the aristocratic society of Wang, but the hutongs written by literati in the early years of the Republic of China. As a result, I went back. The old one was very old, like the Forbidden City. New ones are like foreign companies and joint venture buildings. However, the hutongs gradually disappeared.

Many of these places have been demolished. Last year, when I went to Peking University, I was taken to see Liang Qichao's former residence, which was no longer the standard of that year. Dozens of families live in it.

I really returned to my hometown of Nanjing in 2000, when I returned to my alma mater, Nanjing University, and I was deeply touched. What I remember most is the smell of osmanthus when I was a child. At that time, there was a osmanthus tree in the yard of people in the south of the Yangtze River, or there were many osmanthus trees, and osmanthus fell all over the floor, but these feelings were not found in Taiwan Province Province.

It is melancholy not to go home, and it is melancholy to go home. Just like playing hide-and-seek in the yard of Caoqiao when I was a child, some of my friends hid behind the water tank and some hid in the bamboo forest. When I opened my eyes, they were really gone. When I really came back, things had changed, and many people were dead.

I am disappointed that the Yangtze River and its tributaries are seriously polluted, or lack of water or water. For example, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake have been seriously reduced, and so on. These seem to be found only in Tang poetry.

Later, buildings became more and more westernized, and there were more and more high-rise buildings. Now even small counties have tall buildings. Previous houses, such as Suzhou and Changzhou, were houses with one entrance, two exits and three entrances, but now they are gradually disappearing.

During the Anti-Japanese War, I spent a short semester in Xinghua Primary School in the French Concession in Shanghai. The rented school is very foreign. From then on, I began to learn English. I don't know where this primary school has gone now. I remember that the school is very close to Joffrey Street (now Huaihai Middle Road). I still have my report card at that time. Later, I went to Shanghai, and I didn't look for it in particular. When you go to Shanghai for lectures and discussions, you usually have to be idle, and you don't go back to the old place in particular.

"I like drawing maps."

When the poem Homesickness was written, the mainland was in the Cultural Revolution period, which was about 197 1. At that time, there was no possibility of any communication between Taiwan Province Province and the mainland. As the days passed, my homesickness became more and more serious. After leaving the mainland for 20 years, I spent 20 minutes writing "Homesickness" in my former residence in Xiamen Street, Taipei.

I like drawing maps, and I often use them to express my homesickness. I often take out a broken map 1948 brought from the mainland to Taiwan Province Province, just like staring at an old photo of my dead mother.

Now, I still keep the habit of drawing maps. My wife is a volunteer tour guide in the art museum. She needs a map to tell the audience what important places a painter has been in his life, so I helped her draw a map to guide the audience.

In the past decades, I have collected many maps, including the old map I brought to Taiwan Province Province, and I still keep it. Later, when I opened the old map, I found that there was no passenger railway in Sichuan in those days, only the track for transporting coal.

In the 22 years after 1992, I went back to the mainland about fifty or sixty times, and I went to the mainland five or six times last year.

So in recent years, I will not write homesickness, but write back to my hometown. For example, I go back to Nanjing and Xiamen. My latest collection of essays is called Bronze Dream, in which I went to Shandong, Dalian, Huangshan and Yandang Mountain in Wenzhou. There are more and more such travel notes in Chinese mainland.

Wrote a hundred "environmental poems"

In the past 20 years, I have been reminding my readers of the importance of environmental protection through poetry. I even complained about environmental damage in my poems. I have also written poems for many national parks, which have been translated into English and Japanese. Some of them are about Kaohsiung where I have lived for nearly 30 years. I wrote about 100 such "environmental protection poems", which are scattered in some of my poems.

The background of my writing "Poetry on Environmental Protection" is the rapid economic and social development of Taiwan Province Province from 1960s to 1980s. At that time, Jiang Jingguo, the governor of Taiwan Province Province, appointed many technocrats, who played a great role in the process of social and economic development and modernization in Taiwan Province Province.

However, what doesn't match the rapid economic development is the people's destruction of the environment in Taiwan Province Province. At that time, many forests were cut down to grow betel nuts and build commercial areas, and industrial pollutants invaded farmland, resulting in excessive cadmium in rice, inedible and unclean drinking water. Some scholars in Taiwan Province Province bluntly said that the ecological damage in Taiwan Province Province has reached the brink of irretrievability. Any more damage will lead to the complete collapse of Taiwan Province's ecology.

This is a society without foresight. Industry has developed, but the sequelae brought by post-industry cannot be saved without foresight, budget and assistance. Sometimes there is collusion between officials and businessmen, and the people are helpless. This is also related to the political background. Although Taiwan Province Province is quite "democratic", the government connives at big businessmen who can really harm the environment in terms of elections and freedom of speech, which needs condemnation but cannot be corrected. Because the people themselves are not vigilant enough.

The environment of Taiwan Province Province can be well preserved in a small area. For example, there are many "national parks" in Taiwan Province Province, and their management is quite strict. There is no pollution in it, and there is no factory. There is a place that mainland tourists often visit called Taroko Pavilion, which is very strict. This is not allowed, and that is not allowed. However, in some places, many "mountain rat" (mountain thieves) secretly cut down and destroy forests for profit, and trucks of sand and stones were transported to cities to build houses with cement. This phenomenon still exists in Taiwan Province Province.

Recently, there is a very popular documentary in Taiwan Province Province called Seeing Taiwan Province Province, which was shot by photographer Zeppelin by plane. It was only after the film was broadcast on the Internet that people discovered that the pollution and forest destruction in Taiwan Province Province were so serious. This film has aroused people's vigilance and reflection, and the government is of course forced to follow suit. Liang Congjie, a famous environmental expert from Chinese mainland, visited Taiwan Province and we had discussions to support each other's cause. Liang Congjie, the grandson of Liang Qichao and the son of Liang Sicheng, has attracted much attention from the international community.

Environmental protection is a global problem, such as air pollution, deforestation, the killing of endangered birds and animals, and the protection of transit migratory birds. After the media reported that mainlanders ate bear bile, it also attracted the attention of many people in Taiwan Province Province. When some people in Taiwan Province province heard that there was shark fin at the wedding reception, they refused to attend the wedding to protest.

Taiwan Province Province has been very successful in garbage sorting. People generally follow government regulations and discard garbage according to different boxes. This has become a major achievement of Ma Ying IX.

And drive to teach.

I have been driving for 40 years, both in America and Canada. In recent years, the air quality in Taiwan Province Province is not very good, especially in basin areas like Taibei.

I have officially retired, but I am still teaching, because the school still needs me, and I am welcome to stay. I have been teaching for nearly 30 years.

I still drive to teach at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan Province, which is impossible in Chinese mainland. Now, the transportation department of Taiwan Province Province has begun to consider gradually canceling the driver's license for people of our age.

It takes about 10 kilometers to drive from Kaohsiung's home to school, and it takes 40 minutes. Although the traffic order in Taiwan Province Province is good, on the one hand, there are many traffic lights, on the other hand, there are too many locomotives, and the journey time is long. In recent years, some people in Taiwan Province Province have started to drive electric cars, but it is not common.

(Morning Post reporter You Zefang finishing)

Source: Oriental Morning Post

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