Huang Yongyu's letter to Cao Yu and Cao Yu's reply.

Jia:

The letter has been received. We have just returned to Beijing from our hometown for ten days, and we will go to Hong Kong for two months in a week or so, and we will arrive in June. It's not bad, but it's a waste of time.

I want to present a clumsy poem, which was written in the first year of three years of reform through labor. A friend of the poetry magazine asked me for a recent work, and now there is no poetic comfort, so I took it out of the box and showed it to him, but said yes. People are always ready to be praised. But this poem is not good, it is a public and private matter to satisfy people's curiosity. However, my wife is sincere and happy, which is equivalent to an unbreakable loyalty to her, so that all my friends know that I really want to be a prisoner for 36 years. I can probably produce a thick collection of poems praising my wife. Unfortunately, there is no such disgusting publishing house in the world.

To tell the truth, how can I meet people who have authentic love poems, love letters and love stories? As great as Lu Xun, he is good at it. It is said to be a book of two places. The person who bought it is amazing, but it seems very serious and lacks the fragrance of love. If the whole world seriously produces this kind of thing and stipulates that everyone must read it, the public security bureau will save a lot of trouble. People have too little contact with pure love.

Cao Gong Cao Gong! Your calligraphy is magnificent and meticulous. You must be a long-lived old man, and you should still be working. The word work has been polluted for decades and has become a low-level custom. In your life, work is full of real glory, don't pay attention to trivial worldly wisdom, beat about the bush! For you, it should be "all or nothing"; It should be said that "a good work is not simple." Like Bernard Shaw, like Voltaire, they are still so accurate when they are old, and they don't spare themselves.

In new york, I'm in Arthur? The millers stayed for a few days. He just wrote a new play "American Time", so I accompanied him to the rehearsal and watched him revise the script while filming. That activity, that seriousness, is just like chicken soup. He and his wife, a great photographer, take turns driving a long way home, and then they chop firewood together in their forest. Miller drove the tractor and pulled us back with firewood. Two or three tons of firewood! We sat at the wooden stool and dining table made by Miller himself. I think all his cells are active. Therefore, regardless of success or failure, his plays are full of vitality. Do you find it strange? At that time, I thought of you and missed you. If I write a line, it is: "We also have a Cao Yu!" But my subtext is how much you need his careless spirit.

You are my respected elder, so I am strict with you! I don't like any of your plays after liberation. Your heart is not in the play, you have lost the great and well-informed Baoyu, and you are wrong by the situation! Shrinking from an ocean into a stream, you are trapped in reluctant artistic creation, like drinking strong tea at night and waking up in chaos. The proposition is not consolidated and meticulous, and the interpretation and analysis are not thorough. Numerous subtle pauses, beats, hot and cold, fast and slow arrangements, and baskets of meaningful words in the past have all disappeared.

No one can say anything bad. Always "high!" "good!" Although these compliments can't confuse you, they confuse you and make you mean. Writing here, I can't help but think of a sentence in Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Wake up, Macbeth, and drive away the deep sleep!"

You know, I love my motherland, so I love you. You are a very realistic mountain in my time. I don't deserve your friendship if I don't tell you the truth. If it takes some effort to get you to write twenty more plays, send them! Alyssa has two poems: "The heart is in the tree, just pick it!"

The letter is almost finished. Looking back, it seems that I am slandering you, and I am a little uneasy. Leave it for two days and think about whether to send it to you.

I wish you and your wife all the best!

Be careful in Huang Yongyu at night.

March 20

I also want to design a stage for your new work one day. Yongyu, too.

I also want to contribute some miscellaneous stories to everyone to see if I can make a difference! Yongyu, too.

Cao Yu arrived in Huang Yongyu1April 2, 983.

Master Yong Yu:

Received your letter. Like a poor man with nothing, he suddenly got countless treasures from the goddess. I watched it again and again, calling on my wife and daughter to watch it together. I was surprised that God would give me such rich, beautiful, profound and sincere feelings without warning.

I didn't expect you to write me such a long letter. You encouraged me, and you accused me of being empty for nearly 30 years, "trapped in reluctant artistic creation." This sentence hit the nail on the head, and I wasted my mature middle age. At this age, I began to understand. You mentioned my scripts in those years, "the proposition is not consolidated, not detailed, and the interpretation and analysis are not thorough." Only a great artist who understands the mind like this can speak so accurately and accurately. I'm writing a script now. Still stuck in the old rotten pit for decades, too complacent. It seems that I only know how to trudge along the old road, but I don't know how many fresh roads there are on the shore. You told me: "wake up and drive away the deep sleep!" " "

I will! But I'm still half asleep, and I know I'm lost. I hope I haven't lost too far, and I still have time to recover the lost time. Nothing in the world is more painful than finding yourself taking too many detours in old age. But I understand when I point it out, and I feel that the road is still very long, so I am relieved. I can only cheer up and write for a few more years to repay the kindness you and many sincere friends have pointed out for me. Yongyu, you are an outstanding friend. We longed for each other for a long time, but we only met and talked twice. It is my happiness to get such honest and sincere words from you, and what makes me happier is that I actually got such sincere friends from you in such a hasty opportunity.

You said I needed Arthur? Miller's careless spirit, you are right. He is down-to-earth, sober and cordial, and in his profound cultural accomplishment, he always reveals a kind of indomitable heroism of surrendering to the world. I often feel that I have too many worries and it is difficult to get rid of them. It has become a habit. But if you don't make up your mind to change, it is impossible for the so-called stream to merge into the sea.

You are like a volcano, spewing white-hot magma. I won't be cold by your side. You said you would write twenty plays. If I were really like the giant you said, I would write them all. However, with you around to urge me, always remind me that I will, as you said, "spare no effort, spare no effort."

Your painting, how many people in the world are praising it and praising it in various languages, what I added is superfluous. What I respect and like more is your humanity, your personality, your intelligence and sense of humor. Your art and articles are rare. But what really surprises me is that after years of suffering and secular temptation, you still maintain your simplicity and frankness.

I'll ask you for something eventually. Your long letter has been put into the photo album page by page. Now I can make a comeback at any time. When I am tired, when I occasionally lose confidence, I will see burning words in your letter and urge me to pick up a pen and write again. When I want to go astray and re-enter the magic road, I will be awake and write again!

Please say hello to your wife. Thank you, my friend.

Cao Yu

1April 2, 983

Seeing words like a face is a seasonal broadcast program launched by Heilongjiang Satellite TV, which focuses on star reading letters. The purpose is to open the historical node with letters, lead the audience into those scenes and life stories that are still alive, touch those people and social features that are still emotional, and re-understand the spiritual feelings and life wisdom of China people.