Quiet in the old days: because love is a complex ocean.

"Two days ago, when sorting out old things, I sorted out two boxes of postcards. They used to lie in the drawer under my desk. Because drawers are not enough, to be exact, drawers have long been insufficient, I made up my mind to move these ideas out and adjust my working environment to middle age. " This passage written by Wei Yangzi in the essay "I hope you have a chance to come" is different from the last "middle age" (I think I am still a teenager, at least a youth), and the rest is like another life.

As an important medium to convey emotions, some more tangible objects retain a lot of memories than mobile phones. There are some love letters, or small pieces of paper that are not love letters, mixed in postcards and slept casually. Heartbroken words will not appear on postcards that the postman can see, and the "missing" that is not written is the heaviest. "I hope you have a chance to come" is the standard ending of writing postcards, but later I found that in this case, what we can say is no longer "OK", but "I should never have another chance". It's like we keep laughing and saying "see you later", but we know in our hearts that we will never meet again.

I first knew Zhang Yiwei's name when I was reading The Feast of the West People. Later, I also read her other books, such as Essays, New Songs and My Stranger. I hope you have a chance to come. This article is included in her new book "The Quiet of Old Times". She studied at Fudan University, majoring in philosophy and Master of Arts. After receiving her Ph.D. in Chinese Department of Taiwan Province University of Political Science, she returned to Fudan University as a teacher and taught creative writing. I asked my senior sister in Fudan to take pictures of her class. In another article, "Twentieth Anniversary of Writing for New Concepts" (she won the first prize), she said that she had published four books before graduating from college, and more than a dozen between the ages of twenty and thirty, and now the number has become more than twenty. The themes of her works are mainly campus stories and family stories, and the characters are mainly urban women, as well as literary classics, such as The Journey to the West.

There are 47 essays in Silence of the Old Times, which are divided into three titles: language is a spreading machine, exploring the road and chasing the light. From the content point of view, there are several main directions, including recalling the past, recalling the old city, art appreciation, writing teaching, life perception, the creation of important people and important nodes, such as being a teacher for the first time on the occasion of the New Year. It can be said that this book is "cold and hot, intimacy, love and sadness", and I understand the feelings expressed in many articles.

spring roll

This is a short article about food and affection.

The author studied in Taiwan Province Province for many years. In order to let her go home for the New Year, her mother allowed her to make any conditions. She said she just wanted to eat spring rolls.

"My mom's spring rolls are full, each one is almost broken, and the control is just right. The fillings are baby dishes, shredded pork, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and water chestnuts ... I think spring rolls are the mother's patent. "

My patent mother didn't fry spring rolls for her until the night before she went to Taiwan Province. The reason is that it takes a long time to wipe the oil pan and it is inconvenient to fry things. After vomiting, she did not forget to boast, "It's good to eat all the salt in the world and travel all over the world." Actually, I hate to leave my daughter.

This is my favorite article, because it reminds me of my mother. Every time I go home the next day, or the day before I leave home, except my family, I am greeted by jiaozi, a taro wrapped by my mother.

The biggest difference between jiaozi, a hometown taro, and jiaozi, is the dumpling skin. No flour, no water, only taro and sweet potato powder. After peeling off the skin, the cooked taro is mixed with sweet potato powder and kneaded to become sticky and can be twisted into a ball. Put the ball on the palm of your hand, pat it, and the fingertips will open a little, and the dumpling skin will be ready. The stuffing is diced meat, red and green pepper, water chestnut, chopped green onion and egg white. More importantly, the way the bag is packed. Rub along the sides to the middle, leaving a small hole on the side to taste. The last wrapped jiaozi is a half moon. I think taro jiaozi is my mother's patent.

At the end, the author said, "Even though I never feel how important it is to be absent, I will still be sad after the Spring Festival." Behind the food, Qian Qian's hometown, sincere food can resist nothingness.

A city that twinkles and whispers.

This is a short article about hometown.

The author's hometown is in Shanghai. As she grew older, she began to look for the meaning of daily life outside her literary life, such as Shanghai cuisine. She cooks Shanghai food according to her grandmother's gestures and her mother's preferences. Even if she doesn't do well, she will tell her foreign classmates, "This is Shanghai food."

When I came home on National Day this year, I brought a pack of "Chili powder" from home, which was enough for cooking and seasoning. The biggest feature of hometown food is spicy. There can be no green pepper and red pepper in the ingredients, but this kind of Chili powder must be there. Some people will do it themselves, and they can buy it in any street shop in the vegetable market, but I have never seen it here.

Another example is the local accent, which is regarded as the only luggage that the author can carry with him. "I thought for a moment, how to write the word" hairpin "? And smile. This may be the power of language, about home and about childhood. "

My hometown is a small county in the northeast of Jiangxi. Because of the special geographical location, dialects are also special. How to write the word "XX"? In fact, this kind of question has been with me since I was a child, but after asking and asking, no one can tell me the answer, so I choose to find the answer myself. The undergraduate studied linguistics, and the graduate students chose the direction of dialectology. The graduation thesis was about the word formation of hometown dialect. It is the initial intention to think that hometown dialect is fun, and it is the mission to solve the doubts of dialect vocabulary.

Devotion and dedication

This article tells the story of a teacher.

In other works, the author also mentioned this teacher who is more important to her life: Professor Wang, the instructor of undergraduate thesis.

After graduating from undergraduate course, she took the postgraduate exam, but she was not sure about it, and never thought that she would fight again next year without going ashore. When handing in her graduation thesis, someone asked her what she had done in four years. She said with a little guilty, "I am writing a novel." When we meet again next time, Professor Wang said to her, "If you need any help for the postgraduate entrance examination, I can help you in the Chinese Department. I can help you find so-and-so, so-and-so ",because he looked it up and found that she really wrote many good novels. "I hope you will continue reading as long as you have the opportunity. There is a lot of work. " At that moment, the author felt that he had become a student of Hope Primary School, because in the vast expanse, there was a person who had requirements and expectations for himself. After reading this, I also felt a little tearful, because my undergraduate thesis advisor Professor Sun also said the same thing to me.

Academic thesis is the arrangement of junior year, and my topic is the study of a dialect word in my hometown dialect. Because I studied a little later than others, and my family conditions were not very good, I began to look for a job internship at the end of my junior year and prepared to work after graduation. Later, in the tutor's office, she said to me, "Your research object is very clear and meaningful. I hope you can continue to study, and I can help you if necessary. " In fact, I also want to go to graduate school, but I dare not bear the result of the failure of the postgraduate entrance examination.

In the book, the author's final result is a near miss, but in reality, my final result is a coincidence.

When I graduated from my master's degree, I met Professor Wang again. She is still worried that she can't write a paper. Professor Wang encouraged her, "write well, there are so many papers, not worse than you." This statement moved the author very much. Coincidentally, I first saw this statement in the preface of the author The Journey to the West, when I was writing my master's thesis. Finally, I used this sentence at the beginning of my thesis thanks. "I have always felt that there is no shortage of one of my papers in the world. I want to do what I like, so I want to continue to do what I am interested in, so I wrote this paper related to my hometown dialect." By the way, Professor Sun happened to be my graduate tutor.

At the end of the article, the author said that after graduation, her friends would ask her, "Are you still writing a novel?" Make her laugh and cry. As for me, I can go back to the school library after graduation because my work place is close to the school (across the road). When they meet their former teachers, they will ask, "haven't you graduated yet?"

Wangshi photo studio

This article reviews an era.

The author once owned a photo studio in his family, which only opened for five years. In these five years, many people who have nothing to do patronize shops, but not all of them patronize business, but rub the heating or air conditioning. The article tells the stories of several people who took photos, including an old lady who wanted to take photos at a very low price, a boy whose eyes were thin but his nose was a little crooked because of a car accident, a man who insisted that he was an underground party and only copied, an old gentleman who loved to renovate old photos and some secrets. The stories of all kinds of people revolved around the small social space of the photo studio vividly.

After reading this article, I remembered the "Old Four Photo Studio" in my hometown when I was a child. My family of four took family photos there, twelve years ago. At that time, going to the photo studio to take pictures was a very grand thing for many people. Put on new clothes, hold props in your hand, and leave a curtain behind you, knowing it's fake, but it looks good. Film shooting, darkroom development and appointment date are not "desirable" but "eternal commemoration". The last time I took a family photo was in the first month of last year, I used my own SLR camera and tripod.

Although photo studios can still be seen everywhere, mainly taking photos of documents, and there are places like "Hippocampus" and "Innocent Blue" that can be refined, they have long lost their original flavor, because it is not the photographer's technology of capturing and using light, but the later computer technology. Today's photos, like the curtains of the original studio, look good but are fake. There is a traditional photo studio in Guangzhou called Yanfang Photo Studio. I had to change my ID card two months ago, and I wanted to take retro photos. I took a bus for two hours. A few days later, I saw the finished product. "Too ugly!" But who can blame this?

The author also mentioned Mr. Cheng in Song of Eternal Sorrow, because he fell in love with others by taking pictures. As for me, I took a lot of photos because I fell in love with someone else.

Haima xitou branch

This article is about a profession.

Like the author, before I went to college, I always washed my hair with bows. First boil a pot of water, pour it into the washbasin, and then boil a pot of water. Two pots of hot water are enough to wash your hair. The process of shampooing is like hypnosis. It's too easy to wash your hair in the bathroom now, but you have much less time to think. Just like brushing your teeth, the most comfortable time every day is brushing your teeth at the door. You don't want anything in the enlarged silence, and the sound of the electric toothbrush can easily break this silence.

From the salesgirl playing mobile phone in the hairdressing salon to the male salesgirl peeking at the customer's mobile phone while blowing her hair, the salesgirl always likes to ask her, "Is this your first time?" The author laments that if life just appears, it is probably a barber shop.

Speaking of haircuts, I have only been to the barber shop once in Guangzhou these years. There is no signboard, the decoration in the store is very simple, and both husband and wife take care of it. The whole haircut usually takes only ten minutes, during which I almost don't have to talk, and I told them to "cut it short" from the beginning. Sometimes I think about life. Although I worked hard after taking off my glasses, I still couldn't see myself clearly in the mirror. How hard it is to recognize yourself.

This couple shop often reminds me of the "barber shop" in my hometown. There will also be a piece of paper or a board on the door wall that says "haircut". Actually, I think the word "haircut" is more interesting Cut, trim, care, are we just caring for our hair? In fact, I am also taking care of my body and mind, as well as my life.

The book also describes several other occupations, such as minibus driver in tour groups, taxi driver who still asks for praise after taking a detour, takeaway rider in the community, nurse in nursing institutions and drama actor.

The title of the book "Quiet in Old Times" was inspired by Lin. The author visited Lizhuang, where Lin and Liang Sicheng once conducted academic research. Under the double dilemma of life and body, Liang Helin finished writing the architectural history of China in Lizhuang. When we look out in the breeze and drizzle, we can only give respect.

There are also many thoughts about the growth of young people in the book. In Language is a Communication Machine, in the face of students' distress about "teacher, I don't think I have ever loved", at first she just responded "me neither" because she never thought that she would really become a teacher, not only how to help students solve their doubts. After experiencing grandma's cancer and seeing some things in the ward and family, she wants to answer students' questions from a distance: love is a complex ocean.