Zhao Lihong's representative works

Zhao Lihong, a young essayist, was born in Chongming County in 1951. After graduating from high school in 1968, I went back to my hometown to jump the queue. I worked as a carpenter, a postman, a teacher and a county official. In 1978, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of East China Normal University and began to write poems and essays. After graduating from college, I worked as an editor of Germination magazine, and later as a professional writer of Shanghai Writers Association. Member of Chinese Writers Association. He used to be vice chairman of Shanghai Youth Federation and member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Now he is the vice chairman of Shanghai Writers Association. He has published more than 3 collections of poems, essays and reportage, such as Coral, Grass of Life and Heart Painting. His works have won dozens of awards, and Soul of Poetry won the National Excellent Prose Collection Award in the new period. In the early 198s, Zhao Lihong, who has become a member of the Chinese Writers Association, wrote an essay on the theme of "Soul of Poetry", telling the story of him and "Selected Lyrics of Pushkin", expressing his nostalgia for the poet and his complicated feelings for that gloomy era. Bieren, a sinologist in the former Soviet Union and editor-in-chief of Moscow Publishing House, translated this essay into Russian and introduced it to Russian readers. After the publication of his prose collection "Soul of Poetry", he won the China Award for Excellent Prose Collection in the New Period. The group poem "China, My Dear Motherland" was composed as a symphony chorus and won the "Five Ones" Project Award in Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. In 1987, Zhao Lihong was hired as a professional writer of Shanghai Writers Association.

Zhao Lihong: Books are forever friends

According to common sense, professional writers make a living by writing. However, Zhao Lihong, a member of the 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Committee, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association and a famous contemporary essayist, who has written more than 4 literary monographs such as prose, poetry and reportage, and whose works have won various literary awards at home and abroad for dozens of times, has always felt that "writing is still an amateur" for himself. He said, "If I have any major, I have to study.". In the preface to the newly published book Zhao Lihong's Reading Essays, Zhao Lihong once again declared that "the greatest benefit and happiness is reading."

Zhao Lihong, who was born in Shanghai, has been a bookworm since he was a child. He never cares about the time and place when he reads. "As long as you pick up an interesting book, you can indulge in it and forget everything." Zhao Lihong often reads on foot, eats, sleeps and goes to the toilet. From comic books, fairy tales and myths, to The Journey to the West, The Legend of the Gods, The Water Margin, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, to 3 Tang Poems, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Notes from Yuewei Caotang and A Dream of Red Mansions, Zhao Lihong always feels that "these books are much more interesting than the history of textbooks".

From the senior grade of primary school to middle school, Zhao Lihong began to contact China's modern literature and foreign literature. No matter what books he gets, he usually reads Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Ba Jin and Bing Xin, and he also reads some foreign literary masterpieces borrowed from the library by his senior high school sister, such as anna karenine, Don Quixote and Resurrection, War and Peace, Les Miserables, The Life and Hatred of Monte Cristo, etc. In particular, Zhao Lihong found a set of new poems published by Pingming Publishing House in a second-hand bookstore in Shanghai, which made him more excited. This new collection of poems is all Pushkin's poems, translated by Cha Liangzheng, and published in 1955. They became Zhao Lihong's favorite books in middle school. It can be said that Zhao Lihong wrote poems later, which had a lot to do with reading these poems. Zhao Lihong cherished these books. In order to reduce wear and tear, he carefully wrapped the covers with transparent paper, but they were still very old by Zhao Lihong. Zhao Lihong later recalled that at that time, "I read too much and too much, swallowed too much, and read without rules. However, it was this reading that broadened my horizons, increased my knowledge, and made me deeply fall in love with literature."

After graduating from high school, Zhao Lihong left Shanghai and went to Chongming Island to "jump the queue and settle down". Among the few printed materials in his simple bag, there was a book called Weeds. In reality, many novels are often fresh when they are read for the first time, but boring when they are read for the second time. A book like Weeds can make Zhao Lihong "read it again and again", because reading such a book "can make you relive it again and again, and you can always taste a new charm." At that time, Zhao Lihong thought, "If Mr. Lu Xun didn't have that thick dozen books and only had a thin" Wild Grass ",he would also be a great writer."

In the long years of "jumping the queue to settle down" in the countryside, Zhao Lihong "once felt lonely and helpless, and his future was bleak." But it was the books that Zhao Lihong lived with day and night that changed his view of life. Under an erratic oil lamp, it was the book that accompanied him to "spend a lot of warm and happy time", which made him "gradually enrich and enrich" and it was also the book that "helped him choose his life goal".

In 1977, the college entrance examination was resumed, and Zhao Lihong was admitted to the Chinese Department of East China Normal University with excellent results. In the university library, Zhao Lihong can choose "good books, like flowers and plants in spring, which are dazzling". After graduating from Zhao Lihong in 1981, he went to work for Germination. At that time, Zhao Lihong lived in Pudong, and it took him a long time to go to work in the city by bus through the Huangpu River Tunnel every day. Because "the time in the car is particularly difficult", Zhao Lihong holds a good book every day and turns the difficult time into a happy moment. On the bus, Zhao Lihong can always concentrate on reading, and no noise can disturb his mood. Even if someone pushes him or pushes him, he is callous and ignorant, because he is "hiding in the book for a pleasant trip".

The times have changed a lot since today. However, Zhao Lihong's obsession with books has never changed. Zhao Lihong, who has seven or eight bookcases and thousands of books, said, "As long as I am alive and I can think, I will never leave the books and abandon these lovely and respectable friends." I think these words should be Zhao Lihong's heartfelt words.