Li Cunxiu’s several unforgettable personal experiences of Li Cunxiu

On June 18, 1968, we entered Sichuan from Yantai, Shandong, where "the road to Shu is as difficult as climbing to the sky". At that time, the "Cultural Revolution" in the southwest was in full swing. College students across the country who were assigned to Sichuan were all arranged to receive "worker, peasant, and soldier re-education." Those with engineering majors went to factories, and those with liberal arts majors went to farms. Li Cunxiu went to the Xindu State-owned Farm in Sichuan, not far from Chengdu.

Of the dozens of players who entered the venue one after another, only Li Cunxiu graduated from a regional school in a small city. Most of the others were from famous universities in major domestic cities, and each of them had a shining halo. Ranked last on the student roster. The salary is the lowest and the benefits are the lowest. Watching movies, getting vaccinations, receiving wages, etc. all have to be on the tail in order. After less than half a year of hard work, I took advantage of the physical advantages of track and field athletes, worked hard, and actively wrote programs such as Allegro, Three and a Half Sentences, and Counting Treasures for the farm's literary and art propaganda team, that is, starting from the last place He was "transplanted" to the first place, became the captain of the student team, and was rated as a model worker in the province. Only two of the thousands of college students in Sichuan who were undergoing labor training were rated as "representative figures." After the "Cultural Revolution" ended, Deng Xiaoping was invited to visit the United States. At the welcome meeting arranged by the President on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Deng Xiaoping was moved by a folk song by Denver. The two became friends, and Deng extended an invitation to Denver on the spot.

Three years later, Denver was invited to China, and Li Cunxiu was arranged to accompany him around Tibet. It was very difficult for Americans to meet this world-famous star, but Li Cunxiu ate, lived, and traveled with him as a translator, and spent nearly ten days of wonderful plateau life together.

The night before farewell, Denver offered to perform a "thank you performance" for the six people at the Second Guest House in Lhasa (local Tibetan escort, driver, chef, two waiters, and doorman). Press At his request, a square table was arranged in a small room in the restaurant, surrounded by seven or eight wooden stools. Denver talked and sang on the table: "Country Road", "For My Love", etc. , there are more than ten songs in a row. Li Cunxiu translated the lyrics into Mandarin, and then the local translator Xiao Ma translated it into Tibetan. This kind of performance is unique elsewhere in the world.

After it ended, Denver became friends with Li Cunxiu, and the two exchanged messages and sent letters to each other. He entrusted his wife to send six high-quality LPs directly to Li's home. Unfortunately, Denver drove himself when he was 56 years old. The plane crashed in the San Francisco Bay. In 1998, Li Cunxiu went to his hometown of Denver, Colorado, to pay his respects and remember him. During the farm labor training, he made an appointment with a roommate who also graduated from the foreign language department of the university, and had a "live" relationship for nearly two years. They had a crazy English conversation, that is, they did not speak Mandarin. They also insisted on listening to English Beijing broadcasts, so soon after leaving the farm, they passed the national English spoken translator, which has a very high threshold. Ten years of experience in the Sichuan Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and Tourism Bureau During the years of translation practice, I have served in many important translation tasks such as receiving overseas kings, ministers and ambassadors, which greatly improved my foreign language skills.

July 1986. , was invited to participate in the National Young and Middle-aged Translators Experience Exchange Conference held in Yantai, Shandong Province. There were only 2-3 representatives from each province. Li Cunxiu gave a speech on "The Artistic Effect of Literary Translation" at the conference, which was won by the older generation of famous Chinese people who joined the conference. Translators such as Jiang Chunfang, Ye Shuifu, Sun Shengwu, Xu Guozhang, Li Yueran, Liu Deyou, Feng Yidai and Fu Weici received unanimous praise. The speech was published in the 11th issue of "China Translation" that year. After the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Bureau was established, it was transferred from the Foreign Affairs Office. Working in the Tourism Bureau. One year, the provincial governor gave him a task: to open up a new tourist route and let Sichuan planes take the lead in flying overseas from the mainland. Li Cunxiu led a preparatory team for several months and made several trips to Beijing. At that time, there was no talk of reform and opening up, and the leaders were following the rules, and things were going hard.

One day, I suddenly heard that the governor was bringing a group of people to Beijing, and Li Cunxiu hurriedly caught up with them. The provincial governor therefore changed his schedule in Beijing, and in the name of the provincial government, he led Li Cunxiu into the State Administration of Civil Aviation. The two sides held a half-day meeting with the director of the Civil Aviation Administration to solicit the opinions of the six directors present. After the provincial governor and the director of the General Administration showed up, the application was finally approved by Sichuan Province. At that time, China only had flights from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. You can fly out of the country, and Chengdu, as the fourth city in mainland China, allows planes to fly overseas. One day in the late autumn of 1989, my friend Lao Yang from Beijing invited Li Cunxiu to attend a banquet. During the banquet, he pointed to a person sitting on the table. A gray-haired foreigner said: "That is Mr. Pierre Cardin, who is looking for partners in China."

Although Mr. Cardin is a tailor, when he goes to any country, he is always received by the person in charge of the country. It was shortly after the June 4th Incident, and businesses all over the world were unwilling to cooperate with China. Cardin was the first person to enter China, and it was an "ice-breaking trip."

Li Cunxiu walked up to Pierre Cardin alone, greeted him, and expressed his willingness to cooperate with him. He got up and talked to each other for about five minutes. The two decided: Mr. Pierre Cardin can go to Guangzhou for inspection. He soon invited Li Cunxiu to Paris and visited his home, fashion design company and shopping mall.

The big old wooden door of his company is only across the road from the French Presidential Palace, diagonally opposite. Pierre Cardin stood in front of his wooden door, pointing to the majestic presidential palace door and said: "I have been here for decades; but the owners of the door opposite have changed like a revolving door, and I don't know if they have changed. How many times have passed?"

Soon, Pierre Cardin suits were introduced to major cities in Jiangnan, and 26 stores were opened in succession. Later, Pierre Cardin women's clothing and children's clothing were introduced to China, making contributions to the exchange of Eastern and Western clothing culture. Li Cunxiu was the first writer to use literary form to reflect and report on the international adoption event in China.

In 1992, Li Cunxiu first discovered that overseas parents went to orphanages in mainland China to adopt abandoned babies without fathers and mothers. Since then, I have been following and paying attention to this cause for nearly 20 years.

After Li's relevant article was published in newspapers and periodicals, it aroused immediate response. The person in charge of the International Charity Center invited Li to go abroad twice and visited dozens of overseas families who had adopted Chinese children one by one. They conducted a comprehensive inspection of these children who had been taken away from the motherland at an early age, including nutrition, nursing, Health, tutoring, schooling, reading, medical care and social interaction, etc. Domestically, we also investigated and visited welfare homes in more than 20 provinces and cities. Li Cunxiu created and published two volumes of "Love Without Borders" based on the entire process. The title of this book was inscribed by Bing Xin's grandmother herself.

After the book was published, it was serialized in two newspapers, Nanfang Daily and Information Times, and in a magazine, Shenzhen Weekly. More than thirty newspapers and magazines published comments and information.

Abandoned babies are the most vulnerable group among the vulnerable groups in human society and need the care and love of all mankind. Li Cunxiu's "Love Without Borders" has done a meaningful job in spreading and promoting the spirit of human fraternity. In 1986, he was transferred from Sichuan to Guangdong to work. After retiring in 2002, he mainly conducted inspections, research, writings and lectures on tourism culture.

In the spring of 2007, when the peach blossoms were in full bloom in Yimeng Mountain, I was invited to attend a pen conference in Daigu, Mengyin County, the hinterland of Yimeng. The representatives went up the mountain to see peach blossoms during the day and exchanged poems and creations at the station in the evening. After Li Cunxiu went up the mountain for half a day, he disappeared from the meeting because he discovered the Gu group in Yimeng Mountain.

The next day, I invited Director Zhang from the local cultural center to accompany me. Within two days, I climbed three or four relatively typical and mature peaks. I discovered the uniqueness and difference of these peaks. There is such a protruding part on the top of every big mountain. They look like doctor's hats, oil baskets, carved castles, pen holders, and women's breasts... They stand in clusters, towering up to the sky, and are miraculous in their craftsmanship. Draw screen. At that time, Li Cunxiu recalled his experience of traveling to all continents in the world and inspecting countless famous mountains and rivers on the earth, but he had never seen such a strange and wonderful group of Gu. From these Gu groups, we also think of the familiar "karst landforms", "Zhangshi rock landforms", "Zhangjiajie landforms" and "Danxia Mountain landforms" that are familiar in China. However, the above four landforms cannot represent the Gu groups in Yimeng Mountain, Shandong at all. Landform, this should be another more rare and irreplaceable type of landform in China.

Li Cunxiu wrote these findings and judgments into an article "Yimeng Wanggu" and published it in a tourism and culture magazine in Beijing. Soon, the "Overseas Edition" of "People's Daily" was also published. The magazine attracted the attention of relevant local departments, and eight or nine geological and geographical experts were officially invited from Beijing. After discussion, it was officially designated as "China's fifth landform - Shandong Daigu Landform".

A famous domestic scholar said these two sentences in an article: "The things Li Cunxiu has done in foreign affairs, tourism and culture for forty years are not as good as the first time he got to know China in the Yimeng Mountains. The fifth landform”. This kind of evaluation is objective and real. Starting from Hangzhou on March 8, 2010, at the age of 68, Li Cunxiu began a walking inspection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Sui-Tang Grand Canal. It took him three years to complete walking, inspection, style collection, creation and Published a 500,000-word cultural documentary work "Walking the Grand Canal", filling a gap in the history of canal research and literature in China. In addition to passing through the three major cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, the route also passed through five provincial capitals, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Jinan, Zhengzhou and Shijiazhuang, as well as 29 prefecture-level cities and 73 county-level cities. At the end of October 2011, he reached the northern end of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal - Zhuozhou, Hebei Province. This was a comprehensive challenge to his life and even his life.

Among the collected and published articles, some of them have been published in different newspapers and magazines. The article puts forward some new viewpoints, especially a new evaluation of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty who dug the "Sui Tang Grand Canal".

Hangzhou's "Metropolitan Express" reported this story in two pages on January 19, 2012, calling him "China's first 'lucky' person. October 12, 2008 On the same day, he produced a foreign language program on the great changes in China's transportation and tourism for the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up for "CCTV Nine" (Character Focus Column). He has provided on-site commentary for CCTV Travel Channel (Weekend Shinkansen) for many times. He has been accepted by Hong Kong Satellite TV (twice). ), Guangdong TV and Guangzhou TV (four times), Nanjing TV, Zhejiang TV, Qingdao TV, Wuxi TV, Jining TV, Weifang TV, Anqiu TV, Maoming TV, Jingzhou TV, Sanming TV, Meizhou TV, Ganzhou TV, Yulin Special interviews with TV stations and Shizuishan TV stations.

He was once a specially invited expert and writer for CCTV 2’s “Love the Country” column team, and has participated in the team’s urban and tourism development projects in Shizuishan, Panjin, Kunshan, Rizhao and other cities. Promotional activities.

Li Cunxiu has given more than 60 lectures on tourism culture in colleges and universities and relevant units: such as Beijing Second Foreign Studies University, Beijing Elderly Care Society, Nankai University, Sun Yat-sen University, South China Normal University, South China Institute of Technology, Guangzhou University, Shaoguan University, Heyuan Tourism Vocational College, Sichuan University, Chengdu University, Aba Jiuzhaigou, Zhejiang Zhoushan, Henan University, Henan Luoyang, Hebei Chengde, Jiangsu Jinken College, Jiangyin Jiangsu, Jiangsu Wuxi and Kunshan, Henan Pingdingshan Institute of Technology, Shandong University, Qufu Normal University, Qingdao University, Qingdao University of Technology, Ludong University, Shandong Tourism Vocational College, Weifang College, Binzhou College, Sishui County, Yishui County, Anqiu County, Linshu County, Mengshan Tourism Management Committee, Huai'an Foreign Language School, Guangdong Tourism Academy, Xiamen in Fujian, Xining in Qinghai, Shizuishan in Ningxia, Anqing in Anhui, Lai'an in Anhui, Zhejiang Vision Tourism Planning and Design Institute, Haikou and Lushan Chinese Senior Healthcare Forum, Guangdong Folklore Lecture Hall and Yangcheng Academy, etc.

The regions and cities where Li Cunxiu participated in tourism planning or planning reviews include: Pingdingshan and Yuntai Mountain in Henan, Weihai, Rizhao, Yimeng Mountain, Laoshan, and Sishui in Shandong, Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, and Sancha Lake Scenic Area in Jianyang, Dalian, Panjin and Changhai in Liaoning, Huangshan and Xianyu Mountain in Anhui, Yichun, Zhangshu, Ji'an, Jiujiang and Wuyuan in Jiangxi, Yingde, Yunfu, Luofu Mountain, Lianzhou and Taishan in Guangdong, Sichuan Island and Changzhou Island, Chenzhou and Yongzhou in Hunan, Darong Mountain in Guangxi, Changshou Valley in Bama, etc.

Having been engaged in foreign affairs tourism for forty years, I have traveled to every province, city and autonomous region in the country, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and visited more than 60 countries on six continents in the world.

Li Cunxiu has served as a judge many times. Such as the judges of "Top Ten Original Stars of Guangdong Tourism", the judges of "Eight New Scenic Spots of Yangcheng", the chief judges of "Guangzhou Gold Medal Tour Guide Grand Prix", the judges of "Guangdong Province Online Literature Grand Prix", the judges of "Guangdong Province Writer's Professional Title", etc.

On May 18, 2007, he was elected as one of the "Top Ten Contemporary Xu Xiakes in China". On behalf of the selected "Top Ten Xu Xiakes", he attended the "Xu Xiake International Seminars" held in Beijing and Jiangyin three times, and delivered keynote speeches at the meetings.

In November 2006, he was elected as one of the 100 celebrities in Guangdong by Hong Kong Satellite TV and Guangdong Provincial Television (the only candidate selected by the tourism system in Guangdong Province), and gave a one-hour special lecture on tourism culture.

In October 2010, he was named one of the 50 outstanding alumni on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the school by his alma mater, Ludong University.

In December 2011, he was named one of China's first top ten tourism figures.

The newspapers and magazines in which Li Cunxiu received exclusive interviews and had relevant longer-length reports include: "Nanfang Daily", "Yangcheng Evening News", "Guangzhou Daily", "Southern Metropolis Daily", "New Express", "Information" Times", "China Tourism News", "China Senior News", "China Middle-aged and Seniors Magazine", "Cultural Weekend", "Hangzhou Daily", "Yulin Daily", "Zhangjiajie Daily", "Qilu Evening News", "Peninsula City" Newspaper", "Rizhao Daily", "Weifang Evening News", "Yantai Evening News", "Jining Daily", "Jiujiang Daily", etc. and magazines "Spring and Autumn", "Aviation Illustrated", "Yangtze River Weekly", "Shenzhen Style", " See the World", "Celebrities", "Guangdong Personnel", "Second Classroom", "Leap Over", "Collecting Styles", "Human World", etc. In October 2006, the essay "Thoughts in front of the bronze statue of Rousseau" won the "Excellent Achievement Award" in the selection of the Second China Contemporary Prose Forum. His works have won more than 20 literary and artistic awards at the provincial level or above.

The TV scenic film "Egret Lake" (literary script) at the foot of Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi Province was broadcast on Shenzhen TV Station (2001).

Participated in the National Congress of Translators twice in Beijing and the National Experience Exchange Meeting for Young and Middle-aged Translators in Yantai, Shandong (July 1985). Li Cunxiu's paper "On the Artistic Effect of Literary Translation" published in the 11th issue of "China Translation" magazine in 1985 was selected into the textbook for senior foreign language majors in Shanghai colleges and universities and won the second prize for the provincial paper. Since the 1970s, Li Cunxiu has published more than 5 million words of cultural and translation works. He has successively published "Remembering Dreams of Flowing Flowers", "Pierre Cardin", "Love Without Borders" (1, 2), and "Journey to Western Europe" ( (Part 1 and 2), "Journey to the Silk Road", "Journey to Shandong", "Journey to India", "Journey to South America", "Walking Between Heaven and Earth" (two volumes), "Notes of Xu Xiake in Contemporary China" and other twenty works Eight parts. He is the editor-in-chief of travel series such as "Literary Classics of One Hundred Scenes of Lingnan". Among them, "Love Without Borders" was serialized by three newspapers including "Nanfang Daily", and more than 30 newspapers and magazines published comments or news. And won the 2001 Guangzhou Literary Award, the highest award in Guangzhou. The collection of character essays "The Minister in the Small Courtyard" won the first prize of the Second Red Cotton Award for Literary and Art Creation (Literary Category) in Guangzhou (2002). The collection of prose travel notes "Walking Between Heaven and Earth" won the highest award in Guangzhou, the "Guangzhou Literary Award" in 2005. The prose "Bitter Praise" won the second prize in the "Luozhuang Cup" Prose Grand Prix of the Chinese Prose Society.

Dozens of works have been selected and reprinted, including the essays "Remembering Chen Ning Yang", "The Taj Mahal Is Not a Tragedy", "Thoughts in Front of the Rousseau Statue", and "Moscow River, Where Do You Flow?" "" and "Brothers" have been included in the national "Selected Prose Edition" or "Annual Edition". Three monographs including "Journey to the Silk Road" were republished overseas. The prose "Storm and Waves at the Cape of Good Hope" was selected into the Chinese textbook for the first semester of the third grade of Hong Kong high schools (2005 edition). The essay "Thoughts in Front of the Bronze Statue of Rousseau" was selected into "The Realm of Career—Culture Reader for Contemporary College Students" (2004 edition) by Renmin University of China Press, and was also selected into Beijing and Jiangsu in 2002, 2008, and 2010. , Shenzhen and other places' college entrance examination simulation composition. "Hometown" was selected into Korea University's "Intensive Reading of Contemporary Chinese Literature" (2002 edition).

The major magazines and newspapers in which Li Cunxiu has published his works include: "China Tourism" (Beijing), "China Tourism Culture" (Beijing), "Travel" (Beijing), "China Railway Literature and Art" (Ministry of Railways) ), "Aviation Illustrated", (Shenyang), "Travel World" (Shandong), "Travel World" (Shanghai), "Southwest Tourism" (Chengdu), "Travel World" (Guangdong), "Overseas Nebula" (Guangxi) , "Special Zone Tourism" (Shantou), "Huangshan" (Anhui), "Northern Literature" (Heilongjiang), "Urban Essays" (Dalian), "Yanhe" (Shaanxi), "Prose" (Tianjin), "Prose World" "(Fujian), "Guangzhou Literature and Art" (Guangzhou), "Modern Writers" (Sichuan), "Red Rock" (Chongqing), "Three Gorges" (Hubei), "Youth Literature" (Chengdu), "Xu Xiake Research" (Beijing) ), "Second Classroom" (Guangdong), "Guangdong Literary Artists" (Guangdong), "Shenzhen Style" and "People's Daily", "China Tourism News", "Dalian Daily", "Sichuan Daily", , "Longmen Zhen", "Jiangxi Daily", "Nanchang Daily", "Urumqi Evening News", "Yantai Daily", "Weihai Daily", "Yulin Daily", "Literary News", "Nanfang Daily", "Southern Weekend" , "Yangcheng Evening News", "Guangzhou Daily", "Southern Metropolis Daily", "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone News", "Shenzhen Evening News"...