1April 3, 955
Today (30th), I received a letter from Teacher Ma, saying that you want to transfer to the Soviet Union to study. It has been agreed with the Ministry of Culture that you should go back to China to give some concerts first. Finally, I mentioned that I would invite you to participate in the Schumann competition in Germany next February.
I think it will take at least two months to return to China, together with the performance; And you can't leave until the sporadic concert in Poland is over. In this way, it will take more than three months to go back and forth. This is a great waste of your study. Especially your skills need to be processed. If you want to take part in the Schumann competition next year, his skills are more troublesome than Chopin's, so you need to catch up faster.
Instead of letting the government spend a round-trip fare and delay your study for several months, please make a record in Poland (as I said in my last letter) and send it back to China for everyone to listen to, and it will be permanent; At the same time, it doesn't interfere with your study. As parents, we are very eager to see you and hear your successful performance, but we would rather sacrifice this blessing for your studies. I have written to Mr. Ma, asking him to consider talking with the Ministry of Culture. I suppose you won't disagree with this question?
Secondly, transfer to the Soviet Union to study. You never talked to us. After you went to Poland, I gave you 29 letters, which showed my attitude. Don't you believe that everything can be discussed with me in detail? You didn't say a word to me, but Mr. Thomas asked the Central Committee directly. To tell the truth, I have a great sense of inferiority, because it reflects that you are still at ease with me. Maybe I didn't educate you properly since I was a child, and the unreasonable consequences have not been completely eliminated. You haven't written since the game. Probably some kind of pimple! When Mr. Ma came back, you didn't bring any letters. I was really very sad mentally and felt that I had made great contributions. Now everyone thinks (including Mr. Ma) that your success today is the foundation I laid when you were a child, but in fact no one will ask me your question for a minute and a half. Yes, I admit that I am too old to help you any more.
However, I am still a little arrogant, thinking that I can see things farther and clearer than you young people.
At the same time, I also have a strong sense of responsibility, which makes me forget my old age, forget that I can't help you but insist on helping you.
So if the following words make you unhappy and make you feel that I don't know you and your learning needs, please think about the above two reasons and forgive me. Please forgive me for being alone and not letting go of the hearts of parents all over the world.
If a person wants to do something, he must think it over carefully in advance. Especially when you want to change course, abandon the old road and take a new road, you must balance your own reason and weigh the old road and the new road on two plates very accurately. Now let me do a job for you and help you put the reasons in the scale: [Plate A] (1) Did Mr. Jie help you enough in the past? If he guides you better, can your skills be improved?
Are you not satisfied with the results of your study in Poland for six months?
(3) The students who won the first prize in Poland are also students of Mr. Jie. What is the reason why he won the first prize?
(4) Is there a problem with the method of technical training or is it incomplete?
(5) Does technology need to be improved slowly by time?
(6) Don't Polish teachers admire your knowledge of writers other than Chopin?
(7) Last August in Poland, Zhou Xiaoyan learned that Mr. Jie had specially trained his English to teach you. Do you know this?
[disk b]
(1) Is the teaching method in the Soviet Union necessarily better than that of Mr. Jie? Technically, it can help you better?
Suppose you have been studying in the Soviet Union for the past six months, do you think you can do better this time? Ranked high?
(3) Why did the Soviet Union win the second place?
(4) Is the Soviet Union's technical training method necessarily superior to any other country?
(5) Is there any faster improvement method in the Soviet Union?
(6) Does the Soviet Union know other writers better than other countries?
(7) Is the Soviet professor Mr. Bigger enthusiastic?
[routine]
(8) Personally, do you think that if you change the method of technical training, there will be greater progress? Therefore, we should pay special attention to item (2). Do you think that with your efforts in the past six months, if there is a better way to teach you, you can keep pace with others or get closer in technology?
(9) Does the Soviet Union also have special advantages in learning Schumann?
(10) In the past, you claimed that Mr. Jie taught classical and modern works very well. Have you changed your mind now?
After living in Poland for seven months, is the learning environment not ideal? Is the Soviet Union better in this respect?
(12) Can you get all the concerns and suggestions from Poland in the Soviet Union?
(13) Poland has a taste of western Europe on the whole. Do you think this is bad for your study?
I hope you can measure these problems one by one calmly and objectively, and make a summary by "democratic voting". We'll make a decision then In short, it's up to you to listen or not, and it's up to me to say or not. You used to admit that I was "seeing things from the mountains". Maybe I'm nearsighted, and what I see is not accurate. But at least you should use your nearsighted eyes to check whether what I see is inaccurate. If it's really inaccurate, of course not, and you shouldn't listen to me.
If you don't think I am stubborn and backward, but are willing to take my opinion into consideration, it will be a great honor for me! Wait until one day, I find that you can see more clearly than me everywhere, and I will be the first to admire you. I won't pester you for advice, I will ask you for advice! At present, first of all, don't embarrass us! Nothing is worse than the unknown and the uncertain! Compassion for parents first, then sympathy for others!
Appreciate:
This is a textbook full of painstaking efforts and fatherly love. Letter from Home highlights the affection between translator Fu Lei and musician Fu Cong. Because this is a letter written by a father to his son, and it is a common saying written on paper, the full text is as touching as a clear spring flowing among mountains and white clouds rolling in the blue sky. There are colorful stories about art and literature in the plain and beautiful style of writing, and there are philosophical feelings about the living situation. Although it is a trivial matter of life, there is no lack of artistic sparks. Between the lines, it is full of the father's love and expectation for his son, as well as his lofty feelings for the country and the world.
It is human nature to love your son. Although Fu Lei "can't get rid of inherit the wind", his love for Fu Cong did not degenerate into vulgar tenderness and rude preaching, but put morality and art in the first place and the feeling of being a calf in the second place. The father who came all the way was worried. He put forward his own pertinent opinions on his son Fu Cong's artistic development path, hoping that his son would transcend himself and think independently, "measure them calmly and objectively, and sum them up by the method of' democratic voting'". He pointed out: "If a person wants to do something, he must think carefully in advance. Especially when you want to change course, abandon the old road and take a new road, you must balance your own reason and weigh the old road and the new road on two plates very accurately. "Letters are full of the wisdom of elders, which makes us deeply understand the cultivation and education that artists should receive on the road to success. We will feel that this father-son relationship, which is thousands of miles apart, is full of lessons of "learning from reason and demonstrating from virtue".