-"Time" to Mr. Dongfang
(This article was published in Wenyi.com last winter and published by People's Publishing House this fall.
Included in the anthology of Chinese Soul, attached when The Times was officially published)
Juan Juan, Chen Xinguo
Mr Xiang Dongfang, who is in his 70s, turned to literature after retiring, focused on school education and the activities of teaching researchers, and spent ten years at his desk, writing a long educational novel "That Age".
Mr. Xiang is from Tianmen City, Hubei Province. Worked in the teaching and research section of Jianli County, Hubei Province. He has been engaged in education and teaching research for a long time, focusing on aesthetic education in education and teaching. He has published dozens of papers on aesthetic education in schools, the formation of students' overall beauty, basic education research and the beauty of calligraphy.
It is conceivable that it is difficult for the elderly intellectuals to turn from the education and teaching research of abstract thinking to the literary creation of image thinking. However, Mr. Wang is full of energy, full of vigor, the deadline is just around the corner, his writing ideas are correct, and his creative attitude is rigorous. In the whole process, although he has revised the manuscript several times, he is determined, so his works are quite quality. As the first reader of the novel, after reading it, we were really impressed by Mr. Wang's artistic performance, following the rules and doing whatever we want, although old, but writing clearly.
The outstanding features of Mr. Wang's novels are:
The materials are unconventional, unconventional and unique. In view of the old model of existing educational novels, Mr. Wang generally does not write about teachers and students, but focuses on the deep aspects of education and teaching, writing about the wisdom, knowledge and energy shown by intellectuals who entered the research field in Jiang Seoul in educational research; Write about their vision for the future of education, their search for the gap between pen and ink, their selfless, fearless, persevering and enterprising scientific research spirit during the special historical period from the early 1960 s to the early 1980 s; Write their noble character of patriotism, dedication, loyalty and frankness. Therefore, it can be said that the author is not writing about school life and education, but writing a three-dimensional eulogy for all China intellectuals who have entered the research field. It is true that Mr. Wang also describes the education and teaching activities of the school as the main object, but we feel that he is not simply reflecting the teacher's "teaching and educating people", describing the classes and classes of the school and telling the stories of teachers and students teaching and learning. He wrote about the special research activities of that special group of intellectuals, and wrote about all aspects of their research activities full of human touch, sensuality and intelligence. Only in this way can the works have a rare affinity and a heavy sense of reality for intellectuals in different fronts and businesses. Fang, the protagonist of the novel and director of Jianghan Teaching and Research Office, is famous in Jianghan teaching circle for being able to speak, write and do, and is famous for being loyal to the party's educational cause and devoting himself to education and teaching research. However, in the face of the situation at that time, his forward-looking and strategic research often brought unfortunate experiences and regrettable responses. The first climax of the story begins with his first experience and first response: it turns out that he just wrote a long investigation report for Jianghan Education, which is famous all over the country, and then instructed his wife, Hu Meijun, a backbone teacher of the municipal experimental primary school and an accomplished contemporary poetess, to attend a compelling and intoxicating observation and appreciation class in the teaching and research activities organized by her school, and he attended it (including those taught by other teachers). However, during this period, he was criticized for co-writing an educational paper with a reporter from Jianghan Daily, calling for "an expert in teaching and running a school", and was sent to the "Siberian" roadshow lake in Jianghan City a few days later to join the ranks of "right opportunists" undergoing reform there and accept labor reform. -the plot moves forward from this, and the story develops in depth along this; In the process of promotion and development, the author focuses on colorful and multi-dimensional reflections, intricate class arguments, latitude and longitude, or sketching or finely carving out colorful life scrolls; Or magnificent, or magnificent and colorful spread of Chen Yi's vivid and touching scenes; Or made a generous speech, or plausibly wrote a song of the mind of the intellectual group. At the same time, it is interspersed with a series of profound and lofty views on education, aesthetics and history, so that the spiritual outlook and ideological sentiments of China intellectuals in the primary stage of socialism can be fully displayed, and the glorious quality of their contribution to socialist education construction can be properly displayed. As colleagues in the education field, after reading the novel, we really have a feeling of being suddenly enlightened and yearning.
Secondly, the people described by Mr. Wang have different feelings, different gods and different spirits. Mr. Wang historically surveyed that special era and artistically described the inner state and emotional world of that group of intellectuals in their struggles and setbacks, joys and pains, achievements and encounters. What he describes, whether it is researchers engaged in specialized research, principals and teachers who follow the nature of practice and enter the research field, or those related figures who have become attached to education, their enterprising and forbearance, their ups and downs, their joys and sorrows, are all amiable and credible, fascinating and touching, all full of personality characteristics and their own style, reflecting the style of the times. Reading them is really like touching their pulse, touching their soul, meeting their people and smelling them. Fang's speech is full of wisdom and strength, and his comments are always respected and appreciated. Although he is strong-willed, he is full of feelings. Although he is persistent and determined, he judges the situation. He is loyal to the truth, devotes himself to research, consistently leads colleagues and guides teachers, and makes Jianghan's teaching flourish. Although he was involved in the "deep water" by the vortex of political struggle again and again, he swam out of the water again and again rationally and with high morale, and returned to his old job to do the scientific research needed for education; Tang Zhengping, secretary of the Party branch of Hubin Middle School, a national advanced school (member of Jianghan Municipal Committee), was profound in thought, honest, loyal and persistent, and struggled at home and abroad, even after his middle-aged widowed. He actively supports Fang, and Fang supports him without reservation. Their tacit cooperation has made the teaching reform of Hubin Middle School vivid and colorful, making the school's education and teaching always at the first-class level in the whole province and the whole country. Lin Mu, once an education reporter of Metropolis Daily, was later moved by Fang to serve as the deputy section chief of the Comprehensive Education Department of the Municipal Education Bureau. He has both an impulsive and alarming side like Fang and a keen and diligent spirit, and his research results are quite advanced and strategic. He is of the same origin as Tang Zhengping and Fang Tongzong, and was once known as the "Three Giants of Jianghan Education". Unfortunately, he was infected with schistosomiasis because he was sent to the cadre school. After the Cultural Revolution, although he was lucky enough to accompany Fang Zhao Zhen into the city teaching and research office, he was eventually cured by the harm of "bugs" and died of liver ascites. Although he lost his ambition, he still left people with a deep sense of culture, beautiful memories in regret and infinite reverie in aftertaste. The former director of the Municipal Agriculture Bureau is solemn and solemn, with both Tang Zhengping's ideological depth and thoughtful depth. Later, he was denounced as a right opportunist, went to the farm for labor reform and returned to the city to become the principal of the municipal agricultural school. In a short time, the agricultural school, which had been closed for a long time, was revived, leaving people with an image of an outstanding intellectual cadre who could not be defeated as a whole. Wang Shangwen, the former secretary of the municipal party committee, and Chen Zhe, his successor, although they did not appear in many novels, were full of feelings, profound insights, caring for comrades and considerate, leaving a beautiful leadership image. What is particularly worth mentioning is the intellectual women with their own characteristics in the author's works. They are vivid, tangible, amiable and credible. Fang's wife, Hu Meijun, is plain and amiable, although she has both talent and appearance and excellent teaching skills. She is rational, poetic, tenacious and gentle, giving people a beautiful feeling like lyric poetry as soon as she appears, and creating incomparable wonderful teaching pictures as soon as she appears; Mi Chanzhen, the vice principal (later promoted to the principal) of the city primary school, has a good command in the leadership position and is also quite distinctive in subject teaching. When teaching, he is often shocked and moved by one side. Even so, he is not arrogant, so sympathetic, so affectionate and so realistic. Ge Di, the daughter of a famous professor in Shanghai, the wife of Lin Mu, a typist in the municipal teaching and research office, was eager to learn in her early years and was familiar with poetry, with a good cultural background. After joining the work, although I have been engaged in simple labor, my performance is not mediocre. She gives people the impression that she is cheerful, emotional and quick-talking. She is full of praise for creative literati and admiration for talented people. In terms of marital relationship, she used to be so persistent, but later she was not single-minded. Later, she had a colorful affection for Hu Meijun's husband and the talented person in her mind, and called her "sister". But people still leave pleasure and aesthetic pleasure because they have not acted rashly. Li Ming, a female classmate of Gedi High School, whose father is a famous financial manager in Hong Kong? br & gt