Teacher Jia Pingwa said: in the southeast of Shaanxi, go down the Danjiang River and reach the junction of Danfeng County and Shangxian County. There is a village called Dihua Street, which is my hometown. I was born there until I was 19 years old.
Before I was 19 years old, I never walked 30 miles out of Dihua Street in Fiona Fang, wearing sandals and keeping a cover. Besides going to school, I often carry the rice mill to the north and south mountains to exchange other people's corn and potatoes. They asked, "Where did it come from?" ? I said, "Dihua Street!"
These flowers in the foreground in the picture are actually fake. The day we went to Dihua Ancient Town, just after the Spring Festival, the flowers were actually not in bloom. However, the real name of Dihua ancient town is because it is rich in Tang Dihua.
In ancient times, Dihua Town was naturally famous. After all, it used to be an important post station on the ancient road of "Qin Jin in the north and Wu Chu in the south", but now it is more famous for Jia Pingwa Literature Museum and Jia Pingwa's former residence.
Jia Pingwa's former residence is in Dihua Ancient Town Scenic Area. Enter the scenic spot and follow the signs, and you will find the English name "Pingwa' Old Home".
What do we expect from an old writer's house? Do you want to keep it as it was decades ago, or do you want to see what we imagined?
Starting from the northeast entrance of the scenic spot and passing through the tourist service center, if you want to visit Pingwa old house, you must first pass through Jiapingwa Literature Museum.
At the entrance of Jiapingwa Literature Museum, there is a high wall with large satin bronze wall carvings on it. At the end of the sculpture, there is a statue of Jia Pingwa sitting at a table smoking a cigarette, and the rest are bookshelves, all of which are various works published by Jia Pingwa.
At first glance, there are novels, such as Waste Capital, Missing the Wolf, Shangzhou, Shaanxi Opera, Love Robbery, Zhouhe, Gaolaozhuang, and essays, such as Traces of Love, Being a Free Man, Moon Path and Talking. ...
Jia Pingwa Literature Museum displays Jia's books, paintings, calligraphy and other works. These books in front of me are all the early works of teacher Jia Pingwa, among which "The First Record of Shangzhou" is my favorite, and I always feel that there is something fairy in it.
In the novel, I read Teacher Jia Pingwa's Yamamoto. After reading it, I wrote these words:
Dozens and hundreds of people were alive at first, and then all died in the end. A novel of 500,000 to 600,000 words, without chapters and love stories, has been talking about this group of people. After reading every sentence, it is vivid and picturesque.
After Jia Pingwa Literature Museum, the old house in Pingwa is further down. The purpose of tourists coming to Dihua is very clear, that is, they want to see this old house and get to know its former owner.
Because in this old house, a shining star in the history of China literature was born, and the words written by this star lit up the majestic Qinling Mountains.
In the yard outside my old house, there is a stone, which is described in teacher Jia Pingwa's masterpiece Chou Shi:
"I often regret Chou Shi in front of my house: it lies there in black, like a cow; No one knows when he stayed here, and no one cares about it. "
"One day, an astronomer came to this village. He passed by my house and suddenly found this stone, and his eyes went straight at once. He didn't go any further and stayed. Later, many people came and said it was a meteorite. It has been falling from the sky for two or three hundred years, which is an amazing thing. "
"This surprised all of us! This ugly stone actually fell from the sky! It fills the sky, overheats and flashes in the sky. Our ancestors may have looked up to it, and it gave them light, longing and longing. It fell down and lay in the dirt and weeds for hundreds of years. ! "
Lift your feet and walk in from the front door, which is the flat and concave old house.
Very few friends will deny the truth, saying that this is a new building, not the old house where Teacher Jia Pingwa used to live. Or, that's not what the book says.
In fact, why should we be so serious? It is always right for any China family to repair their house after their living conditions improve, right? Is that so? If the flat and concave old house really shows its true colors, it may not meet people's expectations!
Into the gate, walked to the flat concave old house, the old house yard is quite big.
There is a vat in the middle of the yard, but it is not surprising that any old house will have such a vat. I don't need to tell you that the main function of placing a water tank is to take water to put out the fire in case of fire. There is a clothesline above the water tank, and a flower quilt is hanging at the moment.
In a small room in Pingwa's old house, all the works of teacher Jia Pingwa are sold.
Peer "friend Y" bought a collection of Mr. Wang's early works and opened it. It was a signed version. He was so happy that he even said "earned, earned". I have read a lot of Mr. Jia's books, especially the early Shangzhou series of essays, which have a strong Qinling flavor.
Now the flat concave old house should really be newly built, but this does not prevent me from quietly thinking and daydreaming here:
No matter how great a writer is, he comes from such an ordinary family. Before we became famous, we all lived a simple and quiet life, three meals a day, all year round. Who is different?
Teacher Jia Pingwa himself said: I don't like crowds, and I always feel lonely. Every time I sit on the high stone steps of my house and look at the white clouds on the top of the stockade in the distance, I can't stop pounding. I don't know what clouds are and where they come from.
There is also a gem beside the yard. If I am not mistaken, it should be a special tool for polishing finished dyed cloth in ancient dyehouses. After writing this sentence, I always feel a little scared. I hope I'm right.
The time is 13: 05, and the sun shines on the window lattice. The style of this strip is very miscellaneous, which is composed of several types, such as Zizi, Cubic, Stride Brocade, etc. ...
The pattern on the window lattice is exquisite, but it's a pity that it's made recently in terms of color and workmanship, and it's a little antique.
Obviously, every brick and tile of the old flat concave house was built with great efforts. But it's also a pity that I didn't come here earlier and have a look at the scenes described in my previous works.
But it doesn't matter if you think about it. At least I have been here, seen my old house today, and learned that someone once wrote a lot of words I love to read here.
This stone mill should have been left before. When everything is easy to be damaged and disappear, only the vitality of stone components is long enough.
I thought of "Three-body", and when it comes to extinction, mankind finally figured it out and found that only the most primitive way, engraving on a stone, can save information for hundreds of millions of years.
There is also a well in front of Pingwa's old house. The stone tablet beside the well reads: "Built in 1982 1 month". I looked up Jia Pingwa's literary chronicle. This year, at the age of 30, Jia Pingwa published a collection of essays "Moon Trace" and a collection of novels "Wild Fire Collection".
Among them, Moon Trace contains 34 essays, which is Jia Pingwa's first collection of essays. This year, Teacher Jia Pingwa's Love and Affection won the first literary creation award of October Literature magazine, and Shanzhen Nightclub won the first Yuhua Award.
On the one hand, it won awards in succession, on the other hand, it was full of controversy. Teacher Jia Pingwa said this in the creative readme written at that time:
"The publication of a batch of works, I am waiting for their outbreak, waiting for the praise of the society, but the answer to me is the criticism of critics. How harsh the criticism is! "
"Then, there were rumors about me in the society that I wrote too much, that I paid three or four people to provide plots and details, that I made a big mistake and was fired, and even that I had been decentralized and driven out of the city."
"I asked someone to draw a picture of Buddhism, determined to start from scratch, go deep into life, study life, concentrate on reading and write alone. Therefore, I refuse to attend all excellent meetings, avoid giving a report at a literary workshop, and refuse to receive awards at some newspaper creation awards. "
After retiring from Pingwa Old House and Jiapingwa Literature Museum, two old men with silver hair sat on stools at the entrance of the Literature Museum. The two old people are ruddy and energetic. Wearing thick cotton-padded clothes, they chatted happily while basking in the sun.
I didn't listen carefully to what they were saying, but I was short in my daily life or my parents. For foreign tourists, there is a famous great writer in the history of China literature, but for these two old people, the life here is just an ordinary villager.
Teacher Jia Pingwa said in the Postscript of Shaanxi Opera:
I have to go back to my hometown during the holidays to attend complicated birthdays, weddings, funerals, family visits and banquets. As soon as I entered the streets and alleys of villages and towns, people in villages and towns didn't value me as a writer, just said: Jia Laosi's son is back!