It is really no exaggeration to praise Mr. Wang Zengqi like this. A person's spirit and the pace of real life will go through many hardships, but he will never lose his childlike innocence in hardship and ease. He always has the lyrical heart of China in white, and his words and life are wonderful, revealing a tenacious optimistic attitude towards life. .....
Wang Zengqi, 1920, a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu. 1939, Wang Zengqi 19 was admitted to the Chinese Department of National Southwest Associated University. At that time, his teacher was Shen Congwen, and Wang Zengqi respected his teacher very much. He wrote and recalled how his teacher Shen Congwen helped himself and other students improve their writing and taught them how to observe things.
Wang Zengqi recalled that the story of the teacher Shen Congwen was really touching and not coy at all. The feelings of respecting teachers passed down are touching.
He described Mr. Shen as a conscientious teacher. He always held a lot of books in his writing class, prepared his own teaching materials, and coached students on the basic skills of writing. In order to publicize his disciples, Mr. Shen mailed the manuscript to the editorial department at his own expense for students to use.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, there was a shortage of materials. Every time Mr. Shen helps students contribute, he personally cuts off all four sides of the manuscript, leaving only words, because this can save postage!
1950 Wang Zengqi was the editor of Beijing Literature and Art. Later, Wang Zengqi was sent to Xishan in Beijing to plant trees during the movement. Wang Zengqi recalled that when the Ming Tombs Reservoir and Xishan planted trees, the living conditions were very difficult.
Every morning, I take two dry steamed buns and a big piece of pickled radish up the hill. I eat big pickled radish for every meal. There were jujube trees on the mountain at that time. When he was hungry, Wang Zengqi and his colleagues picked dates to eat. When there is a state of Guo in Xishan grassland, it is burned and eaten. Fruit had to choose three-tailed fruit. ....
Wang Zengqi recalled:
No matter where you go, you should have some fun and find a way. You always look sad. Why?
This optimistic spirit of literati, which takes pleasure in suffering, inherits the typical scholar-bureaucrat spirit of China. I couldn't stay yesterday, and my heart was not discouraged. I can also be Su Like Dongpo's spirit of being a natural and carefree person who is better than a horse and optimistic!
(The picture is taken from the Library of Rational Professional Writers.)