Fortune-telling Shi Tiesheng Literature _ Fortune-telling Shi Tiesheng

Reading Shi Tiesheng's life is like a string

The first time I read this book, I was in the tumor ward of the hospital.

In the early spring of 2020, a sudden epidemic disrupted my life. The little grandson who just entered the park returned to him because the kindergarten was closed. I can't go home. Everyone stayed at home to fight the epidemic and people were not allowed to move. At first, I thought the epidemic would pass after the Spring Festival. In our hometown, the Spring Festival will be celebrated in less than 15 days, so the roast chicken, sticky bean buns and red bean bread made for my mother are put in the refrigerator. Unexpectedly, this ban is only a few months.

On June 8, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens resumed classes, and my brother and I rushed home to visit my mother. My mother suffers from oral lichen planus. I wish I had been treated in a hospital years ago. Doctors are experts in retirement and reemployment in Beijing. He was picked up by his family because of the epidemic. Mom can't go to the hospital, and she can't contact the doctor after using the medicine. She can only find people around her to find remedies. It was at this time that my mother became seriously ill. My brother and I took my mother to the hospital for examination, which has entered the advanced stage.

In those gloomy days, I just supported myself by reading. I have read Kai-fu Lee's Born to Die, Zhang Xianliang's Habitual Death, Amy Weiss's Past Lives, Hellinger's Autobiography, Why did this life come, etc. It was during this period that I read Zhang Tiesheng's works, such as Asking the Way by Rotation, Life is Like a String, and Pen Interrupted by Cracks.

Shi Tiesheng 195 1 was born in Beijing, 1958 went to primary school, 1967 graduated from the High School Attached to Tsinghua University, and 1969 jumped the queue in Yan 'an, northern Shaanxi. Three years later, he returned to Beijing because his legs were paralyzed. Published works 65438 to 0979. He is the author of novels such as Notes on Retreat, My Journey to Ding Yi, short stories such as My Distant Qingpingwan, Life as a String, Notes on My Old House, Grandma's Star, etc., and prose collections such as Me and Ditan, Broken Pen from Illness, Qiu Si, etc. My Far Green Ping Bay and Grandma's Star won the National Excellent Short Story Awards of 1982 and 1983 respectively, My Old House won the first Lu Xun Literature Award, and Broken Pen won the third Lu Xun Literature Award. 20 10 12.30 died of sudden cerebral hemorrhage.

Liu Qing, director of changchun film studio, plays an important role in Shi Tiesheng's creation. He encouraged Shi Tiesheng to write the life of educated youth into a film literary script. Although the first work was unsuccessful, it gave Shi Tiesheng confidence and embarked on the road of literary creation. 1979, he helped Shi Tiesheng publish his first scar novel, The Law Professor and His Wife, which opened up a new situation for Shi Tiesheng's creative path.

Another noble person on Shi Tiesheng's writing path is Liu Qing's mother Mei Niang. Mei Niang is a famous writer in the history of modern literature in China. 1920 was born in Vladivostok, whose real name was Sun Jiarui. Because he lost his mother in his early years, he took the homonym of "No Mother" as his pen name. Her works, with the theme of love and marriage, became famous in 1930s and 1940s, and had the reputation of "Nanling and Beimei" with Zhang Ailing. Knowing that Shi Tiesheng was writing a novel, Mei Niang said to Shi Tiesheng, "Writing this thing is the most important thing, and sometimes you have to wait." What she said about waiting is not only the writer's expectation for inspiration, but also the sublimation process of how life individuals accumulate experiences and experiences into ideological forms. From Mei Niang's words, Shi Tiesheng realized some isomorphic relationship between writing and the beginning of life. Later, Shi Tiesheng's creation improved. "I write my heart by hand", all the articles are works of the mind, which cannot be separated from the guidance and enlightenment of Mei Niang.

Life is like a string, which tells the life story of an old blind man and a little blind man: an old man and a little teacher and pupil walk from village to village carrying a lyre and make a living by telling stories. In the piano groove of the old blind man, there is a prescription left by his master, telling him that after breaking a thousand strings, take out the prescription and take the medicine, so that his eyes can see again. Fifty years later, the old blind man finally broke a thousand strings. He took out the prescription that he had treasured for many years, but it was a blank sheet of paper. Instead of telling the truth to the little blind man, the old blind man sealed this piece of white paper in the little blind man's piano groove and told him that "you have to break 1200" so that the little blind man can live with hope.

For the old blind, the goal and meaning of life is to break a thousand strings and regain the light with the prescription left by Master. When he finally broke the last two strings and opened the prescription left by Master, there was nothing on it, and the old blind man felt desperate. A string needs two points to tighten, and a string also needs two points, one is pursuit and the other is purpose. Without a goal, the old blind man's heartstrings are empty. At this time, he remembered what Master said on his deathbed: "A person's life is like this string ... just play well." . The old blind man realized that "a person's life is strained by a fictional purpose, and life is full of life." Those who used to run around, climb mountains, hurry, play the piano, and even feel sad and anxious have become so happy. At the same time, the old blind man also realized the meaning of life: all the purposes of life are assumptions, and the meaning of life lies not in the prescription that can make him see the light again, but in the process of "really breaking every string"

The biggest revelation of this book is that a person needs two things-"one is pursuit, and the other is purpose". With these two taut heartstrings-with purpose and pursuit, life is meaningful. The essence of life is not the result, because no matter who we are, there is only one final result, from nature to nature. The essence of life is process. In this process, we don't have to be successful in my official career and be famous on the list. As long as we have pursuit and hope, it is enough to pull the "string" in our life.