Chapter 4 16-20 knots

Section 16: Peking University Needs Desolation Essay/Feng Yongfeng (2) A few years ago, for unknown reasons, the water system north of Peking University suddenly dried up.Only the unnamed lake is probably because of the face problem, and the school is still willing to pump groundwater for maintenance; the other lakes are allowed to rise and fall, and a little water is filled when it rains. In winter and spring, the thin ice layer hangs in the air, and the bottom is dry. Get angry anytime. Many people miss the beauty of Beijing in the past, but many people may not have thought about it. The beauty of Beijing in the past is the beauty of the bungalow era and the beauty of the natural economy era.This kind of beauty has a good nurturing ability for people, so the "master gardeners" of all dynasties have paid great attention to preserving and developing this natural holy place.Many people also know that Yan Garden originally belonged to Yenching University and was designed by an American designer. It is roughly divided into three parts. According to my division, the south is the dormitory area, the middle is the teaching area, and further forward it is a bit like " "Academic Nurturing Area", that is, the entire area north of the road north of Yijiao.Anyone who enters Peking University and walks from south to north will naturally change his steps.All Peking University people know that at any time, as long as you go north, you will get a lot of energy and beauty from nature.

Later, there were more universities across the country to visit, and I cherished Peking University even more; whenever I passed by Peking University at work, I would hang around there, just like I was a student back then, wandering around.My favorite place to go, of course, is the desolation in the northern part of the campus.I think this kind of desolation is the careful cultivation and deliberate negligence of Peking University, and it is an important manifestation of the spirit of Peking University.Because the humanistic spirit of a school must come from at least two aspects of development, one is academic mutual inspiration and collision, and the other is the kind care of nature.Among the universities across the country, there are very few universities that can combine the two, and there may be none that can consciously match the two.

Because, at the beginning of 2006, a plan suddenly spread out that Peking University is now going to demolish the remaining "desolate wealth" in its northern part.To build an elaborate "International Center" suffering from Gower's disease, and to build a "royal garden". Beijing used to be regarded as a "water town", while Haidian has had countless famous gardens since the Ming Dynasty, and the territory of Peking University and its surrounding areas occupy many ruins.Compared with the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, the royal gardens lack a lot of refinement and taste, and are more domineering objects and land occupation.Fortunately, the gardens before Peking University can only be the "edge ball" of the royal gardens, used by some little princesses and princes, and more or less have the attitude and character of some people.Among these attitudes, there is one thing in common, that is, letting go of the natural world.There is a piece of water, let it be a piece of water, just a little bit of decoration, the beauty will come out naturally no matter the depth or the scene.The word "nature" in China actually contains two meanings, one is pure "birds, animals, vegetation, insects and fish", which is called "biological diversity"; sex".Most of the houses in the north are small and compact, closely connected with the nature, so biodiversity and cultural diversity go hand in hand.

Section 17: Peking University Needs a Desolation Sense Essay/Feng Yongfeng (3) In fact, everyone needs some sense of desolation, and everyone has a sense of desolation emerging and rising from time to time.It is this sense of desolation that dispels the mundane, pyrotechnic, and hateful aura in one's body, making one noble, calm, broad and profound.And this sense of desolation is often covered by all kinds of silt and sand in life, and needs to be accumulated and revealed from time to time. The more echoes from the outside world, the easier it is for the sense of desolation to break through the ground, rise from the ground, and become the essence of your life. important element.

The current president of Peking University, Academician Xu Zhihong, is an authority in the field of biology. The students of the School of Life Sciences of Peking University are obviously very aware of how much the desolation in the north of Peking University has brought to the "biodiversity" of the campus. The workers cut down the weeds, and the water system that could not prevent the internal and external connections of Peking University from drying up.The reason why Peking University can produce many humanities scholars and scientific giants with the world in mind and all things in mind, is absolutely related to the mountains, villages and wild homes in the north of Peking University, and this low mountain and low water.It is a pity that some people turn a blind eye to the subtle effect of this sense of desolation, and ignore this sense of civilian spirit. They always want to build buildings and plant new grass, always want to renovate, always want to redecorate, always want to be royal and rich , Vulgarization, thinking that demolition and construction can give scholars a better "practice field".In fact, this is purely idiot's dream, the instinct of the mediocre, and the shortsightedness of the superficial.Originally, this kind of incident of "preserving human desires and destroying natural principles" should not have anything to do with Peking University, which I love and the world aspires to.

One spring, I wandered alone in the northern part of the campus by myself during interviews.Beside a clump of bamboo forest, there is a door with a white rose on one side and a red rose on the other. They share the two sides of the door as if meeting each other, and send cordial, peaceful and natural greetings to everyone passing by. .Their beauty flowed into everyone's hearts at that moment.And this situation, perhaps in a few days, will be gone. "Green mountains are like a conscience, but rich families have Tian Jule?" The biggest feature of Chinese academics is said to be "free mind evidence", and the external environment and ecology are quite important.What's interesting is that the land that Peking University wants to repair is going to be built as an "International Mathematics Center". What mathematicians need is not fine decoration, hard edges and corners, or tense order, but what they need is literary freedom. and randomness, philosophical nature and desolation, farmer-like atmosphere and randomness.And this piece of land on the north side of the campus, without any decoration, is the best "academic park" for mathematicians, and it is the best place to cultivate everyone to appreciate the beauty of mathematics. Ruin your future?

Feng Yongfeng, a 1990 class in the Chinese Department of Peking University, is now working in the Science and Technology Department of Guangming Daily. Section 18: Lawn Music Memories / Hu Xudong (1) Lawn Music Memory (Hu Xudong) A few months ago, several producers of "20 Years of Peking University Original Music" approached me and asked me to provide some footnotes as a witness to the history of Peking University's original music history in the past 20 years, especially since I entered the school in the early 1990s.As a result of fate, I counted with my fingers and couldn't recognize the numbered notation. I did have a good relationship with many people who played music in Peking University, and some of them were my best friends.But what I "witnessed" was only my own insignificant personal growth in the long school career with the music of these friends as the background, except for telling some trivial stories that may only be meaningful to me Memories really cannot provide any valuable footnotes to the "History of Peking University Original Music".A month ago, the album release ceremony and concert of "The Weiming Lake is an Ocean - 20 Years of Peking University Original Music" was grandly held in the lecture hall of Peking University. It was also a coincidence of fate that I did not get the admission ticket as promised. Missed to witness this legendary "Peking University Original Music Ceremony".A few days ago, I finally got this record packaged like a box of domestic anti-virus software. I was really ashamed to see that I was included in the list of thanks.

I can't wait to play this record as background music while cooking.Life has changed a lot!When I used to hum a few familiar songs on the record, I often walked on the way to the cafeteria, holding an enamel lunch box in one hand and a metal rice spoon in the other, beating out a happy and hungry rhythm. Middle-aged kitchens relive these skinny songs with shamelessly bulging pot bellies.Thinking about it in this way, I also feel that the empathetic fate did not allow me to go to the opening ceremony and concert was actually for my own sake, because in my memory, apart from humming when I was hungry, I and The most natural, kindest and most harmonious meeting place for these songs is the lawn of Peking University.First, it was on the lawn on the east side of the old library, and later a new library was to be built on the lawn. We launched the "Defend the Lawn" campaign (Xu Qiuhan, a former campus musician who was solemnly enshrined in "20 Years of Original Music of Peking University", also worked for I wrote a song "Defend the Lawn" that not many people can remember now) but failed to achieve results, and then moved to Jingyuan Lawn, which is seeking perfection.It's hard for me to imagine what songs like "Sunday", "Weiming Lake is an Ocean", and "Changjia" will look like if they leave the lawn and transplant them to the indoor "grand ceremony".

10 years ago, in my college life, "lawn" was an extremely important keyword. It had dual functions. The first function was equivalent to today's MSN, and it was also a physical version of MSN. Everyone was a little excited after eating , I want to pray to God to bless the food to pass through the people smoothly, so I "go online" one after another on the lawn. Friends socialize with each other, strangers strike up a conversation with each other, and then happily "go offline". Find a safe place to do what you need to do.Another important function, to put it bluntly, is equivalent to today's "Shenzhen VI", which carries everyone to fly and fly, and try not to be wretched and helpless in the school life full of wretchedness and helplessness, so as to launch the low-browed and pleasing mood To a height of madness overlooking the universe.The realization of these two functions is often inseparable from the so-called "campus music". For the first function, music ensures a friendly social atmosphere and a reason to strike up a conversation (or "foreplay"). For the latter function, There is a kind of music that seems to be specially made for it. Without this music, we would never be able to break free from the tight turtle shells of our lives. The affection of love and hate may turn into nasty saliva or trivial complaints. Without Xu Qiuhan's "Long Claw", it may be difficult for us to dig out the loneliness and open-mindedness that is secretly connected with the ancient times.Singers who specialize in writing this kind of music seem to be born for the lawn. Without the atmosphere that leads our blood and thoughts to the sky on the lawn, they will be like Harry Potter who lost his broom and completely lost his mind. Less than my own aura.Therefore, even if Xu Qiuhan, Chen Yonghai, Shi Ke, Zhang Li and other "lawn people" do not appear in the so-called "grand ceremony" but only show their voices in the records, they will fall from the wizarding world to the Muggle world. On the record, the voice with infinite magic is almost reduced to an embellishment of too cunning arrangement and too professional accompaniment. The two versions of the song "The Weiming Lake is an Ocean" recorded 10 years ago and this year can't compare with Xu Qiuhan's hair. Perhaps the lake is destined to be a dry ocean, or as my student and musician Zhang Li put it, "Weiming Lake is a bang ocean", a version of throwing acid on the face of a majestic behemoth in a special era.

Section 19: Lawn Music Memories / Hu Xudong (2) I have always believed that a university without a lawn with a large enough area is a failed university, and a lawn without musicians like Xu Qiuhan riding guitars (and girls) flying all over the sky is a failed lawn, and a university without arrogance The study experience of lawn music memory, which smells of alcohol, recklessness and recklessness, must be a failed study experience.Fortunately, my school experience was not a failure.The personal version of "Peking University Original Music 20 Years" stored in my mind always has the charming smell of green grass after the lawn has been mowed by a mower. The people who bring me wonderful music floating in the smell are completely unaffected" The identity restriction of the word "Peking University".There are two non-Peking University people who could not enter the album "20 Years of Original Music of Peking University" but once gathered with me on the lawn of Peking University. Zhang Huisheng, a senior musician in Yuanmingyuan, was a guitar teacher and close friend of several generations of Peking University musicians. He left us a few years ago. He left us in such a hurry that he left no recordings of songs. Haizi, who composed his music The "September" has already become our era; the other is my good friend Ma Hua. In the summer of 2002, he was still playing and singing his childlike "Frog" on the lawn of Jingyuan. At the end of the song, no one was seen. In the summer two years later, he who was teaching in the Meili Snow Mountain in Yunnan did not know where he was taken by the Lancang River.

Hu Xudong, poet and essayist, whose real name is Hu Xudong, was born in Chongqing in 1974. He was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1991. He was admitted to the Department of Western Languages ​​and Literature of Peking University in 1996 to study for a master's degree in Comparative Literature and World Literature. In 2002, he was awarded the present degree by the Chinese Department of Peking University After a doctorate in contemporary literature, he stayed on to teach at the school, and is currently an associate professor at the Institute of World Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University. Section 20: Commemoration and Reflection / Tu Jun (1) Three or five heroes from ancient times Once, I don’t remember what he was talking about, but he mentioned that after the reform of the economic system in 1992, a professor of Peking University jumped from a certain teaching building.At this moment, some contemptuous laughter came from below.Mr. Liu said solemnly: "Don't laugh! People dare to die for their beliefs, do you dare?" The voice was not loud, but the whole classroom was stunned Commemoration and Reflection (Tu Jun) Mei Yiqi said: "The so-called university does not mean that there are buildings, but that there are masters." Today's Peking University, I am afraid that it can no longer afford this sentence. In the past ten years at Peking University, there are very few mentors who have a personality and style that I can deeply remember.Let me talk about two of them: Qian Liqun from the Department of Chinese and Zhu Qingsheng from the Department of Art. I entered the Department of Electronics in 1996, but I love literature. I started writing poetry after studying Gu Cheng and Bei Dao.Two literary friends at the same level, Zhou Qingfeng from the Department of History and Hu Shaoqing from the Department of Chinese, founded "Our Literature Club" and invited Mr. Qian Liqun as a consultant.Lao Qian delivered a speech at the inaugural meeting. The title of the speech was "We in Me, Me in Us", which was full of enthusiasm and depth.After I finished, I ran up to him and gave him a letter saying, "I want to transfer to the Chinese Department." Lao Qian read the letter, thought for a while, gave me my home phone number, and said, "I'll think of a way. Call me in a few days." That letter was filled with the frenzy of a literary youth, and thinking about it now makes me ashamed.Laoqian and I have never lived together, so we took this matter seriously.A few days later, I called, and he told me: "Fei Zhengang, the dean of the department, is my classmate. I told him, you go to the department and talk to him." I took my work and went, Fei Zhengang politely said Advise me, first, the transfer time has passed, the transfer exam is in April every year, and now it is October; second, you don’t have to come to the Chinese Department if you like writing, the Chinese Department is not a place to teach writing.I left in disappointment, but I was very grateful to Lao Qian, and he didn't persuade me a word. People who have seen old money must think that old money is fun, with a head as big as a bucket, bald, smiling, like Maitreya Buddha.When he was a child, he played the wealthy young master of the capitalist in "The Wanderings of Sanmao". There was a scene where he was bullied and cried loudly.Lao Qian is well-known for his research on Lu Xun, and he taught comparative studies between Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren at Peking University all the year round.Once in a class, Lao Qian said: "I can't go shopping with my wife. I always argue with the waiter and have conflicts, so that I can't buy things, and my wife blames me. For example, Beixin (a store in the triangle of Peking University has been demolished ), every time I go, I feel that the salesman is Ah Q. I am a little nun, and I am always bullied. . " Everyone laughed.After class, a group of people often hug each other and go to restaurants with Lao Qian to have a meal. Lao Qian often said some inappropriate things at Peking University and was often warned, but Lao Qian was always optimistic.Many people think that Lao Qian has more enthusiasm than reason.Lao Qian himself agrees with this statement: "My friend Wang Hui once said to me that when you study Lu Xun, Lu Xun is very pessimistic, but your temperament is far from pessimistic." Ban hehe smiled, his eyebrows and eyes squeezed into a line. Lao Qian retired a few years ago, and gradually has a pessimistic experience.Although he is somewhat nostalgic for Peking University, he is also willing to retire, because he has no hope for Peking University, so it is better to go back.At a lecture before retirement, someone presented banners and flower baskets: Old money is going well!Old Qian smiled: "It seems to be the end of my life." After retirement, Old Qian thought that it was too late to teach Lu Xun's thoughts in universities, because the students who came in had been distorted by the examination systems such as the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, and they should teach Lu Xun to middle school students. .He went to the Middle School Attached to Nanjing Normal University to give lectures. In order to adapt to the situation and understanding of middle school students, he carefully designed the handouts. For example, he talked about the relationship between Lu Xun and Zhou Haiying, and talked about the relationship between parents and children, which is an important problem that troubles middle school students. .He found that the effect of speaking in this way is very good, the students love to listen, and the class is very active.But one day, a student told him: "Mr. Qian, you speak very well, and we love to listen to it. But now our key issue is to get admitted to university. We are willing to go to Peking University first, and then listen to your lecture." A few months ago, "Our Literature Society" celebrated its 10th anniversary, and Lao Qian was invited to have a discussion.Old Qian laughed and told us about his "Cultural Revolution" period, reading the passionate and joyful poems he wrote back then, he still has a childlike innocence.Occasionally, however, a hint of self-mockery and sentimentality flashed across his face.He also has no hope for middle school students. He said: "If my enthusiasm and hard work in doing things are 100%, the effect I produce is very small. My contribution is only a few tenths and zeros, after the decimal point." A few. But it doesn’t matter, I said to myself, at least it’s a positive number, a positive contribution, as long as it’s a positive number…” Lao Qian laughed again, his eyebrows and eyes squeezed into a line.