Zuli Xia's interview with Zuli Xia

When Lin Haiyin, her mother, is mentioned, Zuli Xia's heart often surges with all kinds of feelings ...

She said that the most regrettable thing is that she wanted to put the biography she had worked so hard to write for her mother in the Lins' living room, and then invited her literary friends to get together as a gift for her mother. However, when the biography was published, her seriously ill mother could no longer enjoy it.

She has been attached to the past in the south of the city all her life

Lin Haiyin spent almost all her teenage years in Beijing, and she has a deep affection for Beijing. Lin Haiyin's family lives in the south of Beijing. Her masterpiece Old Things in the South of Beijing is a story that happened in the south of Beijing. The prototype of Xiaoying in the work is Lin Haiyin herself. What a person remembers most in his life is what he experienced as a teenager. From this point of view, Lin Haiyin's roots are in Beijing.

Talking about the reason for writing a biography for her mother, Zuli Xia said: "Originally, my mother wanted to put her life into words. She was attached to the old things in the south of the city all her life, and often talked about' my children's play, my playmates, my little fried chicken, the food stall in the earth temple, the old man's broken cotton-padded jacket stuffed under my feet on a broken foreign car ...' Even on her sickbed, when a visiting reporter sang" Old South of the City "for her. The years are ruthless, the mother's health in her later years is getting worse and worse, and the matter of writing a biography has to be given up. "

In p>1998, Wang Lixing, the publisher of Taiwan Province Tianxia Vision Publishing Company, personally invited Zuli Xia to write a biography of Lin Haiyin, his mother. He thought that among Lin Haiyin's many children, Zuli had the best conditions, although there were many excellent pen holders. In 1968, when she worked for Women's Magazine in Taiwan Province, she interviewed more than 3 writers in Taiwan Province's literary world, published two biographical albums, The Man Holding the Pen and Their World, and worked with her mother to run a pure literature publishing house for ten years. When Zuli Xia, who lives in Australia, received a phone call from Wang Lixing, her mood was very complicated, even mixed. I am glad that a good opportunity to "repay the three spring splendors" comes unexpectedly. She feels lucky and happy, but she is worried that her daughter will inevitably be biased and the scale will be difficult to grasp. But then she decided to give it a try.

"I like to live my mother again"

When talking about the feeling of writing the most stories for my mother, Zuli Xia has a great heart. "I like to live my mother again, and I like to live myself again."

"In the spring of 1999, I went to Beijing twice. In order to follow my mother's footsteps in her adolescence, I interviewed from place to place, and I was very moved everywhere, such as primary school, junior high school, senior high school and Liulichang. I seemed to see Xiaoying coming to me in Old Things in the South of the City. It was a very unforgettable journey. "

Zuli Xia searched for the old streets in the south of the city alone, looking for the petals of her mother's childhood from the cracks in the bricks of the old city. She wandered alone in the alleys of Xijiaomin Lane, Nanliu Lane and Nanchang Street to capture the chanting and endless camel bells in Beiping ... Then she went to Nanjing and Shanghai, where she paid a visit to Wu Yigong, the director of the film "Old Things in the South of the City", who played that year.

Later, she also visited the mountain city of Chongqing and found her mother's former residence in her early years, salvaging every drop of rain, even a trace of water, from the gossip of the surviving family elders. Many little-known old stories about Lin Haiyin have surfaced little by little.

At that time, Zuli Xia had settled in Australia with her husband, Zhang Zhizhang. In order to write her mother's biography, she made a special trip back to Taipei, while serving at her mother's bedside, doing her filial piety, while sitting in the winter sunshine with her, listening to her open the door of life memory, slowly telling those unforgettable old stories, opening dusty photo albums, and stroking yellow old photos together ...

In this way, Zuli Xia searched for roots, old things and materials, and completed a lot of foundation. She returned home to Australia with 5 or 6 photo albums, more than 1 audio tapes and dozens of mother's diaries and letters on her back. Mr. Zhang Zhizhang said, "The home has become the Lin Haiyin Information Museum." Zuli Xia buried himself in a lot of information and interview materials, and made it every day, and the day went on and on. He could only simply spend three meals a day, working 1-12 hours a day, and it took less than a year to finally complete this biography of more than 2, words.

In the process of writing a biography for his mother, Zuli Xia was once again infected by her mother's personality strength. Lin Haiyin has migrated several times in his life, and experienced social unrest, such as floating ping wandering around the world. Fortunately, multiculturalism has merged into her rich, free and open-minded life characteristics. As a woman, she is a woman, a wife and a mother. As a social person, she is a writer, editor and publisher. She has been engaged in literary career in different roles all her life. She has written and published 18 books, including novels and essays, edited literary supplements, and founded literary periodicals and literary publishing houses, with remarkable achievements.

In the ten years that Lin Haiyin was the editor-in-chief of the supplement of United Daily News, she once issued a poem called Story, which described a captain who drifted to an island and was attracted by beautiful women. This poem was judged by the authorities as "insinuating the president's ignorance" and the author was sentenced to three years in prison. In order to avoid bringing others into trouble, Lin Haiyin was forced to leave the United Daily News alone and set up a pure literature monthly and a pure literature publishing house. After 27 years of bleak management in the pure land of literature, he made many friends. Therefore, friends in Taiwan Province's cultural circles all said, "Lin Haiyin's living room is half of Taiwan Province's literary world."

"Like a hug"

At the end of p>2, Coming from the South of the City-The Biography of Lin Haiyin was finally published as scheduled. On the cover of the book, there is a large color photo of Lin Haiyin, and she faces the reader with a kind and mellow smile. But Lin Haiyin was unconscious at this time, and his health deteriorated.

but this biography has received a surprisingly good response in the society. Professor Qi Bangyuan, a close friend of Lin Haiyin, said: "The Biography of Lin Haiyin is definitely not a personal story. Her life has been influenced not only by the times, but also by the times." Writer Ya Xian said: "A good biography creation is also a historical work. It must have five conditions, namely, rich historical materials, correct historical knowledge, unique historical view, noble historical morality and full historical feelings. It can be said that the Biography of Lin Haiyin is all available. The United Daily News and other media also praised "The Biography of Lin Haiyin is the most intimate distance and accurate observation for a daughter to write about her mother and a writer". Xi Murong, a well-known female writer in Taiwan Province, also specially wrote an affectionate poem for Zuli:

Pick up a pen and write down

the first line of the first chapter

A biography for my mother,

It's like a hug back and forth.

It's like waves rushing to

bright, warm and clean sandy beaches again and again.

From childhood to youth and the splendid literary years after that.

Eternal Eiko and Eternal Lin Haiyin

In fact, they have already entered our hearts.

It's only in your pen.

Her brilliance is more calm. "(Xia Zuli), Lin Haiyin, who came from the south of the city, slowly left us with the last sunset and jingling camel bells ...

At this time, Zuli Xia began to be busy with his father's biography. Her father, Mr. Xia Chengying, is also a famous writer in Taiwan Province. His ancestral home is Nanjing and he grew up in Beijing. Therefore, Zuli said, "Beijing and Nanjing are our hometown, and the roots of my father's life are in these two Kyoto. And my husband Zhang Zhizhang is a Beijinger born in Nanjing, so these two cities are very predestined to me. "

Two generations of families in Zuli Xia come from three families, namely, the father's family, the mother's family and the husband's family. These three families have deep-rooted ties with Beijing and Nanjing. It seems a bit coincidental, but it is natural to think about it carefully. Taiwan Province people, basically immigrants from the mainland, will find their roots and come to the mainland as long as they have been there for several generations or more. Looking through history, we will know that Taiwan Province was originally a desert island, and mainland immigrants began to live on the island for a long time from the Three Kingdoms period. Before the Song Dynasty, there were relatively few residents on the island, and it was not until after the Song Dynasty that Guangdong and Fujian residents moved to the island in large numbers that Taiwan Province residents gradually increased.

It is the wish of a filial daughter that Zuli Xia seeks the roots of the mainland and writes a biography for her mother and father, which is also a matter that will last forever. This makes people think that the history of a person should be remembered clearly, the history of a family should be remembered clearly, and the history of an island should be written clearly.