That strong, optimistic and caring old man will never appear in front of our eyes again. We can only remember him by his words. No, I dare not even use the word "missing" easily, because it has become our innate spirit, rubbed in our bones and muscles, mixed in our blood, connected with our flesh and blood, and nothing can separate him from the depths of our souls.
If we just said "Grandpa Ba Jin's spirit", it would have been said to be rotten and vulgar, or I was born decades earlier, but now I'm a little pretentious and I'm bound to get off. It suddenly occurred to me that Mr Wen Yiduo, the unyielding man, once compared his creation to "dancing in chains". Although there are too many interpretations of "shackles", I prefer to believe that this is a retrogression in customs. Even if my feet are torn to pieces, I can still draw my own arc, and Grandpa Ba Jin is a person who can face setbacks calmly.
Grandpa Ba Jin's calmness comes from courage and vision for the future. Grandpa Ba Jin was born in a bureaucratic landlord family in Chengdu, Sichuan. The family environment with strict style and rich ethics naturally has a profound influence on the young grandpa Ba Jin. Later, when the Revolution of 1911 broke out, my father resigned and retired, and died in 19 17. Ba Jin's grandfather died in 1920. At this time, Grandpa Ba Jin, who was baptized in the May 4th Movement, has grown into a literary youth who accepts the thoughts of democracy and anarchy. Instead of showing fear and panic about the future, he felt that it was an opportunity to grasp and break through. Grandpa Ba Jin thinks that no one in his family can control his actions any more, and he also attaches his actions to reality: from 1920 to 1923, he studied English at Chengdu Foreign Studies University, took part in the work of the progressive publication Half-monthly Talk, and also participated in the organization of "Equality Society" to bravely carry out anti-feudal propaganda activities. From the early grandfather Ba Jin, we can see that the old man was decisive when he was young, never blindly followed, and combined theory with practice.
When he was young, Grandpa Ba Jin was still like this, and the mature Grandpa Ba Jin was more determined. Adhering to this spirit and attitude, during his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Grandpa Ba Jin traveled to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin and Chongqing with literature as a weapon and faith as the pen tip. He used to be a director of the literary and art circles of the All-China Anti-Japanese Association. From 1940 to 1945, he wrote the trilogy of Anti-Japanese War and Fire. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, he created novellas "Resting Garden" and "The Fourth Ward". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Grandpa Ba Jin continued to burn every ray of life with joy and excitement, which really made us admire and admire.
This kind of grandpa Ba Jin is familiar to many people from his masterpiece Home. I am just like them. The novel "Home" was born in 193 1, which was one of the famous novels "Riptide Trilogy" published by The Times at that time. From 193 1 to 2008, the light of home has been burning for nearly a century. Grandpa Ba Jin's writing style is not as flashy as many writers now, but unpretentious. "Home" maintains life, and life also maintains "home", chewing every inch of life carefully, but the ideas that Grandpa Ba Jin wants to express in the book are like the flowing water of "cool breeze in Xu Lai, quiet waves", which bring out the best in each other. Home depicts the changing history of a feudal family. Living in such a family, everyone, like a puppet, wants to seize the silk thread of fate, but has no autonomy and can't decide where to go. Losing freedom is like losing vitality, just like losing the glory in life! The saddest character in the novel Home is the eldest brother Chueh-hsin. Because he believed in "non-resistance", he lost the right to pursue all happiness and ruined all beauty and love. Compared with Chueh-hsin who can't help but go with the flow, Chueh-hui is very brave, and we can see another image. In short, such a family is the epitome of that era, with all kinds of people described by Grandpa Ba Jin. People who write are heartbroken, people who read are sad, and the times are crying; Nowadays, people cherish it. Looking back on such a story, we should look to the future and grasp the things and people around us.
How does Grandpa Ba Jin look forward to the future? Grandpa Ba Jin is old, but he always cares about the education of the motherland. If the teacher is a hard gardener, then Grandpa Ba Jin is an expert in studying how flowers grow and bloom healthily. He cherishes his granddaughter very much, because he has suffered from his studies since he was a child, but he also hopes that his granddaughter can be strong in the face of academic difficulties. In this way, he was equally eager and full of care for every child until the end. At this time, Grandpa Ba Jin is an amiable and approachable old man, but he is a determined and sharp-eyed soldier in dealing with past bad habits.
He is a fire, gently illuminating everyone's heart, letting them find the right way of life, and at the same time stabbing the hands of every bad person who wants to destroy this peace and tranquility! He is a fire, and he would rather give up his life in pursuit of light and heat. Life is lovely. But a cold and lonely life is not as good as a vigorous burning!
This is my grandfather Ba Jin.