"how I want to see my childhood footprints again! How I want to go back to my hometown of birth and touch the soil of the stable that I never forget. "

The master still goes to the ancient well

Yesterday (17th), Ba Jin, a great literary master, passed away. Chengdu is Ba Jin's hometown. At the moment of remembering the master, please follow

our reporter's footsteps to see the eye well ...

Last night, the cold wind in late autumn swept through the streets and lanes of Chengdu. By the eye well of Tongshun Street, the half-foot-high rouge flower is still swaying in the wind. Although there are no flowers, the leaves are still green in the cold weather.

"If you find the eye well, you can find my childhood footprints", Ba Jin once said. People come and go, and I approach this well, which is perhaps the most famous well in the history of China literature-just like Mr. Bing Xin's white cat, a well or a cat worships things because of people.

The well has dried up, and the well bore is covered with two flaky stones, and a territory of four or five square meters is enclosed with stone railings, which is isolated from the surrounding modern high-rise buildings and shops. There is a stone tablet by the well, which was erected in 1994. Ten years later, the two small corners of the tablet body have been destroyed, and the words on the tablet body are incomplete ...

Standing by the well, stroking those rough stone railings, I was thinking that when Ba Jin was not a admired literary master, but a child or a teenager, he would be. When the old man Ba Jin was lying in the ward in Shanghai, at the last moment of his life, did he ever think of his hometown in Chengdu, and this binocular well containing his childhood? Morning Post reporter Luo Julang

Ba Jin's childhood footprint

In addition to Ba Jin's description of "home" in "I and Literature for 5 Years", Ba Jin's younger brother Li Jisheng also confirmed a few days ago: "My hometown is Zhengtongshun Street in Chengdu, also known as Binocular Well. It was my grandfather's property there. My grandfather worked as a county official for several times in the Qing Dynasty. Later, he resigned and stopped doing it. With a few dollars, he bought a house in Chengdu. "

Memory, an old well and an old tree

The eye well of Zhengtongshun Street in Chengdu, where the Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe of Chengdu Military Region is now located, is Ba Jin's former residence where he spent 19 years in his youth. Many of his major works were written in the background of the old husband's house, such as the torrent trilogy Home, Spring, Autumn and the Garden of Resting. Many readers who like Ba Jin, including some foreign readers, want to visit this old house in Chengdu, but with the changes of the city, all they can remember now is an old well and an old tree.

In memory of the creation of Home by young painters

Ba Jin's former residence also leads to many stories: a young painter painted an oil painting called Home with this big tree as the background, and this oil painting has participated in many art exhibitions at home and abroad, which has been well received. Ba Jin gave the pictorial that published this painting to Mr. Tsutomu Minakami, a famous Japanese writer. Because of this, Tsutomu Minakami wrote a letter and delivered a book to the young Japanese painter, and interpreted a story of Sino-Japanese friendship. This painter is He Dehua, the choreographer of the Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe in Chengdu Military Region.

textual research experts carefully restore the "hometown"

The Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe and an old man, Zhang Yaotang, spent many years of painstaking research and produced a precious restoration map of Ba Jin's hometown. Zhang Yaotang, the head of the former banner art troupe, said: "I came to Chengdu in September 1952. It is said that this courtyard where we live is the former residence of Ba Jin. There are five wells in it, one of which is the well that Shu Zhen jumped in the novel Autumn. There is also a small lotus pond. Some people say that this is where Mingfeng committed suicide, but there are different opinions. I have lived in this courtyard for almost 3 years. What does Ba Jin's home look like? We have a responsibility to find out about it. "

Li Zhi, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Ba Jin's nephew, once said that Ba Jin's former residence was restored in the 198s, and Ba Lao was unwilling to spend state money to do anything for himself. Ba Lao said, "As long as my eyes are well, I can find my way to childhood. If I want to commemorate it, I can just write a sign."

□ Ba Lao regrets

The label "Chengdu" is missing from the trilogy

Feng Shuimu, an old writer in Chengdu, recalled a conversation with Ba Jin in 1967 earlier. Ba Jin modestly pointed out the shortcomings of Home, Spring and Autumn. Recalling the situation of that year, Feng Shuimu was very excited. "My ideal at that time was to be a writer, and Ba Jin's works had the greatest influence on me. In December 1967, I made a special trip to Shanghai to visit Ba Lao. At that time, Ba Lao was wearing a blue tunic suit and a pair of corduroy cotton shoes on his feet. He was picking up stones in the courtyard of the Shanghai Writers Association, and on the wall behind him was a copy of his' review'. "

Knowing that Feng Shuimu is from Sichuan, Ba Jin happily started a family conversation with Feng Shuimu. He said, "When I saw my hometown people, I also remembered my hometown dishes. What I want to eat most is Sichuan style pork and miscellaneous sauce noodles. " When Feng Shuimu said that his favorite novels were Home, Spring and Autumn, Ba Jin said, "To be honest, I think Home, Spring and Autumn have the biggest regret that they didn't point out the streets, bridges and rivers in Chengdu. After reading my book, many people have no idea that I wrote Chengdu. Even Cao Yu wrote a city in the southwest in the script of the drama version of Home. "

□ Ba Lao Complex

He likes to eat Chengdu's rapeseed head

Ba Lao has many old friends in Chengdu, and Che Fu, a famous scholar, is one of them. Earlier, the 9-year-old Che Fu recalled the days when he was with Ba Lao, saying that he and Ba Lao did not talk about literature together. "Chengdu is still unfinished, and there is no time to talk about other things."

Che Lao and Ba Lao became attached to the magazine Sichuan Scenery in 193s, and then they became good friends. Che Lao humorously recalled that he was a "gourmet ghost" and a restless man, and he liked to look for delicious food everywhere. He knew almost all the old restaurants in Chengdu. Ba Lao will not "let him go" every time he returns to Chengdu, asking him to be a guide to find food. Pointing to the photo of the last time he saw Ba Lao in his hometown in 1993, he told reporters that every time he visited Ba Lao in Shanghai, he would bring more than 3 kilograms of vegetables that were only available in Chengdu. The head of green vegetables and rapeseed were all favorite vegetables of Ba Lao.

□ Remembering Ba Lao

Some handwriting

The reporter saw 1 books signed by Ba Jin in the local literature department of Chengdu Library, which were precious gifts brought back from Shanghai by Li Zhi on May Day in 1988, and now they have become treasures in the collection. According to Mr. Liu, director of the local literature department, Chengdu Library also has two manuscripts of Ba Lao. Mr. Liu said, "The two manuscripts are a postscript to a book and a reflection after reading it, which are very precious materials in our literature department." The reporter saw that among the 1 books signed by Ba Jin, there are the Chinese version of the novel Cold Night, the essay Exploration Collection, Random Notes, Untitled Collection, Illness Collection, Truth Collection and four Russian and French versions of the novel Cold Night. Mr. Liu said, "In 1988, Li Zhi went to Shanghai to visit Ba Lao. Our library asked Li Zhi to bring some books of Ba Jin to Shanghai for his signature. As a result, Ba Lao also sent us 1 books."

as we know, these books are treasured and are not allowed to be borrowed.

A bronze statue

In order to commemorate the centenary birthday of Ba Jin, the bronze statue of Ba Jin designed by Sichuan sculptor Yan Yongming was completed in Chengdu in early June 23. The largest bronze statue of Ba Lao in China was placed in Huiyuan Square in Baihuatan Park in Chengdu on June 2th.

The bronze statue of Ba Lao, wearing a Chinese tunic suit, a pair of glasses, a scarf and a bamboo crutch, is strolling forward. Sculptor Yan Yongming said that the bronze statue is 2.1 meters high and is made of more than 1 ton of fine bronze, making it the largest bronze statue of Ba Jin in China. Yan Yongming said that Ba Jin is a writer who cares about the sufferings of the people, and the bronze statue as a whole shows the spiritual realm of Ba Lao.

A memorial hall

The new Bajin College of Literature was completed in the north main road of Longquanyi last year. Fu Heng, vice president of Ba Jin Literature College, revealed, "The local government in Longquan has spent a lot of time on the new museum. The layout of the new museum adopts a symmetrical quadrangle structure. The building in the middle is the tallest, with two floors. The bronze statue of Ba Jin is placed in the middle of the hall on the first floor, and all materials and physical exhibits are displayed on the second floor." The main buildings of the new building include Ba Jin Memorial Hall, Complex Building, Exhibition Building and Pavilion Gallery, mainly with gray tile and white walls, lattice windows and sloping roofs. The plain residential style corresponds to Ba Lao's simple and harmonious style. There are scattered gardens among buildings, and representative plants unique to Chengdu, such as bamboo and hibiscus, are planted. There are pavilions, bridges, running water and other architectural sketches in the garden.