Last year, I wrote an article "Call Li Hao's Brother" for the column "Introduction to Famous Writers" in Time Literature. At that time, I also told Hao that I really wanted to take over the "post-70s" national social science project, instead of drawing a conclusion by impressing the author. I don't think the planning office can give it. Li Hao laughed. I have met many people in my life. When it comes to impressions, most of them are fleeting. It is not easy to understand each other, so I cherish them more.

I have known Lei Yun for many years. Although we don't see each other often, we are old friends with deep feelings.

It's another spring. Walking on campus is full of eyes. Spring jasmine, forsythia, plum blossom, begonia, peach blossom and magnolia are all blooming so brilliantly; Pigeons cooing, chubby grey magpies, agile Chinese Pulsatilla, sparrows in groups of three or five, and Dai Sheng, a loner, strolled leisurely in the forest. Looking at the vibrant things in front of me, I often think of the words written by Lei Yun and the photos he took. So quiet, so warm, so beautiful.

Speaking of Lei Yun, everyone has a similar impression. Lei Yun is gentle and simple, low-key, reserved, few words, and her eyes are particularly clean. So a tall and handsome boy always has a shy gentleness in his smile. Looking at him will make people feel particularly warm and peaceful. Xiang fujun's evaluation won my heart: "although the cloud is as light as cotton wool, there is a thunder hidden inside." Lei Yun is a person who always keeps a low profile. He seldom speaks highly of people and things. When it comes to Lei Yun, you can also use four words to evaluate him. I think these four words are really used to talk about Lei Yun. " He really understands him.

We have been drinking together in Beijing, Shenyang, Liaocheng and Zibo many times, talking about our favorite literary topics and social issues we care about. Lei Yun talks very little, and there is no need to persuade people to drink. No matter who talks about drinking, he silently picks up his glass and drinks it off. Once in Beijing, I drank almost as much. Lei Yun's face is a common simple and honest smile, but his words gradually increase. Occasionally, he would make fun of the ministers and Li Hao around him. This kind of party is usually endless, and we are happy to hear him talk about Borges, Marguerite Yourcenar and Vladimir Nabokov. We don't remember what we said in detail, but in the later days, whenever we passed by the store or stayed with Hao, we would think of the small lights in the ethnic food street late that night.

In the midsummer of 20 14, Lei Yun was invited to attend a seminar on the works of writer Zong Lihua. Lei Yun talked about how to tell the story of China. Caring for the bottom, China's experience and returning to life are his consistent propositions. Reading his academic articles is quite different from listening to his speech face to face. After the meeting, many graduate students told me that Mr. Li's thunder clouds were so charming! In the spring of 20 17, we held a seminar on Li's local novels. Li Hao, Li Hua and some scholars spoke highly of his novels. The children's speeches not only expressed their understanding of his literary creation, but also had more heartfelt and eager emotional resonance.

When chatting with Lei Yun, I said that he met all my expectations for writers and scholars.

Maybe everyone has a lot of expectations for themselves and their lives. In this crowded and noisy world, how to reach the distant place people yearn for, and how many people are willing to seriously think about and pursue it. What we take for granted, like a high fence, protects our eyes and hearts. Few people are eager to cross the high wall to explore when their beliefs are broken, and even have no interest in asking questions. Not only ordinary people, but also most writers slide on the inherent track by virtue of inertia.

Lei Yun is a conscious thinker.

Whether it is theoretical exposition, novel aesthetics or lens, Lei Yun always expresses his understanding of life and emotional attitude peacefully. Advocating the bottom literature and writing local novels, including the simple and lovely chubby appearance in photos, all thoughts, words and colors begin with his love for the world. Simple and generous love is Lei Yun's emotional background, humanitarianism is his ideological basis, and natural things and daily life are his aesthetic preferences. Reproduce the countryside with words, pay attention to life with thoughts, and record beauty with lenses. Lei Yun is the promoter of the bottom literature, the guardian of the local world and the discoverer of natural life.

A writer not only provides personal experience, but also provides us with some public experience. Telling stories, expressing emotions and constructing ideas are obviously not enough. We also need to find something from the earth and life under our feet, not only our own, but also the existence of others. When we stop in the hustle and bustle of material life and read Lei Yun's words, both the emotional temperature and the ideological resonance deeply comfort the spiritual confusion and homesickness of this era. As the echo wall of the world, the writer constantly reaches his dream home and the ideal world on the other side with imagination and fiction. In the valley of souls, we listen to each other's inner calls. Those ancient homes, the feelings of those young people, and everything growing in the soil of their hometown all have our immature eyes. Everything we experienced in childhood affects what kind of path we take and what kind of life beliefs we have. Long night, too much tossing and turning, too much helplessness and test, how lucky we are to be warm to each other.

I grew up in the countryside. When I was a child, my parents were very busy at work and lived a free life. Like most rural children, I wandered in the northern slopes, rivers, groves and endless plains. The world of life is so open and lonely. Lei Yun wrote a lot of rural things, very small and simple. A tree is pear-white, a place is illuminated by moonlight, country roads, frogs barking by the river, clouds, wild flowers, land, stones, dogs at the door, cows at the head of the village, and most importantly, those relatives connected with our blood. He recorded and wrote silently with tenderness, which is everyday, without exaggerating suffering, beautifying at will, deliberately magnifying or pursuing the so-called miniature. A calm narrative has warm and honest feelings. At the Lei Yun Novel Seminar held by Liaocheng University, I said that it was not easy for Lei Yun people to be so naive in middle age, which was a miracle. Everyone couldn't help laughing, but they all nodded in agreement.

Xiang Fujun said that there was thunder in the clouds. Teacher Chun Yan said that Lei Yun had A Niu Wang Mo in his heart. I said that in Lei Yun's heart, there will always be a teenager coming from a country road. Seemingly different, put together, it is a complete cloud and thunder. This is a man with love in his heart. He not only loves small things, but also understands the long and short life of everything in the world, all the pain and warmth. Understanding the historical deposits of those years does not deny the present life; Understand the dullness and ups and downs of life, and still believe in the vastness of the world and the beauty of human nature; His pain is the regret and wealth of nature, land and the world, and his loneliness has the certainty of being willing to accompany the world. Lei Yun observed the world with words and lenses, thought about life, and recorded his own mental journey and ideological course. He wrote about the countryside in our memory; Photographed the details of life that we ignored; The so-called years, for us, are really a look back, the village is old, but parents are full of white hair. Time has passed, and I have experienced so many blows and disillusionment of human nature. I can also meet friends like Lei Yun and read pure words full of his inner temperature. For me, this is a lifetime of luck.

After writing this impression, Lala Zaza has many personal feelings and hopes to bring them to everyone. The Lei Yun I know is a scholar and writer. Sometimes it is inevitable that the resonance of this era is getting less and less. I think I know more and more about Lei Yun. Lei Yun's thought and practice are of great significance to the development of contemporary China literature and cultural construction. I hope to continue to pay attention to the groups and problems that he should pay attention to. Lei Yun's kindness and beauty are the most precious gifts he left to the world, and also the keynote of his thoughts and literature. Comparing his aesthetic view with Dirty Road and Ghost Gold, and with the novels of Chen Ze and Li Hao, I feel that his aesthetic view is more realistic and urban narrative, while Li Hao emphasizes historical sense and artistry, and Lei Yun's lyrical and local narrative style is distinct. Why is there such a difference? Of course, the difference between personal character and literary understanding is the main reason, and the difference between the ideal society and the ideal novel is probably one of the reasons.

At the end, let's make a wish. I hope that in the autumn of 20 18, we can invite Lei Yun, Chen Ze and Li Hao to come back to our hometown and gather firewood, roast sweet potatoes and burn peanuts in the fields, dusk and smoke together. The diffuse warmth and fragrance are our most primitive love and hope for life.