Literature scholar Qi Bangyuan is 99 years old this year (2023). Unlike many people's imagination of the elderly, she believes that she should live with her family to enjoy life and nurturing. She chose to move into the nursery village at her age of 80, and completed the "Giant River" that shocked the Chinese world during her stay in the nursery village.
"I am only 80 years old and I have to live by myself"What kind of life view made Qi Bangyuan decide to move into the Kaisheng Village? According to the 2017 report by the United News Agency, in fact, at that time, the symbol of "no one wants" and "children are unfilial", but Qi Bangyuan said that at that time, "I am only 80 years old and I still have to live my own life." This made everyone from my family to my students opposed Qi Bangyuan's decision. She insisted on entering the nursing village and becoming a "self-reliance" that she had never lived (one who only cared for her life).
The concept that Chinese people are different from that of "living at home" is to see that "three generations are living together" is a symbol of family happiness. Qi Bangyuan believes that modern people no longer have the space and economic conditions to form a big family. "If there is no big family's house, yard and economy, why bother with big family?" It is better to find a suitable place to grow old and create your own ideal old age.
When he moved into the village of Hongsheng, Qi Bangyuan admitted that he was "disappointed and helpless". At that time, the village of Shengsheng was still a deserted mountain village, with an occupancy rate of less than 20%. The newly dug land was all new, and the birds could not be heard. Whenever the last train leaves, the "village" seems to be independent. She wrote her mood in her Japanese journal: "In a lonely world that I never dreamed of, facing an unknown ending, lonely walks towards the empty space."
Such loneliness is also the best time and space for memory. Qi Bangyuan wrote "Jiuliu River" word by word in the independent space that this son owns for the first time. "In my old age when there is a lot of fire in my life, find my real book room and write a book I want to write for half my life." Maybe only by reaching this stage in life can you have such a clear view of life.
Don't change her original intention and love her literature.Even in her later years, Qibangyuan's literary life is still an indispensable part of her life. According to the 2007 report by the Joint Report, the elderly in the same nursery village saw her reading books in the restaurant and looked at her head: "Hey, do you read English? Do you still see them?" This made Qi Bangyuan helplessly, "I don't like people to put them on me with old age. Some people don't believe in the self-help power of reading books. They entered "Sheng Sheng" very early. What can they talk to them?"
Those people don't know that when Qi Bangyuan was seriously injured and had difficulty in pain many years ago, she used her describing English to keep her mind awake. She was full of love for literature. She taught Jinci's poems. "Autumn" wrote that some flowers were blooming in early autumn. The silly bee thought that summer would never pass. She thought she was the stupid bee, thinking that happiness could last forever. These points of life are showing the importance of literature in Qibangyuan's life.
Mrs. Weiwei mentioned in her book "Stand upright at Ninety, Continue to Dance to the End" that she is most important when she gets old. She pointed out that Ellie, a Canadian female writer who won the Nobel prize at the age of 82. Alice Munro once said: "There is nothing to be afraid of in this world. Just treat yourself well." This "being well" must include all the physical and mental spirits.
In addition, according to the Central News Agency's foreign news report, Japan's first female photographer, Sabumoto Hiroko, who passed away this year and was 107 years old, once said: "People should not be lazy. The important thing is to have a positive attitude towards life and never give up. You must motivate yourself and maintain a vigilance so that you can continue to advance."
Being good at physical and mental spirit and keep moving forward may be able to respond to Qi Bangyuan's life attitude. According to the report of Master Tianxia in 2019, writer Jianmo once said that Qi Bangyuan is her old age chart. Although Qi Bangyuan's body is no longer young, her heart is not in trouble, and she still has the vigorous power to open the sky and the earth with her pen.
Fighting for life Every moment is foreverJi Bangyuan not only treats literature seriously, but also faces life strongly. The man who had been unable to speak for four years wrote on the paper: "I don't know the outside world!" She sighed with emotion, and made a statement for her signing that she refused to make a heart-to-heart rehabilitation statement, so she placed it on the desk where she buried her first writing every day in her own residence.
Therefore, it talks about life and death, and Qi Bangyuan comes from Rong Huoda. She didn't say that she had once held the "waiting for death" attitude, "It's very irritating, so don't wait." As soon as her mood changed, "not waiting" allowed her to open another world. At this point in life, she no longer waits for anyone and things. She reads books every day, and every moment is eternal.
In 2018, the English version of "The Giant River" was born. The following year, Bangyuan came to Taiwan to celebrate her honorary doctorate at her alma mater, Indiana University. According to Feng Media's 2019 report, she said humorously at the age of 95 that she had already lived long, but she never thought she had lived for so long. Because she is very busy, she has written a lot of books about her life, especially in the long-lasting era. She said, "I live in love this whole child, especially the love my parents gave me, to remember them, and to make me write this book."