12 years ago, by chance, Yin Xiandun, a native of Nanyang, met the famous writer Mo Yan and forged a profound friendship. Yesterday, after reading Mo Yan's "Nobel Prize" speech, Yin Xiandun contacted this newspaper to reveal the true story between a Nanyang grassroots cultural worker and the first Nobel Prize in Literature winner in China.

Friendship with Mr. Mo Yan

□ Our reporter Liu Na

65438+February 65438+February, after reading the newspaper's report on Mo Yan's Nobel Prize speech again and again, Yin Xiandun, a member of China Book Association and vice chairman of Nanyang Book Association, dug up three books that Mo Yan/Kloc gave him 0/2 years ago.

On the title pages of these three books, there are several lines of powerful and elegant inscriptions, all signed and sealed by the same person-Mo Yan, the first Nobel Prize in Literature winner in China.

"I'm not a pushy person, but I'd like to tell you the true story. Because this reflects Mo Yan's admiration for Nanyang's profound culture and his love for Nanyang's grassroots cultural workers. " Looking at the inscription on the title page, Yin Xiandun said sincerely.

□ acquaintance is a godsend opportunity to meet Mo Yan.

The calendar goes to 10 month in 2000.

At that time, Yin Xiandun, a calligrapher in Nanyang, was also the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of neixiang county and the chairman of the County Federation of Literary and Art Circles. As a member of China Calligraphy Association and vice chairman of the Municipal Calligraphy Association, his calligraphy works have been selected for many national exhibitions and exhibited in overseas countries for many times, and have been collected by many domestic museums and art galleries, which can be called "Nanyang people who are well-known in the calligraphy field in China".

Mo Yan, a writer born in Gaomi, Shandong Province, has been in the literary world for 20 years. His novel Red Sorghum became a household name because it was put on the screen. Breastful breasts and fat buttocks won the highest prize in China history (with a prize of 654.38+10,000 yuan), and he was transferred from the army to the China Art Research Institute of the Ministry of Culture of the Procuratorate Daily for three years.

If there is no coincidence, the lives of a Nanyang grassroots cultural worker and a famous China writer will hardly intersect, even if it is only a short day and a half.

"One day, I was at work and suddenly received a call from the county procuratorate." /kloc-The past events of 0/2 years ago began to recover a little in Yin Xiandun's memory. "On the phone, I learned that Mr. Mo Yan, as a staff member of the Procuratorate Daily, had come to the neixiang county Procuratorate to experience life and collect customs." As Yin Xiandun was the deputy director of the Propaganda Department at that time, he was quite insightful about the culture of Neixiang. The procuratorate hopes that Mo Yan can accompany him during his stay in his hometown.

At that time, putting down the phone, Yin Xiandun felt "a burst of joy". As an educated man, he has long heard of Mo Yan and read many of his works. "If we can get to know each other, it will be a godsend." "The first time I saw Mr. Mo Yan, I felt that he was not tall, but he was full of gas. My eyes are not big, I always smile, I am very kind and easy-going, and I have a keen insight into everything, so people will never forget it when they first see it. " Yin Xiandun described his first impression of Mo Yan like this.

After the meeting, Yin Xiandun accompanied Mo Yan to visit neixiang county, the only well-preserved county government in China. When visiting the county government, Mo Yan asked him a lot about the local customs, history, culture and economic development of Nanyang and Neixiang. What impressed me the most was that when he talked about Nanyang as the birthplace of Chu culture and the representative place of Han culture, which gave birth to a generation of sages such as Zhuge Liang, Zhang Zhongjing, Zhang Heng, Fan Li and Jiang Ziya, Mo Yan repeatedly praised "Nanyang is the land of hidden dragons".

"We talked a lot about Nanyang culture and couldn't remember many details. The deepest feeling is that Mo Yan's words reveal his yearning and admiration for the culture of Chu and Han in Nanyang. " Yin Xiandun said with emotion.

-two veterans know each other and have a good chat.

65438+February 65438+February, a reporter asked Mo Yan's deepest impression, and Yin Xiandun blurted out "simplicity".

He remembers that the night after they met, he and Mo Yan had a light meal in a small Muslim restaurant named Guo Liang in Neixiang, accompanied by the staff of neixiang county Procuratorate. "At that time, he was already a famous great writer, but he had no shelf at all, never put on airs, and he could get along well with everyone at the dinner table." Yin Xiandun said with a smile that this may be explained by Mo Yan's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, because "I am the son of a farmer in Northeast Gaomi Township, Shandong Province, China".

In that small restaurant, Yin Xiandun found that he and Mo Yan had many similarities-both were born in the 1950s, when everything was in ruins and the old and the new alternated. Both of them joined the army with the loyalty of "defending the country and defending the country", both of them had unforgettable and lifelong military life, and both of them had cult-like love for culture.

"Similar growth experience, let's talk a lot. Teacher Mo Yan loves calligraphy and is good at writing brushes and pens. We also learn calligraphy from each other. Teacher Mo Yan praised me for my good calligraphy. " Yin Xiandun proudly said that after learning that neixiang county was one of the few counties in China that won the title of "hometown of calligraphy in China", Mo Yan encouraged him to pay attention to cultivating future generations and let the hometown of calligraphy have successors.

As a responsible literati, Mo Yan is very concerned about the survival of Neixiang Literary Federation, a grassroots literary Federation. When Yin Xiandun introduced to him that under the condition of market economy, Neixiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles not only explored the way of combining literature and art for healthy survival and development, but also gathered four generations of local literary and art writers from the old, middle-aged and young generations to form a caring art troupe to help the old, the weak and the sick and truly repay the society, Mo Yan encouraged him to say, "Old comrade-in-arms, you can come back from the army.

"At that moment, I obviously felt that as a responsible contemporary writer, Mr. Mo Yan paid attention to the grassroots literary and art circles and loved grassroots cultural workers." After a lapse of 12 years, Yin Xiandun recalled the scene at that time and said with emotion that Mo Yan's heartfelt affirmation gave him endless motivation.

Miss each other for twelve years.

Because of the urgent schedule, Mo Yan hurried back to Beijing after staying in his hometown for a day and a half. When they broke up, Mo Yan and Yin Xiandun left each other their phone numbers. Mo Yan said that in order to commemorate this short and profound friendship, he would give his newly published works to Yin Xiandun after returning to Beijing.

A week later, Yin Xiandun received a book from Mo Yan: "I opened it and saw three selected Mo Yan novels that he had just published, namely, The Front Teeth of the Fly, The Magic Dart of First Love and The Treasure Knife of the Old Gun." He was particularly moved by Mo Yan's earnest inscriptions and seals on the title pages of three books.

The reporter saw that in one of the inscriptions, Mo Yan wrote: "Nanyang is the land of hidden dragons, and the inner city is the land of crouching tigers. Mr. xiandun is the dragon and tiger among people. Mo Yan 2000165438+1October 3. " "From this inscription, we can see Mo Yan's admiration for Nanyang culture and affirmation of our friendship." Yin Xiandun caressed the inscription on the title page and read it over and over again.

After receiving the book, he called Mo Yan to thank him and made an appointment to "keep in touch". Since 12, the two "old comrades-in-arms" have been out of touch because of their busy work and life. But Yin Xiandun has been paying attention to Mo Yan's news.

On one occasion, in a professional calligraphy newspaper, he learned that Mo Yan joined the China Book Association and became a member of the China Book Association like himself, so he happily collected the newspaper. Two months ago, he learned from the newspaper that Mo Yan won the 20 12 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work "Integrating Folk Stories, History, Modernity and Magic Realism" and silently said to himself, "Congratulations, old friend."

"I left my speech at the hotel, but what I want to say is in my heart ..." "It's like a fairy tale to win such a huge prize in such a hall, but it's undoubtedly true ..." In the media, Mo Yan's speeches at the Nobel Prize ceremony were overwhelming. After reading it word for word, Yin Xiandun pointed to those witty and clever sentences that pay attention to discretion and said, "Hmm. This Mo Yan-style humor is exactly the same as in memory. " (clue provider: Ye, remuneration: 50 yuan)

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