Traveling on paper: Taoyuan leads us to the path of childhood - Reading Xiang Hongquan's "Where Is My Childhood Home"

Xiang Hongquan's "Where Is My Childhood Home" takes "obedience" as a wish, connecting the thoughts of parents, friends and myself, plain and sincere whispers, like the trickling water in my hometown, taking us to deeper memories .

As he traced his memories, Xiang Hongquan couldn't help but wonder, "Do I live in that military village?" As the Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck said: "Childhood, our Glancing at the world once; the rest is only memory.” The author recalls his father’s unjustly imprisoned life without sustenance, and recalls his father’s letters in prison like a lonely monologue, as well as his childhood when he traveled a long way to deliver lunch for his father. These "stinging and clear memories" use a long life story to tell the aftermath of the White Terror.

Xiang Hongquan's prose, such as the Greek Hermes crossing the boundary between time and memory, once again gathers the scattered time and becomes a vivid picture in front of our eyes. Based on the memories of the military dependents' village, it is once again vivid and vivid, and it is connected with the life of the world, not only reviving, but also becoming the keynote of Xiang Hongquan's life. It turns out that all the things that I have now can be traced back to everything in my childhood. "The Year of Echoing Silent Screams" wrote about the anxiety of the world being swept by SARS and the sadness of his father's passing. At that time, my father kept recounting the past, and the author's "perfunctory or perfunctory response" was not indifference, but his father's complicated and subtle life, which seemed to be completely lost in the present world.

The feeling of passing away in the text reveals not only sorrow, but more of a desire to meet the father at that time and re-clarify the vein and trajectory of life. "Veterans and Writing" mentioned that the reason why the father in prison was diligent in writing family letters "because in such a lonely world, only relying on writing can communicate with the world and be able to coexist with loneliness." At a critical point, people still have to return to traditional writing. "Maybe in the future, the form of handwriting will fade away because it is no longer valued, but as long as we see words, we can always look closely, smell them, and touch them gently to generate various thoughts and memories." The warmth and emotion of words , not the type that the screen can carry

The second series "Listen to Friends and Friends" and the third series "Listen to Yourself" are the author's moments of facing the youthful days - he was bullied and ostracized by his classmates, and he was not trusted by the teacher, but he finally understood the years His voice also understands the fragility of human nature: "Perhaps youth and literature are the same, both extremely beautiful and extremely dilapidated have been preserved at the same time." When he decides to walk out of the deep cave, he can understand the wishes of others. The voice of Xiang Hongquan's storytelling overlaps with the joy and sorrow of our childhood. We can finally look at our childhood self together with the author, and are convinced that the wishes made in childhood will be fulfilled in the days to come. .