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发信人: tst (洛知秋), 信区: English
标 题: autobiography(1)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Wed Mar 29 19:12:53 2000), 转信
Autobiography
[1979-1985]
I was born at Xian Ning, Hubei, in the year of 1979, and was the son of Dan
Zhaoyuan and Zhao Jianming. My father was the youngest son at home and was left
fatherless at the age of two. Three Years Famine and the ensuing Ten Years
Cultural Revolution spoilt the most precious part of his youth and gave him
malnutrition physically and spiritually. After graduation from a junior
middle school, he apprenticed in a local factory, where he met my mother, and
married her years later. My mother came from E'zhou, a city 150 kilometers
away from Xianning, and was brought up in a huge household by the standard of
today---my grandmother bored five daughters and one son. Being the eldest
child, my mother had to leave hometown alone at 16 because of the inadequate
means of livelihood to support so many children at that time. I don't know how
the two young apprentices fell into love afterwards, but to be sure, dating in
apprenticeship was forbidden. Their marriage in 1977 turned out to be
sustainable and sweet in spite of scanty income. And in a spring evening two
years later, I claimed my being through crying in a local delivery room. For
the implementation of one-child policy in China, my arrival naturally dominated
the happiness and expectation of this ordinary family.
Although my outgrown head suggested my talents from the beginning apparently,
my unusual tardiness in learning language really troubled my parents. They
brought me to an authority of pediatrics, who diagnosed me as baby dementia.
Yet fortunately, I managed to discredit the doctor's judgement at the age of
two and secured my parents from disillusionment. Then my encouraged father
began to enforce his ambitious preschool education scheme though he always
failed to be a competent storyteller. I was so fed up with his dull tales
that one day I announced that I could tell him a more interesting one, which
might be my first literary works. I can't recall what a story I created that
day, but from then on, I stopped begging to my father for a story. I
turned to Xiao Ren Shu, a kind of picture-story book, and started my first
reading. That's really a fantastic world, in which my imagination was
helplessly ignited and burst in flame. I opened my innocent eyes wide, casting
my curiosity as far as possible into the vast but colorful unknown before me.
Sunday became my special festival in my childhood, because, as promised,
my father would drive me to the bookstore in the street and bought me Xiao
Ren Shu on that day. When backed home, as usual, I would then sit on the
threshold and spend the whole afternoon in reading as joyfully as Snoopy.
With my collection growing, I also earned myself a notorious fame for my
reluctance to lend my books to pals in kindergarten. I loved my 'property'
so much that I couldn't bear to lose them.
My addiction to Xiao Ren Shu agreed with my father's parenting style.
He had no extra money to buy me toy or snack, and wouldn't do so even if he
had. He just showed me the world of books, which he believed could bring
me the best education. Of course, my so-called reading was no more than
guessing a story from pictures. But by such reading, I did accumulate my
primary store and comprehension of Chinese characters. I didn't represent
too much likelihood to grow into a genius. The only thing my father could
show off was that I wrote a diary at 6 without any help. I still remember
my father's comments at that time----"It's really a surprise for my son to
write such a good diary at such a young age!"
[1985-1991]
When I was six years old, school suddenly became a charming utopia for me.
The stupid life in kindergarten had nearly bored me to death----snatching a
stool in the morning and sitting around the aunts and listening to their
gossiping. How I envied those pals who hopped towards the school with a
cartoon-printed schoolbag!
Half a year later, I fulfilled my dream and found school was a place even
more fascinating than I imagined. A frog, a cigarette packet, a leg of broken
desks or a paper plane, would arouse our schoolboys' endless interests. We
explored every corner around the school to look for treasures, went out for
fishing and cooked them like Robinson Crusoe, or hunted a mysterious bird
in woods. For the first time I found there was so much enjoyment in the world.
But when at home, I felt somewhat lonely until my mother, one day, asked
me whether I wanted a sister. Of course I would like to be a brother! And on
the next day, mother really 'got' one----she adopted a foundling in hospital.
She was three days old then, and looked like a sleeping kitty, with eyes
closed (never opened, I guess), small fists clenched and curved furs pasted
on the forehead. I gasped at the tiny creature and felt a sea of pride
surged---from March 26th I had a sister in the world to care for!
As I said, in those days, playing was a constant theme in my life. But
when peers were unavailable, for example in summer holidays, I would sit down
to read. I was not content with those childish stuffs like Xiao Ren Shu any
longer. I rummaged through chests and cupboards for the old books belonged
to my father and picked them up to browse, like a hungry sheep aimlessly
grazed on pasture. Driven by a virgin and undaunted motivation, I finished
reading all printings that could be found at home, including Selected Works
of Mao Zedong (1-5), How to Raise Chicken, Women in China. I'm bot boasting
of my capability for reading. But I'm really a little nostalgic when recalling
my appetite for books at that time. Although viewed from today most of them
were of little help, it's a literally free state, in which a young soul hungry
of books made its first efforts to apprehend the world. I value those days
also because it's a paradise from which I've been banished when I lost my
innocence and depraved to be a utilitarian reader.
In Grade Four, we were formally trained to write composition. I assumed my
advantage in that field soon and attracted the attention of the dean in
school, who went out his way to give me an interview in office. However, tell
the truth, I wasn't interested in the mode of composition teachers required
at all. I hated to construct my word in a way only led to cliche and nonsense.
I preferred to write something from the bottom of my heart. When I was a year
before graduation, I began to conceive a classic novel---at least as I expected
---which was about a scientific fiction. I wrote two hundreds words every day
and told my friends the latest episode on the way home. Regrettably, I
halted my plan when I had finished two thousands words. I burnt my manuscript
for a reason that was unknown to me today.
As graduation exams approached, study more and more became a concern to me.
Still, I would go to the railway station to collect cigarette packets at noon
punctually. Conceivably, the result of my exams struck me bitterly. I left a
mote to inform my parents of this bad news and promised that I would mend my
way in the coming study in the junior middle school.
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