Perhaps I am also a person who came from the countryside, and I have an attachment to the fields, streams, mountains, forests, and villages, so I especially like the kind of essays describing the countryside's scenery and characters.
After reading the author's article, I saw the author's profile at the end of the article, and knew that she was a sanitation worker named Wang Shuxia, and felt a sense of admiration for her, I found the platform editor-in-chief, and added her WeChat. After her consent, I interviewed her, she is an inspirational woman, while cleaning the streets with a broom, while using a cell phone to record the true beauty of life.
Wang Shuxia was born in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, to a family of farmers, and because of her family's poverty, she took a break from school after only middle school. I asked her why she chose to do the work of sanitation workers, long years of wind, sun and rain. Her answer was simple: she said she loved the beauty and cleanliness of the city and the countryside, and she wanted to sweep the streets clean with a broom.
She is an ordinary sanitation worker who dresses up the countryside streets with love, and when she has nothing to do after work, she likes to write poems and read literature. She likes to read Chinese historical stories, like to write the countryside idyllic style poetry especially write a lot, from 2013 so far paper publication sixteen times, were issued in the "Prose Poetry World", "Fuhe", "Poetry Spring and Autumn" and other magazines. Among them, Prose Poetry World in Chengdu, Sichuan belongs to domestic and international magazines with open circulation. In this magazine, I published three articles, "Red Face Tears Crying in Qinhuai", "Love in Spring", and "Walking in the Painted Country in March".
After that, she published twelve articles in the quarterly magazine "Fuhe", three of which were in prose and nine in poetry, with more than twenty modern poems and two ancient poems.
She wrote in her prose poem "Red Face Tears Crying in Qinhuai": "A famous concubine of the country, a beautiful girl of Qinhuai, skilled in poetry and lyrics, able to sing and dance, with a shy powdered hibiscus face, a shapely willow waist, and a pair of fascinating soul-searching eyes ......."
Fuhe Magazine. Issue 208 published (dusk) fragment:
And then see the rising smoke.
Holding hands with someone you love dearly
is a destiny.
To labor for the one you love so much,
is a blessing.
My destiny with you, you give me a blessing, are written in this dialogue, are dissolved into this dusk.Memory is a boat,
gently crossed your eyes, long stopped in my heart.Writing poetry and prose, writing memories of the countryside and the cityscape, writing about real people, real things, real feelings. She writes about the flowers, birds, fish and insects in the countryside, the three melons and two dates, the uncle, the old house, the river in front of the village, and the hills behind the village. Her writing is full of deep love for the countryside.
She said she has no book collection at home, but she loves to read and basically borrows books from the library.
She said there are only fourteen magazines in her home, all of which contain her articles. There is "Prose Poetry World" from Chengdu, Sichuan Province there is "Fuhe" from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, and the No. 1 quarterly magazine called "Poetry Spring and Autumn" and so on.
She said that she kept these magazines not to show off how talented, but only to remind herself that there is still a dream in her heart, a dream that has nothing to do with the world and is not tainted with the stench of copper. A dream that she can't forget when she's exhausted from sweeping the leaves.
Her monthly salary is only more than a thousand dollars, can only maintain her basic life, when I asked her to take a picture of her life, she said she usually wear work clothes, rarely wear life clothes. I have an indescribable feeling in my heart, perhaps Wang Shuxia thinks she is very contented, but I still rise in pity, think she is very hard.
She said the most embarrassing thing for her, leaving a shadow in her heart, it was five years ago in the city of Literature Union scene, there is a decent work of authors to see her to laugh, and is covering the mouth to laugh, and later covered the stomach to laugh, the whole facial expression is mocking laughter and a little funny. Laughed so hard that Wang Shuxia shed tears. The reason is that the writer saw the TV station "City Scene" program interviewed her video, the video Wang Shuxia said to the reporter personally, said she wanted to promote poetry through their own writing, and this sentence in the eyes of the author has obviously become a joke!
He said, there are people above and beyond the sky, how can a small sanitation worker come out with this uninformed rant? This is what others laughed at her for.
But Wang Shuxia was speaking with a burning heart, and not a word of her words was a lie! Can't a sanitation worker have a dream, can't a sanitation worker love poetry? Is it possible that literature is also based on family background? Is it possible that all writers and poets must come from noble families? I don't know if the author has heard the cry of a sanitation worker from the bottom of his heart.
The other day, she went to the Fuzhou Literature Association, to that received three pure literature magazine "Fuhe", brand new pure literature magazine! Touching it, still with the ink fragrance of the new book, she was intoxicated, is really drunk. She said that although Fuhe magazine was not famous, the articles in it were concise, simple, and grounded. Unlike some fancy entertainment magazines that make you dizzy when you look at them.
She said she liked the magazine as much as she liked the wildflowers and vegetables in the ground, and liked the simple feeling of the text and the freshness of the atmosphere.
The articles published in the magazine include real township stories, beautiful rural landscapes, delicate and vivid prose, fresh and fluent poetry, and essays and miscellanies that move people's hearts with small things!
I asked her how she felt after sweeping through the garbage. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley! However, the next thing she did not and other workers like chatting doze, but pulled out a cell phone or a small notebook, is to write, sometimes prose poetry, sometimes narrative. Write, write about the scenery of the city in front of you, write about the smoke in the countryside, and write about the stories of people in real life.She said, as a beginner author, she does not seek fame and fortune, sometimes get a little bit of money, is already full of happiness.
There is time to write some words, is her happiness, she dresses up the beauty of life with words, she dresses up the beauty of the city with a broom.
Wang Shuxia is an ordinary woman, but she does not live in mediocrity, bless her love of words, life will treat her gently.