沈文华

Shen Wenhua

昨日，收到浙江大学教授胡华丁《世界是多彩的(华丁杂文集)》书稿，他在信中嘱我能写该书的“序言”。我与华丁先生是忘年之交，相识相知十多年了，读阅过他个人的多部专著，并为其中浙江大学出版社2017年出版的“华丁文集(三卷)”等专著写过多篇书评。收到《华丁杂文集》，先睹为快，谈点读后感吧。

Yesterday, I received the manuscript of Hua Ding's book "The World is Colorful (Huading Miscellany)" from Professor Hua Ding of Zhejiang University. In his letter, he asked me to write the "Preface" for the book. I am a lifelong friend of Mr. Hua Ding, and we have known each other for more than ten years. I have read and reviewed many of his personal monographs, and I have also written many book reviews for his books such as "Huading Collection (Three Volumes)" published by Zhejiang University Press in 2017. When I received the "Huading Miscellany", I was delighted to read it and would like to share my thoughts after reading it.

《华丁杂文集》(上下卷)约39万字，共收录作者的精粹杂文260多篇，全书分九个篇目:政治、党建、经济、修养、人物、求知、艺术、生活和十二生肖等。其中，大部分文章已在报刊公开发表的。

The "Huading Miscellany" (Volume 1 and 2) contains about 390,000 characters and includes more than 260 of the author's selected essays. The entire book is divided into nine sections: politics, party building, economy, self-cultivation, figures, knowledge seeking, art, life, and the twelve zodiac signs. Most of the articles have been published in newspapers and magazines.

华丁先生在“后记”中写道，世界是多彩的，杂文体现多彩的世界。纵览华丁的杂文，内容涉及四个方面，一是时事政治，如“解铃还需系铃人”、“海纳百川，有容乃大”、“要经得起金钱的考验”、“要重视荐才”、“副县长栽跟斗的教训”、“我在龙游上党课”、“一张戏票的启示”等。二是涉及社会生活，如“要学会自我保护”、“交通事故的理性思辩”、“从钱塘江桥说起”、“做生意就是做人”、“对假货要动真格”、“铁笼子之忧”、“比金牌更重的奖牌”等。三是提倡正能量，如“要分清美丑”、“莫干山的道路十八盘”、“应该看得更远”、“戒子纪念馆的联想”、“话桑麻”、“从鉴真东渡说起”、“善待挫折”等。四是文化艺术，如写人物的“王伯敏，我已经满足了”、“宋宝罗和他的名伶之家”、“黄逸宾赠华丁文英伉俪佳画”、“作家陈学昭简历二三事”、“学者型诗书艺术家黄学规印象”、“南下干部的榜样——戴光书记”、“何志均、薛艳庄两位教授设立公益基金有感”、“悼念好友方集理先生”等。再如，十二生肖贺岁杂文，“猴年说猴”、“鼠年话鼠”、“虎年应多几分虎气”、“卯兔杂谈”、“略谈龙文化”、“马年说爱马画马”、“刘雄画鸡”等。华丁先生自我总结其杂文的写作特点是:就实论虚，夹叙夹议，富有哲理;短小精悍，文笔生动，可读性好;切合时需，切中时弊;深入生活，写大众“心中所有，笔下所无”的。

In his "Postscript," Mr. Hua Ding writes that the world is colorful, and essays reflect this colorful world. Looking through Mr. Hua's essays, they cover four aspects: current affairs and politics, social life, positive energy, and cultural arts. Some of the topics include "It Takes a Liable Person to Solve a Broken Bell" and "Tolerance Is the Key to a Wide Ocean"; "The Test of Money-mindedness"; "The Importance of Talent Recommendation"; "Lessons Learned from a County Vice-Mayor Falling"; "Party Classes in Longyou"; "The Revelation of One Movie Ticket"; "Self-protection Skills for Society"; "Rational Thinking about Traffic Accidents"; "Starting from the Qiantang River Bridge"; "Doing Business Is Doing People"; "Taking Action Against Fake Goods"; "Pitfalls of Prison Cells"; and "More Valuable Than Gold Medals." Additionally, he advocates positive energy such as "Differentiating Beauty from Ugliness"; "Overcoming Obstacles on the Road to Mogan Mountain"; "Looking Far into the Future"; "Recollections at the Memorial Hall of Zhengzhang"; "Chatting About Agriculture and Rural Life"; "Starting with the Story of Jianzhen Crossing the Sea"; and "Being Kind to Setbacks." Mr. Hua Ding also wrote essays on cultural arts such as "I am Satisfied with Wang Bomin"; "Song Baoluo and His Famous Actress"; "A Painting Gifted by Huang Yibin to Huading's Couple"; "Resume of a Writer Chen Xuezhao"; "Impressions of Poet-Scholar Huang Xuejie"; "Leading Figures from South China Who Overcame Adversity - Dai Guang, Secretary of the Party"; "Reflections on the Establishment of Public Welfare Funds by He Zhijun and Xue Yanzhuang"; and "Tribute to a Good Friend, Fang Jilixu." Furthermore, there are essay collections for each zodiac sign during the Spring Festival, including "Monkey Year, Monkeys Discussing Monkeys"; "Rat Year, Rats Chatting About Rats"; "Tiger Year, Should Have More Tiger Spirit"; "Rabbit Year, A Few Words on Rabbits"; "Brief Talk about Dragon Culture"; "Talking about Love and Horse Painting During Horse Year"; and "Liu Xiong's Drawing of Chickens." In conclusion, Mr. Hua Ding summarized his writing style as being realistic yet abstract, incorporating both narrative and commentary with deep philosophical insights; brief yet vivid, with good readability; relevant to current events and social issues; deeply rooted in daily life, capturing what people have but cannot express in words.

在我的眼里，华丁先生是一个既单纯又丰富、具有鲜明性格特点的教授。他在临近退休时晋升职称曾遭遇过挫折，当年有感而发写下了“职称评审琐言”并公开发表，这也在他的《我的岁月》和《我的写作生涯(上下卷)》等书中有详细的记载。他说，人既有长处，也有短板，人生免不了有挫折。对待挫折，最好的回答是从事业上站起来，用实绩来证明自己。这从他文章中屡屡发出的只争朝夕，抗击磨难的呼声中，可以清楚地感受到他于心不甘和到底意难平。这也是他当初拿起杂文之笔，至今不息的动力之一吧。

In my opinion, Mr. Hua Ding is a professor who is simple and profound, with distinct personality traits. He experienced setbacks when he was promoted to a higher rank nearing retirement, and wrote "Thoughts on the Appraisal of Titles" as a result. This piece has been published publicly in various books such as "My Years" and "My Writing Career (Volume 1 and 2)." He believes that people have both strengths and weaknesses, and that life inevitably brings setbacks. The best way to deal with setbacks is to stand up from the career and prove oneself through achievements. From his numerous articles that call for striving towards success while fighting against adversity, it is clear that he is unwilling to accept defeat and deeply frustrated. This is also one of the driving forces behind him continuing to write essays, even to this day.

然而，人生哪能没有憾事?哪个人敢说自己没有弱点呢?对于学者来说，还有什么比直面人生，感怀时事，评点文坛，奋力前行这种精神更可贵?由此，开辟了华丁先生退休后春华秋实的创作岁月。人在行走，书也在行走，内容更新，踪影叠现，串联一起，便是生活。退休三十年出了30本专著，平均每年一本，已在140多种学报报刊发表600多篇文论。退休后，他的主要精力是写作和绘画，称其为“作家”和“画家”是当之无愧的。在晚年由教师角色转换到伏案创作，使他的书生本色得以复归。作为学者来说，他在学术思想上做到了诚实、不屈从于压力。《华丁杂文集》中的文章，大多写于他退休后的晚霞岁月，他坚持住了精神独立、思想自由，并持续保持创新的思维理念，这一主线纵贯其写作之中，这是这本杂文集的闪光点所在。

However, how can one avoid regrets in life? Who would dare to say that they have no weaknesses? For scholars, what could be more valuable than facing life, reflecting on current events, commenting on the literary world, and striving forward? Thus, Mr. Hua Ding's retirement years were filled with abundant creations. As people move, so do books - updating content, reappearing, connecting them together to form a life. After retiring for 30 years, he has published 30 monographs, with an average of one book per year and over 600 essays in more than 140 academic journals and newspapers. In his retirement, his main focus was writing and painting, which he deservedly called "author" and "painter." The transition from teacher to writer at his advanced age allowed his scholarly nature to return. As a scholar, he maintained honesty and independence in his academic thoughts and never succumbed to pressure. Most of the articles in "Hua Ding's Miscellany Collection" were written during his sunset years after retirement. He persisted in maintaining spiritual independence and freedom of thought while maintaining an innovative thinking concept throughout his writing. This theme runs through his writing and is the highlight of this collection of essays.

韶光逝水，鬓发凝霜，回首往事，游目骋怀。纸短情长，文集沉甸，片楮只字，自有心意绵绵。华丁先生，几十年如一日笔耕不辍，相继自费结集出版专著，并将这些专著赠阅给学校教研室、图书馆、博物馆、社区以及全国各地的同仁、同学、学生及亲朋好友，这些专著汇聚了其毕生的心血和智慧。华丁先生，为人为事清净勤勉，这在如今弥漫着功利的环境里是十分不易的，尤其是他做学问以健康、独立思考的秉性，始终保持着这么一份真诚情感和勇气是难能可贵的。卯兔年春，笔者汇集曾任记者时所发表的部分获奖新闻和摄影作品，由人民日报社总编、社长邵华泽题词书名《记者生涯》出版。寄赠老乡华丁教授后，他写下了数万字的点评并出专著《解读沈文华》，全书绽放华丁教授的睿智，洋溢着前辈的暖意。华丁先生，还曾给黄逸宾、王伯敏、黄学规、方集理等四位著名教授出版过“解读”专著，“本本获得好评”。

Time flies by like water, and the hair turns frosty while the jowls turn wrinkled. Looking back on the past, one can roam around with wide-open eyes and an open mind. Although the paper is short, the feelings are long, and the collected essays are heavy. Each piece of paper and each word carries its own deep meaning. Mr. Hua Ding has been writing tirelessly for decades, publishing monographs at his own expense and giving them away to school teaching and research departments, libraries, museums, communities, colleagues, classmates, students, and relatives and friends all over the country. These monographs gather his lifelong efforts and wisdom. Mr. Hua Ding is pure, diligent, and conscientious in both his words and deeds, which is not easy in today's environment filled with utilitarianism. Especially when it comes to his academic pursuits, he always maintains a healthy and independent thinking style, which is truly admirable. In the Year of the Ox, I gathered some of my award-winning news reports and photography works that I had published as a journalist. With the book title "A Career as a Journalist" written by Shao Huazhan, General Editor and President of People's Daily. After sending it to Professor Hua Ding, he wrote tens of thousands of words of commentary and published a monograph titled "Interpreting Shen Wenhua," which fully displays Professor Hua Ding's wisdom and warmth from his predecessors. Mr. Hua Ding has also published several monographs entitled "Interpretation" for four famous professors, Huang Yibin, Wang Bomin, Huang Xuejie, and Fang Jilixu, which have received high praise.

“仰观宇宙之大，俯察品类之盛，所以游目骋怀，足以极视听之娱，信可乐也。”(王羲之)读杂文集，凭窗遐想，华丁对时事政治、社会万象，艺术泛舟等等的妙笔生花，犀利观点，说理评议，历历往事依稀，抚卷摩挲，恍见先生数十年傲骨的风姿。翻阅数十万字的杂文集，亦足游目骋怀。书中收录的华丁先生师友对他的题词，名家馈赠的书画，已故夫人郑文英的吹画佳作，同学同事好友的信函，本人著述详细目录，文论获奖概况，以及他本人创作的国画，无不显现华丁先生思想境界的“多彩的世界”，以及由此滋养而生成的可圈可点的人文精神。

"Looking up at the vastness of the universe and down at the abundance of creations, one can fully enjoy the pleasure of sight and hearing. It is truly joyful." (Wang Xizhi) Reading a miscellany collection of essays while gazing out the window, one can see how Hua Ding's pen has painted vivid pictures of current events, politics, social phenomena, art, and other topics with sharp perspectives and insightful commentary. As I flip through the hundreds of thousands of words in this collection, I am also able to broaden my horizons and indulge in thought. The book contains many quotes from Mr. Hua Ding's teachers and friends, calligraphy and painting works given by renowned artists, Xu Wenying's beautiful paintings, letters from classmates, colleagues, and friends, a detailed catalog of his own publications, awards won in literary criticism, as well as his own traditional Chinese paintings. All these elements reveal the colorful world of Mr. Hua Ding's thoughts and the humanistic spirit nurtured by them.

人们常说，阅读人生。其实，书和人一样。华丁先生一本又一本书的出版过程，就是他的人生过程。他在今年七月“九十二岁抒怀”中说到，他的人生可概括为“枯木逢春，前程有望;十年三地，经受磨练;春华秋实，为国笔耕。”几十年间，华丁先生，以写作时事杂文为強项，也写了大量文学书画艺评，创作了数千幅国画，驰骋在抽象与形象思维的艺术天地。他兼文笔和画笔，画学黄宾虹，师从黄逸宾，师尊王伯敏，使他的画艺颇具大师们的画风。浙江财经大学黄学规教授称其为“用两支笔描绘世界的人”。

People often say that reading is like living. In fact, books are like people. The process of publishing one book after another is the same as Mr. Hua Ding's life journey. In his essay "Reflections at 92" published in July this year, he summarized his life as follows: "A once-withered tree blooms again, and the future is promising; after ten years of trials and tribulations in three different places, I have been tempered; spring brings forth fruit, autumn reaps the harvest, and I continue to work for my country with my pen." For decades, Mr. Hua Ding was known for his strong writing skills in current affairs essays, but he also wrote extensively on literature, calligraphy, painting, and art criticism. He created thousands of traditional Chinese paintings and roamed freely in the artistic world of abstract and visual thinking. With both literary and artistic talents, he learned from Huang Binhong and Wang Bomin, becoming a master of their respective styles. Professor Huang Xuejie from Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics called him "a man who paints the world with two brushes."

《华丁杂文集》，收录的仅仅是作者的一部分文稿，但它提供的是过往岁月的真实的世界，真实的人，真实的故事。风吹哪页读哪页，一篇篇杂文的叙说，一次次作者感受中的五味杂陈，将会是阅读者的满目风雨，随之的心绪沉浮，拉近我们与历史、与现实的距离。

"Hua Ding Miscellany Collection" only collects some of the author's manuscripts, but it offers a glimpse into the real world, people, and stories of the past. Read what you feel like reading, as each essay takes you on a journey of emotions and thoughts. The ups and downs of your feelings will accompany you through this collection, bringing you closer to history and reality.

“江南忆，最忆是杭州。”(白居易)令人敬佩和称道的是，华丁先生近日为第19届亚洲运动会9月23日在杭州举办而出专著“杭州，让您留住爱的记忆”，这本由他自费编著的专著，亚运会期间免费赠予给各国运动团队、书中故事的主人翁和各方传媒。全书以“杭州日报”、“都市快报”、“钱江晚报”等杭州多种报章为据，编写了263个杭州的市民爱心故事(约19万字)，喜迎亚运会，宣传杭州，传播善良和爱，彰显了华丁教授的无私奉献之大爱之心。

"I miss Jiangnan the most, especially Hangzhou." (Bai Juyi) What is admirable and praiseworthy is that Mr. Hua Ding recently wrote a special book titled "Hangzhou, Keep Your Loved Memories" for the 19th Asian Games held in Hangzhou on September 23rd. The book was self-financed and given away free of charge to various sports teams, the protagonists of the stories in the book, and media outlets during the Asian Games. The entire book is based on various Hangzhou newspapers such as "Hangzhou Daily," "Metro Express," and "Qianjiang Evening News," compiling 263 stories of citizens' love for Hangzhou (about 190,000 words). In order to welcome the Asian Games, promote Hangzhou, spread kindness and love, and demonstrate Professor Hua Ding's selfless dedication to others, this book was written.

祝愿华丁教授艺术之树常青，健康愉悦。

I wish Professor Hua Ding a evergreen art tree and good health and happiness.