1949, 15-year-old Fu Cong studied in the Foreign Languages Department of Yunnan University, skipped classes almost every day and was addicted to playing bridge. Seeing no hope, Fu Lei returned to Shanghai with his wife and youngest son.
Two years later, Fu Cong suddenly appeared at home and said to his father, "I want to learn to play the piano." Fu Lei was overjoyed and agreed with tears in his eyes. When he left his son alone in Kunming, Fu Lei was very painful, but he didn't want to force his son to do what he didn't want to do, and he often struggled with contradictions. Now, my son has lost his way, so you can imagine how excited Fu Lei is.
However, Fu Lei is a passionate and unsmiling father. He teaches children only to guide the direction and cultivate interest, and will not praise his son's achievements.
Since Fu Cong was seven years old, Fu Lei has taught him to read The Analects of Confucius and asked him to recite the original text and understand it by himself. A few years later, Fu Lei asked his son to learn piano again, but Fu Cong only persisted for two years and gave up because he was too tired.
After going to college, Fu Cong became more and more disobedient, and Fu Lei abandoned him in Kunming after persuasion failed. Although Fu Cong was happy to get rid of his father's bondage, he was also deeply confused.
Occasionally, Fu Cong plays the piano, and the students all praise him and encourage him to switch to the piano. Fu Cong, who was recognized, began to wake up, gradually strengthened his ideal of learning the piano, and returned home to seek help from his father.
Fu Lei didn't ask his son why he suddenly wanted to learn piano, but gave him some time to think about it.
When Fu Cong firmly told his father that he no longer regretted it, Fu Lei immediately invited a pianist friend to tutor him personally. 195 1 year, Fu Cong was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory of Music and began his legendary life.
Many years later, the pianist Fu Cong's name resounded all over the world. When he returned to Shanghai, things had changed and his parents had passed away. No one knows how sad Fu Cong was when he heard the bad news that his parents hanged themselves. Did Fu Lei blame himself for calling him a "traitor"? However, everyone who is familiar with Fu Cong knows that he has never read the letter written by his father since then!
1998 10, Fu Cong was invited to give a "master class" at the Central Conservatory of Music, and his music teacher Zhao Shimin interviewed him.
Zhao: "I heard that it was premeditated for your father to let you learn the piano?"
Fu: "I/kloc-learned piano at the age of 0/2, and gave up after two years, until 17 woke up and learned piano again. All this is my personal wish. My father studied in France and was very democratic. He always wanted me to grow up freely and never arranged what we had to learn. "
Zhao: "Now Letters from Fu Lei are all over the world. How much influence did your father give you? "
Fu: "My father once said in his letter,' It is better to rot grass than cement'. He always wanted me to be a cultured person, which is the greatest wealth left by my father and has a direct impact on my music style. "
Fu Lei has a famous saying: "It is better to be an ordinary mason than to be an artist who cheats the world and steals fame."
This sentence will be remembered by Fu Cong for life. He said to Zhao Shimin, "My father is an ordinary man and I love him very much." "A Letter from Fu Lei" is just a China intellectual's guidance to his son and a father's love for his children. You don't need to make him up. "
The excellent quality of a person, even a nation, is defined by the pain experienced by several generations and the ability to overcome it.
Fu Cong is the most influential pianist in the world in the second half of the 20th century. Letters from Fu Lei is the "national book" in the bookcase of ordinary people in China, which inspires generations to make positive progress and dare to explore! However, Fu Cong only talked about his father and Fu Lei's Letter to the world this time, which shows that the trauma of his mind has never healed.
Fu Cong doesn't want to talk about the past, because the tragedy of the Fu Lei couple has been tormenting him, which can be seen from his dislike of playing sad music. The accomplishment and quality that his father Fu Lei passed on to him became his proudest wealth.
You know, practicing and reading "Letter from Home" often brings tears to Sri Lankan eyes!
Today, piano master Fu Cong died because of COVID-19, but the story of Fu Lei's letters is more mellow, and his father Fu Lei will always stand in the light curtain of years, inculcating and shining.