Re: 62 year old uncle lives in Beijing for 22 years and wants to join "Xicheng Ma".
8 month 19, the front of the seashore on the beach in the Hutong, the Beiqing newspaper reporter saw the 62 year old "West City Ocean mother" Gao Tianrui.
his little donkey leaned against the gate of the scarlet quadrangle. Because his left leg had been operated at the beginning of the year, the doctor advised him to walk about 3 kilometers a day. So, in addition to going far away, in case of no hurry, Gao Tian would walk on a crutches and move leisurely along the lake side of Shichahai. The road will pass through Lao Chen's canteen and the old Meng house selling yogurt. Gao Tianrui said that in the year, the best spring and autumn, the Yellow Ginkgo biloba leaves in the streets were most attractive in the year, and the most beautiful spring was when the branches began to turn green and the light became very good.
Gao Tianrui came from the United States. In 1973, he came to Taiwan to study Chinese at the age of 18.
"I have been very interested in Chinese and Chinese. At the age of 12, I read the first Chinese classic, the English version of the" Tao Te Jing ", and at the age of 13, I read the translated version of" Chuang-tzu ". I like Laozhuang culture, like letting nature take its course and governing by doing nothing. Gao Tianrui told the Beiqing Bao reporter that his Chinese name was related to the journey to learn Chinese in Taiwan. "My English name is Terry Crossman, in the cruise ship to Taiwan, and the captain chatting, he told me, to learn Chinese must have Chinese name, Terry homophonic sky Rui, the meaning is also very good, high and my English name is homophonic, so he gave me the name of Gao Tianrui, I like it, always used To the present. "
Gao Tianrui's College majored in Chinese language and culture. After graduation, he worked briefly in New York for a short period of time and was quickly sent to the company's office in Hongkong to engage in senior talent consulting. "It's the headhunter you often say." Gao Tianrui spent 12 years in Hongkong before and after, "I learned to speak Cantonese, during which I have a Singaporean lover and two children."
lived in Beijing for 22 years
like to cook noodles herself in
1995 year, Gao Tianrui followed the office set up by the company to Beijing. When he first arrived in Beijing, he chose a farmhouse in Shunyi to stay. "Very comfortable, ground gas." He said, "except for a long bus ride to Dongzhimen 942 hours a day, everything else is fine." In the 22 years after
, the place where Gao Tianrui lived, from the farmyard in Shunyi to the quadrangle in Changping, to the Hutong of seven East four and the Hutong of the Shichahai, had been tossing into different old houses.
Gao Tianrui recalls that he moved to the front lane of the Shichahai for 1 and a half years. In addition to the sofa, television and bed, these "hardware", the small living room in the wooden storage cabinet, tea tables, bookshelves of rattan, wooden couplets on the desk, are their own years of private. Throughout the year, Beihai, Jingshan Hill, Shichahai's lotus market and roadside elders are all people and objects that are often recorded under Gao Tianrui's lens. Recently, he has been fascinated by the Ken Liu (Liu Yukun) translation of the science fiction "three bodies", "read one breath, admire the author's Liu Cixin's eye, and also feel that the translation of Ken Liu is great."
talking about life in Beijing, Gao Tianrui mentioned more "free", food, and "eat it". "I like to eat salty and spicy". In his leisure time, Gao Tian will make a favorite fried noodle in his residence. "I don't like the noodles sold to tourists in the store, I like to do it, sell the noodles in the market, cook the sauce at home, and cut some favorite vegetables." It's done quickly and it's delicious. " When you don't want to cook, all kinds of takeaway software, Lao Gao, are also used smoothly.
for the propaganda film of the "Western City mother" in the red network, Gao Tianrui said it was an accident. He learned that many netizens gave him praise. Gao Tianrui was happy, "but I'm not a mother, you should call me uncle Xicheng." He laughs.
after the video was finished, the "red sleeve chapter" that he got was kept in his bag and carried with him when he went out. "I don't dare to wear it, not so good, because I haven't done a lot of volunteering yet, but I'll be more involved in the future if I have time."