On the eve of the Double Ninth Festival in 2019, a reporter from Modern Express met Academician Feng Duan and his wife Chen Lianfang in a nursing home in Wumadu, Qixia District, Nanjing. "Mr. Feng is 97 years old this year, and I am 92 years old. We live very well here." Chen Lia

On the eve of the Double Ninth Festival in 2019, a reporter from Modern Express met Academician Feng Duan and his wife Chen Lianfang in a nursing home in Wumadu, Qixia District, Nanjing. "Mr. Feng is 97 years old this year, and I am 92 years old. We live a good life here." Chen Lian introduced to reporters. In October last year, they moved into this nursing home. The environment here is quiet and the services are in place.

△The picture album "Butterfly Shadow Pian Pian" translated by Feng Duan and his wife

The room faces the lake, and there are many books on the desk. Among them is a picture album titled "Butterfly Shadow Pian Pian". The Chinese poem in the book is by Feng Duan Translated by Duan and his wife. Feng Duan made great achievements in academics, as well as in literature and art. He was especially fond of and good at poetry. He wrote poems for his wife all his life, which became a legend.

The romance of a man in science and engineering writes his deep love for his wife in a poem

Chen Lianfang, who is over 90 years old, looks like she is only in her early 80s. Before moving into a nursing home, she and her aunt at home were responsible for taking care of her husband's daily life. After being married for more than 60 years, she always addressed her husband as "Mr. Feng". This Mr. Feng is Feng Duan, a famous physicist and educator, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and retired professor of Nanjing University.

△The walls of the room are hung with photos of the couple over the years.

A string of well-known titles makes it difficult to connect this physics guru with the romantic husband who writes poetry.

Not long ago, the nursing home where Feng Duan and Chen Lianfang lived celebrated their " diamond wedding ". Feng Duan and Chen Lianfang got married in 1955, which is now their 65th year. And Feng Duan wrote poems for his wife for decades, which became a legend.

They originally lived in Nanxiu Village Community, Hunan Road Street, Gulou District, Nanjing. Community secretary Gan Ling told reporters that many residents here know the story of these two old people and are very envious of them.

△The nursing home celebrates the "Diamond Wedding" of Feng Duan and his wife

Chen Lianfang is an intellectual woman who once taught at Nanjing No. 3 Girls' Middle School. She later resigned for some reason. Since then, she has shouldered the burden of taking care of the family of seven and helped her husband complete many tasks. In terms of writing work, I worked as a "secretary" for decades. "I copied manuscripts and drew pictures for him. There were no computers at that time, so I had to draw by hand." She was very happy with this.

I have lost count of how many poems Feng Duan has written for himself, but there are two poems that Chen Lianfang remembers particularly well in his heart, that is, "Three feet of snow in Xiuyun Houhu Lake, deep love can melt a hundred feet of ice." This one The poem was written in the winter of 1954. There was a heavy snowfall, and the two of them made an appointment to go to Xuanwu Lake to see the snow scene. Seeing a vast expanse of white in the distance, with thick ice forming on the surface of Xuanwu Lake, Feng Duan impromptuly recited a poem.

Chen Lianfang was worried that reporters would not understand the meaning of the word "Xiu Yun", so he wrote it down with pen and paper and explained carefully that "Xiu Yun" means "don't tell", and Houhu refers to Xuanwu Lake. "Later I looked at the statistics of local winter temperatures from the Nanjing Meteorological Bureau. The winter of 1954 hit the lowest record, but we didn't feel cold at that time."

Because of poetry and more because of love, the couple has walked hand in hand for 65 years.

Holding hands, the couple Traveled to many places. Because when they were newlyweds and honeymooners, they had seen a cherry blossom tree in full bloom in Liyuan of Taihu Lake. After that, every year on their wedding anniversary, as long as they were in Nanjing, Feng Duan and his wife would go out together to see the flowers. During the days when the two places were separated, they communicated with each other through letters. Many of the poems Feng Duan wrote to Chen Lianfang were also in the letters.

In 1985, the 30th anniversary of Feng Duan and Chen Lianfang's marriage, Feng Duan wrote: "Recalling the day when they first met, Juanjuan makes my heart happy. I hate meeting each other too late, so the marriage was established. The couple has been dependent on each other for thirty years. Autumn. After the spring blossoms, the sunset is still beautiful. Growing old together, there is no doubt about love. "

On his wedding anniversary in 1990, Feng Duan wrote many poems in Beijing, one of which was, "The sea of ​​people is looking for a close friend, and I want to find a beauty. We are of the same heart. I am very glad that you have a keen eye and can recognize the pure crystals hidden in raw jade.”

In the spring of 2005, Feng Duan and his wife visited Tianmu Lake, and Feng Duan improvised “Celebrating the Golden Wedding”: “I will always remember the April day in the world, and the cherry blossoms and weeping willows will remember the good relationship. .Fifty years later, playing hand in hand, Haoshou is as affectionate as before..."

△Feng Duan and his wife were photographed in Meihua Mountain, Nanjing in 2011

On April 1, 2015, when Feng Duan and Chen Lianfang had their "diamond wedding", the couple collaborated on a song "Diamond Ode" ", a few of which are: "In the sixty-year-old spring and Autumn period, we were loving and loving each other, and we both held hands to tide over the difficulties. Now we grow old together with white hair, and we will always be together day and night. "

A lifelong companionship with poetry made this marriage transcend the world of fireworks and be full of romance. When they first met more than 60 years ago, Feng Duan gave Chen Lianfang two poetry collections, "The Bronze Horseman" and "Night Songs and Daytime Songs." . "She always remembers it. Now both of them are nearly a hundred years old. Because of these many poems and infinite love, although they have experienced many difficult moments in life, Feng Duan and his wife have always been loving, appreciating and supporting each other.

Modern The Express reporter saw a picture album with a picture of dancing butterflies on the cover on Chen Lianfang's desk. She said that the author of this picture album was Max Svabinsky, and the Czech poet Frantisek Hrubin added a poem to the painting, and it was approved by Daphne Rusbridge. Translated into English. Because they liked it so much, when they were summering in Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang more than 10 years ago, the couple collaborated to translate the English poems in this small album, and titled it "Butterfly Shadow Pian Pian", and printed more than a hundred copies at their own expense. This book was given to relatives and friends.

Hu Fusun also received this copy of "Butterfly Shadow". His grandfather Hu Huanyong was the principal of Suzhou Middle School where Feng Duan studied, and his father also knew Feng Duan and his wife in 2015. Feng Duan and Chen Lianfang celebrated their diamond wedding at Pioneer Bookstore. Hu Fusun went there specially to listen to the two old men reciting their own "Ode to Diamonds" in the crowd. "I was very envious of their romance, especially Mr. Feng who studied science. "

A master who loves literature and art and integrates poetry into everything

Feng Duan has loved reading books since he was a child, especially poetry. After high school, he began to read some new poems and translated poems. After entering college, he read more Western poetry. In In the article "Poetry", Feng Duan wrote: Being connected with poetry is the most beautiful, joyful and happy thing in life.

In the book "Feng Duan Biography", the author Feng Buyun mentioned that in Feng Duan's book. In the English version of "Condensed Matter Physics" (Volume 1), at the beginning of each article, he quotes a poem or aphorism related to the content of this article, using poetry to explain physical phenomena

"Like waves rolling endlessly. On the beach, time is racing against time to reach the finish line. The waves behind and the waves in front are constantly replacing each other, shouting in front and supporting behind, and everyone is fighting for the lead. "At the beginning of the article "Propagation of Waves in Different Structures", Feng Duan quoted a few lines from Shakespeare's sonnets.

△Photo on the desk

Now, Feng Duan still loves to read. A reporter from Modern Express met When he arrived at the old man, there was a stack of magazines on the coffee table in front of him, and he was flipping through an alumni address book. The staff at the nursing home told reporters that this man with crooked eyebrows laughed out loud. The kind grandfather is always reading, and everyone likes him very much. They chat with him while preparing for lunch.

Chen Lianfang always remembers that when they first met, they met in Feng Duan’s dormitory, “(He) used a hot water bottle. The medium-temperature boiling water made me a cup of tea, but the tea had not yet brewed before I left. "More than half a century later, this cute little detail is still vivid. Feng Duan, who is informal in life, is particularly particular when writing poems for his wife, "If he feels that the writing is not good, Mr. Feng will rewrite it over and over again. , pick the best one and send it. Chen Lianfang said.

Because of a beautiful marriage, the years are truly peaceful for Feng Duan and his wife. The Double Ninth Festival is approaching, and juniors and students have come to visit one after another, and they all envy the love of this old couple.

Source: Modern Express (reporter Zong Qing), China News Service

Editor: Wang Zimo

Editor: Xing Yanyan