动身去北京参加第五次作家代表大会之前,本以为会看到徐迟先生的。想到多年不见,能有一次聆听教诲的机会,总是有些期盼的。没想到一到会上,就得到徐迟先生已经去世的消息,简直无法相信。发到手头的《人民文学》第11期上还赫然刊着他的散文《自然、地球、人类》。他在中国当代老作家甚至中青年作家中,可能是最有自然科学史和自然哲学修养的,对于大自然和人类关系可能是最具有深邃的睿智和超迈的神思的。更何况,他虽然年过八十,其活跃的创造力仍然是不亚于某些中年作家。在我看来,他创造了一个奇迹,在年过古稀之后,他的作品的质和量,比他五十年代当《诗刊》副主编那风华正茂的时候更高。这种老年开花的奇迹可以把它称之 Before leaving for Beijing to attend the Fifth Writers’ Congress, I thought I would see Mr. Xu Chi. If you think of missing many years, you will have the opportunity to listen to the teachings once and there will always be some expectations. I did not expect to attend the meeting, you get Mr. Xu Chi has died of the news, simply can not believe it. Sent to the hand of the “People’s Literature” on the 11th also impressively published his essay “Nature, Earth, humanity.” Among the Chinese contemporary writers and even middle-aged and young writers, he is probably the most cultivated in the history of natural sciences and natural philosophy. He may have the deepest sense of wisdom and super-magism in the relations between nature and mankind. What’s more, although he is over 80 years old, his active creativity is still as good as some middle-aged writers. In my opinion, he has created a miracle. After his fading years, the quality and quantity of his works were even higher than when he was the prime minister in the 1950s when he was the associate editor of the Poetry. This miracle of old flowers can call it