白马湖最好的时候是黄昏。湖上的山笼着一层青色的薄雾，水里映着参差模糊的影子，水光微微暗淡，像是一面古铜镜。轻风吹来，有一两缕波纹，但随即平静了。天上偶见几只归鸟，我们看着它们越飞越远，直到不见为止。这个时候便是我们喝酒的时候。
　　——朱自清《白马湖》
　　
　　朱自清的《荷塘月色》开头写道：“妻在屋里拍着闰儿，迷迷糊糊地哼着眠歌……”2006年11月27日，已经时隔八十年了，父亲笔下的“闰儿”朱闰生一行，不想又来到浙江省春晖中学，重温春晖情怀，再读《荷塘月色》。82岁的朱闰生此次系携夫人和儿子朱晓涛首次来到浙江上虞回望春晖：1925年农历闰四月，朱闰生出生在白马湖畔，当时，朱自清在春晖中学教授国文。与朱自清同时期在白马湖执教的还有经亨颐、蔡元培、王佐、何香凝、夏尊、丰子恺、朱光潜、王任叔等，因了大批名人的会聚，“白马湖文学流派”响彻上个世纪二三十年代的中国文坛。
　　
　　重回儿时“驿站”
　　漫长曲折的人生旅途上，儿时毕竟是首发的“驿站”。如今年事已高的朱闰生老人，满怀深情地步行于春晖校园。春晖的校园几经扩建拥有了更多开放和现代的气息，但八十年来老校长经亨颐提出的“与时俱进”的校训没有变，春晖倡导的“高山仰止、景行行止”的精神没有变，春晖宁静的景色没有变。
　　踩着校园的小径，仿佛踩着当年父亲的足迹。朱闰生老人说：“整整八十年，我终于圆了重回春晖的梦想。白马湖是我的出生地，无数次在梦中我与春晖相遇，今天，我来了。”
　　在经亨颐铜像前，在春晖园，在平屋，朱闰生老人一一留影，他要带走白马湖最美的记忆。穿过北校门的“春晖桥”，是“白马湖名人风情园”。夏尊先生平屋的隔墙就是朱自清居住的三间小屋。朱先生的小屋前，早先是一条通向驿亭火车站的煤渣土路，先生踏着它进出于校门和舍门，很是有点儿感慨，于是写下了“那黑黑的细细颗粒，脚踏上去，便发出一种摩擦的骚音，给人多少清新的趣味”这么一段精彩文字。
　　在岁月中守望了整整八十年的小屋，此刻更加安静与质朴。它在等待，等待一位远方的游子；它在期盼，期盼游子的归来。黑色漆木大门，院内橘树繁茂，白墙青砖黑瓦，古旧家居陈设，早先父亲的居所，如今已作为父亲的纪念室。时光流逝，虽然年幼的记忆如此模糊，但此刻，对父亲的思念却如此强烈。
　　朱闰生把这所给了他生命中最单纯的两年岁月的房子挨个看了个遍，堂前坐坐，书房看看，灶头摸摸，回忆白马湖给予的生命，回忆生命中的白马湖……老人在他出生的房间床前安静地坐了许久，并向我们讲述自己心目中的父亲。
　　
　　
　　仰望父亲“背影”
　　“在新文学运动初期，便已在领导着文坛”的朱自清，1924年3月2日应夏尊之邀来到白马湖畔。4月16日，朱自清写成《春晖的一月》：“我右手是个小湖，左手是个大湖，湖有这样大，使我自己觉得小了。湖水有这样满，仿佛要漫到我的脚下，湖在山的脚边，山在湖的唇边，他俩这样亲密，湖将山全吞下去了，吞的是青的，吐的是绿的，那个软软的绿呀，绿的是一片……”朱自清眼中的春晖总是这样的迷人。
　　当年，在朱自清之前被请来的还有黄炎培、沈仲九、沈泽民、张闻天、陈望道、刘大白、叶圣陶、胡愈之、廖承志、张大千、黄宾虹、柳亚子、舒新城、俞平伯等一批又一批学者，这些大学者和社会名流，坐着咣当咣当的硬席火车，或乘着乃作响的夜航船从四面八方来到春晖中学，学者们那些即便在中国最高学府清华和北大的讲坛上也可博得满堂彩的演讲，对偏隅于浙东一处四面皆山的白马湖畔的春晖学子们来说，实在是一种最高享受的精神美餐了！这些文学家、艺术家、大学者、教育家抑或集大成者，是冲着春晖中学的教育精神而聚集在白马湖畔的。
　　1925年8月，朱自清受聘于清华大学离开白马湖，1927年1月举家迁往北平。年幼的闰儿离开白马湖后开始了在清华园无忧的孩童时代，直至从山西财政厅离休定居扬州后，一直没有再到过春晖。
　　朱自清短暂的春晖任教生活，留下的不仅是诸如《白马湖书录》《刹那》《飘零》《海行杂记》《白采的诗》《儿女》《白马湖》《看花》等与春晖有关的美文，“不大谈哲理，只是谈一点家常琐事，虽是像淡香疏影似的不过几笔，却常能把那真诚的灵魂捧出来给读者看”的朱自清，“一副黑边眼镜，清秀癯孱，果然是一介书生儒雅”，然而先生的脊梁却是铮铮铁骨，这正是一个人、一个民族少不得的傲骨。
　　闰儿年轻时曾经为了学习新闻进入国民党党报工作，在那个动荡的年代，这份工作十分难得。可后来他毅然决然地放弃了。“是父亲的死使我走上了革命的道路，他的正义感和强烈的爱国心深深地震撼了我。”从此他开始参加党的地下工作。解放后他从华北人民革命大学毕业，曾在山西省财政厅工作，任省政协委员。
　　“文章巨擘，学术名家，育人知多少？节操昭著，爱国情深，教诲永难忘。”高山仰止，先生巨大而久远的人格力量一直激励着春晖的前进，浸润着春晖的成长，见证着春晖的辉煌。我们依稀见到那些以往在春晖这片钟情于教育的土地上留下足迹的教育大家渐行渐远的身影！
　　
　　再登春晖“论坛”
　　八十年前，朱自清在国文课上鼓励春晖学子：“你们不要怕文章写不好，我的第一篇在刊物上发表的长诗《毁灭》，就是投了又退，退了又投，反复四五次才得以录用的。”他还强调作文过程中的一个“真”字，说：“真就是自然，藻饰过甚，真意转晦。”他以发自肺腑之声直诉读者心灵，当时正值“五卅”惨案和济南惨案发生之际，朱先生便带领学生分头到百官、小越、驿亭等集镇街头演讲，这使春晖学生的文学素质很快提高而蜚声海内，被誉为“北有南开，南有春晖”。
　　时光轮转八十年，朱闰生再登春晖讲台。高三(3)班的学生们用长久而热烈的掌声表达了对这位远道而来的老人的尊敬。朱闰生说：“同学们，我就是《荷塘月色》中的闰儿。”孩子们惊讶的眼神里透露出幸福的笑容。“闰儿”说，八十年来，重温春晖情怀一直是我的梦想，今天，我的梦想终于实现了。春晖是一所中国名校，当初有“北南开南春晖”的美誉，如今，春晖学子遍及海内外。能在春晖学习，是你们的骄傲，希望大家要学会把握机会，找准人生的坐标，拥有创新意识，以后为国家的兴旺发达尽自己的力量。
　　
　　“闰儿”来访，让孩子们满心欢喜。听说还能与朱闰生老人有单独交流的机会，孩子们更是兴奋与激动。学生们用最快速度找出高一语文课本，自觉排起长队，请朱闰生老人签名。在课文《荷塘月色》旁，或在扉页朱自清画像旁，朱闰生老人为孩子们签下了“朱闰生(闰儿)”。
　　课堂上还举行了简朴的捐赠仪式，朱闰生老人把两套《朱自清散文集》和一套《朱自清全集》赠给春晖中学作为留念。
　　闰儿带着我们去寻找遗失久远的梦，他自己则是沉浸在梦境中不愿意出来。他那么安详、自然地感受和享受着家园带给他的幸福和满足，家园中那些极其细微的变化也在他的情感和心灵中投下永远无法淡化的投影。
　　
　　A Visit after 80 Years
　　By Li Han
　　The White Horse Lake was a national phenomenon of education and literature in the 1920s in China. During that period, many first-class writers and teachers came all the way and taught or gave lectures at Chunhui Middle School on the White Horse Lake in eastern Zhejiang Province. These big names alone could be a significant part of the history of China’s literature and education of that time.
　　
　　Zhu Ziqing, a teacher and writer who had risen to popularity during the New Culture Movement (around the time of the May 4th Movement in 1919), came to the lake on March 2, 1924. During the two years when he was teaching at the school, Zhu Ziqing recorded his life there in a few lyrical essays which have become timeless masterpieces in modern China’s literature.
　　In Moonlight over the Lotus Pond, one of his most famous essays, Zhu Ziqing writes, “And my wife was in the house patting the baby, humming a lullaby sleepily”. The baby in the essays refers to Zhu Runsheng, who was born in the home by the side of the White Horse Lake in April, 1925.
　　On November 27th, 2006, the 81-year-old Zhu Runsheng, with his wife and their son, came back to the Chunhui Middle School for the first time in his life.
　　Nothing seems to have changed around the lake. The house where his father lived is kept intact in a span of 80 years. To reach the house, you go through the black gate and enter a garden where orange trees flourish. The house still has the white walls and black-tile roof, a typical architectural feature for folk residences seen in this part of the country. The furniture in the house remains unchanged. The room where Zhu Runsheng was born is still there. The house, though, is kept as a memorial in commemoration of Zhu Ziqing. Zhu Runsheng lived in the house for only two years. Though his memories about himself of that time are most vague, he knows clearly about his father as a literary master and his story in the lakeside school. Zhu Ziqing’s life as a teacher there is as memorable as his essays are by the White Horse Lake.
　　
　　Decades ago, Zhu Runsheng worked in a news media run by the Kuomintang. By working there, he meant to get hands-on experience and learn to be a journalist. But his father’s death turned him to revolution. The father’s sense of justice and patriotism spurred the son considerably. He began to do the underground work for the Communist Party. After the liberation in 1949, he worked at the finance administration in Shanxi Province and later as a member of the provincial CPPCC.
　　Decades ago, Zhu Ziqing encouraged his students to write truthfully and get rid of flowery diction. He took students to streets to speak to the public in the neighborhoods on national political issues. Eighty years later, Zhu Runsheng spoke to the senior students in the school and encouraged them to study hard and make contributions to the prosperity of the motherland.
　　A brief ceremony was held after the short speech. Zhu Runsheng presented two complete collections of his father’s essays and a complete works of his father to the school and then autographed for the students.
　　(Translated by David)