周祥林的生长环境使他的生命轨迹很难逸出文艺的座标。他的父亲是一个文化人,曾经办过报纸,却又钟情于京剧艺术,后半生就落足于南京,唱老生,也写剧本。祥林的气质中禀赋于父亲的成份应该是相当浓厚的。他的母亲则是一个职业京剧演员。我有幸在祥林家中住过几天,看到他父亲生前的剧照,约略想象起一个颠踬大半生的文人在粉墨登场之际,那依托急管繁弦抒发的人世沧桑。我也听祥林的母亲细说过他少年时期的往事,谆谆絮絮,倾注着无尽的爱抚和牵挂。祥林在十八岁的时候便参加了南京军区一文艺团体,那时正是流行歌曲在中国的文艺时空中开始流行,就在他的歌喉渐渐引起注意的时候,一丝接近 Zhou Xianglin’s growth environment makes it difficult for him to escape the trajectory of literary and artistic coordinates. His father was a literary man who had run newspapers before but was in love with Peking opera art. In the second half of the year he fell behind in singing in Nanjing, sang old people and wrote scripts. Xianglin temperament Endowed father’s ingredient should be quite strong. His mother is a professional Beijing opera actor. I was fortunate enough to live in the Xianglin family for a few days and saw the stills of his father during his lifetime and imagined a literary man who had spent most of his life embarking on the occasion of his debut. I also listened to Xianglin’s mother elaborate on his boyhood past events, 谆 谆 Xu Xu, pouring endless caress and care. At the age of eighteen, Xianglin took part in a cultural group in the Nanjing Military Region. At that time, popular songs began to popularize in the literary space and time of China. At a time when his voice was getting more and more attention,