Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
More than 10 years ago, the essayist Liu Liangcheng traveled to Xinjiang and Buxel Mongol Autonomous County, the hometown of the hero Jianger. Located on the northwestern edge of the Junggar Basin, "sheep roads are spread over every valley prairie, a path that sheep have walked for thousands of years, embedded deep in the earth." "He was so shocked that he traveled all over the grasslands and mountains and met many herders.
Since then, Liu Liangcheng began to read "Jianger", and he never forgot this grassland, "In those ancient nights, on the vast grassland, a group of people sat around, listening to these raps, and heard the moon set stars and the east white, all without tiredness." Touched by the hope and strength that epic innocence brings to the tribe, and touched by the brilliant imagination of time in human childhood, he has since had the idea of "writing a naïve novel." For more than 10 years, this idea has gradually expanded from birth to expansion, and eventually became the novel "Bemba".
"Bemba" is set in "Jangel", creating another way to recreate reality in order to trace the lost human childhood. Writing this work, Liu Liangcheng seems to have returned to his childhood, calling "Bemba" the most enjoyable novel he has written, "it is also the childhood epic I wrote to myself, and the most naïve time in my writing history." "The protagonist of the story is a few children, moving, hide-and-seek, dreaming, children turn the cruel war life into a fun game. In the course of the game, run to the 25-year-old party, from all over the world, one by one.
Liu Liangcheng worked as an agricultural machinery administrator after graduating from secondary school, wrote poetry at the age of 20, wrote the essay "A Man's Village" in Urumqi in his 30s, and returned to the countryside from the city after the age of 50, built a college, and appointed himself dean. He farms, plants flowers, raises dogs, feeds chickens, and still writes. In 2014, he single-handedly created Xinjiang's first artist village, Rapeseed Valley, and devoted himself to building Mulei Academy, practicing and cultivating and reading the lifestyle, which can be called "contemporary Tao Yuanming", poetically inhabiting between ideal and reality.
At the same time, the collector's edition of "Liu Liangcheng's Works", led by the latest novel "Bemba", was also exclusively launched by Yilin Publishing House. Including the novels "Bemba", "Virtual Soil", "Chiseling the Void", "Carrying Words", the essay collection "A Man's Village", "In Xinjiang", and the interview essay collection "Talking about Things on the Earth to Heaven", 7 kinds, including all of Liu Liangcheng's important works, and completely presenting the whole picture and spiritual world of Liu Liangcheng's creation. Leisure, childlike heart, perseverance, and sincerity are called Liu Liangcheng's "book of the heart".
Liu Liangcheng
"One Man's Village" is Liu Liangcheng's masterpiece, the book of life that has touched countless people, 78 yuanqi essays, like the wind blowing the soul. The book is highly regarded by middle school students, and more than 50 articles have been selected as middle school Chinese textbooks and test questions. In "The Cold Wind Blows Through", "The snow that falls on a person's life, we can't see it all." Everyone spends the winter alone in their own lives", which has profoundly influenced generations of students. The new edition of "One Man's Village" is also the first revision by the author in more than 20 years, and 62 places in the original manuscript have been revised.
Critic Wang Chunlin said that Liu Liangcheng was an excellent novelist who was seriously obscured by the reputation of prose. From "Void Soil" and "Chiseled Void" to "Carrying Words" and "Bemba", all his novels can be said to have a unique appearance, which has both real realistic care and unexpected extraordinary artistic imagination.
(The pictures in this article are provided by Yilin Publishing House)