I remember that in the summer of 1982, I read a work that felt very good from the ninth issue of Youth Literature; it was "Oh, Fragrant Snow" written by Tie Ning. When Tie Ning published "Oh, Fragrant Snow" in the summer of 1982, she herself was still a twenty-five-six little girl. "Oh, Fragrant Snow" should be Tie Ning's famous work.
The text of Tie Ning's "Oh, Fragrant Snow" is like poetry
The song is so beautiful, the picture is like a Chinese ink landscape painting, and the rhythm is like a musical with undulating melodies. After reading Tie Ning's "Oh, Fragrant Snow", your soul is like being washed by kindness, beauty, simplicity, and cleanliness; that beautiful feeling is really long and unforgettable...
"Oh, Fragrant Snow" gives me the feeling that the text of the work is smooth, the whole text is like a poem, and it is like a piece of music being played, all in one go. The heroine Xiangxue is simple, kind, and slightly shy; although she lives in a relatively isolated, relatively closed and backward small Taiergou, she is very yearning for everything outside the mountain. Tie Ning's writing method is very unique, she is especially good at depicting the inner activities of adolescent girls in a very delicate brushwork, her brush strokes are meticulous, and the adolescent mental state of XiangXue and the group of little girls in Xiaotaiergou is very delicate; Tie Ning passes through a little girl (Xiangxue), a small ravine (Xiaotaiergou), a train line, a one-minute parking platform and a plastic pencil box with a magnet switch, and Xiangxue missed the time to get off because she wanted to change the pencil box, and Xiangxue ran 30 miles of mountain roads at night. It is this 30-mile mountain road in the middle of the night, Tie Ning not only let us see Xiang Xue's pair of kind, simple, full of yearning for beautiful things and lively and vivid, full of youthful breath of a pair of big eyes; Tie Ning also let us see the small ravine in the middle of the night like Chinese ink landscape paintings; the babbling water of the stream emits a symphony of picture sense like a musical, and the sound is in the ears.
Through the depiction of Xiang Xue, a little girl, in a relatively closed and small ravine, With the desire and yearning for a better life, Tie Ning reveals the expectations and yearning of the people of China for a better life in the early days of reform and opening up.
In 1983, "Oh, Fragrant Snow" won the National Award for Outstanding Short Story. "Oh, Fragrant Snow" was also adapted into a film, and in 1991 won the highest prize for youth film at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. At that time, surely no one would have thought that this little girl would be the current chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. Since then, Tie Ning has also created many excellent literary works, and her award-winning works are innumerable. However, my favorite is her famous work "Oh, Fragrant Snow".
