"Bonfire" and "starry sky" are the two most common scenes on the grassland, of course, there are many scenes on the grassland, such as yurts, horses, etc. The reason why Borji Wilderness used "Bonfire and Starry Sky" as the title of the second part of his "Pure Grassland Juvenile Novel Series: The Child of Ulan Pastoral Riding", presumably because the beating of the bonfire and the constancy of the starry sky have a contrasting tension, creating a huge and poetic space for the reader.
With the impression of reading the first "Children of Ulan Pastoral Riding", and then opening "Bonfire and Starry Sky" to see the names of Timur, Bagan, Jianger, and Sea Orchid, it is very "old friend" impression. In fact, they are all children, to be precise, teenagers, and it may not be appropriate to use "old friends", but it is true that because they have too many deeds on the grassland, it is inevitable to feel kind.
▲Bonfire and Starry Sky
By Balgi Wilderness
Published by Zhejiang Children's Publishing House
This time their "deeds" are more adventurous than in the first part, Timur received an invitation from Commander Wang of the military sub-district, and could accompany his parents working in UlanMuqi (the name of a literary and artistic performance group in Inner Mongolia) to the troops to participate in the condolence performance, as a person who had successfully impressed Commander Wang, Timur touched the gun without permission in the military camp, which could be both a violation of discipline and a dangerous thing, and Commander Wang seriously criticized Timur and let him get a real lesson.
However, Gangel, who fell into the valley and hung in a tree, and the sea orchid that followed the sacred bird and lost it, were no less than the adventure of the iron fungus touching the butt of the gun. "Bonfire and Starry Sky" has a considerable part of the description of "Rescue Ganger" and "Looking for Sea Orchids", in this process, the author fully shows the love and familiarity with the grassland landscape and culture, where the people's footsteps in the book are opened beautiful grassland pictures, and the reader's eyes follow behind, constantly falling into this beautiful situation like a dream.
"The river seemed to be flowing while something was buried. The birds above the river swirled and chirped loudly, as if looking for those things buried by the river"; "The pine trees grew bent like sickles and straightened out toward the sky, like a man holding aloft a torch, and the torches were green pine needles"; "The golden afterglow filled the gap between its hairs and made it into a golden craft." Its eyes were still dark and shiny, and it was a place where gold could not enter"... Such sentences in the book pave a thick literary "carpet" for the story and plot, on the one hand is a static grassland scenery, on the other hand is a dynamic character behavior, "Bonfire and Starry Sky" has many partial descriptions, so it has the texture of a stage play.
▲ Balgi Wilderness
This is a book full of love and trust, and the plot that best represents this position is that the girl Sea Orchid is lost, but her parents don't care too much, and her father said something to the effect that there are no bad people on the prairie, there is a clean water source on the prairie, there are edible berries, and the sea orchid will find its own home. However, when the sea orchid was actually found, the father still burst into tears with excitement... Such a plot description is vivid, it combines the open-mindedness of prairie parents and the worries and worries of their children, which is very real and credible.
Grassland people have a bold and soft heart, they are bold when dealing with THE SOLDIERS of the People's Liberation Army, they are soft when they meet weak animals such as small yellow sheep on the grassland, "Bonfire and Starry Sky" shows a particularly simple living space, there is no complex social relationship here, there is no social network that wastes the mind, some are just the most simple ways to get along and communicate between adults and adults, between adults and children, between humans and animals, they share food, wine, and also share this land and starry sky. The jumping campfire is a stark metaphor that symbolizes the warmth of the human heart and emotions, which is always unstoppable.
"In the heart of Timur, the silver flower grassland is the best place in the world", "Bonfire and Starry Sky" is also a song written to his hometown, under the pen of Borji Wilderness, the grassland not only gave him countless inspiration and supplies at the writing level, but also made him have the desire to pass on the beautiful grassland culture to countless children inside and outside the grassland, such a writing intention is pure and noble. The story of Timur and his companions will surely enter the hearts of more young readers because of this purity and nobility.
Author: Han Haoyue
Editor: Zhou Yiqian
Editor-in-Charge: Zhu Zifen
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