What is the origin of the famous writer Ding Ling and Zhangjiakou?

Source: Hebei News Network

"On the way to the south, I walked on the gravel road in the mountains, but my mind was full of people who were active in Huailai and Zhuolu counties, especially in the hot spring tun land reform." In the hot spring tun on the banks of the Sanggan River in Zhuolu County, Zhangjiakou, a "Sun Shines on the Sanggan River" closely connects Ding Ling, a famous writer in the history of contemporary Chinese literature, with this land.

In 1946, Ding Ling participated in the land reform movement in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region and came to Hot Spring Tun. In just 18 days of staying in the hot spring tun, the rushing Sangan River gave her inexhaustible creative inspiration and strong creative impulse. Later, she used the hot land reform material here to write the novel "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River", which became a milestone in her creation, and won the Stalin Prize for Literature and Art in 1951. Subsequently, Ding Ling took out 5,000 yuan from the manuscript fee, purchased books, phonographs, musical instruments, puppet shows, drama films, etc., and established China's first peasant culture station in Wenquantun - Wenquantun Peasant Culture Station.

In order to commemorate the years that Ding Ling and Wenquan Tun experienced together, in September 1995, The Ding Ling Memorial Hall was built in Wenquan Tun Township, Zhuolu County, Zhangjiakou, and has been rebuilt and expanded many times. The warm water tun in the novel and the hot spring tun in reality coincide organically here.

The Ding Ling Memorial Hall, inscribed by the famous writer Wei Wei, covers an area of 1,250 square meters and is divided into four exhibition rooms. The first exhibition room introduces comrade Ding Ling's revolutionary life and creative life with short texts, precious historical photos, and physical objects, in which various versions of Ding Ling's "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River" and other works are exhibited. The second exhibition room mainly introduces the character archetypes in the book "The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River", and especially introduces the archetypal characters of the hot spring tun village in the book. The third exhibition room reproduces the scene of Ding Ling's office, meeting and life in 1946 when she was engaged in land reform work in Hot Spring Tun. The fourth exhibition room exhibited various equipment donated by Ding Ling to the Hot Spring Tun Farmers' Cultural Station and some of its production and living utensils. (Arranged by Zhao Shaofu)