Today's Book List | "Zhang Juzheng": a classic book series of long historical novels

Zhang Ju was a reformer with an extraordinary personality and a legendary figure in the annals of history. After he ascended to the position of first assistant, he managed the government for ten years: rectifying the rule of officials and refreshing the decadence; rectifying education and recruiting talents from all over the world; innovating taxes and sorting out finances. The Salvation of the Zhuming Dynasty will fall into the throne, making the Wanli period the richest era of the Ming Dynasty. In the midst of the stormy meeting, Zhang Juzheng was deep in thought, resolute and deep, resourceful and judgmental, and his momentum was prominent and unparalleled. However, once he was in power, he was arbitrary and preclusive, which attracted the attention of those who followed the power. The desire for power pushed him to the peak of his life, and also caused a disaster behind him. When the burial returned to heaven, that is, when it was criticized, the result was that the family property was copied, and the knighthood was taken away, and the eighty-year-old mother, sin and children were cursed.　　 As a politician, Zhang Ju is a very effective person in Chinese history; but as a person, he is a loser. "Glory before death, sadness after death" is the best summary of his life. In addition to personal reasons, the disparity in his reputation after his death can also be seen in the political sinister and cold world. Moreover, Zhang Juzheng's fate also objectively reveals the historical background of the tragedy and the character defects of the characters, providing an image literary reading for today's readers to reflect.

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Xiong Zhaozheng, a native of Yingshan County, Hubei Province, is a famous writer, poet and scholar in contemporary China. He is currently a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress, executive vice chairman of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, a member of the Plenary Committee of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, the director of the Research Museum of Literature and History of the Hubei Provincial People's Government, and a visiting professor of Chinese University, Wuhan University, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and is also employed as a researcher of the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Traditional Culture Research Center of Wuhan University. He has published more than 40 long historical novels, short and medium stories, essays, historical notes, and poetry collections. Among them, political lyric poetry won the first national outstanding new poetry award for young and middle-aged people from 1979 to 1980; after the publication of the long historical novel "Zhang Juzheng" in 2002, it was hailed as a landmark work of Chinese novels in the new era, and won the sixth Mao Dun Literature Award in 2005 with unanimous votes. At present, the three-volume long historical novel "The Golden Dynasty", which took twelve years of meticulous creation, has completed the first volume of "The King of the North" and the second volume of "The Knight who Captured the Dragon", and the third volume of "The Collapse of the Empire" will be completed next year. In addition to literary creations, his speeches have been collected and published in two volumes, "Nostalgia of History" and "Feelings of Literati".

To use novels to express and reproduce historical figures, it is not only necessary to activate historical imagery and fill in the gaps in the framework of historical materials with imagination and experience beyond the experience of contemporary people, but also to penetrate history with modern thinking of contemporary people and the grasp of historical traditional culture, and express the aesthetic discovery and rational interpretation of history by contemporary people. The ultimate purpose of creation is not only to truly and vividly represent the historical life form or historical figure itself, but also how to obtain a greater space for rational thinking in a long-distance non-experiential past tense, and to use historical figures to provide metaphors for contemporary life, playing a role as a mirror. Xiong Zhaozheng's "Zhang Juzheng" grasped these points in a moderate and restrained manner. The novel runs through the rational contemplation of history on the road of conception, and in the context of the great era of reform, the narrative of the gains and losses of the historical commitment to reforming the heavy subjects, itself reflects the crossing of the light of contemporary human reason. In the process of novelizing historical figures, Xiong Zhaozheng strives to enhance his imagination of historical life and historical figures with the help of limited historical records, provides readers with a large number of vivid and specific plots and details, and fills the blanks left by history with a touchable, audible texture of life and abundant flesh, and aesthetically and graphically reproduces historical life.

The works portray Zhang Juzheng, based on revealing his relationship with the times and his contemporaries, focusing on the interweaving of the events he experienced and the psychological changes he felt. In terms of the process of Zhang Juzheng taking the position of gao gong and replacing him in the first volume, "The writer does not superficially treat the dispute between Zhang and Gao as a struggle between reformers and conservatives, between the wise and the benevolent and the powerful and powerful, but uses cold and deep brushstrokes to write about the collision of two capable ministers with the ambition to govern the country in a specific political system, and writes about their respective strengths and weaknesses."

Another example is the struggle between Zhang Juzheng and Wei Xuezeng and Wang Xilie, who rose up against the High Arch faction of the New Deal by borrowing pepper Su Mu to fold Dai, and the third volume, which writes about the tragic measures of the public officials who opposed Zhang Juzheng's "seizure of affection" in the "Strange Affair Storm", which also avoided making a simple moral evaluation of the historical figures involved in the matter, and adopted an objective and realistic realist depiction method.

"Zhang Juzheng" basically adopts the structure of the chapter back body, in the work, the narrative of the novel is closely related to the main part of the main event, and it is not a matter of people, especially the ending of the secondary characters involved in the event, which is naturally brought out in the narrative of the next event. For example, the second volume began to write about the design to arrest Zhang Dalang, but how to deal with it after the arrest, but it was not brought out in the conversation until the ninth time when Wang Xilie and Wei Xue had conspired to make trouble. This plot layout leaves readers with a rich imagination space, making the narrative of the novel appear concise and condensed. Appropriate plot span can stimulate the reader's inquiry and imagination, enhance the reading interest and narrative tension.

Writer Tang Haoming: "The talent of the writer Tianbin poet, coupled with the rigor of historians, "Zhang Juzheng" came out, which made me feel that it was a real masterpiece of literature and history. Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, Feng Bao and other characters are all vivid and authentic ancients. It is not easy for historical novels to write about this. ”