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Don River Lamentations

Our glorious land is not ploughed with a plough,

Our land is ploughed with horses' hooves,

The glorious land is planted with the heads of the Cossacks,

The quiet Don River is full of young widows,

Our father, on the quiet Don River, is full of orphans,

The rolling waves of the quiet Don River are Daddy's tears.

Oh, the quiet Don, our father!

Oh, quiet Don, why is your flowing water so muddy?

Ah, how can the flow of my quiet Don River not be muddy!

Cold springs flow outward from the bottom of my quiet Don,

Silvery white fish stirred up my quiet Don River.

- Cossack song

The quiet Don River flows through the vast lands of Russia, and Sholokhov uses his faint southern colors to paint a picture of the life of the Cossacks on both sides of the Don River from World War I to the Soviet Civil War.

The novel has two plot lines: one centered on The Melekhov's family, reflecting the customs and social customs of the Cossacks, and the other on the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution triggered by the activities of the Bolshevik group and the political struggle of all strata of society. The two threads, crisscrossed, unfolded layer by layer, and advanced step by step, bringing the reader into the turbulent Cossack countryside life.

The Don River is the third largest river in the European part of Russia, originating in the Middle Russian Hills and flowing into the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov. The Don River meanders and flows, with a drop of about 190 meters. The bed of the Don River is not larger than the drop, so that the Water of the Don River can flow calmly and calmly, so people call the Don River "Quiet Don River".

The reason why the Don River is famous is precisely because of the immortal masterpiece "The Quiet Don River" on the Russian literary scene. The author of the novel, Sholokhov, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 for "The Quiet Don", is the only writer to have won both the Stalin Prize in Literature (1941) and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"Quiet Don" vividly describes the life and struggles of the Cossacks living along the Don River from the First World War to the end of the Russian Civil War.

"The Quiet Don" depicts the major historical events of the two revolutions (February Revolution, October Revolution) and two wars (World War I, the Soviet Civil War) between 1912 and 1922 and the turbulent life of the Cossacks on both sides of the Don River during these 10 years, and widely reflects the unique customs and customs of the Cossacks, the changes in the various classes of The Cossacks, the tortuous paths experienced by the vast Number of Cossacks at a complex historical turning point, and the tragic fate of Gregory, the protagonist involved in the powerful vortex of historical events.

The scenes of this novel are magnificent and the pictures are vivid; the imposing scenes of war and revolution are transformed with the delicate scenes of daily life, and the depiction of landscapes and the psychological changes of the characters set off each other; and many characters and their fates are profoundly expressed in the intricacies of historical events. As Sholokhov wrote to Gorky, his writing in The Quiet Don that "all is harsh truth" is one of his greatest achievements. Another achievement of this book is the complex image of Gregory. The whole complex and tortuous story of the novel begins with his vigorous debut and ends with his painful loneliness. All of the novel's major and multifaceted content is connected into an organic whole through his life of ups and downs, hardships, and final destruction. His image is described in the most in-depth and meticulous way in the novel, and all the ideas and artistic passions of the author are poured into him.

The structure of the novel is huge and complex, but it is large and rigorous, messy and not chaotic. The whole novel is divided into four parts and eight volumes, due to the author's careful arrangement, the development of the plot is ups and downs, the story evolution is tortuous and natural, the clues are complex and the lines are clear, forming an organic whole, the novel has a broad time and space transformation, and has a particularly heroic courage. For the depiction of the entire storyline, the most obvious feature is the combination of real events and artistic fiction. At the same time, it uses a rough and intense and delicate alternate technique to truly reproduce the pulse of the era of the great transformation of Russian history.

The story narrative of "Quiet Don River" quotes many folk songs and ballads, depicting the ever-changing natural scenery at a large length, with a very local style, and at the same time achieving the purpose of flattering the characters. The language is fresh and bright, and the skills are diverse, which is a rare masterpiece.

Since the novel was published in 1928, its impact has been worldwide. Highly praised by world-renowned writers such as Gorky, Romain Roland, Lu Xun, Takuji Kobayashi and Hemingway. When the book was translated into German and distributed in Germany, it was printed more than german-language writer Remarck's "No War on the Western Front." It has been translated into almost all the world's major languages, and has been reprinted in one edition, selling well all over the world, making it one of the most widely circulated and widely read masterpieces in contemporary world literature.

"Quiet Don" in terms of its content and theme of the profoundness, its encompassing the breadth of reality and the depth of revealing the process of life, its portrayal of the vividness of various characters and the profoundness of exploring the protagonist's inner world, as well as the multi-faceted comprehensive use of language arts skills, are worthy of a magnificent and delicate, gripping epic novel.

The 19th-century literary magnate Leo Tolstoy pointed out that the Cossacks created Russia. So, what is the temperament of the Cossacks, and their stories can be so sensational?

In fact, the Cossacks were not a people, but a nomadic community living in the steppes of Eastern Europe, known for their bravery and horsemanship. In the 15th and 16th centuries, some Slavs were forced to flee because they could not bear the oppression of the landlords and nobles and the persecution of the Tsarist government. They are a characteristic local group, and they are quite stable, unique and full of charm.

It is clearly a quiet Don River, so why does Sholokhov tell a story that is not calm?

As Sholokhov said when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965: "We live in an age of unrest. No nation on earth wants war, but there is still the power to throw an entire nation into the ignition. Sholokhov hopes to borrow the quiet Don River "to help people become better, to be purer in their hearts, to evoke love for man, to arouse the intention to actively fight for the ideals of humanitarianism and human progress."

No matter how noisy, how strife, how glorious the banks of the Don River are, the quiet Don River comes from the depths of history, flows on the eternal earth, flows on the eternal human heart, and flows to the far side of eternal history.

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