When it comes to Qingdao's famous writer Lian Zhi, many people will think of the tv series that were once popular, such as "Mendi" and "Warm Love". A few days ago, Lian Zhi launched a blockbuster long work "Migratory People", which is also Lian Zhi's first era novel. The work depicts the portraits of sentient beings wrapped in the torrent of the times, and writes the heroic integrity of the low-level people in the war. At the same time, it also creates a female figure with a tough personality, showing the divine light in the depths of the human soul.
Zhangjiadun Village in Gaomi City, Shandong Province, is the hometown of Lian Zhi, whose folk customs are deep, bold, broad and civilized, not only the chivalrous style of the northeast, but also the steady and deep of the Central Plains people, and there is no lack of the brightness and wit of the southerners. This land is also the birthplace of the story of the novel "The Migrating Man".
Lian Zhi has loved literature since he was a child, and after graduating from junior high school, he came to Qingdao to work, worked as a waiter in a nursing home, stood at the counter, entered a factory, and because he published some literary works, he later applied for a period of time as an editor in a fashion magazine. In 2001, the magazine was no longer published, and Lian Zhi planned to write at home to earn money. In July of that year, Lian Zhi published his first love story in a magazine, and since then, he has been out of control, and his works have received more and more attention. Since her first novel, "Fish on the Shore", she has published more than 30 books such as "Chewing Gum Man", "Straw Woven Love", "Thicker Than Love", "Love Valentine's Day", "You Are the One I Love", "Hello, 1978" and so on. Among them, "You Are the One I Love" won the Novel Award of the 17th Hundred Flowers Literature Award. It is worth mentioning that many of the works created by Lian Zhi have also been adapted into film and television dramas and stage plays. In addition to "Family With Heritage" and "Mendi" being adapted into TV series, novels such as "Don't Lie to Me", "Cool Love", "Fatal Misunderstanding", "Charm Makeup" and so on have been adapted into movies and TV series. "The Man Who Loves Me in the World Went" won 3 domestic awards after being adapted into a movie, and then adapted into a TV series "Secret". For writing, Lian Zhi said: "Whether it is writing novels or writing essays, as long as you write everything you like and touch your heart, they are all my inner landscapes, and I use words to tell them and enjoy them with readers and friends." ”
Lian Zhi, who has been engaged in writing for 20 years, has always written the current urban novel, in lian zhi's own words, "using the form of a novel to explore the confusion and troubles of the current story life with the city", and the latest "Migratory Man" is the first period novel he wrote. The novel is based on Gao Mi from 80 to 90 years ago, when war and turmoil were the main tone of the entire social life. It tells that after experiencing two marriages that ended without illness, Jin Zhizi, a small town girl with a bad fate, took her swaddling daughter to the Gejia sauce shop to cut pickles in order to make a living, thus meeting Ge Jinsong, the owner of the pickle shop. After breaking through the obstacles, Jin Zhizi and Ge Jinsong finally got married. But it didn't take long for the Japanese to fight, society began to be turbulent, and Ge Jinsong fell into the hands of bandits many times. The Ge family lost their fortune and had to migrate and flee to Qingdao. There, the Kuomintang officers and members of the ccp's underground party organization in their relatives, as well as Jin's first love, Desheng, who is already a Japanese and pseudo-translator, together perform a love-hate entanglement and family-country feud...
The first time he wrote a story of the era, Lian Zhi frankly said: "Relatively speaking, I am a realist writer, this is not a field I am familiar with, it is quite difficult." But I had to write it, because this story was personally experienced by my grandfather and my grandmother. ”
In fact, in the article "To Those Who Pass By My Life" published on the WeChat public account on February 8, 2021, Lian Zhi mentioned: "Speaking of which, my grandmother's family is a family full of legends, and in my new long story "Migratory People", there are some shadows of my grandmother's family. For example, the old pu who hanged himself is actually my dear grandfather. The Golden Gift is a combination of my grandmother and grandmother. Ge Jinsong is my grandfather, and Jinxiu is my grandfather's cousin. ”
Talking about the original intention of the creation, Lian Zhi said: "I wrote this novel to pay tribute to my ancestors and record that turbulent and legendary era. "The so-called migratory people, wherever they go, their hometown will follow."
Lian Zhi, who has been deeply engaged in the creation of novels for 20 years, has a strong pen and a flying literary style. This "Migratory Man", the depiction of characters of different eras goes deep into the marrow, always can directly hit the pain points of society and human nature, and can dig out unique insights from her words. In her pen, the age can always be attached to the character of the character belonging to the era at that time, not out of touch with the times and different. As writer and screenwriter Sun Junhong said: "The story of "Migrating People" is too substitutionary and too easy to be taken seriously. In other words, Lian Zhi told a story of an era that spanned time and space. Even this place in Qifeng Town is alive in time and space: 'The outskirts of Qifeng Town are yellow mud walls that are two or three meters thick, and outside the yellow mud walls is a moat four or five meters wide, and from a distance it looks like a huge yellow mud cake in Qifeng Town, more than 2,000 households are its stuffing, the winter sky is low, the gray-blue night curtain hangs there, the cooking smoke floats up silently, and the suspension bridge is put away at night, so that Qifeng Town is covered with a sense of loneliness and independence... 'Many people know that the writer Lian Zhi, I don't know the poet's advice and the one who writes the prose. Such a gorgeous language tells a local story, you will feel what a big pomp and aura this is, so that this group of people who should be rustic in the soil are glorious and fall into the sky. The biggest advantage of Lian Zhi is that she is too familiar with this side of the water and soil, and when she describes some scenes in the story, you will suspect that it is not made up, perhaps it is a record of someone's true memories. For example, she wrote about the Ge family's pickle shop making pickles, sprinkling thousands of words, from the south house to the north house, from the stove room to the counter, from the sauce tank to the cellar, from the cobblestone yongdao to the lotus pot... As if secretly deployed, every step has a root and a bottom, hidden mysteries, just like the dark night knocking more people, from far and near, from near and far, unconsciously, the night is deep, unconsciously, the sky will be bright. ”
What is less well known is that "The Migratory Man" was written by Lian Zhi in Houston, USA in the spring of 2019, and was serialized on the "Lian Zhi" WeChat public account while writing. "But after writing the first draft, I was not satisfied, and I always felt that something was wrong, but I also put it down." After returning to Qingdao, Lian Zhi pushed it down and wrote it again. But still felt dissatisfied and put it down again. It was not until the fall of 2020 that Lian Zhi overturned it for the third time and rewrote it. Lian said: "'The Migratory Man' is the most difficult novel I have ever written since I wrote it. Sun Junhong is full of praise for such a craftsman-style writing as Lian Chen: "Many people can tell stories, and they can tell a story to the truth, which is just a basic skill for a person who writes a novel, as to whether the story looks good or not, whether it is interesting or not, and even whether it is meaningful or not is another matter." In "The Migratory Man", this ability to tell stories and the mood of writing prose and poetry respond to each other, making the story of Lian Zhi have meaning, and even meaning. ...... The brilliance of Lian Zhi is that he can arrange the most appropriate fate for the characters in the work, make you unwilling, make you cry, and make you helpless. Like the storyteller she wrote many years ago, watching the story peak and turn, but a thunderclap, this is probably the best ending. (Readers' Daily all-media reporter He Jian)
Editor: Wang Xin Responsible Editor: Dong Xiaoyue Review: Zhou Hua