The Fifth Taishan Literary and Art Award (Literary Creation Award) was released, and Gao Yubao's novel "Silver Train", Huang Hao's poem "Time Mistake", Wang Wei's short story "If You See Yi Sheng is Laughing" and Li Guihua's reportage "Seed Dream" were all awarded.
Gao Yubao, a 47-year-old high-density writer, is a railway worker who has felt the speed of social development on railroad tracks for more than 20 years and witnessed the changes of the times. He has always been passionate about literature, using railway life as the background, portraying human nature, recording the times, and creating a long novel "Silver Train".
It took three years to create
Tribute to China Railways
"Writing is both an accumulation and a refinement of life experience." Gao Yubao said that "Silver Train" is a novel about the railway, derived from his years of writing and life experience.
Gao Yubao liked to write poetry when he was a student, set up a literary club at the school, and published many poems. "My creative time is similar to my working years." In 1995, Gao Yubao graduated from school and became a railway worker, and when he first joined the work, he was on a small fourth-class station, surrounded by wilderness, many crops were planted in the fields, and the local villagers were very kind and simple, which impressed him deeply.
Railroad life itself is a rich mine of creation. Gao Yubao worked as a station attendant at a small station, and on a day shift and a night shift, he could rest for two days, so he had a lot of time to read and write.
In more than two decades, from green-skinned trains to speedy high-speed railways, China's railways have undergone tremendous changes, and Gao Yubao is a first-hand experiencer and witness. In 2014, he suddenly had the idea of writing a novel about railways, so he began to write a novel called "Silver Train".
This is his first novel, and he has suffered a lot in the process of creation. In the past three years, Gao Yubao seems to have a love affair with "Silver Train", while focusing on writing, while examining and deliberating on the details of writing, painstakingly digging up the time more accurately, portraying the characters more realistically, interpreting the times more profoundly, and finally writing this 150,000-word novel.
Based on real life
Write a good story around you
"Silver Train" takes place in the early days of reform and opening up, telling the story of work, life and love between the wrencher, the section chief, the station manager and the staff and workers on the Baiyun Railway Station, a fourth-class small station on the Jiaoji Railway Line.
"The railway is only the background of the times, and the characters are the protagonists of this era." Gao Yubao said that the characters in "Silver Train" can be said to have a prototype in reality, they have responsibilities and responsibilities, and they are also confused and wandering. "I've changed this novel many times, and maybe there's still a lot of room for change, but I like the ending of the novel very much." Gao Yubao said that his works do not have the so-called "end" or "great consummation" ending, after experiencing such and such a life, they have been moving forward with dreams, which is what he wants to express.
When it comes to future creation, Gao Yubao said that it is still necessary to base on the bits and pieces of real life, excavate ordinary and meaningful themes from various small events and small people, and provide readers with literary works with vitality.
Wang Wei is a creator in the Literary and Art Creation Department of the Service Center of Qilu Culture (Weifang) Ecological Protection Zone. From publishing his first work "Huai Gen" to "If You See Yi Sheng Laughing" that won the "Taishan Literary and Art Award", Wang Wei always uses a simple narrative to insight and excavate the tragedies and joys of the low-level characters, reflecting human care.
The works reflect the joys and sorrows of children and young people
Wang Wei's short story "If You See Yi Sheng Laughing" was published in Shanghai Literature in 2019. The novel tells in the first person the story of two little boys with special family circumstances: their friendship, their sadness, their joy, and their weak bodies and beliefs to fight against dissatisfaction in life. The entire novel unfolds in a form similar to spectator and voiceover, with a calm narrative, a light rhythm and a calm jump.
Wang Wei's works usually reflect the life of the bottom of society, outlining the fate of the bottom group of people who are mixed with sorrow and joy. In the past few years, Wang Wei often saw the deeds of some troubled teenagers in her life and in the news, and these things always made her heart-wrenching. So Wang Wei wanted to write a work on the theme of teenagers. At the end of 2018, she spent a week writing a short story of nearly 10,000 words, "If You See Yi Sheng Laughing".
"I hope that through my works, I will make the society pay attention to the physical and mental health of teenagers, who may be rebellious, but they also have a kind and helpless side." Wang Wei said that in the week of concentrated writing, he invested all his feelings in the teenagers in the works. "I don't set the outline and story direction in advance, and I follow the feelings and characters when I write." Wang Wei said.
From "Dream of the Red Chamber" into the literary world
Wang Wei really began to enter the door of literature by watching "Dream of the Red Chamber". One day in the fourth grade of elementary school, she went to buy pork for her family, and next door to the meat stall was a small bookstore that rented old books. In front of the bookshelf, she carried a pound of pork tied with hemp rope, turned around to look for books, and found a set of Cheng Yiben's "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the bookstore. I don't remember what happened to that piece of pork, Wang Wei only remembered standing in front of the bookshelf, and was shocked by Lin Daiyu's "stealing three points of pear and borrowing a plum blossom soul..." How can there be such beautiful poetry in the world? Words could no longer express her mood at that moment. So, for a lease fee of 5 cents a day, she rented it at home. Later, the small bookstore was going to close, and she could not continue to watch "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the future, so she decided to buy this set of books home. The owner of this set of books sold for 10 yuan, and it was only 1.1 yuan to buy a pound of pork at that time. She took all her pocket money and bought it back home with a portion of her father's financial support. "As I got older, I wrote a lot of things and lost a lot of things, but this set of 'Dream of the Red Chamber' has always stayed with me. Time has made the paper yellow and brittle, but they are still full of warp, accompanying me on the road of literature alone. Wang Wei said.
With a chubby figure and fair skin, huang Hao in such an image makes it difficult to connect with poets, and is a somewhat chivalrous poet. When he was young, he loved to write about jingo iron horses and was happy to take revenge, and after forty years of age, he cared about the people, things and things around him. "Time Wrong" is more about his encounters and misses in time over the years.
I have loved poetry since childhood
Self-proclaimed "109th Man of Liangshan"
"Hao's family was poor when he was young, and after middle age, he drew from wealth, often wrote bold or gentle small poems, loved worldly life, and because he longed for the story of Water Margin, he called himself 'the 109th person of Liangshan' and talked about masturbation." This is a sentence that Huang Hao said about his self-evaluation in the introduction of the author of his poetry collection.
Born in Zhucheng in 1972, Huang Hao has always had a passion for poetry. In 1991, he failed the college entrance examination and opened a bookstore called "Stars" on a deserted street corner in Zhucheng. The bookstore is composed of cement prefabricated panels, which is more than ten square meters. Huang Hao always snuggled up to the simple counter, holding a book, reading with great interest. In the small bookstore, Huang Hao turned the wandering, bitterness, helplessness and pride of youth into a line of poetry. He and his friends also formed a literary club called "May", and gradually, Huang Hao's poetry began to become famous in the small circle of classmates and friends. Some of his writings began to appear sporadically in domestic literary journals or newspapers.
In 1992, his father decided to move to Shaanxi for work reasons, and 20-year-old Huang Hao chose to stay alone in zhucheng.com. In order to make a living, he set up a stall in the Longcheng Market in Zhucheng, sold pens and books, did a lot of work, and accumulated a certain wealth. In 2000, he set up a factory in Zhucheng, mainly for equipment related to the sewage treatment industry. Over the past 20 years, Huang Hao has managed the company in an orderly manner without abandoning the creation of novels and poetry.
I want to write a novel about my hometown
In the past two years, a lot of things have happened around Huang Hao, his relatives have passed away, many companies around him are facing bankruptcy under the influence of the epidemic, and Huang Hao has also undergone many changes in the choice of writing inspiration and materials. "When I was young, the material for writing poetry was imaginary, such as the deeds of the hero Haojie. Writing more about the most basic things after forty years of age, the little people of hometown compassion, the little grass flowers on the mountain, the moon on August 15, and the nagging of my mother can make me write things. Huang Hao said that the collection of poems "Time Mistake" is more of a work of this period, and he shouts out the feelings and inner struggles in his life in the form of poetry.
As an entrepreneur with poetic feelings, Huang Hao has his own expectations and plans: "I am writing a long novel, which I began to write 20 years ago, and I want to write the story on the Weihe Beach, the joy, sorrow, good and evil, love and hatred of the heroes of Zhucheng. Now all the material is ready, and I have started to write a part of it. But I am not in a hurry to publish, because I feel that I still need to continue to precipitate and accumulate. ”
Born in the countryside and raised in the countryside, rural emotions have become the genes and codes that flow in Li Guihua's life. "To write a book for domestic vegetable seeds", interviewing people, flipping through books, experimenting with herself, and after ten years of accumulation, she completed "Seed Dream".
After ten years of accumulation, I started writing
Born in 1971, Li Guihua grew up in Shouguang, the hometown of Chinese vegetables, and grew up listening to the elderly tell agricultural stories. In 1998, Li Guihua became a media worker, and she also focused on the countryside, agriculture and farmers.
Speaking of writing the work "Seed Dream", it goes back to April 2006, when Li Guihua saw three varieties of multicolored cherry tomatoes at a good seed test base in Shouguang, one by one lying in the display tray. Each colored tomato reflected a dot of light on her body, which "ignited" her eyes, and a thought was rooted in her heart: to write a book for domestic vegetable seeds. From Shouguang's domestic vegetable seed research and development as the starting point, since 2006, she has used all the opportunities and time available to interview people and flip through books to enhance professionalism, and has been accumulating for 10 years, only writing in October 2016, and completing this 220,000-word long reportage in August 2017. Li Bingyin, a well-known critic and executive vice president of the China Reportage Literature Society, commented that the long-form reportage on this subject, "Seed Dream", is the first in China that he has seen so far, especially the problematic reportage like this, which also reflects the author's responsibility for the country and the feelings of the people.
Rent land to grow vegetables in order to obtain materials
In order to interview more detailed and accurate material, she tried her best. "To write reportage, you must be on the scene, you must be true, and what you have at your disposal is the first scene, the first-hand information. As an office worker, I have to use my spare time outside of weekends, holidays, and annual leave. Li Guihua said that in order to run the village and vegetable base at any time, she originally held a driver's license but was not skilled in driving, and she had to practice her driving skills.
In order to increase his in-depth experience of vegetables and agriculture, Li Guihua became a "farmer", rented a few points of land in a farm 20 kilometers away from Shouguang City, planted more than 20 kinds of vegetables, and through the process of planting, management and harvesting, more specifically and intuitively understood and verified the relevant materials he had interviewed. In this process, Li Guihua also communicates with surrounding farmers and technicians. Growing vegetables has become a kind of interview, and she has a deeper understanding of the relevant materials.
In the end, she accumulated more than 600,000 words of relevant information, interviewed more than 170 people, left more than 70,000 words of interview notes and reading notes, footprints throughout the province of Jinan, Laizhou, Liaocheng and other places, outside the province of Yunnan, Hunan, Hebei, Beijing, Shanghai and other places, directly interviewed from academicians to vegetable farmers and other relevant personnel.