Chen Zhongzhong created many short stories, but there was no long work that could be handed, and there was no particularly tough work, and Chen Zhongzhong, who was 44 years old at the time, issued such an exclamation.
Balzac said: The novel is considered the secret history of a people. Chen Zhongzhong's novel "White Deer Plain" is the secret history of a nation.
And Chen Zhongzhong's creation of "White Deer Plain" is also a long process.
In 1942, Chen Zhongzhong was born in Xijiang Village, Baqiao, Xi'an. In the father's consciousness, it is to let the son leave the countryside and go to Xi'an or elsewhere to seek a decent career. In order to provide chen zhongzhong and his brother with education, his father often sold grain and trees, which was very difficult.
At that time, Chen Zhongzhong had several big wishes, first of all, to be admitted to the university, then to join the army, and finally to return to the countryside, but fate still joked with him, Chen Zhongzhong failed the college entrance examination, and joining the army did not succeed, and his three wishes were only realized, that is, to return to the countryside!
Chen Zhongzhong returned to his native village to become a rural teacher, but he was not willing to stay here for a lifetime, remembering that when he was a child, he walked more than 30 kilometers of road, the soles of the cloth shoes he wore for a long time were thin, and his feet were worn, he successively used leaves, cloth towels and textbooks to stuff the soles of his shoes, but the heels were still extremely painful, it was at this time, a train rushed by, he suddenly understood that there are many people in the world who do not have to walk on their feet, and since then he has vowed to make a name for himself!
Today, he still returns to the countryside, Chen Zhongzhong is not willing, he still wants to experience the wider world!
That literary dream was rising in his heart again!
During the day, he gave lessons to the children; at night, under the dim kerosene lamp, he began to read and write intoxicatedly.
Even when his hair burned, he didn't notice it; even when it was dawn, he was still immersed in the wonderful words.
In the spring of 1965, his first essay, "Crossing the Quicksand River at Night", was published in the literary supplement of Xi'an Evening News.
Chen Zhongzhong's literary path has finally achieved a little achievement, and he is particularly excited!
But the monthly salary of 39 yuan has to support a large family, and Chen Zhongzhong is still enduring suffering and poverty!
Fortunately, he has published a number of short stories and won awards in many publications. In 1982, Chen Zhongzhong finally became famous.
After spending 6 years creating "White Deer Plain" and entering the primary selection of the Mao Dun Literature Award, Zhai Taifeng, secretary of the China Writers Association, was angry and patted the table
Some commentators have said: Compared with Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa, Chen Zhongzhong is old, old, and has relatively low talent, and his success mainly depends on hard work, hard work, and hard work.
Chen Zhongzhong also likes to borrow a phrase that Liu Qing once said: "Literature is the cause of fools", and he believes that creation should be "honest and honest, immersed in hard work, not vain, let alone opportunistic." ”
So Chen Zhongzhong spent 2 years to check the information, just by preparing the information, he could fill a room.
Reading and creating consumed a lot of his time, and during those days, Chen Zhongzhong was very poor:
Writing "White Deer Plain", I encountered very big difficulties in my life - I couldn't pay the tuition fee when I went to school.
I told my wife that I would go back to my hometown and write, and you would roll out more noodles for me, and when you finished eating, you would roll them again. This thing can't be done, let's raise chickens and go!
In the ancestral house in the countryside, he wrote for four years.
On 25 January 1991, Chen Zhongzhong drew the last punctuation mark for "White Deer Plain".
What is more worth mentioning is that "White Deer Plain" entered the primary of the Mao Dun Literature Award unanimously in 1995, but at that time, some people had different views on the book, and when Chen Jiangong, director of the office of the jury, reported the matter to Zhai Taifeng, secretary of the China Writers Association, Zhai Taifeng slapped the table in anger.
At that time, I also found a few old critics to be judges, but what I didn't expect was that the first judge to stand up was the old critic Chen Yong, who fully affirmed "White Deer Plain" and also laid the overall wind review!
In 1997, "White Deer Plain" won the 4th Mao Dun Literature Award in China.
How great is White Deer Plain?
Before the advent of Bailuyuan, Chen Zhongzhong dressed up plainly, that is, an old farmer, after the advent of Bailuyuan, Chen Zhongzhong, although the economic situation was much better, but still living on a shoestring, Chen Zhongzhong, who had achieved fame and success, still had a clear understanding of himself.
And "White Deer Plain" is also the same as Chen Zhongzhong, the whole book condenses a deep national historical connotation, with a shocking sense of reality and a thick epic style. Simple but with a strong emotion.
The protagonist Bai Jiaxuan marries six and six funerals, and the strange prelude to fate foreshadows ominousness. Two generations of descendants of a family have fought endlessly for the reign of Bailuyuan, and staged a thrilling live drama: skillfully taking feng shui, evil beauty tricks, filial piety as bandits, relatives killing daughters-in-law, brothers meeting each other, lovers turning against each other... The Great Revolution, the Japanese invasion, the three-year civil war, the White Deer Plains turned clouds and rain, the wang banner changed, the family hatred and hatred of the country, intertwined entanglements, unjust retribution from generation to generation, the ancient land trembled in the pain of the new life.
Compared with the contemporaries Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa, he had no talent for the world.
Relying on a "heroic" energy that dared to work hard, he wrote a work that was "cheered by the critics, amazed by the press, and read by readers, and 'Luoyang paper expensive'" for a while.
The famous scholar Fan once called "White Deer Plain" "a generation of strange books, Fang Zhi Ouxi, although Balzac and Standal, did not give up lightly."
Lao Gu's truest feeling after reading it is that he has never experienced as strongly as reading "White Deer Plain" that the diametrically opposed factors of static and moving, stability and chaos, and space and time are twisted together to form a huge and strange charm.
It is the story of the times, behind which is the true emotions of generation after generation, the language is simple, but the words poke the heart, reading this book, it is like traveling once, back to the original northwest land, feeling the grace and resentment in that yellow land, there is black humor, there is magic realism, and its eternal foothold is in the people's life!
Every character has his own destiny, and an era will always have an end. People in the present will also end from the stage, and the drama of life with long love and hate, sadness and joy, whether good or bad, will eventually turn into the dust of history.
Life is not easy, life is full of tribulations, there will always be various tribulations in people's lives, for each of us, there will always be times when we can't stick to it. When you are confused and helpless, you can find the answer in "White Deer Plain"! Let the powerless be powerful, let the pessimists move forward.