Reading 丨Convex and Concave: The Book of The Docking of Hometown Feelings and Hero Complexes ——Reading Miao Yong's New Book "Yanyang Chu"

A book of hometown feelings and hero complexes

——Reading Miao Yong's new book "Yanyang Chu"

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Miao Yong is a Shuzhong writer who is involved in documentary literature, poetry, prose, novels, reviews and other genres. In many of his works, there is a clear purpose of his theme selection, which is to continue to exert efforts and cultivate meticulous works in his hometown of Bazhong— which has become his secret and public literary "religion" and literary destiny. His nearly half-a-million-word new book, the biographical literature "Yanyang Chu", still follows this line. Specifically, he is turning the hometown feelings that circulate in his own bones and blood into a repetitive portrayal of a hometown character. Not only let yourself, but also let a person with great energy empower your hometown. This character with great energy is Yan Yangchu, who is displayed in the title of the book.

Regarding YanyangChu, I first learned about it from my elementary and middle school classmate, Chen Aiping, a Pakistani-Chinese national, when I was still in junior high school in Wanyuan County. But all I know is that there is a famous person in Bazhong named Yan Yangchu, who was a civilian educator and a practitioner of poor rural transformation and construction during the Republic of China. In fact, where is he just a figure in the Republic of China period who is far away from us? At the age of 100, he lived until 1990. However, the place where his later career took place has shifted overseas to the world.

Later, I read some articles and books about Yan Yangchu one after another, and I thought that I had a more comprehensive understanding of the township party that my classmates said.

It wasn't until I put down my daily routine and read Miao Yong's "Yan Yang Chu" in one breath that I blushed and knew that what I called comprehensiveness was actually one-sided.

First of all, the Yanyangchu I read before is a flat, single-colored Yanyangchu, and its presentation is basically a paradigm, that is, the life line is equal to the career line.

Miao Yong's presentation of Yan Yangchu is different, which is not only an exhibition of historical facts, but also a construction of literature and art.

The whole book is composed of three lines in the downstream and return of time, consciously or unconsciously naturally shuttling and intersecting. These three lines, in addition to other writers' franchised career lines, Miao Yong also focused on building the emotional line and the hometown line - this is the biggest feature and value of this book, of course, it is also its readable core code.

Regarding the career line, the author twisted the eight-character concept of "The People's Only Bang Ben, Ben Gu Bang Ning" ("Shang Shu , Song of the Five Sons") and sorted out and painted the biography of Yan Yangchu from Yale University in the United States, to the Battlefield of World War I europe, to the land of China, to the Philippines, to the countries of the world, with his own strength, gathered comrades, in the way of non-governmental behavior, promoted and integrated various resources, including the state, in the vast backward countryside to face the "stupid, poor, weak, selfish" peasant brothers, successfully launched a series of changes that attracted the attention of the whole world." Practice: Use literary and art education to attack stupidity and carry forward knowledge; use livelihood education to attack poverty and develop productive forces; use health education to prevent and cure diseases and cultivate health; and use civic education to attack selfishness and carry forward unity. In the end, the main foundation of the world's civilization, that is, the vast number of peasants who account for three-quarters of the total number of mankind, will quickly realize the grand vision of "eliminating illiteracy and becoming a new people".

In the ever-present emotional line, the aura rendered by the author is the emotion that moves every word and every punctuation mark. As soon as he arrived in Dingxian, Yan Yangchu carefully learned the Dialect of Dingxian in order to better communicate with the local villagers. Now if Yan Yangchu took off this blue robe, no one did not think that he was a Dingxian person. "In the days that followed, Yan Yangchu often thought of the little country girl in Yantai wearing patched clothes." From Yan Yangchu's love for relatives and friends, for his wife and children, for his teacher, for his deceased, for his classmates and colleagues, for his motherland, and for human beings, especially for peasants, he often had tears in his deep affection, what made the reader feel was that the civilian educator who was far away from him in the context of time and space was actually a low-income citizen of a stall that we saw in the farmers' market, and an agricultural technical cadre wearing a straw hat and trouser pipe that he met on the rural field. Needless to say, without the author's true feelings for the Lord, there is no true feelings of the Lord about the things of his beloved. This is not a fictitious, non-fictional divergent cognition, but an expression of realization, unrealization. This philosophical justification is just as there is no history and no world without words.

To be precise, the hometown line I am talking about is also an emotional line, which refers to both Yanyangchu's feelings for his hometown and his hometown's feelings about Yanyangchu. When I say hometown, I mean not only the land with mountains, waters, forests, and blue skies, but also the people, friends, mentors, history, and folklore in that land; I refer to both the narrow sense of Bazhong, which is concerned about the Lord, and the bashu land where the Lord's traces are numerous. Hometown is a person's source, the root, breath and initial cause of a person's growth and how to grow. The blood lineage of his parents and the fate of his ears, the words and deeds of Pastor Wei of the Bazhong Gospel Church, the cultivation and introduction of Yao Mingzhe of the Tiandao Academy in Baoning Province (present-day Langzhong, Sichuan), and the dedication and assistance of Shi Wenxuan, a missionary in Chengdu, it was these relay blessings from his hometown that enabled Yan Yangchu to grow and grow, completing the great feat of crossing mountains and mountains from Bazhong to Chengdu, along the ancient Yidao East Road from Chengdu to Chongqing, and then going down the river to exit the gate and Bergan hong Kong, until he entered the United States, realizing the great feat of dedicating himself to saving civilians from the sea of suffering. This is the emotion that the hometown gives to his son. In the author's affectionate writing, Yan Yangchu's feelings for his hometown run through his life of wandering around the world. In Hong Kong, "he thought of Shi Wenxuan's brother and sister generously donating money for his studies, thought of his white-haired mother and relatives who were far away in Bazhong, and thought of his own ambitions and ambitions." In Paris, "Yan Yangchu withdrew his gaze, swung open his posture, and punched him. This is still when I was a child in my hometown of Bazhong, I begged my second brother to teach me." After returning to the motherland after studying overseas, "as soon as he embarked on the road back to his hometown in Bazhong, Yan Yang was overwhelmed with excitement at the beginning and it was difficult to calm down. How many times, the pain of homesickness haunted the wanderer's heart, and in the dream, the white-haired face of his mother leaned on the door to look back, and several times he woke up in a dream and wet his pillow with tears." The story capacity and nostalgia volume of Yanyangchu and his hometown in the book account for nearly 30% of the whole book, and the eighth chapter of the special chapter embedded in the book in the form of interludes is basically the emotional agitation and reverie of Yanyangchu and Bazhong. The greatest reward he gives to his hometown is because of his outstanding existence, and his hometown feels incomparably spirit and pride.

Facts have proved that only the hometown people who have passed on the Lord can write well about the hometown affairs of the Lord - the unique geographical advantages, including emotions, make the foreigners sigh.

The book is narrated, flashback, and interpolated at the same time, but it still generally follows the structure of the chapter and loop, and the detailed description and atmosphere creation also fully highlight the literary quality and effect. In addition, the reader can also see in Miao Yong's narrative Taoism a kind of plain and strange language to modify the scenery, such as, "The mother's voice is really good, smooth and soft like satin, without the slightest majesty of the past." Another example, "Perhaps many years later, Tujie will warmly recall such a detail: a middle-aged man in his forties or so dressed in a blue robe, with deep eyes and a smile, walking calmly on the streets of Dingxian County."

While the author introduces Yan Yangchu, he intersperses comments on Yan Yangchu from time to time. Judging from this representation, it is not impossible to classify this biography as a literary style. But he leaned down and ran with compassion for the people at the bottom of the world, and all his life he ran to change the living conditions of the people at the bottom, the greatest common denominator, without complaint or regret, and spent his whole life. This is reminiscent of Frost's famous poem "The Unchooled Road." ”

In ancient times, there were Wen Zhuangyuan and Wu Zhuangyuan. In the same way, heroes are different from combat heroes and cultural heroes. Yan Yangchu is undoubtedly a cultural hero, a world-class cultural hero from Bazhong who is completely and completely uncompromising. And the innate ancient heroic complex is not only solid in the name of Miao Yong, but also in the sun, rain and morning bell and twilight drum of the whole book. In fact, The book sword floated all his life, and Yan Yangchu, who had special admiration for Yang Yuchun, a famous general of the Qing Dynasty and a villager in Shuzhong, changed his name to Yan Yuchun in the period of many years - from this point, we can see how specific and manifest his heroic complex of saving all people from the abyss and condensed by the sense of home country, hometown feelings and heroic thought is crystallized!

What kind of book is this, why did you write this book, how did you write it? In fact, the author has already made the bottom card in the afterword: "Originally, a few decades ago, the han disciple named Yan Yangchu who came out of the depths of Bashan Mountain was carrying out a vast rural education movement with a group of the best intellectuals in China at that time in the vast countryside of Shenzhou. He and his colleagues are moving forward with one heart and one heart for the people and striving for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Later, he introduced his rural reform concept to the whole world, exhausting his life's efforts for the happiness of the most suffering people on the earth. Those who do not know are ignorant. Now, I know, and not telling more people is disrespectful to great men. A wish quietly grew in my heart: one day, I would write a book, write a book about Yan Yangchu, write the admiration in my heart, so that many people who do not yet know his name will know him, understand him, remember him, and remember him. With Sangzi, the younger generations such as me, with the pen as the slogan, when the best way to commemorate. ”

(Convex concave, real name Wei Ping.) Poet, novelist, screenwriter. Invited President of Sichuan Prose Literature Society, Vice President of Sichuan Poetry Society, Vice Chairman of Chengdu Writers Association. He is the author of more than 20 books such as "The Great Third Line", "Koshiba", "Flowers and Pistols", and "Dance of Earthworms")