Tang Sulan: Reading Hu Yu's "Huangtang Bay"

Read Hu Yu's Huangtang Bay

Wen 丨 Tang Sulan

The place of birth is the spiritual source of a person.

I believe this sentence.

I was born in an ordinary village in Xiangzhong, and many memories of my childhood have become an inexhaustible treasure trove of materials for my fairy tale writing. But I have never tried to express the rural past systematically in prose or other forms. If I did, how would I write it?

Someone seems to have thought of my heart and done what I thought in my heart, which is "Huangtang Bay".

Hu Yu is my fellow countryman, her Huangtang Bay, only twenty kilometers away from my hometown, her wind and neighbors, in my hometown, it is easy to find similar shadows, so, looking at her words, I feel very kind and familiar, intuitively substituted into the house yard of my own hometown.

The wet and hazy cold of spring, the toil of doing farm work in the sweltering heat of summer, the memories of children who use bamboo poles to knock down the eaves of the roof as a popsicle in winter, the interesting past of catching fish and killing pigs, the helpless bachelors everywhere, the country girls who are not worried about marrying even if they are stupid, and so on. The people in the countryside are full of emotions, and the words are vividly presented between the lines. Even readers who have no experience in rural life can easily relate to the picture.

Hu Yu's writing is both realistic and imaginary, such as "March", which seems to be a random and scattered spring scene, but the pen is real, from the Qingming Hanging Mountain to the spring ploughing, writing about the recovery of all things; It is both lively and sad, which will make people fall into a faint sadness at the same time, such as "Sister", although the whole article is written with witty brushstrokes to describe the "struggle" between sisters, but the image of the sister who takes the initiative to assume family responsibilities, silent patience and pay also jumps on the paper, and the strong family affection between the sisters, to the end of the article, makes people deeply moved; It is both brisk and solemn, clear, clear, and the tone of the text of this book, the articles are basically short sentences, so they are easy to read and easy to read, in line with the current habit of light reading, but the inside is heavy, such as "Positive Dumb", the whole text vividly describes an interesting and capable dumb, he lives alone but hard, brings a lot of joy to the villagers, and finally is swept under the wheel by the train, and the last sentence of the article, "He did not say a complete word until he died", fixed the sadness of the whole text.

Hu Yu is not a professional writer, she has worked in government offices for a long time, and has held administrative leadership positions in many positions, but in these works, we can not see the serious and stereotyped administrative traces in our impressions, on the contrary, the delicate feelings of family affection, the idyllic nostalgia, and the sadness of the passage of time have built another transcendent soul habitat. In addition to her busy official duties, she can sink her heart to write such a text, which is very rare.

It is precisely because she is not a full-time writer, without the task and pressure of writing, so her works are also casual and casual. Readers will smile when they meet the heart, close the book and feel the fragrance of a wisp of grass in the field, then the book has its special vitality. (This article is the author's preface to Huangtang Bay.) )

(Tang Sulan, Professor of the College of Literature of Hunan Normal University, Doctoral Supervisor.) He is a member of the Plenary Committee of the China Writers Association, the vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, the vice chairman of the Hunan Writers Association, and the chairman of the Changsha Municipal Federation of Literature. The "four batches" of talents of the Central Propaganda Department are the leading talents of philosophy and social science of the national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan". Experts who enjoy special allowances from the State Council. He has published more than 60 children's literature works such as "The Story of the Stupid Wolf", "Ah Lian", and "Ben to the Green Heart". He has won the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the Song Qingling Children's Literature Award, the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award and other awards. )