All-media reporter Lin Zhibin correspondent Meng Wei
Screenshot of the newspaper on January 18
The time of winter is light and timeless, calm and unhurried.
The story of my hometown is like water like a song, leisurely in the heart.
Recently, a cultural salon was held in the Liaocheng Ancient City Area near the lakeside half-day leisure as scheduled. Tan Qinglu and Zhao Yonghao, two cultural masters in Liaocheng, shared the creation stories of their newly published two books with the literati on the spot.
Zhao Yonghao (left) and Tan Qinglu
"Liaocheng Grass and Trees", written by Mr. Tan Qinglu, winner of the Taishan Literature Prize, is the crystallization of his sincere dialogue with flowers and trees through the countryside over the years;
"Liaocheng Style and Objects", written by Mr. Zhao Yonghao, a teacher and brand planner of Liaocheng University, is a documentary of his visits to Xiangmo in recent years and the search for local customs in Liaocheng.
Judging from the title of the book alone, the two books are self-contained, one is a record of grass and trees, and one is a record of wind and things, which are combined into "one city and two records". "One City, Two Memories" can be called the most affectionate and heartfelt sketch of Liaocheng. The two authors are like-minded old friends, rigorous in their studies, unremitting in their efforts, observing life with compassion, and feeling their hometown with a mission on their shoulders.
Along the field, every grass and tree is life; the streets and alleys of the city, snacks and local products are the most fireworks. In the book, the two authors re-examine the land we live in with a calm state of mind and a slow pace. At this moment of greeting the old and welcoming the new, the two met to organize this literary salon activity of "One City, Two Memories, Respecting hometown", aiming to greet Liaocheng, where the 5,000-year-old agricultural civilization of the Yellow River and the 500-year-old commercial civilization of the Canal meet.
Deep grass and trees, leisurely fireworks. With the warm winter sun, the literati were touched by the sharing of the two famous artists.
Tan Qinglu:
The grass and trees I wrote are my friends
This "One City, Two Memories" salon is a literary sharing meeting.
Mr. Zhao Yonghao said that not long ago, the sharing meeting of "Liaocheng Grass and Trees" was held in Dong'a. On the way back, he had an idea, the two "notes" jointly do a ground activity, in the New Year's Day, to send a gift to Liaocheng. As a result, there was a literary salon of "one city, two memories, respect for the hometown".
Mr. Tan Qinglu said: "Mr. Zhao Yonghao, from the perspective of scholars' research, conducted the investigation of Liaocheng style and objects in the spirit of 'using hands and feet to find things' advocated by Fu Sinian, which has historical significance, scientific naturalistic significance and literary significance. ”
At the same time, Mr. Tan Qinglu combined his own experience in creating the "Liaocheng Grass and Tree Series" and made a unique exposition on literature. He believes that "small sentiments" are not literature, but writing that cannot constitute literary meaning. The historical biography represented by the "History of History" has the quality of literature based on facts, such as "Notes on the Water Classic" and "Xu Xia's Travels", etc., which are the authors who come out to see the mountains and see the water, and describe nature affectionately, which is also literature.
Mr. Tan Qinglu's "Records of Dongxiang Grass and Trees" won the Taishan Literature Award. At the time, there was a misreading about the book, believing that it was an "explanatory text" about plants. There are more than 3,500 kinds of higher plants in Shandong Province, more than 35,000 kinds in the country, and more than 250,000 kinds in the world. Tan Qinglu wrote about more than 200 kinds of plants in three books. Why did he write this? "Most of the plants are 'passers-by' and have little to do with me. The plants I wrote about were all my friends, and they had many contacts with me, saying hello when they met on the way, and even asked for an appointment for two drinks. For example, soft jujube once accompanied his childhood, and still has emotional entanglements with him.
There are exceptions to "love at first sight". While walking at the Phoenix Garden Botanical Garden in Liaocheng, Mr. Tan Qinglu stumbled upon a southern vine plant in the bamboo forest, bat kudzu, which made him full of joy. Worried that the staff would cut the weeds, he was worried about his stomach and worried for several days. In the end, he contacted many parties and found the relevant person in charge, and finally protected these distant visitors.
In Mr. Tan Qinglu's view, plants are his friends and relatives, and he always stops at the side of the road, leans over to talk to these "friends" who can't speak, finds the beauty that God has given them, and tries to read their thoughts and emotions.
Zhang Hougang, an associate professor at the College of Letters at Liaocheng University, said that the two authors of "One City, Two Memories" found themselves in the grass and trees. They dwell on emotions on grass and trees, talk to the world and nature, and are truly present writing, with the body present, the emotions present, and the soul present. This is the most moving part of literature.
Zhao Yonghao:
I discovered the uniqueness of Liaocheng
This "one city, two memories" salon is a re-examination of the history and positioning of Liaocheng.
Just as the slightly awkward subtitle of the subtitle "Social Examination of Liaocheng Regional Representative Cultural Symbols", Mr. Zhao Yonghao's "Liaocheng Style and Things" is actually written not only about food and snacks, old streets and villages, and nostalgic memories, but also about the "yesterday, today and tomorrow of Liaocheng" behind all these "regional representative cultural symbols".
The book took five or six years to write. During this period, Mr. Zhao Yonghao, accompanied by two friends, Wang Yuhui and Wang Ning, visited forgotten objects and recorded the difficult personnel affairs.
A burnt cake may have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. No matter how society changes, it remains. Every burnt cake has a spirit, that is, pyrotechnics. Mr. Zhao Yonghao found that the same is the baked cake, xinxian, Yanggu, Dong'a area is the hanging furnace baked cake. All the way to the north, the form of the burnt cake is constantly changing: when it reaches Dongchang Province, it becomes a large oil fire, and further north to Linqing and Gaotang, it becomes a triangular fire with meat. Guan County, on the other hand, is mostly teppanyaki.
Behind the different burnt cakes are different cultures. The Yanggu area is the farming civilization of the Yellow River culture; the Linqing area is the commercial civilization of the canal culture, which was richer in the past, and only then will there be a fire-grilled meat; Guan County is more influenced by Hebei, with the shadow of Yanzhao culture, and the teppanyaki cake is exactly the portrayal of the prosperity of Hebei's private economy, just like the local rumors about "building cars in the corn field".
Behind the wind objects and symbols is a cultural line. The widely circulated "Dongchang Province Slow Morning Glory" and "Linqing Monkey" are also cultural differences, one is the epitome of the slow pace of agricultural civilization, and the other is the embodiment of the fast pace of commercial civilization.
"The location of Liaocheng is very unique, at the intersection of the Yellow River's 5,000-year-old farming civilization and the 500-year-old commercial civilization of the canal. We often say that Liaocheng is located at the junction of the three provinces of Hebei, Luzhou and Yu, which actually exposes the geographical disadvantages of Liaocheng and seems to be on the edge. In fact, Liaocheng is now ushering in a period of strategic superposition opportunities, and is in the agglomeration area of two major national strategies (the national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin and the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt that will soon leap to a national strategy). Mr. Zhao Yonghao said that in the future, the national strategic coordinates and the cultural coordinates of the two rivers should be a bright business card of Liaocheng.
The discovery of strategic opportunities in Liaocheng is an unexpected gain on the road of Zhao Yonghao's fieldwork and is a joy. But there are also worries on this road, which make it difficult for him to let go: an ecological farm has been working for many years and is still difficult to operate; the makers of earth-style soy sauce and traditional mud whistles have asked him for help from time to time in order to continue their livelihood; Old Peng who beats and makes meat spinners has had health problems due to years of fatigue; some old streets and old houses have heard news that they want to be demolished...
Modernization is like a horse, and the literati are the ones who pull the tail of the horse. "One city, two memories, respect for the hometown", can the fast-paced soul be "slower"?