The sky is boundless, and the thoughts are endless.
The earth, the times, itself
Han Shaogong's "Life Suddenly" Hainan premiere sharing meeting
Guidance unit
Propaganda Department of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
Host
Hainan Writers Association
undertaker
Tianya Magazine
Keynote speaker
Han Shaogong
Active time
Saturday, January 15, 2022
03:30 PM
Location of the event
Three-ring library · reading self space
(1st floor, Guoxiu City, No. 68 Guoxing Avenue, Haikou City)
Speaker: Han Shaogong
Han Shaogong, born in January 1953 in Changsha, Hunan Province, went to Miluo County, Hunan Province in 1968 to work as a farmer, transferred to miluo County Cultural Center in 1974, and studied in the department of Chinese of Hunan Normal University in 1978. He has successively served as the editor-in-chief of Hainan Chronicle Magazine, the president of Tianya Magazine, the chairman of the Hainan Writers Association, and the chairman of the Hainan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature. His major works include short stories such as "Looking West to the Thatched Meadow" and "Returning Home", novellas such as "Daddy and Daddy", "Reporting the Government", etc., novels such as "Maqiao Dictionary", "Day and Night Book", "Revision Process", etc., long essays such as "Hints" and "Afterwords of the Revolution", and the long essay "Shannan and Shuibei", which are translated as "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" and "The Record of Trepidation". He has won the National Outstanding Short Story Award, the French Knight Medal of Literature and Art, the Lu Xun Literature Award, the Chinese Literature media award, and the Newman Chinese Literature Award. More than 40 foreign translations have been published abroad.
Han Shaogong's new collection of essays "Life Suddenly"
Author: Han Shaogong
Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication year: 2021-10
Number of pages: 382
Pricing: 59.00
"Life Suddenly" is a new collection of essays by the famous writer Han Shaogong, which responds to the questions of the times, is a unique existence of contemporary Chinese literature, and is a benchmark work of literature in the new era. The book is divided into three series, the first series "Reading the Earth", which contains wonderful narratives of everything such as nature, earth, society, life, and hometown; the second series, "Reading the Times", contains profound philosophical thoughts on the transition period of knowledge and economy, science and technology and value, history and culture, China and the world, countryside and cities; the third series, "Reading Yourself", contains the author's decades of life course, wisdom in the world, and the most authentic, affectionate and moving bits and pieces of the soul. Every day of the earth is new, is it despair or opportunity that gives us? Is it an inflection point or a short break? With the wisdom and mastery of a literary artist, the work accurately observes this era, tells everyone how to be a person who understands the complex era, how to open the spiritual door of the ideal life, find self-positioning and value, and dedicate it to people who are confused, fragile, but full of longing and longing for a broad world.
Catalogue of "Life Suddenly"
Episode 1: Reading the Earth
Keep the secret dance
Ferry ports as well as bohemia
Hello, Kato
Whistle Hong Kong
Wanquan River rainy season
Return to Snow Peak Mountain
A small hometown in a big perspective
Episode 2: Reading the Times
Knowledge, how is power
When robots formed the Writers Guild
Individualism is endangering the individual
Gathering: About life and values
What a "class" has become
"Self-study" and "People's Studies"
Human superpower
Culture: Iterative and Geopolitical Scales
The Gate of the Heart
Episode 3: Read Yourself
Long Ridge Chronicles
Mr. Kang Mao
Put down those years of writing
The story of the fireflies
Life is sudden
Recommended by famous artists
Mo
Nobel Laureate in Literature
There are few thinkers in China's literary circles, but Han Shaogong must be among them.
Wang meng
People's Artist
Han Shaogong is a good at speculative ability, also narrating and thinking, depicting and decomposing, his spiritual space and literary space traversing the ancient and modern world, resistant to chewing, worth savoring.
Lee Kyung-taek
Vice Chairman of the China Writers Association and Secretary of the Secretariat
Han Shaogong is a unity of knowledge and action, he seeks to provide another path of understanding Of China, he seeks to add the meaning of the countryside that is being lightly deleted into the rapidly updating imagination and identification with China.
Chen Xiaoming
Renowned critic
Professor of the Department of Chinese, Peking University
Han Shaogong itself is a pure fact of contemporary literary history; a historical list of the new period; an outline of the literary history of the new period that is opened and closed.
Nishikawa
Famous poet
Professor of Beijing Normal University
Han Shaogong is an interesting person. The depth of his understanding of human nature can actually be reflected in the "interesting". And this kind of fun seems to be a product of folk wisdom.
"Life Suddenly" finale article sneak peek
Life is sudden
Text / Han Shaogong
I rarely took pictures before, and I always felt that taking pictures, keeping manuscripts, and keeping records of contacts was a bad problem of writers' narcissism and arrogance, nothing more than which guy was bent on entering literary history and museums, always ready to pinch his chin or look deeply into the posture - tired?
Therefore, I always avoid the camera again and again in a young age, with no intention of accumulating the kind of "visit here" photo of the dog peeing, even if there have been seagulls or Nikon cameras, mostly for others.
Unexpectedly, in the past one or two decades, electronic digital technology has greatly reduced the cost of photography, and national photography has become a common practice, and an "era of reading pictures" has quietly arrived. Although the prediction of the exit of words is too exaggerated, the colorful colors of the images reshape people's feelings about life, and their huge impact, appeal and influence are not small. Several times, I gave lessons to the students, and found that even if I told the whole hall of exclamations or laughter, they did not write down much, but some of the images of the PPT could penetrate their minds more, causing discussion and reminiscence again and again. A thin hand, the cold eyes of a former sage, a mottled old village wall, an early morning aerial photograph of a snowy forest... It seems to be better than a thousand words, conveying to them more concepts and logic that are unclear or even needless to be explained.
The ancients said, "He who has all the insides will be outside." "It's not just about the human body, it's about the world. A world is inherently a world of change. A true understanding of the world must be the vividness and richness of images in memory, and it is by no means limited to words—especially for practitioners, and for many people who believe in "seeing is believing" and "there is truth in pictures." The so-called inside must have outside, there must be quality and appearance, there must be righteousness and sound, and one of my long essays, "Hints" (2002), has concentrated on recording and sorting out my own feelings in this regard. It was also at that time, looking back at my many years of writing career, I believe that the attitude of the exclusive character is tantamount to semi-blindness, almost regretting that I have greatly failed the camera, and secretly thinking that if I can be one or two decades younger, I am afraid that I will start from scratch and go to a "picture reading" video worker.
Unfortunately, I can't carry so much camera equipment anymore, and many things can only be left to young people. Speaking of which, although I have taken very few pictures in my life, and although I have hastily left too many shadowless and invisible past days, I have personally experienced, witnessed, and participated in China's "great changes that have not occurred in three thousand years", with strong winds and rains, the world turned upside down, thrilling, and how fortunate. Unexpectedly, at the invitation of The Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House, this time I was in a hurry to answer the call, and I had to temporarily find a few friends to help, so as to collect some old photos and reluctantly compile a copy -- although I myself do not know whether this is a little redundant for readers, and whether it is too late to make up for it after the fact.
Imagery from the past
I remember going to a friend's house in Lhasa many years ago and not seeing any old photos of his deceased relatives. The Tibetan friend said that according to their custom, destroying the old photos of the deceased and all the relics would benefit reincarnation and return them to a clean and strange world. So, according to this statement, isn't this album of mine still abandoning "reincarnation"? Not ready to reunite with this world in the next life?
Well, for the rest of my life, I don't really plan to come back later.
Miluo village
Yes, my relatives, my friends, all the worldly lives I care about, I have traveled to this world in the 20th and 21st centuries, accompanied you all these years, happiness is enough.
One-time life is actually supreme and priceless, and it is an unrepeatable miracle. And let us remember each other, even if we can't remember for too long, even if all the past events are in the snow, all in a sudden moment.
(This article is the finale article of the same name for Han Shaogong's collection of essays "Life Suddenly")
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