Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing
The famous writer and author of "Bitter Cauliflower" Feng Deying died of illness at the age of 86. In accordance with Comrade Feng Deying's last wishes, the funeral was simple, and no farewell ceremony was held.
Feng Deying, a native of Weihai, Shandong, has representative works such as the famous "Bitter Cauliflower", "Yingchun Flower", "Mountain Chrysanthemum", "Three Flowers" series, "Blood-stained Land", "Clear Sky" and so on.
The "Three Flowers" series is an important part of Shandong's red culture
According to the Feng De English Academy, Feng Deying was born into a poor peasant family, entered the Anti-Japanese War Primary School in the Liberated Areas at the age of 6, became a child regimental commander at the age of 9, joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in January 1949, joined the New Democratic Youth League in August 1949, joined the Communist Party of China in November 1956, studied at the Communications School of the Third Field Army of the East China Military Region after enlistment, studied in the East China Air Force Aviation Training Brigade after graduation, and successively served as a reporter of a certain air force department, a radio station chief, and a radar command platoon leader. In 1959, he was transferred to the Creation Office of the Political Department of the Air Force as a full-time creator, and in 1980, he returned to Shandong to work, successively serving as the chairman of the Jinan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the vice chairman of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the chairman of the Shandong Writers Association and the secretary of the party group, the editor-in-chief of Quancheng Literature and Art, the editor-in-chief of Times Literature, and the vice chairman of the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Feng Deying began to create amateur literature and art in 1953, and published his debut novel "Bitter Cauliflower" in January 1958, and since then embarked on the road of professional creation and become a full-time writer in the army. Since then, his major works include: the novel "Spring Flower", "Mountain Chrysanthemum", "Blood-stained Land", "Clear Sky", "Anthology of Short and Medium Works", drama and film literary script "Female Pilot", etc., and his works have been translated into Russian, Japanese, English, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Romanian and other languages.
Feng Deying was a serious realist writer who had an important influence on the history of contemporary literature. With its profound and distinctive ideological spirit of the times, real and vivid character images, vivid artistic brushstroke descriptions, and a strong and full regional nostalgia atmosphere, the works are known as the outstanding representatives of the "Don River Style" and "Jiaodong Style" of Kuncheng Mountain.
Depicting the struggle and life of the people of Jiaodong during the revolutionary war period, the novels "Bitter Cauliflower", "Yingchun Flower" and "Mountain Chrysanthemum" are his representative works, which have been reprinted and distributed in 10 million copies many times in the past 50 years, and have been translated into many languages, published, adapted into a variety of literary and artistic forms, and widely circulated, influencing generations. "Bitter Cauliflower" is known as the Chinese version of Gorky's "Mother". The "Spring Tide" in "Bitter Cauliflower" has also been compiled into primary school Chinese textbooks. Over the past few decades, "Sanhua" has been made into movies and TV series, adapted into dramas, commentaries, Lu operas and other dramas, which have influenced the hearts of generations and are still popular today.
Feng Deying's "Three Flowers" long series reflects the arduous, heroic and tenacious revolutionary struggle of the people of Jiaodong Peninsula, with ups and downs in the plot, fresh and fluent language, delicate and vivid character descriptions, and lyrical local characteristics. "Sanhua" has become an important part of shandong regional red culture. Mo Yan once commented on "Bitter Cauliflower": "I think that in the novels of the seventeen years before the Cultural Revolution, the most successful and least pedantic depiction of love was "Bitter Cauliflower". ”
Speaking of "three flowers", Feng Deying once said that people are accustomed to referring to the humble works "Bitter Cauliflower", "Yingchun Flower" and "Mountain Chrysanthemum" (upper and lower) as "Three Flowers". Ask me for "Three Flowers" and believe that "Three Flowers" is an inseparable trilogy, but this is not the case. The character relationship and storyline between these three novels are not directly related to each other and have nothing to do with each other, and they are independently written. Of course, they also have great commonalities: the three novels are all about the struggle and life of the people in the Jiaodong region of the Shandong Peninsula, and the coherence of the times - the Second Civil Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation - is closely integrated, and the titles of the books are all "hua", and they are from the same author' hand, so this is the origin of "three flowers".
Feng Deying once modestly said: "A large part of the reason for the emergence of 'Three Flowers' depends on objective factors, and it is also a young work of the author, and it is not uncommon to be deficient and shallow or even fallacious. In addition, it is inevitable that the grasp of some thoughts and feelings and the description of the plot will be limited by the times. However, what can still be talked about masturbating is that the feeling is sincere, and it is to love and hate those who live really and really with a fiery heart. And these, let the old age into another era of me to write again, I am afraid it is difficult to do. ”
Feng Deying and his works have won various awards for many times, and in December 2007, he won the "Shandong Provincial Culture and Art Lifetime Achievement Award".
Jiaodong Dadi is a life I can never live without
Feng Deying is full of affection for the land of his hometown Rushan, he said: "I was born in the land of Jiaodong, left my hometown with the army at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and worked and lived in the south for more than 20 years, but I have been speaking a Jiaodong dialect, and I often dream of the past of my hometown. ”
When the "Feng De English Collection" was published, Feng Deying modestly said: "Without the life and morality of the people of Jiaodong, there would be no my creation." Not because I have any literary genius, but because I have lived in the land of Jiaodong. My works are all about the struggle and life of the people of Jiaodong. I think that from ancient times to the present, all literature is inseparable from life, and Jiaodong Dadi is a life that I can never leave. ”
Feng Deying once wrote in the article: "I have the unique privilege of growing up in the land stained red by the blood of the martyrs, and the singable and weeping achievements of the heroic people have stored for me a treasure of noble character, beautiful emotions, kind character, and indomitable spirit that cannot be developed, so that my creative passion and raw materials have an inexhaustible source of exuberance." For this reason, I am particularly in love with my hometown of Kuncheng Mountain, where I love the people, customs and languages, landscapes, grasses and trees, and love her past and present. ”