A few days ago, Chaoshan writer Ma Chenbing's "Chaoshan Past And Chaoshan Langjiao" was published by the Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore, and you lang talked about the past in this life.
The author Ma Chenbing is a historian and writer who travels around in a middle-aged way, and his rich experience enables him to go beyond the limitations of local culture and border vision, realize and expose his special growth experience in his homeland as a generation born in the 1960s, and take this opportunity to observe some profound changes in The Chaoshan and even Chinese social life in this era of great changes. Thus, this book is both a "history of the suspended growth of the distantly alive" and a "tale of the waves and clouds of the Chaoshan dialect".
Ma Chenbing is also good at calligraphy and painting, and dozens of color pictures and illustrations in this book are self-drawn, and the content is richer and more diverse.
The past is like a stream of smoke, and the words are floating for eternity. Chaoshan is an important node of the Maritime Silk Road, with a long history of culture, and the Chaoshan dialect is both ancient and elegant and reflects the rapid changes in social life. This book includes two parts, "Chaoshan Past", the former is the author's autobiographical prose of his life experience in Chaoshan and the latter excavating a series of Chaoshan dialect popular words represented by "Langyu", giving birth to a strange and vivid "Chaoshan Story", the two texts form a microscopic reflection of personal history and social history, highlighting a "floating land" Chaoshan full of life temperature and literary texture, cultural accumulation and scorching poetry.
Ma Chenbing
There is a section in the book that mentions how the Chaoshan people drank Louis XIII, which vividly portrays the unique customs and customs of the Chaoshan region. He mentioned: "As soon as the Rémy Martin opens, good things will naturally come", which was once widely circulated advertising phrase, and I suspect that it sets the Chaoshan people as the potential first audience and market audience, because at that time, the consumption of "Rémy Martin" in Hong Kong and Chaoshan definitely accounted for a large proportion of the Cognac market in China and even in Asia. The brothers of the old family who drank foreign wine for decades said that a cognac wine that was commonly known as "The Great General of the Centaurs" was the cognac wine that first entered the Chaoshan market in the early days of reform and opening up, the grade was not high, it was not good, but at that time, who could drink this wine was a soup with a head mouth, and the top wave cracked, and the death wave was dangerous.
Writer Han Shaogong commented on the book: Words are the fossils of stories, and stories are the mother's womb of words. Ma Chenbing's left hand words, right hand story, two-way approach, digging out the knowledge and digging out the poetry, digging out a wanderer's rediscovery of the homeland is hot and terrifying.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei