The novel "The Bend of the White River" won
"Nanyang 7th Outstanding Achievement Award in Literature and Art"
The novel "White River Bend" created by Tan Jinfu, a member of the Henan Writers Association, vice chairman of the Nanzhao County Writers Association, retired cadre of the Nanzhao County Court and former senior judge, won the honor again and was successfully selected for the "Seventh Nanyang Outstanding Achievement Award for Literature and Art", and was previously selected into the "China Good Book List" and "Yu Edition Good Book" in 2020.
The book takes the poverty alleviation and rural revitalization of Huayuan Village on the bank of the Baihe River under the Funiu Mountain as the background, and records that in the battle to defend the frontier, the squad leader Hua Dongdong heroically sacrificed to rescue his comrade-in-arms Zhao Qifu. In order to realize the martyr's last wish of "getting rid of poverty and becoming well-off" in his hometown, Zhao Qifu, who settled in the martyr's hometown as the secretary of the party branch after retiring from the army, together with Lu Yanzhang, the first secretary of the party branch and the leader of the task force stationed in the village, who was also a retired soldier, fought to protect the ecological environment and Cai Kuofeng, a mining owner who was lazy and conservative, and Quan Youzhi, the village director, with the business model of "characteristic rural tourism + base + farmer + cooperative", led the villagers to get rid of poverty, start a business, and turn the green mountains and green waters of Huayuan Village into magnolia planting. Fresh peach picking base and eco-tourism of Jinshan Yinshan. After Huayuan Village was built into a beautiful village with rich villagers and beautiful environment, it is an inspirational story of continuing to work hard to achieve rural revitalization. With his passionate and simple and delicate approach, he showed that the rural construction of our time is moving towards a better future, and the happiness index of the people is constantly improving. Convey the main theme and positive energy of unity, progress, upward mobility, goodness and beauty. It explains the life value of struggle and dedication as a happy life, and encourages the majority of party members and the masses of the people to forge ahead for the early realization of the Chinese dream.
After being published by Henan University Press, the book was selected into the 2020 "China Good Book List" commissioned by the Central Propaganda Department to the China Book Critics Society. In February 2021, in the 2020 "Yu Edition Good Book" selection activity held by Zhongyuan Publishing and Media Group, after multiple rounds of selection such as recommendation by various publishing houses, qualification review, preliminary evaluation of experts, online voting and final evaluation of experts, it was selected as an excellent publication in Henan and won the honorary title of "Yu Edition Good Book".
In December 2021, the book won the "Seventh Nanyang Outstanding Literary and Artistic Achievement Award" again among the heroes of Nanyang Writers. The forty-episode TV series "Magnolia Blossoms and Happiness", adapted by the author Tan Jinfu and the national second-level writer and former chairman of the Nanzhao County Literary Association, based on this book, was also approved in the theme practice activity of "Going Deep into Life and Taking Root in the People" in the Propaganda Department of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee. Previously, the Henan Provincial Radio, Film and Television Bureau had agreed to the establishment of the drama and reported it to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for public filming and production. (Shi Weibi Tan Yawen)
