True love writing is an effective way to solve homesickness
—— "All the Way Home" Reading Notes
Text/Li Zeqing
A book like "All the Way Homecoming" is in front of my case, and just looking at the title of the book has made people's minds not here, and they have long been far away.
It can be said that everyone's hometown breeds in their hearts not just a book or an article that can be written in detail, but the writing content of each writer is always difficult to avoid this topic, I think this is not only love, this is also the inheritance and bloodline.
"All the Way Homecoming" is divided into four series, named "White Fruit Tree", "Watching clouds", "Sowing Beauty and Light", "Peach Blossom Source in the Heart", each sub-series is composed of about ten articles, which can be seen that it is not a day's work, and the heart has been for a long time.
Huang Yaohong, the author of the book, left a paragraph on the cover: "A great writer, no matter how young he left his hometown, has spent his whole life writing about his hometown, such as Lu Xun, such as Shen Congwen, such as Mo Yan, all this is the case." This is not false at all, because Lu Xun knows Shaoxing, because Shen Congwen knows the Ancient City of Phoenix, because Mo Yan knows Xi'an. Of course, this is not all, Lao She and Shi Tiesheng let people remember Beijing and the Temple of Earth in Beijing, and Guo Moruo is also very easy to remember the Emei Mountain. Therefore, the depiction of the hometown has always been difficult for all kinds of literati and inkers to give up, and the scramble has become the eternal theme of various works.
In front of our hometown, we know how to choose, and Huang Yaohong is no exception, making the reader's appetite very high, but not satisfied with filling the stomach.
Empathetic lyricism is the best way to document your hometown. Secretly thinking that grasping the small details of life and plucking the heartstrings with four or two strokes of kung fu is the biggest feature of empathic lyricism. In my hometown, there are white fruit trees planted in front of the door, and there are several ponds of different sizes, and I have also seen purslane growing all over the ground, straw turning into scarecrows, yingshan mountains dying red in the Dabie Mountains, of course, rivers, old cattle and so on. It can be said that a random clip can remind people of the place where I was born and raised. Whether it is the land of Huxiang where the author is located, or the revolutionary mountainous area of southern Henan that gives me blood and nostalgia, although they are nearly a thousand miles apart, they have too many similarities, similarities, and similarities. If I had to find something different, I would like to replace it with me, "Father's Vegetable Field" should be given to "Mother", and "Mother's Sauerkraut" may also be "Father's".
Although the nostalgic countryside outlined by these details is the tip of the iceberg, it cannot hide the richness and thickness of the atmosphere of life. A man who grew up in the three Xiang and four waters, although his courage and cultivation have acquired cultivation, the nurturing of the countryside is also inseparable. The taste of perilla and artichoke must be very exciting to make people have such a deep memory, connecting many parents with a short, both like a period drama that can be shared at any time, and as if they are strange or familiar in it. This should be the beauty brought by empathic expression, rather than "hoping for plums to quench thirst", it is more appropriate to solve the lovesickness.
Homeland has distance but no borders. The book wants to express "where is the hometown, everywhere is the hometown". If there is no such realm, no amount of deep affection can be placed. "Seeing the clouds" is a way of carrying thoughts. In the author's eyes, he can take his home as the center, watch the lotus and enjoy the snow where the road can reach, and he can also go to Qingzhu Lake, Orange Island, Yuelu Academy... With the passage of time, Hongjiang Ancient Shopping Mall and Jinggang Ancient Town have had a "new life", and it is no longer difficult to have something to do with them. Places that can be associated with the hometown are getting farther and farther away, there is Zhangjiajie, there is Xi'an... Man this animal is actually quite strange, walking a lot of roads, far away, most people will have more than one place can be called "hometown". If you have to take the place of birth as a dot, the hometown is a circle, which can be near or far, but it can be large or small, and there is the so-called "distance", and there is also "favoritism over the other", but we have to admit that the hometown is a rare thing without boundaries. Being a guest overseas can be said to be My hometown, where everything is worrying, and casual mentions are always full of enthusiasm. If we are born doomed to drift, then the places we walk will always leave traces, and it or they will all be part of the motif of "hometown", which will be in the mouth and in the heart. If you can glance back at it in your spare time, it must be a great journey.
We must always maintain an ideal for our hometown, and once it sprouts, it will thrive. Many stories on the land of Huxiang jumped on the paper, the sun shone into reality, there was temperament, there was dialectical philosophy... It can be said that a history of hometown and a history of struggle in half of life. In addition to Huang Yaohong's personal experience of mountains and rivers, he has achieved certain research results and personal experience in Huxiang culture and personal writing, which has also made his identity as an educator more full and fulfilling, and naturally has multi-faceted. Endless learning is usually used to motivate people to work tirelessly, do not waste the space for progress, do not slacken the motivation to move forward, as long as life exists, learning will reach the end of the land. Those who are uplifted in life, but the responsibilities and missions they shoulder are different, and the goals they reach will be different, so the levels are not completely unified. In Huang Yaohong's heart, there is always a peach blossom source, where is the peach blossom source is his pursuit of the world, the pursuit of ideals, and the pursuit of life. In other words, this is also true for everyone, because of the openness of the horizon, everyone's pursuit of near and far is different, which is the charm of the world.
The inexhaustible sour, sweet and bitter, it is precisely these qualities that continue to breed ideals, starting from the embryonic state, gradually repairing, and growing stronger and stronger. These are all integrated into the bone marrow from birth, and the imprint of the hometown can no longer be removed, where they come from, where they are going, and where they will return. It is necessary to always carry these questions, in order to seek different answers at different stages of life and in different positions, and then connect the sporadic answers, and it is natural to reconstruct the hometown. This can't help but be reminiscent of a word that has recently exploded on the Internet, "malicious return", and now it seems that praise and criticism have begun to be reversed and become a joke in the anecdote. How deep your "malice" is, how deep your love for your homeland is, how thick your blessings for your hometown are, how unwilling your feelings for your hometown are, and the road back to your hometown is no longer far away. This is the motif of each of us.
Li Zeqing is a poet, film critic, senior entertainment marketing expert, member of Hunan Literary and Art Critics Association, and member of Hunan Film Critics Association. He has published his monograph "Online Live Broadcasting" and written columns in media such as China Radio, Film and Television and Taiwan's Wang Bao. His works have been published in publications such as Young Writers, Hunan Daily, Tianjin Poets, and Popular Films.