The sky is boundless, and the thoughts are endless.
On January 26, Mei Guoyun, chairman of the Hainan Writers Association and president of Tianya Magazine, led Wang Ji, full-time vice chairman and secretary general of the Provincial Writers Association, Li Ning, director of the editorial department of Tianya magazine, and Zheng Jipeng, editor of Tianya Magazine, to Visit Zhu Xiuhai, Assi, Zhong Faquan, Zeng Fanhua, Che Yangao, Ai Zhen, Ma Xiaoli, Luo Guanghui and other writers living in Hainan, and walked into the China (Hainan) South China Sea Museum and Boao Meisha Village, which integrates the ecological landscape of "Shanshui Lintian Lake and Sea", to learn about the history and current situation of the South China Sea. Feel the development and changes of rural revitalization in Hainan. Wu Yue, chairman of the Qionghai Writers Association, and other comrades accompanied him to the event.
During the event, Mei Guoyun and representatives of writers from Luqiong discussed marine literature and listened to everyone's opinions and suggestions on promoting the development of marine literature.
At the symposium, Mei Guoyun said that in recent years, the team of writers living in Hainan has been growing, and it is our great honor to come to Baodao to live and write, and on the occasion of the spring festival of the Year of the Tiger, we hereby visit the representatives of writers living in Hainan, mainly to express the gratitude and greetings of the Provincial Writers Association to everyone, and also wish the migratory bird writers who have not been able to come to Hainan this winter due to the epidemic a happy new year and excellent works.
Mei Guoyun said that the ocean occupies more than 70% of the earth's surface area and is the cradle of all life on the earth. The ocean is the treasure trove of the most abundant resources for human survival, attracting human beings to go forward and follow to "deep blue", forming the marine spirit and becoming an important source of strength for human beings to explore nature. In a certain sense, it is precisely because human beings have the experience of exploring the ocean that they have the confidence to explore the universe. The ocean is stirring, deep, vast, mysterious... Marine literature is also bound to become the mainstream literature that inspires mankind to continue to move forward. Chinese culture began with farming, but the exploration of the ocean has always been parallel to human beings, whether it is the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" or "Zheng He's Voyage to the West", all of which show human imagination and determination to conquer the ocean. Hainan is China's largest maritime province, this island and the vast ocean surrounding it, is the most beautiful corner of this charming planet, its nature and humanities, from ancient times to the present, all the way radiating infinite light, let us feel glorious.
Mei Guoyun pointed out that vigorously developing marine literature is in line with the requirements of the state's implementation of the marine strategy and the construction of a marine power, and is also a concrete action to implement the instructions of Secretary Shen Xiaoming of the provincial party committee to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, emphasizing that the vast number of literary and art workers in Hainan should focus on the advantages of the cultural policy of Hainan Free Trade Port, focus on unique cultural resources, and plan at a high level to launch literary and artistic works with Hainan characteristics with national influence. The marine literature of the new era, which is based on the development and prospect of the free trade port, is a marine literature with a big concept, a free trade port literature and island literature with the theme of the ocean. Our promotion of the cause of marine literature also reflects the specific requirements of Comrade Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party leading group and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, on comprehensively promoting the high-quality development of literature in the new era and showing the new atmosphere of Chinese literature in the new era.
Mei Guoyun said that the central authorities have entrusted Hainan with the important mission of comprehensively deepening reform and opening up and building a free trade port with Chinese characteristics. In the context of stepping up the operation of the free trade port to seal the customs and develop the economy, we should take literature as an important starting point for cultural construction, build Hainan into an outpost for the development and prosperity of marine literature, and strive to launch a number of fine works of marine literature before the operation of the free trade port. Faithfully recording the vivid practice of the construction of the Hainan free trade port is a major mission entrusted to the vast number of literary workers in Hainan in the new era, therefore, Mei Guoyun also hopes that the writers and friends living in Hainan will be able to regard themselves as the masters of the free trade port while becoming a member of the migratory bird type writers, and everyone will work together to make marine literature bigger and stronger with a distinct Hainan style and free trade port meteorology, and promote the development of China's marine literature.
Writers in Qiong qiong on marine literature (in order of speech)
Zhu Xiuhai (Writer, Director of the Creative Office of the Naval Political Department)
The Hainan Writers Association strives to build "marine literature" is a strategic measure with a very historical vision, conforming to the development of the times, helping the construction of a free trade port, focusing on the present, focusing on the future, and having ambitions, ambitions and responsibilities. On the one hand, Hainan's literary resources are rich and vast, and as vast as the sea is, how vast and profound the literary soil is; on the other hand, the great struggle that Hainan is building a free trade port has provided writers with rich real-life scenes, how colorful and brilliant the colors of this struggle are, how great the changes it has brought to Hainan today and in the future, how great the opportunities it brings to writers who aspire to write them, and how colorful and brilliant the possibilities of literary presentation may be. The Hainan writers who are fortunate enough to live on this hot land today and join the people here in this great struggle are fortunate. Great history always has its speakers, and the slogan of vigorously building marine literature put forward by the Hainan Writers Association represents a kind of literary awakening, and history has given Hainan and all writers who aspire to create marine literature a rare opportunity, and at the same time gives them a proud responsibility. I believe that in time, the trees planted today will blossom into brilliant flowers and bear full fruit. As a writer in Qiongqiong and a member of the "Honorary Writers of Hainan", I always feel the care and help of the Hainan Writers Association, and I myself have the unshirkable responsibility to join it within the scope of my ability and contribute to the creation of the century literature of marine literature.
Assi (poet)
Hainan Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, Hengchun, pleasant scenery, obvious geographical location advantages, people yearn. At present, we are building a free trade port in an all-round way to attract the attention of the world. Literature also seeks great development in this context and forms a strong momentum. In the natural context of the ocean, if we can inject all kinds of correct and free elements of the "free trade port" in real time and encourage a hundred flowers to bloom, the literature of Hainan Province will surely stir up the sails of countless expeditions and form a considerable collection of ships and ships -- in that way, masterpieces of poetry, novels, essays and other literary masterpieces will become a grand view, Hainan Island will become a natural good port for marine literature, and the South China Sea will also become a hotbed for the creation of countless writers and poets. I wish my colleagues to write a masterpiece with both marine temperament and personal life spirit as soon as possible, worthy of the nurturing and calling of the beautiful sea.
In addition, I have lived on the island for more than ten years, and my enthusiasm for writing has also increased. At the beginning of this year, a group of poems published in the "Revival Poetry Circle" column of "Mangzhong" was the "Yazhou Bay Short Tune" written in the ancient town of Yazhou, and the large-scale personal spiritual history long poem "Haishu" (later named "Yazhou Bay Haishu") that lasted ten years was also widely published by magazines such as "Dayi Literature" (Series) and "Poetry Tide", indicating that the industry's open attitude and ardent expectations for "marine literature" are very encouraging. It is said that the writers of Hainan Province are even more offshore, frequently harvesting their own full of literary "bright moon". In the future, the prospects of marine literature in Hainan Province are more magnificent than those of the ocean.
Zhong Faquan (military writer)
The place where I live is close to the China (Hainan) South China Sea Museum, but I have passed by again and again, and I have not been able to enter the museum to see the history. On January 26, 2022, on the afternoon of the thick spring color and the sound of the coconut grove, under the kind arrangement of the Hainan Provincial Writers Association, he walked into the unique South China Sea Museum with the famous artists of Lu Qiong. Follow the tunnel of historical time and space, starting from the ancient port of Tanmen and entering the vast South China Sea through Boao. On the silk road along the coast, to the south, all the way to the south, to Yongxing Island temporarily, through the Seven Star Island, in Ganquan Island with the Southern Song Fishermen to drink a mouthful of natural coconut dew, rocking boats to coral island to see the natural treasures of the sea. Head south, then south, all the way to Nan'an Reef, and then return from the Great-Mother Sands. On the seven-colored ocean, with Zheng He's fleet of ships going to the West, the huge fleet is shocking, the copper coins piled like hills have become the ballast stones used by ships to resist the wind and waves, and on top of the copper coins are exquisite Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain and decorative powder boxes for women, etc. Soft and incomparable, showing the luxurious and rich silk placed on the cabin, showing the civilization of the yangyang country. One year, one day, the sudden arrival of the storm in the South China Sea, a ship traveling on the Maritime Silk Road overturned, and another ship loaded with porcelain and silk treasures sank, which has since become the historical witness of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. The history of the continent is underground and above ground, and the history of the South China Sea is on the blue seabed, in the coral blooming flowers. From the echo of the history of the South China Sea, it has become a sea beacon for posterity to break through the fog of history. Today, the hainan provincial writers association is carefully constructing the marine literature, at the time of the prosperity of the free trade port, the marine literature is shouldering a special mission to sail along the coastal Silk Road.
Zeng Fanhua (Writer, Honorary President of China Newspaper Supplement Research Association, Dean of Ai Qingwen College)
The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port provides a broad space for the development of marine literature, and the transmutation of time will expand the boundaries of marine literature infinitely. As a literary way to enter the outside world, the theme of the ocean will undoubtedly arouse the attention and scrutiny of all parties, not only in the literary circle, but also in the Chinese circle, and its influence will spread all over the world. Of course, this depends on the emergence of a number of high-level iconic works of marine literature. To this end, in addition to relying on the "blowout" accumulated by local writers in Hainan, it is also necessary to rely on the inspiration of foreign (including overseas) writers to make the propositions of marine literature more abundant and deeper, making it an important part of world literature. I have always regarded Hainan as my second hometown, and in my lifetime, I am willing to make a modest contribution to the prosperity of marine literature, and I also look forward to the emergence of Hemingway-style marine literature writers in the near future, and the emergence of marine literary works such as "The Old Man and the Sea"...
Ai Zhen (Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Literature and Art Daily)
It is a responsibility and a mission for Hainan Province to cooperate as the organizer of the literary cause of Hainan Island and vigorously promote the creation of marine literature.
While advocating the creation of marine literature, we should also simultaneously strengthen the study of marine literature, and take a two-pronged approach to promote the prosperity of creation through research, which has always been the law of literature.
Writers who are interested in writing on the theme of marine literature should use the unique ocean view of the Chinese nation to write stories about the ocean and mankind, and record history and today.
In recent years, hainan writers have used novels, poetry, prose and other literary forms to create some excellent marine literary works, which have received attention and recognition from the literary circles.
It is expected that more solid and thick works of marine literature will come out, so that the blue color of marine literature will shine on the map of Chinese literature as soon as possible.
Che Yangao (poet, winner of Lu Xun Literature Prize)
If the sun is imagined as a thinker, the sea is the first place it wakes up.
The combination of the vastness of the sea and the boundlessness of thought determines that the sea is connected to five continents and four oceans, the coast can be moored in the world, and the sea surface is the widest road on the earth.
As a new concept of cultural and artistic development, marine literature has been put forward by people who are good at thinking, which means that there will be a unique and ingenious thinking, positioning and pattern in literary creation that will gradually form in the process of exploration.
It is now felt that this exploration will be new in three ways:
1. Face the world with a broad mind like the sea, focus on building a community with a shared future for mankind, and choose a grand theme with vitality and vitality that is enough to illuminate the light of human civilization with a universal vision.
2. With the firmness of the anchor, face up to where your roots lie. Literary creation should strengthen its own national cultural self-confidence. It is not only a master of skills, but also a thousand changes that cannot be separated from its lineage. Write a work that truly understands the world and is recognized by the world.
3. The above goodness is like water, amplifying the influence of the Maritime Silk Road. Marine literature should take advantage of the opportunity of China's trade, science and technology and cultural exchanges with the world. Create a world-class platform with national characteristics for literary creation.
Ma Xiaoli (military writer, winner of Lu Xun Literature Prize)
When it comes to marine literature, we probably first think of such a description: the color of the sea is extremely dark, and the sunlight in the sea is transformed into a rainbow of seven colors. The countless speckled plankton, because the sun was rising overhead at this moment, could not be seen, and all the old man could see now was the huge seven-colored light belt formed in the depths of the blue sea, and his fishing ropes hanging straight in the water a mile deep... This is Hemingway's sea and the old man who would rather be destroyed than defeated, and this literary masterpiece is of course also a masterpiece of marine literature. It is not difficult for us to see that marine literature is actually a broader literary concept than its literal meaning. The marine literature we propose should be based on the ocean, reference, and analogy, and then deeply explore the deep and rich human soul, care about the fate of mankind, and express the human spirit. I believe that under the initiative of prosperous marine literature, more and better literary works will emerge.
Luo Guanghui (military writer)
People have run through the mountains, climbed the mountains, and seen the sea. Standing on the mountain, you will feel that you are higher than the mountain, and facing the sea, you will feel that you are very small.
Sea, open, inclusive, mysterious;
The sea, vast, wise, deep.
I joined the army, just off the east coast, and lived in the coastal defense force for eighteen spring and autumn seasons. Standing guard, putting up sentries, patrolling, digging tunnels, military exercises...
I wrote "Shells, are the sea's crippled ears?" He also wrote that "the beacon lights on the coast flicker in the vast sea." It is also written that "when the spear awakens the dawn, the loyal guards of the motherland report to the mother that the front line is safe!" ...... I wonder if this is marine literature?
Some people say that the kind of literature that permeates the spirit of the ocean is marine literature.
The spirit of the ocean, a few words boiling in my mind: indomitable will, broad mind, endless spirit of exploration, stronger than iron, stronger than steel unity force...
Marine literature has not yet entered literature on a large scale. Marine literature has a long way to go to arouse the marine consciousness of the Chinese nation.
In the morning, listening to the music of the sea, watching the light of the sea, the rising sun spews out from the sea, dyeing the turquoise waters with golden splendor, looking into the distance, I see the tomorrow of marine literature!
Wang Ji, full-time vice chairman, made a speech
Wang Ji (Full-time Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of Hainan Writers Association)
Welcome all the famous writers to go home and return to Hainan for the New Year! Winter in Hainan is still sunny and full of flowers. I believe that you have fallen deeply in love with Hainan, and fall in love with this blue sea and blue sky, coconut wind and sea charm.
At present, Hainan is speeding up the construction of a free trade port, and Hainan's literary undertakings have also been steadily advancing with multiple measures and strategies under the leadership of Chairman Mei, with fruitful results. Hainan has a sea area of 2 million square kilometers, in ancient times, Hainan is an important transit station of the Maritime Silk Road, more than a thousand years ago, Hainan began to have fishermen in the ocean to Xisha, Zhongsha and even Nansha fishing operations, until recently, Hainan fishermen are still inextricably linked to the vast sea, it can be said that the sea is the carrier on which Hainan fishermen live, and the ocean is another important living space for Hainan people. The relationship between Hainan people and the sea, from confrontation to conquest to affinity, such a transformation of relationship reflects the harmony and closeness of man and nature, while looking at oneself, the transformation of subtle relationships also highlights self-reflection and self-examination. Therefore, Hainan has an innate advantage in creating marine literature.
In the past two years, under the active promotion and planning of the Provincial Writers Association, Hainan's marine literature has made some achievements. Hainan native writer Lin Sen's novels "Island", "On the Shore in the Sea", "Only Water Young", Li Huancai's "Island", and some writers wrote works on marine literature, etc., after being published in domestic core journals, the response is great, these are excellent works of marine literature with Hainan characteristics. In the future, the Provincial Writers Association will continue to work hard, under the call of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, with marine literature as the main body, and at the same time continue to excavate Hainan's Li miao culture, tropical rainforest culture, overseas Chinese culture, etc., integrate resources, and boost Hainan's literary cause to a higher level. Of course, Hainan's literary career is inseparable from the full support of all famous writers, I hope that you will return to Hainan more, pay more attention to Hainan, interview Hainan more, write more about our Hainan, give more valuable suggestions and opinions to marine literature, and look forward to your support! Finally, I wish all the writers in Qiongqiong an auspicious New Year and all the best!
The guests visited the South China Sea Museum in Hainan
The guests visited Samet Village