"Art exists by conquest"
--Jia Pingwo
Jia Pingwa (wā) (1952-), formerly known as Jia Pingwa, is a famous contemporary Chinese writer from Dihua Town, Danfeng County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. He is the author of the novel collection "Jia Pingwo Award-Winning Novella Collection", "Jia Pingwo Self-Selected Collection", the novel "Shangzhou", "White Night", and the autobiographical novel "I Am a Farmer". A number of works have been selected as Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools.
Jia Pingwa is one of the few literary prodigies in the contemporary literary circles of the mainland, and is known as a "ghost talent". Jia Pingwa's works are both traditional and modern, both realistic and lofty, the language is simple and humble, but the heart is full of waves.
The scene depicted is the countryside he is familiar with, and mainly from a unique perspective accurately and profoundly represents the painful and tragic social transformation of China in the process of modernization in the past three decades from the end of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It not only completely restores and reproduces the true life of all sentient beings in real life, but also penetrates into the spiritual world of contemporary Chinese in a primitive narrative.
Qin Cavity
"Qin Cavity" unfolds in two lines, one line is Qin Opera, and the other line is the relationship between peasants and land. The two lines are intertwined and have evolved for nearly three decades in a village called Breeze Street.
Qingfeng Street has two major households, the Bai family and the Xia family, the Bai family has long declined, but the Bai family has produced a famous Qin opera actor Bai Xue, and Bai Xue married the son of the Xia family. Two generations of the Xia family dominate Qingfeng Street, and the two generations are full of confrontation and struggle in the change of holding on to the land and escaping from the land.
In the past thirty years, Qingfeng Street has truly and vividly reproduced the fierce impact and changes brought by the great transformation of Chinese society to the countryside, coupled with the difficult feelings between farmers and the land, the loss of land, the intrigues and struggles of the people in Qingfeng Town, and the spiritual panic and tearing brought to the peasants.
Wasted capital
"Xijing Magazine" published an article about the love affair between Zhuang Zhidi, a writer who is one of the four major cultural celebrities in Xijing, and the official jing director of the Cultural Department, and the author is Zhou Min. Zhuang Zhidi went to find Zhou Min, and had an affair with Tang Wan'er, a married woman who eloped with Zhou Min...
Set against the background of contemporary life in Xi'an, the ancient capital with a long history and culture, the novel recounts the living life of the "idle essayist" writer Zhuang Zhidi, the calligrapher Gong Jingyuan, the painter Wang Ximian and the artist Ruan Zhifei," showing the condensed landscape of the various "waste capitals" of Xijing City.
The author takes the entanglement of Zhuang Zhidi and the emotions of several women as the main line, and the interspersed narrative of Ruan Zhifei and other celebrities as the auxiliary line, and the pen and ink are suitable. Among many women, Tang Wan'er, Liu Yue, and Niu Yueqing created the most successful and most beloved distinct characters for him. In these spiritual, emotionally intelligent and classically tragic figures, the author's supreme aesthetic ideals are embodied.
White Nights
The book begins with the story of the reborn man. The husband of Mrs. Qi, who has been dead for more than ten years, came back one day to take a copper key to open the door and open the door to recognize the family, but his son thought that he had lost face and refused to recognize each other, and the old lady qi was ashamed and hanged, and the regenerator also lost the confidence to regenerate, and set himself on fire at the intersection and died again.
When the policeman Wang Kuan was fighting the fire, he picked the copper key of the regenerated man from the ashes. This key was later taken by Ye Lang and made a promise with Yu Bai. It was also this key that caused Ye Lang to suffer from nocturnal wandering, and it seemed that he was saddled with the mission of regenerating people, often going to open the door of No. 7 Zhuzhen Street at night.
The story ends with the folk drama "Jingwei Reclamation", and in this narrative framework, there are a large number of life stories that are almost original. There is no ups and downs in the plot, it just narrates the ordinary life story of a group of ordinary people in Xijing City.
With lights
"With Lights" tells the story of a female college student Ying, who is full of literary and artistic youth, who came to work in the Government of Yingzhen Town in the Qinling Area, and she was dissatisfied with the saying of "rotten grass fireflies" and changed her name to "With Lights".
With lights in charge of the stability maintenance work of the comprehensive management office, he has contacted all kinds of petitioners, including petitioning professional households, petitioning agents, etc. Some people have their interests infringed but do not know how to protect their rights, and some people have been entangled for decades because of a tree petition...
"With a lamp" means that fireflies glow in the dark. The heroine responsibly deals with the complex contradictions of the countryside. The novel has a strong sense of reality, and from the perspective of a Chinese township, it reflects the shocking changes that are taking place in China.