——Li Houqiang
(Deputy Director of the Decision-making Advisory Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chairman of chengdu Federation of Social Sciences)
Weekend leisure, choose to read idle books. Historical materials, historical books, essays and travelogues, miscellaneous books that usually do not have time to take care of, many want to browse. When he was studying the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the "Compendium of Materia Medica", his old friend Yang Hongbin sent his new work "Into the Savage Mountain", which was really overjoyed, and immediately picked up the lamp to taste it, and the result was a sleepless night!
This is a strange book. The book is full of adventures, strange things, strange people, strange things, and wonders! Page by page, picture by picture, plot and text are closely tied to your gradually accelerating heartbeat, constantly hitting the nerves of your brain that are already tense enough, drowsiness is completely gone, and you must lose sleep. I immediately thought that this book is the contemporary Classic of Mountains and Seas! The cover is an ancient primitive wild tree, the mottled dead branches are covered with dendrobium blooming flowers, the dense forest that is gradually going away is unfathomable, but in the haze, white clouds and kingfishers are seen flying, and the Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House is revealed from the faint haze! Hong Bin said that this is "the discovery of a primeval forest in a corner of the mysterious world"! "The historical precipitation of Savage Mountain, the traces of step-by-step imprints, and the haunting of scenes have brought me a lasting shock!" In the book, the howls of tigers, the gun battles of the nations, the sudden floods, the bites of poisonous snakes, the cunning of drug dealers... All kinds of real scenes, shocking, unheard of.
It's a big book. It reflects the theme of the times, the destiny of mankind. Li Wenhua, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, wrote a preface to this book, entitled "The New Era Needs the Spirit of Exploration", which was highly evaluated. Academician Li said that the book "Into the Savage Mountain" is simple and concise in language, the technique is a travelogue, but it is by no means a simple travelogue, it is actually an undergraduate examination understanding, popular science reading, the whole book runs through the concept of green development - a flow of ideas, a cultural infection, a reflection of the spirit of persistence! Hong Bin also frankly confided in the "Afterword" that paying attention to ecology is the strongest sound of the earth, the understanding of Savage Mountain is a consideration of history and reality, and writing this popular science book in the form of travel notes is a new challenge, both to have a historical review, but also to have the pulse of the times, but also to have the reflection of life. That's right, man, a member of the world, must live in harmony with other creatures!
This is a real book. The book truly records 32 days of Savage Mountain expeditions, every page is authentic, every word is a sense of truth, no rhetoric, no disease-free moaning. Located at 25° north latitude and 96° east longitude on the Border between China and Myanmar, bordering India, Savage Mountain is known by locals as "the place where the devil dwells", and is a rare biological pure land in the world. There have been primitive tribes such as the Naga people for generations, with overlapping mountains, lush forests like the sea, swamps, many poisonous snakes, miasma, and tigers, bears and leopards. The Naga tribe is isolated from the rest of the world, and by chance it is mistaken for "wild people", hence the name Savage Mountain. The natives of Savage Mountain, simple and sincere, treat people kindly, the head of the double wood, Babu, Layunyun, guide Amu, Anan, Abu, Juejue, etc., close and lovely, fresh personality. The members of the scientific expedition team and their companions Duan Guojun, Chen Rusheng, Yingying, Yue Yue, Lao Yang, Xiao Shi, etc., are brave and wise, tenacious and persistent. Wild dendrobium, thousand-year-old tree tea, and rare flowers and honey in the depths of the original dense forest are rare in the world, and are not recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica". Dead trees, wadis, wild elephants, tigers, floods, sacred mountains, poisonous smoke, poisonous snakes, mosquitoes, impressive and unforgettable.
This is a beautiful book. The whole book is carefully printed on high-grade coated paper, highlighting the delicacy, exquisiteness, atmosphere and solemnity. There are only more than 40,000 words, a total of 8 chapters, but there are more than 150 large and small color photos, almost every page is a beautiful color photo plus beautiful text, so that people can feel the original beauty of the mysterious world in reading, and see the truth of the earth through the ancient habitat. In the wild mountains, the dendrobium flowers are dazzling and beautiful. The mobile phone has no signal, the compass fails, and you can only observe the moss on the ancient tree or cliff to identify the direction. The book is full of horror, fright, danger, crisis, trepidation, ups and downs, disappointments, but there are also sweet, delicious, warm, friendship, thinking, persistence, resistance, hope, giving people the strength to be positive and courageous. I've been to Gan Bang Ya on the China-Myanmar border, which is so beautiful that it's reminiscent of Hilton's Vanishing Horizon. The famous astronaut Yang Liwei also went there and planted a memorial tree by hand.
This is a history book. This book records the history of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the current situation of a number of Chinese veterans who have been displaced in foreign countries, and the deep brotherhood of the Chinese and Burmese peoples. The book writes that in March 1942, the Chinese Expeditionary Force retreated from Burma through the Savage Mountain, and under the guidance of the guide, some soldiers successfully arrived in the village of Pula in India, and another part of the soldiers returned to the motherland, where tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and lost, where the Chinese's heart was eternally wounded. In May 1942, more than 200 members of the Chinese Expeditionary Force were scattered in Kandi County, Burma. In order to remember and protect their comrades who died in Savage Mountain, they have been reluctant to leave this place of concern and have established their own small village in Chin Dun River. These anti-war veterans have passed away, and their descendants have migrated to Larong, Mandalay, Yangon and other places in Myanmar, and only more than 30 families are still holding on. After reading these unknown historical materials, I couldn't help but burst into tears and silently salute the distance!
From this book", "Into the Savage Mountain", I found truth, goodness and beauty. The author Yang Hongbin is a real person, but also a strange person, a poet, but also a scholar, and it is not surprising to write such a good book. The truth of the universe, the goodness of the savages, and the beauty of life spread freely in his book, stirring up thousands of ripples in the reader's heart. Hong Bin is not tall, short hair and black face, there is no special hobby, at first glance like a pure country rough man, informal, not good at dress, no drinking, no toast, no talk, no greetings, just burying his head in food and drinking soup, the action is sharp and agile, often others have not officially opened he has left the table. His only hobbies are germplasm and scientific research. Once when I went to his dendrobium base to investigate, he rode a dilapidated tricycle to pick me up in a hurry, saying that the driver was not there, which was faster and more environmentally friendly. He is the leader of the national "10,000 people plan", committed to the research of wild dendrobium for more than 10 years, created the country's largest national dendrobium forest park Ganbangya, in the world's about 1500 species of dendrobium, he collected and mastered a total of 1097 species of dendrobium germplasm resources, accounting for 73% of the world. A few years ago, I led Hong Bin to The Qingbaijiang River in Chengdu to establish the world's largest dendrobium seed bank and an international dendrobium research and development center, which received widespread attention. In September 2021, he cooperated with the Shenzhou XII manned spacecraft to conduct the "space dendrobium" scientific research, which had a great impact on the world. Such a person, who looks up to the stars and is down-to-earth, will surprise you at any time, he walked into the Savage Mountain, and may also climb to the top of Mount Everest! But he says his best works will appear tomorrow. Hong Bin, see what tricks you still have?! We look forward to it.
(Thursday, January 27, 2022)