"Moonlight Treasure Box" is a collection of short and medium stories by writer Tang Chengnan, including seventeen novels created by him in various periods. She wrote about the daily life of these little people with the poetry of Jiangnan, and wrote about the worldly warmth mixed in the chicken feathers of a place.
Today, Xiao Yijun brings you a book review of "Moonlight Treasure Box", allowing us to understand the taste in a closer way.
Gangnam good heavy snow
Wen/Lin is not drunk
When the first snow of 2021 was about to come, I received a text message from SF Express: "You have a courier from Yangzhou to Huzhou. Seeing this text message, I smiled with relief, and I knew that Tang Chengnan's new book was coming.
Tang Chengnan is my good friend, there is no doubt about this. So in the circle of friends to know that her new book was published, I silently went to the Internet to buy a copy, although it is said that "the book can not be read without borrowing", but Tang Chengnan's new book must be bought, it is not easy for the writer to publish a book at the moment, the human article is not valuable, as a friend just rubbing the book is a bit unrighteous. At the same time, I also have a little mischief in mind: when Tang Cheng has difficulty delivering a new book to me one day, I will tell her that I have already bought it and read it. Because I believe that the books that Tang Cheng gave me will definitely be on the way.
We also often smile at this little trick of sending things without saying hello. This is the friendship of the 300 km of the postal circle, and my friendship with Chengnan is the blog era, that is to say, our friendship began when Tang Chengnan wrote novels on the blog, so I have read every one of her novels. When "Moonlight Treasure Box" arrives, holding the book in hand, it is like the return of the deceased, and each novel in it witnesses the years of a text, vivid as yesterday.
Book donation and rubbing books are two different things, and gifting books represents precious friendship, such as my friend Tang Cho is not among the book donations, although he often appears as Tang Chengnan's friend. Every time he encounters something like Tang Chengnan's novel winning an award, Tang Chou will show off in the circle of friends: "We have drunk wine together and killed people." ”
Indeed, our deep friendship began with "killing." This "killing" is not what Teacher Li Bai said: "Kill one person in ten steps, and leave no line for thousands of miles." It is the popular "close your eyes when it gets dark" in the early years.
The game was later eliminated by werewolves, but we played it tirelessly for over a decade. Usually on a weekend, a group of people are in Zhenjiang or Huzhou, Yangzhou, Nanjing, roaring, drinking wine and eating meat, and "killing people" all night is our usual leisure method in those years. Tang Cheng always made innocent gestures when he got the "killer", and then talked about it, and stunned us. Only Mai Zi's classmates in Nanjing could find Ni Duan from their micro-expressions, but when Mai Zi ran to Daliangshan to support the teaching, Tang Chengnan rarely met an opponent.
This became the capital she has been bragging about, Tang Chengnan said, "When I was a child, I was a real stutter, my mother felt that my life was finished, she was very desperate, so I simply did not open my mouth, like a dumb." It wasn't until I was in junior high school that I was better, able to speak in full, and since then I have changed amazingly, and I have also performed language programs in college , sketches.
Then I played werewolf killing with a bunch of friends and analyzed it endlessly, and for a few years I was like a talk show actor, and I never felt that the tongue could be so flexible and agile, as if it was not a small piece of meat, but a live jumping fish. ”
Making up stories is a novelist's basic ability, and the above passage is obviously exaggerated. However, Tang Chengjian said that she was a "non-verbal" person when she was a child, and I believe it.
There is a kind of person who is not born good at greeting, politeness and hook-up, not social fear, but will blush when talking to people, but the mind is sharp, versatile, some words roll in the heart several times is not spoken, it is really born to write novels. Or, in other words, the literary category of the novel is meant to save this category of people.
This kind of person is a radiant person with friends, and it is a change of person. Because so am I. When I was a child, I was also unfavorable to speak, and the difference between me and the difficulty was that I did not change much when I grew up, becoming a big tongue that was ridiculed by my friends, but now many friends say that I have social, which shows what kind of social torture I have experienced, and I will not mention it here.
As we all know, I am a person who likes to praise others, except for difficulties. - Because she praised herself, she said it herself. This is very appetizing to me, although some people are good at self-deprecation, but compared with those who dare to praise themselves, the rank is still lower.
The title of "Moonlight Treasure Box" is taken from a single article in the book, which has won awards and has also been on the annual rankings, and has received rave reviews. Cheng nan is smug about the name, but I think the name is a little less wild. To admit that there is a wild nature in the words of the difficulty, the beauty of the wild wild. So when her novels were constantly being used as high school Chinese reading comprehension questions, I laughed unkindly. I didn't look at the "standard answer," but I knew I wouldn't get a perfect score even if it was hard to do.
I especially like the words that are difficult to describe the countryside, such as the orchard of lao tang, when I return to my hometown, lao tang as a father's various appearances to his daughter, alive and free is my family's neighbor uncle, natural and kind. "Every time I come home, my four dogs will line up to welcome me," she said. I wandered around the village, and they were inseparable, which made me feel very confident. Sometimes they go to group fights, presumably by appointment, in the wheat fields, by the river, by the haystacks. Another group of dogs will also arrive on time, and my four dogs will work together, barking wildly and rushing up, and the momentum will overwhelm each other. "Our generation's childhood was in the countryside, and when they grew up, they went to the city, as if they had been wandering all their lives. For example, Cheng Nan likes to hike, but she can't walk out of her hometown for a lifetime.
I have always believed that childhood in the countryside is the root of literature, the source of the wildness of words, and literature will lose its vitality and spirituality without the beauty of free growth. I think that if we remove the wildness and agility in the Book of Poetry, it is nothing, at most it is just a collection of poems of "old stem body".
I find it difficult to describe a person in terms of the length of ten years, and ten years can change a person a lot, such as becoming difficult. Is it the difficulty of dancing in the streets and riding a bicycle around Nanjing, or the quiet difficulty of painting and seeing strangers blushing? Do you prefer to hike and drive to Tibet, or do you run into the wilderness alone and sit on a winter field for an afternoon? She wrote the sorrow and joy of life, trepidation and comfort, poetry and violence into the novel, so what about the difficulties outside the novel?
In fact, as a friend, I don't care how well her novels are written, I only care about whether she has been happy in the past ten years, whether she is as happy as ever, and I prefer to have time with her and our friends to drink, brag, "kill", and sing. And, the laughter that has been on the road.
In terms of a snow falling in Gangnam, the width of the time of ten years is just right, because snow is not common in Gangnam. Ten years ago, in the winter, we drank wine on the bamboo floor by the Xiazhu Lake, and the "we" here refers to the literary friends who gathered together in the north and south of the world, when the youth was hot, the words were excited, and the wine was also drunk.
The room was noisy and lively, I don't know who pushed open the window, and a heavy snow was falling quietly. The lake is white, and the heavens and the earth are silent. At that moment, we suddenly stopped talking and looked out the window together quietly, like the end of a good novel.
This year, the snow fell three times in Gangnam. Before every snow came, I shouted in the circle of friends to cook wine and watch the snow, but I never succeeded. It's not that there is no wine, it's that there are no people who watch the snow together.
At the moment, people dare not travel far, can not get together, but I can make another appointment with distant friends in the text: when the snow falls, whether it is going to the mountains or to the lake, wait until the sky and the earth are white, wait until the lights come on. At that time, you can sing, laugh, or stop the cup, and the moonlight outside the window sprinkles the mountains and rivers, illuminating the snow on the ground, like a dream, like the moonlight treasure box that we opened countless times in the early years of the rivers and lakes.
(This article was originally published on China Writers Network)
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