Eagles soaring over the sky
——Reading Liu Zihua's "Chasing Dreams of The Sea and the Sky"
Wen 丨 He Sheng
"Chasing Dreams and Seas and Heavens" is a long-form reportage based on the "people's hero" Zhang Chao, published by Hunan Education Publishing House and publicly distributed nationwide. The book, with a total of 165,000 words, narrates Zhang Chao's life from elementary school, junior high school, high school to military camp, reproduces his growth experience, mental journey, interprets Zhang Chao's lifelong unrepentant pursuit of dedication to the cause of aircraft carriers, and carries forward the faith and loyalty of contemporary soldiers, the bloodiness and responsibility of sea and air guards, and the character and demeanor of young outstanding communist party members.
Liu Zihua and Zhang Chao, the authors of "Chasing Dreams and Seas and Heavens", are both Yueyang people, his Zhang Chao loves to laugh, is kind, and has a sense of justice, driving a fighter plane to soar above the sea and sky is his lifelong pursuit and faith, and the general textbook-style boring reportage is different, the text description and factual record of "Chasing Dreams and Seas and Heavens" are objective and rational at the same time with emotional strength, Zhang Chao in the book is not only a people's hero, but also an ordinary man with faith, feelings, flesh and blood, a husband and a father, "Chasing Dreams and Seas and Heavens" The stories recorded in it may seem simple, but they are extremely epic.
Liu Zihua's text is very simple and easy to read. After the premature death of three children, Zhang Chao's father was forced to go to the city to earn a living, the inner pain and hardships of life, the joy when he found a job later, and the hope brought by Zhang Chao when he was born... Wait, an old father with a heavy burden jumps out of the paper and comes to the reader's mind. Zhang Chao's mother is also an ordinary rural woman, for her fourth son, she is spoiled and loved and afraid, holding it in her hand for fear of falling, and holding it in her mouth for fear of melting.
"The family worries about Zhang Chao day and night, afraid of something missing."
The life of ordinary families and the affection of blood thicker than water are written between the lines, and even readers who do not have much reading experience can feel it the moment they open the page and smell the ink on the paper.
When emotional expression is needed, Liu Zihua's words are not ambiguous. In the first chapter of the opening table of contents, "The Journey of Anxiety", a short sentence "Zhang Ya did not feel a trace of warmth, like a lonely goose, allowing loneliness to pervade in his heart." The mood of Zhang Chao's wife Zhang Ya was completely displayed, and the feeling of depression that seemed to fall into the abyss and even the breathing became heavy was breathless. Love in the sea and the sky, Zhang Chao and Zhang Ya are people flying in the clouds, love let them know each other and accompany each other, Zhang Chao's integrity and responsible personality charm and yearning for the sky are deeply attracted to Zhang Ya.
The story described in "Chasing Dreams and Seas and Heavens" is very easy to understand, because the author's writing style is simple, but at the same time it can make people deeply moved, because the emotions expressed are profound. From "Righteous Boy" to "Eagle of the Blue Sea", I can see Zhang Chao's growth, I can see the unswerving faith in his heart, and I can see him gradually become mature and become a responsible Chinese boy. In the "blue sky of the soul" to "the thoughts of crossing time and space", I can read the sincere feelings of home and country in Zhang Chao's heart, read the remembrance and sadness of Zhang Chao's sacrifice, the whole text here naturally enters the atmosphere of sadness, I thought that the whole book would end in this emotion, because tragedies are often more touching, but in the final chapter "between the blue sky and the earth", I saw Zhang Chao's heroic faith and spiritual inheritance, and the emotional tone of the whole book was quietly raised in "Heroes Are Immortal". The depth and breadth of the work has also been sublimated.
"Chasing Dreams and Seas" has lasted three years from creation to publication, although it is a reportage, it is less serious and rigid, more image and lyrical, there is delicate family affection and love, there is firm faith and responsibility, there is the sadness of the death of the hero, and there is also the excitement of spiritual immortality. When you open the book, you have a heavy heart, when you read it, you are excited, and you will have endless memories after closing the book, perhaps this is the unique charm of the combination of heroic epic and reportage.