She is known as the "standard-bearer of Beijing-style literature" after Lao She. Some people think that a revival of Kyo-style literature was seen in her novels.
She has been a guest on CCTV's "100 Forums", done three in-depth interviews, and many works have been selected for students to read textbooks or reading exercises.
"100 Pulpits" program
She writes novels, writes essays, and also works as a screenwriter. Her works have won important awards such as the Lu Xun Literature Award, the Lao She Literature Award, the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the Ethnic Minority Literature Horse Award, the China Good Book, the Liu Qing Literature Award, the Xiao Hong Literature Award, and the Chinese Women's Literature Award. She also adapted her novel "Family Portrait" to the stage, and the TV series "Tea House" adapted by her lao she classic was also widely acclaimed.
Shu Ji, the daughter of Lao She, believes that "'Tea House' written by Ye Guangqian is the best TV series adapted in the past twenty years. ”
Drama "Family Portrait", poster of tv series "TeaHouse"
The famous writer Jia Pingwa commented on her: "The famous artists in the Chinese literary world, talented and particularly quiet, in the era of entertainment and consumption, she insisted on the sacred sense of literature and faithfully wrote her heart with her pen. ”
She is the writer Ye Guangqian.
Ye Guangqian was a flag bearer, and her "ye" was Yehenara's Ye, which was once a large and famous surname, and was widely known as Empress Dowager Cixi, and Ye Guangqian was a descendant of Yehenara.
After the Xinhai Revolution, the family changed their surname to Ye. She was her father's daughter, and there were more than a dozen older brothers and sisters who were dozens of years older than her, and everyone affectionately called her "Wang Ba ya ya".
Her readers like to call her a "grid writer."
But she said that the aristocratic family is incomparably superior to imagine, but the life of the descendants of the nobility after the Xinhai Revolution is only depressed and sad. For her, it was the most painful memory.
She once laughed at herself, saying that her wealth of knowledge of antique rooms was actually obtained through the sale of her own objects.
In the 1960s, fate threw her out of Beijing and settled her on a high slope of loess. She has experienced hardships and hardships, and even tried to commit suicide at one point. In the 1980s, she began to write novels, publishing works such as "Between Husband and Wife" and "In the Same Cell". In the 1990s, she went abroad and lived on a hill in Hiroshima Suzuno peak in Japan.
At this time, she wrote a series of novels and essays set in the Pacific War and japanese life.
She wrote about the tragic lives of comfort women after the disaster, and also about some orphans and disabled children left in China when Japan surrendered...
Living in the Qinling period, her works gradually showed the modern thinking of the relationship between man and nature, and she began to pay attention to the land where she had lived for decades - Qindi culture, Guanzhong style, and Qinling ecology.
She began her walk, writing wherever she went, writing whatever she wanted.
Aokigawa Ancient Town in southern Shaanxi
"Old County Town" and "Aoki River" quietly tell the past and present life of the old town of Qindi, connecting the past and present of the ancient village of the old town, feeling our understanding of our ancestors and respect for life.
Beautiful scenery of Qinling Mountains Li Yongjian /Photography
Works such as "Tiger Dafu" and "Mountain Ghost Wooden Guest" come from the true stories of people and nature, people and animals in the Qinling Mountains, and all the sentient beings in the vast mountains and wilderness are spirits sprinkled on the human world.
She insisted that the fictional part should be attached to the real, not the real to the fiction.
She firmly believes that walking is also a kind of literature. Experiencing it yourself is the happiest thing in life.
Chen Zhongzhong praised: "Whether it is Ye Guangqian's family novels or her novels about shaanxi folk and rural areas, there is a unique, profound and personalized experience. In the reality of life and the truth of art, she has completed a relatively perfect creation. ”
It's time. Looking back at the past, her self-enclosed unconsciousness was broken, the past began to pour into the pen, and the sojourn life inspired something silent and sad in her heart. As a result, works such as "Picking Mulberries", "Zhuangyuan Media", and "Last Year's Weather Old Pavilion" have come out one after another, with the author's shadow and life, writing about the decline of a family and a family, as well as the fireworks in the depths of the old Beijing, which is both true and legendary.
The shadow wall of the old Beijing courtyard
"I cherish the materialS that I have, some of them are not available to anyone, and I am often moved by my material," she says. These materials are not recorded in books, but melt in my heart and become a part of my life. Many times, nothing exists, only this emotion remains. ”
Have some thoughts, some feelings, more understanding, write about the mansion, write about the capital, and also write about life.
Her family novels, which are dotted with canons, etiquette, collections, architecture, traditional Chinese medicine and other knowledge, are naturally precipitated after the glitz has faded, which is dazzling and makes the novel itself appear deep-rooted. The unique life and encounters have created Ye Guangqian's thickness and daguan, her writing has fallen without decadence, sighing vicissitudes can finally be relieved, telling the story, calmly stretching, mourning without hurting.
"Ye Guangqian's Beijing flavor, the first one is 'ink incense', not pretentious, not pinched, calmly stretched out the breath of the book han ink. The narrative writer is like a number of family treasures, the beginning and the end of the transition is not impatient, and the hands and feet are revealed to reveal the legacy of the boudoir and cultural heritage. Writer Deng Youmei praised it so much.
Looking back, "Helpless flowers fall, déjà vu swallow returns."
In 2022, Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House launched a new edition of "Ye Guangqian's Collected Writings", which includes ten works such as the long novels "Picking Mulberries", "Family Portrait", "Aoki Chuan", "Zhuangyuan Media", the short story collection "Huanglian Houpu", "Mountain Ghost Muke", "Old Pavilion in Last Year's Weather", documentary literature "Luoshihe Without a Diary", "Old County Town", and the script collection "Tea House".
Exclusive licensing, new revisions, beautifully framed, authoritative version. At present, a single book has been listed one after another.
There is also the life of Zi Yanhong, but also the withered desolation after the prosperity and the loneliness that is unknown to the unknown.
"Picking Mulberries"
Ye Guangqian/Author
Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
Published in January 2022
The novel "Picking Mulberries" is composed of nine stories that are both interrelated and alienated from each other, telling the life of the descendants of the Manchu nobles after the Republic of China, the Manchus scattered in the gate of the mansion, the fourteen brothers and sisters of the Jin family and their relatives and friends running to the west and east, depicting the historical vicissitudes of a family in old Beijing and the fate of their children, showing the era, changes in the world and cultural transformation in China in the past hundred years, which makes people sigh three times. The Manchu lyricist Naran Zhide's "Picking Mulberries and Who Flipped the Desolate Song of the Music House" was once praised by Mr. Liang Qichao as a "lament of the times", calling it "a big vision and deep feelings", and the same is true of this book. Writing is not decadent, sighing vicissitudes can finally be relieved, telling the story, not being sullen and impatient, calmly stretching and overflowing with the atmosphere of books and ink, quite a lot of style.
Family Portrait
The novel "Family Portrait" depicts the three generations of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Wang Mantang family of the ancient Jianhang bank living in the Courtyard of Beijing and the generations of their neighbors for fifty years of enmity and hatred, life and death, and sorrow and joy, and the plot is twisty and vivid, moving and thought-provoking. The story takes place around everyone, and the vivid language and writing and the rich atmosphere of life make the work have a strong affinity. With Juanxiu's delicate brushstrokes, the author portrays a group of characters with distinct personalities and vivid characters. The novel unfolds the story in the social transformation of more than half a century, deepens the theme of loving the country, loving life and loving life, showing the positive attitude and outlook of Beijingers to life and world affairs everywhere, and unfolding a colorful picture of the customs and customs of citizen life for the reader, which is full of charm and endless aftertaste.
《Aoki River》
Ye Guangqian went deep into the mountainous towns of southern Shaanxi, excavated the memories of the depths of the Qinling Mountains, and resurrected a dusty history. The novel "AokiGawa" takes the legendary experience of Wei Futang, the leader of the Aoki river bandits, as the main line, supplemented by three auxiliary lines of Feng Ming, Feng Xiaoyu and Zhong Yishan, and the brushstrokes go in and out of the intersection of history and reality, which not only adds rich and full artistic charm to the work, but also reflects the tension of the work in all aspects of history and reality, time and space, plot and structure, and character personality. At the same time, the author's respect for history and culture, the pursuit of the good and evil of human nature, and the merits of history in his works are all seemingly inadvertent and deliberate descriptions, which makes the work have a considerable height and depth.
"Champion Media"
The novel "Zhuangyuan Media" is a representative work of the Series of works of the Ye Guangqian family of Jingwei literature, which tells the story of Liu Chunlin, the last ruler of the Qing Dynasty, who acted as a matchmaker, which promoted the marriage of Jin Ruiyi, the father of the royal family, and Chen Meizhen, a commoner mother, which triggered the story of family members and relatives and friends in the door of the Jin family mansion. The work is based on the perspective of Xiao Gege "I" as the axis, and is written with the titles of eleven Peking Opera plays. From the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution to today's reform and opening up, he has written about the characters and sentient beings with a background of a hundred years, the values of the people of Beijing, and the customs and customs of Beijing society. Those details, those joys, those bits and pieces that cannot be picked up, are like a bottle of wine that has been aged for many years, and when the night is quiet, it is slowly tasted for a long time, and the aftertaste is endless. Ye Guangqian used her unique, unforgettable and familiar life materials to conceive and create them carefully. Her direct experience and study of traditional culture, her keen perception of the changes in the world, and the knowledge and open-mindedness of her own cultivation, coupled with the realistic artistic style, have given this work an extraordinary charm.
"Huang Lian Houpu"
"Huang Lian Houpu" is a collection of novellas, selected into more than ten novellas. The novella of the same name, "Huang Lian Houpu", tells the story of the TCM complex of several generations of an imperial doctor family and the emotional entanglement of their children. The author names the story after the common Chinese medicines of Huanglian and Magnolia, and skillfully combines the development of the storyline, and the color, pharmacology, treatment and medicinal metaphors of Huanglian Magnolia run through the beginning and end of the text, showing the writer's great love and understanding of life and death and emotion. "Wind", "Frost", "Fog", "Rain", and "Kasumi" are all works related to Japan. He wrote about the Japanese invasion of China, about the tragic life of comfort women after the disaster, and about some orphaned and disabled children left in China when Japan surrendered, most of whom were raised by kind Chinese. After the 1980s, Sino-Japanese relations gradually improved, and some of them grew up Japanese children returned to their home countries. But after all, they are children who grew up in China, and the differences in environment and culture make it difficult for them to integrate into Japanese society. Both in structure and brushwork, these works demonstrate the author's profound skill.
"Mountain Ghost Wooden Guest"
"Mountain Ghost Muke" is a collection of novellas by Ye Guangqian, which has been selected into more than ten novellas. Nine articles, such as "Panda "Shredder", "Tiger Dafu", "Mountain Ghost Wooden Guest", "Blackfish Chitose", "Long Worm Two Trembling", "Monkey Village Chief", "Crow Karas", "Dog Bear Shujuan", "Attention to Bear Haunting" and so on, seem to be related to animals, but in fact, they borrow inscriptions to write people, reverence for life, reverence for history, and reverence for nature. "Tao'er" is an early work of the author, which is not long, with a childlike perspective, a childlike tone, and a prose culture style. "Shore", "Anecdotes of Learning to Drive", "Twins", "Photogenic" and other themes are relatively extensive, and the works are also brilliant in structural settings, showing the writer's strong creative ability.
"Last Year's Weather Old Pavilion"
This is a collection of novels about life in Beijing, which contains the author's shadow and life. Each article in the book is the name of Beijing architecture, such as the Sun Palace, the Rear Cover Tower, the Singing Evening Pavilion... These are the places where Beijing has disappeared or changed its appearance in the process of becoming an international metropolis, which contains the author's attachment and nostalgia for the backward but inner peace of mind in the past. The author lived in Beijing since childhood, and later joined the team to go to Shaanxi, and thus became a "northwestern person", decades of life experience away from her hometown, so that she poured more affection into her writing. It can be said that these places written by the author with a pen full of passion are precious memories left to modern Beijing and contemporary Beijingers. This is the memory of a generation, and it is also the footprint of a generation. Years later, the author looks around dazedly, his relatives are old, his family is lost, the hutongs are demolished, and the neighborhood is nowhere to be found. The old feeling has gone far, along with those stories of obvious extinction, hidden in the depths of history, like a gust of wind, fading, scattering...
"The Rashi River Without a Diary"
"LuoshiHe Without a Diary" is a collection of essays by writer Ye Guangqian, which records the author's decades of life experience. The author of this little book writes heavily and lightly. To say heavy is to turn over years of obsolescence that I do not want to touch. Looking at the past, although a smile has passed, but that smile is not a comfortable smile after all. Although those bitter and bitter have become wine, they must be written out, and the raw materials must be carefully sifted and analyzed. Some chapters are written with tears in their eyes, and some chapters are about things and interrogations that have never been told to people. The author is not writing, but dissecting himself one by one. Write about her strengths, her weaknesses, her easy-going, her arrogance, her successes, her failures... It's all there.
《Old County Town》
"Old County Town" is a collection of essays by Ye Guangqian, the main content of which is the author's travel experience and experiences inside and outside the region. Among them, the part within the region mainly includes "Old County Town", which is a long cultural essay completed by the author during his stay in the old county town of Zhou to Shaanxi Province, looking for local monuments and anecdotes and investigating natural rare animals and plants; the extraterritorial part mainly describes the author's life and study tour experience in Japan. Due to the author's special cultural background and tortuous experience, the life inside and outside the territory presented in this book is in stark contrast - both the simple folk customs of the old county and the strangeness of Japan's international metropolis; the events recorded are both the bandits in Qindi's hometown and the cultural collision of studying abroad life... The author's language is vivid and vivid, his temperament is extraordinary, and his emotions are sincere and abundant, which is a good prose work that can be read in contrast to the novel.
The Tea House
"Tea House" includes the script of the TV series adapted from Mr. Lao She's "Tea House" and Ye Guangqian's original drama script "Family Portrait". Set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of a large teahouse called Yutai in old Beijing, "The Tea House" shows the social landscape of Beijing and the changes in the lives of different characters of all walks of life in the nearly fifty years from the late Qing Dynasty to the Beiyang warlord period to the victory of the War of Resistance. Ye Guangqian was quite interested in the literary creation form of drama, and also had a lot of research, and wrote many plays. The two plays included in this collection are his representative works, which are the successful embodiment of his literary genre and language shape. The characters written in the book are full of voice and narrative interest; The Beijing dialect is full of Beijing flavor and Beijing rhyme.
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