Huang Zuyue ‖ "Blood Of Mountains and Rivers": The Home and Country Feelings of the Left Step People

Zuo Bu people's feelings of home and country - reading the long-form reportage "Blood of Mountains and Rivers" has a feeling

The ancients said, read ten thousand books, travel thousands of miles. In fact, you can also use a good book to help us read books, follow the different fates of the characters in the book, follow their footsteps, through different life wisdom, feel different philosophies of life, feel different open-minded feelings. This is what I thought of when I read Mr. Zheng Wanli's "Blood In the Mountains and Rivers". Holding this book, first of all, it was the meaning of the title "Blood of Mountains and Rivers" that left me with suspense and attracted me to look for answers from the book.

Zheng Wanli's long-form reportage "Blood In Mountains and Rivers" was published by Guangdong People's Publishing House

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As the author walks into the book, he also seems to have walked into a history museum with a thick culture in Zuobu Village, Zhongshan City, and into a colorful historical picture of modern China. As summarized on the cover of the book, "The Brilliant Silhouette of the Sons and Daughters of Xiangshan Rushing to Shanghai", "The Wonderful Legend of the Villagers fighting in the Road mine in Southern Guangdong", and "The Glorious History of the People of the Pearl River resisting foreign insults", the entire book records a group of elites in Zuobu Village who have influenced the fate of Modern And Modern China's mountains and rivers. They came out of here, used their wisdom, wrote history, influenced the development of society, and became the blood of magnificent mountains and rivers. These left-step people with different talents have been active on the historical stage of china for more than a hundred years in modern times, and have used their legendary lives to write a rich and colorful stroke for the prosperity and development of the nation.

According to the trajectory of the characters' activities, the narrative order from far to near, this book uses the vertical structure of the characters in Shanghai, Tangshan, Wuhan, Guangzhou and several local narrative locations, showing a magnificent picture of China's modern history. Reading it, I deeply admire the "hematopoietic" function of Zuobu Village.

If everyone's life is compared to a long river, then each river constitutes the lifeblood of a mountain and river, or supplies nutrients, or dredges the operation of society. To sum up, there are Fang Juzan, Sun Yingde, and Fang Yilu, pioneers of national industry who founded the first national capital enterprise Fachang Shipyard and pioneered the Chinese to build machine-powered ships themselves; Ruan Lingyu, the queen of the film, and Fang Cheng, a comic master who has won the national title; Tang Tingshu, Sun Jinfang, and Sun Yifang, the right-hand men who threw themselves into the foreign affairs movement and opened the Kaiping Iron Mine in the Kailuan Coal Mine; Ruan Zhang, the leader of the early workers' movement and secretary of the Tangshan Committee; Ou Gengxiang, the premier of the Yuelu Road Company who was in danger; Ou Chu, a guerrilla leader who was brave and handsome; and Ou Baoxia, who participated in battlefield propaganda at the age of 14 Ou Suying, an underground traffic officer who delivered intelligence to the guerrillas at the age of 12; Ou Puren, a returned overseas Chinese who supported the Xinhai Revolution and the Chinese Communists' resistance to Japan; Ou Kaiwen, who sold his Hawaiian land and returned to his hometown to surround the fields; Feng Jianwei, a college student who resigned and returned to his village to work hard.

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This book has both historical and humanistic value.

First of all, let's talk about the historical value. What is described here is not only the history of China's modern political economy and culture, but also the history of the life struggle of the left-step people. From the perspective of a left-step person, the author records a colorful and magnificent modern history of China from many aspects such as politics, economy and culture. Whether it is the beginning of national industry or the vigorous foreign affairs movement, whether it is the tide of cantonese and Han railway workers, or the arduous anti-Japanese guerrilla war in Wuguishan, it is a picture in China's modern and modern history. In the process of promoting history, left-step people are indispensable members of it. From this point of view, it can also be said that this book is also a history of the struggle of the left-step people. This book, at the same time, writes the life course of the people of Zuobu Village, which is a history that concentrates their exploration process and life wisdom that can be used as reference. There is also a family that has several generations of family struggles from working to earn a living, and after bearing hardships and standing hard work, it has finally become the richest family in the local area.

Secondly, its humanistic value lies in the fact that this book excavates the humanistic spiritual connotation of zuobu this ancient village. In so many left-step people embodied in the spirit of innovation that dares to be the first, the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, the spirit of dedication to bear hardships and stand hard work, the spirit of inclusive tolerance, and the spirit of responsibility for the country.

In order to learn the art, Fang Juzan scolded his uncle", "Never care, always laugh, he is good at understanding the true meaning of the craft from the master's scolding, after all, he is a person who has read private school, and he will soon be able to pick a sledgehammer." "It is his hard-working, his down-to-earthness, and his kindness that led to the earliest Fachang Iron Works, and only then did he have the precedent of Chinese building a machine-powered ship by himself." Fang Juzan's son, Fang Yilu, was on the basis of the Huachang Iron Factory founded by his father, changed his business ideas, added advanced equipment, and added sand, hardware, fitters, etc. in business until the construction of small tonnage steamships.

Sun Jinfang can be described as a representative of creativity. According to several drawings provided by Jinda, he led Guangdong craftsmen to build the first locomotive "Dragon" in Kaiping Coal Mine. At the same time, Sun Jinfang is more concerned about the great cause of society. Remembering the great trust of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, he not only dedicated his life to the cause of China's railways, but also inherited and carried forward the cause of China's railways by his descendants.

Whether it is to grab the beach in Shanghai, or to go north to Tangshan, or to build roads, the left-step people use their creativity to show the feelings of home and country. As for the leaders of the workers' movement, Ruan Zhang, Sun Diefang, Ou Chu, Ou Baoxia, Ou Suying, and so on in the Battle Song of Wuguishan, all of them sacrificed themselves to benefit everyone and wrote heroic legends in the history of resisting foreign insults and seeking national independence and liberation.

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This documentary work has literary value that cannot be ignored. The history described here, from the Opium War to the Western Affairs Movement, to the Xinhai Revolution, from resisting foreign aggression to the exploration of their own dream of becoming a strong country, is not a thick line, but runs through the narrative and emotional waves of the fate of the characters who have ups and downs. These characters are figurative, even if they are old, not vague, but vivid and perceptible.

For example, when Fang Yilu heard his father's decision to be succeeded by him, his mind "buzzed" with fear. Fang Juzan took out these inner words with strength and temperature, and Fang Yilu was moved, he had never heard his father's praise, and he had a little inferiority in front of his father, so he did not dare to agree to his father's heavy trust. Listening to his father's heartfelt words, his heart settled. The description of such psychological activities not only shows the wisdom of Fang Juzan, but also clearly writes the process of Fang Yilu's ideological maturity.

After writing the film, Ruan Lingyu, "connects the silent film with the sound film, so that her performing arts present as a landmark beauty, thus giving the world a surprise, and let this surprise last for a long time", the author captured Ruan Lingyu's heart of kindness and purity; writing "the famous comic master" Fang Chengshi, not only wrote about his achievements in comics, but from his childhood "catching crickets, fighting crickets", but also wrote about his gratitude for the left step, Writing that he hated American soldiers driving jeeps through the streets of Shanghai, he drew a cartoon "American soldiers get out" and gave Pete a bottle of wine and lost his job. These depictions make master Fang Cheng's image show in many aspects, and the characters are more three-dimensional and vivid.

Writing about Ou Chu's life of returning to Zuobu Village to teach, he wrote that he was extremely comfortable in his heart, and every evening he boarded the small dirt bag in the south of the village to stroll and look at the scene of linglingyang: "On the shore of the lingling ocean under the sunset light, Venus Island arches up like a dragon ball on the surface of the vast water, and the two sides of the dragon ball are slapped on the embankment by the wind-blown tide, forming a dragon body surrounded by waves, and from a distance, it looks like a two dragon play beads." "There are a lot of similar depictions, which make people immersive and add a sense of presence.

In the narrative of the fate of the characters, it is obvious that the article carries the author's emotions and temperature everywhere, and penetrates the author's humanistic thoughts. The other party praised and other pioneering and enterprising praises, admiration for Sun Jinfang and others, and regrets about the shadow queen Ruan Lingyu who died young... Overflowing with words.

In my opinion, an excellent documentary literary work must enable people to read, understand the character stories and environmental culture recorded in the book, and arouse the infinite yearning in their hearts. The book "Blood Veins of Mountains and Rivers" has achieved this effect. Reading through this book, I not only walked into Zuobu Village, but also had a spiritual dialogue with the ancient and modern figures of Zuobu Village, feeling the hardships of their entrepreneurship, feeling their enthusiasm for the prosperity and strength of the country and the prosperity of the nation, and feeling their surging feelings of home and country.

The title of the book "Blood of Mountains and Rivers" is indeed wonderful. It summarizes whether it is going north to Tangshan, or grabbing beaches in Shanghai; whether it is building roads for Guangdong and Han, or resisting foreign insults; whether it is a century of humiliation in modern China, or the modernization journey of pursuing dreams and powers... The left-footers in every field can use their iron shoulders to shoulder the great righteousness of national prosperity, and use their surging passion and boiling hot blood to cast the soul of the nation that will not fall. They are the backbone of the nation, and their spirit is passed on from generation to generation. The feelings of their home and the world are with the mountains and rivers.

◆ Zhongshan Daily Media Development Center

◆ Photo/Xu Xiangdong

◆ Editor: Xu Xiangdong

◆ Second Instance: Xiang Caizhi

◆ Third trial: Yue Caiying

◆ Material source: Zhongshan Daily