Awakening: Only a conscious soul can find the perfect destination for life

Life is not about the long and short, but about the early and late epiphany, rather than letting life rust, it is better to let life shine.

Today I would like to share with you Ran Zhengwan's "Awakening". Ran Zhengwan, born in 1967 in a small mountain village called Loess Bay in Yuqing County, Guizhou Province, has herded cattle and dug charcoal kilns. He worked as a geological team member and ran in the wild for 8 years. In 1997, he began to devote himself to creation, and in 2000, he entered "Mountain Flower" as an editor, and since then he has spent half of his time reading other people's works and half of his time running his own writing.

Today, Ran Zhengwan is the editor-in-chief of Nanfeng Magazine and has published novels, essays and reviews in more than 30 publications such as People's Literature, October, Chinese Writers, Contemporary, Huacheng, and Beijing Literature. Published short story collections "Running Life", "The King in the Tree Cave", "Someone Woke Up in My Dream", the novel "Bone Washing", "Paper House", "Silver Fish Coming", "Heavenly Eye" and so on. His works have been selected into the "Annual Selection of Chinese Short Stories" and "Chinese Short Stories of the Year", and have won awards such as the Guizhou Provincial Literature and Art Award.

"Awakening" is Ran Zhengwan's short story collection, which includes 6 works of "Awakening", "A Broadbill", "The Poet and the Shiitake Mushroom", "Tall Woman", "Crossbow", and "Slow Life".

Wu Jun, a cultural scholar and vice president of the Guizhou Provincial Linguistic Society, once said: "Ran Zhengwan's creation is a local and Guizhou story, a superb and vivid character portrayal, and a powerful expression of life. His style originates from folk and tradition, and constructs an artistic space with a modern atmosphere and customs in the process of creative transformation and innovative development. Ran Zhengwan's works provide multi-angle experience and enlightenment for Guizhou literature in the new era, which should be explored and summarized in depth. "Highly rated.

The 6 stories in "Awakening", starting from the main theme of "self-perseverance", tell 6 different personal worlds, the background spans history and the future, and explores the individual's adherence to faith, conscience, and good humanity.

"Mingyue spread wild cotton on the mat and exposed it to the sun. This mat is different from other mats in that it has never been dried with grain. The mat for drying grain is woven with bamboo, eight feet wide and one foot long, rolled up like a cannon barrel, rough pieces often split into fine wire, extremely sharp after breaking, and inserted into the flesh and painful and itchy but invisible, making people eager to chop off their hands. Mingyue's mats are much smaller and softer, and can be folded after being steamed with the green stalks of reeds. - "Awakening"

Ran Zhengwan said: "I don't dare to be sloppy, it is my attitude to writing. Reading the above text, you can feel the richness of the author's heart. Without the accumulation of life, it is impossible to write such a delicate text.

"Awakening" is about two different characters in a small village, both of whom came to this small village when they were young and until they were old. It seems to be written about ordinary people's chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, but in fact, everyone has everyone's story, and everyone has everyone's life. At the end of the story, the author unveils the mystery and the reader is relieved. In this story, the author awakens not only the conscience of man, but also the desire for life. How many people in our lifetime can come into your life? How many people's lives are something you envy? How many people's lives move you? If this story can awaken you and reorient your life, then I think the author must be very happy.

"A Toucan" is about an 80-year-old man who repeats one thing every day, that is, to look at the yellowed family portrait. Older people like to reminisce and like to think back to their happy times, because they can bring more happiness to themselves at the same time. In the past, although things have long been human, when they only have memories left, even if they have disappeared, they can still motivate themselves and even find happiness. People are old, but their memories are younger, which may also be a kind of reincarnation.

"The Poet and the Shiitake Mushroom", the name of this novel is very special, if the title of the novel alone is difficult to associate with the content of the story, in this story is written a special group, lepers, they live in a sinkhole. In the story, there is a dragon second wife who only uses electricity once a year. When the volunteers sent a rice cooker to Long Erbao's family, it turned out to be the biggest heart disease of Long Erbo, and she did not want to use electricity-consuming equipment because she was used to a simple life. Sometimes this is true, if you want to help a person, whether to give them fish or teach them to fish, you need to carefully consider, different people have different needs, do not force. In reading this story, we will find that what we see is the hardships of a group of people, but their living conditions, and how many people have longed for life.

"Slow Life" may be the state of life that many people expect now, but today's society does not allow it. In this story, the author uses a science fiction shell to satirize the modern way of life, and hundreds of TV channels do not know which one to watch. Two women walking together couldn't tell what relationship they were. People are often forgetful and even confused, because they have long been unable to keep up with the pace of the development of the times. So many people began to miss the life of childhood, when it was very happy to wear a new dress in the New Year, when watching an open-air movie can also feel happy, when life was relatively barren, but the spiritual world was greatly enriched, at that time has been enjoying a slow life, learning does not feel tired, work does not feel tired, and now completely changed. This change requires adaptation and reflection.

After reading this collection of novels, I am very pleased to find that the author is a kind and loving person, because what he writes is ordinary people, ordinary stories, but these stories are things that you don't know and are eager to know, so you can feel that the novel is real and infectious.

Xiao Jianghong, a writer and vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, commented that Ran Zhengwan's writing was not aggressive, very affinity, and did not want to interfere too much in the lives of others. The delicate character portrayal and meticulous plot embodiment are ran Zhengwan's writing advantages, and Xiao Jianghong believes that this stems from his serious and accurate writing attitude. "The greatest virtue of literature is accuracy, and Ran Zhengwan's novels restore regional culture accurately and delicately, and he is not only an excellent writer, but also a writer who loves writing and deserves respect." I agree with that.

The written design of "Awakening" is very simple. White tones, in which the names of the novels are placed horizontally and vertically in front of your eyes, at a glance. Awakening is very prominent, just like the previous tapes of singers, each tape has a main song, the main title of this novel collection is "Awakening", perhaps the author wants to use these novels to awaken the reader's conscience, awakening the reader's Seafood Mountain Zhen is more than a meat and a vegetarian. Awaken the reader to cherish the life in front of him and be a kind person, a happy person, a happy person.