The hit drama "The World" has not seen enough? Take a look at these more enjoyable Northeastern literatures

The 58-episode CCTV new year drama "The World of Man" came to an end, and a series of war reports were also in front of the eyes: the ratings hit a new high in CCTV in the past eight years; in the absence of traffic stars, traffic big IP blessings, and the average age of the main actors exceeded 40 years old, the Douban score reached 8.1 points; as of the end, the premiere audience size was nearly 400 million; the unfinished broadcast has been acquired by Disney for overseas distribution rights.

"The World of Man" seems to be the story of a family in Northeast China for decades, but in fact it has touched the complex emotions of several generations of people and touched the joys and sorrows of the big times. The last thing that made the story of Tohoku so pleasing seems to be "Breaking into Kanto" more than a decade ago.

In recent years, literary and artistic works with the northeast region as the main narrative have once again appeared in people's field of vision. The movie "Tiexi District", "Daytime Fireworks", to the novel "Winter Swimming", "Moses on the Plain", and then to the popular "Desert River Ballroom" and "Wild Wolf Disco", in the blink of an eye, Northeast literature and art has become a new fashion. Writers Shuang Xuetao, Ban Yu and Zheng Zhi were also collectively known as the "Three Musketeers of Northeast China" by the media.

Today, I compiled a list of books and movies, trying to present more different northeast landscapes, northeast character group portraits and the taste of northeast cuisine from literary and artistic works, and even teach you to understand the wonderful northeast dialect.

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LITERATURE

#1

The Field of Life and Death

Xiao Hong

Tianjin People's Publishing House

In 1935, "The Field of Life and Death" was published at his own expense, with Lu Xun as the foreword and Hu Feng as the afterword. Xiao Hong became famous in one fell swoop. At this time, at the age of 23, she had spent most of her life under house arrest, pregnancy, vagrancy, and abandonment.

Xiao Hong placed her thoughts on life and death in the countryside of Harbin before and after the 9/18 incident. A group of people with numbness written on their faces.

It depicts not only the northeast of the 1930s, but also most of China.

"Man and animal together, busy with life, busy with death."

#2

Immortal Disease

Zheng Persisted

Republic of Beijing Daily Press

The mental patient who fantasized about serving in the submarine, the lonely bird driver in the Shenyang airport, the poor ghost paradise, the drunkenness, the night, the traveler's wanderings, the boy's long farewell to his father... In the northern cities at the turn of the century, the characters are always in a state of loss.

This book is a new work after Zheng Zhi won the first prize of the "Carp Anonymous Writers Project" in 2018 and the first "Zhong Shan Star" Annual Youth Masterpiece Award in 2019 with the short story "Immortal Disease", which contains six novels such as "Immortal Disease", which was praised by Su Tong for "contributing a new character image", "Monte Carlo Cannibal" published in "Harvest" in 2019 "Young Writers Novel Album", and the novella "Forest in the Forest".

Magic stories and detective novels have a mixture of elements, strong regional colors, special forms of daily life, and tell the story of a boy's escape and return to his own destiny in a concise and humorous tone.

#3

Moses on the Plains

Shuang Xuetao

"Moses on the Plains" is the masterpiece of novelist Shuang Xuetao, including ten very stylistic short and medium stories, the most classic of which is the work of the same name: Christmas Eve in Yanfan Street in 1995, a mystery hidden by heavy snow, an unannounced appointment, a heart born in the hand... The people who have been banished by fate, they are the losers, slipping from the gears of the times, and they are also the messengers, carrying the secret of sin and punishment. Only the love and faith of mortals separate the layers of waves on the pink street and open up the road to salvation. Ten contemporary short masterpieces hidden under the ice, washing away the dirt and grime, pressing fate, sending the soul to an inaccessible temple.

#4

Winter Swimming

Ban Yu

Ideal Country Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore

"Winter Swimming" contains seven novels by Ban Yu. On the edge of the railroad tracks, fortifications and heavy snow, there are some figures of the past: printing factory workers, crane drivers, strange gamblers and unemployed people... They live passively, facing threats, embarrassment, habitual silence, like a peak or wind, distant and lonely.

The north is extremely cold, but there is light and heat hidden in their bodies. Some "leap out of the air and emerge from the cracked wind," and some "kneel on the ground and make a thunderous cry." The light and heat of these individuals will eventually break through the ice, light up the darkness, and carve a warm memorandum for today's north.

#5

"Once Upon a Time in Northeast China"

By Michael Mail

Translated by He Yujia

Shanghai Translation Publishing House

"The Northern Wilderness in my eyes is beautiful and unique, and deserves this name that arouses infinite memories and resonance."

The author, Michael, is an American and a Northeastern son-in-law. He lived in his wife's childhood place, Badland Village. The Northeast seems to be isolated from the development of the twenty-first century. He thus witnessed the struggles of this small village in modernization.

"I know very well that in the northeast, I can find out about China's past. But unexpectedly, in the wasteland, I could get a glimpse of the future of the country. ”

#6

Fushun Story Collection

By Zhao Song

Guangdong People's Publishing House

"Memories don't bring comfort, but they have the potential to perpetuate inner life."

Fragments of fushun's memories are staggered in these twenty-five short essays. Its people, its things, its things, are intertwined like a great web. This old industrial city, between black and white, is once again vivid.

#7

Taste of the World

Xiao Yu

Guangxi Normal University Press

Food prose has always been loved. Between the lines, it seems to be soaked with the seductive color of food.

This book integrates the five flavors of salty, sweet, sour, spicy and fresh, telling the warm and moving story behind each Northeastern dish. Sugar garlic, sauerkraut, pot wrapped meat, frozen tofu, pearl emerald white jade soup, cabbage pork stew noodles... Is there anything you like?

#8

Dictionary of Northeast Chinese

Edited by Gao Yonglong

Zhonghua Bookstore

If there is a northeasterner mixed in the dormitory, you will be given a northeasterner in the dormitory next year. With its rich appeal, Northeast dialect has gone to the whole country.

The book contains more than 10,000 entries, and covers some everyday terms such as Manchu, Korean, and Mongolian, as well as some legends, folklore, allusions, and posthumous languages.

Through this book, do you know what "seven grunts" mean?

#9

"Ula's Handbook - Northeast Folk Fieldwork"

By Cao Baoming

Academy Press

The author, Cao Baoming, is a folklorist. In this book, he uses detailed text and clear pictures to explain the folklore of Northeast China, such as "winter bun bean bun talks about ghosts" and "sleeps at night with his head facing outward"...

A vivid picture of Northeast folklore slowly unfolds before our eyes.

"Ula, Manchu, refers to the area on both sides of the Songhua River in the northeast.

If you haven't been to Ulla, you haven't seen forests, land, rivers. Ulla, it's a land that moves you everywhere, and you can move other people at the same time.

If there is indeed reincarnation in life, I believe that my past life must have been in Ula. ”

Film

FILM

The Piano of Steel

Zhang Meng Directed

In the early 1990s, a heavy industrial city in the northeast. After being laid off, Chen Guilin (Wang Qianyuan), a former steel mill worker, pulled up a band alone and spent all day running around in the business of weddings and funerals and the opening of shops, and his life was barely maintained. His wife, Xiao Ju (Zhang Shenying), runs away from home and turns into the arms of a wealthy counterfeit drug dealer. Now that Xiao Ju has returned, she not only has to divorce Guilin, but also competes for the custody of her only daughter Xiao Yuan. Guilin lamented his fate of failure, so he was bent on training his daughter to become a pianist. In order to get his daughter, he went around raising money to buy a piano, and even went to school with his girlfriend Shuxian (Qin Hailu) and the good brothers in the steel mill to steal the piano at night.

When all the methods failed, Guilin accidentally turned to a Russian document on the piano, so he asked his friends to start the journey of making pianos by hand in the long-dilapidated factory...

"Aoluguya Aoluguya"

Director Gu Tao

In the Daxing'an Mountains of northern China, there is a legendary ethnic group- the Linglu Ewenke. 300 years ago, they came from Siberia further north. They have been hunting and raising reindeer for generations and have their own traditional way of life.

They like to drink, they make trouble after drinking, and they like reindeer because reindeer are their life. They use the most primitive way of life to interpret the traditions of a nation, and also cry out the sadness of the disappearance of the Aoluguya culture. The artist who likes Ao Xiang prefers Liu Xia, who often makes trouble after drinking. The most precious thing for an artist is to burn it immediately after he finishes painting, he is different from the world, different from the other type of most normal artist, his paintings, to the sky, to the earth, to the moon and stars, but also to themselves, this is a real artist, the pursuit of real art, not to be a slave to money.

In 2003, they moved out of the mountains and into government-built settlements, and a hunting ban followed. The Evenks, who had lost their forests and shotguns, felt lonely, and some of them returned to the mountains to resume their traditional lives. Time has quietly passed, and the deer bells have gradually faded away... Will the once familiar forest still belong to them?

Love Letter to the Land

Hu Feng Directed

Also known as Black Land and Her Friends.

Taking Heilongjiang Province, located in the hinterland of the Songnen Plain, as the shooting point, the film focuses on ten ordinary and great faces on the black land, and takes the four seasons of homeland (spring ploughing, summer yun, autumn harvest, winter Tibet), characteristic production activities (ice mining, winter fishing, etc.), folk culture (two-person turning, shadow puppetry, etc.) as the content, telling the emotions, struggles, joys and sorrows of the people in the black land, showing the indomitable indomitable life in the extreme environment of the northeast people, as well as the optimistic and strong spirit of life and the world.

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