Writing nostalgic prose must be innovative
——Commenting on Ma Huairong's "Hometown Cabbage"
Author | Feng Enchang
Our county writes nostalgia essays, has a rich source of life, and some well-written writers and authors have emerged in the literary world, and published many excellent nostalgia essays. Some famous articles have become the treasures of our county's climbing to the peak of literature, and have appeared in the national newspapers and periodicals "Selected Essays", "People's Daily", Tianjin "Essays", "Great Essays", etc., leaving a clear mark on the history of literature in our county. In recent years, a large number of writers who write nostalgic prose have emerged in the county, creating prose works with their own characteristics in Yimengshan Township, magnificent landscapes, beautiful pastoral gardens, and well-known local specialties, such as pancakes, whole sheep, hawthorn, cherries, toon, etc., have been written into exquisite nostalgia prose, which is a very gratifying phenomenon. Because I am an author who loves to write nostalgic prose, not only wrote many articles, but also likes to read other people's beautiful articles, so I know more about the writer's nostalgia essay in my county, and the overall evaluation has emerged a lot of good works, but there are still some deficiencies, which need to be improved and innovated, which is the best shortcut for my county's literary works to climb the peak, and a beautiful landscape for my county's literary creation.
In addition to writing poetry, I mainly write nostalgic prose, in the early eighties of the last century, under the influence of rural reform and opening up, I was like the rising tide of the sea, writing prose like snowflakes constantly sent to newspapers and periodicals, so that three days and two ends were adopted, the most influential position is Tianjin "prose", basically achieved periodic publication. The reason is that the works have innovations, the materials have characteristics, the main idea has a sense of the times, and the combination of the two compartments has become a good prose for innovation. For example, "Chicks", "Silkworm Girl", "Catching Mountain Scorpions", "Old Farmer's Picnic", and "Melon Shed Sweet" published in "Essays" all have the unique characteristics and style of Linqu. "New Fishing Songs in Mountain Townships" was published in the supplement of the Shanghai Wen Wei Po PEN club, and reprinted in the "Selected Essays", why is the reason? In the past, Yimeng Mountain Township almost had no fishy smell, with the development of science and technology, the county raised rainbow trout, the fishless mountain township into a fishing rice town, which is a rare new thing in the country, we raise fish in the mountains, the same day sent to the Beijing hotel, so that the whole country to taste fresh. Write such a new thing into nostalgic prose, as long as the writing is better, can it not be adopted? I have reviewed and concluded that many essays are not well written and cannot be published at high grades, because the reason is that there is not enough innovation. First, the selection of materials is not fresh, there are no obvious characteristics, some people in history have written, lack of new discoveries, can not write new characteristics; the second is that the literature is not strong, see what to write, according to the gourd painting scoop, record-style writing methods, often write events are long, the structure is not strict, like writing prose like writing a diary; the third is the lack of enlightening theme ideas, so that people can only remember the development process of things, can not get new inspiration, insight. These are all important factors in poorly written nostalgic prose. Therefore, to experience the new life, to explore the new highlights of life, to write the real characteristics of innovation.
Recently, I read a novel nostalgia essay, the county writer Ma Huairong wrote "Hometown Cabbage", based on relatively novel materials, different from the techniques written by many people in the past, can be combined with human relations, with their own new discoveries of it to write together, and have their own thinking about its strengths, not as it is, but write its sense of the times, the sense of superiority brought to people's lives, more show the beauty and cuteness of cabbage. As a paragraph reads: "Joy it is as stubborn as human beings, no matter how many vicissitudes it has gone through, passed down from generation to generation, love it like a laborer is simple and consistent, no matter how the years change and the heart is as fragrant as ever." Although it was born ordinary, it snuggled closely to Mother Earth, blooming with the seasons, which not only greatly satisfied the human sense of taste and visual nerves, but also brought people who lived in the winter year after year into the countryside, went deep into nature, returned to the real enjoyment of life, and always felt that they were inseparable from each other and integrated with us. This heartfelt text not only writes out the characteristics of the cabbage, but also expresses people's understanding of it, and has fresh inspiration after reading. This article is not written in a documentary style, but is used for the theme of life to express the point of view of life, so it is interesting to read. If you refine your writing and use less informative things, the article will be more concise and beautiful, which is a very good nostalgic prose.
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.