Zhu Xiangqian, whose ancestral home is Pingxiang, Jiangxi, was the former vice president of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts. He has published monographs and collections of essays such as "The Unity of Poetry and History- Another Interpretation of Mao Zedong's Poetry", "Mo Yan: The Honor of the Nobel Prize", "The History of Military Literature", "Sinking into Life", and edited "History of Chinese Military Literature (1949-2019)" and "Classic Series of Chinese Military Literature". "Selected Criticisms of Zhu Xiangqian Literary Theory" won the Fourth Lu Xun Literature Award.
Zhu Xiangqian and the Literature and Art of the People's Liberation Army
--Highlights of military literature in the past five years
■ Zhu Xiangqian Xu Yijia
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Since the beginning of the new century, under the influence and impact of mass cultural trends, military literature has undergone profound changes in its writing ecology and writing resources: the status of mainstream literature, which flourished in the first half century of New China, has gradually declined. While sighing, the author deeply cultivates the study of the history of military literature on the one hand, and follows up the current situation and timely research on the other hand. Because of persistence and love, although a little lonely and lonely, it is always inseparable, and time is also passing to give corresponding feedback to those who hold on. In the past five years, the author has once again witnessed the difficult transformation of military literature - whether it is the heyday of the twentieth century when the red classics occupied half of contemporary literature, or the strong momentum of "two wheels turning together" in the new era, military writers have always appeared in the literary world with a lineup of many people. Today, although the trend of the military writers group is no longer charging, due to the previous generation of writers "Yu Xin articles are older and more successful, Ling Yunjian's penmanship is longitudinal", the backbone writers "Ren Er's east, west, south and north winds, firmly determined that qingshan does not relax", and the emerging writers "Although thousands of tao are hard, blowing out the wild sand begins to reach gold", military literature once again has a team with clear age levels, distinct and diverse styles, tacit understanding, and iterative order. And after years of deep cultivation and cultivation, the writers' respective literary faces have become increasingly clear and clear. Taking the field of fiction as an example, veterans of the literary world such as Xu Huaizhong, Zhu Xiuhai, Xu Guixiang, and Qiu Shanshan, middle-aged writers such as Lu Yingmo, Tao Chun, and Wen Qingli, and the "new generation" such as Wang Kai, Xi Yuan, and Dong Xia Qingqing can be said to be all with extraordinary skills and strong hands, even if they step out of the military literary circles and are placed in the entire contemporary literary circle to compete with writers of the same age, they are not inferior at all, and even better. As a result, military literature has roughly evolved from "collective action" to "individual performance", and from "seven stars and horizontal Chen" to "bright stars". We can still draw the conclusion that military literature has survived difficult times, defended its own high ground with tenacious perseverance, and also let many readers who are keen on military literature see vitality and hope. This is something to be rejoiced in, but it also prompts us to introspect and reflect. This article takes the "bright spots" observed by the author on the general situation of military literature in the past five years as a starting point and discusses the classification. Among them, the focus is mainly on novel reviews, while taking into account poetry, reportage and theoretical criticism, and examining the creative situation of the old, middle and young generations of military writers, in order to be able to clean up the battlefield, clean up the results of the battle, and wave the flag for military writers and boost morale.
Writers of the previous generations reshaped revolutionary history with profound roots
For many years, the author has been wary of and opposed to the "marketization" of literature. Speaking of the reason behind it, it is actually due to the filmization of military literature and the weakening of realistic themes, which has led to the imbalance of the overall literary ecology after the new century. Combined with the current situation of military literature in recent years, we have found that not only mature writers have a tendency to return to pure literature, but some heavyweight old writers who are well-known in the literary world have also exploded with amazing creative vitality after years of deep cultivation and immersion, and have once again become the "leading geese" of the military literary team.
1. Novels
Looking at the military literary world, only in 2018, xu Huaizhong's "Notes on the Wind" and Peng Jingfeng's "The Sun Rises" two "phenomenon-level" long-form military novels came out. Xu Huaizhong completed a novel at the advanced age of his back, which is a miracle in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. He carried a thin pamphlet of prosperity and truth, split the huge and complicated memory of the war, and highly refined the original intention of "three people and one horse" in a period of war history. The writer has cleansed up all the complicated things of life experience, returned to the source of literature, and only extracted the part of his life experience that belongs to the sun and the moon, and presented it, weaving a life atmosphere that is more and more exciting. "Drawing the Wind" won the laurel of the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award with an absolute advantage, and Xu Huaizhong also became the oldest winning writer in the previous Mao Dun Literature Award. What kind of "wind" is "wind" involved in "Drawing the Wind"? It is the "GuanJu" wind in the "National Wind" in the "Book of Poetry", and it is the "Guan Ju" wind that leads to the love of men and women, and it is also the middle of the twentieth century - in 1947, the People's Liberation Army marched thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountain, which affected the direction of history and began to overwhelm the west wind. Therefore, the wind of "Drawing the Wind" has both love and historical trends, implicit and atmospheric. This story, set in 1947 by the Second Field Army advancing into Dabie Mountain, explores love and humanity in the fires of war, and shows the ordinaryness of the revolutionaries and the greatness of the pattern for the public. His story transcends legend to the "fantasy" realm. The abundance and solidity of life details and specific plot descriptions lay a deep foundation for the fullness and vividness of character image shaping, while the sublimation part of fantasy fully demonstrates the bold imagination of an artist. From the microcosm to the macroscopic level, from metaphysical to metaphysical, they echo each other and merge into an organic whole. The heroine Wang Keyue in "The Wind" is more beautiful and pure, her behavior is even difficult to read with regular comprehension, and the "sitting" of the ending is even more mysterious and Zen, which is not only a kind of looking back and paying tribute to the narrative tradition of Chinese novels, but also a kind of writing that goes to the peak and creates a strange peak. In the second half of the work, Cao Shui'er and Wang Keyue in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain, or the main peak, wisely avoid mountain fires, bravely annihilate strong enemies, until they toss and turn in the big cave, even including the dragon of "Beach Jujube" seeing the head and not the end, all of which are covered with a layer of fantasy colors, shining the purity and loftiness of human nature in the smoke of war, showing the softness and tenacity of life, and the fresh life weather like morning dew is spread on paper. At this point, Xu Huaizhong's creation has been arbitrary and does not exceed the rules, and it can be said that "dacheng". He has mentioned several times in his creative talks that "the true Buddha only talks about home", and the parents are short and have their own Buddha's heart. I think that the Buddha's heart and original heart for treating literature in Xu Huaizhong must have adhered to the concept of "great custom is daya, and daya is great custom", and arbitrarily shuttled between entering the world and coming out of the world, and the harmony and appreciation of elegant customs and customs must have built an ideal world, a literary "peach blossom source" that is in it and out of it. This work not only greatly refreshed Xu Huaizhong's own creative height, but also shocked our traditional mindset about contemporary military literature, expanded the pattern of contemporary military literature, and in multiple dimensions, it can have an equal dialogue with the world's excellent war literature. What is surprising and even more amazing is that after "Drawing the Wind", Xu Huaizhong did not put aside his pen, but continued to write several short stories such as "The Great Wall is Ten Thousand Miles Long" and "Live Once, Die Once", which shows that the ninety-one-year-old Mr. Xu Huaizhong still stubbornly maintains a literary posture of always "moving forward".
Peng Jingfeng's posthumous novel "The Sun Rises", through the encounter of the Wo Lang Niu family, a big leader of the Wa people in the Western League, before the founding of New China, to the life after the founding of New China, describes the difficult and tortuous process of how the Wa people entered the new society from the end of the primitive tribe. The ethnic working group headed by Jin Wencai, a reconnaissance staff officer, exerted great patience and effort to implement the party's correct ethnic policy, and finally educated WoLangNiu, the leader of the Barbarian Tribe, with facts, and witnessed the great history of national unity and progress in Yunnan. Through this work, readers can feel the unique customs of the Wa people and the colorful Wa Mountain customs, which also confirms the great power of our party's ethnic policy and profoundly reflects the great history of the unity and progress of the Chinese nation. Similar to the situation of Xu Huaizhong's creation, Peng Jingfeng, an elderly man and also an immortal song in the military literary circle, ushered in the highest peak of literary achievement after the trek of the long river of life. He continued the "love song" tone that seemed to have been broken after "Yilu Pear Blossom" and "Deer Horn Grass" with a "Rising Sun", the theme expressed in the novel is serious and profound, but the writer's brushstrokes are pure and beautiful, the temperament of the novel is "epic" and magnificent, but the expression is simple and refined, and the work reproduces a magnificent national history with a highly aesthetic artistic expression. How to truthfully and exhaustively describe the difficult and extremely historical process of change since the winter of 1952 has always been the wish of Peng Jingfeng, a person who once participated in the invasion of Western League and worked in several ethnic working groups there. Regarding that past, due to various reasons, Peng Jingfeng's writing plan was delayed for more than sixty years, and he also thought about and sorted out for more than sixty years, until 2018, when he sorted out and perfected the spiritual achievements of decades and put them into words, forming a long novel "The Sun Rises". This is similar to the creative experience of many people in history: many artistic masters and academic masters have experienced the purification of the long river of time, completed the submersible thinking of personal experience, and once again burst out of creative vitality in their later years to achieve a harmonious and open state of freedom in art. Using the creative situation of Xu Huaizhong and Peng Jingfeng to observe, it is precisely "Yu Xin's article is old and more successful, and Ling Yunjian's pen is longitudinal"
Zhu Xiuhai's literary achievements in recent years are also amazing. His rich and vast perspective on Russian literature, especially his exquisite cultivation of classical Chinese literature, has enabled him to navigate many fields of literature, breaking through the boundaries of novels, essays, ancient poetry and TV drama writing, and in recent years, short stories such as "Never Compromise", "Zeng Guanghong by the Campfire", "In the Hospital", "Shame" and so on have come out. At the beginning of 2021, Zhu Xiuhai even dedicated two new works in one breath- "The White Horse Gone Away" and "Soldier Lin moraine Mouth", with a million words. In particular, "The Distant White Horse" is another peak of Zhu Xiuhai's novels. The novel successfully portrays the "alternative goddess" Zhao Xiuying, a strange woman in the war. This woman is very different from the woman usually recognized, she is full of a hot, grounded beauty - she comes from the people, with the earthy fragrance from the earth, and the unique fortitude of cannon fire. She participated in the magnificent Northeast Liberation War as a weak woman, integrated the ups and downs of her personal fate into the magnificent revolutionary torrent of Jinge Iron Horse, and resolved the war crisis several times with her tenacious and tenacious character and wisdom accumulated in combat experience. The first appearance of Zhao Xiuying in the memory of Qianqiu, an important narrator of the whole book, is to lead her squad to appear in front of the glued battlefield like falling from the sky, almost single-handedly turning the tide of the battle and turning our side from defeat to victory, and this appearance has laid the absolute goddess status of Zhao Xiuying. But at the same time, Zhao Xiuying's fate is difficult and bumpy, she grew from a rural girl to a revolutionary, and she experienced too many tribulations and twists and turns in the middle - she gave birth to children, had an unhappy marriage, missed out with people with relatives several times, and finally became lonely and old... But all this did not affect her strong personality charm as a battlefield goddess, which made Qianqiu, who later became a senior general of our army, never forget it. Not only that, the work has also been sublimated in addition to the special characters and the legend of the story: the application of the white horse imagery throughout the article even overflows the literary aesthetic category, reaching the extremely superb aesthetic realm of the Chinese tradition. The ethereal tone, the calm rhythm, the grandeur of the momentum, and the timeless meaning of this new work are among the top works in military literature in recent years, and it is invaluable to make a seemingly ordinary revolutionary historical story glow with new artistic charm in the contemporary era. Not only that, Zhu Xiuhai published the novels "Weeping Butterfly" and "The Eleventh Dimension Space" in Ethnic Literature in 2021, which was very different from his previous creations. The two novels can be seen as "twins" derived from a theme, and the plot and character settings of the novel are interrelated, both from the perspective of a physicist to tell the special "case" he encountered. Both novels introduce the concept of mystical physics, while focusing on the eternal literary themes of confession and consolation, which is Zhu Xiuhai's once again courageous exploration into the new field of literature. Writers still maintain a blowout creative posture after the age of sixty, and most of the contemporary Chinese writers have entered the closing stage in the year of Hua Jia, or even the end of the half-eye, but Zhu Xiuhai is still in the "big fly" layout, the creative ambition is unpredictable, which shows the amazing artistic creativity produced by his cultural heritage and cultural accomplishment. The reason for excavating the creative phenomenon of writers is due to Zhu Xiuhai's uninterrupted reading for decades and has never stopped accumulating literary and cultural knowledge. In this way, it is also inevitable that he will reach the current height of writing and the state of calm creation, and this high-intensity and cross-time "stepping to a thousand miles" is quite enlightening for many writers today.
In recent years, Xu Guixiang has continued to write several novellas on the theme of the Long March, such as "Interspersed" and "Ambush" (these two novels were combined in 2021 into the collection "Hero Mountain"), "Confrontation", "Red XiaFei" and "Out of the Meadow". The core of his novel is to create heroic characters with distinct personalities, and in several new works, the writer is obviously trying to make the characters constantly "new", placing the protagonists of the story in various extreme environments and events, giving the characters new meaning to life, so that the great migration that the world's attention reflected in the characters - the Long March, overflows with bright, optimistic, enthusiastic, absurd and other different colors on the background of death, suffering, and desperate life. The upper and lower parts of "Hero Mountain" each created a hero image that was put to death and reborn. In "Interspersed", Ling Yunfeng, a Red Army reconnaissance staff officer who is good at interspersed operations, met some people because of a special mission. They belong to different organizations, harbor different beliefs, and their fates are intimately intertwined in the midst of a terribly diverse history. Interspersing is Ling Yunfeng's trick, and it is also his fate. At the time of the nation's peril, Ling Yunfeng fought to the death, and thus lost his original identity, relatives and comrades-in-arms, even so, he still did not shake his faith. The Kuomintang Yi Xiaolan in "Ambush", impersonating Ling Yunfeng, a Red Army general who had already "sacrificed", infiltrated the ranks in an attempt to assassinate a senior Red Army general, and after constantly understanding and penetrating the ambush target, he questioned his mission, and his original belief began to waver. In the face of the slaughter and ravages of the Japanese Kou, Yi Xiaolan gave up his real name, but returned to his original self in another dimension, resolutely carried the banner of anti-Japanese resistance, and used the sword of justice and faith to launch an ambush war in which his fate was reversed. These two characters, whose fate is ups and downs and legendary, from the beginning of the camp against each other, to the tempering and baptism of the revolution, on the road to becoming heroes, let life be interspersed with ambushes in the forest of war, cross one dangerous peak after another, and finally climb the peak of the hero, let the emotions of life flow into the torrent of the overall fate of mankind, and read it with anger. The birthplace of the writer is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese revolution, and the blood of the hero and the blood of the writer are integrated, which makes Xu Guixiang give the heroic stories he writes a deep emotion. The new novel "The Sound of the Piano Flying Over the Wilderness" is the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, and it is also an innovative work. The inspiration for the work was that the writer stumbled upon Lenin Primary School and China's earliest Hope Primary School in Dabie Mountain, which led the writer to think about the internal connection between this revolutionary hot land and the enlightenment of children. Adhering to the core creative concept of "ideals and hopes", Xu Guixiang traces back to the source, explores how the revolutionary ancestors struggled to create a pure land for the children of Dabie Mountain, and used words and deeds to shape and cultivate the children's noble and pure revolutionary personality, which is the important spiritual bloodline of our nation to overcome difficulties and stand firm.
Qiu Shanshan has always maintained a high creative output, in recent years, there have been "I need to talk to you", "Cao Dewan went out to find love", "flight delay", "road meets the road" and other novels came out, in 2021 published a short story collection "Defending Cherries". Among these works, "I Need to Talk to You" is nearly 50,000 words, which has a great influence after publication and has been selected by six anthologies at the same time. "The sudden divorce of the parents who are happily married in their old age, the dramatic suspense spreads out a long conversation, from which we read anxiety and sorrow, sleepiness and dazedness, loss and sadness, but it does not make people feel sad and desperate... With a positive and bright background, the novel successfully shapes an indomitable and extraordinary soul. "Road Meets Road" is about a retired worker who was once in the military and unexpectedly ran away from home on a whim on his retirement day. In the plot development of this road novel, the reader knows the fate of a character who once had a great military future, but lost it, an ordinary person who is lost in the crowd carries an unknown past, and from another angle writes a difficult but unrepentant veteran image. Qiu Shanshan's works are good at finding creative inspiration from daily life, paying attention to the survival of small people, and the multi-dimensional thinking and performance of life show the wisdom and agility of the writer, often enabling readers to read the fun and true meaning of life in plain and simple language. Perhaps precisely because life itself contains the wisdom of pitching everything, Qiu Shanshan's works are widely used, the literary forms involved are diverse, and her words reveal a kind of leisure, relaxation, and humor. Real life is full of suffering, but writers can always find the light and warm background of life from the heaviness, and achieve reconciliation between people and others and their own hearts. Her short story "Garcia's Stone" tells the interesting experience of retired soldier Luo Yiyang in "finding stones"; and the first children's literature in 2019, "Dawa on the Snowy Mountain", was well received by readers, and through the encounter and acquaintance of the puppy "Dawa" who ran away from home and the young border soldier "Yellow Moon", a legendary experience about growth began. The story tells the story of a man and a dog facing an extremely harsh plateau environment, facing the loneliness of eroding people's bone marrow, experiencing thrilling avalanches and thunderstorms together, and jointly defending the country. This novel shows the reader the truth of the survival of the soldiers in a cloud post located at an altitude of 4,500 meters, and records the story of border guards fighting swords and dedicating themselves to the country.
Poetry, reportage and theoretical criticism
Similar to the development of military novels, military poetry has also undergone a sharp decline and gradual recovery in the new century: it has been annihilated in the tide of commodities, and then in the past twenty years in the new century, it has shown a slow upward momentum, just like the early spring slowly arrived, the earth began to turn yellow and green, so that the military poetry that fell to the bottom of the valley finally survived the cold winter and ushered in another spring. In the field of poetry, the old poets who insist on speaking out and have greater influence first recommend Liu Liyun. His poems come from the deepest excavations of life, artistically expressing the inner world of soldiers who resonate with the atmosphere of the times. In recent years, Liu Liyun has continued to maintain a strong creative passion, and has successively created "Jinshanling", "Shangganling", "A Man and a Monument", "Chernobyl" and other weighty long poems, and published three poetry collections such as "Everything on the Earth Has Messengers", "Selected Poems of Liu Liyun" and "Golden Helmet". As the Poetry Journal said of Liu Liyun's poetry: "His poems come from the deepest excavations of life, and artistically express the inner world of soldiers who resonate with the atmosphere of the times." His poems have been carefully polished to present a beautiful crystal surface. The strength of his poems to the language is not on the surface of the text, but in the texture itself, and although his poems are written by soldiers, they reflect the spirit that the Chinese nation has accumulated for a long time and is admirable once it appears. Among them, "Shangganling" is a miniature version of a magnificent war epic. The author transcends the single perspective of politicization and nationality, and uses a multidimensional vision and human nature to write the human nature and spiritual connotation behind the war, the cruel and complex historical mysteries of the war itself, conveying the lofty concept of respecting life, thinking about life, pursuing justice, and defending peace, and is a transcendence of the previous war and military literary thinking. "Golden Helmet" covers the essence of Liu Liyun's thirty-five years of creation, and is divided into four series: "Square Array", "Yingpan", "High Place" and "Fanghua", which is not only an integration of many years of creation, but also a concentrated outbreak of creative inspiration. The whole collection of poems presents a soul strength that matches the great army and the bloody battlefield, uses a flame-like language and a deep feeling full of tears, carries the bits and pieces of the barracks to the paper delicately and multi-dimensionally, writes the true spiritual feelings of the soldiers, as well as the pursuits, worries and dreams of the soldiers in this era, and unfolds a scene of military life for the reader.
The old poet Qiao Yan is good at composing long poems, and in recent years there have been more than 100 poetry works, of which the most concerned is the work of tribute to the centenary of the founding of the party, successively "Sacred Words to the Motherland" and "July! July! " and other main theme poetry works came out, constructing a poetic and deep expression that adapted to the times. The poet pays attention to the weight and mission of the long poems to carry the society and the spirit of the times, and fully grasps the grand narrative structure of the long poems, the endless lyrical rendering, the ups and downs of the plot momentum, and the unique language method, reflecting the magnificent creative style. Qiao Yan gazed affectionately and persistently at the barracks, his words were high-pitched, passionate, iron-blooded, and at the same time advanced, bright, and poetic. What is valuable is that In the process of creation, Qiao Yan can keep pace with the times, strive to perceive the ideological mentality of the current soldiers, and observe what soldiers think and think today, thus giving new life to military poetry. Especially in the performance of the century-old party history, his creation occupies a place in the poetry world. Du Zhimin immersed himself in the creation of military poetry, and had a profound study of the meaning and techniques of military poetry. In recent years, he has successively published poems such as "Frontier of August" and "My China Sea" in the "People's Liberation Army Daily" and "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art", which are passionate and pure, which can be described as a sword that does not grow old, reflecting the strong stamina of the old poets in the military.
Xu Jian, who is influential in the field of reportage, has published three blockbuster reportage works" "Jin Qingbari", "Blooming" and "Tianxiao - 1921", of which "Blooming" is co-authored by Xu Jian and Li Yumei. "Jin Qingbari" and "Blooming" are sister articles, writing about the major changes in poverty alleviation in Tibet and the Nu River in Yunnan. "Golden Barley" has a different meaning for Xu Jian, this is the writer's twenty-first entry into Tibet, east into Qamdo, north to Naqu, west to Ali, deep into the hinterland of Tibet, deep in the snowy plateau for fifty-two days, travel 10,000 kilometers, travel through the last nineteen poverty alleviation counties in Tibet, interview more than 100 local people, integrate their faith and passion for Tibet into this land, in the name of literature to record the Tibetan compatriots in the decisive battle to get rid of poverty, decisive victory over the all-round well-off in the process of thinking, hoping, doing, and then writing their sense of gain towards a well-off society Happiness, sense of accomplishment. In recent years, Xu Jian's pen has become more and more vigorous, and he has returned to classical Chinese literature, which has made his reportage detached from many thematic works and prone to falling into rigid stereotypes, showing a poetic and prose culture tendency, which is evident in his acclaimed new work "Dawn - 1921". In the years of accumulated reading and half-year-long walking, Xu Jian brushed away the dust of time, swept away the fog of history, and returned to the source of a major representative of the birthplace, the place of study, the place of battle, and the magnificent place of great representation of the place of birth, the place of study, the place of battle, and the source of the grandeur of the river, "seeing the places that others have not seen, discovering what others have not discovered, and activating the obstacles that have not been enlightened." "(Xu Jianyu) The writer strives to write a book that the people can read, so that in the process of reading, the public can not only clearly understand the centenary of our party, understand the major participants of the party, but also understand the founders of these parties, enter their hearts, rediscover their youthful dreams, re-understand their sacrifices and magnificence, their dignity and their original intentions. In addition, the language of the book is a highlight. The writer abandons the conventional language style of "news style" or "political discussion style", and the writing reveals the inheritance of the Style of Ming and Qing Dynasty Essays, showing a tendency towards prose culture. The narrative is interspersed with literary texts, and the sentences are elegant and beautiful, which is really rare for the creation of a large volume of reportage literature, and also highlights Xu Jian's unremitting pursuit of continuous improvement in literary creation.
Huang Chuanhui focuses on exploring the Navy, and his creations in recent years have mainly focused on major themes and events in the Navy, and he has successively created many reportages such as "Great Power Action: Documentary of the Withdrawal of Overseas Chinese from Yemen of the Chinese Navy" and "Departure". The theme and entry point of these works show consistency: they all choose the most attractive or contradictory and prominent time point in the big event to enter the writing, and peel away the cocoon in the layers of narrative to restore the original face of the facts. For example, "Great Power Action: Documentary of the Withdrawal of Overseas Chinese from Yemen by the Chinese Navy" is based on the fact that in 2015, the escort formation of the Chinese Navy in the Gulf of Aden was ordered to go to Yemen, which was filled with smoke and danger, to carry out the task of evacuating overseas Chinese, which was the first armed evacuation of overseas Chinese by the Chinese army. The event itself is full of dangerous, thrilling, climactic factual plots, and the author presents this rescue operation with a high degree of patriotism and national feelings to the reader after more than a year of in-depth interviews and creations. The writers have a solid foundation, are not vain and beautiful, and are not clever; the style of speech is sincere, but the reputation is not modest, so that more people can hear the sonorous footsteps of the people's navy on the road of strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army, conveying a kind of big country style and everyone's style. "Departure" focuses on the birth of the people's navy, the first new branch of the people's navy in the history of the Chinese people's liberation army. The writer travels through the tunnels of time, pulls aside the storms of history, and leads the reader back to the original point to understand what kind of thrilling story happened on the day the navy was founded, and this narrative itself is a valuable asset of the people's navy.
In recent years, veteran writer Jiang Yonghong has continued to exert efforts, creating many reportage works such as "The Return of the Special Fighter" and "The Head Wolf" Long Howling Zhu Rihe" and so on. Jiang Yonghong's writing is concise, short and powerful, and he can often use a few paragraphs to quickly outline a character image, and this narrative style and rhythm are often highly consistent with the characters created by the writer, and his pen is mostly a tough guy-type soldier who is good at fighting hard battles and eager to make meritorious achievements. In the article "Three-Four-Six-Point-Six Highlands", the writer intercepted a typical battle in the eerie War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and successfully shaped the image of Li Yannian, a revolutionary hero who had been baptized and tempered by war, with the difficult combat incident of attacking the "First Cavalry Division", an ace unit of the US army. What is particularly rare is that Jiang Yonghong can keep pace with the times and master the modern combat process of the troops, describe a group of expert commanders who flexibly control the current war form, and present readers with a fresh and personalized map of contemporary military personnel.
Compared with the recovery and revival of some disciplines in military literature, the criticism of military theory has shown a continuous shrinkage, and the once-powerful team of senior critics has long been scattered, and now only Commentators such as Zhu Xiangqian and Wang Shoude are left to support it. In 2019, Zhu Xiangqian edited the "History of Chinese Military Literature (1949-2019)" and grandly launched. The editor led two academic teams of nearly thirty people and made a masterpiece for twenty years. With a volume of nearly 900,000 words, the book comprehensively sorts out and summarizes the traditional genres such as short stories, novellas, novellas, poems, essays, reportage, theoretical criticism, and the achievements, experiences, and limitations of art categories such as drama, film, and television drama, and also collects, sorts out, and preserves the relevant historical materials of contemporary military literature to the greatest extent. At the end of the book, there are also appendices the biographies of more than 260 writers and a chronology of nearly 80,000 words of military literature, forming a basically complete data chain of contemporary military literature so far, and more comprehensively reflecting the overall situation of military literature in the past seventy years. At the same time, Zhu Xiangqian and his team also took the initiative to carry out a huge project on the history of military literature, which opened the process of classicization of contemporary Chinese military literature - the selection, editing and publication of the "Classic Series of Chinese Military Literature". In recent years, zhu xiangqian has always maintained the observation and tracking of military writers, and in recent years, the annual and various kinds of reviews of military literature published in newspapers such as the "People's Liberation Army Daily" and the "Literature and Art Daily" were basically covered by Zhu Xiangqian and his student Xu Yijia, and thus gradually accumulated an accurate and profound understanding of military literature. In 2017, in order to present the 90th anniversary of the founding of the army, he and Xu Yijia cooperated with the Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House to launch an eleven-volume set of "New Military Writers "Forward" Series". The series of books selected eleven "new generation" military writers who were in the limelight at that time--Wang Kai, Wang Shu, Wang Tian, Lu Yiping, Xi Yuan, Zhu Minyi, Li Jun, Zeng Jian, Zeng Hao, Pei Zhihai, and Wei Yuanfeng," and published their most personal styles of short and medium stories in a single volume. Subsequently, Beiyue took advantage of the hot iron to publish the "2017 Military Literature Selection", which combined the best military novels of the year into a collection, and has been published for four consecutive years now, and has gradually become a climate trend, becoming a regular bibliography for the annual overview of military literature.
In May 1976, "warrior poet" Zhu Xiangqian was interviewed at the site of the Gutian Conference
In recent years, Zhu Xiangqian has also paid special attention to the study of important military writers who have been overlooked or underestimated in contemporary literary history. His long dialogue with Xi Yuan, "The Main Peak of Dabie Mountain, which permeates the atmosphere of life", is the first review of Xu Huaizhong's novel "Drawing the Wind"; the "Yuxin Article Lao Gengcheng, Ling Yunjian's Writing Style-Xu Huaizhong Theory" co-authored by Zhu Xiangqian and Xu Yijia is nearly 20,000 words, which is the most comprehensive and systematic summary of Xu Huaizhong's creative style and characteristics so far, filling the gap in Xu Huaizhong's overall research, and after the publication of "Chinese Literary Criticism", it was reprinted in full by the "Xinhua Digest". In addition, Zhu Xiangqian continued the study of Mao Zedong's poetry that began in 2005, and in the past five years, he has published three works, including "The Unity of Poetic History - Another Interpretation of the Cultural Giant Mao Zedong", "The Boy of Qia Classmates", and "Song Unfinished, Oriental White - 25 Exquisite Poems of Mao Zedong". He paid attention to stripping away the cocoon from the history of the Chinese revolution in the twentieth century, leading people with poetry, leading history with people, and taking history with history, from which he explored how Mao Zedong showed the majesty and courage of a great man with his majestic and heroic poetry, and at the same time, how he wrote a magnificent revolutionary war scene and a blueprint for construction with the feelings of a cultural giant and romanticism, which won more and more extensive social repercussions.
Wang Shoude has been deeply involved in the field of theoretical criticism for many years, leaving many timely tracking, observation and thinking results for military literature and even the wider contemporary literary world. In recent years, he has included the works of important military writers into the research field, not only commenting on individual works, but also opening columns in Excalibur magazine for several consecutive years, with the theme of "rereading", carefully analyzing a number of classic works in the fields of military literature novels, poetry, and reportage, giving them new explanatory significance, and successively writing "Blue Wisps on the Road, Absolute Style--Overview of The Drama of The Seventy Years of Military Service in New China" and other theoretical criticism articles that have macroscopic judgment and grasp of the military literary circles. In addition, he paid attention to literary works in the local literary circles and film and television dramas, Peking opera, local opera and other fields, such as Xu Zechen's novel "Going North", Zeng Youyou's children's literature "Jinzhu Mami Xiao Tashi", film and television drama "Red Sea Action", "Unconcealed Sunshine", "Crossing the Yalu River", Peking Opera "Warrior", Gao Jia Opera "Floating Sea Orphan Chen", Gezai Opera "Overseas Chinese Criticism" and other articles scattered in important journals, showing that critics have been involved in many artistic fields of creation and aesthetic paradigms. In addition to his status as a theoretical critic, Wang Shoude is also a poet, he writes poems, comments on poetry, and appreciates poems, and the article "Poetry, Stirring in the Tunnel of History" comments on Yan Zi's long prose poem "I Look at the Figure of Qilian Mountain and Listen to the Echoes of History", which is full of poetry and interest, reflecting his superb theoretical cultivation in poetry. In addition, in 2018, Wang Shoude launched his personal poetry collection "Wushan Yishui", sending love to the landscape and recording the thoughts and feelings of traveling to famous mountains and rivers into a book, showing the poet's leisure and calmness of "time does not grind youth and old age, and contemplates the landscape and water".
The middle and middle writers write a new chapter with a pioneering attitude
Old writers take the lead in setting an example, still water and deep flow, the backbone writers are not far behind, strive to be the first, Lu Yingmo, Tao Chun, Wen Qingli and other creative achievements in recent years have been quite fruitful, pay more and more attention to the awareness of fine products, continue to cultivate in the field they are familiar with, and strive to promote the development of military literature.
Lu Yingmo has always been fond of the blue deep sea, following "Naval Past", in recent years, he has continued to create naval novels such as "Golden Steel", "Sword of the Sea", "Navigator", "Blue Ocean Golden Steel" and so on. For the Navy and the South China Sea, Lu Yingmo has an "innate sincerity": he is accustomed to sketching the rough sea with simple and plain brushwork, portraying the sea frontier guardians who love the sea and are full of professional feelings, and constructing a literary world with the flavor of the Aral Sea. The novel "Navigator" writes the image of a navigator who insists on staying in the vast sea without fear of loneliness and life and death. His first children's literature, Blue Ocean Gold Steel, focused on the theme of "growing up". Similar to the story setting of Qiu Shan Shan's "Dawa on the Snowy Mountain", Lu Yingmo also chose the story of people and dogs to complete the first children's creation. The feelings between humans and animals are often shocked by the loyalty of dogs, especially under the living conditions of frontiers and border guards, and this ability to shake people's hearts is also stronger. With solid materials for the life of the troops, "Blue Ocean Golden Steel" vividly shows a military story belonging to the military dog and its owner, which is legendary because of the huge gap with daily life, and also allows child readers to have a real feeling for the military dog, the army, the mission and the iron will of the soldiers. The plot of the novel has ups and downs, and what is particularly attractive is that soldiers and military dogs coexist, cooperate, and even cherish each other in an environment full of unknown dangers on the sea, on the islands and reefs, and even cherish each other, and each other's lives have an intrinsic deep connection, forming a harmonious and unified "community of life". Through the harmonious coexistence between people and dogs and nature, the awareness of home and country, the awareness of sea power and environmental protection are transmitted to the readers.
Shi Zhongshan, who became famous for the TV series "The Years of Burning Passion", has returned to novel creation in recent years and has constantly written new military stories. The novella "All Over the World", the novella "The Second Brother is a Soldier", "The Dream of the Eldest Sister in the Army", "Father and Son", etc., mostly revolve around the joys and sorrows, love and hatred, sorrow and joy of soldiers and their families. In these novels, the reader can still clearly identify the shadow of the familiar "Shi Guangrong" family, or the military family represented by Shi Guangrong is the literary core of the writer - writing about the persistent and almost stubborn defense of dignity of the soldier, writing about the conflict and the inherent value of the same parent-child relationship, but this relationship has become more contradictory in his new work, and the environment in which the characters live also extends to a broader dimension. In "All Over the World", Liu Tianyou was forced to leave the army and encountered difficulties such as unsuccessful entrepreneurship and low career, and later with the persistence of his tenacious willpower, he was able to get rid of the predicament and return to the right track. A similar plot appears in the second brother of "The Second Brother is a Soldier" - the second brother who left the military camp because he was wronged also experienced hardships in life and achieved career glory, and chose to give up his flashy life and return to the army. In these novels, the protagonist's ups and downs in life are not only to add color to the story, but more importantly, the writer always takes the posture and dignity of the soldier as the origin of the character, so that this simple, traditional value collides with various new trends in society, and behind the character's experience is the writer's speculation, reflection and interrogation of the entire social values, thus highlighting the tenacious and bright spiritual character of the soldier In the era of interests and temptations, it still exudes strong penetration and influence.
Tao Chun has conducted in-depth and meticulous research on the history of the Party and the military, and he is especially good at showing the warm human stories left in the main history with delicate brushstrokes, and he is more devoted to writing about the grief and harm caused by the war to women. In recent years, he has written a lot of works, including "Lily in the Wind", "Bright Future", "Over", "Root" and many novellas published, and the most cited literary circle is the novel "Romantic Vicissitudes" published in 2017. The work takes the romantic and tortuous love history of the heroine Li Lanzhen as the main line, and closely intertwines the ups and downs and great changes of her family in the war-torn years. The novel fictionalizes war and loves in reality, and strives to show the magnificent historical process through Li Lanzhen's complex love and fate, write her hopes, sorrows, pursuits, pains and sorrows, and try to excavate the life trajectory and inner ups and downs of small people in the background of historical wars. The novella "Seven Sisters and Eight Aunts" writes about the extraordinary experience and life course of four young women during the revolutionary war, through the weakness and sensitivity of women to pry the historical footprints in the background, listening to the echoes of history. His "My Two Comrades-in-Arms" has a strong sense of reality, continuing the idea of the previous well-known work "A Camp", and telling the life struggle process of two comrades who joined the army at the same time as "me" for many years in the army and trying to make meritorious achievements. The two competed all the way and made progress all the way, but in the face of temptation and interests, one of them went astray for a higher position and greater interests, and he lost the battle in a flash, completely losing his future, which was a sigh to read.
Wen Qingli's creation in recent years has shown a blowout trend, and her works such as "She Comes from the Clouds" and "Three People in the Mirror" have a strong sense of femininity, delicate and nuanced, and warm pulse. The author once summarized her creation as the "Wenqingli phenomenon" - specifically from 2017 to the present, in the past four years, she has repeatedly covered literary important towns such as "People's Literature", "Chinese Writers", "Selected Novels", "Novel Monthly", "Selected Chinese Literature", "Selected Novels", "Selected Novellas" and "Selected Novellas" with an average speed and volume of more than 10 novellas per year. And it's still gaining momentum, and even intensifying—a situation that is surprising even in the passionate years of literature of the 1980s. Obviously, in today's decline in literature, especially military literature, Wen Qingli is a retrograde, a strange bright color, especially a strange flower among female military writers. (Excerpt from Zhu Qianqian's "Wen Qingli, You Run So Fast - Sketching Wen Qingli and Talking about Long Novels", "Selected Novels", No. 5, 2020) In the past two years, many of her novels have been written around the "Kunqu Opera Series" and "Peking Opera Series", the text is gentle and timeless, the story is affectionate and has an aftertaste, embedding the connotation of classical Chinese culture into the story, showing the writer's digestion, absorption and enlightenment of classical culture. In 2020, Wen Qingli published a novel "The Scene", focusing on her hometown, the characters, lives and stories on the loess mounds, which came into her literary vision and thoughts, and the touching and bumpy fate of a rural woman was presented to the reader. With the rapid development of today's urbanization, rural memory has become a vague subject that is difficult for more and more writers to touch and deal with, and even writers who have had rural life experience in childhood or adolescence have also developed a psychological barrier to the current rapidly changing countryside, and they have given up writing in this field because they are difficult to control. However, in Wen Qingli's pen, through the image of "aunt", the rich connotation and aesthetic imagery in the countryside are fully excavated.
Writer Yu Zhiyan insisted on amateur creation for decades, and finally reaped considerable literary achievements, and many novels were published successively. In the past five years, he has published novels such as "Codebreaker" and "Superposition of Life and Death". With the responsibility and love of a soldier, the writer deciphers a legendary team that has made many achievements for new China but is hidden behind the war - codebreakers. Since the popularity of the code-breaking series of military novels pioneered by the writer Mai Jia, there are many imitation works in this field but the fine works are difficult to find, and Yu Zhiyan's novels pay attention to literary quality while telling wonderful stories, and always care for works with the double standards of heroism and literary aesthetics, making his novels stand out in the same type of works. The reason is that the purpose of the writer is not to "explore the secret" in a single dimension, for the unsung heroes of this special group, the writer is as a mission to discover and excavate, and has conducted research and research for more than ten years before starting to write. Codebreakers are one of the important magic weapons for our army to win more with less, to defeat the strong with the weak, to turn dangers into disasters many times, and to turn dangers into safety. With its unique professional skills, strange means of defeating the enemy, and powerful spiritual sharpness of faith, this special group has made great contributions to the victory of the revolutionary war by relying on the brilliant wisdom of the revolutionary generals and their outstanding ability to plan wars, and its role is irreplaceable. It is precisely because of this voluminous hard work that Yu Zhiyan's works have a persuasive power that can be scrutinized and a valuable sense of distress.
Zhou Ming's job is a weather forecaster, and his age can belong to the "Mesozoic Era", but he is a newcomer to military literature. In the past five years, she has successively launched several fairly good novellas with realistic themes in "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" and "People's Literature", all of which are based on real military camps and focus on preparing for war. Under her guidance, the readers of "Aircraft Carrier Story" followed the aircraft carrier formation into the ocean, completed a magnificent voyage, and also entered the spiritual world of a female group. "Through thick clouds, rain and fog" revolves around a joint sea crossing and landing campaign of various services and arms. Thanks to the solid support of life details, professional knowledge and psychological logic, the work credibly outlines the character image and emotional trajectory from the details, and fully expresses the spiritual temperament of soldiers and military life. "Rush, Back" responds to the reform of the officer system in a timely manner in the form of literature. The historical process of reforming and strengthening the army has taken great strides, Zhou Ming draws creative materials and inspiration from her personal experience, and writes from the people around her, which can be described as a soldier writing soldiers, which makes her creation connect with the ground and present a real and credible appearance.
In addition, some writers who have left the army still have their hearts set on the military and use their former military careers as an important spiritual and writing resource. Some of them continue to write military stories, especially keen to dig deep into the theme of revolutionary history; some look back and reflect on the past military years with the change of identity, and at the same time, they are thinking and exploring how to adapt to the new social identity and benchmark new life goals, and the creative results produced by these reflections have also expanded the extension of military literature to a certain extent.
Wang Yun is a literary creator and a researcher of military history. He studied the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea for more than twenty years, visited many military and local cadre rest houses, and also went to the vast countryside and the depths of the mountains, and successively created three long novels with the theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, namely "Chosin Lake," "Symphony," and "Arirang," which restored the grandeur and cruelty of this war, and at the same time praised the revolutionary optimism and heroic spirit of the volunteer soldiers, and wrote brotherhood, comradeship, father-son love, and male and female feelings in the harsh environment of war to the extreme, thus amplifying the lofty beauty in human nature. The "trilogy" constitutes an important writing map of Wang Jun, which is a retrospective of the national spirit and the excavation of national memory, which together show the powerful and immortal power of national faith. Lu Yiping is one of the "post-70s" writers who has always maintained a high prolific state. His creation is committed to reaching such a realm: allegiance of tragedy and grandeur in the ordinary, allegorical in iron blood in tenderness, and depicting his characters as "people". This ambition is evident in Lu Yiping's work in recent years: the novel "White Mountain" and the novella collection "Father's Wasteland". He has spent a lot of energy studying the history of the frontier, and has also served in the frontier for many years, personally measuring the long journey of the snowy plateau. Therefore, there is a kind of "hardiness" toughness in his works, and even the small people contain a sense of tragedy like a hero of the end.
Zeng Jian is keen to excavate and track the heroic stories that occur in the revolutionary hot land of his hometown of Hong'an, and the protagonists mostly focus on ordinary small people. The second grandfather in "Let's Go to Fight", the grandmother in "Long Kneeling Dabie Mountain" and others are all like this. Writers cut through the fog of time, salvage these ordinary people with heroic feelings but a slightly tragic fate from the depths of history, and tell the glorious stories of unsung heroes with kindness and poetry. His long new work "Growing toward the Sun" is a memory and tribute to the family figures in his hometown, by tracing the life trajectory of the ancestors, releasing the writer's deep nostalgia in his heart, and deeply mourning the deceased who once had a shining life. In other novels, he pays attention to the survival of more than zero people in contemporary society, such as "The Battle of One Man", writing about how Li Si, who has become a ranger, insists on himself in an extremely difficult environment and does not compromise with the world. His latest novel, "Mountains and Rivers Looking," chronicles the green years of military academy youth. "If the PLA is a melting pot, then the military academy is the cradle of officers. "Mountains and Rivers" is based on the writer's own personal experience as the background, restoring for us a period of contemporary military life that is vigorous and unforgettable. Among them, the struggle, pursuit, confusion and troubles all stir up the writer's youthful blood and cast it in the middle, and the strength penetrates the back of the paper; there is the competition between lovers, and there is more hard work between classmates; there is the sincerity behind the lies, and there is more after depression... At the beginning, the proud sons of the army entered the military academy with great vigor, and today they are even more righteous and rush to the vast mountains and rivers without hesitation..." (Zhu Xiangqian)
Wang Shu's "From Comrades to Gentlemen" vividly describes how a soldier who chooses his own career faces a new starting point after leaving the barracks life, and how to adjust himself and start again. In addition, Wang Shu's two new works published in 2021 are worth noting. His children's literary debut, Kites are Flying Fish, is eye-catching. Wang Shu's writing to children's readers did not lower the standards of his works due to the reader's young age, but still strived to maintain the dignity of serious literature and make it convey solid and upward spiritual strength. This novel is obviously not written for fun, it has a pure literary character and bones, like a warm hymn of love - the novel expresses a theme of "redemption of love": two core characters in the story, one is the little boy Aiqi who has a little lag in his awareness of the real world due to the death of his parents, and the other is Feng Gong, an engineer who is in an extreme Nansha environment and sacrifices his ego to defend the motherland, the two characters are connected through love and rescue, forming a relationship similar to father and son with complex and subtle "psychological reflexes". Then through the series of an intermediary, the boy Lao Bu, each other puts the missing love in reality on each other, gets a "big love" connection, and obtains the fullness and satisfaction of each other's hearts, and completes the redemption of the love of both sides. Interspersed with the description of the Nansha style and the life of the soldiers guarding the reef, it also opens a window for the majority of young people to understand Nansha and understand the military, so that a wider group can see how a group of the most adorable people selflessly dedicate themselves in peacetime, tenaciously resist inner loneliness and loneliness in hardship, and highlight the iron-blooded soft intestines of contemporary soldiers. For most readers, this will bring a charming "defamiliarization" aesthetic experience. The story of the tenacious blossoming of the coconut tree in the book, and the story of the comrade-in-arms who took over the baton of his "father" after the death of Feng Gong to support Archie to pass on love, all highlight a noble character of deep human beauty, inject the "soul" into the novel, and thus sublimate the artistic pattern of the whole book. The long novel "Mulberry Field Sun Nuan" depicts a vivid picture of rural production and life in the southeast coastal areas in the early stage of reform and opening up, with writing like threading needles, fine stitches, and a solid texture of life, presenting readers with a spring return to the earth and a new and picturesque southern water town.
Zhu Minyi's novella "Knee" also makes a direct response to the current anti-corruption in the army, writing from the perspective of a civil servant about a brigade commander who was wounded in the war and made meritorious contributions for many years, but he failed to resist the temptation of interests at a critical moment, and finally ended in a dismal end. The short story "The General Tree" tells the story of the pain and confusion experienced by officers and soldiers in the process of "military reform". A former training top man, who was eliminated because of the upgrading of weapons and equipment, had to choose to go to the old barracks to guard the ginkgo trees that carried the "thick history" and countless honors of the whole regiment in order to continue his military career. When he learned that the trees would be transplanted for the expansion of the training ground, the psychological defenses gradually collapsed. Wang Yujue's "Lonely Fang" chooses the background of the downsizing and dismantling of the army's cultural and labor troupe, and Sima Fangfang, a female singer of the literary troupe, loves military uniforms, lingers on the stage, and is suddenly turbulent in her heart on the issue of walking and staying, and stages a scene of tragic and happy stories. Yan Jiuding's "Shell Shell Landing" is a writer who has reached middle age, looked back and sorted out the military career that has lasted for more than twenty years, written about the familiar and smoke-filled military training, recalled the tiger roaring style that belongs to the military brigade when the bullets came out of the chamber and the shells landed, heroic arrogance, paid tribute to the beloved military camp, and remembered the beloved comrades-in-arms, and the novel was full of heroic spirit from beginning to end. Cheng Duobao has returned to novel writing in recent years, of which military themes account for a large proportion of his novels. The novella "Train, Train" interprets the historical law of "those who win the hearts of the people and win the world" with the two brothers of the Li family who joined the two armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party respectively during the Period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and then made enemies of each other in the War of Liberation, and at the same time interpreted the historical law of "those who win the hearts of the people win the world" with the dark line of the Li family's boss running away from home in his early years to join the underground party. At the same time, the short story "March" with the theme of "Respecting Cadres and Loving Soldiers" also gave a new interpretation of this theme.
It is worth noting that some non-military writers have also injected fresh vitality into our military literature and contributed excellent military novels, such as Deng Yiguang's novel "Man, or All Soldiers", Fu Ruxin's novel "A Pond Lotus", Emma's "Sharpshooter", Zhao Defa's "Stretcher Team", Xiao An's "Kui You Hehua" and so on.
In terms of poetry, the representative figures of the backbone include Jiang Nianguang, Liu Xiaowei, Ding Xiaowei, Chen Can and several others who continue to occupy the military poetry highlands. The biggest feature of Jiang Nianguang's poetry is to carry out in-depth exploration of military poetry with a new attitude on the basis of inheriting tradition. After completing a lot of reading of Chinese and Western culture, he began to write military poetry with direction and purpose and difficulty. He does not deliberately avoid reality, and takes the initiative to form a deep echo with the strongest military reform currently underway, intentionally or unintentionally. When he entered the creation of military poetry, his modern military knowledge reserve, his understanding of war and peace, the poetic concept, rhythm and language field that he naturally formed, and his value judgment and orientation of modern military poetry creation, it profoundly determined his complete understanding and prudent cutting of traditional Chinese military poetry. His new collection of poems "Our Rainstorm Stars" is divided into three series: "Snow and Shadows", "Rainstorms and Stars", and "Talking with You Joyfully", including more than 120 poems, which concentrate on the characteristics of Jiang Nianguang's poetry: the writer's words have a distinct sense of beauty and philosophical meaning in addition to the unique steel attributes of military literature, and in short sentences, they can appreciate the poet's inheritance of the essence of classical literature, and can feel his deep and extensive thinking about life, so that these poems can unload the aura given by the theme. It still has an intriguing meaning and the thickness that comes with deep thinking. This collection of poems won the top ten nominations at the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award. This is a very valuable honor for military poetry, which also shows that poets rely on their strength to bring military poetry back to the forefront of mainstream literature and bring it into the vision of mainstream critics.
The common feature of Liu Xiaowei and Ding Xiaowei's poetry is the tenacious expression of the modernization process of our army. They joined the army together in the 1990s, and together they were trained in military academies and schools, coupled with special experience in their posts and other comprehensive factors, so that they had a keen mind, a broad field of vision, a close touch of the pulse of our army's modernization process, and our army's rapid pace into the future under the guidance of the modern grand strategy, and had their own truest feelings and unique psychological expectations. Liu Xiaowei further established his position in the military poetry circle with two collections of poems, "Strong Army, Strong Army" and "Bronze of Years", which erupted with passion, especially "Bronze of Years", a total of seventy-seven short poems. Open the poetry collection, the sentences in it are like the fresh military life in front of the reader, the verses are short and rigorous, linking the poetry, the sense of responsibility for defending the family and defending the country, and integrating with the poet's life, so that his poems have a bronze texture and background, not only let the reader feel the grand scene of destroying the decay, but also see the familiar and fine military details, is the poet's sentiments flying, but also the soldier's youth is burning. As the "poet Evergreen" Xie Mian said in the preface: "Unfold this collection of poems, full of majestic voices." The background color was green, chariots, gun barrels, generals and soldiers, full of green, as if it was the height of summer, the rain was abundant, watering those distant mountains and near the trees, full of life. Although it is a highly thematic poetry creation, Liu Xiaowei's verses do not make readers feel empty and boring, and the poet has written a new era chapter with real texture and cut into the reform of the strong army with a unique vision and broad thinking, with full and solid life experience, so that readers can see a magnificent atmosphere of the military camp, and at the same time feel the lush and intricate and detailed scenes in between. In the face of the vast picture of a strong army and a rejuvenated army, Ding Xiaowei's poetry creation has opened up a majestic and far-reaching spiritual world in recent years. The long poem "Building Dreams and Strengthening the Army" clearly outlines the magnificent picture of the people's army's grand blueprint for shaping a world-class army step by step into reality. The military career has melted the hardness and pride in Ding Xiaowei's bones, as he himself said, every poet has a secret poetry map in his heart, and the fiery training ground is the map he insists on in his heart. The poem "Trust", which reflects the bravery of the people's children and soldiers in fighting the epidemic and not retreating retrogradely, uses poetry to observe the past, present and future of this army, let the fire of faith burn, let the red gene merge into the blood, let the red spirit inspire strength, and give the people continuous comfort. Ding Xiaowei's poems have a wide range of themes and are free to write, not only have the strength and masculinity of a soldier, but also maintain the simplicity and freshness of the authenticity, and after the experience of the practice of the strong army, he has refined a poem with blood and bones and a personality, which has become an important element that rings the strings of the reader's heart.
Chen Can is a typical warrior poet who came out of a combat company and is a warrior poet who rubs shoulders with the god of death on the battlefield. His poems are fresh, bloody, youthful and at the same time pulsating, emitting the "smell of war". In recent years, he has successively published poems such as "Soldier Roster", "Embracing Wounded Time", and "Window", of which "Navigation Track" is a thick new era poetry anthology dedicated to the centenary of the founding of the party. The main line of Chen Can's poetry is firm: whether it is from the cat's ear hole in the front line, to the bed in the field hospital injured by war, and then to the discipline inspection and supervision front that defends the dignity of party discipline and state law, his writing has always maintained the true character of the soldier and the feelings of the soldier. The blood washed the intensity of his bravery, the shrapnel sharpened the sharpness of his thoughts, and the white sheets of the sickbed wiped the purity of his pure heart! From that moment on, his war experience was like the source of his poetry, flowing for decades, always clearly visible in the characteristics of the soldiers: warm, resolute, sharp, deep... It ensures the height of his writing in the two directions of military life and political lyricism, which not only has the convergence and collision of true feelings and passions, but also the natural eruption of integrating poetic techniques into the physical examination of individual life. His experience is naturally integrated with the poetic text, and has formed a high degree of recognition. In the kingdom of poetry, Chen Can is a true warrior- no matter how the position is changed, he always uses his life as a pen, full of affection and loyalty, and devotes himself to writing piping poems to the earth, to the motherland, and to the people.
Ding Xiaoping is a reportage writer who specializes in gnawing on "hard bones". He shifted from poetry and novel writing to a broader and deeper historical field, and after years of accumulation and exploration, he formed a creative style with great personal recognition, which can be called "cross-border cross-genre writing of literature, history and scholarship". Ding Xiaoping's creative choices reflect his creative ambitions. There are no "small people" or "small events" in the writer's pen, his eyes are aimed at the magnificent events, the great people who stirred up the storms of the times, and over the years he has successively written biographies of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Duxiu, Hu Qiaomu and other characters, as well as the may fourth movement, the World War II game and other historical nodes that affect the development process and pattern of China and the world. Historical writing has its special difficulty, involving many party history events and party history figures, which is also an area that many peers do not want or even dare not touch. Indeed, this is a kind of writing with limitations, it is a writing that requires more thought, wisdom and talent, there is "unfreedom in freedom", Ding Xiaoping has taken the initiative to take the initiative and unremittingly polished the courage to attack head-on and write about major themes, and has become a rising star in the field of party history writing. Once this kind of difficult writing is successful, the impact is immeasurable, and it is no exaggeration to say that if the theme creation is superimposed with keen insight and excellent literary style, it will stimulate the reader's strong patriotic feelings, and the collective feelings of the nation will have a positive enlightening effect on building socialism with Chinese characteristics and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This is also the meaning of party history writing. In order to present a gift to the centenary of the founding of the party, Ding Xiaoping successively went to Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and Xibaipo, Hebei Province, to conduct interviews, and completed "The Red Ship Sets Sail" and "The Victory of the People -- This is how New China was Born." The two works recount the glorious course of the birth of the Communist Party of China and the birth of New China, and deeply interpret the spirit of the Red Boat and the spirit of Xibaipo from the perspective of both literature and history.
Zhang Ziying has insisted on the main theme creation for many years, and the volume of creation is large. Her main achievements focused on reportage writing, especially "Test Flight Hero", which caused great repercussions in the literary world. "Test Flight Hero" is a long-form documentary literary work focusing on test pilots of the Chinese Air Force. The author has a natural advantage in this subject, she has followed the test pilot team of the Chinese Air Force for sixteen years, personally seen this heroic group devote themselves to the fiery practice of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream, shaped this group of iron-blooded heroes who forged swords for the country and chased the dream of the blue sky, revealed the inside story of the test flight of several generations of new fighters in China, and interpreted the test flight spirit of "loyalty, fearlessness and fine flying". In addition, her million-word documentary work "Hong Xuezhi" completely reproduces the seventy-seven years of tortuous and brilliant military career of General Hong Xuezhi, the founder and pioneer of our army's modern logistics work who was "two admirals" and "two awards", and truly records his legendary life course from a peasant boy in Dabie Mountain to a republic minister who has been recorded in the annals of history. In 2021, her new long-form reportage "Crossing the Yalu River" was published, which reorganized a large number of wonderful historical details and processes, rationally analyzed and arranged, and restored the true style of the arduous war for readers as clearly and clearly as possible. At the same time, it also implants the writer's thinking and summary of the war, from military strategy and tactics, logistics organizational structure to political and historical positioning, war and human nature.
China's aerospace industry is a major theme of the times and the lifeblood of the national spirit. In recent years, Lan Ningyuan has published a number of long-form reportage literature such as "Flying Dream", "Advancing into Space", "China Feitian Road", and has also published many short reportage works on aerospace themes, such as "Shenzhou Tianlu", "Sky Survey Tribe", "China 921", "Yang Liwei's Post-"Shen Five" Life", etc., truly recording China's brilliant achievements on the road to developing the aerospace industry and the little-known arduous process in it, and striving to capture inspiration from a broad life. Look for the unique spiritual connotation and personality of the aerospace industry and aerospace workers. Since the 1990s, the development and progress of aerospace science and technology have had a major and profound impact on China and even the world pattern. In particular, the manned spaceflight project launched in 1992, as a major strategic project of China's space science experiments, has made a huge leap in the fate of a nation. The times have given writers a sense of opportunity and mission to look at this great cause with their own eyes and ink. This step-by-step thick documentary work can see Lan Ningyuan's ability and arrogance to control the creation of documentary literature on major themes. And all this is a rational reflection and a rich record, and it is also a valuable artistic practice for writers to participate in the promotion and popularization of science through the special way of real artistic expression.
Gong Yan has experienced medical and health and administrative management and other post experience, because she understands the hospital, is familiar with medical staff, has a special experience in fighting SARS and earthquake relief, has been a clinical front-line nurse, and has become a political work cadre from the class through unremitting efforts, so she has a rich accumulation in writing health and combat readiness training, special medical tasks and the life of hospital officers and soldiers, can skillfully control this subject, and gradually formed a major theme in many years of uninterrupted creation. Strong control and penetration of important events. Her novel "The Last Kilometer" is realistic and entertaining; "Ten Years of Affection" is very interesting, she takes the reader into the hometown of Qabchar County, and tells the military and civilian fish water conditions across time and space with delicate brushstrokes and heart-warming stories. Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Gong Yan has been in line with the frontline members of the Wuhan anti-epidemic team day and night for three consecutive months, interviewing nearly 100 anti-epidemic officers and soldiers, in the most serious and difficult days of the epidemic, she has serialized more than ten documentary literary works such as "Fighting Again to Jingchu" and "Fighting the Vulcan Mountain" in the Long March supplement of the "People's Liberation Army Daily", and published nearly 40,000 words of documentary literature "Anti-epidemic Highland: Vulcan Mountain" in the "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art", and she created a 250,000-word panoramic reflection of the army's anti-epidemic documentary literary work "Decisive Battle of Jiangcheng" It was published and distributed as a teaching material for the theme education of the whole army and a "key publication for the centenary of the founding of the party".
Next, emerging writers write with difficulty to tell the story of the strong army
Observing the ecology of military literature in recent years, there is a phenomenon that deserves special attention: the new generation of "new generation" writers is gradually emerging, striving to get rid of the literary pattern of "small me", consciously tracking reality, responding to reality, and winning a place for a new generation of military writers in the mainstream literary world.
Li Jun's literary creation is just like a long stream of thin water, and he has insisted on speaking out in addition to his busy daily post for many years. Although Li Jun's creative themes involve novels, reportage, essays and other fields, the author believes that his favorite and most intense creative direction is still in the novel. His novellas late autumn and The Search for Party Cards, published in 2021, were particularly impressive. These two stories, one history and one reality, reflect the same theme: how those dead heroes "justify" in the present. The writer has many years of experience in the organs, so there is no lack of reflection in his stories to face reality, and he does not avoid the problems existing in the current military. However, the complicated and trivial daily life did not smooth out the writer's desire for creation, nor did it make a writer full of responsibility and sense of justice forget the hero, whether it is Cheng Fangzheng who lives by low security in "Late Autumn", or Li Qinghou, the "six masters" in "Looking for Party Cards", who have contributed to the revolution, but because of the chaos of history and the yin and yang of fate, they have fallen into difficulties in order to maintain their livelihood in the last years, and they have not been justified until after death, and the truth at this time also appears absurd and redundant with the death of the party. The cries of small people are not worth mentioning in the face of the hustle and bustle of society, and the sounds that can be made are as fine as mosquitoes and flies, and they will be easily covered up and obscured. However, everyone living in peacetime should not forget the logic of history, and without a heroic past, it is impossible to exchange for the quiet of the present years. A nation without heroes is pathetic, and a nation that forgets its heroes is even more pathetic. With these two tragic stories, the writer tries to explore the significance of distant heroes for contemporary people, with the intention of calling on the current society to remember heroes and remember martyrs.
Wang Kai's creative momentum has grown in recent years, before he was selected for the annual selection of the novel "Corporal on the Roof" to write about the ordinary soldiers of the frontier base, just as the writer has consistently done for many years, constantly improving every little person in his memory, and passing on every soldier worth writing. By bringing the everyday and personalization into the imitation of the image of the soldiers, the writer pours out the true disposition and true color into the bodies of these characters, peels away and eliminates the false mannerisms that have been imposed on the soldiers layer by layer, not only restores the true image of the soldiers and the humanity of the soldiers, but also maintains the idealistic background, so that the brilliance of the true military spirit and character is radiant. From Wang Kai's "Winter Ears", "Wilderness Rifleman", "Starlight" and other novels, those ordinary soldiers who encounter contradictions between ideals and reality, are trapped in emotional and moral difficulties, and face the choice of pursuit and abandonment, we can see the writer's deep thinking about the nature of military occupation and life. In particular, the publication of the novella "Starlight" was well received, and an ordinary soldier named "Liu Baoping" was written, and the story progressed in layers of contradictions like a cocoon, and finally pointed to the unchanging core of the writer's creation - highlighting and excavating the bright spiritual character of the ordinary soldier.
Xi Yuan debuted very early, during his study period he published long novels, after many years of military career tempering and accumulation, he firmly chose to use war novels as the entry point to build his own literary position. A series of novellas such as "Z Day", "Death Ensemble", "Dynamite Baby", and "Nameless Company" not only won the reputation of "heavy boxer" for Xi Yuan in the literary world, but also allowed him to immerse himself more deeply in the broad background of the Sino-Japanese War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Korean War and other vast wars, Wang Yang wantonly explored the style, and constantly benchmarked the literary highlands that he looked up to with different types of narrative carnivals such as reality, avant-garde, and metaphysical. Interpreting the inner strength of the martial spirit in different dimensions is obviously extremely challenging and difficult. In his works in recent years, "The Temple of the Carcass" is a tribute to traditional literature; "The Temple" is a tribute to traditional literature; "The Temple" is involved in the latest topics of intelligent security and information security of the army, looking forward to the future form of war; "Reunion in the Spring" shows the writer's concern for the fate of ordinary individuals in the context of the current new crown pneumonia epidemic. The new works "Southward" and "Sheng" both show that the writer continues to expand his territory in the field of his own writing, becoming more stable and calm. The war atmosphere created by the two works is strong and unrestrained, cruel and gentle, the smoke of gunfire is billowing and graceful, and the details make the reader feel like being in the abyss of gunfire, as if seeing flesh and blood flying, which can be called a model for writing war themes among young writers today. In particular, the short story "Sheng", which is an unusually harmonious balance between the writer's realistic writing and avant-garde writing after many attempts, is not long, but it is unique, with steel quality, and it is no exaggeration to say that even in the entire history of contemporary military short stories, it is also of symbolic significance.
In Zeng Hao's works in recent years, the special group of "generals" is the object of his continuous examination and care, and he has successively written short stories such as "The General Who Chases the Shadow", "The General Who Can Fly", "Burning Iron" and so on. The writer hopes to continue to excavate and advance on the theme of "general", although he does not fully present the strange and magnificent style of the canyon and the vast magnificence of Pinghu Lake, but it can be seen that he is not satisfied with the curious biographical narration of the "general" in his pen, but pays more attention to the perspective of the literary motif of time and death on the "general", so that the generals who have experienced countless deaths and are accustomed to this can resist the biggest enemy of time in the ordinary and mediocre evening scene of time? How do you face decay, sickness and death? This kind of creation is very difficult, but this kind of thinking and exploration and even adventure is worth it, which makes Zeng Hao's novel transcend the "main theme" in the general sense, and makes the novel have the meaning of philosophy and intellectual debate, which is the valuable point of Zeng Hao's novel, and it is also his difference from other military writers that makes his creation present a "defamiliarization" texture. At the same time, Zeng Hao has a special preference for history. This is not to say that he is writing a historical story, but the work is full of a condensed "sense of history" and allegorical simplicity.
Wang Kun has always been an observer and recorder of real life, and his writings are born out of his real life experience of being on the front line of battle for many years or walking in the border. In recent years, he has published works such as the novel collection "No Soldier's Business", the novel "Post Six" and the novella "Crossing Hayden Island". In 2021, his novel "Mo Yun on the Edge of the Sky" attracted widespread attention, showing and reflecting the army's assistance to Tibet with the communication and integration of a medical team entering the snowy plateau at an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level and local herders. The remoteness and purity nurtured by the plateau area, and the simplicity and nature of the local herders flow into the story, making the whole work integrate a noble quality and tone. The novel not only shows the primitive survival scene of this land, but also expresses people's special attitudes towards nature and gods, the rugged values necessary to survive here, and at the same time writes about the collision between urban life and the different concepts and beliefs of the two sides towards medical treatment and life. After the conflict, everything is calm and all things are harmonious and unified. In addition to the creation of novels, Wang Kun is also devoted to non-fiction writing, and the non-fiction works created in recent years include "My Special Combat Past", which expresses the stories of the grass-roots level from the perspective of the grass-roots level and the experience of the grass-roots level, and records a period of fiery youth in the military career. In addition, since the outbreak of the epidemic, Wang Kun, as the officer of the political work group of the fourth batch of the army to assist the medical team in Wuhan, wrote the reportage works reflecting the frontline of the epidemic for the first time, such as "The Lights of Vulcan Mountain", "Sixty Degree Elevation Angle", and "The Charge in the Ward". In 2020, he created and published a long-form documentary literature "The Red Zone" Journal: Days and Nights in Vulcan Mountain, which depicts the true story between medical staff and patients in the "Red Zone" ward of Vulcan Mountain and the courage and confidence in fighting the disease, and is a very rare documentary literary masterpiece for people to fully understand Vulcan Mountain Hospital and understand the forefront of the national fight against the epidemic.
In recent years, Dong Xia Qingqing has published a series of short stories with good reputation in the industry, such as "Under the Kocharit Mountain", "On the Evening Clouds", and "The Auditorium", which continue her previous writing style of Xinjiang series of novels. She lived in the frontier for several years, closely contacted, understood and experienced the living conditions of contemporary frontier soldiers, and revealed the true life of the frontier soldiers in the direct description of the details of life. These obscured realities of existence are exposed through Dong Xia Qingqing's words, so that readers can't help but face and think about the fate of these frontier guards, and this special experience also gives writers more mature and open values than writers of the same age. Dong Xia Qingqing's new work "Frozen Soil Observatory" is even more directly facing the border conflict that has just occurred in China. In order to track and write this theme in a timely manner, the writer went to the border for an interview for a month, and the creation lasted half a year, restoring the truth with a calm brushstroke, constantly thinking about and questioning the life value of contemporary border soldiers, and showing their perseverance, kindness, bravery and forbearance. This creative spirit is undoubtedly worthy of affirmation, and the writer constantly challenges the difficulty of writing realistic themes, which to a certain extent makes up for the relatively weak shortcomings of military literature in responding to reality.
In addition, some of the growing new forces in military novels show the unlimited potential for the future development of military literature, such as Gao Mi, Tao Hong, Hu Yue and others, who are not old, but have a certain degree of literary accumulation, each of which is extraordinary. These literary newcomers have some common literary characteristics, they are highly educated, most of them come from the front-line troops, and have personal feelings about the military field that ordinary people are not familiar with or difficult to track, so they have obvious advantages in writing the current military life and reflecting the current military's practice of joining the strong army, and they show a "new quality" that is very different from the previous generations of writers in the narrative, and the young and heterogeneous language is very distinctive, bringing readers a strange reading experience. In terms of tracking current hot spots and challenging realistic themes, these newcomers have high hopes.
In the "new generation" of newly emerging military poetry, several young people, such as Ai Ke, Lei Xiaoyu, Pu Er, Dong Yufang, Xu Yue, and Dong Qingyue, have brought new shocks and new surprises to the development of military poetry. Several young poets have a high cultural starting point, high modern comprehensive quality, strong self-learning and transcendence ability, and the "new generation'" perception and sensitivity to daily military camp life are gratifying, and they have the ability to continuously publish large groups of poems in national journals such as "People's Literature" and "Poetry Journal" as soon as they enter the poetry scene, which makes their predecessor poets beyond reach. The "Youth Poetry Society" founded by "Poetry Journal" is the growth platform that outstanding poets and young poets in the country yearn for, and Ai Ke, Lei Xiaoyu and Pu Er have been continuously absorbed as students of the "Youth Poetry Society", which has never been done before in the past. When the young female poet Aiko set her sights on the depth of history, the war and history reproduced in her pen had a new realm of life. The life of the army has a natural mystery, but the feelings in Ike's poems are not limited by military uniforms. She did not separate the life in military uniform from the life without military uniform, and the emotions, scenes, and things that entered the poem were ordinary things that touched her and disturbed her emotions. What is valuable is that all the things and scenes in the poem are part of her mind and body.
In recent years, Lei Xiaoyu's group poems "The Record of the Wind and Snow", "The Sound of the Flute on the Earth", "The Diary of a Soldier", and "Mist" have been published in important literary journals such as "Poetry Journal", "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art", and "People's Literature", and published a special collection of poems , "Snow Mountain into Dreams", which has gradually grown into the backbone of young military poets who are quite recognized by the military and the localities. As one of the representatives of the "post-80s" military poets, his writing is different from traditional military poetry and has a different temperament. His poetry combines the strengths of classical aesthetics with modern techniques, and presents a compassionate, broad and mysterious background beyond the strong and majestic, which is due to his strong writing introspection, deep study of traditional Chinese culture, and fascination with all "ineffable" things. We have reason to pay more attention and expectation to this poetry naked child. With the peace camp as the aesthetic object, the same problem will arise: in the peacetime, when the homogenized content enters the limited space of poetry, it also creates a similarity to a certain extent. Park Er tried to "defamiliarize" the life of the soldiers that was accustomed to being different from others, and was especially good at associating the captured military camp life with the nature of the vast thousands of people and the cycle of the four seasons. Her works such as "Dusk Umbrella", "Good Field", and "Company of Stars" lead readers to understand a different military camp with imaginative intentions and verses. Dong Yufang, who appeared on the poetry scene earlier than Ai Ke, Lei Xiaoyu and Pu Er, although he retired to the local area, he never forgot the creation of military poetry, especially the texture and character of the new military poetry are inspiring. After winning the first prize for the new works of the whole army in the poetry collection "All the Way as Sharp as Blood", he won the Purple and Gold Star Award of "People's Literature" with the group poem "Spring Wind Carved Bones".
In recent years, Wang Long has devoted himself to the creation of historical and military themes, and his non-fiction works often focus on major human propositions, and his reflections on history, war and the fate of the times are impressive. Wang Long believes that any cultural form in the East and the West has its essence and dross, and different cultures can only play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses in comparison and identification. He hopes that through his independent thinking on a certain period of history and his unique observation of a certain historical figure, he will open up a new ideological space for today's people, provide a new concept of reading history, and construct modern civic values with a rational spirit. In the context of the current era of increasingly close globalization, young military writers have a sense of comparison between the East and the West, and can conduct dialogue between China and the West in a literary way from a higher dimension, so that they can re-examine history from a contemporary perspective. In Wang Long's concept, if historical creation loses or dilutes its own sociality, criticism and strong public awareness, it is equivalent to discarding the soul and becoming a kind of over-the-top, spoofing and hippie word game. In recent years, he has published long works such as "The Fate of Mountains and Rivers", which has clear practical significance and fully demonstrates the positive values of the times. "Late Medal" won the "Good Book of China" in 2020, focusing on the life and death legend of Chai Yunzhen, a famous combat hero of the Volunteer Army and the winner of the "July 1st Medal", telling a shocking heroic song and portraying a pure heart without regrets. The whole book presents a heroic history, a history of struggle, and a history of the soul of the veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The book not only records the journey of a volunteer veteran who fought in blood, but also depicts the heroic scrolls of countless volunteer soldiers, reflecting the ordinary and great spiritual epitome of millions of Chinese soldiers.
Fu Yichen can be called a new critic in the field of military literary criticism, in recent years, he has always paid attention to the development of the military literary circle, timely tracked the situation of writers' works, and the identity of military journalists and editors has prompted him to understand writers at close range. In 2018, Fu Yichen edited the book "The Face of the "New Generation of Military Writers", which is the first monograph in the literary world to systematically study, comment on and promote the "new generation" military writers, providing reliable reading reference and academic materials for readers and researchers, and effectively and effectively filling the research gaps in related fields. At the same time, this book not only shows the achievements of the "new generation" of military writers in various genres and subject areas, but also sharply and accurately points out the bottleneck problems that need to be broken through and solved in creation. In addition, another of his theoretical works, "Literary Field: Cross-Examination and Questioning- New Notebook Style Criticism", has made a unique exploration and attempt in the stylistic consciousness and spiritual dimension of criticism, and has received attention and praise from the literary criticism community. This book is a collection of his new attempts at literary criticism in recent years; novel style, distinctive personality, prose culture, emphasizing the literary idea and aesthetic taste of criticism; especially drawing on the form and concept of "note-style criticism" in classical Chinese literature, integrating with Western modern theoretical criticism, proposing and practicing a new concept of "new note-style criticism"; emphasizing the critic's on-site feelings, intuitive judgments and improvisational thinking, preserving reading traces and ideological paths as much as possible; very different from the academic thesis program. It presents a vivid, vivid and open style of criticism and aesthetic style.
brief summary
As I mentioned at the beginning of the article, the downturn in military literature at the beginning of the new century and the lack of success in the ranks of writers were indeed worrying. So, twenty years later, what is the situation? According to our observations, military literature not only did not "disenchant", but gradually glowed with new vitality and charm.
Of course, this kind of happy situation is not easy to come by, and it is also thought-provoking, so let us re-examine whether "theme literature" or genre literature can produce good works. Practice has proved that good works can be produced and can be continuously developed. For example, in the field of novels, from Xu Huaizhong and Zhu Xiuhai, to Tao Chun and Wen Qingli, down to Xi Yuan and Dong Xia Qingqing, their works have a very high reprint rate in core journals, and Wen Qingli's novels and short stories in the past three years have been reprinted no less than ten times. Looking back at the changes in military literature in the past five years, we can truly feel the new atmosphere and new changes that have emerged in the field of literature, and writers and readers can more identify with the main theme, the heroism contained in positive energy works, the inheritance power of patriotism, and the spiritual background of human beings' natural goodness, truth, and beauty, which can also make a group of military writers have the confidence to sink down and return to the origin of military literature to absorb nutrients, thus creating a new opportunity for military literature to turn yellow to green. Of course, while feeling relieved, we must also realize that there are still many problems in military literature, and there is still a lot of room for self-renewal and improvement.
First of all, the advantages of the current military literature creation are relatively concentrated in the in-depth excavation of revolutionary historical themes, while there is a serious lack of realistic themes. The reason is clear: our ranks of writers include war-hardened war veterans, as well as writers who have followed and interviewed countless revolutionary fighters of the older generation. Therefore, they have a lot of accumulation and understanding of the red heritage, and the stories they write naturally carry the profound artistic power generated by life experience and heavy accumulation. As for depicting and conveying the image of the Chinese army that is roaring and advancing at the moment, it is necessary to pin hopes on younger middle-aged and young writers - in other words, they should bear the responsibility of tracking the magnificent and ever-changing process of the strong army and the dazzling equipment update in recent years, but for various reasons, there is still a certain gap between them and the current army changes, and they know very little about the weapons and equipment fields such as aircraft carriers, J-20s, dongfeng series, etc., and therefore, There are relatively few creations in the fields of major development and change reflected in military works, and even fewer good works have been precipitated. On the other hand, it is a question of literary concepts. Because military literature once left people with the label impression of "theme first" and "political correctness", it is not widely regarded as a "high-level" literary category. In particular, since the beginning of the new century, literature as a whole has declined, and the situation of military literature has become more marginal and embarrassing. Influenced by this concept, many writers have not yet started writing, the momentum is first shortened, and the works created are mostly circulated in the circle, becoming a small range of self-excitement. The result of these problems is that in the context of the era of China's rise and national rejuvenation, military literature, as the main literary category that spreads positive energy and publicizes the main theme, should have shown a trend of group operations with great fanfare, but the status quo is that although military writers have made their own achievements, they are far from the position of "group charge". On the other hand, after years of materialization and entertainment, the current readers have also put forward a more sensitive, deeper, more delicate, and more advanced requirement for the spiritual narrative - the image of the new soldier in the new era must have a new look, a new style, a new texture, a new texture... Military writers are also somewhat inadequate in responding to this reading need. And all that.
"Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now he steps forward from the beginning." Standing at the historical intersection of the two centenary goals and looking at the grand journey toward the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream, today's military writers are both prosperous and have a long way to go, as long as they do not forget their original intentions and do not slacken their deeds, they should and will inevitably make great achievements on the road to strengthening the army in the new era. First of all, writers should be the first to get the atmosphere, concentrate on the majestic power of the great era, feel the surging passion, the magnificent epic, the magnificent picture, and set up a vast goal like the sea of stars. You may not directly depict the present and the present in every work, but you must drum up this magnificent wind in your chest, and the pen must spew out the momentum, courage and weather of this great power. Only when writers set firm goals, expand the literary front, keep firmly in mind the "great power of the country" and "the great one of the army", infiltrate themselves into the fertile soil of military literature with a greater vision and pattern, absorb the essence of art precipitated by time -- tracing the revolutionary history vertically, drawing literary nutrients from the excellent traditions of ancient war literature and red classics, and focusing horizontally on learning, learning, and innovating from world war literature. At the same time, we will pay close attention to the current hot spots, track the changes in the military, and respond to the topics of the times. In the specific creative process, it is also necessary to pay attention to the transformation of political advantages into artistic advantages, and pay attention to the combination of hero shaping and human exploration. Only in this way can military writers tell the story of military service in the new era.
As observers, critics, shouters and watchmen of military literature, we look forward to and believe that military writers will be able to further gather and assemble in the near future, and then echo each other and charge together to create masterpieces that live up to the times and build new peaks on the plateau!
——Published in PLA Literature and Art, No. 4, 2022
Title Calligraphy | Zhu Xiuhai
Original editor | Wenqingli
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