Yangtze River Daily Wuhan Client, April 10 (Reporter Li Xu) On the morning of April 9, the seminar on the famous writer Chen Yingsong's long new work "Tianlu Bay" was held in Hubei Publishing culture city in the form of a combination of online and offline.
Published by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House in January this year, the novel takes the forty years of reform and opening up as the background of the times, writes the long and arduous entrepreneurial history of farmers in the Jianghan Plain to achieve poverty alleviation and prosperity through struggle, and reproduces the great transformation process of China's contemporary countryside in a panoramic way, which is a blockbuster work of contemporary rural poverty alleviation.
"Tianlu Bay" book cover.
Li Jingze, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, believes that "Tianlu Bay" is a very unique and very important work in Chen Yingsong's own creative vein. From writing Shennongjia to writing about the Jianghan Plain, the transformation of this theme is the result of Chen Yingsong's conscious and arduous adjustment of his own subject position and even the structure of the subject, which is a kind of "re-hometownization" - returning to the hometown and re-understanding the hometown. Chen Yingsong depicts the great changes in the countryside from a literary, emotional and rational perspective and in an appropriate way, infiltrated by the perspective of sociology and anthropology.
Chen Yingsong.
Bai Ye, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, commented that "TianluWan" is a blockbuster work for China's contemporary poverty alleviation and well-off. Set against the backdrop of the changes of the times in the past 40 years, the novel focuses on the Jianghan Plain and writes about the profound evolution of contemporary Chinese rural areas from poverty to food and clothing, from food and clothing to prosperity. The portraits of advanced peasant figures depicted in the work show the excellent qualities of the peasants who cherish the feelings of love and righteousness and the feelings of home and country.
Liu Jianwei, former director of the Bayi Studio and member of the presidium of the China Writers Association, commented that "Tianlu Bay" is a symphonic poem depicting the vicissitudes and great changes in the countryside of the Jianghan Plain over the past few decades. The author has a unique ingenuity, using some major events as the background, like a movement to focus on China's great changes in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, especially rural changes, but also rich harmony, that is, in the long process of urbanization and modernization, the attraction and influence of cities on the countryside, and the penetration of urban culture into the countryside.
Meng Fanhua, vice president of the China Contemporary Literature Research Association, believes that the most wonderful thing about the work is to write about the daily life, joys and sorrows of the people of Tianlu Bay, and write about the "human world" of Tianlu Bay. Chen Yingsong is familiar with rural life and has created works throughout China's contemporary rural history, which is a great contribution to the Chinese literary world.
He Shaojun, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, believes that there are two "new" in TianluWan. The first is to write about the great changes in the new mountains and townships, and to put the creative labor of the peasants in the hometown in the context of reform and opening up; the second is to shape the image of the rural newcomers in the era of reform and opening up, and the two generations in the novel, which represent the two periods before and after the era of reform and opening up, have a progressive and inheritance relationship, of which the image of the rural newcomers has greater literary significance.
Hu Ping, former director of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, believes that "Tianlu Bay" has written the great era of reform and opening up, and written the atmosphere of the times of seeking truth from facts, emancipating the mind, and forging ahead in a pioneering spirit. The characters in the work are very successfully portrayed, and it is very gripping to write about farmers like Jin Mancang who dare to toss and turn, as well as typical figures of the new generation of farmers who boldly pursue love, such as Jin Tiantian and Hong Dajiang.
Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of "Literature and Art Daily" and member of the presidium of the China Writers Association, said: "Tianlu Bay" fully reflects the author's characteristics of being good at writing about rural areas. It is not only a work depicting poverty alleviation and prosperity, but also has a more distant vision, placing the starting point of the story in the real environment of China's rural areas after the reform and opening up, providing a lot of successful experience for writing about China's rural life.
Fan Xing, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Literature of Wuhan University, believes that "Tianlu Bay" has a strong regional atmosphere, and the author "returns to his hometown spiritually", writing about the customs and historical changes of Hubei public security. The novel also puts forward a topic, that is, how to write a good main theme work, which is worth exploring and thinking about.
Yue Wen, director of the Theory Department of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, believes that "Tianluwan" allows a village to have its own image in literature and continues the bloodline of socialist Chinese literature, which is a tribute to the "History of Entrepreneurship". Writers understand rural problems in a larger perspective, and the times show their essence in personal destiny.
Chen Yingsong, the author of "Tianlu Bay", frankly confessed his original intention of creation: "I just want to write about a group of farmers, two generations of farmers, their feelings for the land, and the stories of their struggle for a better life. He said he would continue to write "the epic of the people that never ends."
【Editor: Deng Laxiu】
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