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April Reading | Cooking Smoke: One Town, One World

April Reading | Cooking Smoke: One Town, One World

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The hometown exists in a unique form, although geographically it is popular and public, but in the eyes of the writer, the hometown is always covered with smoke, in the heart of the writer, it is always so soft and knotted, in the writer's pen, always so long thoughts.

There are definitely a thousand looks in the eyes of a thousand writers, and Mr. Lu Xun's "Hometown" Lu Zhen must be a different situation in the eyes of Mr. Zhou Zuoren. This is the charm of our hometown. Every writer has a hometown complex, and every writer's pen has an inexhaustible hometown.

April Reading | Cooking Smoke: One Town, One World

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Yan Xuejun, Shanxi Datongren, is currently the chairman of the China Financial Writers Association, the vice chairman of the China Financial Literature Association, and a member of the 8th, 9th and 10th National Committees of the China Writers Association. He is also the deputy director of the Propaganda Committee of the Youth Volunteer Association of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. In 2013, he was awarded the honorary title of "National Outstanding Literary and Art Worker" by the Ministry of Culture, the Chinese Writers Association, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

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April Reading | Cooking Smoke: One Town, One World

"Cooking Smoke: One Town, One World"

Zhu Ye, a member of the China Writers Association and executive vice chairman of the China Financial Writers Association, recently published a collection of essays by Henan University Press, "One Town and One World", which is one of his prose trilogy. Reading through this book, the years of a village on the Yangtze River in southern Anhui are vividly remembered, which allows familiar readers to find the scenes of life in the memory, and can let foreigners perceive the different customs and customs there.

Reasons for recommendation

"One Town and One World" is divided into three chapters: locality, rural style, and nostalgia, just like the "Wind", "Ya" and "Ode" in the "Book of Poetry".

"Rural" mainly introduces the customs and customs of the hometown, where there are large ship docks with flowing water, there are post and telecommunications stations that have been passed on for thousands of miles, there are homeless repatriation stations, and the most shocking thing is the thunder that cannot cross the thunder pond; "rural style" introduces the customs and habits of the hometown, where there are fragrant stinky mandarin fish, there is an unforgettable father's legacy, there are memories of pots and pans, and there are memories of floating on the water; "nostalgia" introduces the human feelings and physics of the hometown, and the grandmother boils the fish to boil out of the thoughts. The folk opera sings endless nostalgia, and on a boring day, looking at the rape flowers in my hometown with my memory, my heart suddenly adds a little beauty. The only way to relieve worries is to miss.

Every text in the book comes from real life, and the author takes us into the village where he was born and grew up in a non-fiction way, a place name with only two words on the map, which is constantly enlarged through his words, continuously interpreted through his insights, and constantly praised through his perception, as if the author's pen is no longer life, but a kind of poetry.

The whole book has a total of 64 articles, plus the preface and afterword, not to mention the content, only from the title of the article, can stimulate the reader's impulse to read quickly, such as the title of the self-prologue "Miss, sing a song of the soul of the hometown", the author uses very popular language, introduces the background and motivation of the creation of the work, compared to the gorgeous rhetoric, the simple and sincere family affection between the lines, absolutely refreshing, especially from the local writers, reading such words, will definitely feel empathy, the same frequency resonance.

"I've always had something to say about the world." These are the words of the author in the "Afterword", I don't know how much the author wants to say in this book, these words alone make many of our readers very excited and intoxicated. There are the landscapes of southern Anhui, the cocktail parties by the river, and the endless nostalgia.

May more people listen to the stories of the river and see the turbulent air currents in the countryside.

Edited by Li Mengxi

April Reading | Cooking Smoke: One Town, One World

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