Reading Feng Yanhua's "Nirvana" has a feeling

Shandong financial writer Mr. Feng Yanhua's novel "Nirvana", although it has 280,000 words sprinkled with foreign words, I see only the title of "Nirvana", which almost summarizes the entire spiritual core of this novel. In other words, the title of the novel's Nirvana is the soul of the whole novel. I've always argued that a good headline is half the size of an article. The two words of nirvana, which accurately cover the meridians of the entire novel, are worthy of praise and admiration.

The wedge before the opening of "Nirvana" seems to be a guiding stake erected by the author to the reader: "According to legend, in ancient times, here was a vast ocean, when the flood was flooded, and for the harming party, a golden phoenix flew in and helped Dayu retreat from the flood." Since then, the Golden Phoenix has been here forever and has fallen into the mountains, which is the Phoenix Mountain. A book has the title of Nirvana as the soul, and the legend of Phoenix Mountain is the body of this book. This wedge cleverly sets off the title and meaning of the novel "Nirvana", and also implies that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China will succeed in Yongzhen like a flying golden phoenix in this financial system reform. This wedge really resembles a scenic tour guide, leading me deep into the depths of the scene.

This novel has a valuable highlight: on the stage of financial system reform built by the writer, the protagonists are all grass-roots employees. The largest official title is only the president of a branch of a county-level city industrial and commercial bank, and at best he is a petty official of nine sesame seeds. I have read several books or long-form online literature that tell the story of reform and opening up, and most of them are big people on stage, interpreting the stories of upper-class people driving the ship.

"Nirvana" from the opening of the gong to the curtain, whether on the stage or in front of the stage and behind the scenes, the appearances are ordinary small people. Let the commanders who are charging in the front line lead a cadre of grass-roots employees to perform to the fullest, do not put on political labels, do not sell plasters, and approve that the majority of employees are the new force for the reform of this financial system. I appreciate Mr. Feng Yanhua's focus on the vision and feelings of small people, and I can also understand his implications: no matter how brilliant the blueprint of the reform is designed, it is necessary to rely on the active participation of the majority of employees to make the shareholding system transformation of the industrial and commercial bank a complete success. A joint-stock system transformation like a rebirth from the fire will not work by relying on only a few elites. Only the active participation of the majority of employees can play a cornerstone role, which is a good pattern with a lofty mind. The focus of the whole work has been telling a theme: only by fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of the majority of employees is the source of victory that can ensure the success of the shareholding system transformation. Looking down, it is affirmed that the majority of employees are the driving force behind the success of the joint-stock system transformation. It is said that only the masses of the people are the real driving force for the creation of history. Praising the contribution of employees in the reform of the joint-stock system and singing praises to big employees is the author's clever move, which makes me, a financial layman, very convinced! As the saying goes, a text is like a person, and in the process of deducing the story of "Nirvana", it can also highlight the character of the writer.

Since Mr. Feng Yanhua "directs" ordinary employees to sing big plays, then his novel language is also simple and unpretentious. In particular, the dialogue between the characters makes people sound like ordinary people are chatting between each other. It is the child who speaks with a hint of innocence, the old man who speaks with a dialect taste of the earthy taste, what identity says what, all without artificial elevation, but highlights the vividness of the work. It is very grounded and is another highlight of "Nirvana". I was extremely disgusted with pushing the people at the bottom to the front line to shed blood and sweat, and even to die in the fire, but in the end it was this long and long general work that stood on the podium. Focusing the lens on the majority of employees is a kind of realm of the writer.

In terms of emotional description, I appreciate Mr. Feng Yanhua's subtlety. For example, in the second chapter, Mei Xia and Qian Rong's dialogue. Mei Xia said, "Governor Qian, Xiao Beisheng is newly married." Today is the weekend, and you are on your first day in office. Don't you go home and reunite with your sister-in-law? Clear-eyed people can hear that Mei Xia's words are not only offside, but also have a sour taste that is not easy to detect. The emotions of this beautiful female office director are like an undercurrent. Mei Xia seems to have no words to find words and half jokes, but in fact, she is subtly conveying her inner expectations, or trying to ignite the emotional fire. If Mei Xia's emotional world hadn't been in waves, it wouldn't have happened" Her eyes wandered and wandered, and the gaze seemed to be staring at him, and it seemed to be tasting something. Mei Xia's mind was not distracted, and the context would not be so avant-garde. Qian Rong was also in "a moment, the bottom of the heart flooded with a slight ripple, the air seems to ripple a different kind of feelings and charm, "but also " quite intriguing." It is obvious that Qian Rong accurately received the emotional signal sent by Mei Xia, so he "rippled slightly," and he could feel "a different kind of feeling and charm," and also felt "quite intriguing." Two mature and successful men and women, why does Mei Xia have to "look uncertain, confused, and taste something with her heart?" Why did Qian Rong "ripple slightly in his heart?" And why can you feel "a different kind of feeling and charm that seems to ripple"? Two flamboyant bare-chested dolls, with nearly equal social status, are young men and women who have worked together for many years, and it is common for people to have emotional budding in a specific environment. If a beautiful woman boasts that she sees a beautiful man's heart like water, and a man brags that he does not move his mind when he sees a beautiful woman, he must be a hypocrite. Beautiful women and beautiful men look at each other more, and even a little emotional budding occurs, which is the normal emotional assembly line. The key person is a high-level animal with emotional inhibition, who knows how to grasp it at the right time can only see and cannot touch, and understands that a gentleman moves his mind but cannot easily do it. Therefore, after Qian Rong experienced a short period of "slight ripples", he smiled slightly in understanding, and responded with a pun to Mei Xia's "eyes wandering and confused": "Where is that mind, this is full of thoughts." "Taking work as the center, this is an emotional red line that Qian Rong has drawn for himself and Mei Xia, and it is also the principle of working together in the future." At this point, the two tacit young men and women are only confused and intriguing, and do not leave a little space for the emotional development to the waves. This is the control of emotional proportions, this is the human force under reason.

I appreciate Mr. Feng Yanhua's delicate and subtle emotional description. The language should not be so blunt, and speaking too thoroughly will make people feel tasteless. Leaving readers with a wide range of reverie, this is the valuable point of Nirvana.

The novel "Nirvana" tells the magnificent story of a group of "phoenixes" who "set incense wood to self-immolate, resurrect from the dead ashes, and are delicious and abnormal from then on, no longer dead". This is the indomitable tenacity and tragedy of a group, but also an entrepreneurial spirit of courage to go forward and struggle hard. And only those brave people who can sacrifice themselves can be entitled to rebirth and eternity in the fire. "Nirvana" tells the touching story of employees of industrial and commercial banks at different levels "fighting bayonets" on the front line of joint-stock system transformation. One by one touching scenes in the book, the scenes blend and reproduce the development process of ICBC from eating a cauldron of rice to the successful transformation of the joint-stock system. Qian Rong was the commander and participant in this "hand-to-hand" battle, and he was both a commander and a combatant. In that era of reform in full swing, a large number of grass-roots commanders and combatants like Qianrong emerged from all walks of life, which was the fundamental guarantee for the complete victory of the financial system reform.

As the president of the sub-branch, Qian Rong does not take the shelf, does not take the style, does not pretend, the struggle is difficult, the loss of his own first to eat, the advantage is given to the subordinates, there is danger he goes first. No matter how busy the work is, how heavy the task is, how much pressure there is, he always keeps the warmth and cold of his employees in mind. Such cadres are worthy of being the representatives of the vanguard of the times. I am reminded of a famous saying by Bai Yansong: "Those who have no small private are big private." Like Qian Rong, a grassroots party member cadre who suffers hardships in the front and enjoys the latter, is there any reason why the people will not support it? Don't say that Qian Rong is a branch president, how many Yang Rong, Li Rong, Wang Rong, in reality, even if they are only the leader of the team, the first thing that comes to mind is to pretend to be a hand-throwing treasurer. Those who can be like money must be models for grassroots cadres. Mr. Feng Yanhua's design of the character of Qian Rong was successful and one of the highlights of Nirvana.

The joint-stock restructuring of ICBC, which began at the end of the twentieth century, was equivalent to the redistribution of interests in this industry. Before the reform of the shareholding system, everyone ate a big pot of rice, the responsibility was not clear, not working and working was the same, laziness and diligence were the same, late arrival and early departure and commuting to work on time were the same, playing poker and playing chess and even dozing off at work, and people who worked seriously were the same, listlessly slacking in front of customers, and talking about civility and politeness, all kinds of drawbacks, I not only read in "Nirvana", but also saw it in the actual life of that era, and even saw it much more seriously than the plot in the book. At that time, I used to quarrel with people because of the grinding and rubbing of bank employees, and even physical conflicts with swearing employees. Once upon a time, I thought that the rice bowl that could be served to the bank was the green smoke on the grave of the ancestors. I was envious of how easy their salaries were.

Around 2000, I found that all the bank employees who knew me, including the president, the vice president, the director of this department, and the leaders of the various groups, ran to my Dezhou Guanghe Commercial Bank one after another, and said at every turn that they would invite me to drink, and who invited me to drink was a theme, pulling deposits, or entrusting me to help pull deposits from other units. At first, I didn't think so, thinking that it was not a deposit, which line existed is not a deposit. Therefore, I not only deposited my unit's money in a bank with human face, but also helped people who could not complete the deposit task to bring deposits. To my chagrin, a few people who oversized their deposits thanked me with a lot of cash, saying it was a reward from the bank.

Gradually I understood that working in the bank could no longer wait for food to eat, and they had come to an end the comfortable life of dressing and eating with their hands open. Bank employees all pull deposits, all production enterprises sell products, all commercial units come forward to sell goods, dig doors everywhere to find a way, the relationship that has not moved for many years is hot, the seven aunts and eight aunts, uncles, uncles, nephews, uncles and nephews, all the relations are launched, and the society is filled with a busy atmosphere of survival and development, which is the sense of social crisis caused by the comprehensive reform at that time. What I felt most deeply was that the reform could force the governors to put down the shelf and pull deposits everywhere, which was a change that I would never have dared to think of. From then on, let alone the window of the bank, is the window of all industries, including the working status of the staff of the administrative service window of the government at all levels, and the gloomy face can no longer be seen. Because a person who does not smile at the service window will be eliminated at any time. After the successful transformation of the shareholding system, the spirit of all employees of ICBC has been renewed, proving that reform is a necessary road to the future.

Mr. Feng Yanhua's "Nirvana" runs through this mood throughout. Tossing and turning, tossing out the spirit of the employees to work hard, tossing out the good benefits of the industrial and commercial bank, this is also the highlight of this novel.

To be honest, before the financial reforms, I almost saw people who worked in banks as darlings of society. The jealousy in my heart was miserable, and I never expected that the hard work of pulling deposits everywhere could be spread over to them. And let everyone working in the bank feel that there is more work and more food, and that everyone is forced to exert their potential and momentum, which is also the necessity and urgency of the reform of the "Nirvana" book. Facts have proved that through the unprecedented shareholding system reform of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, it proves that our huge society must take the road of transforming the old system, and this transformation is very popular.

Since it is a redistribution of interests, any reform that breaks the rice bowl will not be smooth, and there will even be a bloody storm. The purpose of the reform is to smash the original pots and stoves that have been used for decades, break the pots and bowls, and get rid of the egalitarianism of the lazy people, no longer assigned to life at once, but to let the capable eat meat and drink soup. That will inevitably make the majority rejoice and the minority worry. Whoever endangers the interests of reform will resent the operators. Although Qian Rong is a relatively comprehensive branch president, he is trying to think carefully, and he will inevitably offend people, so his family will receive threatening phone calls again and again to "go out and be careful", and smash the window, which means that your president will not let me be stable, you and your family will not stop, maybe at any time someone will hit your black gun. Qian Rong, who was not afraid of the threat, was injured by the black hand of the hired murderer, and he also understood who the black hand was. Qian Rong's superiority lies in the fact that he did not follow the routine of calling the police to arrest people, but used the tolerant and generous personality strength to influence and influence those subordinate employees who opposed him. As a result, he endured a momentary pain, but it touched and affected the people in the group. This is called sincerity, and even the little devil who raises the knife has to stop.

At the end of the twentieth century, the reform was in its heyday, and the social contradictions caused by the reforms were far more serious than the scenes in Nirvana. I have personally experienced scenes such as those who played with kitchen knives to the workshop director or factory director, smashed sticks, smashed bricks, beat people's children on the way to school, and laid-off people led their wives and children into the leaders' homes and did not leave. What's more, the one who smears on the doorknob of the leader's house, the one who still makes his own explosives, and so on, only you can't think of it, no one can't do bad things. Almost at the same time that Qian Rong was blackmailed, my boss was slashed and bloodied by a laid-off young man with a kitchen knife in his office. The price that had to be paid in these reforms was covered in Nirvana. It is said that literary works come from life and are higher than life, which tests the writer's true ability to refine life. Mr. Feng Yanhua's efforts to condense life and refine materials are not shallow.

"Nirvana" shows a number of wine banquet scenes, which shows that Mr. Feng Yanhua's Taoism in the winery is also quite deep. A banquet is an occasion to show the good or bad of human character. A person's drinking posture, even if it is deliberately disguised, will be revealed after a few glasses of wine, which is the ability of alcohol, so that your character can not hide the authenticity at the banquet. In order to work, in order to increase his savings by several million, Qian Rong did not hesitate to drink himself into the stomach and turn the river into the sea, but also sacrificed his life to accompany the gentleman. The distance between him and the Tibetan traitor is too far, which is also caused by Qian Rong's human nature. I often say that a person who drinks with a glass of wine must not have deep friendships, which means that wine is also a person. The subtext in "Nirvana" also alludes to this meaning. In other words, the liquor store is an occasion where you can't lie, and if you are not real, all the eyes present can see through you. It's like a person who writes prose, no matter how high he is, can't hide his true self in the article. Because drinking, like writing prose, you can't disguise yourself. As long as a few lies or insincere words, the words can automatically call the police. So looking at someone's prose is the best way to decide if you can have a deep friendship with him. Then drinking with someone is also the most direct way to judge a person's human nature. Whoever drinks too much wine is uncomfortable, but the temperament of the person who is like money melts, recognizes the use of too much alcohol to abuse himself, but also to give the other party a real feeling, which is the human character.

The story of Phoenix Nirvana was read by Mr. Guo Moruo in his poem of the same name published in the 1920s by Mr. Guo Moruo. Mr. Feng Yanhua was able to refer to the institutional reform of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China as tragic and tragic as the phoenix nirvana, which shows that he is a powerful writer who can bear in mind the overall situation, has far-sighted vision, has great talent and is very grounded. If it were not for the writer's own personal participation in this "rebirth" change, his novels would not have been written to this height. It is even more impossible to create many lifelike bloody characters such as Qian RongMeixia, who are full of flesh and blood and feelings.

What began in the 1980s was a rebirth-like reform and opening-up, like an all-out war that affected the whole country. Although this reform is a war without guns and smoke, it is also a fateful battle that concerns the life and death of ICBC. Mr. Feng Yanhua's "Nirvana" describes several battles in this all-out war and several fierce battles to capture the mountain heights. Qian Rong, president of the Taicheng branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, is equivalent to the regimental tactical commander of this battle, so he is also a brave soldier who fights with bayonets shirtless. And the image of commanders and combatants like this is all too familiar to me. The vanguard of the times like Qian Rong is the backbone of the success of that reform. After admiring the title of Mr. Feng Yanhua's rather clever "Nirvana", he began to ponder the name of Qian Rong, the protagonist of the singing protagonist. I seem to be able to feel that the author gave this tactical commander who commanded the front-line battle a name of money, which is also quite a lot of thought. First of all, the name of this "money rong" is very symbolic. At least I saw that "Qian Rong" would soon be able to enter the play, probably this is the original intention of Mr. Feng Yanhua to design the name of qian Rong' character.

I am familiar with the process of reforming the financial system that began more than forty years ago to change China's destiny, because like Mr. Feng Yanhua, I have experienced every aspect of that reform. However, he participated in the structural reform of financial enterprises, and I participated in the structural reform of industrial enterprises. We are like two dishes on two plates, job competition, survival of the fittest is the home cooking of which period. We are both participants in the destruction of the old system and builders of the advanced system, and together we have been confused, tormented, struggled, and we have shed tears and even left blood. We have all felt the crisis of competition strongly, and we have all fought a battle to defend our jobs for survival. Therefore, we are the strivers who participate in the reform and the beneficiaries of the reform dividend. Mr. Feng Yanhua and I and our protagonists who participated in the reform of that era were willing to weep and sing for that era. Being able to go through that great social change is the creation of my generation in this lifetime.

I entered the commercial sea when the reform was on the cusp of the storm. At that time, I was in Texas and had no less dealings with various professional banks. To be honest, I was very disagreeable about the working status of some of the staff at that time. One is that some people are very lazy, can push the window business, can hide and hide, as if the customer does not deposit and they have no half-cent relationship; the second is that some people's mental state is in a passive coping state, not active or active, and does not take the customer's opinion at all. After reading "Nirvana", I thought that the reform of the financial system was like a timely rain in the drought, and it was not enough to gain a new life without reform. December 25, 2021

One point number Yang Yanbin