Elephant News Andying.com reporter Liang Xinhui
At the beginning of this year, the 58-episode TV series "The World of Man", based on the novel of the same name by the famous writer Liang Xiaosheng, became popular all over the Internet, and this era drama caused a ratings boom. Today, the 73-year-old Liang Xiaosheng has pushed forward the realist novel "Chinese Tao Li", depicting the actual situation and spiritual growth of the "post-80s", focusing on the wandering and perseverance of young people at the time of the change of the times.
Liang Xiaosheng, who is good at writing about great historical changes, in his long new work "Chinese Tao Li", he has set his sights on the group of "post-80s" college students, based on what he has seen and heard in the process of university teaching with students, telling their ideals and struggles, and also pouring out their bitterness and confusion, exploring their own growth and career achievements.
In 2000, Li Xiaodong and Xu Ran, freshmen in the department of Chinese, met for the first time on the train to the university, and after a small conflict, their impressions of each other were not good. Neither he nor she expected that this would be the beginning of a long entanglement or entanglement. Preaching, teaching, dispelling puzzles... In the university, the rational people are in the world, but outside the ivory tower, they are under siege.
After graduation, the protagonists in the novel, like all their classmates, are faced with the choice of staying in their hometown small city to develop or choose to enter the big city to work hard. Beijing is not easy to live in, the two have to face the many challenges of high housing prices, high prices and work setbacks, and strive to find a possible path between career ideals and life planning... This is a long and solid work that faces reality and is full of humanistic feelings, does not avoid the problems in life, and strives to find a way out. I believe that many young people who work hard in big cities will have resonance.
Liang Xiaosheng, who is more than 70 years old, describes the actual situation and spiritual growth of the "post-80s", which can be said to be a great challenge he has issued to himself. The writer is set up as a "post-80s" small-town youth, writing in the first person about his college life, love, friendship, breaking into Beijing, success and failure again and again...
The generational gap between the writer and the protagonist in age is inevitable, but the novel focuses on showing many of the author's social and cultural thinking, as well as the understanding of the trade-offs made by contemporary young people when ideals and reality conflict: a certain illusory ideal is like vanity, resolutely letting go of the return to reality, and discovering the value of life in ordinary work and life, which is actually more meaningful. This is an elder's expectation for future life, and young readers can cite it as a reference.
In 2018, Elephant News reporter (first from left) interviewed Liang Xiaosheng in Zhengzhou
Liang Xiaosheng, a famous writer of the same age as New China, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, has created and published a large number of influential novels, essays, essays and film and television works, and has become a representative of "Zhiqing Literature" with a series of works such as "Tonight There is a Blizzard", "This is a Magical Land", "Snow City", "Nian Ring" and so on, and in 2019, he won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award with his novel "The World of Man".