Modern Express News (reporter Zhang Wenying) In early 2022, a "Human World" exploded, triggering a lot of discussion and also making the original author Liang Xiaosheng out of the circle. Recently, Liang Xiaosheng's latest realistic long-form work "Chinese Tao Li" was launched by the Writers Publishing House. In the book, it focuses on "post-80s" college students, talks about their ideals and struggles, and also pours out their bitterness and confusion, and explores the road to growth and career.
△ "Chinese Peach and Plum" book shadow
At the age of more than 70, Liang Xiaosheng, who is good at writing about great historical changes, based on his experiences and experiences with students in the process of teaching at the university, set up as a "post-80s" small-town youth, writing in the first person about his college life, love, friendship, breaking into Beijing, and winning and failing again and again...
In 2000, Li Xiaodong and Xu Ran, freshmen of the Chinese Department, 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, solving puzzles... In the university, the rational people are in the world, but outside the ivory tower, they are under siege.
△ The inner page of "Chinese Peach and Plum"
In the novel, the protagonists, like all their classmates, are faced with the choice of staying in their hometown small city to develop or choose to enter the metropolis 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. Hometown, provincial capital, Beijing ... The twists and turns of life trajectory are nothing more than finding a place to live. I always have to wait until I am tired of running, and then I suddenly find that this place of peace of mind is my hometown.
Although there is an inevitable generational gap between the author and the protagonist in terms of age, the novel focuses on showing the author's many 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 put down and return to reality, and discover the value of life in ordinary work and life, which is more meaningful.
As a long-form work that faces reality and is full of humanistic feelings, "Chinese Tao Li" does not avoid the problems in life, but also strives to find a way out, I believe that many young people who work hard in big cities can find resonance in it.
(Photo courtesy of the publisher, edited by Chen Haijing)