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"Forty Degrees North Latitude"
Author: Chen Fumin
Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Marked by the Great Wall, the 40-degree north latitude geographical belt has gradually formed different ethnic groups and lifestyles in the process of historical evolution, and finally completed the separation, competition and integration of different civilization types...
Around 40 degrees north latitude, the different ethnic groups look at each other, imagine each other, and join each other.
The famous scholar and writer Chen Fumin took the history of China as the scripture and the geographical belt of 40 degrees north latitude as the latitude, and painted a map of the ancient rivers and mountains.
Forty degrees north latitude is first a geographical concept, and later, with the advancement of time, the conflict and integration between different ethnic groups has formed a cultural level of forty degrees north latitude.
The whole book is like an ink painting, opening the picture scroll, the geographical belt marked by the Great Wall at forty degrees north latitude, the historical figures of the EguanBo belt have appeared one after another: Zhao Wuling Wang, Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Li Guang, Wei Qing, Huo Zhiyi, Wang Zhaojun...
These historical figures eventually converged into the forty degrees north latitude, into the torrent of national competition and integration.
Different from the fiction of historical interpretation, the casualness of historical prose, or the seriousness of historical monographs, "Forty Degrees North Latitude" reveals and restores the internal logic of history itself through the people and things around the Great Wall, with a "legitimate view of literature and history" with overall consciousness and dialectical consciousness.
Therefore, we see the limitations of Sima Qian's biography of Li Guang, Wei Qing, and Huo Fuyi, using individual morality as the coordinate to locate the historical picture, and seeing that some details that are intentionally or unintentionally ignored and obscured can be re-examined and evaluated.
We saw candlelights and inquiries into the history and historical motives of possibilities, as well as the identification and clarification of objective historical facts and subjective motives.
As a cross-border member, Chen Fumin not only corrects the dislocation of historical facts and fictions, but also breaks down the barriers between literature and history, so walking has become his way of supplementing and improving "paper geography".
The book begins with him driving on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway and ending with driving to the grasslands of Ulan Butong to enjoy the snow – he tries to restore the context of the current history by constantly walking, paying tribute to those who have been lost in the depths of history.
The author wants to "win the glory and respect she deserves for literature in the field of history."
This book, full of humanistic care and literary affection, has both solid evidence and strong lyricism, both the passion of the presence and the wisdom and vicissitudes of the historical voiceover.
Walking into this book is to walk along the forty degrees north latitude into the thickness and desolation of history, and into the gaze and responsibility of the homeland.
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About the Author——
Meng Qingling, pen name Ru Mengling, post-70s.
Member of China Railway Writers Association, Master of Arts.
A quiet woman who asks about the past and the present, and traces the history.
Meditation at sunset, smelling chickens practicing swords; the heart is like dead wood, and the moon reflects a thousand pools.
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