"I have lived in Xihaigu for more than 30 years, and I am well aware of the confusion and pain of my fathers and fellow villagers in this land, as well as their struggles and pursuits, dreams and hopes. It is full of people with stories, local people, grassroots cadres, poverty alleviation workers, volunteer teachers... It can be said that everyone has a history of poverty alleviation, which makes me have a strong sense of mission in writing. Writer Ji Dongliang said when talking about the reason for writing "Notes on Xihaigu".
In February 2022, the long-form reportage "Notes on Xihaigu" was published by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House. On April 22, the "Seminar on Ji Dongliang's Long-form Reportage "Notes on Xihaigu" was held in beijing publishing group's "Thinking Of The Heart Space". More than a dozen experts and scholars gathered together to talk about the social significance and epochal significance of this realist masterpiece.
Seminar site
The book "Notes on Xihaigu" witnesses the great historical process of Ningxia Xihaigu's poverty alleviation with the creation of close to reality; it completely adopts a primitive approach, close to the realistic characters, to discover details, feel details, think about details, keenly capture and express the new factors and new atmosphere in the cause of poverty alleviation, write a "history of entrepreneurship" in the new era, and record a large number of new people emerging in the cause of poverty alleviation, as well as the shining light of the spirit of the times on them.
This is a book in which the author has the greatest patience and respect
Qiu Huadong, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, believes that the time node of the publication of "Notes on Xihaigu" is very important and has great social significance.
Qiu Huadong, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association
"Poverty alleviation and all-round well-off are the central tasks of the party and the country strongly promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and our outstanding and outstanding writers have not been absent in such a grand historical process." Ji Dongliang lives in Xihaigu, and in the process of writing about China's social change, he firmly grasps the important theme of poverty alleviation, and writes very carefully and prominently. At the same time, Qiu Huadong commented that "Notes on Xihaigu" is a very outstanding work in terms of literature, art and writing skills.
Wang Yefei, a first-level inspector of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee
Wang Yefei, a first-level inspector of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, pointed out that this work is a vivid practice of Beijing Municipality's conscientious implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions. The poverty alleviation project is the project of the century, and its victory has pointed out a bright route for people all over the world to get rid of poverty. "Notes on Xihaigu" is a panoramic and multi-faceted lyrical description of the vicissitudes and great changes in this land over the past two thousand years, as well as the epitome of the times and spiritual transformations behind the great changes, selecting the most representative events among them, through real life changes, with a large number of detailed materials and data, convincingly reflecting the great changes in the Xihaigu area, and writing out the major themes of the new era. This book is a masterpiece that reflects this era, a fruitful achievement and landmark work of Beijing Publishing Group committed to high-quality development, and a model for writers to create realistic themes with heart, affection and hard work. ”
Kang Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Beijing Publishing Group
Kang Wei, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Beijing Publishing Group, said that "Notes on Xihaigu" was written by the author after several drafts and many polishes before it was written, and he could be seen in the lines of his "suffering" for writing. This book is the one that the author has paid the greatest patience and respect, and it is also the warmest and most comforting homesickness. The author is rooted in the deep Xihai Gu land, deep into the most grass-roots social organizations, capture the most subtle social cells, from which he can feel that the Chinese Communists take the service of the people as their mission, dare to teach the sun and the moon for a new day, and lead the masses to take off the mission and responsibility of Xihaigu, the "bitter world" and "the poorest region in China". "Mr. Ji Dongliang used such a realist masterpiece to answer the call of the times and fulfill the mission of the writer."
He Xiangyang, director of the Innovation and Research Department of the Chinese Writers Association
He Xiangyang, director of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, believes that this work is a gift to the times, to his hometown, and to readers. "I was very touched by the gesture of a novelist, going to write reportage about my hometown, in a completely sinking way. What is sinking? It is to sink down, to go deep into life, to take root in the people. The author summarizes Pengyang's experience, Cai Chuan model, ecological migration, and labor migration, observes the details of daily life such as sand control, aquaculture, and water cellars, and observes the process of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. ”
He wrote the tenacious and optimistic spirit of Xihaigu
Bai Ye, president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "Notes on Xihaigu" is a collection of reportage literature and essays, rich and thick in content, "This book is a "Historical Record" and an encyclopedia about Xihaigu. It writes about the history of Xihaigu, its demographic composition, administrative divisions, human geography, natural features, folk customs, and people's lifestyles. ”
Bai Ye, president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and researcher of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Bai Ye commented that the writing method of "Notes on Xihaigu" is different from past interviews, it is the writing of the writer present, giving the reader a strong sense of the scene, it is a writing with "I", as a Xihaigu person, Ji Dongliang wrote the spirit of life of the people of Xihaigu who are tenacious and indomitable and happy in suffering, and Xihaigu as a typical example of how to get rid of difficulties in poor areas is of great significance not only in China but also in the world.
Meng Fanhua, vice president of the Society for the Study of Contemporary Chinese Literature and distinguished professor of Shenyang Normal University
Meng Fanhua, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and distinguished professor of Shenyang Normal University, said that the "Notes on Xihaigu" has a sense of history, and the description of the history of Xihaigu, especially the description of natural conditions, can give us a deeper understanding of this special area. "Ji Dongliang is a Xihai Gu person, and the authenticity and vividness of personal memories are a major feature of this work. The work writes the whole process of poverty alleviation in Xihaigu, including immigration, building terraces, planting medicinal materials, planting trees, and docking and supporting with developed areas, and finally realizing the industry everywhere and the vast number of buildings. This book tells the overall process of Xihaigu's poverty alleviation, not only the layout of the national strategy, but also the arduous struggle of Xihaigu people, as well as the support of economically developed provinces, which is an ode to poverty alleviation, a song of hard struggle, and a triumphant song of common prosperity. ”
He Shaojun, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and distinguished professor of Shenyang Normal University
He Shaojun, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and distinguished professor of Shenyang Normal University, believes that Ji Dongliang wrote to defend the dignity of Xihaigu people, and he wrote about the dignity of Xihaigu people and the spirit of Xihaigu. "Xihaigu is famous for its poverty, and poverty and suffering have also sharpened the character of Xihaigu people. Now that Xihaigu has finally come out of poverty, the "Notes of Xihaigu" records this process in detail and truthfully, it writes about changing poverty at the same time, but also writes how Xihaigu people continue to maintain their tenacious and optimistic character, which is the spirit of Xihaigu. He Shaojun also pointed out the literary nature of the "Notes on Xihaigu": "Ji Dongliang makes good use of folk language and has a deep affection for the folk language of Xihaigu. He interviewed Xihaigu all the way to poverty alleviation, picked wild fruits of language along the way, and then sprinkled these wild fruits in the narrative of the book, so that the book was full of literary wild taste, sweet and sour and refreshing. ”
Hu Ping, former deputy director of the Novel Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and former director of the Innovation and Research Department
Hu Ping, former deputy director of the Novel Committee of the China Writers Association and former director of the Innovation and Research Department, believes that the reason why "Notes on Xihaigu" can be written so well is first of all because Ji Dongliang's accumulated feelings on this subject are too deep. "He began to re-walk Xihaigu in 2018, and actually made thirty or forty round trips, walking slowly, looking closely, and understanding the vicissitudes of the world. "Xihaigu Notes" is a different work from general interview-style reportage, its stylistic style is very consistent, especially like a long essay, a lot of scene and intuitive, read as natural as prose. Moreover, the author also avoids being too delicate in writing, and writes his own characteristics in style, which is very mature. ”
Chen Fumin, vice president of the Society for the Study of Contemporary Chinese Literature and researcher of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Chen Fumin, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and researcher of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, agreed with this, believing that when Ji Dongliang wrote "Notes on Xihaigu", he took into account many aspects, including the depth of history, and also took into account the source of poverty and the difficulties of governance, highlighting the strength of the CPC in the great cause of poverty alleviation. Of course, it is not a pure historical work, but a good work full of literature that takes into account the depth of history and the breadth of reality, which brings good inspiration to future writers. ”
It shows the historical depth of our country's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction
"For so many years, his work has not left this land." Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of "Literature and Art Daily," believes that "Notes on Xihaigu" shows the historical depth of our country's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction, covers a very broad geographical area, and provides a lot of information about the humanities, geography, and customs of Xihaigu, which is difficult for any foreign writer to replace.
Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of Literature and Art Daily
At the same time, Liang Hongying pointed out that Ji Dongliang really wrote the new historical force created by people in this land, and the people in the work are very representative and very infectious, "This work has a lot of enlightenment for today, including how writers enter life, how to turn life with temperature into words with temperature, and so on." ”
Li Linrong, Professor of the School of Literature, Beijing Second Chinese University
Li Linrong, a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Beijing Second Chinese University, has a prominent feeling after reading "Xihaigu Notes" that this work is a very typical and innovative text with innovative implications in all aspects, "Xihaigu Notes is a masterpiece emerging from the field of decisively winning the poverty alleviation theme, and the poverty alleviation process it focuses on in xihaigu is itself a prominent pioneering part and model project in China's great poverty alleviation cause, from the mid-1990s' The Minning Counterpart Poverty Alleviation Cooperation Project was launched, which has always been carried out under the direct deployment and direct guidance of the General Secretary, and its more than 20 years of process and great achievements involve the three rural areas, and even expand and include the overall situation of ecological, social and human settlement civilization. "Notes on Xihaigu" grasps this feature and forms a dynamic and three-dimensional panoramic documentary and literary expression style. ”
Zhang Li, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Beijing Normal University
Zhang Li, a professor at the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, believes that "Notes on Xihaigu" is first of all a writing that enters the crowd, and at the same time has a general vision. Ji Dongliang's writing benefits from the local perspective in his writing, which makes his work convincing, which makes his work deeply convincing, "Overall, it refreshes our understanding of the literary landscape, historical landscape and realistic landscape of Xihaigu, in addition to the writer's local perspective, more importantly, his understanding and writing of literature, he is better expressive than the average reportage writer, and he does not feel the cracks in the language at all." The writer cuts into a big theme with a small perspective, and records the changes in Xihaigu's past and present. ”
Li Yunlei, deputy editor of Selected Novels
Li Yunlei, deputy editor-in-chief of "Selected Novels", believes that "Notes on Xihaigu" is not only a book to write about specific policies for poverty alleviation, but also a book to write about the great changes in China's reform and opening up in the past four decades, which can be said to be a microcosm of China's great changes. His style is closer to the fusion of various genres such as reportage and documentary literature. ”
Open up the complex texture of the agricultural production process under the new historical conditions
Liu Qiong, deputy director of the Literature and Art Department of the People's Daily, believes that the biggest feature of "Notes on Xihaigu" is its texture, which is both poetic and grandiose.
Liu Qiong, deputy director of the Literature and Art Department of People's Daily
"I think the author is a master of language, and his language has the temperament of a poet, and he combines folk language with the poet's highly condensed techniques. The author not only writes a lot of knowledge, a meticulous life, but also writes about a variety of people. The people who live in that land must have a different texture from the people in other lands. Liu Qiong said.
Rao Xiang, deputy editor of guangming daily newspaper edition
Rao Xiang, deputy editor-in-chief of the Guangming Daily Wenhui edition, believes that writing this book is a very difficult task, "Xihaigu's literary writing is traditionally a narrative of suffering, which is actually easier to touch people's hearts." But to write about a joyful, joyful change is a particularly big challenge. But Teacher Ji Dongliang wanted to write this book from the bottom of his heart, because he saw that the life of poverty and suffering he had experienced had become so good now. He was taking notes and taking notes for this era. ”
Xu Gang, associate researcher at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Xu Gang, an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, feels that the writing of "Xihaigu Notes" is very rigorous and regular, each chapter deals with a theme, and the thinking is very clear, "The book involves so many topics, such as transportation issues, education issues, and financial issues, readers will find that the poverty alleviation project is actually a very complex system engineering, to mobilize all aspects, behind which there is a very strong national will, there is a very complete industrial system." Moreover, he introduced the way of writing novels in his writing, which made everyone happy to accept them, making the reportage works more vivid, which is the inspiration that this book gives us in terms of writing. ”
Yue Wen, Director of the Theory Division of the Innovation and Research Department of the Chinese Writers Association
Yue Wen, director of the Theory Department of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, mentioned that the book takes sociology as a method and presents a panoramic view of the process of China's rural areas struggling out of the quagmire of thousands of years of poverty and giving them new brilliance, "It shows us how literature today is out of the circle and how to break through the marginalized status." It introduces the path of drawing methods from various disciplines such as social sciences and history, and getting rid of some of the inherent paths to create a path that has both the power of thought and the beauty of sensibility. The Notes on Xihaigu opened up a complex texture of the agricultural production process under new historical conditions and left a voice for Xihaigu. ”
Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese, Peking University
Cong Zhichen, associate professor of the Department of Chinese at Peking University, felt Ji Dongliang's deep affection for Xihaigu, saying, "In the book, Ji Dongliang also wrote that this is a gift he gave to his hometown, and it is a writing full of affection. There is affection to write details, and literary moments burst out in the details. Of course, literature is not only reflected in the small, but also in the vast. The work writes about all aspects of the poverty alleviation work, showing a complete and magnificent picture, making the final completion of the entire poverty alleviation work particularly exciting. ”
Han Jingqun, editor-in-chief of Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, said, "As a publisher, as a front-line literary editor, we have been trying to try to do one thing, to find the right author for China's good stories and good themes, and to find the most appropriate way to write that suits good themes and good stories." Writers also use their efforts to repay our trust in them, so they also give us the confidence to continue on this path we have adhered to. ”
Ningxia Xihaigu, named after the three counties of Xiji, Haiyuan and Guyuan in history, is called the "Three Wests" region together with Hexi and Dingxi in Gansu. Once "barren in the world", it was designated by the United Nations Food and Development Agency as one of the twenty-two "least suitable areas for human existence" in the world. In December 1982, the state launched the implementation of the "Three Wests" agricultural construction poverty alleviation project, which set a precedent for China's regional overall planned, organized and large-scale "development-oriented" poverty alleviation. In 1996, the central authorities made strategic arrangements to promote east-west counterpart cooperation. In April 1997, Comrade Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and head of the Fujian Provincial Leading Group for Counterpart Assistance and Assistance to Ningxia, led a team to Ningxia to inspect and personally deploy and personally promote the important strategic decision of "Fujian-Nanjing Counterpart Poverty Alleviation Cooperation", and then set foot on this land three times. For more than 20 years, the "Minning Counterpart Poverty Alleviation Cooperation and Assistance Group" has taken the initiative to shoulder the historical mission of counterpart poverty alleviation in Ningxia, expanded one-way poverty alleviation to the in-depth cooperation of the two provinces (regions) in all aspects, multi-level, and wide coverage of all fields, and created a "Minning Model" of counterpart poverty alleviation and cooperation and assistance in the east and west together with the people of Ningxia. The Xihaigu area has entered a well-off society at the same time as all parts of the country.
Nandu reporter Huang Qian