——After reading Yi Hongmei's essay collection "The Girl Sitting on the Flower Bone and Falling Grass"
Text/Zhao Tinghe
"The Girl Sitting on the Flowers and Bones and Falling Grass" is a collection of essays by Yi Hongmei, a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a young female writer from Gaomi in Shandong Province, published by the China Federation of Literary and Literary Publishing Houses in July 2015. The book was prefaced by Xiang Yunju, president of China Art Newspaper and vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association. The essay "The Girl Sitting on the Flower Bone and Falling Grass" in the book "Selected Chinese Essays in 2014" selected by the Creative Research Department of the China Writers Association. This rich and vivid masterpiece is just like a bridge between readers and writer Yi Hongmei and her hometown.
People can't do without a home, and without a home, people will become lost and depressed. The familiar scenery of the village has not disappeared, but has been forever engraved in the memory of Teacher Yi Hongmei. For Teacher Yi Hongmei, this kind of dreamlike memory is more real than reality and more worthy of nostalgia. Therefore, the name "The Girl Sitting on the Flowers and Bones and Falling Grass" contains many rich and complex connotations and emotions of the writer, whether this emotion is cheerful or bitter, it is worth the reader to savor.
The interaction between the fingers and the keyboard, the eyes and the computer are the vivid characters and stories of Yi Hongmei's hometown that are hot in her heart, and she enjoys her talents tirelessly. The stories of the adults' heroic ups and downs, chivalrous and courageous, ignited the beautiful dreams of the girls sitting on the flowers and bones falling into the grass. The eternal tides in Lotus Bay are the breath of the sea. The green rooster that likes to peck at children is an extremely fierce monster. The one-horned sheep that was taken away and sold by the mother became a lifelong pain in the heart of the girl sitting on the flowers and bones.
The neighbors are close to each other, and the hometown is also affectionate. "Watching the fifth grandfather 'gollum and gollum' drink the dumpling soup, he took out a match from the wood stove hole and smoked a dry cigarette. Concubine Yan said cautiously, "I will ask this foreign child for a favor and transfer his account to our third team." Then I plan to pick up the wood house at the root of the south wall and give him shelter. On a rainy and cloudy day, even an animal can't let it get wet outside, right? "The Single Old Man" saw a convulsive mule pulling a cart full of cabbage down the slope, and the stalls that could not be moved along the road were crushed to pieces. The eldest old woman was suddenly frightened, and stood in the crowd of people dodging around, overwhelmed. At this time, a tall young man rushed up with an arrow, and two large hands of pu fans tightly grasped the driving wheel of the big car, and the car suddenly stopped like a root! The handlebar type took the opportunity to strangle the mule, hugged the young man and shouted: "Benefactor, benefactor..." This benefactor is the old father-in-law who rushed to the temple fair early to sell po rabbits. "The cabbage and turnips in autumn grow up to be impossible for their own families to eat, and the neighbors and relatives are all stained with it." "The Big Old Woman" "Just after drinking Laba porridge, Brother Ben also returned with his daughter-in-law and only adopted son Yulong. His family's ancestral house had fallen into disrepair and had collapsed for many years, and the barren grass in the yard temporarily lived in the two mill houses where the old aunt once lived next to the wall of my old house. Teacher Yi Hongmei of "Snow Hidden Mountain Soul" once said emotionally: "This is my father and fellow countrymen." The villagers, who have been breeding affectionately for generations, including blood and earth, have been using the scale of conscience to measure the warmth and coldness of the world's human feelings. ”
Blood is thicker than water is affection. The one who loves Teacher Yi Hongmei the most is her concubine. "Our sister's frolicking sometimes annoys the mother, and it must be a broomstick fight that is not negotiable." If you dodge, she will hit more fiercely without a head and face, and will often hit the head off. Concubine Yan stared at the stove room, and immediately came out with two hands of flour to stop: 'Haiying her mother, I have never seen you beat a child like this.' If you want to fight, you will fish your stomach and beat her hard, telling her to remember sex for a long time. If you break your head and become an idiot, don't you have to raise her for the rest of your life? "Concubines have stipulated a lot of no-nos: no smirking and running around when playing, no chattering when eating, no clipping from the plate, no clipping of others without the permission of adults, no random acceptance of gifts from others without the permission of adults, no immediate coming to the front when adults greet workers, no chopsticks to eat first when adults do not sit at the dinner table, and no casual interjection when adults talk...
If you accidentally violate these house rules, she will grab a broom to punish you and spank your little ass. "Zhuang Hu Ren Ren Ren" reads and thinks, and the humility and etiquette hidden in the heart of the writer may benefit from her concubine's "family rules". Indeed, when I read the last page of the book, I found that Teacher Yi Hongmei had been adhering to her admonition to this day. Grow up Fang knows Daddy's grace. "With the birth of my son, I felt that my mind had been completely concentrated on this little thing, and my stubborn heart began to soften. I have never felt like this now, Daddy's love that was once hidden in scolding... "The blood thicker than water affection of "Fertility" is something that the younger generations can't repay in a lifetime!"
Grasp the details and the language is vivid. Nabokov once said, "The details are God." "Teacher Yi Hongmei can capture, experience and discover the most vivid details, and can pick the pearl of language." For example: "A melon that is knotted on a vine, you just remember and hate them, and you keep cutting this blood vein." "Little Foot Concubine, Old Spinning Wheel" "Crooked handles are planted all the way." "Zhuang Hu Ren Ren" pulled a piece of cloud to wipe the sweat, close to the sun to smoke a bag of cigarettes. "Single Old Man" "Don't take the bean bag improper dry food." "Red Cowpea"" We have a joke in Gaomi - 'The play of the Tenth Master is gone'. "'Qingdao Da Yan' appropriately uses metaphors, exaggerations and other techniques, so that people will never forget it after watching it.
Imaginative and expressive. The book "The Girl Who Sits on the Flowers and Bones and Falls on the Grass" has a typical regional, epochal, and local nature; it has both the family training of "inheriting the ancestors' lineage and truly passing on the loyalty and filial piety, and teaching the children and grandchildren to cultivate and read only on the two right paths," and also the righteous deed of "Grandpa drove the jujube wood cart with guerrillas to fight devils and fought many great victories." The essays "Tiger Essence", "Jujube Gourd Butterfly and Cat", "Childhood Frankincense", "Rural Rhyme", "In-laws Temple" and other works of the heart-stirring stories are put into writing, presented one by one, to give readers to wake up and enlighten.
Because Teacher Yi Hongmei often steps into the dirt of the countryside, works with the people here, and uses the original way to express the people and things in the land she is familiar with, so she can write handily, naturally and smoothly, no wonder she can write such a touching work. Although some of these people and things have long been crushed by the wheel of time, I still read like walking on thin ice, sometimes frightened, sometimes excited. Those reminiscences about her well-known characters such as concubines, big old women, single old men, old Song, grandfathers, grandmothers, etc., are warm and intimate, and feel empathy, thus narrowing the distance between readers and writers and fathers and fellow countrymen.
Teacher Yi Hongmei's hometown is highly dense, and the local culture is unique, and the elegant music is stacked and the rhyme is long. Gaomi Maolu, Ash Painting, Folk Paper Cutting, and Niejiazhuang Clay Sculpture have been included in the national and provincial intangible cultural heritage list, collectively known as the "Four Treasures" of Gaomi Folk Art. With Mo Yan literature and red sorghum culture as the core, the spatial layout of "one core, two axes and nine palaces" is planned, and the red sorghum cultural town is positioned and built, which was approved as a characteristic town in Shandong Province in February 2022. The book "The Girl Sitting on the Flowers and Bones and Falling Grass" inserts more than 20 folk art picture works such as ash new year paintings, folk paper-cutting, Niejiazhuang clay sculptures, half-printed and half-painting New Year paintings, fine arts, and photography. The high-density drama has also been integrated into the story of the book many times, with ups and downs and fascinating. In addition, since graduating from teacher training, Ms. Yi Hongmei has been engaged in education, culture and art, which makes her narrative perspective clever and unique, integrating history, culture and art, thus injecting historical materials, knowledge and interest into her works. The whole book is lively, full of pictures and texts, with distinct local cultural characteristics and a strong atmosphere of folk art, giving people aesthetic and pleasant interest.
This book is like an iron hammer, once again tempering me, making me more solid, closer to life, more admiring like Teacher Yi Hongmei who does not forget the true color, learns with an open mind, does not quit working, and dedicates silently. I hope to see more and better masterpieces by Teacher Yi Hongmei.
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【About the author】Zhao Tinghe is a member of the China Essay Literature Association, the Shandong Writers Association, the Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Society, and the China Prose Network. His works can be found in various newspapers and periodicals such as China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily and new media. He has been selected into the "Selected Essays of Shandong", "Collection of Excellent Works of American Literature and Prose of Chinese Tourism", "Anthology of Chinese Love and National Poetry and Prose Works", "Meet in Beijing • National Collection of Literature and Art" (volumes 4, 5 and 6), "Collection of Chinese and Foreign Poetry and Prose", etc. More than 10 essays, such as "My Heart Is Hometown", have won national and provincial awards. Essays such as "Cold Weather And See Plum Blossoms", "Dawn Quietly Listening to Birds", "A Palm" and other essays were selected as middle school language exam questions or college entrance examination language time-limited training topics. The collection of essays, Meiling Cuizhu, was published by Unity Press in December 2020. In January 2021, personal entries were included in the Chinese Writers Database. In September 2021, he won the honor of the second "Red Sorghum Literature Star" in Gaomi City. In September 2021, it was selected into the "Contemporary Essayist American Calendar (2022)".
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