Apricot blossoms, "cut ice silk, lightly stacked heavy", she is delicate and feminine, but she does not belong to the mountainous and empty Jiangnan. When she snuggled up to the top of the stacked mountains and the vast and boundless Qilian Mountains, the majestic mountains and rivers of Jinge Iron Horse were lively, and the wind flow was also there.
In the second season of "The Daily Life of Literature", writer, screenwriter, and producer Li Xiuwen and his friend Han Songluo embarked on a journey through the Hexi Corridor, and it was this scene that greeted them.
"Classical Chinese Literature."
Just like these peach blossoms, apricot blossoms."
"The people of Xinjiang and Gansu regard this apricot blossom as the flower of desire because it is the first to bloom in spring."
Han Songluo, a writer born in Xinjiang and settled in Lanzhou, often mentions apricot blossoms, he understands the significance of apricot blossoms to this world and this side, and stays at home as much as possible in April to wait for the apricot blossoms to meet. Fortunately, this shooting did not delay his acacia, and what he encountered in front of him was as he wrote: "The desolation of the yellow land has not changed, but everywhere there is a tree of red and white, and the contrast is amazing." ”
In addition to triggering the exclamation, this sexual encounter also stirred up waves of thought. Director Wang Shengzhi once had an answer to his myths: "Before I looked at the paintings of the Song Dynasty, I couldn't see clearly, but after seeing these branches, I found that this was it." ”
(Southern Song Dynasty) Ma Yuan's "Yiyun XianXingtu" Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
"Yes, Chinese painting is very powerful, it is mainly a situation. Painting as if it doesn't look like it makes you think of it—the realism of your perception of things comes to mind in the experience of looking at the painting. Li Xiuwen said.
However, the wind and currents inevitably have to withstand the ravages of rain and wind. When everyone was watching and in high spirits, they met two peasant women who were planning to cut down the trees and redo the wasteland to plant more economically valuable crops.
Although there were some regrets, Li Xiuwen quickly understood-
"Classical Chinese literature is like these peach blossoms and apricot blossoms, beauty is beautiful, but behind it also hides livelihood, livelihood toil." Classical literature is not a tribute. In classical literature, in every piece of history and every good story, there are living people hiding: people who want to stop talking, people with dead hearts, people who run, people who stumble... Classical literature is actually made up of individual people, no different from our lives today. ”
Before this trip, Li Xiuwen launched the prose collection "Poetry Comes to See Me", in which he spread out his life and met the ancient poetry, and after the encounter, he hooked up a section of the poet's past. There is an article in the book, "Wine sorrow suddenly rises without a name", which is exactly his experience under the Qilian Mountains:
Unable to swallow the anger of the script's signature being taken away, he withstood the pressure of eating the lawsuit, and he rushed to Qilian Mountain. Here, he happily drank with the strange brothers, remembering the realm that Li Bai and Lu You had ascended when they were drunk, and he could not help but think of Gao Shi's sadness for wine money when he was shy in his pocket: "The husband should not be poor enough, and today they meet without wine money"...
Li Xiuwen resonated and intertextuated and intertextually resonated with his encounters with the strangers he met, breaking the boundaries of time and space and producing a majestic force and beauty. He has traveled through time and space several times, but also to record the struggle of "people who want to talk and stop, people with dead hearts, people who run, and people who stumble" in the past and the present when they are hit by fate.
"Full of spring colors"
In the spring of the northwest, there is not only the powder of apricot blossoms, but also the green of elm money.
When Li Xiuwen and Han Songluo arrived in Dunhuang, Yu Qian was blooming beautifully on the branches, full of exciting spring colors. From time to time, do not eat; when the time comes, enjoy food. Naturally, at this time, there were also people who "grew" on the elm tree with the elm money - the two of them had a conversation with the uncle who was collecting the elm money, and they talked about entering the port and sitting in the courtyard of the people's house.
This chat also talked about a little surprise: the uncle is called Mu Changyuan, who is also a figure in the local area, and he has won the "Peach King" medal. Although the uncle is living a good life today, the houses are new, the courtyard is open, and he can pull two erhu in his spare time, he has also turned over from a hard life: he has lost his pride since childhood, went to Qinghai to let cattle go, worked as a private teacher, ran a brick factory, a cotton factory... He ignored all kinds of difficulties, and at the end he only said: "With determination, suffering can be changed." But laziness can't change. As long as you can endure hardships and have this patience, anyone can change the hard days. ”
Li Xiuwen said: "I have repeatedly written about the people, and this is the people. ”
Li Xiuwen met the "people" in Pingshui, and he used the pen in his hand to paint portraits of them who were detained in life, and spoke for them: "The heart that has been soaked in bitter water refuses to be tamed." ”
Li Xiuwen often had scenes of drinking with the Strange Road brothers in his text, and they did not drink that afternoon, but the dates in their hands and the dried apricots on the plate were not wine? As soon as the "wine" entered the belly, the interest was high.
That night, Li Xiuwen and Han Song fell to sit on the ground next to the campfire, Han Songluo felt his piano, and Li Xiuwen let go of his voice. Not the flowers in the northwest, nor the flower drum opera in Hunan, or the Yu opera, they sang "Daughter Love" in "Journey to the West":
"Mandarin ducks and amphibian butterflies fly double, and the spring color of the garden is intoxicating." Quietly asked the holy monk, the daughter is not beautiful, the daughter is not beautiful..."
Avoiding the neon splendor and bidding farewell to the hustle and bustle of the crowd, in the desolate and lonely night of the Gobi, they sang their own spring colors and deep feelings. True celebrity, self-styled.
In addition to Zhangye and Dunhuang, Li Xiuwen and Han Songluo also went to Jiayuguan to listen to the teachings of the city wall, and rushed to the Wuwei Tiantishan Grottoes to "toast the bodhisattvas with three full glasses of spirits", wanting to know more about the mountains and rivers they saw in the Hexi Corridor and the "people and beauty" they encountered? Southeast Satellite TV on May 5, 21:00 "Literary Daily" Season 2, for you to present a mountain and river robe.
- Li Xiuwen's Partial Awards -
In 2017, he won the second "China Literature Foundation Mao Dun Literary Newcomer Award";
In 2018, "Mountains and Rivers robes" won the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award for Prose Essays;
In 2020, "To the Father and Elder of Jiangdong" won the "Essayist of the Year" award at the 2020 Southern Literature Festival;
In 2021, "To the Mother" won the Prose Award of the 19th Hundred Flowers Literature Award.
Introduction to some of Li Xiuwen's works
"Teardrop Mole"
It is a fateful fate, and there is a teardrop of a Beijing girl with a tear mole under the corner of her eye, blue buttons, and a Chinese student "I" met and fell in love in Japan. This is also a predestined tragedy, the "black household" blue button is a call girl, who is hunted down by the underworld with a loan shark - their love, although deep and determined, is ultimately short-lived and poignant.
"Bound to Heaven"
"I," a librarian in a bankrupt business, suffers from aplastic anemia and my life counts down. It was at this time that a ghostly girl, Shen Yuanyuan, broke into "my" life. Knowing that "I" did not have much time, she still decided to fall in love with "me", and later for the huge medical expenses of "me", she worked several jobs, and even began to steal, and finally fell off the building in front of "me" and died.
《Yamakawa Kasa》
Li Xiuwen walked into the beginning of the people's "cultivation." He listens to the lives of the frustrated, the losers, the weak, writes about their poverty, failures, and sufferings, and records their unwillingness, tenacity, and optimism.
"To the Father and Elder of Jiangdong"
In this collection of essays, Li Xiuwen further refined and became a people. Continuing the creative concept of "Mountains and Rivers robes", Li Xiuwen recorded the light and warmth in the misery, the difference is that the attitude is more humble, and the voice of the "commoner, the public, and the flesh" is issued.
"Poetry Comes to See Me"
"See" classical poetry with the author's life experience, relive the ups and downs of ancient Chinese poets, open up the passage of time and space, and realize the emotional resonance of ancient and modern.
"Ten Gifts to the Red Army"
Li Xiuwen's screenwriting work tells the story of the growth, transformation, resistance and sacrifice of ordinary Red Army during the Long March. Ten units are independent and interrelated with each other, one person and one unit, one fire and one transmission, their own life is cushioned by the death of others, and they use their own death to achieve the life of others, and the spark of the stars eventually becomes a burning trend, creating a great miracle in human history.
"Meritorious Service" of "Noh Wen Neng Wu Li Yannian"
Li Xiuwen participated in the screenwriting of the work, telling the story of Li Yannian, a meritorious honored person who was awarded the "Order of the Republic", in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. This unit was praised by netizens as "the ceiling of domestic war films".
Edit | Weng Xiang
Editor-in-Chief | Zhang Sugui
Producer | Wang Shengzhi