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Decades have passed, and he has been writing about Qinling! Jia Pingwa's new work "The Record of Qinling" can be called the contemporary "Classic of Mountains and Seas"

On May 10, the People's Literature Publishing House launched the famous writer Jia Pingwa's blockbuster new work and long note novel "Qinling Chronicle".

Jia Pingwa, known as the "evergreen tree of the literary world", has been engaged in literary creation for nearly 50 years since he published literary works in 1973, and has published a large number of blockbuster works.

The Chronicle of Qinling is the first work to be named after Qinling and his 19th novel.

Decades have passed, and he has been writing about Qinling

In the past fifty years, as a very productive writer, heavyweight works have come out every few years.

This time, Jia Pingwo returned to the Qinling Mountains where he was born and grew up in Sisi, carrying the traditional cultural genes contained in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Liaozhai Zhiyi", leisurely channeling the things, personnel affairs, and historical events in the Qinling Mountains, and dedicating a history of the Qinling Mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, animals, villages, and characters that have accumulated in his heart for many years.

When writing Shanben in 2017, Jia Pingwa said that Qinling was "a dragon vein, standing there, carrying the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, ruling the north and south."

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Decades have passed, and he has been writing about Qinling! Jia Pingwa's new work "The Record of Qinling" can be called the contemporary "Classic of Mountains and Seas"

In 2021, he wrote "The Record of Qinling" again, but he did not know how to say Qinling: "Decades have passed, I have been writing about Qinling, writing about the glory and suffering of its history, writing about its realistic revitalization and sorrow, writing about its landscapes, plants, trees, birds and animals, writing about its spirit of Confucianism, Taoism and red revolution. First it was to focus on the Shangzhou in the Qinling Mountains, and then to zoom in to the entire Qinling Mountains. If I can sum up in one sentence, it is: Qinling and the me in Qinling. ”

Whether it is novels or essays, the stories written by Jia Pingwa all occur in the sense of literary geography in the north and south of qinling, and most of the important events in China's great history also occur here.

In the past few years, Jia Pingwo has been to the Kunlun Mountains where the Qinling Mountains originated; to the Birds and Mice Tong cave mountain in the Qinling Mountains; to the Taibai Mountains and Huashan Mountains; to the Seventy-two Daoyu between the Taibai Mountains and the Huashan Mountains, as well as the Tianzhu Mountains and Shangshan Mountains in Shangluo, but he deeply feels that it is only a dime.

Corresponding to the chaos and majesty of Qinling, the vastness is boundless, in the new book, Jia Ping, who is seventy and does not exceed his heart, breaks through the boundaries of style, consciously inherits the tradition of classical Chinese texts, and has his own style in interesting brushwork. The writing is far away, the writing is majestic, the news of all things is recorded, the sense of heaven and earth is charming, the mountains are high and the waters are long, and the sky is reckless.

Jia Pingwa's "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Liaozhai Zhiyi"

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, which writes about the landscape of the Ancestors' Scriptures and the imagination of the world, is an ancient book that preserves the most ancient Chinese mythological materials. "Liaozhai Zhiyi" uses nearly 500 short stories, on the basis of inheriting the legends of Wei Jinzhiwei and The Tang and Song Dynasties, with its colorful character stories and aesthetic ideas of different customs, it has become a treasure of Chinese literary novels.

Some critics say that Jia Pingwo had already paid tribute to the Classic of Mountains and Seas in his heart when he wrote "Shangzhou", and in many later works, the story telling method of "Liaozhai Zhiyi" can also be vaguely seen.

And "The Record of Qinling" is the writer's "One Man's Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "One Man's Chat of Zhai Zhiyi" that the writer has been immersed in for many years and has accumulated half a life.

In the "Book of Qinling", we can see: loyal dogs that can understand people's speech; caves where high monks enter and flow out of springs; soap horn trees where people hold and cry, and the leaves will shed tears together; small clerks who can enter other people's dreams...

These stories lead readers to break through the cramped and narrow reality of a chicken feather, and enter a chaotic and majestic and open situation, which makes people have an interest and imagination in traditional texts, and produces the feeling of reading the contemporary "Shan Hai Jing" and "Liaozhai Zhiyi".

"Qinling" is the source of inspiration for his creation

"Sometimes there is a place for life, and there is a place for death, but in fact, a breath of gas comes out of the ground, and from where it comes out, and finally where it comes back."

"Whether it is a man or a beast, a flower or a tree, or a crop, he will do a good job for man, he will do a good job for the beast, he will open branches and leaves for the flowers and trees, and the flowers will bloom, and the seedlings will grow strong for the crops, and try to produce long spikes, and the grains will be full."

These insights in "The Book of Qinling" come from the writer's seventy years of life insights. All words are as if they grew out of the land, simple and unpretentious, full of sincerity and spirituality.

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Decades have passed, and he has been writing about Qinling! Jia Pingwa's new work "The Record of Qinling" can be called the contemporary "Classic of Mountains and Seas"

■ Jia Pingwo

As Jia Pingwo himself said: "The mountains and rivers of Qinling That I wrote about, people and people, did not dare to slacken off, perfunctory, frivolous and slippery, and strived to write every sentence of Chinese characters well." Although it is a mosquito that falls on the face of the lion, it is a mosquito on the face of the lion, and it is never a crab on the market, and the grass rope that bundles the crab also sells for a good price. ”

"Mr. Pingwo's hometown is in the meeting place between the north and the south, and this kind of spiritual beauty in the south and the roughness of the north have an impact on a writer's creative psychology, as well as a very subtle combination between the culture of the northwest region and the culture of the Central Plains and the south, which I think has formed a lot of Mr. Jia Pingwo's deep creative experience." The writer Mo Yan once said this about the influence of his hometown on Jia Pingwa's creation.

Jia Pingwo is a native of Qinling — "I am a person from Qinling, born there, raised there, and has been working and writing in Xi'an City for more than forty years, and Xi'an City is still under Qinling." ”

Looking back at previous works, from "Bingwa" to "Shangzhou Chulu", "Waxing Moon, Positive Moon", "Impetuous", and then to "White Night", "Qin Cavity", "Ancient Furnace", so that "Lao Sheng" and "Yamamoto", whether novels, essays, stories written by Jia Pingwa, all occurred in the north and south of Qinling in the sense of literary geography.

He said bluntly in the afterword to "The Chronicle of Qinling": "I laugh at myself, I was born in Qinling and grew up in Qinling, but I was just an ant in the fork of the Qinling ditch, and I kept writing about Qinling, and even if I had a big idea, I only wrote myself as a small tree in Qinling at the end."

Indeed, Jia Pingwo "has been writing about Qinling", and "Qinling" has always been the foundation of Jia Pingwa's creation and the source of inspiration.

It can be seen from the "Record of Qinling" that Jia Ping's mountains, plants, trees, flowers, birds, insects and fish are all spiritual, they not only have their own attitudes and attitudes towards life, but also constantly remind everyone who enters the "Qinling Mountains" or lives in the "Qinling Mountains" with their own state of existence and time karma: respect for tradition, reverence for nature, protection of ecology, and the coexistence law of man and all things in heaven and earth.

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