Recently, Wang Xuanxin, winner of the People's Literature Newcomer Award, Chinese Young Writer Award, Feng Zikai Prose Award, and a post-85 emerging writer Wang Xuanxin's long-form non-fiction "Why Do You Have to Travel Far Away" was published and distributed by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House. It is understood that this is its third masterpiece to be launched in 2023 after "Green Mountain Hidden " and "Rainbow Forecaster".
The Dragon Boat Festival, Summer Solstice, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice, Beginning of Spring, and Qingming are the most important solar terms of the year. When the city turns 365 days a year into the same day, people are more eager to see the real rural four seasons, trees, fields, morning light, sunset, and original food, which affect the hearts of urban travelers. Writer Wang Xuan repeatedly returned to his hometown Maicun from the city, and wrote the spring, summer, autumn and winter there as "Dragon Boat Record", "Summer Solstice Record", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Winter Solstice Record", "Lichun Record" and "Qingming Record", and reproduced the subtleties of the four seasons phenology and spring plowing and autumn harvest in his hometown, recording in detail what he saw and heard in this vast but not desolate, sparsely populated but still human affection, capturing countless warm and moving details in the transformation of the four seasons in his hometown, and witnessing the survival of hometown people in the wave of urbanization. With the changes of his hometown in the eyes of a wanderer in a foreign land, it presents the young generation's deep understanding of the dignity of life and the affection of their fathers, as well as their deep reflections on the reality and future of their hometown.
As a collection of "hidden in the dust" story collection, "Hometown is so vast, why do you have to travel far", the hometown observation notes of foreign professionals tell the worry and love for their hometown, and with their hometown as the axis, they see countless few people on the vast land and the confused feelings of those who travel far away. The Mai village in the story is one of the countless hometowns "hidden in the dust", and the days and nights, daily life and dusk of the hometown comfort every young person who is in a foreign land and travels far away. Why are we so close and distant to our hometown? The hometown is so vast, why travel far? The answers can be found in this book.
The book has a total of 240,000 words, and also includes 18 photos of his hometown taken by Wang Xuan as color illustrations, which gives a panoramic view of the unique four seasons of the West Qinling Mountains, accompanied by illustrations, and comes with 2 themed postcards. Exquisite photography, full-color printing. At the same time, the cover invites cutting-edge illustrators to "measure book customization", exquisite color illustrations, northwest style jumps on the paper. Each chapter has an introduction, and the reader can feel the nostalgia and love.
Xu Zechen, a famous writer and winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, commented that Wang Xuan's works have both the structure of a short story and the atmosphere of a long story. Although it only writes the daily life and dusk of an ordinary village, it is the back, cross-sectional and broken history of thousands of villages in the countryside. The whole work has a unique story, full of charm, and emits a strong infectious power. Zhang Chu, a famous writer and winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award, believes that Wang chooses cold and restrained, delicate and affectionate brushstrokes to tell the changes of Maicun in the past 40 years, nostalgic mood, twists and turns of stories and panoramic records, presenting a village to readers, which is not only the writer's remembrance of his hometown, but also a paper reconstruction of the local land. The famous writer Qin Ling believed that Wang Xuan's creation was fermenting flour in a mud tile basin, which made his literary wheat field beyond the land of his fellow writers. He is like a young old Chinese doctor, who can feel the pulse of the countryside with his hand and the symptoms of the day with a blink of an eye. The famous writer Hu Zhufeng commented that Wang Xuan's pen has a calm atmosphere, and the pen and ink soaked in the old time, even if he writes sad stories, he also writes with restraint, and there is a damp and restrained in the depths of the bamboo forest and grass. Qinling style swayed a sad song on the page. Zhang Erzhu, a famous poet and writer, believes that among the "post-80s" generation of writers, Wang Xuan's writing is extensive and rich, and he is carrying his interests, bones and blood, and soul through the hall and standing in literature with his sleeves. His words are also like a large vermilion seal engraved on the land of Longyuan, which is awe-inspiring.
Wang Xuan, born in 1987, is a native of Tianshui, Gansu, and currently lives in Lanzhou. He has successively published works such as "Nancheng Root", "Those Strangers Illuminated by Light", "The Last Village", "Green Mountain Hide", "Rainbow Forecaster" and so on. Among them, the book "Nancheng Root" was selected into the "Phoenix Good Book List" and other book lists, and was recommended by "Global People" magazine. "The Last Village" was selected into the annual "Top Ten Good Books" and "Literary Good Books List" of Phoenix Literature and Art, and was recommended by CCTV's "Reading" column. At the same time, he has published a large number of works in periodicals such as "People's Literature", "Chinese Writers", "Tianya", "Selected Novels", "Selected Prose", "Novel Monthly", "Yuhua", "Furong" and other journals, and has been selected for a variety of annual anthologies, and won the People's Literature Newcomer Award, Chinese Young Writer Award, Dunhuang Literature and Art Award, Chang'an Prose Award, Yellow River Literature Award, Lin Yutang Literature Award, Feng Zikai Prose Award and other awards, and is one of the representative writers of the post-80s generation in China.