Reportage is the literature of the walker, and it is also a kind of writing that requires the physical and mental presence of the writer. His reportage works are written objectively and truthfully, incorporating his thoughts and feelings, and his arguments are profound and often accompanied by passion. A few days ago, the "Literary Color and Fragrance" - He Jianming's new work readers' meeting was held in the Fuzhou Road store of Shanghai Book City, and Ding Xiaoyuan, a critic and vice president of the China Reportage Society, commented that this is a kind of style writing with "I" and has become a part of the narrative of the times and history.
In recent years, He Jianming's new works "Purgatory: 1938-1946 Xifeng Concentration Camp", "My Heart is Flying", "Moutai - Glory and Dreams", "Pomegranate Blossoms" and "Red Wall Guards" (Collector's Edition) are all unveiled.
In the more than 40 years since he wrote his first full-length reportage in 1978 and 2023, writer He Jianming has created more than 60 reportage works. He has won the Lu Xun Literature Award three times, the "Five One Project" Award of the Central Propaganda Department six times, and is also the only national model worker among writers.
"Purgatory" is an organic extension of He Jianming's series of writings on the theme of "red", as the author said, "The experience and deeds of the communists in the Xifeng concentration camp in the struggle against the enemy are the prelude or source of the later Hongyan spirit." Reading such works, while respecting and remembering the revolutionary martyrs, the spirit is also deeply baptized.
"Pomegranate Blossoms" is a "Chronicle of Ethnic Unity in Xinjiang", which conveys a new expression of non-fiction literature through a series of stories. "My Heart is Flying: The Chronicle of Huahong 520 Spirit" is related to the grand theme of the era of Chinese-style modernization, and in-depth description of the development strategy of the mainland chip industry.
He Jianming analyzed the "color and fragrance" in his works - "color", which is "pomegranate blossoms", the spirit of "purgatory" forged by revolutionaries with blood and life, and the values of writers. "Incense" can be the taste of Moutai liquor in the fragrant world, the sweat sprinkled on the road of chip development, and the "fragrance" that people's lives are getting better and better in the course of China's development. This is a great proposition that the writer should strive to show and explore. "Taste" is the taste of literature, literature without taste is not established, writers should capture the pulse of the times through their works, and convey the information of the times that the Chinese people continue to create a better life.
Zhang Yali, editor-in-chief of Writers Publishing House, Ai Mingqiu, vice president of Liaoning People's Publishing House, and Jiang Ye, deputy director of the Original Literature Publishing Center of Shanghai Literature Publishing House, delivered speeches respectively. Xinjiang students from Shanghai University performed ethnic dances. Jiang Ye said that He Jianming's creations are based on inheriting the national narrative of the lofty position, taking into account the details and temperature of the works, and often narrating "big events" from a third-person omniscient perspective, but also paying attention to personal emotions under the theme narrative. Interviews, conversations, investigations, and fieldwork are his ways, and his figure often appears in the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. ”
On the same day, He Jianming brought "Purgatory" to the flagship store of Shanghai Duoyun Academy to share his creative ideas with readers. At the end of 2023, the documentary work "Purgatory" on the historical theme of the Red Revolution will be jointly published by the Writers Publishing House and the Guizhou People's Publishing House. Through exclusive historical materials, historical details, interviews with surviving revolutionaries and other dimensions, the work vividly depicts the group portraits of revolutionaries such as Han Zidong, Huang Xiansheng, Luo Shiwen, Xu Xiaoxuan, Zhang Luping, and "Little Radish Head" imprisoned in the Xifeng Concentration Camp, showing the image of Communist Party members who adhere to their original intentions, actively resist, and never betray the party, and affectionately praise their "purgatory spirit" of daring to struggle, skillfully fighting, adhering to faith, and absolute loyalty.
Zhang Yali introduced that in the book "Purgatory", the historical atmosphere of the time was restored, the images of many flesh-and-blood, heroic and great revolutionaries were created, and precious historical materials were preserved. Zhao Xiaomin, general manager of Guiyang Daily Media Group Co., Ltd., told the revolutionary history of the Xifeng concentration camp. Together with the Bai Mansion in Chongqing and the Shangrao Concentration Camp in Jiangxi, it was one of the three major concentration camps set up by the Kuomintang during the Anti-Japanese War. The work restores the extraordinary loyalty of Communist Party members, and allows more readers to understand the history and heroic stories of the Red Revolution.
He Jianming went to Guiyang four times to collect research, interview revolutionary survivors, and discuss with relevant experts, "Recording these histories and martyrs' stories is the mission and responsibility of a writer, and it is also an honor." He said.
Tian Xiaoshuang, the editor in charge of the book, revealed that when "Purgatory" was placed in the cell where Zhang Luping had been detained, on the straw mat where Xiao Radish had slept in it, and on the torture instrument in the interrogation room, the shock and heartache would make people cry without saying much. I hope that more young readers will understand this history after reading it, and take this "Purgatory" to the Xifeng Concentration Camp for an immersive journey of red culture. ”