Shancheng Lane, go up along the cliff, taste the fragrance of your poems, stilted buildings, layers of vicissitudes of life...... This is the description of Shancheng Lane by Chongqing local writer Zhang Gang in "The Edge of Time", which has just won the Bingxin Prose Award.
On the morning of January 6th, the reading of "The Edge of Time" and the new book sharing meeting of "The Roar of the Waves Swirling Through the Silence" was held in Chongqing Publishing Group, and the author Zhang Gang and the on-site leaders and guests jointly unveiled his new book "The Roar of the Waves Swirling Through the Silence".
"Edge of Time" is a collection of life essays published by Chongqing Publishing Group in June 2022, which recently won the 10th Bingxin Prose Award, demonstrating the power of Chongqing literature.
The book contains more than 60 prose and poetry works created by the author, which are mainly divided into three parts: "Life is like dust, the years are fragrant", "I don't know what to do, I am deeply in love", and "Picking chrysanthemums and forgetting words". The book records the author's exchanges and collisions with relatives and friends about poetry, including the praise of the beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland, the praise of the mountains and rivers of the hometown, the description of the trivial matters of life and work, and the perception of the philosophy of life. Each prose is accompanied by a poem, which is beautiful and timeless, full of feelings about family, friendship, love, nostalgia, family and country, as well as sighs and philosophies about life and nature, which is not only the style of the times, but also very "down-to-earth".
Like "The Edge of Time", the newly published "The Roar of the Waves Swirling Through the Silence - Selected Poems of the Weak Zhai" is still full of Chongqing elements, in his pen, Chongqing "has mountains and rivers, mountains and rivers, rivers and gorges embrace, mountains and rivers surround the water", Chongqing people are industrious, intelligent, tenacious and happy, and dare to create miracles.
The new book maintains Zhang Gang's excellent creative ability and fresh and rational style, and is an excellent collection of poems with affection, charm and philosophical thinking. The book contains a total of 99 poems written by Zhang Gang in the past ten years, which are divided into three parts: "Bayu Liuzhen", "Jade Pot Ice Heart" and "Floating Shadow Crossing".
Li Bin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Chongqing Publishing Group, said that over the years, the group has always strived to cultivate author resources, and actively cultivated, supported and served local authors in Chongqing, and Zhang Gang is one of them. After years of operation and accumulation, the group has established close ties with many famous authors and published a series of masterpieces. In the future, the group will continue to strengthen planning, come up with more high-quality masterpieces that meet the needs of the country, the people and the times, create a number of "Chongqing brand" boutiques with prominent themes, strong core competitiveness and high market share, accelerate the construction of a culturally strong city, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of a modern new Chongqing.
Ran Ran, chairman of the Chongqing Writers Association, said in his speech that Zhang Gang is a member of the China Writers Association and the Chongqing Writers Association, and is also an influential minority writer in Chongqing. He loves literature, and has worked hard in the field of poetry and prose essays for many years, and his works involve the rich aspects of real life and the spiritual world.
Zhang Gang said that after "Edge of Time" won the award, he will continue to move forward and strive to be the "yellow cypress tree" in the prose world. He will be like the yellow cypress tree, the foundation of writing will be deeper and more stable, and strive to become a writer with deep roots and leaves, facing readers, revealing his heart, so that more friends can know the heart of Bayu and Chongqing, and know the better taste and more beautiful scenery of Chongqing in the new era, new journey, and new Chongqing.
Upstream news reporter Yan Wei