Sunshine News (Reporter Ji Feng) It is reported that Gao Jianqun, a famous writer in our province, wrote the latest novel "Once Upon a Time in Central Asia", which was selected as the theme publication of the Central Propaganda Department in 2023. This novel is set in the grasslands, rivers, towns and cultural landscapes of Central Asia in the western section of the Silk Road, and writes a biography of grassland heroes with both legendary and patriotic feelings.
The protagonist Ma Mingxuan was originally the son of a courtier of the Great Qing Kingdom. Because of the political disagreement between his father and the ministers in the court, he was secretly sent back to his hometown Suzhou by the enemy. Forced to make a living, he became a camel rider on the Silk Road with his father. Later, in order to rescue his father who was detained by the enemy's family, and in order to pursue his love, Ma Mingxuan took a risk, and was nailed to the grassland in Central Asia by the enemy's sickle. When his father learned that Ma Mingxuan had become a "bandit leader", there was no hope of persuasion, so he severed the father-son relationship with him. Ma Mingxuan changed his name to Ma Sickle and became the "King of the Prairie" who robbed the greedy and helped the poor and ensured the safety of the herdsmen.
In the end, for the sake of national righteousness, Ma Sickle led his brothers to accept the recruitment of the imperial court, stationed at the border station of the Qing State and Russia - Beiwan Karen, and became the head of the horse station. During a drinking party, he wrote an IOU for the soldiers at the border guard station of the other side, which also laid the foundation for this. In order to regain the 55.5 square kilometers of land lost due to his own mistakes, Ma Sickle and the soldiers formed a human wall to resist Russian artillery fire, and swore to defend the land and the last trace of dignity of the country.
The whole work is filled with the atmosphere of the vast and vast, romantic and tragic steppes of Central Asia, and also depicts a great geographical picture of Central Asia intertwined with heroism, and plays a passionate and high-spirited patriotic movement.
Gao Jianqun and the editors of Shaanxi Normal University Press
Writer Gao Jianqun is the most romantic "melancholy knight in the literary world" in the contemporary literary world. Originally from Lintong, Shaanxi, he is a national first-class writer, vice chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and vice chairman of the Shaanxi Writers Association. His representative works include "The Last Huns", "The Great Plains", "Tongwan City", "My Bodhi Tree" and so on.
Gao Jianqun is carefully recording the opinions of the famous critic Yang Lesheng
Since 1983, when he wrote his famous novella "The Distant White House", he has been conceiving the structure and narrative method of the novel on related themes. After 50 years of preparation and intermittent creation, this brilliant masterpiece has finally been completed, and it is also a work of equal dialogue with world literature.