On the afternoon of April 13th, the activity area on the second floor of Shandong Book City was full, and the new book sharing meeting of Fang Yuan's novel "Big Fleet" was held here. The event was guided by the Propaganda Department of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, hosted by the Jinan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Jinan Publishing House, and undertaken by Jinan Daily Newspaper Group, Jinan Writers Association, and Shandong Book City.
Chen Wendong, member of the party group and vice chairman of Shandong Writers Association, Chi Yun, former editor-in-chief of Shandong Publishing Group, Yi Peiyang, former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Jinan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Gu Yongwei, former chairman of Shandong Photographers Association and master's tutor of Shandong University of Arts, Xiao Chunjie, senior reporter of Dazhong Daily and president of Shandong Reportage Society, Zhang Hongfu, vice chairman of Jinan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Municipal Writers Association, Liu Zhaoru, famous writer and former editor-in-chief of "Contemporary Novels", Wang Chuan, vice president of Shandong Prose Literature Association and writer, "Big Fleet" Editor-in-charge Qiao Junlian and other guests attended the sharing meeting and commented on "Big Fleet".
"The Big Fleet" was created by the writer Fang Yuan for more than two years, with a total of more than 500,000 words, and was published by Jinan Publishing House. Li Cunbao, former vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, Zhang Wei and Li Jingze, vice chairmen of the Chinese Writers Association, Zhang Qinghua, president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, and Liu Yudong, vice chairman of the Shandong Writers Association, jointly recommended.
The novel takes the Republic of China period as the starting point, with the Fang family (Hongdetang) in Laizhou (Ye County) walking out of the loess and facing the ocean and developing the maritime transportation industry as the main line, and the secondary line of going out of the countryside and facing Jinan Mansion to carry out commercial trade, telling the rise and decline of national enterprises. The establishment and development of the fleet is the epitome of the development of local ethnic enterprises, and it is also an important step for farmers to get out of the yellow earth, the fleet not only enriches the local material life, but also brings new ideas and lifestyles, as a result, the old and new concepts have a fierce conflict, and many earth-shattering stories have occurred. More importantly, in the face of the Japanese invasion, the owners and crews of the fleet put the interests of the nation first and became the invincible sea transportation line of the local Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas, and they paid great sacrifices and became national heroes. The novel closely links the fate of the family and the country, focuses on the awakening and independence of the nation, injects a strong sense of historical vicissitudes, and is a positive theme work.
A marine literature with the historical background of the twenties of the last century, but rooted in the excellent traditional culture of the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, from the land of sadness to the magnificent ocean, the writer adheres to the pure literary spirit, writes the soul of the nation, the structure of the book is exquisite and the lines are concise, the story is strong and the characters are distinct, the dense details and full text make people want to stop. With magnificent spirit, broad vision, and delicate brushstrokes, it writes the extraordinary will and courage of Chinese farmers to move from agricultural civilization to modern civilization, and shows the vigorous and tenacious life force of the Chinese land in an epic style, and fully and deeply interweaves and integrates the vicissitudes of the times and the twists and turns of the family development history, and then highlights the deep link between the personality, destiny and the feelings of the family and the country, and expounds the historical logic of the continuous progress and development of history and the times in the midst of hardships and hardships.
"Big Fleet" was selected for the Writers' Designated In-depth Life Support Project of the Chinese Writers Association, the "New Mangwen Literature Project" of China Writers Publishing Group and Mango TV, and the "Haiyou Literature" Boutique Project of Jinan City.
At the event site on the 13th, Chen Wendong first congratulated the event on behalf of the Shandong Writers Association, and he believed that Fang Yuan's "Big Fleet" is an important harvest of novel creation in Shandong Province in recent years.
Chi Yun said that as an old friend who has known Fang Yuan for 40 years, he especially admires Fang Yuan's persistence in literature.
Liu Zhaoru said that Fang Yuan is a writer who is very good at storytelling, and he himself has edited and distributed a number of Fang Yuan's short and medium stories in "Contemporary Fiction", "each of which has a fascinating story". And this time in the novel "The Big Fleet", Liu Zhaoru believes that Fang Yuan continues his characteristics of telling stories, the plot is exciting, and the story is magnificent. In addition, the characters in the novel are also impressive, "Fang Yingdian, the protagonist of "The Big Fleet", is kind, righteous and wealthy, and endures humiliation and constant struggle for the rise of the family, which is the most typical image of Chinese or Chinese fathers. Liu Zhaoru believes that this point is very worthy of deep thought, because the vernacular novels that began with the May Fourth Movement were in fact quite influenced by the West, and "the European-American vernacular novels will inevitably face the problem of localization. As far as the characters are concerned, if the characters written by the writer are typical Chinese, then the novel is localized. Lu Xun's characters, Yu Hua's Xu Sanguan, are typical Chinese, everyone think about Xu Sanguan, a man who has sold blood to support his family all his life, can only be a Chinese. ”
In addition, Liu Zhaoru believes that "The Big Fleet" does not write about the life of fishermen, but focuses on "marine civilization", and the writer's self-consciousness is very worthy of recognition.
Wang Chuan said that "The Big Fleet" "tells a good story", "a story of a family represented by Fang Yingdian from the 20s to the 40s of the last century set sail from Laizhou Bay, and this legendary story is closely related to the background of the family and country, and the whole story is gripping and magnificent, which is very suitable for adaptation into a TV series." In addition, Wang Chuan believes that "The Big Fleet" has also successfully created a number of characters, especially the protagonist Fang Yingdian, "This is a character with the shadow of an ancient Chinese scholar, a character who inherits poetry and books and governs the family with virtue, which is not only infiltrated with traditional Confucian thought, but also can break through the shackles and break through the ancestral teachings for the development and rise of the family." The novel portrays characters in a strong plot conflict, and integrates the customs of Laizhou and the narrative of the family and country, which has "epic characteristics".
Xiao Chunjie said that "The Big Fleet" is "a legend", with wonder as beauty, and it is very attractive to write, which in itself deserves high recognition.
Qiao Junlian, the editor in charge of "Big Fleet", used five key words: "heavy", "human nature", "picture sense and scene sense", "rigor" and "folk culture" to talk about his feelings about this novel.
At the event site of the day, Li Hengchang, Tao Yushan, and Zhang Zhihui, the reader representatives of "Big Fleet", also expressed their feelings after reading.
Writer Fang Yuan also shared his creative process and thoughts with the audience. He said that no matter what era, a person's "morality" is the most important, which is also his original intention to create this novel. Fang Yan said that although he was born in Shandong Provincial Hospital, he lived in his hometown rural area when he was a child, "until he returned to Jinan at the age of 15", so he is very familiar with rural life, "At that time, I heard a lot of stories about the Fang family, and I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but then I finally decided to write the family story and began to consciously understand and interview." Interestingly, through the first "The Great River Flows into the Sea", which wrote the story of the Fang family, he also found the Fang family who had been separated for more than 40 years.
Fang Yuan said that the previous "Big River Flows into the Sea" and now this "Big Fleet" are the first two parts of his "Hometown Trilogy", and now he is creating the last part of the "Hometown Trilogy" "Golden Peony", ""Golden Peony" will be the background of the great changes in the mountains and towns in the new era, telling the story of the revitalization of rural culture and the pursuit of a better spiritual life by new farmers."
At the end of the event, Zhang Hongfu gave a "thank you speech" for the event. He said that "The Big Fleet" is an important work in the second batch of Jinan's "Haiyou Literature" excellent project, which is a "deep and readable work, worthy of everyone's careful reading".
Reporter: Qian Huanqing Photographer: Wu Wenfeng Editor: Qian Huanqing Proofreader: Gao Xin