At that time, Lu Nan - writer Wang Zhaojun and the novel "Grasshopper"
Langya Academy Notes 2024-04-17 19:30 Shandong
At that time, Lu Nan - writer Wang Zhaojun and the novel "Grasshopper"
Linyi Grand Theatre
The spiritual world of the bottom of the countryside a hundred years ago
A vivid reproduction of the rural life of the Republic of China
April 27 Linyi Grand Theater
Joy Reading Club
Famous local writer Wang Zhaojun will bring new works
Grasshopper
Read and discuss with you
Retrace the history and vicissitudes of Linyi
Tickets will open at 9:30 tomorrow, so stay tuned
Guest: Writer Wang Zhaojun
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Wang Zhaojun is a native of Linyi, Shandong
He used to be the editorial director of Reportage
Editor-in-Chief of China News Press
In the history of contemporary literature
Wang Zhaojun is a writer who is hard to forget
80s of the last century
National Literary Creation Award for his novellas
Funeral Before Dawn
and the reportage "The Field is Calling"
Both were selected
There are very few writers who can receive such an honor
Guest & Writer: Wang Zhaojun
Wang Zhaojun has published novels such as "The Country Man Trilogy", "White Candle", "Qingtong Tree", "Red Carpet" and "Grasshopper"; long-form non-fiction literature "Heiduntun - A Historical Sketch of a Chinese Village" and "Asking the Hometown"; short and medium story collections "Tadpoles and Dragons" and "Funeral Before Dawn", biographical literature "The Biography of Wang Xi" and "The Biography of Wen Jiang", and a collection of prose essays "The Voice in the Wrinkles" and "The Wind and Bones Carry Me".
His work "The Funeral Before Dawn" won the 3rd National Outstanding Novella Award, "The Field is Calling" won the 3rd National Outstanding Reportage Award, and his novel "The Brothers" won the 2013 Top 10 Chinese Novel Excellence Award by Asia Weekly. Among them, "White Candle", "Falling Fengpo Characters", "Cards of the Four Seasons of Jingshen Street" and so on have been translated into many Chinese. In 2015, he returned to his hometown to found Dongyi Academy, which opened public welfare classes to spread Chinese and Western culture and study contemporary Jiaomo painting. In 2018, the "Wang Zhaojun Literary and Artistic Achievement Exhibition" was held at the Linyi Art Museum.
Outline: Talking about the literalization of life
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From the writing of the novel "Grasshopper".
Look at the meaning of life at the bottom for literature
⭐ Maintaining a keen perception of life is fundamental for writers to understand life from a literary perspective.
⭐ Although any life can be used as literary material, due to the limitations of the author himself, everyone can only write about the part that he is most familiar with, that is, the part that he has the most perceptual cognition.
⭐ The key is not what to write, but how to write it. For example, the construction of the atmosphere of the times, the thoughts and feelings injected by the author, the design of literary imagery, etc.
⭐ Take "Grasshopper" as an example, talk about the individualization of the characters, that is, how to write the texture of the characters.
⭐ Take "Grasshopper" as an example, and talk about the language of the novel.
⭐ From the novel "Grasshopper" to see how to use details.
"Grasshopper": a microcosm of an era
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Book in this issue: "Grasshopper"
In the past, the grasshopper temple village was a microcosm of an agricultural society, people guarded the land and worked hard for years, heroes were fleeting like meteors, the intellectual class was chaotic and general, and the villagers were humble like grass mustard, under the impact of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the good and evil of human nature, and the struggle of life made people sigh, cutting the true connotation of Chinese rural society in that era.
A deep picture of realism
A penetrating perspective of folk narratives
The novel "Grasshopper" depicts the rural life in Lunan from 1900 to 1949, spanning half a century. This is a special period when the old system is slackened and collapsed and the new system and new culture have not yet taken shape, and the locust plague, banditry, the game of various political forces, the demise of the gentry culture, and the inflow of urban industrial products have brought an irreversible impact on the grasshopper temple. In the author's pen, their faces are delicate, lifelike, and ready to come out, full of blood, tears and legends.
The author portrays dozens of vivid and three-dimensional characters and the details of their lives, their ups and downs of fate are real and verifiable, and their distinct personalities can be traced. This is a realistic picture painted from the penetrating perspective of a folk narrative. On the basis of a large number of fieldwork, the author implanted human and emotional elements into the work, so as to have a sense of strangeness in the aesthetic sense, and at the same time, it also dynamically showed the folk customs, geographical pattern and social life of a certain place in Lunan at that time.
An accurate reproduction of 100 years ago
Rural cultural characteristics of the Lunan region
The changes in the underlying society, the germination of new ideas, the collision and entanglement of traditional thinking and the new era, including social status, economic status, marriage and family, simple or unrealistic ideals, and the different life energy displayed by the characters in the book at different stages. Through a calm description, the author not only shows in detail the folk customs of Lunan countryside that advocated the old system of ritual music a hundred years ago, but also accurately constructs their spiritual world.
In Wang Zhaojun's pen, this kind of spiritual imagery derived from "grasshoppers" is precisely a natural expression of the collective unconscious. The tenacity, simplicity and wildness of the rural culture in Lunan are not only vividly presented again, but also collide with a strong echo of a micro-history.
It enriches contemporary Chinese literature
A description of the rural theme of the Republic of China
The author's long-form non-fiction literature "Asking Hometown" received a strong response after it came out. Based on his love for the countryside and the examination of his rich experience, Wang Zhaojun founded Dongyi Academy in 2015. Based on Dongyi Academy, Wang Zhaojun stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the city, went deep into the countryside and the grassroots, carried out a decade-long fieldwork, and obtained and sorted out a wealth of historical materials, which became valuable materials for him to study and feed back the countryside and rural culture.
Through the writing of the novel "Grasshopper", the legend of the rural society in the special era is depicted, the cultural characteristics of the countryside in that period are captured, and the description of rural life in the Republic of China is enriched in contemporary Chinese literature. The novel "Grasshopper" has made useful explorations on how to inherit the traditional culture of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", how to get close to rural life, how to grasp the fate of the characters, and how to present the language of the characters in their original ecology.
Recreate the wonders of yesterday's rural characters from today's perspective
There is the interest of "Qingming Riverside Map".
There is also the taste of Pu Songling's chatting culture
On April 27, he came to Linyi Grand Theater
Listen to writer Wang Zhaojun's talk about urban memory
Session:
2023-04-27 10:00-11:30
Location Duration:
Concert hall 90min
Fare:
19.9 yuan
1. Purchase tickets through the official account, mini program, website and other channels of Linyi Grand Theater at a public welfare ticket price of 19.9 yuan;
2. Children above 1.2 meters can watch the show with tickets, and children under 1.2 meters will not be allowed to enter;
3. If there is any change, the notice after the change shall prevail.
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