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Nan Yuanjing presided over the seminar and made a speech
"The Sky is Firmament" is another novel of more than 200,000 words by Mr. Qu Quansheng after "Goose Head Ridge" and "Danshi Soul". The novel takes the magnificent Chinese history of the twentieth century as the background, the complex struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party on the ground and underground, and the major historical events after the founding of the People's Republic of China as the basic context, meticulously and profoundly portrays the ups and downs of the fate and ups and downs of the four generations of He Honghai and Yuan Zurong in the historical trend, and successfully shapes Yu Wenjian, He Huarong, Yan Wenjuan, Xiang Guiying, Yuan Hanying, Artistic images such as Han Meiyun show the source of power to push the wheels of society forward, giving people high-spirited inspiration and endless memories of life, which can be called a panoramic literary reproduction of Chinese history in the 20th century.
First, the epic narrative character gives the work a heavy literary value. Epic poetry originally referred to long narrative poems that narrate heroic legends or major historical events, such as Babylonian's Gilgamesh, China's Legend of King Gesar, India's Mahabharata, and ancient Greece's Iliad. In modern literature, epic poetry is a panoramic reflection of people's lives in a certain historical era, such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Water Margin" in the four famous novels, and the movie "Three Great Battles" and so on. The story told in the novel "The Sky is Firmament" takes place from the thirties to the eighties of the twentieth century, and involves almost all major events in modern Chinese history, such as the Red Army's Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Reclamation of the Frontier, the Construction of the Third Front, the Cultural Revolution, the Reform and Opening-up, and so on. Some of these major historical events constitute the magnificent background of the story of "The Sky of the Sky", and some of them are the interpretation of the story itself; all the characters in "The Sky of the Sky" play their own role in the major historical events, and almost all the plots are the artistic symbols of these major historical events. If a contemporary Chinese chronicle is a true record of real people and real events, then "The Sky of the Sky" is a panoramic literary representation of contemporary Chinese history. Interpreting the novel in this sense, its epic narrative character is evident.
Wu Zhenxi, a calligraphy and painting artist of the Southern Yuanjing (right) generation, presented Chinese painting works to Mr. Qu Quansheng (left).
Second, the dramatic ups and downs fit the aesthetic habits of the Chinese. The novel's charm lies in the fact that it is "unreasonable and unexpected", and its great literary charm lies in the fact that "no book is written without coincidence". Under the author's ingenious arrangement, the storyline of "The Sky is Firmament" is often suddenly "bright and bright" in the "mountains and rivers", and suddenly sees the sun in the clouds and fog. Following the author's narrative arrangement, readers often sigh "why is it so coincidental", and feel the fate and effect of the "perfect" or "unperfect" fate of the characters. As Mr. Lu Xun said: "I hope it is not as expected, I think it may not be as expected, but it is always as expected." For example, Yuan Hanying and American GI Gobert became friends in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and when Jiaojiao was entrusted by her relatives to find her aunt Qiu Kite who had crossed the sea in her early years fell into despair, a dramatic scene appeared, and the phone number when she went abroad happened to contact Mr. Gobert himself, and the little aunt Qiu Kite, who "looked for her in my dream a thousand times", turned out to be Mr. Gobert's wife; He Chunliu was the only daughter of Kuomintang lieutenant generals He Honghai and Ms. Yan Wenjuan, and at the same time the first love of Yuan Hanying, the son of Yuan Zurong, deputy division commander of the Kuomintang. And so on, when the reader is confused by the intricate relationship between the characters, he suddenly gets an unexpected but reasonable narrative result, and the "reunion" ending in the heart of the Chinese is satisfied. In addition, the author draws on the writing method of Chinese Zhanghui novels, and maximizes suspense at the end of each chapter, "I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition", so that the dramatic plot becomes the concern of the reader's heart, and meets the reader's aesthetic habits and expectations to the greatest extent.
Third, the incisive and popular language highlights the national characteristics of the work. The author grew up in Bailuyuan, Guanzhong, which has a very deep cultural heritage, and the integration of thousands of years of mainstream traditional culture and local culture has made the folk afterwords and slang that carry this culture deeply precipitated in the depths of the author's heart, becoming the basic tool for him to express his thoughts and feelings and engage in social activities, and it has become a handy weapon for him to engage in literary creation. The author's use of afterwords is almost unthinking. When the plot and the dialogue of the characters in the work need it, the appropriate afterwords are blurted out. For example, the description of Qiu Yan's temptation of Yuan Hanying's favorite direction is "monkey recklessness - climb along the pole", "don't be lame and fight around - sit and shout" that asks Yuan Hanying to have an in-depth understanding of the situation, as well as "three shots to hit the rabbit - maybe the head", "fart in the nest - cover it too tightly", "lift your pants to find your waist - busy fainting", "bed bugs get into the spider web - a dead end", "hold a kitchen knife and chop your fingers - you are trampled on yourself", "boil a frog - take your time", etc., the personification of the objects and the narrative dialogue are just right. In addition, the use of life-like slang enhances the vividness of descriptions and dialogues. For example, "Age can't be an earthworm, right??!! What is even more admirable is that many of the incisive and unique sentences of the work are created by the author himself. For example, "Pinch your nose and coax your ears, can you believe it?" "Sticking out your tongue and licking the blade of a knife is completely setting yourself on fire", "Ideological work is half by talking, half by doing, making is a dumpling, and it is said to be fermentation." "Say you're fat, your face is really swollen, say you're sour, your words are like fished out of a vinegar vat." "You just have a mouth full of bubbles, and people's body temperature is not 36 degrees 5?" "If you dare to do anything nonsense, I will let you eat and you can't find your mouth!" and so on, these wonderful sentences fully reflect the author's superb ability to control and create language, making the whole work more down-to-earth and cultural.
Group photo of the participants
Fourth, the noble spirit of sacrificing one's life for righteousness gives the work a positive value orientation. Mencius said in the "Confession of the Son": "Life is also what I want, and righteousness is also what I want." You can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also. Mencius believed: "Righteousness is the right way of man." "Doing righteousness is the highest value pursuit and realm of life. Mencius's theory of sacrificing one's life and taking righteousness is a concentrated embodiment of the Confucian concept of life and death, and it is also the core value that "Heaven and Firmament" should guide people to establish. In this novel of more than 200,000 words, the communists represented by Yu Wenjian, He Huarong, and Yuan Hanying are willing to sacrifice everything for national independence, national liberation, and people's happiness. Some of them followed the Long March contingent to climb snow-capped mountains and cross grasslands, and fought in the rain of bullets and bullets; some of them lay in ambush in the dangerous Kuomintang areas and penetrated into the Kuomintang to collect intelligence for the party; some crossed the Yalu River with great courage and carried out the heavy historical task of defending their homes and the country; and some fought with the wounds and wounds left over from the war years in the cantonment and garrison or on the front line of the third-line construction. In their dictionary, the interests of the state, the nation, and the people always come first, and the interests of individuals must be unconditionally subordinated to the interests of the party and the people. They used their practical actions to give Mencius a new connotation of the times, and also enabled the vast number of readers who read this book to see the specific and vivid heroes of sacrificing their lives for righteousness, so that they were imperceptibly influenced and edified by the values of the Communists.