Written by Han Zhichen
"Green Grave Grass" (prose)
This is a true story.
Green mountains, green trees, green grave grass.
This new grave with green grass is nestled in the embrace of the mountain.
Today, it still lies there quietly, with the blowing and washing of the spring breeze and summer rain, and the soaking and covering of autumn frost and winter snow, it lies quietly and quietly, without the hoarse shouts and heavy wheezing sound that even carries the smell of bitter and salty sweat! Oh, it is a silent mountain, right? Shrugged on his thick shoulders but solemn and no longer speak.
Joy and sorrow come to an end here!
In front of this new grave, tears flowed from my face, but blood flowed from my heart.
Many years have passed, and the wound in my heart still has not healed, and it is still bubbling with blood, which has added a lot of sorrow and sorrow to my state of mind for many years, and my heart has suddenly aged a lot......
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In the winter of 1978, I went to the Tangqin area of Hebei Province to pick up new recruits, and at that time I was working as a political officer in the new corps. When I accompanied the head of the unit to visit the homes of recruits in the countryside, I walked to a village whose name I still can't remember. The village was very poor, and when you entered the village, what impressed you the most was the earthy yellow: the earthy mud walls, the earthy earth, and even the people's faces were stained with earthy yellow...... Oh, this is the imprint left by the barrenness of history and reality on the people living on this land! Seeing us coming, a person who looked like a production captain shook several books of work ledgers in his hand: "You take the troops! What kind of soldiers do you accept? This work and account is divided, remember Qingli! Wang Lian'an can't be a soldier? Which one is still qualified!"
The chief and I both looked at the work and accounts, and Wang Lian'an was really a mature worker! And the young man named Wang Lian'an was standing in front of us at that time. Just as we looked at him carefully, and there might be a feeling in his eyes that he was a little too thin, the captain interjected again: "Don't look thin, if you have eaten enough, your shoulders will suddenly look like a cow! The chief looked at me, asked for my opinion, and said, "This is good soldier's material! How about we take him away?" I said yes, I said yes, and I had a very complicated mentality. Because my ancestors are from Qinhuangdao. When I returned to my ancestral land, I couldn't bear to see that people were living in such poverty, and when I saw a young man like Wang Lian'an, my heart was filled with too much sympathy!
When I said yes, the chief said, "Let's go and have a look at his house!" Wang Lian'an smiled and led us away. Walking to a place with a rolling road, Wang Lian'an stopped.
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At this time, we saw a girl in her 20s, who was there with a pair of chapped feet, pushing the mill hard, and the corn was grinding on the mill, and the corn was creaking, and the mill was also buzzing very heavy, and the girl's snort also made that heavy wheezing sound. When she saw us coming, she kept grinding but lowered her head, still pushing her mill! All I noticed was her earthy yellow face and her earthy gray patched clothes. Wang Lian'an said in a very strong Hebei accent: "This is my sister, my own sister!" The girl suddenly raised her head, oh, what a handsome person! Looking at her chapped feet and handsome face, I couldn't speak for a long time, but tears welled up in my nose. Wang Lianan said: "I don't have a father anymore, I don't have a mother, this is my sister and me." The girl stopped grinding and said, "Come in!" We walked into Wang Lian'an's house with a heavy heart. Oh, and can this be called home too? There is not even a seat on the kang, all the belongings are only a few rice bowls and the big pot on the stove, and there are tattered quilts with old cotton wool exposed, poverty, making life difficult and simple!
Before the chief and I said goodbye, we both patted Wang Lian'an on the shoulder, didn't say anything, and didn't laugh, but Wang Lian'an laughed, and her sister also laughed, and they all laughed very loudly. Seeing them laugh seemed to give me some comfort in my heart.
That's it, Wang Lian'an became a soldier!
At the end of the recruit training, I found the staff officer of the army and said that Wang Lian'an should be assigned to the cooking class, because the child had never eaten enough at home. Wang Lianan really arrived at a certain cooking class. In the cooking class, he didn't cook, but he took the initiative to ask to raise pigs, and soon, the battalion and regiment established himself as a pig pacesetter.
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I went to see him once on the company's pig farm. He shouted at the pigs in a thick hoarse voice from Hebei, while he used a small, but sharp, little guillotine knife to cut the grass. As I spoke, I smelled the heavy smell of sweat on his body and heard the heavy wheezing sound coming from his chest. He said that his sister had sent a letter asking him to do a good job in the army. He also said: I won't hide it from you, I mailed my sister a military uniform, and my sister wore it, and she was so happy that she didn't close her eyes all night! Don't laugh at her, poor people are like this, they have never worn such good clothes in their lives!
Later, I went to Hunan. Studied at Changsha University.
After I returned to the unit, I hung up the phone with that company to inquire about Wang Lian'an's situation. The company commander told me: "Wang Lian'an is gone, he is buried on the hillside behind the company. ”
I hurried to the company, and learned about his sacrifice: a pig fell into the Huma River, and the Huma River in April had just sent peach blossom water, and the water was so cold and so cold, and the pig was so cold that his claws were numb, and he jumped into the ice water to save the pig......
Oh, a man who grinned, a man who had just come out of poverty and had just had a little happiness, and so went, with the boiling river, oh, the boat of life flowed away
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I really stood silently in front of his grave for a long time. I think that if we don't let him join the army, his life destiny will not be reconstructed once, and he may still live in peace on the land of his homeland. Although the sun rises and the sun sets, life will seem banal, but his life will exist. I thought of his sister again, her attitude when she learned the news of Lian Andi's death, I thought it would be five internal burning, it would be like five thunderbolts, people are not plants and trees, how can they be ruthless!
I always thought that people didn't understand the language of plants and trees, but the grass on his grave was so green, and under the roots of the grass was buried a story of life, a life washed away by the river, the silence of the dead and the thoughts of the living, the hot life that had cooled down and too many emotions! What does the grass show to people with its greenness?
Thou art at the end of his life, O grass at the grave!
May you be evergreen – in people's memories!
Introduction to Han Zhichen
Han Zhichen, pen name A Chen, A Chen, received the special allowance of the State Council in October 1993, was promoted to the senior title in 1997, the outstanding expert of provincial management in 2000, and the national second-level professor in 2010. The first batch of members of the Jilin Provincial Senior Experts Association, the executive director of the China World Association for the Promotion of Ethnic Cultural Exchanges, the executive director of the Chinese Film Literature Society, the member of the Chinese Writers Association, the member of the China Film Artists Association, the member of the China Film Critics Society, the member of the China Television Artists Association, one of the seven directors of the first China TV Documentary Definition Association, part-time professor of Communication University of China, graduate tutor of Jilin Provincial Institute of New Media, art consultant of Jilin Calligraphers Association, Vice President of Jilin Provincial Cultural Development Research Association and Director of Film and Television Screenwriting Professional Committee, Chairman of Changchun Television Artists Association, Honorary Chairman of Shandong Longkou Musicians Association. He has successively served as the director of the TV drama creation department of Jilin TV station, the deputy general manager and artistic director of the provincial film and television group.
Since 1975, he has published more than 100 poems in newspapers and magazines such as "Jilin Literature and Art", "Heilongjiang Literature and Art", "Jilin Daily", "Hunan Daily", "Railway Soldier Daily", "Ambition in the Quartet", "Young Poets" and "Writers".
His main works include the long-form TV series "Fence, Woman and Dog", "Wheel, Woman and Well", "Ancient Boat, Woman and Net", "Sail of the Fog", "The Village Drifting By" and the movie "Tang Dynasty Female Patrol", "Queen Bigfoot", "Golden Autumn Happiness", "Mother-in-law", "Wumeng Mountain Love Song" and so on. His independent screenwriter's works include: 30 episodes of the TV series "Sun and Moon A River", 24 episodes of the TV series "August Sorghum Red", 14 episodes of the TV series "Sea Urn", 14 episodes of the TV series "Dashan Sister", 10 episodes of the TV series "Cai Lian in the Sky", the novella TV series "The Bridge of the Mountains", and the novella TV series "Three Please Fan Lihua". The short TV series "Mountain Lord", "The Tide Rises and Falls", "The Female Minister of the Town", "Wind and Snow Mast Mountain", the movie script "The Earth is the Sea", "The Head is the Sky", "The River is the Bridge", "The Crop Man", "Jiaodong Iron Man", "Two Women in Red Turbans", "The Drunkard and His Daughter-in-law", "Two-way Lane", "Two Girls in a City" (co-written with Huang Shiying), "Silly Dad and His Handsome Girl", "Geng Erdonkey's Things" (co-written with Yang Zhigang), "Love in the Betel Nut Blooms", "Lalin River Brothers" and the stage modern drama "Spring Back to Taowan" and so on. The documentaries "The Romance of Women", "The Autumn of Life", "The Tree of Life", "The Soul of the Road" and "Footprints" have successively won the first prize of the National Documentary on the Theme of Posts and Telecommunications, the first prize of the National Women's Documentary, the first prize of the documentary of the China Radio and Television Society, the second prize of the National Television Literature and Art "Starlight", and the relevant awards issued by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the All-China Railway Federation of Trade Unions, the Ministry of Petroleum and other units. He has won five national "Five One Project" awards, two "Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards", eight national "Feitian Awards", five Chinese TV "Golden Eagle Awards", one TV literary and artistic "Starlight Award", won the first prize of national TV documentaries for many times, three Northeast "Golden Tiger Awards", and also won the Best Plot Design Award at the 7th European International Film Festival. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was named one of the "60 artists who have made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese TV dramas" (one of the 12 screenwriters) by the China Television Art Committee and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
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