Published by Unity Publishing House, the author Zhao Jianfeng uses poetic language to paint portraits of 65 ancient Chinese women, with ingenuity and vivid images. The book consists of seven chapters, with beautiful writing, personality and good portrayal...... The most profound feelings are the following aspects:
- The beauty and strength of women. Women are the mother of the continuous society, but also the eternal topic of human beings, feminine beauty is the beauty of pregnancy, nourishment, tolerance, storage, support and love, is the supreme beauty of femininity, is the love, nourishment and softness of the land when it looks forward to the harvest of fruits.
In "Sword Boiled Red Face", there are not only the four beauties, Qin Huai Bayan, but also princesses, queens and women in myths and legends, all of whom are people who are talked about by history.
With a unique perspective and profound thinking, the poet explores the status and value of women in society, and depicts women's compassion, patience, wisdom and peace through delicate brushstrokes.
——The author's perseverance and perseverance.
Reading "Sword Boiled Red Face", I have a deeper understanding of the word "Heng" created by the ancients. One "resentment", one "亘", the metaphor in the heart of eternal unchanged. Poet, writer, and documentary filmmaker Zhao Jianfeng began to brew in 2005 and published in 2023, lasting 18 years. Intermittently, writing and writing stopping, just like a thin horse scattered on the grassland, not in a hurry, walking two steps when you are full, and nibbling a few bites when you are hungry, not fighting for the day and night, not for spring and autumn, only enjoying the comfort and pleasure brought by this grassland".
I know very well that this is the poet's heartfelt words, and I also feel the difficulty of writing his book. As the famous poet Xiong Yan put it, "The difficulty of this book is that it is a kind of 'limited writing', which requires the collection of materials and the study of classics, and cannot subvert the conventional aesthetic value of historical figures and mythological stories."
Boris Pasternak, winner of the Soviet Nobel Prize in Literature, once said, "The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with the subject matter itself, but only with the degree to which the subject can touch the actor." To a certain extent, the author's emotion and temperature determine the height of the work. Poetry is the expression of the author's true feelings.
Life is a few years, more than decades, or even hundreds of years, how many things have you experienced in your life? What to write? How to write it? At least you need to grasp and understand the background of each character's times and life deeds, and each character must be portrayed vividly. In this way, you can be affectionate and even moved by the words and deeds of the characters. I can only use a sentence that Sichuan people often say, "Mom! It's not tiring! ”。 What a long process, it is necessary to have the spirit of "perseverance" in "Xunzi and Persuasion".
The poet told a story at the new book sharing meeting: in 2006, I met Zeng Ruihong, a student who had just graduated from university and came to the unit for internship, and after hearing about the poet's creative plan, she took the initiative to undertake the tedious task of collecting relevant materials. Now Ruihong's child is about to enter middle school, and the "child" in the poet's arms is about to give birth."
Although the story is small, it fully reflects the author's perseverance, willpower, and concentration, which can really be described as "time sharpens faith, and years imprint the original intention".
In addition to the recognition of friends, the poet expresses his love and thoughts for each character with perseverance and perseverance, which makes the reader immersed in the scene and makes me want to stop reading.
"The essence is at the end of the pen, and it is difficult to be ingenious" (Zhang You of the Tang Dynasty), the characters are personalized, the descriptions are meticulous, and they are "piled up" by time, patience and concentration. On the basis of being "familiar with the life and deeds of the characters", the poet highlights the characteristics, respects the historical evaluation, and sublimates the personalized portrayal.
Zhuo Wenjun and Xue Tao, who are deeply related to Chengdu, the poet spent the most time and energy. Combined with the experience of living in Chengdu for more than 30 years, the poet has read a large number of classic materials and even related film and television works to gain an in-depth understanding of his life trajectory and classic deeds. According to the poet, although the creation of Zhuo Wenjun and Xue Tao was completed more than 10 years ago, and the second polishing was carried out before the book was written, "the initial creative individual was more emotional, and when I looked at it more than ten years later, some sharp and subjective emotions have calmed down, and then the current cognition was integrated, combined with the comprehensive factors of history, and more attention was paid to the control and expression of emotions." When writing Zhuo Wenjun, Jian Feng grasped the relative relationship between her and Sima Xiangru, and the song "Elopement to the Night" reproduced the ups and downs and delicate feelings between the two"; When writing Xue Tao, I focused on Huanhuaxi and Xue Taojian, two things that can resonate more with readers: "The girls' school book by the bridge of Wanli, crying loudly in the silent listening...... "The arid Tang Dynasty originated from the thinking of a drop of water, which reflected the night sky by the Jinjiang River. ”
——The originality and ingenuity of the writing.
Wang Tuyuan of the Tang Dynasty "Meng Haoran Collection Preface": "The text is not according to the ancients, and the ingenuity is unique." The reason why "Sword Boiled Red Face" is read is that the author has unique ingenuity and becomes a masterpiece.
One is that there are rules and regulations in the casual and casual.
Narrative, lyricism, commentary, criticism, a slice of life, combined with the comprehensive writing of the character's life, a cross-section of history, a comprehensive layout of the relevant characters...... The words that seem to collide with each other are actually in chronological context, the characters are positioned, the history is combined with the present and the future, and time and space are intertwined, outlining a poetic picture of the world and culture of women.
Qin Liangyu is written in official document writing techniques, with a summary title for each part; Write Fan Lihua does not want to write without thinking, does not write with people, but writes "Dianjiangtai", "Flame Mountain" and "Mingsha Mountain"; Wrote Chang'e Ji Guanghan Palace, saying: "The Story of the Moon......
Although all of them in the book are great "characters", or "the moon is shy of flowers", "geese fall and fish sink", or "earth-shattering" and "brilliant in the annals of history", the poet can sink into it, and describe the daily joys and sorrows of the characters, as well as the merits and demerits of life, with a level-headed posture and a calm and delicate tone; I can also jump out and rub into my own opinions and evaluations in the description view. This is the book's biggest feature and its core password.
"Lotus leaves and fields, lotus flowers", it doesn't matter whether it is "He Xiangu" or "Lotus Xiangu", in short, the person who holds the lotus has flown into the sky; Dong Xiaowan, "She loves talents, but talents are poisonous flowers, blooming on the cliff scenery, only a broken neck lookup." Princess Qianjin "A man is a medicine, the princess has used it, and she continues to take it after martial arts, and the medicine enters the three-inch skin"; Princess Fang Chun "A tear in front of her eyes is the only relative tonight......
These saints and gods in history are also lovely and pitiful ordinary people in the eyes of poets.
The second is the poetic character of flowing water.
With its organic combination of poetry, poetry, poetic imagery, poetic flavor and poetic environment, "Sword Boiled Red Face" has formed a poetic art form. With his own poetic and pictorial feelings, the author ignites the flames on the bodies of the lonely and bright characters in his pen, expressing the cause and effect of time and the relationship between characters, the impression of the world and the reality of reality; With the beauty of wit, artistic conception and philosophy, it arouses readers' associations and supplements, obtains a creative reading and appreciation experience, and generates ideological resonance and inspiration.
Lingnan "Holy Mother" Mrs. Xian, "She has gone through the Liang, Chen, and Sui dynasties and ten emperors, and has always adhered to the principle of only one good heart, protecting the country and protecting the people, and becoming the backbone of the Lingnan people"; Mu Guiying: "The village of Mu Kezhai is not big, just enough to fit half of the Song Dynasty. Mu Guiying's ability is not big, and he just saved the entire Song Dynasty. The mountain of Mukezhai contains a colorful world in its heart. The water of Mukezhai is covered with sunshine. The flowers and trees of Mukezhai have their own way of living"; The first female military commander is a woman who "the wind blows to the north...... the wind blows ......to the south, the wind blows to the south, and the wind keeps blowing ......"; Zhao Ji "glanced at the vigorous first love...... and glanced at the eight-hundred-mile Dongting...... Glance at the country in your hands"......
The third is the smart and beautiful language.
The poet's unique poetic language, the subtle deconstruction of the characters, and the establishment of his own language world—the language of intellectual poetry that is rich in philosophy and interest in a strong lyricism, so that readers can perceive the beauty of Chinese rhyme, patterns and lines, and feel the impact of vision and soul.
"There are two methods in Lishan, one is the way into the mountain, and the other is the way down the mountain. What goes in and out is nothing but the wind that comes and goes between the world; Wang Cong'er "The lotus flower loses its water, like a condensed and dried blood", "The emperor is a good play, and the game is a unique interest in leisure and leisure." Chi Zhaoping's Bo drama is a way for the people to live"......
The ancient poems that appear in the book form an intertextual echo with modern prose poems, showing the author's profound literary skills. Nuwa Niangniang is the mother of the earth, the god of creation, and the poet summed it up in one sentence: creation: give the world a satisfied look. Princess Wencheng has made great contributions to the friendship between Tibet and Han, and the author only uses one word "bridge" to profoundly express his creative intentions.
The poet has an innate "sense of grasp" for poetry, and freely deploys troops, arranges and combinations, internalizes the real history in his heart and externalizes it in his actions, forming a writing full of personal cognition. "The Queqiao Cui Wei River turns, and the Weaver Girl meets at night", and the thoughts of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl "seem to be a postmark, faint and fragrant, branded with bursts of lovesickness, and go to the unknown journey". Princess Shengping, who was drunk on the golden branch, "is a person who is a golden branch, just like an umbrella opened by a butterfly for a flower, even if there is a wind and rain, it will collect a rich fragrance." There are also people who are familiar with Zhu Yingtai's "Double Flight or Feather into a Butterfly": "The butterfly is me, and it is not me who flies in my life; The wings are me, and it is not me who rolls up the storm", the mandarin duck butterfly is just a dream; Another example is the white lady, "the lady's surname is white, or she can not be surnamed white, her surname is random, regardless of whether it is indiscriminate" and so on.
The second is the re-exploration of prose poetry text writing.
In "Sword Boiled Red Face", the poet 'translates' historical figures into poetic and literary modern language to reexpress and describe these female figures; The long sentences that play freely in tension, the finishing touches on the artistic conception, and the short sentences like poems echo each other in the book "Sword Boiled Red Face", linking the poet's whimsical ideas.
In the creation of "Nine Winter Clothes", the artistic conception of the opera, the tonality of the folk song, and the intervention of rhetoric constitute a large opening and closing of the imagination; In "The Blade and the Strings", the sentence "Lychee is on the way" is vivid and dazzling, bringing people into the ancient poetic conception and historical scene of "riding a red dust concubine laughing"; The rigidity and softness of the "blade" and the "string" are not only a reflection of the aesthetics of the text presented by the two sides of the concubine's experience of being favored and suffering, but also the poet's personality writing with both sharp and lingering, narrative and philosophical style.
The author's later works are heavy, restrained, and interesting, and focus on the use of numerical subheadings, which are short and long. "The Laughter Accumulated in the Beacon" is divided into 7 sections, which restores the grand and long historical picture from an extremely microscopic perspective, and skillfully integrates narrative and emotion.
"Sword Boiled Red Face" is undoubtedly a very perfect work that the author has tempered with his soul, and the author depicts a peerless picture from the ancient expedition in the form of prose poems, which proves that he devoted himself to the "red face world", which has achieved the perfect fit of the form and the gods, and synthesized a beautiful and sufficient landscape.
Every woman who lives her own unique life in the world is a beauty with a unique charm, and every man who regards a woman as a unique landscape in the world is also a real man; The years never defeat the beauty, and the years also love the man who truly loves the woman. (The author is a member of the China Writers Association, a member of the party group of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, and a vice chairman)