There is a saying in the international bridge community: "The world's bridges look at China, and China's bridges look at Guizhou." As the only province in China without the support of the plain, Guizhou has erected more than 30,000 bridges on the karst plateau, covering almost all the bridge types in the world today, filling a number of technical gaps at home and abroad, creating dozens of "world firsts", and achieving the reputation of "World Bridge Museum" in Guizhou.
Five into Guizhou, travel thousands of miles, with both feet to survey hundreds of bridges, large and small, dreaming of sleep, four changes of its draft, Lu Xun Literature Award winner Zhang Zhi, Yang Hansheng Script Award winner Song Xiaoling jointly created the novel "Wanqiao Fu" jointly published by Chongqing Publishing House and Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, tells the story of the people of Guizhou by building 10,000 deep mountain bridges, so as to create their own new life, but also the Chinese story of creating miracles.
● The new era makes a "bridge" hymn
On the Maha River in Fuquan City, Guizhou Province, there is a three-hole bridge built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, called Gejing Bridge, this bridge was built by the local Ge Jing for 30 years with all his family wealth after many failures, because of its exquisite design and the unswerving craftsman spirit contained in it, it is known as the "crown of the southwest bridge", and it is also one of the famous bridges in ancient China, there is "Zhaozhou Bridge in the north, Gejing Bridge in the south" said.
After the "90s", Ge Nianjing is the seventeenth generation of the Ge family, and a dealer agreed with her to paint a group of works in the art major. In search of creative materials, she embarked on a walking journey in the land of Guizhou. Ge Nianjing has seen all kinds of bridges, Guizhou traffic has realized the interconnection of all things in the north and south, east and west, the ditch and valley danger in the past, now it is ten thousand bridges flying frame, such as walking on the ground, Guizhou is really flat. As a result, she finally understood her family, gained family affection and love, and also gained spiritual reconstruction. She was deeply moved by the fighting spirit of countless bridge builders, and the bridge in reality set up a beautiful rainbow in her heart, and her soul finally found a home. She passionately poured ink to paint the 100-meter-long scroll "Ten Thousand Bridges and Mountains and Rivers", and donated the scroll to the Bridge Museum to express her deep respect for the builders......
This is the story told by the realist novel "Wanqiao Fu" with the theme of transportation construction in the new era, which comprehensively reflects the transportation development process and great achievements of "natural moat changing thoroughfare", and shapes the literary group portrait of excellent builders. Gao Mingguang, former director of the Publishing Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, believes that finding the code of the soul is an implicit theme of this book, and on the surface it is vigorously talking about bridges, but in fact it implies that if people want to improve and become a truly noble person, they must first shape their hearts and build bridges between people and between people and society.
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Zhang Zhe, one of the authors of this book, still remembers the shock he felt when standing next to these bridges: the Gejing Bridge more than 400 years ago, as well as the Beipanjiang Bridge such as the raptor crossing the river, the Baling River Bridge with the world's highest bungee platform, the Pingtang Bridge, which won the "Gustav Lindethal" award, and the Huajiang Gorge Bridge, the world's tallest bridge, are the vivid embodiment of the indomitable will of the Chinese people to change their backward appearance and the craftsmanship spirit passed down from generation to generation. Zhang Zhi said that the writer's sense of responsibility and mission made him pick up the pen and write a biography for the builders. "Ten Thousand Bridges Fu" splices the real character Ge Jing in history with the modern fictional characters, takes Ge Jing as the historical starting point, and takes the legendary story of modern bridge construction as the plot to construct a novel that combines fiction and reality, both real and illusory. It is named after "Wanqiao Fu", showing different forms of bridges and rich and complex bridge culture, and making "Fu" for the bridge is a hymn to building a "bridge" for the new era.
●Write a new paradigm of great changes in mountain towns in the new era
In recent years, in the context of accelerating the construction of the Chongqing Twin-City Economic Circle, publishers from Sichuan and Chongqing have jointly created a number of landmark achievements, and the novel "Wanqiao Fu" is one of the representatives. The creation and publication of "Wanqiao Fu" can be described as a pioneering initiative for cultural cooperation between Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou. The novel is written by Guizhou, Chongqing, and Sichuan, conveying not only the story of Guizhou that has leapfrogged development, but also the magnificent poem of Chinese modernization, building a bridge between literature and publishing in Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou. "Excellent literary works cannot be disseminated without excellent publishers." Qiu Huadong, member of the party group, vice chairman and secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, said that "Wanqiao Fu" was carefully polished by publishers in Sichuan and Chongqing, and it is like a bridge connecting friends from all over the country, which is very meaningful. In the context of today's times, how to tell Chinese stories well should become the mission pursuit of writers. And Zhang Zhi said that it is very meaningful for Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou to launch this book, "It is written about the bridge in Guizhou, in fact, it is the bridge in the southwest, and the entire southwest traffic is by the bridge, we used to say that the Shu road is difficult, and the difficulty is in the traffic, and now the traffic in the entire southwest has been greatly improved, and we are actually also known as the bridge capital in Chongqing, all in all, write the bridge in the southwest, focus on the bridge in Guizhou, in fact, reflect the bridge cause of the entire China." ”
▲Song Xiaoling, one of the authors of this book, participated in the new book sharing meeting of "Wanqiao Fu" at the site of the Chengdawan high-speed railway project
The book is not only a novel about bridge construction, but also a work that explores various themes such as people's self-understanding, social changes, family customs and national customs. The work deeply excavates the feelings of the family and country, the national spirit and the cultural inheritance behind the bridge construction, which makes the whole work have extremely rich connotation and profound ideology, and also injects new vitality and connotation into the literature with the theme of transportation construction in the new era. Wu Yiqin, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and secretary of the Secretariat, commented that "Ten Thousand Bridges Fu" is written to build a bridge, but in fact it is also a bridge of communication between history and reality, a bridge between people's spirit, and a bridge between people's hearts. In the view of Yan Tonglin, a professor at Guizhou Normal University and chairman of the Guizhou Literary and Art Critics Association, different from the documentary writing of the great changes in Xinshan Township, "Wanqiao Fu" starts from the bridge, is based on fiction, and arrives at the truth from fiction, skillfully melting different themes such as love, family, friendship and family and country feelings into one furnace. "From the details, from people and things, the ordinary and ordinary characters are placed in the fiery historical construction of the new era, which highlights the extraordinary wisdom and perseverance of the traffic builders, as well as the classic significance of benefiting the people because of the construction of bridges and roads."
▲ The new book sharing meeting of "Wanqiao Fu" held at the site of the Chengdawan high-speed railway project
Good literature always has the great power to point directly to people's hearts. "Wanqiao Fu" walked into the site of the Chengdawan high-speed railway project of China Construction Eighth Bureau and injected inexhaustible spiritual power into accelerating the construction of a transportation power, which is the best example.
Chengdawan high-speed railway is an important part of the mainland's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network along the river, with a total length of 477 kilometers and a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. "Through reading the work "Ten Thousand Bridges", I deeply felt the fighting spirit of the Chinese bridge builders of 'opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water', and it is also our fighting spirit to overcome difficulties. As a builder of the Chengdawan high-speed railway, I will continue to carry forward and inherit the spirit of struggle of the older generation, continue to take out the momentum of opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water, ensure the quality of the project with high-quality work quality, be a stickler for bridge construction, and contribute to accelerating the construction of a transportation power. Wang Chaoyang, an engineer of the Chengdawan high-speed railway project of China Construction Eighth Bureau, said with a resolute look in his eyes. (Reader Daily all-media reporter He Jian)