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Shanghang County Library
I. Writer Micro Interview (Shi Xin x Li Yingchun)
SS: What was your writing experience like?
Lee: Speaking of which, I have been writing for a long time, and I have been writing poetry since the 1990s. At that time, obsessed with postmodernist poetry, he wrote a lot of it alone, and seemed to have achieved nothing except sporadic publications. At that time, as a village teacher, the young, nowhere to put the soul always wandered at night, using reading and graffiti to pass the time. In 1999, he entered the county as a reporter and editor for a tabloid, and in addition to news reports, he mainly wrote poetry and prose in his spare time, and also dabbled in stage works and television features. In 2005, I began to compose a long poem "The Height of Life - Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Long March". Later, this 3,000-line poem was selected for the 2005 China Writers Association Key Works Support Project, becoming the first work in Fujian Province to be selected for the project. After this poem, I developed deep doubts about poetry writing, which shook my confidence, so I gradually shifted my writing to other aspects. During this period, some small achievements were made in prose writing. By December 2008, he had participated in the Advanced Workshop on Literature and Art by Fujian Province. From that training, I consciously started writing novels. In June 2010, the short story "Gun" was published in the headline of the short story of Fujian Literature, which was the first time that a novel was officially published. After that, he began to take the novel as his creative direction. In December 2014, the novella "Daimyofu" was published in the headline of "Mountain Flower", which was my first novella in the true sense of the word and also began my novella writing. In recent years, short stories have been published in publications at all levels and reprinted by the Selected Novels and Novellas Anthology, and have also won some awards, mainly including the Fujian Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Award, the Fujian Provincial Biennial List of Novels, the Fujian Provincial Excellent Literary Works Award, the Fujian Literature Good Book List, and the Liang Bin Novel Award. Among them, the red juvenile novel "Red Star Rangers" has been printed for the 9th time since its publication in 2017, and has been selected as the "Summer Vacation Reading a Good Book" in Fujian Province, the Excellent Children's Book Recommendation List of the Fourth China Readers' Reading Festival, the 2019 National Rural Bookstore Recommended Bibliography, and the National Primary and Secondary School Library With Excellent Recommended Bibliography.
SS: How much does your writing experience relate to your life experience?
Li: The correlation is still quite large. The short and medium stories created over the years are basically based on southwest Fujian, with red culture and Hakka culture as the main form of expression, and the regional characteristics are more obvious, which is related to my personal life. My novel focuses on the land where I grew up, the writing set in western Fujian, the separation of tradition and modernity, and the fate of people in a transformed society, hoping to build their own writing base in writing.
The place name "Yuantian", which appears many times in my novels, is my hometown, and it can be assumed that I deliberately constructed a novel image called Yuantian. Novellas like "Missing Family" and "Friendship Road No. 2" not only use the place name "Yuantian", but also related to my thinking when I was working in my hometown at that time. The novella "Under the Stars", which has just been reprinted by the "Novel Selection", takes a big mountain in my hometown "Shimaqi" as the main activity place, and the protagonist Shusheng Gonggong also has the shadow of my elders. It is worth mentioning that in 2019, I created a long poem reflecting the Gutian Conference, "The Harmony of Falling Snow", which is also based on the theme of a famous meeting Gutian Conference that occurred in my hometown, and now the Gutian Cadre College, the unit where I work, is near the Gutian Meeting site. After the publication of this long poem, the publishing house, the Fujian Provincial Writers Association, and the Provincial Academy of Literature also held a special seminar on works.
SS: What does writing mean to you?
Lee: Writing means that I have my own space, my own white time. Writing is another way I face the world, the one I'm most comfortable with. Although I work with different people all the time, I'm inherently a shy, introvert, and it's my world only when I write some words alone. I'm in charge of my world.
Shi: Let's talk about the creation process of "White Time"?
Lee: The reason for writing "White Time" is actually very simple, there are two sources. One is that about ten years ago I met a fellow monk on the blog, he traveled around, often posted some pictures and texts on the blog, very elegant, but I did not know his real name and specific circumstances, only in an internal journal I compiled myself published his poems, that's all, but I often think of him for no reason, imagine his life. Second, a story told me by my friend was that his junior high school classmate, similar to the life of the third oldest in "White Time", suddenly went to become a monk and suddenly returned more than ten years later. In fact, over the years, young people have been out of the house for a lot, and there are various reasons. I thought it was an interesting thing to do, so I had the urge to write about them.
Regarding the title "White Time", I think everyone wants to have a time that is not disturbed, and wants to live freely in an unfamiliar environment, not to be bound by relatives, acquaintances, and all kinds of worldly eyes. This period of time has nothing to do with the success or failure of the world's understanding, only about one's own heart, only about the part that is not obscured by the world. Such times are what I understand as "white times."
Regarding the monks of the third year, I don't think we need to dwell too much on the reasons for it. The reader doesn't know, I don't know, I just know that he went out of the house not just because of a lost love. Someone asked me, isn't it too fragile for a person to go out of the house just because of a lost love? What about fragility? It's not surprising that we allow everyone to have their own weaknesses and pain points. However, in my novel, it is obvious that the loss of love is part of the cause, but it is certainly not all, because if it is only because of the loss of love, it will not be deliberately to Chengdu to become a monk. Every step of life is not determined by a single factor, it must be a comprehensive factor at work. The space set up here is actually for readers to participate and complete the imagination of the novel together.
What exactly does this novel have to say? I don't know, I don't have so many small words, just want to present a story, a life, what the reader reads, what I think is, is right. Everyone has their own way of life, whether it is the monks and customs of the third elder, or the search and thinking of "I", it is a part of daily life, if it can trigger everyone's thinking, the purpose of the novel will be achieved. Personally, because I am a person in the system, what I long for in my heart is to be able to live my own way, not to be bound by the world, even if it is only for a period of time. Now that I think about it, maybe this reason is closer to the intrinsic reason for my writing.
I like to present in writing, let the characters be "really" presented in the novel, I do not replace his ideas, try to let the reader read without "separation", no trace of preaching. Therefore, I don't have a lot of technical things in my writing techniques, perhaps because I am sloppy and my writing level is not high, so I can only write honestly and let the characters speak. In my opinion, if the characters in the novel can enter the reader's heart, my purpose will be achieved.
Regarding the end of the novel, whether it is the end of the reunion, I do not particularly value it. At that time, when writing, the characters should have gone this way, so they wrote according to this. Of course, there is also a background, many friends joke that I often write people to death or the ending is a little gray. Fortunately, this time it was a success. I returned the ending of the novel to the story my friend told me.
Thank you teachers for your concern!
2. Collection of works reviewed
A few thoughts on "White Time"
Cheng Duobao
First, by impression, "White Time", when I first saw this kind of novel named after the verb phrase, I felt that the meaning of "white" was even far better than "time".
In this short story, "time" is divided into two parts: a family search trip between 1996 and 2007 (this part is detailed); and a journey of peace in 2007 or so (this part is shorthand).
It should be said that the writing of the first ten years seems to occupy most of the space; in fact, the text of the last ten years, which seems to be a brush stroke, is wrapped in the core of this novel: solid and hard.
Second, it is a novel about escape, search, rebellion, redemption, return, etc. The protagonist, The Old Third Tang Xiaowen, let us read the smell in Yu Hua's "Eighteen-year-old going out and far away".
Looking for the third elder, which seems to be a narrative main line, in fact, another hidden line (or a side line) is a "bureau" carefully designed by the writer: in this case, why does the third elder run away from home, and even quietly return to buddhism after taking refuge in Buddhism?
Perhaps the reader wants to peel away this hard nucleus.
The clever Li Yingchun did not decrypt it, he just let the text grow along his own thoughts. In the first ten years, why was the third old like this? Perhaps escaping from the homeland and returning to the roots, with the mental trajectory of a considerable number of young boys, but in this novel, Li Yingchun does not seem to reveal the answer: is it unwilling to be a primary school teacher? Is it an emotional entanglement with Lin Lifang? Or the crushing and suffocating of life that made him escape into the Buddha's gate...
There are no answers, only speculations— the infinite possibilities of the ending of a short story, infinitely magnified here.
The current trend of the novel, the gradual dilution of the storyline and even dispensable, presents the difference between the strength of the novelist. Taking this novel text as an example, if it clearly informs the direction of the character's fate, it will damage the deep charm.
Time, the first ten years are white, or the next ten years are white? In Li Yingchun's novel, it seems that the good life of the last ten years of the old three small texts gives us a vague answer. The girl who runs the small restaurant becomes his wife, and let him go luck, whether it is compensation for his turbulent and displaced life in the previous ten years, or the fateful karma, or the blessing brought by the practice, there is no interpretation here. However, the mother's disability has brought back his children's love, and the mother's "worthwhile" words speak of the great pain that the family has endured in search of relatives.
Third, the "time" that seems to be "white" is actually not white at all, it seems to be pale, innocent and blank.
In the first ten years, the old three were empty; in the next ten years, Xiaowen may still be empty. Perhaps, this kind of ethereal time that is not as white as "white" is more like "white" is the life show that the writer Li Yingchun showed us: ten years, once drifting in the sea; ten years, just looking back.
Taking the two sentences of "The Tenth Spring" in Xiaowen's blog, in fact, we can imagine: after Xiaowen left home, he always wanted to come back; but what kind of opportunity made him make up his mind to go home and anchor in the harbor of family and no longer leave? The core of this seemingly harder novel is Li Yingchun's intention.
Fourth, Teacher Li Yingchun is very good at telling stories. This seemingly simple story, replaced by a mediocre writer, may be just a small novel to deal with, or satisfied with the bitterness of the decade, and perhaps there is a "reunion" ending that is more than this tearful end.
However, the writer did not. From the writer's flowing narration, we can feel that the writer's ability to tell stories is superb.
As far as the novel's N narrative perspectives are concerned, this "meta-narrative" perspective, through the narration of "I", not only has a sense of substitution, but even has the flavor of avant-garde novels. Seemingly tragic and compassionate emotions, the writer does not meet through the search for relatives - encounters do not return - do not say - do not say - do not leave such a storyline, so that readers in the pursuit of suspense, easily read such a seemingly tragic novel, and fly white everywhere, do not say anything broken.
Fifth, some people may say, why should the third elder be vulgar? And between the customs, there is no bit of foreshadowing, or the ending is a bit hasty?
Admittedly, this seems to be the writer's hasty finishing, or a kind of "lazy" finishing. Not really.
We may wish to analyze that the third elder is outside, seemingly a monk, in fact, the only thing he suffers is his own self-knowledge, but he chooses to escape or has been disguised: this is also the normal state of young and vigorous people - when he meets his mother's pain and hospitalization, it seems that he can't hold it - among them, the power of maternal love calls for his vulgarity. The image of the mother, who seems to rarely appear in the text, in the silent place, makes me marvel.
Perhaps the writer himself did not expect that the seemingly difficult to deal with the willow has achieved the emotional world of this novel. In addition, the acquisition of the third elder's windfall seems to have the element of karma in the underworld. If teacher Li Yingchun has the heart of "laziness", then this "laziness" seems to be a natural success and a stone.
Sometimes, at the end of the novel, there is a flying stroke, and the writer himself is not expected, or even difficult to control. The ghostly love of writing a novel about Shinto is what novelists dream of.
From the reading of this novel text, for me, I realized an unexpected harvest.
I'm here to throw bricks and stones. "Foshan Literature and Art" can meet with teacher Li Yingchun such a masterpiece, when it is a fortunate thing, this is also the attraction of the publication, can "summon the collection" more novel masters.
Thank you teacher Li Yingchun for your hard work, thank you to the editor Lao Zhu for the warm invitation. One hole view, for reference only. Thank you!
White time, beautiful humanity
——After reading Li Yingchun's "White Time"
Rice paint
Now it is difficult to calm down to read a novel, not unwilling to read, but time-consuming and laborious, vibrato WeChat era, self-media development era, few people's attention will focus on an hour to read books, especially paper books, no matter what, this is really like Dickens said "This is the best era, but also a worst era", from reading to the current era, I don't know if it is a pretentious pseudo-proposition. These big and inappropriate preludes should be regarded as a broken brick thrown out by my next speech.
"White Time", from the title, is destined to be a beautiful story. Like Shen Congwen's "Border City", the title of the novel like poetry, I think is the current novelist needs to consider, many novel titles are more novel, but also fascinating, but not beautiful, not beautiful things, not necessarily go far, such as "Reminiscences like water years", "The little bean by the window", "Snow Country", Ge Fei's trilogy "Spring in jiangnan" and so on, I think, a good novel or a good novel, need a good title.
White time, has always been "white" as the main line of the novel metaphor, through the bizarre disappearance of the third elder, or Tang Xiaowen as the line of writing, constantly suspenseful, twists and turns to promote the development of the storyline. Reminds me of Maupassant's "My Uncle Hule", the hope of the family that has been lost for many years, but that article is mainly from the perspective of human evil for various suspense designs, and the word count is more concentrated, the storyline is compact; Li Yingchun's short story of more than 10,000 words, the story can be beautifully unfolded like prose, and the time span is large, from the bp era of the last century to the current 5G era, which is of course a scientific and technological watershed that cuts the boundaries between cities and villages, in the current high-tech era, Any text can not escape the fate of tidal ebb and flow, after a few seconds or minutes of light reading by the reader, the text itself and the author itself, face their own naked swimming, or spiritual self-congratulation. This is the psychological state in which we write, including myself, in the face of especially pure literary writing, will anyone watch our writing? Where is the literary G-spot of our emotional resonance? The third old man's mental journey, or the disappearance process, tells us everything.
The third is a secondary school student, the bones may be very high, and the article of the omniscient and all-powerful narrator brother, the representative of the village readers, if there is no urbanization process, there is no possibility of upstarts coming out, their family will be very respected in the village, but the reality is that the third not only can not mix a person like a dog, but also estimated to be abandoned by the goddess Lin Lifang, he has been chased to Zengcuo'an, the most romantic love story base in Xiamen, and has also been thrown out by the worldly life of red wine and green. This is the pain that the third elder does not dare to say in his life, the author is as stoic as the big brother in the text, and does not tell the mystery, in fact, the reader will know it as soon as he guesses. Although the storyline is old-fashioned, but the final reversal is slightly abrupt, especially the suspension of the marriage of the third elder to an unattainable height of this bridge section, I don't know if it is the author's intention, in order to return a Buddhist karmic wish or other ideas, but weakened the depth of the work, the so-called "into Confucianism, retreat from the Tao, escape from Zen" such a cycle of the way of Chinese life, should not happen to the third elder, but in order to respond to this "white time" this white, but it is not unreasonable.
The poetry of the novel and the zen of life
——Read Li Yingchun's short story "White Time"
Zhu Jiafa
A good novel is a poem. The poet-turned-brother Yingchun proves this with his novels. The difference is that Yingchun's short story called "White Time" is not a formal poetic novel or poetic novel, but the poetry of the story and characters.
Every poem will have a poetic eye, which is a hidden passage for people to enter the poetic realm, and this poetic eye is either hidden or revealed, or hidden or exposed, all depending on the reader's perception.
If as a poem, the sentence "White Time", which never appears in a novel, is a poetic eye.
As a poetic novel, when you realize this poetic eye, you can understand the poetry of the novel and the Zen meaning of life.
Novels are storytelling, but stories are only carriers, and in the end it is the characters who have to stand and stay. The story can be very twisty and bizarre and fascinating, but the characters can be deeply imprinted in your heart, touching you, and making you linger.
For example, the third in this novel.
After reading this novel, people are most talking about it, I am afraid that the enigmatic old third, its simple and straightforward but confusing disappearance of the decade, let people play.
The sudden disappearance of the third elder, who has not appeared in the front for a long time, has plunged a rural family into inexplicable loss and helplessness. When the friends in the village went out to work one by one and returned brightly, the smart third in the eyes of his parents was gone, and he did not know whether he was dead or alive, which was difficult for his parents to accept.
Therefore, "I", who was the deputy principal of the rural primary school, landed on Heron Island and searched for a needle in a haystack to find his brother. Of course, I went back empty-handed. The only clue, that is, the clue provided by a girl named Lin Lifang, whom the third elder likes, seems to be a surprise, but it is rather bad news. The girl said that before the third elder left, he said that he was going to leave the sad city of Heron Island, break into the rivers and lakes, and then come back with a beautiful scenery and talk about a vigorous love affair with her. As the elder brother, "I" know very well that these lines can be placed in movies and novels, and placed on the fleshy and uninvolved brother, which is mostly not a good thing.
This is what worries the family and makes others guess.
Ten years later, when the brother found the younger brother who had become The Dust Master, it was obvious that what he wanted to know most was why the third elder wanted to become a monk, and why did he cut off all ties with his family and relatives and friends? Are the real four empty?
The conjecture with the girl named Lin Lifang can be there, but maybe it is just a head, and the real flash has nothing to do with her?
The third elder insisted on sealing this ten years in the dust, and how the brother set it up would not help, but the third brother inadvertently said a sentence: "As for why I became a monk, I just feel that at some point in my life, I wanted to live such a life, and then I went there, there is no particularly complicated reason", which should make the brother look at the old third who has been ten years apart.
And what further makes my brother, a cultured rural teacher, and also makes literate readers amused, are these words of the third elder on his blog-
When you really face "bad things", it is always difficult to hide a joy in your heart, because you know that there are many things that can be put down; only some "beautiful things" will make you feel sad, because you know that there are still so many attachments in your heart.
The poetry of poetry lies in the blank space, and the poetry of the novel lies in suspense.
The third elder's understanding of "bad things" and "beautiful things" is both suspense and mystery.
The reason why the third elder was able to decide for ten years must have felt that he had "put down the bad things"; and in the face of the "beautiful things" that made people sad in the world, he found that "the attachment was not exhausted". Therefore, in the short days taken care of by his mother after breaking her leg, the third elder, no, Master Ruchen actually decided to be vulgar, which made the old man unexpected: "My old leg is worth it!" ”。 Maybe this is a Zen machine?
In fact, the Third Elder's Zen machine is like a heavenly machine, which cannot be leaked. From leaving Heron Island in 1996 to becoming a monk in Chengdu in 1997, there must have been something that he didn't want anyone other than himself to know, these things you can think of as complicated, you can think of simple, but for the third elder himself, it is not complicated nor simple, just like monasticism, cloud travel after renunciation, and finally return to the world, everything is the best arrangement.
Because, this is the most important "white time" of his life.
This is the Zen of life.
A Brief Discussion on "White Time"
Han Yunmin
After reading the 9th issue of the headline novel "White Time", my first feeling was: this is a legendary story, a way of life for all sentient beings. The novel is wonderful!
The novel searches for the third elder through "I", which is in the name of family affection; in the process of searching for relatives, it is found that the third elder is also looking for something, echoing the title "White Time". This "search" itself is very interesting, and reading it, no matter what the ending of the novel is, it is a big subject about life and life.
The brilliance of the novel is the excitement of the plot advancement, and the good emotions are substituted for the real and abundant. Life has infinite possibilities, and the novel has multiple metaphorical assumptions. In the process of reading, as the plot progresses, the old third's monasticism and the past, needless to say, is a mysterious existence, "I" and we all do not know (of course, from the text narrative, I intuitively feel that the third is missing because of "love", and then returned because of "love", with emotion, in line with the logic of life and reality), then at the time of his vulgarity, in this place, it is worth considering and discussing: the third elder is also vulgar, to some extent, is the personal experience of "me", this place, is a point, is a "change". Looking at the whole article, it can also be said that there are two kinds of "feelings", "feelings" change, the front "feelings" change, can be blurred, the back of this "love" change, is it better to have some ink?
Language is the first level of novel expression, the writer through language expression, the need to express the thoughts, emotions, etc., and then through this expression of expression, the reader to the world he expressed, so that the reader has some cognition and understanding of the world. The novel "White Time" has done it, thanks to teacher Li Yingchun's masterpiece, thanks to all teachers and literary friends, but also thanks to the platform of "Foshan Literature and Art" and the editing teachers.
Escape and return
Xu Yuan
Escape is a topic that is often read.
I read many stories about "escape", but usually the protagonists are women.
I read One of Alice Monroe's novels, Escape, about a heroine, Carla, who escapes twice in her life. The first time was to run away from the parents' house who "no longer felt" and to the men whose parents could not see the eyes, to pursue a "more real life" and live a romantic and fresh life for a while. The second escape was after marriage, the hardships of life, and the vile thoughts of her partner caused Carla to run away again. When she boarded the bus bound for Toronto, as the car grew farther and farther away from her familiar home, closer and closer to the unfamiliar city, the courage to face life alone was gradually replaced by trepidation, and she finally got out of the car.
I have read Lu Min's "Running Moon", which tells the story of Xiao Liu, a woman from a good family in the city, who disappeared from life through a car accident. Ordinary life is unchanged, the lover from intimacy to estrangement to strangeness, so she flees, reconstructing a "new me" that others do not know, but falling into multiple encounters, sinking and ups and downs, and the various roles she has abandoned are reborn in her.
……
Fleeing is a word that interests me.
The idea of "escaping" can be rehearsed countless times in the mind, the troubles of the world, the helplessness of reality, and in some ways, the lover of literature is happy, because he can escape through words, borrow the stories of others, pour blocks in his chest. Sometimes I often can't help but sigh: words are really good medicine, with pens to create dreams, you can go anywhere I want to go.
When I read White Time, I imagined that the story didn't end like this.
I have a habit of reading novels, and for novels that interest me, halfway through reading, I'll stop and close the book, and I won't read the rest of the story, and I'll continue to write the story in my own way in my head. The ending of "White Time" that I want to continue to write is: the old third Tang Xiaowen will not return, he will continue to disappear into the vast sea of people...
The brilliance of this novel may lie in quietly writing a character who has not appeared much, the world is ups and downs, from "program-controlled telephone" to "information age", in this complicated and changing era, he is hidden from the world, what is he doing? What exactly is he hiding from? This leaves a lot of room for imagination.
No matter what the reason the third was missing, it no longer mattered. He escaped from this complicated human world for a long period of "white time", perhaps he enjoyed two lives that others did not enjoy, in a sense it can be said that he lived in two time and space, he should often recall that light life outside the world.
At the end of the novel, there is a happy ending, just like the perfect stories: from then on, he lived a happy life. This is an adult fairy tale that gives readers many expectations and is in line with the dream of stability in this world.
"White Time" is like a mirror, looking at all of our inner anxieties, unwillingness, the tiredness of waking up in the middle of the night and every morning to suddenly face life, and the fuss we have to do about it, the tossing and turning, the adventures we have to take for this... But most of us are making tough choices about sixpence and the moon.
I wish we could look up at the stars and the moon with words. Arrive at the innocent self in the toss of escape and return.
Reading Li Yingchun's short story "White Time" has a feeling
Nie with
In the novel "White Time", first of all, I feel that the language makes people have a sense of intimacy, and it is not important to the language of the novel, there are too many remarks to say. I remember when I went to Luyuan, some novels were astringent to read, and some people said that his language was not good, and he didn't have to look at the language, just look at the thoughts. There were doubts at the time, and it is now certain that this statement is biased. I think the language of a good work should be natural, accurate, realistic and substitutionary. Fiction is the art of language and thought, indispensable. This novel is eloquent, not slow, very comfortable, people can't help but want to read it, this is the first feeling of the novel "White Time" to me.
Then there is the text, the storyline of the whole novel is not bizarre, the key is well narrated, the most valuable thing is that the protagonist is a monk, promised to go home after the family tried his best to find it, after taking care of the sick mother, suddenly wanted to be vulgar, this place is not much ink, but it is not abrupt, this is the ability of the narrative, indicating that the front of the paving rhythm is in place, here it takes a sharp turn, as if it comes out naturally, which is not easy.
After I read it, I have a strong feeling that each of us in the long river of life, there is a period of stage or event similar to "renunciation", "escape", "out of line", the text has not been explained to the protagonist why the third son is out of the house, this is a suspense, the text clicked a little, may be because of feelings, but very vague, not exact, I think this is the author's cleverness, just like each of us do some things, do not need to explain the reason to anyone, do not need to let the world fully understand their own motives and purposes, I have a male police colleague, quite old, and suddenly went to learn ballet, which may be his childhood dream, maybe nightmare, as if on a wide beach, walking footprints, late tide will calm him. The author uses an event to reveal the whole situation of life, and it reads with a sense of inner fit. Of course, this kind of "provocation" will bring great pain to relatives and friends, but in this life, everyone is more or less doing such a thing, including the "provocation" of thinking, so understanding, allowing, and accepting oneself and others to "dive" for a period of time and then go ashore is a kind of insight, insight and thickness, but it is a deep integration with the world.
The name of the novel is "White Time", this name I feel is shallower than the text, the usual "monasticism" is related to self-cultivation and enlightenment, but there are many monastics because of escape, avoidance, the more complex the text wants to express, the deeper the essence of corresponding life, the word white seems to be lighter.
Rough understanding, but also hope to forgive. Just saw that the 9th issue of "Novel Selection" selected Li Yingchun's novella "Under the Stars", congratulations.
Affection is the medicine that heals all wounds
- Reading "White Time"
Gou Wenbin
"White Time" is the title novel of Fujian writer Li Yingchun published in the 9th issue of Foshan Literature and Art.
Program-controlled telephones, magnetic cards, green-skinned train hard seats... These are no strangers to industrial workers who went out to work along the coast in the 1990s. I have a hobby of philatelic philatelic cards, and I still have hundreds of telephone magnetic cards at home. This shows that the writer is familiar with the background of the era in the 90s. As time passed to the 2006s, the identity of the Ah Hua couple who drove a luxury car to report the letter also corresponded to the background of some people who became rich first. The decade from 1996 to 2006 was a decade of tremendous changes in China's society and economy, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001, China's economic development was like a rocket. From the writer's point of view, how do we know this decade, because a lot of times our writing is writing about a state of life, your understanding of the problem. If you have a high understanding of this issue, you are one level higher than others, and if you are low, you are one level lower than others, and the writer Li Yingchun has a proper understanding of this decade, so the story is more real and credible.
The protagonist, Tang Xiaowen (the third oldest), is actually an ordinary person among all sentient beings, but he has done an unusual thing, that is, he has lost contact with his family, relatives and friends for ten years, and he is still a monk. If the character itself is out of touch is not attractive enough, but because of the monk and cut off contact, such a person is enough to be able to attract people, why when a monk, why not contact with the family, so that the parents and the family brought about the family hurt, and even the wishful lover Lin Lifang's tearful performance, all deeply grasp the reader's heart. As the eldest brother, the author does the things of the eldest brother like the father, and the parents' thoughts about their sons are in their hearts, but looking for the third elder is the eldest brother in action. Of course, the whole village is also helping. My dialogue with Lao San at Longtan Temple in Chengdu, my dialogue with Lin Lifang and Shang Minghui, and the scene of Mr. and Mrs. Ah Hua's depiction of seeing Lao San at Hangzhou's Youlingyin Temple are all in line with their respective roles. It can be said that the appearance of each character has their own identity label.
The author tells this story as the identity of the big brother "I", and the narrative subject switches between different character appearances, which is very comfortable, in line with the modern fast-food reading psychology, and is an innovation for the traditional narrative.
From the storyline point of view, a person missing for ten years, it is enough to grasp the heart, with the beginning of the aimless search, to the later routine use of tourism instead of searching, just in the nearly dead heart of the decade, by the Ah Hua couple brought the news of seeing the old third, the whole story started waves again, the old third went home to visit his relatives, took care of his mother who was injured by making him a stuffing basket, and decided to be vulgar, which was a surprising turn, capturing the expectations of human nature for "good beauty".
The writer's narrative seems to be plain, but in fact, the pen is sophisticated, the writing characteristics are more distinct, in line with the regional characteristics of Fujian, such as a group of low-educated compatriots selling high-tech electronic products in the country, the mother to make food, etc., reading not only let people understand the characteristics of this group of people in Fujian to get rich, but also have a certain understanding of rural customs.
In the end, the writer did not explain the reason for the old third year's renunciation, leaving enough imagination space for the reader, you can think that he was born because of Lin Lifang's love difficulties, you can also think that he was a monk because of escapism, but one thing is certain, that is, time can dilute everything, but can not dilute the affection with his parents.
Look for meaning
Chiping
Teacher Li Yingchun published the short story "White Time" published in the 9th issue of Foshan Literature and Art, and I read it in one breath. Two reasons, one is that Teacher Zhu recommended it, and the other is that it is really well written.
This is a novel about searching. There are two levels of meaning in searching, one is secular, I, looking for the lost brother Lao San; the second is the spiritual level, the old third is the search for the meaning of life.
At the beginning of the novel, it is said that his brother is lost. So, as an older brother, I began to look for it. Go to Xiamen to look for it, ask all the people; go to Hangzhou to look for it, this is an unexpected discovery; go to Chengdu to look for it, and finally find your brother. At this point, as an older brother, I completed the search in the worldly sense, and the relatives who had been separated for many years were finally found. The author writes this layer of search as the main line, writing in a twist and turn, gripping. And another spiritual search is buried under it, quietly, silently. I have to admire the cleverness of teacher Li Yingchun.
The search for the meaning of the younger brother's life, summed up, goes through three levels. Initially it is to see whether the mountain is a mountain, then to see whether the mountain is not a mountain, and finally to see whether the mountain is still a mountain. Looking at the mountain is the mountain, the first level of life, the third is no exception, after graduating from the middle school, you have to go outside to fight, this is the road that everyone will take, so the mountain is a mountain. However, the road of life is not smooth, the third like us encountered setbacks, perhaps an epiphany, Teacher Li did not write in detail, but the reader can feel, the virtual writing is also the wisdom of Teacher Li Yingchun, the meaning of the third life has risen to a realm, see the mountain is not a mountain. So he became a monk. At this point in the novel, it should be okay. Teacher Li Yingchun added the stroke of god to the natural place, arranged for the third elder to return home once under my persuasion, and was about to return to the temple when his mother fell, and the third elder, as the son of man, stayed behind to take care of his mother. Here, the third elder found the third realm of the meaning of life, looking at the mountain or the mountain. He's also vulgar. He completed the search for the meaning of life. Teacher Li Yingchun took the title "White Time", and the intention is also here, I guess.
The last thing I want to say is that when we read a literary work, it is also a kind of search, from looking at the mountain is a mountain, to seeing that the mountain is not a mountain, and then to looking at the mountain or the mountain.
—— Reading "White Time" has a feeling
Nonsense
"The outside world is wonderful, the outside world is very helpless", after watching "White Time", my mind leisurely sounded this "Outside World", and Qi Qin's slightly hoarse voice continued to hover in my ears.
First, escape
The story begins with my younger brother Lao San fleeing the village, like most young people, the old third is not satisfied with his own environment, and does not know what kind of life he wants, he wants to run away to find the answer. At the first stop, he entered the factory through the introduction of acquaintances, which was another way of survival from agricultural production to industrial production, and it was obvious that the mechanized simple and repetitive factory labor that used people like tools was not what the old three wanted, and he fled again. Can't find life in the machinery of the hard bang bang, so can you find belonging in the emotion, he finds his favorite female classmate Lin Lifang, after drinking a cup of coffee, he understands that he is just him, and she is still her. The third time he fled, at the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou and the Longtan Temple in Chengdu, he seemed to have found the way of life he wanted. "As for why I became a monk, I just felt that at some point in my life, I wanted to live such a life, and then I went, and there was no particularly complicated reason." During this time, he seemed to have an epiphany about life and an understanding of life of his own. Escape is not just limited to leaving a certain place, but more is to escape from the existing predicament and give one's soul a relief. In fact, life cannot escape, because as long as people live, life will be like a shadow, like a shadow. Since you can't escape, you might as well find a happy land for your soul.
Second, search
I was the vice principal of the school who stayed in the village, had a stable job, and seemed to be at ease with the job and persuaded the third elder to become a village teacher, but the third did not obey his arrangement and ran away. The time when the third elder left was the starting point of my search.
I first believed in the police station, and as a result, I touched a nose of ash; I followed the road that the third elder walked, from the acquaintance society (hometown), the stranger society (factory), the ignorant emotional life of the third elder (female classmate), to Hangzhou and Chengdu, during which there was me and the villagers' infinite imagination of the third elder and dissatisfaction with their own situation and self-deprecation. My dissatisfaction with my own situation triggered my fantasy of the third elder's return to his hometown. "Later, I also thought that if it was the old three couple who got off the Mercedes benz on this day, then this bizarre story would turn into a legendary comedy,......."
I am looking for the third elder, I am also feeling along the way, the process of searching is the process of my continuous experience and experience, and finally I found this passage in the blog of 'like no dust': those bittersweet and sad experiences cannot be wasted, in fact, we should transcend the dualistic opposition of bittersweet and sadness.
Third, the return
"This person may never come back, maybe 'tomorrow' come back". After escaping, searching, experiencing, and feeling something, the third brother was pulled back to the countryside by his affection, completed a reincarnation, and truly lived in his own land.
"White Time" seems to be a fable story, I live in the countryside in mediocrity, but my heart is not willing to live ordinary, so my heart (the third brother) travels for me. The farther the third brother went, the tighter I chased; the road the third brother walked was the road I walked, and I went too far, and finally returned to the countryside. What the author does not explain here or deliberately conceal is that there is no appearance of the second brother here (which may be my misreading), that is, the second brother is the gap between me and the third brother, that is, the distance between reality and ideals.
The final return of the third elder, with a bright tail, obviously has idealistic feelings, but seriously weakens the thinking that the novel brings to the reader. Daily life is trivial, how to deal with ordinary days is the end of the article should cause thinking. As Milan Kundera put it in Living Elsewhere: "When you live elsewhere, it is a dream, it is art, it is poetry, and when it is elsewhere, the sublime sense becomes the other side of life: cruelty." "No matter how cruel life is, 'White Time' has left a beautiful experience for me, my third brother, and readers.
Everything was the best arranged
Wang Yedan
As Mr. WeiFu, the editor of the title of "Buddha", put it, the novel "White Time" "contains rich themes about love and affection, escape and search, worldliness and practice." ”
"In the summer of 1996, on my brother's birthday, he disappeared somewhere on Heron Island." At the beginning of the novel, it creates a big suspense for the reader" "Why did my brother disappear?" ”
The younger brother "old third" graduated from secondary school, unwilling to return to his hometown to be a substitute teacher under the arrangement of "I", but chose to "go far away" and go to "Heron Island" to work, in that era when communication was not yet developed, the younger brother and his family could only rely on a magnetic card phone on a street. On that day, after my brother and his family talked on the phone, without any warning, they quietly disappeared without any contact.
Is the younger brother dead or alive? Is it fierce or auspicious? What happened to him? Where did it go? Since then, "I" has begun a decade-long search.
"I" follow in the footsteps of my brother working in other places, fellow villagers, colleagues, classmates (lovers?). No one knew his whereabouts. The younger brother does not seem to have suffered any major changes, but suddenly evaporated in the world, what is the reason? For ten years, during the holidays, "I" would be "sent" out by my parents to try to find his clues. Ten years have passed, social changes have turned upside down, the younger brother's peers, married wives and children to get rich, the younger brother still has no news, "the family had to admit this cruel fact." ”
The turning point was brought by a young couple in the village, who went to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, saw their brother, and quietly took a photo - the younger brother became a "monk"!
From there, I started looking again. From The Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou to the Longtan Temple in Chengdu, I finally found my brother, who at this time had changed from "old third" to "like dust".
If the previous period of search is the presentation of secular life, this period of search is the baptism of spiritual journey.
The suspense has been "hanging" and satisfying the reader's appetite, and my brother has been unwilling to say the reason for "disappearing and leaving home", but under my persuasion, he agreed to go home to see, and then still converted to Buddhism.
"But man is not as good as heaven." Just as my brother was about to leave home, his mother broke his ankle, and his brother accompanied his mother in the hospital for a month. A month later, my mother was discharged from the hospital, and my brother suddenly decided to return to the world. He went to work in a machine repair factory and gradually became the backbone. Married a girl with 8 million yuan worth of stock, gave birth to a son, lived in a villa, and drove a luxury car. People in the know lament that the old three have gone lucky, slept and woke up, worked, married and had children, and are better than those of us.
Indeed, it is really a luck.
"Old Third" because of what monasticism? What was it that touched you in the hospital before you decided to come back? The author leaves the reader with a great space for thinking and imagining.
The novel is cleverly structured, the narrative is skillful, the language is tense, the emotions are restrained, the "suspense" is not solved until the end, the mystery is not solved, and the whole passage is filled with a kind of vast mood. This is the most commendable place.
The title, the beginning, the end, are all beautiful.
"Searching" is one of the eternal motifs in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign literary works, and it is a kind of "self-examination". This "I" search for my brother is the author's own inquiry into the consciousness and value of life.
Time was white, and another decade passed quickly, "ten years, once the sea drifted to zero; ten years, just looking back." ”
How many decades will there be in life?
The younger brother said: "I just feel that at some point in my life, I wanted to live such a life, and then I went, and there was no particularly complicated reason." Really, brother, you believe me, everything was the best arrangement. ”
I read White Time
Sheng Hui
The narrative is light and flexible, and there is a sense of intimacy. The text described in the novel is vivid and textured, such as: "I still remember the sunshine of that day, shining straight up, as if it were going to rush down from the patio and bake the wet ground into pancakes." "I have never seen such a vibrant autumn, like a golden robe draped over a thousand-year-old temple, quiet and abundant." Relatively speaking, the text of the narrative is slightly rough, too colloquial, and not concise enough. Novelists are good at leaving blanks, and the brother's monasticism and vulgarity are not pointed out, giving the work room for aftertaste.
Everyone has a dream of crossing
Jiang Zuoqiu
I finished reading the title novel "White Time" in the 9th issue of Foshan Literature and Art in 2012. The reason why it is a breath of air is because the strong reading interest is like buying a new car, and the strong sense of pushing back prompts the reader to have to follow the pace of reading and keep moving forward, reluctant to stop. A good novel is like this, he immediately grasps the softest part of the reader's heart, so that people dare not break free, and you can't break free. Sometimes his eyes were full of tears, sometimes he couldn't help but be funny. Let me share with you this reading experience from three latitudes.
First, the theme of the novel is precise and intriguing. The second is that the outline of the details makes people endlessly memorable, and the third is that the clever layout of the plot is amazing.
First of all, let's talk about the theme "White Time", at first glance, we will think that this is like an essay. However, when we finish reading the novel in one breath, we will find that in fact, the novel is written about the third brother's dream of crossing. He avoided the most confused, the most confused, the most helpless, the most impetuous decade in his life. Alone, it shields or erases the invasion of the social dyeing vat that a young man who has just entered society must experience. Who doesn't want to realize this desire to keep the original intention for ten years, or to stick to the original intention for ten years? But who can do it? Then he reaped love at the age of thirty. Even start a family and become famous. Reading this, even the reader's heart has an inexplicable longing - if the dream of the third brother becomes my dream, how good it would be! Because every reader has a dream of crossing in his heart. Through the difficulties, through the darkness, through all the difficulties and obstacles, without leaving any traces of suffering, straight to the other side of happiness. It is a decade without any joys, sorrows, and painful memories, like a white piece of paper, and the blueprint for the future is left to be drawn by one's own hands. That's nice! This is where the novel's use of White Time is intriguing.
Proposition is the first step in the creation of a novel. It is to set the tone for the novel, so what is the tone for the novel? My experience is emotion. In essence, the novel is an emotional thing, the original driving force for the creation of the novel comes from the emotion, the beauty of the emotion is the core of the beauty of the novel, we measure whether a novel is moving and perfect, an important criterion is to see whether the emotions contained in the novel are sincere and deep and full, if the emotion of a novel is false, superficial, pale, it is difficult to resonate with the reader. Therefore, the author's one-person approach makes the story text intimate and natural, and its credibility and sensational index are greatly improved, and half of the good text is this truth.
The outline of the brush stroke is the beauty of the details of this novel. For example, in the first section, lin life in the coffee shop, the character's demeanor and actions, as well as language and psychological activities, are described. There is also the coffee foam from thick to light, these film montages of the expression of the method give the reader a sense of film presence. Then there are the details of the knowledge reserve of regional humanities, such as the architectural layout and style landscape of Hangzhou Lingyin Temple and Chengdu Longtan Temple, etc., which are like a number of treasures. Give the reader a sense of immersion. Finally, the expression and language description of the third brother after becoming a monk are very good. A monk who has been doing it for a year and a monk who has been doing it for ten years have different facial expressions. From subtle changes it is difficult to guess the emotional changes in his heart. Therefore, the author's achievements in this regard are very deep, and there are almost no flaws. So where do these details come from? These details come from ordinary observations, listening, memories and imaginations. This requires always maintaining a childlike curiosity. Turn ordinary unconscious observation and listening into purposeful and conscious collection. Because the details are the carrier of the soul of the small novel, the ordinary materialized finesse are not enough, and the details must be spiritualized, because there is no quantitative standard for spiritualization. There is also the fact that the language of ridicule and the self-deprecating curse language are very much in line with the characteristics of the characters. Obviously, "White Time" did a good job in this regard.
Finally, it is commendable that the plot layout of this novel is planned. The first sentence of the novel throws out a baggage, and the words birthday and disappearance immediately hit the reader's heartstrings. Then a series of interlocking unfolds, and many seemingly casual depictions of scenes, as well as objects in the home, the appearance of characters, and looming interludes, are all for the purpose of the theme. For example, why did the appearance of the successful couple in the village, Ah Hua, not appear early and not appear late, but it was ten years later in 2006? This is related to China's computer to the countryside policy at that time. Whether it is Fujian in Guangdong in the coastal area, or Anhui, Hubei and Sichuan in the inland, there are many flexible peasant dolls who have made a fortune in Shenzhen Huaqiang North doing computer consumables, even if some junior high school students who only know how much 1T is equal to how much M are doing well. Besides, the third brother is still a secondary school graduate? Therefore, the author arranged for the couple to appear in a luxury car, which also made the plot more heartfelt. At the same time, it shows that the author's knowledge reserve is very rich.
There are also those clever layouts, the time-space nodes where the characters appear, and so on. In fact, it is all under the control of the author. In order to achieve the ingenious effect of the novel, the author can adjust the order at any time, call it, and do whatever he wants. There is no doubt that "White Time" achieved the author's desired goal.
Innocent and pure character image
Qin Taixiang
"White Time" is like a mirror, shining everything in the world. I read the novel as if I were peeking into the life of the protagonist's family. Plus I've always believed that fiction is the mirror of life, and this mirror can be a microscope, a dressing mirror, a makeup mirror, or even a distorted shape. It can enlarge or reduce some fragments or plots of life, perspective or refraction. It can reflect only a very subtle point in social life, and it can also reflect our entire social life. Through this mirror we discern good from evil, true from false, beautiful from ugly. The real novel, not just a word game, should not be those political slogans, he should record some subtle touches in our lives, some painful fragments, some falling trajectories, some fatalistic reincarnations... These things can only be reflected through the mirror of the novel, awakening the return of morality and humanity in this society, awakening the truth, goodness, and beauty that are sleeping in our bodies, and telling people what to do and what not to do, which is the real creative purpose that the novelist wants to achieve.
"White Time" takes the protagonist's younger brother (the third oldest) disappearing after working in other places, "I" and "parents" are very worried, "I" began the arduous search road as the starting point to enter the theme, describing the experience of three searches and the words and deeds, thoughts and deeds of different classes of characters.
"White Time" is exquisitely conceived, seemingly tail to tail, but its storyline is layered, the undercurrent is surging and the social universe is fully integrated into the novel. Such as the emotional reactions of "I" and "parents" after the disappearance of my brother, the attitude of the police at the police station, the quality of my brother's master, the thoughts of my younger brother's girlfriend... wait.
At the end of the novel, Li Yingchun maximized the connotation of "family affection is greater than heaven", thus pushing the storyline of the novel to a climax. The "mother" went to collect rat koji grass and prepared to make it for the third elder to take to Chengdu to eat. Unexpectedly, when I came back, my mother stepped on the field stem with one foot, and even people rolled down the grass from the field and fell heavily on the ground. After examination, it was found that the left ankle was broken and needed to be in the hospital for a month before returning home to recuperate. The third elder, who disrupted the itinerary, decided to stay and take care of his mother after thinking about it, and the third elder and his mother stayed in the hospital to rely on each other and complained to each other. When his mother was discharged from the hospital, the third elder suddenly told his family that he had decided to return home.
"White Time" does not explain the reason why the third elder is out of the house, because "I" asked the third elder, he did not say, and also took the parents not to ask as a condition for going home to visit their parents. This gives the reader a space for imagination, is it because the master scolded him? Is it because Lin Lifang doesn't love him? Or is it for some other reason? The 1990s were the worst years of social climate in China. On the grounds that the third elder is reluctant to mention it, the author has thrown his monastic obsession to the reader to guess and think, and has pinched the literary creation techniques and the re-creation space of literary appreciators just right.
"White Time" is exquisitely conceived, in that when he conceived, the two lines of light and dark advanced, the bright line is the emotional behavior of "parents" and "I" after the disappearance of "old three", and the whole article records what "I" saw and heard when I found my "brother". The dark line is the "old third" Why did you become a monk? And in this way to attract readers and arouse readers' associations. The two lines of light and shade create a rich imagination space for the novel appreciator, and this imaginative space created for the reader is called the re-creation space in the process of literary appreciation. Different readers' lives, different experiences, and different classes will produce different images. The novel draws on why his brother disappeared and why he became a monk, causing the reader to meditate and meditate. Readers can imagine many reasons around "why my brother disappeared, why my brother became a monk".
The younger brother in "White Time" is ostensibly an escapist, red dust into the empty door, no sense of social responsibility, but in the social life at that time, a pure and pure young man, in the face of the master's vulgar insults, in the face of the fact that there are not many mechanical tasks, few opportunities to learn, in the face of the pain of wanting to love but not being able to love because of the hardships of life, and "holding up the electric baton and waving at me, it seems that I am a criminal" "Now I have to find more people every day, I know so much, the police station is not a shelter." The police, and "don't look for it again, it's very chaotic now, eighty or ninety percent is more fierce than ji ji" era, what can you do? If we want to maintain "innocence and purity", we can only escape from reality, escape into the empty door, seek the six roots of purity, and realize the cycle of pure nature and purity. In "White Time", Li Yingchun presents the reader with a younger brother who has experienced hardships but retained his "innocence and purity".
Read White Time
Yamin
Nowadays, there seems to be a new trend in writing, advocating the mutual integration of styles, for example, the writing of prose should be novelized, and novels should not be written too much like novels.
In fact, for the novel to write not too much like a novel, it is the same old tune to mention. Shen Congwen, Xiao Hong, Sun Li, Zeng Wangqi, etc., are outstanding representatives in this regard. Their novels, distinctly prose cultured, were poetic.
Old tunes are revisited, new trends are also, and the writing of novels eventually has its own laws, that is, the connotation of emphasizing language, characters, and themes, and laying out the plot.
A novel is the key to being able to read it, first and foremost its language, so the importance of the language of the novel need not be said.
Undoubtedly, the language of "White Time" is readable, and there is an impulse to read it. This is due to the author's use of prose culture language, in addition to telling the story, there is no lack of detailed depictions of things, reading intimately, naturally, giving people the feeling that what is told here is not a fictional story, but a real thing.
The soul of a novel is the character, and if a novel leaves the character to tell a story, then it cannot be a good novel. Some novels may have weakened man to an extremely weak degree, or transformed into something else (as in fairy tales or some absurd novels), but there is no doubt that its protagonist must be a character, or a substitute with personality characteristics. Perhaps, the weight of the characters in the work has been adjusted, but the whole plot still needs him to connect and promote the completion.
The novel "White Time" mainly portrays two characters. One is the eldest brother, the narrator in the text, who connects the entire novel by writing about his experience of finding his younger brother and the third elder. The shaping of the character of the eldest brother is undoubtedly relatively successful, and the image of a filial piety and a brother who is serious about righteousness is written in a considerable and sensible way. The other is the third elder, the soul of the novel, who presents the theme of the novel by writing about his fate changes. For the character of the third elder, most of the author's pen and ink is used in the side description, through the mouths of the third elderly countrymen, co-workers, female classmates, Buddhist friends and other people to show his personality. Only in the last part is there a positive description. For the soul character of lao san, using this technique to portray him, personally feels that it is a double sword: the readability of the novel is stronger, but the character image is weaker.
If a novel does not pay attention to layout and planning, its readability will inevitably be weakened. This is especially evident in the writing of short stories. Because it is short and short, the space left for shaping the characters is relatively limited, so careful layout and planning has become a necessary and effective method.
Although the layout of "White Time" is not complicated, it is also quite clever, with the disappearance of the third elder, the renunciation, and the customs of three parts. In this layout, although the structure of the novel is simpler, the readability is strengthened, which will make the reader can't help but follow the big brother in the novel and look for the traces of the "old third". The theme of the novel is also more fully reflected because of this layout.
What is the theme of the novel "White Time", my personal interpretation is that it is written that a young man who was originally far away from the world and pursued a spiritual life, eventually surrendered to the worldly life because of the needs of reality, and returned to the world.
To tell the truth, I personally don't like this novel's arrangement and such a theme, and I am more inclined to "old third" sticking to his heart from then on to the end, still pursuing his own life.
Therefore, in terms of plot design, I prefer this arrangement: after the mother of the "third elder" was injured, he took care of his mother until she was well, and he still resolutely returned to his temple life.
Source: Foshan Literature and Art
Editor: Wang Danshi Review: Li Guohua Producer: Guo Xiaohong