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In the latest work of the well-known female writer Xiao He (He Yinghong), "Rebirth 2019", I first saw the striking afterword written for her by Dennis Fryer, a professor at oxford university in the United Kingdom: "I seem to see a beautiful lotus flower, blooming in the lotus pond in summer. She came out of the mud without staining, insisting on her dreams and pursuits. She has always believed in true love, believed in more beauty and wonderfulness in this world... Our human emotions are the seeds that are sown, and every time they grow, they are born again. ”
Therefore, I remembered the famous poem of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli: "The little lotus shows its sharp horns, and there are dragonflies standing on the head." This beautiful scenery that is suitable for movement and stillness seems to be a true portrayal of the writer's little heart.
Rebirth 2019 is her tenth novel and another of her hospital-themed works.
The novel takes the emotional entanglement between Wang Qi, director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the First People's Hospital of Chunjiang City, and Yin Liaoluo, a female writer, as the main line, and tells a group of "patients" in the urban development of today's society.
They may be relatives around them, such as Yin Luoluo's mother Luo Yazhi, who is seriously ill, Yin Luoluo's biological father, An Mutian, president of the First People's Hospital of Chunjiang City, and Wang Qi's fiancée Ou Wenli...
This group of "patients" looks bright and beautiful, and they are all successful people from all walks of life. However, in the contest of desire and emotion, the original simplicity and beauty have been lost again and again, and in the intertwined movement of physical and spiritual pain, some people have left forever, and some people have gradually gained rebirth.
The novel tries to show the complexity and contradictions of human nature in multiple aspects and multiple perspectives, and to show the value and beauty of human beings in the material world. The hospital is the big stage of life, many people, many stories are staged in turn, and the doctor will also walk off the altar and restore his original true self... Perhaps, on the brink of those painful rebirths, we can find the source of true happiness. The "patient" will eventually come out of all the haze and usher in a new life of destiny.
I remember Xiao He said: Doctors dissect people's bodies, and writers dissect people's souls. For so many years, she has been trying to use a scalpel-like pen to dissect the inner struggles and rhythms, dreams and desires of various people. To this day's "patients", she tries to find the root cause of the disease in them and uses a scalpel to cut the tumor. It was as if she saw fresh blood gushing and flowing, and saw the garden under the light of life, blooming freely before dawn.
The author, Xiao He, sometimes constructs her dream palace in the text, and sometimes comes to the fore in various gatherings. She is versatile, and when she recites, her words are round, and her violin is flowing with water, and her intestines are full of breath, which makes people think of it. In her smile, you can capture the strange beauty and sadness that belongs only to her.
Xiao He is a writer, a doctor, and a dreamer.