Read Zhou Xianghua's essay collection "The Palm Lamp of the Heart": Emotional Composition

Tianjin Daily reporter Li Zhibang I like to read Zhou Xianghua's prose, her writing is different from others, there are Xiang girls' spicy heat, there are also Tianjin water to draw. Zhou Xianghua was fortunate to come to Tianjin from Hunan, where literature is deep: a treasure of feng shui with a rich cultural heritage. Reading her newly published collection of essays, "The Palm Of the Heart", I feel that wen is like a person, she is full of affection for her parents, sisters, relatives and friends, and has a feeling and affection that cannot be torn apart.

Zhou Xianghua's prose language is very beautiful, and three words and two words can create an intriguing mood. Moreover, it is Zhou Xianghua who can describe a simple and unpretentious emotional world in the scenery, such as her "Nostalgia and Assertion of Qingming", "I Also Have the Most Hesitant Door", "I Love My Father", "Zhou Family Has a Daughter Who First Grows Up", which can reflect many life principles and rich emotional worlds from the context of missing parents. Now that people have a wider field of vision in reading prose, many people have begun to like Liang Shiqiu's prose, and his articles write about how people should live, and the feeling of living is that they must be real. Zhou Xianghua's prose inherits this point, using a straight-forward style. Speaking of which, prose is by no means different from fiction, nor is it so episodic and storytelling; naturally it is also different from poetry, less exaggerated and prosody, and not vertical and horizontal to the call to society. There are many essays describing missing her parents, and the phenomenon of convergence is also very heavy, but reading Zhou Xianghua's articles on missing her parents has a unique feeling, which can fully express the love and affection in her bones, and there is no superfluous text to deliberately beautify. I seem to see Zhou Xianghua truly recording her own state of mind and telling her truest inner feelings.

The writers who like to write prose are all people with emotions, and I think that Zhou Xianghua, who has known me for more than twenty years, is such a typical person. She sensed so many beautiful things in the noisy life, those beautiful moods and moments in life, she recorded them with vivid and perceptible words, and the people she cared about most were the people she cared about, in addition to her parents, as well as her husbands, children, teachers, close friends, sisters, girlfriends, she all started from love words, not powdered, not covered, not exaggerated, and all exuded the kind of love and affection that can travel through time and space. Truth is the mother or nature of prose, and Zhou Xianghua has done it. In "Black Coffee Purple Coffee", I can read her love and love of life and time. In "Dancer Red Ling", you can feel her unique understanding of life, fate, friendship and the broad mind of a woman. Of course, she knows better how to find the fulcrum of prose. Zhou Xianghua has a superhuman acumen, may be the reason for her long-term work in journalism, in the vast ocean of prose art, she can quickly find the most precious and valuable fulcrum of the entry point of the article with extraordinary spirituality and understanding. Therefore, reading Zhou Xianghua's prose collection, you will feel a fresh and wise air rushing in, it seems that you can look back at the colorful picture of Zhou Xianghua's life footprints, you can hear the moving songs she sang in prose, and even the water of the Haihe River babbling on the side.

I know very well that this collection of essays is also the result of Zhou Xianghua's years of hard work, but whenever she slacks off, readers will not see this rich prose work. After reading this work, readers will like her introverted and blunt, affectionate and stubborn, gentle and resolute. She expressed her chest in prose, and the feeling of being an upright person filled the paper. In fact, Zhou Xianghua could completely give up something. She is a journalist, and the busy and heavy work of the past few years has caused her health debts, which may marginalize her inner poetry, and all these years, she has been motivating herself and whipping herself. Carefully reading her new book "The Palm Lamp of the Heart", you can see Zhou Xianghua's distinct artistic personality. She is a person who is not limited to form, sincere and straightforward, knowledgeable and thoughtful. In this collection, Zhou Xianghua is involved in many fields, and she can perceive her decades of study and thinking.

I advocate that prose should not whitewash one's own life. Prose should be the same as the author's life. Zhou Xianghua's prose does not deliberately whitewash life, nor does it hide his true feelings in his heart, nor does he wear a false mask and moan without illness. When I read her prose, I can feel her sincerity deeply, her directness. I hate to play with my life to make hypocritical articles, which is better than the sky, which is the key to writing good prose. Some people say that prose is just a pen to entertain when you are idle, and I hate this argument, writing prose must be serious, you can't tamper with your truth, and deliberately try to cater to something or vent something. If the prose deceives the reader, it is your personality that deceives the reader. I like Zhou Xianghua's prose, it is she who does not deceive the reader, she infects the reader with her objective and realistic personality. I often see some writers whose prose is exaggerating something, or writing something like a novel, or using prose to inflate their own value, which is disgusting. Reading Zhou Xianghua's prose can deeply feel the joy and sorrow in her life, her gratitude and entanglement, see her dare to face all the mediocrity and triviality of herself objectively, and also see her understanding of the ultimate meaning of life from the words. The person who writes prose must be a person who is diligent in introspection and good at thinking, and Zhou Xianghua has also done this.

I have always thought that Zhou Xianghua is a material for writing prose. I have been associated with her for more than twenty years, and I have been deeply impressed by her erudition and spirituality, her gravity and directness, and her simplicity and perseverance. Prose is a luxurious textbook that always has to be enlightening. Prose is really not so easy to write, Zhou Xianghua may be too fond of prose, so I can imagine that when she writes prose, she always thinks that she should wash her hands and meditate first, and put on a classical music to create an atmosphere. I once said to Zhou Xianghua that writing prose is also a way to enhance you and edify you, and if you are impetuous and complicated, you cannot write good prose.

(Zhou Xianghua's collection of essays, "The Palm Lamp of the Heart", has recently been published by the China Federation of Industry and Commerce Publishing House)