Chi Zijian: All wings are eager to fly

"I can't forget this bird, check the relevant information, know that it is the Eastern White Stork, so it is natural to pull it into the picture frame in "The Bravery of Migratory Birds"..." Before reading Chi Zijian's new work "The Bravery of Migratory Birds", I was attracted by her afterword and wondered what kind of book it would be. Chi Zijian said that one evening before the death of his lover, one evening they went for a walk on the riverbank, and suddenly out of the thick grass on the riverbank, a large bird that had never been seen before flew out, with white body and black wings, thin legs, and bright feet. The lover said that it must be the legendary crane, but why did it come from, why did it form a single shadow, why did it ambush the place they passed, rise up from the ground, and fly to the west? After the death of her lover, she told her mother about the bird, and her mother said that she had lived here for most of her life and had never seen it. After the bird appeared, she lost her lover, which showed that it was not an auspicious bird. But in Chi Zijian's eyes, its direction is so brilliant, it is not unlucky, who is not going to the sunset in the end, the length of time is only short.

In this novel, Chi Zijian uses the migration of migratory birds as the background to tell the dust and smoke clouds in a small town in the northeast, writing about the loneliness of the northeast and the vitality of the northeast. She touched on the deep-rooted social problems in the northeast, such as the myth of human society and system, and hid the "sentient" behind the severe social reality of the northeast, the red dust of Master Dexiu, the honest and thick zhang black face, their feelings of embracing each other because of loneliness and kindness, these personnel, love affairs, and hearts were integrated into the wilderness of the northeast mang forest, converging into the writing power of Chi Zijian. Wang Chunlin, a professor at Shanxi University, believes that Chi Zijian's writings about Zhang Blackface and Master Dexiu, about the pair of Oriental White Storks, and even her book itself can be seen as an artistic writing of some kind of spiritual complex that dives deep into the writer's heart.

A few days ago, the "Chi Zijian New Book "The Bravery of Migratory Birds" reading premiere meeting planned by the People's Literature Publishing House and the Basil Theater was held in Beijing, presenting the new book for the first time in the form of recitation and dialogue, using sound to show the beauty of Chi Zijian's words, and using reading to share the texture of literature. Chi Zijian's "Lantern Riddles" from all over the country relayed a new book fragment of "The Bravery of Migratory Birds", and Alai read the end of "The Bravery of Migratory Birds" in Sichuan dialect. Chi Zijian said that at the beginning of listening to Ah Lai's recitation, I wanted to laugh, "but after the recitation entered the situation, after entering the novel, I was moved, and the affirmation of a good writer for a peer work made my heart particularly warm."

Ah Lai mentions the richness of the structure of Chi Zijian's novel, and the layers "symphony". He said, "In China, many writers only pay attention to the relationship between people and rarely pay attention to the relationship between nature and people, and Chi Zijian's novel starts from nature, using the life form of the white stork to form a kind of soul revelation and redemption for the main characters of the novel, and nature and man form a relationship of mutual contrast, mutual contrast, and finally mutual improvement."

"When I wrote 'The Bravery of Migratory Birds', I was in a very free, very enjoyable, and very unbearable state of coming out of it, and I hope that future works will remain in this state." Chi Zijian said that at that time, the house she lived in was facing the Qunli Bund Park in Harbin New District, and she could see various birds such as magpies and sparrows, so she dealt with migratory birds in the works during the day, and when she saw this kind of bird when she walked at dusk, she felt that the whole life was in the context of "The Bravery of Migratory Birds". "Sometimes when I write it, I feel like I'm not living alone, and I may feel the back of a black face the moment I put down my glass to the kitchen; when I step out of this threshold to take out the garbage, I may feel that Master Dexiu is like I wrote in detail - she took a semi-wet towel to wipe the threshold... These people and I developed a communion, right in every corner of the room. Chi Zijian hopes that "The Bravery of Migratory Birds" is a prelude to the next work.

The atmosphere at the recitation meeting was warm, and many people came, some standing, some sitting on the futon, Chi Zijian said: "You are especially like the "Bravery of Migratory Birds" I wrote about meditating in the Niangniang Temple, which is especially in line with the atmosphere of the novel. After the event, in the "Riddle" group on the Internet, readers continued to read the novel, some of whom were old readers who accompanied Chi Zijian for more than 20 years. Chi Zijian said, "You are a warm fire in the extremely cold land, shining me to continue my trek in the extremely cold place." (Reporter of this newspaper, But Yongmei)

China Education News, June 4, 2018, 12th edition