Li Haisheng tells folk stories with the "taste of big ballast"

Xiao Shenyang Spring Festival Gala sketch "Not Bad Money" made the northeast cavity a fire, on August 20, the Shanghai Book Fair, a "Northeast Folk Tales" full of "big ballast flavor", once again brought out the northeast cavity, and it was brought out in front of the cultural people.

The author of this book is Li Haisheng, the deputy principal of Helen No. 1 Middle School. Graduated from the Department of Keshan Teachers'Chinese college in 1981, Li Haisheng loves to write, and has been publishing literary works since 1984, and is a member of the Heilongjiang Writers Association and the Heilongjiang Poetry Association. He is the author of the novel "Weeping Blood in the Shadows", the essay collection "Chen Sesame Rotten Grain", the folklore research monograph "Grass Mang Culture", the poetry collection "Lao Hai Poetry Grass", and the essay collection "Small Words and Great Righteousness".

"Northeast Folk Tales" published by Heilongjiang Education Publishing House in August this year is a set of folk literature collected and sorted out by Li Haisheng in four years, which attracted the attention of readers as soon as it was published, and after participating in the Shanghai Book Fair, it became the "guest of honor" of the 23rd Beijing Book Fair held on August 25. On September 12, the reporter met Li Haisheng, who used the "big ballast flavor" to tell the reporter about the origin of the book.

"Salvage" folklore

In the past, there were countless old people who could tell folk tales in various villages in the northeast, commonly known as "blind talk baskets". As long as time permits, whether it is a farmer's idle cat in winter or a rainy day at night, these "blind talk baskets" are not limited to the place of the occasion, a squat on the ground, a sitting on the kangtou, a roll of toad heads (a kind of Kanto tobacco), a small melon seed, a large bowl of tea, and the conversation box is opened. Especially in the winter night, when picking hemp poles, rubbing bud rice, and wrapping bean buns, it is the time when folk stories are told the most. Nala's homely folk tales, carrying folk sayings, what the south is facing the north, the east and the west sea...

From the gods and ghosts to the local legends, the speakers quote the scriptures, the listeners are full of interest, in this leisurely and peaceful atmosphere, a strange legend, ancient stories, flowing out of the mouth of the "blind talk basket", this simple way of entertainment, to the monotonous rural life to add a lot of beautiful colors.

"Blind talk" With the demise of those who can speak "blind talk", even the current children in the northeast do not know what "blind talk" is, those folk tales with frankincense and filled with happy memories have gradually drifted away and slowly dusted, and the northern agricultural civilization represented by the northeast folk tales has been passed down from generation to generation, how can it be buried in the hands of our generation? Li Haisheng is determined to "salvage" folk customs and let "nonsense" reappear in the jianghu. So in 2009, Li Haisheng spent his spare time walking the villages and collecting folk tales.

Painstaking collection

In the past 4 years, how many villages and villages have been visited, how many elderly people have been visited, Li Haisheng said, he himself can not remember, the case stacked up more than a foot high interview manuscript, is his running testimony.

Once listened to an old man in his 80s talk about "blind words", originally sleepy eyes and drowsy age, can talk about "blind words", the old man seems to return to the young age, full of spirit. Those fading dialects are also revived in the narration of one old man after another, so Li Haisheng suddenly thought, why not use the northeast dialect to tell northeast folk tales?

So his interview has one more requirement, that is, the narrator should re-listen to the "nonsense" he sorted out, to see if it is still that taste.

Li Haisheng, who carried a small book to the village to find "blind talk", became famous, and more and more people came to the door to send "blind talk".

An old man from outside the city entrusted someone to send "blind words", Li Haisheng packed up and sent back more than a dozen articles, the old man called to say that he was crying and read it, and said to Li Haisheng: "You have done a good thing that is responsible for history!" ”

It was the third day of the first lunar month in 2012, it was the time of the lively and lively New Year in the northeast, there was a "blind talk basket" called Jiang Mingshan, who lived in Yonghe Township Lixiang Village, was 72 years old, suffering from Parkinson's disease, heard that Li Haisheng was collecting "blind words", he asked his grandson to give him a letter to meet, Li Haisheng drove more than 50 kilometers to his home, the old man saw Li Haisheng like seeing his relatives, talked about Tianming, even told 31 stories, and gave Li Haisheng the manuscript "Whistle" that he had treasured decades ago. The book with the temperature of the old man's life, Li Haisheng has been placed on the top of the bookshelf, Li Haisheng said that it is no longer a simple gift, but also a northeast old man's hope for himself.

"Nonsense" reappears

How do words come about? Why is the monkey's ass red? Why doesn't the old cow have upper teeth? Why is there no land grandmother in the land temple?

Those question marks that have been hovering for thousands of years have simple answers in Northeast Folk Tales.

Human civilization is accompanied by the exploration of the unknown world, many of the unsolved mysteries of the past, now have "not a thing", and at that time, people can only put their own speculations into the "blind talk", so a "blind talk" is an oral history of national civilization.

"Northeast Folk Tales" is divided into two volumes, consisting of 251 folk tales. The first volume is composed of two parts: "Legend Origin" and "Ghost Fox God Monster", and the second volume is composed of three parts: "Punishing Evil and Promoting Good", "Story Joke", and "Wisdom and Philosophy".

After the book was published, it immediately aroused a strong response from readers. Ding Guanghui, a professor at the College of Literature of Harbin Normal University, said that this book uses wisdom and surreal expression methods to persuade people to be upward and good, and is a continuation of the positive energy of the old northeasterners. "Guangzhou Daily", "Tianjin Daily" and other media respectively made long reports on the titles of "The Story of Chen Sesame Rotten Millet with the Taste of Big Ballast" and "A Set of Northeast Folk Tales Full of The Taste of Big Ballast", saying that "Northeast Folk Tales" is a cultural treasure that has been circulated in the folk.