Original Wang Yefei
The authors speak at the seminar.
Report on the experience of reading "Full Moon Kunlun".
First, this is a warm book that carries the author's deep emotions and makes people empathize.
Reading this "Full Moon Kunlun" for me is listening to a story full of wisdom and emotion, and the author's experience, vision, and knowledge have risen in the book, giving people a great impact and understanding. To be honest, the book was read bitterly, and many times I closed my eyes and was moved by the scenes or words in the book. For example, the opening "Qingming Remembers Father" and "Mid-Autumn Festival Remembers Mother", the emotions are sincere, the words are simple, and people are moving. When his father was seriously ill, the author encountered a severe test of loyalty and filial piety: "The father in the terminal stage of cancer could not walk, and his brother helped him to lean against the door frame to send him, only the tears could not be stopped. The author was afraid that he would not be able to open his legs, so he leaned over and prostrated his father three times, did not dare to look at his father more, and choked out of the house with tears in his eyes. More than half a month later, my father was gone. I have not been able to see the last side of my mother, and this time I have not been able to see the last side of my father because of emergency war preparations, but the author believes that the parents who know in heaven must understand that when they are dying, the author cannot keep the spirit worship and wear the ma dai filial piety, and defending in Xinjiang is another way of filial piety, and it contains the great filial piety of loyalty to the country. And the mother's words in the difficult times, "As long as the baby eats the commodity grain, the mother can close her eyes when she dies", reflects the blood-dripping feelings of the parents for their children, which makes people cry.
I can't help but think of my father, who on his deathbed and failed to fulfill his filial piety because his work was far away from home. For several years, some of the warriors around us have encountered similar situations, and those scenes that are difficult to say and mentally convulsive when we think of it are our eternal pain on the Great Festival of Loyalty and Filial Piety. Maybe this is the connotation of the word soldier. So I think it's a book that people look back at and empathize with.
Any history is the sum of all personal histories, and the so-called trickles converge into rivers and seas, and they are incomparably vivid and real.
"Full Moon Kunlun" carries a number of memories of the past years, even if it is commentary, miscellaneous feelings, there are also many military life accounts, so that the book has the nature of a memoir. The author's more than 50 years of military career, the best years have been dedicated to the army, and the emotions for our army have melted into the blood and become an integral part of life.
This "Full Moon Kunlun" writes about the love for the mountains and rivers stationed at shubian, the sincere feelings of comrades-in-arms, division commanders, relatives and friends around him, and a kind of familiar kindness, such as "Unforgettable First August Festival", "Moon Full Kunlun", "Xiao Jinguang's "Eighty-Five Lyrics" After Reading", "Chu Deng Jiayuguan", etc., as well as the sixth series of "Miscellaneous Sketches", which are full of fragments of the author's military life.
Therefore, for "Full Moon Kunlun", I first read it as a historical account of military service, and then as literature. The military life of our generation is rich and colorful, but also full of ups and downs, at least worthy of a few words: climbing and fighting, defending the country, life and death, fighting in blood, sleeping at night, this process is composed of fragments of China's contemporary history and military history, and can also be regarded as an index of big history.
In addition to the remembrance of his relatives, the author's nostalgia for the past military life and comrade-in-arms, and the remembrance of Mr. Feng Qiyong, Ji Xianlin, Wang Yao, Wang Luobin, etc., are all infiltrated with the author's deep feelings for knowledge, friendship, land, and the nation, and he uses words to evoke my self-memory in reading, and sometimes even touches the tear glands. Reading these essays, I also seemed to have experienced with him a new worship of my parents, admiration for knowledge, and re-breathed a long and fresh breath of military life.
British writer George. Orwell famously said that whoever controls the past controls the future. At first it was not fully understood, but then it gradually became conscious, because the interpretation and application of history actually determined the future of the country or individual. Perhaps this is the reason why the recent national leaders have repeatedly called on the whole society to review the history of the party, the country, and the history of reform and opening up.
So I think that "Full Moon Kunlun" is also a warm book that can be read as history.
Second, it's a book of thought and depth.
The reason why I read this book bitterly is because I read my own emotional experience from it, and second, this book is more difficult to chew, and there are many articles that are beyond the scope of my knowledge and do not understand. For example, the second series of "Taking the Wise as the Strategy", the third series of "A Glimpse of Vientiane" and the fourth series of "Books and Volumes", the author recalls Mr. Ji Xianlin's "Philosophers Return to the Great Night, Passed on through the Ages", recalls Mr. Sun Guozhang's "The Invisible Man Behind the Xianxue", and recalls Mr. Wang Yao's "A Grandmaster of Ancient Tibetan Studies", as well as comments on calligraphy, painting and literature. To put it bluntly, I either know nothing about Tibetan studies, Buddhist statues, sculptures, calligraphy and painting, or I don't know anything about it, so it's really difficult to read. Many of these works belong to the category of papers, and it is difficult to penetrate without corresponding professional knowledge, such as the author's views on Dazu stone carvings, "Yongle Golden Bronze Buddha Statue and Sino-Tibetan Culture Fusion", "The Origin of Witch Culture and the Management of Innovation", etc., have read but do not understand, or seem to understand non-understanding, shallow taste and stop. I think these essays have academic value, is it appropriate to include them in the same book? Should another dedicated series be considered?
Writing these articles requires knowledge accumulation and professional study, and the scholarly style and the spirit of the researcher embodied in the author's book are admirable, and they also arouse a memory of my past. Around 1999, the Military Region held a symposium on literary and artistic creation, which was nothing more than to gather together the leaders and creators of the military region's professional literary and artistic teams, including amateur creators of some units, to emphasize the direction of creation, repeat the call of the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum, encourage everyone to go deep into life, write about the development and changes of the military region, and good people and good deeds. Such meetings are usually held once every two or three years, and the highest head of attendance is generally the deputy director of the political department. However, suddenly the Political Department informed that Director Qu of the Political Department would attend. That's tension. As is customary, the chiefs' meeting will have a speech at the meeting, giving instructions to the meeting, and the draft speech will be drafted and prepared in advance by the business department, that is, the propaganda department. At that time, I was the deputy director of the Propaganda Department, wrote the outline and handed it to the minister, the minister revised it and handed it to Director Qu, and was returned twice, and when I returned the second time, the chief approved a few words: The thinking can be expanded a little. What to do? So they gathered all the pens in the literary and artistic aspects of the military region that they could think of, such as Liu Jianwei, who later won the Mao Dun Literature Award, Yang Jingmin, who had written speeches for the chief many times, and Jian Jia, who won the National Short Story Award, to discuss and study together, and finally came up with a manuscript of about 5,000 words. This time there was no return, and everyone was relieved. Unexpectedly, the next day when the chief spoke, he took out our manuscript and said that it was well written, with heart, thank you for your efforts, but last night I stayed in the guest house for one night, I wrote my own manuscript, I want to talk according to my own thinking. This speech can be said to be refreshing, the chief from the attributes of literature and art, talking about the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and then to ancient Chinese war literature, contemporary military literature and art, broad thinking, solid arguments, words full of passion and encouragement, the creators attending the meeting seem to have really taken a lesson in the direction of literary and artistic creation, I have been in the North Campus for 20 years, I have never heard any chief talk about literature and art so easily, and it is felt. At that time, some people quietly said that this was not the director of the political department, but a literary and art critic, a bit like Zhou Yang.
Sure enough, a few years later, the chief of the year became a literary critic and writer. If I say that I have foreseen that I have been self-elevated, but I say that I am not surprised to read these works of the chief, but it is appropriate, the author hid his literary and historical talents behind the busy military affairs and government affairs, but these intellectual, this kind of talent fire has never been extinguished, just like the poem of Xin Zhiyi: "I was born in the north and south of the Jiangnan, and returned to Huafa and Cangyan. Bu was dreamed of by the autumn night, and the country was in front of him.
The third point of experience is the beauty, mastery and maturity of the author's words.
This is not only my own feeling, but most people who have read the author's other works have a similar experience. The other day, I read a passage written by the former director of the Literature and Art Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the General Political Department about the author's work, and these words were also used in it.
In addition to the choice of themes, the intention of the work, the fineness of the layout of the plot, etc., the author's achievements in language and writing are also impressive, simple and elegant, sentimentality contains power, concise and not extravagant, rhetorical accuracy and rigor, I think this is due to the author's literary theoretical cultivation, but also from his long-term work in the organs, when the chief made instructions.
For example, on page 55, "Memories are like a long and long stream flowing backwards, quietly flowing through the passing years, infiltrating the withered past, so that people can concentrate on the preciousness of life, recall the hardships of career, and find spiritual sustenance" - "The moon is full of Kunlun".
For example, on page 98, Mr. Feng Qiyong, a red scholar, wrote: "On the autumn night of Shule, the sky is full of stars, the moonlight is pouring on the ground, and occasionally there is a distant dog barking, which makes people realize that they are in the world." I accompanied Mr. Feng on a walk under the moon for several consecutive days, and Mr. Feng's charisma, rich experience and profound knowledge often deeply touched me. In connection with the pursuit and spirit of this giant scholar in his later years, I am even more confident that although the rings of the years have crushed the patches of green on the Silk Road and the rolling yellow sand has buried the sound of the past, the historical civilization of the western region of the motherland will never be a smoke cloud, and it will certainly bloom with new brilliance on the road of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ”
p. 58, "As soon as the sun climbs the Chogol Peak, the plateau is even more meteorological. The sparse grass and trees withered in the autumn frost, and together with the earth, it was impossible to distinguish from a distance which was the fading grass and which was the sand. But nature did not disappoint people because of the autumn colors, and unfolded a magnificent picture on the plateau with the vastness",
There are also some descriptions of scenery and characters, the language is concise and clear, and the strength of life is contained in the splendid embroidery, which expands the reader's mind while causing the pleasure of reading, and lets people read the beauty of natural life from the text.
I myself have been engaged in writing work for a long time, and reading this "Full Moon Kunlun" read my own gap. The book involves many seemingly ordinary scenes or things, the author is endowed with affection, writing it implicitly and timelessly, the charm is transcendent, but it is not mysterious, or vocabulary, but eloquent, plain and natural, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Some seemingly idle writing is interesting, seemingly loose, careless but seamless white painting language, the usual objects, scenes to observe the subtle and interesting, this is very difficult, absolutely kung fu. There is a saying called "all fun melts into the mind", that is, all things are self-sufficient in contemplation, and this self-satisfaction stems from the author's transcendent state of mind after retirement, a broad and lofty mind. As the Swiss writer Amir said: "Whoever can naturally write about the scenery he sees must have his soul in this landscape." "I think it's a true portrayal of these descriptions by the author.
In recent years, in addition to this "Full Moon Kunlun", I have also read some of the author's poems, his documentary literature "Love Through the Smoke of Gunfire", written about the love experience of General Tan Youlin, former political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region, and Ms. Qiu Yun, published in the magazine "Chinese Writers", this work writes about the rain and wind encountered by love in the turbulent years, and the misfortune encountered by women who abide by firmness, on the one hand, sighing for the struggle and sacrifice of the predecessors, but also sighing for the ups and downs of love and the long sighs of staggering. It has deepened the spiritual and emotional cognition of the ancestors who fought in blood.
In addition, I have read a novel of more than 500,000 words, "Goose Head Ridge", which writes about the ups and downs of the generation of soldiers who joined the army in the 1960s of the last century, reflecting the history of the Chinese army after the founding of the country. When he wrote about the decades of struggle and ups and downs of several soldiers, he took the brushstrokes deep into their spiritual world, the internal motives of their struggle and sacrifice, wrote about their family, friendship, and love, and also wrote about their ups and downs, glory and transformation, the time span was large, the character settings were many, and the fields involved were wide. The second half of the book coincides with his own military experience, so he has a strong interest in the characters, scenes, and events in the book, and triggers memories for a long time.
Thus a few old sayings come to mind: Man is strong by his thoughts, noble by knowledge, dignified by his thinking. The poet Warzworth once said, "A tiny flower for me can evoke thoughts that cannot be expressed with tears." "The author was once the head of the military district, but when he wrote the work, he thought about it with the help of ordinary small things. He integrates his understanding of life, life, human nature, and family affection into concrete objects, and the parts seem to be scattered, but the whole is a complete picture.
As a collection of essays and essays, this book may not be magnificent, but each of them, each paragraph, each character, is the refraction of the writer's emotions, it is what he has to say, had to write the words of the heart, has a tenacious sense of life and a unique spiritual style, some chapters are deeply meaningful, treasure is like a treasure, the words convey his sincere feelings for life and relatives and friends everywhere, some chapters are full of the author's inexhaustible thirst for knowledge, unique insights, self-made doctrines, some arguments I think are unspoken, It can be self-contained, and the views he shows in his words, the dimensions of his analysis and view of the characters, are worthy of serious study.
One of my personal hobbies is reading memoirs and going into history through those memories. Stephen. Zweig's When the Stars Of Humanity Shine, by William W. Zweig. Manchester's "Glory and Dreams" and other works that have influenced my view of history and writing, and reading reminiscence essays, especially military themes, is one of the most comfortable things in my years, and the biggest advantage of reading these works is that you can experience a life that is both familiar but completely different, with the author or singing or crying, or sad or happy, from which you can often see yourself, and experience that there are still people in the world who have had the same encounters with themselves, have had similar sufferings or happiness. For example, reading Zhou Tao's "History is With the Mountains and Rivers", Xiang Xiaomi's "Heroes Are Speechless", Jiang Qitao's "Horseshoe Sound Shattering", Xiao Ke's "Bloody Luoxiao", Zhu Sujin's "Introduction but Not Hair", "Cannon Array", and the author's "Love Through the Smoke of Gunfire", "Goose Head Ridge", "Full Moon Kunlun", etc., every time you open the page, you have entered the old years, and integrated with the military life that has disappeared or is marching.
It is expected that the author will write more brilliant works when the flowers blossom and fall and the clouds are comfortable under the premise of taking care of the body.
June 6, 2021