"Remember us, don't miss us, live proudly." At the end of the famous writer Lan Xiaolong's new work "Winter and the Lion", the younger brother Wu Wanli sat alone on the riverbank, with his brother Qianli's urn placed next to him, and he heard his brother tell himself this. And he can only do two, but he can't do the middle one. The main setting of the story of Winter and the Lion is the Battle of Chosin Lake on the Eastern Front of the Second Battle of the Korean War in 1950. Through the description of the Seventh Interspersed Company of the Ninth Corps, "Winter and the Lion" takes readers to deeply feel the greatness and indomitability of the volunteer soldiers in this war.
Recently, on the occasion of the publication of "Winter and the Lion", the People's Literature Publishing House invited the famous screenwriter and film critic Shi Hang and writer Lan Xiaolong to come to the live broadcast room to share the "Seven Companies of Steel" in the Battle of Chosin Lake, interpret the reason why the "Lan Xiaolong Universe" touched people's hearts, Lan Xiaolong shared all-round issues of concern to readers such as the new work "Winter and the Lion", the Korean War, the Battle of Chosin Lake, and the future writing plan.
The Battle of Chosin Lake originated from the writing of Winter and the Lion
In the live broadcast room, Lan Xiaolong introduced the idea of writing "Winter and the Lion" born in 2014. "In 2014, I held a script seminar for our army, and I said that Chosin Lake, in fact, the earliest source of this came from Kong Sheng, who originally told me about a human mortar, that is, throwing a grenade. I put this suggestion forward, and I said is it possible for you to do this? Because on that battlefield more than -40 degrees, the gun was frozen to the chamber of the chamber is a real record, even if it is a few millimeters, this gun can not be loaded if it cannot be loaded. The only heavy firepower we could pull on the chosin lake battlefield at that time was infantry artillery, 60 mortars, which were something that people could carry after dismantling. What's left of this little firepower when all that firepower has been lost? "When the firepower is gone, what are we left with?" With such a starting point, there is motivation to write later. "Writing something requires giving yourself a head, and that's how I think the biggest (motivation) to do this thing is to give me this head. The hardest thing about you often writing something is not how to make up a story, it's that you know why you want to write it. You thought it was a few spaces, and when it became a space, it solved half of the reason why you wrote this, and there was half a why left, saving a lot. ”
Shi Hang started from the film "Chosin Lake" shot according to "Winter and lions", when some platforms and some publishing institutions rubbed the popularity of "Chosin Lake", the real original author did not rub it at all, and even the title of the book chose to use "Winter and Lion", but did not use "Chosin Lake", reflecting a kind of cultural self-confidence. He also believes that the significance of "Winter and lions" published by the People's Literature Publishing House is to "let things be what they should be." "I drew a bar here, I'm leaving, please try to shoot this bar out, because everyone sees it and thinks this bar is worth it, it's not the horizon, it's the skyline..."
In Shi Hang's view, "Winter and the Lion" is about the question of what the volunteer army relies on to defeat the US army. "The Americans, too, have been whining and wondering, what exactly defeated them on the Korean battlefield? Is the volunteer army a heroic army or is it just a bitter cold weather? Is it winter or a lion? Who defeated or played its rightful role in the Korean theater? Is it winter? Or lions, volunteers? This is a multiple choice question, just like the right and wrong, the book "Winter and the Lion" answers who is more important in this war, is the weather or the heart of the people? It is the army and the spirit of sacrifice. "Chinese People's Volunteer Army, where did this volunteer come from?" What is his ambition, what is his ambition? What is his wish, what is his wish? What kind of army is the Volunteer Army? Is it really a sea of people tactic that is piled up? In fact, many experts in the volunteer army are experts, and the volunteer army is particularly shrewd in fighting, which is also in line with Lan Xiaolong's attitude when he wrote about our army on the Korean battlefield."
Shi Hang believes that "Winter and the Lion" can "let people see wars that are different from the wars you have seen in the past and written about by others... There are things in the world, but there are no things in literary descriptions, this thing is a more precious thing, everyone does not know whether to write this, Lan Xiaolong wrote this."
Without the Battle of Chosin Lake, our country might not be what it is today
In the Korean battlefield, the strongest infantry and the most equipped modern army, what exactly are our volunteer soldiers facing? Lan Xiaolong said, "Suppose I am a person of the 7th Company, what is unfolding in front of my eyes?" It's a sci-fi film. It's kind of like we saw a Transformer coming out today, it's really like a unit fighting a Transformer, and everything you come across is something you haven't seen. Tanks you have seen on the battlefield of the Liberation War, the most you have seen Xiafei (m24 Xiafei light tank, light tank m24 chaffee), Pershing (m26 Pershing tank) you have not seen. The Kuomintang army looked for a few things, I had this, I had that, there were fragments to take out, but it was systematic to take out over there. So in a way, if I line this up, I think the 7th Company going into the Chosin Lake battlefield is a bit like Alice in Wonderland, and then fighting, and fighting, and still fighting, and still having to win. Later, I deliberately docked the war of the 7 companies to the Watergate Bridge (the prototype of the Ancestral Nai Bridge in "Winter and the Lion"), the Watergate Bridge was once a place where we wanted to prove victory, and the result was that the other side's industry was a science fiction logic, the US military built a lot of steel bridges from Japan and airdropped here, you blew up the bridge, he covered it. It's miserable, it's heroic, it's great, and we have a lot to learn at the same time. ”
Lan Xiaolong believes that the Battle of Chosin Lake is the most painful battle for our army, "We have just established a new China, and when we have many beautiful hopes and ideals, suddenly that side came, and we greeted it." At the same time, it whipped us hard to make us understand what we should do next, and then we did it. One thing I'm convinced of is that I don't think our country would be what it is today without this war, and I think in many places I would have looked to the back, because it spurred us on."
When asked how to summarize "Winter and the Lion" in one sentence, Lan Xiaolong borrowed a sentence from the book tanziwei and replied in a poetic way: "Victory needs to be proved." ”
The most basic belief in Lan Xiaolong's writing is equality
Shi Hang also made many comparisons between "Winter and the Lion" and Lan Xiaolong's old work "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", such as Mei Sheng and Ah Yi, Lei Gong and Hao Veterinarian, the similarity of personality, experience and fate, in order to show that "Lan Xiaolong's characters are not only one, but there is a sense of inheritance of spiritual blood in his characters." "There is no black hole in Lan Xiaolong's universe, his stars have not fallen, you think he has disappeared, he just went around the back of your head, and after another circle he appeared again, reincarnated into another warm story." Watching "Winter and the Lion", "you can see the similar things you felt before (in "Soldier Assault", "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", "Life and Death Line", "Good Guys", and there is a feeling of being in a different country".
Shi Hang believes that the most valuable or basic belief in Lan Xiaolong's writing is equality, "there is equality between every life on the battlefield", and does not exalt one character by degrading another, "He was equal in the middle of the stories of "Soldier Assault". I will not abandon the good soldiers and soldiers, and I will not give up. So there is equality between every life on the battlefield." "In 'Soldier Assault', this group of people debuted in a group, and everyone is a group soul, and I probably like it." They have not been consumed or used by Lan Xiaolong, the author. And many authors often complete this and suppress that." "Lan Xiaolong writes group portraits, he never sacrifices one role to complete another role, what is this called? This is called high, this is called morality, this is called having faith."
Related to equality is Lan Xiaolong's favorite use of local dialects in his works. "You are Sichuanese, he is Hubei dialect, Yunguichuan (dialect). What does this dialect platter mean? It is all of us, people from anywhere in the north and south of the world, talking together as if they can't understand the words of chickens and ducks, but all of us understand, because as long as you sacrifice, as long as you are kind, as long as you are equal, everyone will understand each other."
Shi Hang also believes that a prominent feature of Lan Xiaolong's writing is that it is "interesting and meaningful" at the same time. He portrays group portraits, not only writing their own vivid side, but also digging out the meaning contained in the hearts of different people. "One of the things that is particularly interesting about Xiaolong is that he has been roll-calling in the middle of his universe, naming places and people, including ordering the names of various snacks. When he names names, he lights up, the stars light up, he lights up all the lights and lets everyone know that it has something to do with you." Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
Proofread by Xu Heng
Source: Purple Cow News