Reading Wang Yu's newly published collection of essays "Heart Spring" by the People's Literature Publishing House, I was in Xishuangbanna's sojourn, looking out from the balcony, the Dai-style spire buildings glittered in the sun. It's tropical sunshine. I half-lay in a rocking chair, hugged my laptop, and began to read Wang Yu – this is the original words of Li Zhengquan's brother: "Reading the heart spring is reading Wang Yu". From Chongqing to Jinghong, I passed by SF Express, so the "Heart Spring" I read is an e-book.
This is Brother Wang's first collection of essays. For a well-known writer who has published eight novels and three short stories, writing is to use the story of the "other" to analyze human nature;Writing prose is "my pen writes my heart" - what the writer shows the reader is the private memory of the individual.
The first part of "The Fountain of the Heart" is entitled "A Thousand Miles of Stickers", which can be regarded as the general title of the whole collection, and can also be regarded as the author's long-term view of his own youth. "We were young, and girls were like freshly baked bread, bright, full, and plump;The young man is like an aspen, vibrant, lively, and sturdy ......At the beginning of "Qianli Tiao", a passionate and angry text was used to bring us into that era of military songs.
Wang Yu's experience of putting on the green uniform is magical. At the age of 16, Wang Yu, whose greatest luxury in life was to eat a full meal, and a male classmate were recruited to go to the Chengdu Military Region Physical Work Team to report, he was weak and thin without any suspense, but he entered the Military Region Guard School by mistake, "Sitting in the classroom, the person in front of me, whether it is a boy or a girl, at a certain time, hallucinations, my eyes entered his body, penetrated his flesh and skin, and saw a series of organs such as heart and lung lobes. I long to have a pair of sharp eyes that can penetrate the thin and thick **, fat and vertical and horizontal bones, see everything, and walk freely between the internal organs ......Wang Yu later went to the Military Medical University, the Army Hospital, and the Second Hospital of Intensive Medicine, and became a medical expert who used ultrasound to diagnose and treat diseases.
This is the favor of fate, a teenager who thinks about how to fill his stomach day and night, and takes a foolish step towards the road of China's top ultrasound medicine experts. "In the blink of an eye, I became a soldier, with a military uniform in my white coat, and I walked through various departments, from outpatient to inpatient - it is very unreal and dreamy in retrospect, have I really had such a medical resume?”
In the summer of 1964, under an order, Wang Yu, who was practicing the eighteen palms of the Xinglin Descending Dragon in the army hospital, was transferred by his superiors to the propaganda team of the Logistics Department of the Chengdu Military Region, and together with more than 20 comrades-in-arms, he rode alone for thousands of miles to comfort the officers and soldiers of the military stations along the Sichuan-Tibet line.
Woohoo, the danger is high, the Sichuan-Tibet line is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. More than 20 officers and men of the propaganda team crowded into a Jiefang-brand car, crossed Erlang Mountain, turned over many mountains, climbed Qi'er Mountain, and climbed from the highest altitude Kajila Military Station to the gentle Jiangda Military Station, and so on. It was from that time that Wang Yu began to do one thing, that is, to write a diary tirelessly, without saying anything, and day after day. As a person who has experienced life, observed it, and written about it, he faithfully records what he sees, hears, and feels every day: a scene, an interesting story, a picture, a little admiration, and an adventure ......Thousands of miles to Sichuan and Tibet, the snowy soldiers stood and walked, while greatly expanding Wang Yu's life horizons, he also unintentionally planted the seeds of literature in this young soldier.
A considerable part of the prose included in "Heart Spring" comes from Wang Yu's experience as a doctor, professor, vice dean, secretary, and subject leader. As an ultrasound medical expert with outstanding academic achievements, whether it is traveling across the ocean to participate in Sino-foreign academic exchanges, or training and teaching for grassroots hospitals in Xiaqu County, carrying out medical cooperation, or being invited to attend industry conferences in other provinces and cities, Wang Yu has retained the Xi of penning. In addition to performing his duties, he recorded in his diary anecdotes, historical hooks, and sparks of inspiration, some of which became the background of his long stories, and some of them were written into timeless prose, ingenious ideas, and meaningful prose before the completion of the concept. For example, the rainy street scene in Manhattan, New York, the chase in Los Angeles, and the old acquaintances in other places written in "A Trip to the United States", etc., later became the material for his long "Flying Over the Pacific";In the article "Rongchangyuan", Wang Yu sketched the cultural picture of Hakka immigrants in Chengdu and Chongqing for us with a wonderful pen, which has become the "prologue" and "story stage" of his long "Filling Sichuan".
The Hakka people pay attention to tea, a few cups of fragrant tea, three or five old friends, more than a dozen tables are arranged, drinking tea and playing cards to set up the dragon gate array, which is very leisurely. ”
The 'Fire Dragon Festival', where the local Hakka people dance and burn dragons, is said to have originated from the surname Liu in Jiangxi. So far, the family surnamed Liu still lives in Baosheng Village, Luodai Ancient Town, with the dragon dance as their business, picking up the dragon to worship their ancestors, welcoming the dragon back to the nest, killing chickens out of the dragon, and dancing the dragon to ......The years have covered up the hardships of the blue wisps of the road, the time has blurred the faces of the ancestors, and the common memory that is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the Hakka people has never disappeared. ”
Wang Yu is as interested in Chongqing's local history as he is in medicine. His sharp eyes, who have received strict medical training, are not only obsessed with "penetrating the thin and thick **, fat and vertical and horizontal bones, and walking freely among the internal organs", but also good at insight and excavation of cultural memories buried deep in local historical materials.
In "Two Stories Nurtured by the Mountains and Rivers of My Hometown", Wang Yu reviewed the creative opportunities of his two novels "Water Dragon" and "The Soul of the Long River", both of which originated from the "digging of the ground" of local historical materials. "Water Dragon" takes regional customs and folk stories as the background, and takes the character stories as the main line, artistically reproduces the living conditions of the Yangtze River shipwrights and the people of the three religions and nine streams of the coastal wharves during the opening of the port, and deduces a song of the fate and joy of the small people in the big history, and the love swan song. And his collaboration with Huang Jiren "The Soul of the Long River", after his short story "The God of Boats" was published in the headlines of "**Family" and was "Xinhua Digest"**, with the encouragement and support of Lu Zuofu's eldest granddaughter Lu Xiaorong and her husband, the famous critic Professor Yan Jiayan and many big names in the literary world, "nurtured and incubated" as a large number of novels, and the social response was excellent after it came out. In the meantime, all kinds of karma will meet, and it is very interesting to read.
Wang Yu's two books also have a fate with me. In the summer of 2007, Jiang Guangming of Shanghai Media Group came to me and said that Shanghai Media wanted to shoot a TV series showing Lu Zuofu's life, and was eager to find a Chongqing writer with a ready-made manuscript to cooperate. Before the publication of "Water Dragon", I actively promoted the manuscript of the book, and the newspaper where I worked that year set up a special page and made an excerpt for a month**. Re-reading the process of completing these two books in "Heart Spring" this time is like "meeting old acquaintances in a foreign land", and I feel very cordial.
As a ** family, Wang Yu is good at character portrayal. There are three articles written about characters in "Heart Spring", "Crane Painting Man", "Tibetan Plaque Man", and "Two or Three Things About Lu Zuofu's Rural Construction", all of which are written in an unconventional manner and show their skills.
Painting the Crane Man" writes about the Chongqing painter Wu Huixia, who personifies the crane, writes calmly and eloquently, and writes vividly and eloquently about a zoo artist who is unwilling to sink in distress and "the crane is always there" after the success.
Tibetan Plaque Man" writes about Liu Guangrui, a well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Chongqing and director of the Bayu Famous Plaque Culture and Art Museum, to write about people, and the pen is like flowing water, hiding the trough waves in the murmuring trickle, and the different peaks and protrusions appear in the flat river. "Plaque sea hook sinking", a plaque and a story, stories and stories are strung together, like a scroll of Chinese plaque culture on the Qingming River. An image of a "Tibetan plaque man" who has traveled all over Qingshan is not old, and the image of the "Tibetan plaque man" who is haggard for the plaque jumps on the paper.
Lu Zuofu's "Two or Three Things About Rural Construction" rewrites Lu Zuofu's common practice of starting with the retreat of Yichang, with Huang Peiyan going to Beibei to investigate, bitterly saying that the local "land is full of bandits, robbing and kidnapping people, becoming commonplace, it is simply a world of bandits" The newspaper article cut in, made full use of historical materials, cited from the side, celebrity anecdotes came at hand, and the amount of information exploded. In just one thousand-word essay, he wrote about a great industrialist who was engaged in rural construction in a down-to-earth manner and diligently sought to transform the "Gangster Paradise" into a "model village in China". "When you return to your hometown, why don't you think about Beibei?”
Wang Yu's essay collection has a short essay "Traces of Time". This collection includes more than 40 prose essays published by Wang Yu in newspapers and magazines such as "People's Literature", "Guangming **", "Wen Wei Po", "Essayist" and "Hongyan" in recent years, just like the "traces of time" in his decades of literary career. Soldiers, medical experts, ** families, filmmakers, ......Wang Yu has come from his 16-year-old, picking all the way, singing all the way, the years are so good, and the writer is always young. We have reason to expect that his second and third books "Heart Spring" will bring greater surprises to the literary world.
Author: Fu Xiaoyu.
Text: Fu Xiaoyu (Writer, Publisher) Photo: Publishing House Editor: Wang Yan Responsible Editor: Li Ting.
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