It is estimated that many people have heard Dong Yuhui's admiration for Chi Zijian and "The Right Bank of the Ergun River", and even said in the live broadcast room that if he can sell 1.5 million copies of this book, he must engrave this matter on the tombstone.
He said that when he read this book, he was filled with a heartfelt, deep, unexplained but deep love for power, for life, for the forest, for the flowing water, for the fallen leaves, for the sun and the moon, for the breeze, for the moss, for the dancing shaman, and for the moonlight at night.
He said that after reading it, he felt enthusiastic, and wanted to go to the Great Khing'an Mountains once, to see the mountains there, to feel the clear springs there, to see what the moss looks like, to touch the horns of the reindeer, and to have a cordial conversation with the people there.
He wanted to pursue the moonlight, to see the happy life of his people, to find a spiritual experience.
When I opened the book, I was attracted by the first sentence: "I am an old acquaintance of rain and snow, and I am ninety years old." The rain and snow look at me old, and I also look at them old. ”
The book tells the story of the changes of the Evenki people in the past century, they depend on the reindeer, migrate and hunt for food, enjoy the gifts of nature, but also face the problems of severe cold, fierce beasts, plagues, etc., and also seek to survive under the pressure of modern civilization.
The book records their love and hatred from generation to generation, their unique folk customs and legends of life and death, although the nation is weak but has tenacious vitality and indomitable national spirit.
As a work of the Mao Dun Literature Award, the background and content of the story are thought-provoking, and Chi Zijian's brushstrokes are even more gorgeous and intriguing.
In addition to the beautiful natural scenery, the most impressive thing in the book is the constant migration and the people who keep leaving. Death has brought great suffering to the living, but the days are still passing day by day, and people are still dying one after another, starting from the death of the earliest reindeer in exchange for the life of a human life, this law has always accompanied the people in this story, one life for another, God does not pick ......
After reading this book, it is as if I have witnessed the rise and fall of this nation and the story with the 90-year-old man, and the penetrating power of time is always easy to bring people into some kind of memory.
In our memories, there may be people we have been thinking about or have quietly left, or a snowy winter day, or a rainy autumn.
And the old man who chose to stay in the forest lingered in his mind for a long time and could not disperse.