On August 17, on the way to Beijing on a business trip, my friend Wang Baocheng called**, saying that Qiao Ye's feature** "Treasure Water" had just won the Mao Dun Literature Award, and Jiao's literary circle was going to hold a symposium in the "Cloud Courtyard" and invited me to participate. I didn't dare to agree, because I haven't read the book yet, I can't talk about it, plus I'm quite familiar with Qiao Ye, it's a suspicion of sycophancy, it's not a hint of contempt if it's not praised, it's not salty or light, it's not my usual style, it's better to avoid it than to be embarrassed. However, I promised to read the book and write something, after all, people are not exempt from vulgarity in the "circle"!
The central people borrowed a copy of "Treasure Water" from the city library, and originally planned to read it in one go for three or two days, but unexpectedly it became a "marathon". There may be two reasons for this, one subjective and one objective. Subjectively, I heard that the title of the book was Mo Yan's title, and I have always been not very interested in the boundless magic of "Mo Yan Lao Xian", and every time I pick up the book and see the title as ugly and obscene as his language, I will think of Mr. Li Ao's famous words "Only by selling your motherland can you win the Nobel Prize in Literature", and it is inevitable that there will be some inexplicable emotions of "disgust with the house and Wu", which affects my mood of reading. Objectively, "Treasure Water" is not very like**, especially the feature**;It's more like prose, especially long, ingenious prose. A long story**, in fact, is telling a story, mainly to win the storyline, the so-called character image, language style, regional customs, etc., all for the storyline service, the plot is "skin" and the rest are "hair", the skin does not have hair will be attachedWhen I read "Treasure Water", it is intuitively the feeling of prose, soothing, plain, and beautiful, not the fascinating **, but the beauty of the prose, not the ups and downs of the plot, but the beauty of the language.
It is said that "Treasure Water" is more like prose, and there are many shadows in the details. For example, when it comes to local dialects or customs, the author often has to open a dictionary and translate and explain it, so that it takes up a lot of space. This is obviously the usual technique of prose, and ** is generally taboo. There are not a few writers and works that use dialects, customs and other elements with regional characteristics to describe and express local customs, such as Liu Qing and his "Entrepreneurship" in the Shaanxi writers' genealogy, Lu Yao and his "Ordinary World" in northern Shaanxi, Chen Zhongzhong and his "White Deer Plain" in Shaanxi, Jia Pingwa and his "Qin Cavity" in southern Shaanxi, etc., as well as Zhao Shuli, a representative of Shanxi's "Yam Egg Pie", and his "Little Erhei Marriage", "Li Youcai's Words", "Sanliwan", etc., as well as Sun Li, a representative of Hebei's "Lotus Lake School", and his Lotus Lake", "Luhuadang", etc., as well as Li Zhun and his "Yellow River Flows Eastward", Wei Wei and his "Oriental" in the genealogy of our hometown Henan writers, and Liu Zhenyun, who is also a writer from northern Henan, and his "One Sentence Top 10,000 Sentences", etc., generally do not translate or explain the dialects and customs in the works, but create a strong regional characteristic scene through the plot, and the vast majority of readers can read and understand the dialects and customs in the text from the overall atmosphere of the storyline.
Qiao Ye started from prose, the language is fresh, timeless, beautiful, exquisite, just like the character of Lan Xinhui, delicate and wise, is the local cultural circle of Jiaozuo, especially the literary and artistic young "three beauties" (beauty, beauty, beauty) idols, there are many fans. With her unswerving determination and perseverance, she went from a rural primary school, to the Propaganda Department of the county party committee, to the provincial academy of literature, and to the Beijing Writers Association. The biggest feature of her "Treasure Water" is that it does not lose its true colors, does not lose its literary style, does not lose its true colors of life, especially does not lose its nostalgic nature, and the countryside, mountains, terroir, human feelings, culture, and folk customs of Jiaozuo City ......Through the award of "Bao Shui", for the first time into the eyes of the national public, so that Jiaozuo people feel proud and even excited, "Bao Shui" and the neighboring Xinxiang writer Liu Zhenyun created "one sentence top 10,000 sentences" can be described as a reflection of the customs and customs of northern Henan "Gemini constellation", is another immortal monument in the history of literature in northern Henan.
May Qiao Ye's life road be smooth and smooth in the clouds!
May Qiao Ye's literary career blossom and flourish!
May Qiao Ye's hometown feelings, the old well be dug layer by layer!
*: Baijiayan.