January 5,
The provincial writers association opened the first work seminar in the beginning of the year
"Millennium Bay Area, Long Wind Opens the Way"——
Seminar on the novel "Playing Spring"
Held at the Lingnan Literature Space.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Research Department of guangdong Writers Association, Guangzhou Baiyun District Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Literary Review, the seminar aims to guide writers to adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, encourage literary creation to deepen the grassroots, and consolidate the foundation of grassroots creation.
Jiang Shuzhuo, chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association, Shi Haiqiong, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Baiyun District CPC Committee of Guangzhou City, and Zhang Xiaohu, chairman of the Guangzhou Baiyun District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, attended the seminar and delivered speeches.
According to reports, Zhang Chun, the author of "Fighting Spring", is a grassroots young writer in Baiyun District, and this creation selects the early Northern Song Dynasty as a cross-section of history, takes the land of Lingnan as the starting point of the story, and tells the history of the struggle of ordinary people in the form of a long novel. The book shows the grand maritime trade in the Guangzhou area a thousand years ago, and also incorporates several typical materials in the economic history of the Northern Song Dynasty, such as the world's earliest paper money, the world's earliest market regulations ("Customs Law"), the influence of Song money overseas, etc., and also reproduces the ancients' "valuable stock exchange" and the unique format of Chaoshan millennium export porcelain. "Fighting spring" is a Custom of the Northern Song Dynasty, which refers to a ritual of whipping the soil to mold spring cattle, which means to work hard in spring ploughing and look forward to harvesting together.
The book takes the economic history as the perspective and features the "Lingnan style", interspersed with many southern customs and cultural elements. In addition to the Chaozhou Song porcelain mentioned above, there are also Shaozhou Cen Water Farm, Lingnan Lychee, the "Flower Market Base" of Guangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, the ancient geography of Guangzhou Songcheng, folk food, dialect songs, etc., full of Lingnan style. In addition, the integration of history into the "people's perspective" is another feature of the book, so that ordinary people distributed in agriculture, industry and commerce all walks of life can be the protagonists, leading the development of the story, and showing the prosperity of society and the joy of the people through the perspective of ordinary people.
Dong Shangde, professor of the Department of Chinese of Sun Yat-sen University, doctoral supervisor and librarian of the Guangzhou Museum of Culture and History, said that the theme chosen by the author of the novel is the theme of the "Maritime Silk Road" of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has both practical significance and historical basis. According to the research of historians, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the development of China's commodity market has spread throughout the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and Song Zhao Rushi's "ZhufanZhi" records the route of overseas trade and trade in the Song Dynasty, there are many overseas trade points, from the South China Sea into the Indian Ocean, it can be said that from the 7th century to the beginning of the 14th century, China's overseas trade was unprecedentedly developed.
The organizers said that as a long novel, "Fighting Spring" is based on the history of overseas trade and economic development in the Bay Area more than 1,000 years ago, extracting and preserving some typical foreign trade history, economic history and cultural symbols, which is an active inheritance of excellent history and culture.
The Chinese nation has strong cultural creativity, and it is hoped that more grassroots writers can tell Chinese stories well, reflect the style of the times, further establish cultural self-confidence, and polish the historical and cultural business card of the Greater Bay Area.
Brief introduction of the works:
"Playing Spring" was created by Zhang Chun, a young writer in Guangzhou. The Song Dynasty has left stunning shots in the history of China's ancient oceans, and "Fighting Spring" selects the early Northern Song Dynasty as a cross-section, telling the history of ordinary people's struggle in the form of a long novel.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Xie Yufen