On December 21, 2021, the Douban annual reading list "Midnight and the Sun" was released as scheduled, and the famous writer Liu Zhenyun's 2021 new work "One Day and Three Autumns", under the praise and recommendation of readers, was selected into the Annual Chinese Literature List of Douban, becoming the annual good book in the minds of many Douban netizens.
Recently, douban annual reading list series of dialogue activities ushered in the final closing dialogue, Douban and the Yangtze River New Century invited Liu Zhenyun, author of "One Day and Three Autumns", Zhao Dongmei, professor of the History Department of Peking University and cultural scholar, and Shi Hang, a famous screenwriter, planner and film critic, to chat with readers about the laughter and tears at the intersection of literature, philosophy and history. Literature and history, literature and philosophy, Song Dynasty and contemporary, fate and people's hearts, these topics travel through ancient and modern times, but they become concrete and perceptible in the dialogues of the three guests.
Liu Zhenyun
The fireworks of the Song Dynasty and the pride of the people of the old capital
Liu Zhenyun's "One Day and Three Autumns" begins with "The Legend of the White Snake" and ends with the heroine crossing back to the Song Dynasty. This has a great relationship with the Song Dynasty, why should the Song Dynasty be used as the potential background of this novel? What is the meaning of this? In this regard, Liu Zhenyun humorously replied: "Because returning to the Song Dynasty is more convenient for me and for my characters, because our village is more than 40 kilometers away from Fengfeng, and when it is placed in the Song Dynasty, our village is the suburb of the capital." Writing about the Song Dynasty Liu Zhenyun has a natural sense of intimacy and the pride of the people of the old capital, just like he always takes his hometown Yanjin as the background, the "fireworks in the world" of life is more important, people eat, sleep, fall in love, Liu Zhenyun can find the true source from the Yanjin people's smile, the state of life, and even the Yanjin people's "dust in the wrinkles" He is particularly clear.
The "crossing" in Liu Zhenyun's work is not the first time, in his old work "Hometown Noodles and Flowers", the people inside are also constantly returning to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty had a peaceful era of no war for a hundred years, which had a profound impact on the development of materials, Liu Zhenyun quoted the scene in Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dream Record", the kind of prosperity and the bustle of the city on earth, which was next to Liu Zhenyun's hometown of Yanjin.
As a guest of honor, Zhao Dongmei, professor of the Department of History of Peking University and an expert in the study of Song history, felt the charm of the Song Dynasty from the perspective of time. She mentioned that Kaifeng still retains the folk customs of the Song Dynasty such as dog fighting and chrysanthemum festivals, and people here like to dance and ink, maintaining a strong cultural atmosphere. She said that "the Song Dynasty was the most humane and creative era. It was well worth it for Teacher Liu to let the cherry cross back to the Song Dynasty, but as a modern person, I didn't go back because I was obsessed with modern material civilization, such as flush toilet water heater air conditioning. ”
Zhao Dongmei
Shi Hang
The Universe and the Philosophy of Writing
Shi Hang summed up Liu Zhenyun's work in four words: "The entrance is the transformation". "His works have a universe of hundreds of family names, he has a lot of surnames, male Xiaolin, female old Joe, personal titles are divided into three parts: gender, age, surname, he summarizes the characters with the most simple three words, you feel rough, but in fact, the most effective. This way slowly became his "a sentence top 10,000 sentences" only surname and no gender, leaving people like Old Zhao Laolu. Why? In fact, people are such a surname, the people, not the world of names. Whether we are connected to each other or not, our ancestors decided for us. The last name is fixed, everyone is together, naturally together. So he wrote the story of the universe of hundreds of families. And in "One Day, Three Autumns", Liu Zhenyun invited "foreign aid" Hua Erniang, and when a work of intermediaries and non-people became roles, the work grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. Therefore, compared with "One Day and Three Autumns" and "One Sentence top ten thousand sentences", it is not more people, but more levels. Literary works are expensive in writing that "everyone has something in their lives, but often they don't have it in their hearts", Shi Hangqian said that these ten words are the goals he set, and Liu Zhenyun has already done it.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Sun Jun
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Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng editor Dai Yujing