This book has three parts. In the past ten years, the author has created many images of ordinary people from all walks of life through complex contradictions and entanglements.
Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. In addition to Henan people, villagers from poor counties in the loess plateau in the north and the plain in the south are also an important part of Tongcheng.
Since the coal industry came into being, it has become Alaska in the west of China, attracting countless people looking for a way out. In this "United Nations" with various accents, because there are the most people in Henan, the public communication language is generally Henan dialect.
People living in Tongcheng can speak a few words of Henan dialect and hum a few words of Henan opera. The city is surrounded by mountains.
There are many rocks and thin soil on the mountain, which is not suitable for farming. The agricultural population is far less dense than the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, let alone the crowded central plain. Because there are few farmers and there is no shortage of fuel here, dense firewood and even some treetops grow on these hilly areas, which are more beautiful than other places on the Loess Plateau.
Whenever autumn comes, some mountains are full of red leaves and flowers ... between the ridge and the headland, holes are formed due to excessive excavation of the stratum depth, and the surface sometimes sinks. Shocking large cracks often tear several ridges, and even large roof caving leads to the collapse and collapse of the whole mountain, triggering an earthquake with a magnitude of about Richter scale. One or two hundred miles north of the mountain is the Yellow River, which breathlessly flows eastward with thousands of tons of sediment ... The city can only build one main street in this narrow ravine.
Along this winding street, along both sides of the railway, along the Qishui River, which usually has a small flow, rows of shops and buildings are stacked on top of each other, as dense as beehives and ant nests, stretching for ten miles from south to north. The railway station is located in the city center.
A rectangular waiting room is painted yellow, which looks magnificent in this dusty city. Apart from the military-civilian airport in the southern suburbs, the square with a small railway station is probably the most open place in the city.
The train goes south from here, crosses the green central plain, and reaches the provincial capital in five or six hours. In the west, east and north, there are highways extending to neighboring provinces.
This railway station has two express trains from the provincial capital every morning and afternoon, and the rest are trucks carrying coal. The last section of the branch line of Longhai Railway did not end at this station.
This steel ladder forks here again, climbing all the way through the hole and stringing together more than 20 mining areas on the east and west sides. When outsiders mention copper city, they all know that it is a place where coal is produced, so imagine that this city is probably full of coal.
In fact, there are only one or two small coal mines on the edge of Tongcheng, and the rest of the large mines are in the ravines on both sides of the east and west. When you turn into these gullies along the railway branch line, you will know what a huge world it is.
These coal mines, which are only ten miles apart, have tens of thousands of workers in each mining area, plus their families, which almost exceeds the size of a mountainous county. Dense population, dense houses, towering derricks, rumbling machines and noisy sounds are unbelievable. How can these small canyons and bays bear such a big load? 2. "Muslim Funeral" Author: Huo Da, a Muslim family, 60 years of ups and downs, three generations of ups and downs of fate, two love tragedies that happened in different times, but with different contents but intertwined.
It reveals their unique psychological structure in the collision and integration of China culture and Islamic culture, and their confusion and pursuit of the true meaning of life in the political and religious atmosphere. It shows ancient national customs and realistic covetousness full of contradictions.
The works are fresh, smooth and unpretentious. They explore people's hearts with delicate brushstrokes, leaving deep thoughts after reading them. 3. "Norwegian Forest" Author: Haruki Murakami's 100% popular love novel in Asia was once a "super bestseller" in the history of Japanese literature.
This should of course be regarded as Haruki Murakami's masterpiece. Many people know about this Japanese from this book.
The book takes memories as a clue to express the loneliness and confusion of teenagers facing adolescence and the helplessness and boredom of growing up. For the first time, Murakami clearly emphasized the theme he repeatedly emphasized in his later works: through the survival pain that young people can't get rid of under social pressure, they show their sadness and powerlessness towards life.
This is a sad, painful and 100% love novel. Watanabe, the hero of the novel, begins his love entanglement with two girls.
Watanabe's first love Naoko was originally the girlfriend of his high school friend Muyue, and later Muyue committed suicide. A year later, Watanabe and Naoko met unexpectedly and started dating.
At this time, Naoko has become demure and shy, and a shadow that is difficult to capture passes through the beautiful crystal eyes from time to time. They just walk aimlessly in the streets of Tokyo, falling leaves day after day, either before or after, or side by side.
On the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, they had sex, but Naoko disappeared the next day. A few months later Naoko came.
2. Recommend some books to improve self-cultivation 1. "If you give me three days of light" Author: Helen Keller In the 20th century, a unique individual life shocked the world in her brave way. She-Helen Keller, a woman who lives in darkness but brings light to mankind, has spent 88 spring and autumn years of her life, but has survived 87 years of darkness, silence and silence.
However, it is such a person who is claustrophobic in the world of the blind and deaf. Graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University; He spent all his life running around and set up a charity to benefit the disabled, and was selected as one of the top ten hero idols in the 20th century in America by Time magazine.
Creating this miracle depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, finally found the bright side of life in the dark, and finally extended her loving hands to the world.
2. "Who Moved My Cheese" Author: Spencer Johnson This book uses a vivid story to explain a simple but often overlooked truth: changes will always happen, so everyone should foresee changes, track changes, adapt to changes, and change themselves with changes in the environment, so as to enjoy changes. This book is suitable for all ages. It only takes you less than an hour to finish reading this story, but its unique insights can have a lifelong influence and help on you.
3. "Tolerance" Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon (America) Reading this book is an interesting way to understand the changes in the history of civilization. What is human history like? How did it evolve? What is the relationship between man and history? How do people make history? Why should people understand history? In an ingenious way, the author understands, feels and understands the changes of western history from the perspective of whether society or people are tolerant or not. Tolerance and intolerance are just a pair of contradictory concepts. Who becomes the center of the times or which becomes the edge, the historical characteristics of the times may be completely opposite.
Therefore, if we understand human civilization in this way, the changes of human history are undoubtedly in a state of disorder and order. The author, Mr. Long Fang, does not directly praise the historical process that meets the tolerance standard, nor denies or criticizes the historical phenomenon of intolerance, but grasps the various forms of "tolerance" and "intolerance" in the process of human civilization change to describe why social development has changed so much.
In this book, the author entered the depths of human civilization through the channel of "tolerance". This unique way of historical writing not only broke the utopian fantasy of social progress since the Western Enlightenment, but also further opened people's thinking space to understand historical changes and revealed the civilization form in the post-modern landscape in advance.
4. "If love is a game, this is the rule" Author: Cherie Carter Scott (America) This is a book suitable for women, men and readers of all ages. In her pen, all the successes and failures in love are gathered in the author's pen, and love is no longer isolated and inexplicable.
This book is rigorous in writing and fair in viewpoint. For the first time, it is really encouraging to rationalize and regularize love, which China people think will never be clear. 5. "Auspicious San Ji" Author: Shen Congwen's reading of Shen Lao's prose is like watching a faint lantern, and the whole text is like a shallow water, nourishing the reader's heart.
It seems that there is no hard application, but the lines are clear and psychic; Almost rough technique, no trace of discussion, no trace of touching the reader's heartstrings. Although the story is not very touching and the characters are so old, the words are there, but they shine.
6. "The Truth of Life" Author: Liang This is an in-depth exploration of spiritual culture. The author experiences beauty in ordinary life, showing the flesh-and-blood connection between the writer and ordinary people, which is in line with the thought of the pulse of the times. The author is a writer with a strong sense of introspection.
The word "know how to reflect" is particularly important in the reality of China today. The Truth of Life focuses on a wide range of social and cultural topics, such as archives system, judicial system, charity, urban construction pattern, film and television themes, reading guides, and many macro concerns, such as terrorism, Olympic spirit and world trends, which are related to the national economy and people's livelihood. 7. "My Love My Freedom" Author: isadora duncan (USA) "My Love My Freedom" is the founder of modern dance, a famous American dancer isadora? Autobiography of Duncan.
In this book, she fully explained two personal life topics-love and freedom; Melt life, love and dance into the brilliance of words with lava-like enthusiasm, so that readers can appreciate the extraordinary vitality of a great woman. For some young people who are in adversity and ambitious, after reading this biography, they should understand that nothing is impossible. Yesterday's dream is not necessarily today's hope, but tomorrow's reality. Duncan showed the world the process of a woman from being recognized to being respected by her own personal experience.
8. "Where to Go" Author: Li Yang "Where to Go" is also a novel with very beautiful language. It describes the spiritual evolution history of contemporary young intellectuals with unique prose and poetic language forms, and calls on contemporary young people to stick to their ideals and spiritual heights in the collision of multiple values. The contradiction between ideal and reality is vividly expressed in beautiful language.
In his novels, the author intentionally inherits and develops the traditional culture of China, especially the beauty, broadness and profundity of traditional literature. Faced with the irresistible trend of western learning spreading to the east, the author raised the banner of "learning from the east and using the west" and tried to practice it with his own novels.
From the linguistic point of view, Li Yang's novels are unique in China's contemporary literary world, full of charm and charm, and they interpret the beauty of Chinese in sound, form and meaning beautifully, forming a unique "Li Yang" phenomenon. 9. "Eco-city: Building a Living Environment in Balance with Nature" Author: Richard Rui Gist (USA) In the book, the author gives another interpretation of the "sustainable development strategy"-that is, through reasonable urban planning and design, the human ecosystem composed of towns and villages will evolve in a good direction, providing the greatest development opportunities for all people and cultures, fully stimulating the creative enthusiasm of human beings, and we can fully enjoy it.
3. What books can improve cultural literacy? If you have a good knowledge of ancient Chinese, I suggest you read ancient Chinese, which is a book that has been baptized by thousands of years of culture and lasts forever. Nowadays, most of these writers write for money. As the ancients said, articles are combined with the times, and poems are combined with things. Dream of Red Mansions, Lu Chunqiu, Warring States Policy, Yuanqu, Poems of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huangdi Neijing and Yijing.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Zhou Ti's Classics
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
Romance of the West Chamber
[Literary Works] Journey to the West
Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government
The Water Margin?
"University"
doctrine of the mean
The Analects of Confucius
Mencius
The Book of Songs
Book classics
I Ching
The Book of Rites
The Spring and Autumn Annals
Conspiracy in the warring States period
history
New century theory
Military aspects of Red Star over China: Sun Tzu's Art of War, Taigong's Art of War, Liu Tao, and Sanlve.
History and Politics: Twenty-four histories of Guoyu, Shangshu, Warring States Policy, Zuozhuan, Chunqiu, Historical Records, Hanshu, Houhanshu and the History of the Three Kingdoms.
Literature: Four classical novels, Guang Lin Jr., San Yan Er Pai, Jin Ping Mei, Romance of Shen Feng, Search for Ji Shen, Shi Shuo Xin Yu, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, etc.
Science and technology: Tiangong Kaiwu, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Compendium of Materia Medica, Huangdi's Internal Classic, Meng Qian's Bitan, Notes on Shuijing, Tang Herbal Medicine, Nine Chapters Arithmetic, etc.
Encyclopedia knowledge: Yongle ceremony
4. Ask for some books to improve literary literacy. With the popularity of the Internet, the emergence of online literature subverts the traditional writing and communication mode, making the development of small literature more diversified. After 80s and 90s, the new forces began to enter the literary world and showed amazing creative ability.
The overall appearance of fantasy novel writers of the martial arts group represented by the starting point and romantic novel writers represented by Jinjiang (four little divas, six little princesses and eight little exquisite ones) indicates that online novels have become another creative subject besides mainstream literature. Representative works: Midnight, Ni Huanzhi, A Family of Golden Powder, The Marriage of Crying, The Clouds in Beijing, Sinking, The Back, Yuan Yuantang Essays, A Family of Four Generations, The Past, Under the Roof of Shanghai, Border Town and Elegant House. Chronicle of Baiyangdian, past events in the south of the city, ordinary world, impetuousness, red sorghum family, Linjiabao, rural trilogy, spring harvest, remnant East, not talking about love, life is like a string, Muslim funeral, stagnant water.
Seven classic works of modern and contemporary love: 1, Muslim funeral (Huo Da) The beautiful things in love and human nature can transcend religion and race. Although it is often strangled in reality, it is precisely because of the cruelty of reality that these things are becoming more and more precious. A door, separated by two worlds.
When her love comes, her life has begun to end a little bit ... 2. Song of Eternal Sorrow (Wang Anyi) The spiritual history of Shanghai urban love, a woman's love and affection all her life, is intertwined by the changes of the times and the rotation of men. Three men washed away her youth, middle age and old age respectively. Everyone left a promise, but everyone left and never came back. The first man who took pictures of her, accompanied her and took care of her all his life didn't get her, nor did he get her heart ... 3. Ordinary World (Lu Yao) It seems to happen around us, quietly changing our outlook on life, values and love.
In this ordinary world, those gorgeous flower of life are quietly opening up without our knowledge. The ordinary world is touching. As long as we take ordinary things and ordinary love seriously and treat them positively, they will no longer be ordinary ... 4. Three castles-Border Town (Shen Congwen), Besieged City (Qian Zhongshu) and Abandoned Capital (Jia Pingwa) That kind of love is like flowers in the sun, a beautiful, healthy, natural and human life form ... Besieged City: Marriage is like a castle. People who come in can only know what they are doing, and people who go out can only understand it if they are full of ups and downs ... Wasted Capital: Jin Ping Mei in Modern Cities was banned 17 years, but it was the only book that the author thought could settle the soul, and all the characters ended in a sad end, except the lonely ancient city, which was slowly abandoned at the end of the century ... 5. Bailuyuan.
The three women respectively explained three modes: marriage for the sake of marriage, marriage for instinctive love and marriage for noble goals. It can also be seen how unspeakable the love born in that era is ... 6. Love of Hawthorn Tree (Amy) This is a true story.
The girl in "Seeds of Love" is a handsome guy in a white shirt standing under a hawthorn tree. As long as you are alive, I am still alive. If you die, then I'm really dead.
What kind of feelings treat a person's life as a continuation of his own? Perhaps, pure love needs timely death ... 7. Tarim River (callous Qianshan Mountain) Tarim River is a magical long river, full of magic, and people don't want to go ashore. There is such a long river in everyone's heart: it has a long history and will never die. It flows with our sadness, joy, dreams and secrets.
Looking back suddenly, I inadvertently found that it has gone through thousands of years and experienced personnel vicissitudes.
5. Can you introduce some books to improve the quality? Shiyu is in an unknown place.
Beauty lies in it, conforming to the limbs. -Reciting the "300 Poems" in Zhouyi can make people enjoy the most elegant art with oriental characteristics, think calmly and have a new understanding of the past, have a beautiful yearning for the future and make an objective grasp, so as to have more courage and self-confidence, calmly face everything, and reach the highest state of life of "learning to be an excellent official, asking and distinguishing clearly, living with tolerance and acting with benevolence".
Over the years, from the inside and outside of the Great Wall to the north and south of the river, from school-age children to centenarians, more and more people regard "300 poems" as a channel to connect their hearts, a bond to deepen their feelings, a carrier to inherit civilization and a medium to promote righteousness. "Read the best books and be a noble person."
Once again, it has become the knowledge of people in different times. The ideology and artistry of Three Hundred Poems are in perfect harmony and highly unified. Talking directly with God and talking with the earth all the time will always comfort people.
Although the song is lofty, it is not unattainable, but comes from the real call of the public and the catharsis of love. It is a beautiful blessing that God's will and human heart convey to us through the author's handwriting.
6. Ask for a few classic books, preferably The Great History of China and Fifteen Years of Wanli written by Huang Renyu, a China historian with strong historical charm. They are very classic, unique in perspective and atmospheric in vision, and will benefit you a lot.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Reconstruction of World Order by American historian Huntington definitely improves your thinking and world outlook, and it is a world classic historical work.
"What is History", which is very popular recently, is not bad. It has a popular taste and can be used as an introductory reading.
Make an exception and recommend you to read the Secret History of Cao Cao, which is the most inspiring of all Cao Cao's works.
Cambridge China History Series is also good, which has developed into a very classic series.
From Dawn to Decline is world-famous and worth seeing.
Wu Si's "Hidden Rules-The Real Game in the History of China" Hehe, well, just listen to the name to know whether it is valuable.
Finally, I wish you a happy study!