Ding Zhiping
Ding Zhiping, female, Chinese biographer. Born in Yibin City, Sichuan Province in 1949, he holds a mechanical manufacturing technical secondary school and is a self-taught major in Chinese language and literature. Mainly engaged in novels, biographies, and prose creation. She devoted herself to compiling biographies of Yibin literary and historical figures, and published "Yibin Painters and Calligraphers", "Yibin Performing Arts Circle", "Liu Wencai in Yibin", and "Yibin National Anti-Japanese War Story", making indelible contributions to Yibin's cultural and historical work.
Chinese name: Ding Zhiping
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han
Birthplace: Yibin, Sichuan
Date of birth: 1949
Occupation: Independent writer, mainly engaged in literary and historical editing, biography, and novel creation
Main achievements: Publishing books related to the study of Yibin literature and history
Representative works: "Liu Wencai in Yibin", "General Changfeng", "Yibin Calligraphers and Painters", "Yibin Performing Arts", "Yibin Nationwide Anti-Japanese War Story"
Character Biographies
Early life experience:
Ding Zhiping was the same age as *** He Guo. In her own words, over the past decades, she had been supported by the Communist Party of China and the State of China, and she had gone through ups and downs in the world.
She was born and raised in Sanjiangkou, Yibin. “When I was a child, when I was enjoying the cool air on summer nights, I would often lie on my grandmother’s lap and listen to her telling the beautiful legends of my hometown. What about the White Pagoda in Dongshan and Qixing Mountain? The black tower exchanges hats; Yibin City is a raft tied under Cuiping Mountain and Zhenwu Mountain; there is a Guanyin at the intersection of the two rivers, etc. So, I looked at the black tower's bare head and wondered how it could lose its hat. What if the rope breaks and Yibin City is washed away like a raft? On a calm and sunny day, we take a ferry to the intersection of the two rivers to see the turbid water of the Jinsha River and the Min River. The Tai Chi diagram formed by the clear water; when the water rises, stand at the Hejiangmen Pier and watch the Jinsha River rolling from the west, the Minjiang River from the northwest, and merge into the mighty Yangtze River to the east; those majestic and colorful green mountains and mountains that stand beside the river The undulating mountains and green waves of the bamboo forest became the source of green for her to wander around. The sunset in Tianchi, the chanting of trackers at Suojiang Stone, the meandering water cups in Liubei Pond, the morning bells and evening drums in Cuiping Mountain, and the temple pavilions and pavilions in Zhenwu Mountain. She was fascinated by the mountains of peach blossoms. She left these beautiful memories with her naive brushes and dreamed of becoming a painter or writer when she grew up. ”
However, fate did not allow her to do so. Her dream came true. After graduating from Yibin No. 2 Middle School, he was admitted to the Yibin Paper Factory Technical School because his father, an eighth-level lathe worker at the Yibin Paper Factory, had some "historical issues" and failed the political examination. After graduation, he was assigned to Yibin Paper Machinery Factory and worked successively as a lathe worker and a staff member of the Chengdu office. She lost her husband in middle age, raised her son alone, and struggled to make a living. Her life was full of hardships and helplessness. In 1995, Ding Zhiping left her hometown and went to the coastal areas to seek development. I have successively engaged in graphic design and management in Chinese-funded, foreign-funded, and joint ventures in the field of crafts. I was fired by my bosses and fired by my bosses. "During the days when I stayed in the seaside town, when the night was quiet, I often leaned against the window and looked north: Under the vast and lonely night sky, where is the head of the Yangtze River? The nostalgia is thicker than the night." I didn't make any money, but I experienced it. During the primitive accumulation period of the coastal economy during the reform and opening up, the body and mind were deeply tempered.
Enter the literary world:
Ding Zhiping is talented, lively and cheerful, and has a maverick personality. As a student, he not only loved literature, calligraphy and painting, but was also an active member of cultural and sports activities, dabbling in singing, dancing, table tennis, and basketball. Literature, calligraphy, and painting are all self-taught. He studied Chinese language and literature at Sichuan Normal University on his own and took the Adult College Entrance Examination. He has read extensively, covering both ancient and modern Chinese and foreign literature, history, philosophy and art. I have always had the desire to try literary creation, but for most of my life I was busy making a mediocre living and had no time to think about it. It was only in the past ten years that I really started to create. In the past ten years, she has cherished time like gold and diligently made up for the lost time. She has created more than one million words of novels, essays and biographies. She is especially fond of biographies. In her words: “As a civilian author, I have always paid attention to the world we live in with a normal heart.
I believe that the humanistic history, or cultural heritage, of a region should be those vivid people and things that have happened in the past. When we record them and leave a primary source of information that can be used for reference, there should be meaningful. ”
The customs, customs and customs of her hometown have been deeply embedded in her soul and become the source of her artistic creation. It took her two and a half years to write her first novel of more than 400,000 words. "When Will the Sophora Blossoms Bloom"? In order to express her unrequited love for calligraphy, painting, and performing arts over the years, and to make the literati who have made contributions to Yibin's calligraphy, painting, and performing arts forever remembered by future generations, Ding Zhiping came up with another idea: to serve Yibin. Literati wrote books and biographies, leaving behind a set of basic information for future generations to review and study.
Representative works
Introduction to the work
"Sophora japonica". "When will it open": an autobiographical novel based on migrant girls
"Yibin Calligrapher and Painter": From the perspective of a civilian author, Ding Zhiping "recorded nearly a hundred years of calligraphy and painting history for her hometown" (Hou Kaijia said ); and "Yibin Performing Arts Circle" is a biography of nearly 500 performers active on the Yibin stage, covering creation, choreography, actors, instrumental music, etc. in the fields of drama, film and television, singing and dancing, acrobatics, folk art, etc. Stage artists and critics. The characters included in the two books are both accomplished celebrities and ordinary art workers who have never been mentioned before.
"Liu Wencai in Yibin": An era is like this. A large-scale drama has protagonists and supporting characters. In addition to the protagonist Liu Wencai, this book also gathers a group of supporting characters who were closely related to Liu at that time. It is hoped that through the outline of such beings, it can reflect the overview of that period of history.
"Yibin Performing Arts Circle": a book with more than 400,000 words, "a beautiful still, a friendly face, closely combined with one real and vivid text, with pictures and text ", with pictures and texts, showing the same sultry sentiment, allowing people to gain dual aesthetic enjoyment at the same time." (Chen Guofu said) The book contains nearly 500 performers from Yibin or who have been active in Yibin, including famous actors and senior actors. There are also some ordinary people who are hardworking, poor, and dedicated to their art.
"General Changfeng": Gu Baoyu (1906-1959), also known as Juehou (alias Changfeng), was born in Songjiang, Jiangsu. , graduated from the fourth class of Huangpu Military Academy, the third class of the Party and Government Research Class of the Central Training Corps, and the eighth class of the special class of the Army University. He successively served as the platoon, company, and battalion commander of the third division of the First Army of the East Route Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army. Attachment, staff, division staff director of the 17th Division, colonel commander of the 1st and 2nd Regiment of the 36th Division, deputy commander of the 192nd Brigade. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as commander of the 192nd Brigade and the 8th Brigade. Deputy commander of the 18th Division, he was appointed lieutenant general of the 124th Army in the spring of 1949. He went to Taiwan in the autumn of the same year and served as lieutenant general of the Army Parachute Corps. In 1955, he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Ministry of National Defense. He died of illness in 1959. Taipei.
"Yibin National Anti-Japanese War Story": This book records the history of the Anti-Japanese War and the figures who contributed to the Anti-Japanese War in Yibin's counties and districts, and provides biographies of hundreds of Anti-Japanese War veterans, making the glory of Yibin's local Anti-Japanese War heroes The deeds and spirit of the Anti-Japanese War were demonstrated. “Although Yibin did not become a battlefield during the Anti-Japanese War, it was a strategic rear area. The people of Yibin open their minds to accept schools, factories, various government agencies and refugees from the occupied areas. It is also an important supply area for troops and military supplies. "Ding Zhiping said, therefore, her book restores the history of the Anti-Japanese War in Yibin from multiple perspectives, including veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, citizens, and various agencies and units that moved to Yibin during the war.
In addition to publishing books, In addition, Ding Zhiping also focused on online literature and became the moderator of a well-known website in Yibin, "Yibin People", promoting Yibin and promoting regional culture on the Internet
Interview experience
Without public funding, all expenses such as travel expenses for interviews have to be squeezed out of her meager monthly pension, and books on literature and history have to be published at their own expense. After the manuscript is completed, she has to go all over to solicit sponsors and "ask for money" Publish a book. For this reason, Ding Zhiping often laughs at herself: I have become a spiritual rich man and a money beggar.
I couldn’t afford to visit places that were too far away, so I wrote to make appointments. When she went to Chengdu, Chongqing, Xiamen, Beijing and other places for interviews, in order to save money, she always took cheap trains. Spending long nights in crowded, dingy trains; staying in cheap hotels and eating cheap fast food.
Once, Ding Zhiping took a motorcycle to go to the deep mountains and old forests of Tianxing Township, Yibin County to find an insider to enrich her writing content. The bottomless ravine is so horrifying to recall. Ding Zhiping never forgot to joke: "Before you come out, you should write your will."
Interviewing a ninety-year-old man in Junlian She is an old lady who is not afraid of steep mountains and slippery roads after rain. She climbs the mountain with a stick. A local accompanying her sighed, "It would be great if people had your spirit!" Once, in order to find a way to survive, A veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, she rode a motorcycle in the mountains for seven or eight hours in the wind and rain.
In order to find existing veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, Ding Zhiping wrapped herself in a shawl during the torrential rain last autumn. , sitting on the back of a "motorcycle", turning and speeding on the mountain roads in Junlian County; once in the mountains of Tianxing Township, Yibin County, I sat on a motorcycle and let it speed over the mountain ridges that were not even feet wide. It was a bottomless ravine. At that time, she even thought about leaving a will before going out; from the provincial archives to the county archives, Ding Zhiping asked for visits one by one. The archives staff were moved by her sincerity and gave the green light to try their best to meet her needs.
In the eyes of his friend Yang Jiantao, a painter, Ding Zhiping loves to talk and sing. When the mood strikes, she can sing aloud a section of "Little River Flows", dance with red sleeves in the air, fluttering a silk fan; she can also make preserved cherries in season. , wine, she loves beauty, knows how to eat, drink, dress, and live well. She could have written short articles and lived a comfortable retirement life. However, the reporter saw Ding Zhiping, who had problems with her cervical spine and radiation due to long-term interviews and working in front of a computer. Her clear and round voice has become "dumb" and "flat", and she has difficulty speaking. She needs to carry it with her when she goes out. Carry fat seawater to moisten your throat.
What makes her feel "embarrassed" and live such a hard and tiring life? Ding Zhiping said in a hoarse voice, "Any era needs multiple voices. Let me represent a common voice. I am from Yibin. I love this hometown and land, so I have a sense of ownership and want to leave a legacy for it." A real thing to facilitate future learning."
Evaluation
After the publication of "Yibin Painters and Calligraphers", which was the accumulation of Ding Zhiping's hard work, it was highly praised by the calligraphy and painting circles. Chen Mingyun, vice chairman of the Yibin Writers Association, said: "This is a strange book." Hou Kaijia, a famous calligrapher, calligraphy theorist, and professor at the School of Art of Sichuan University, commented: "The book is not strange but the people are strange. Only strange people can create such extraordinary works." Extraordinary 'silliness'". Then he lamented: In the early 1980s, in order to write a research article on Bao Bichen, he spent a year just visiting and reviewing information. It is so laborious to write one article about one person, let alone compile a book with biographies of hundreds of calligraphers and painters? Ding Zhiping did something that seemed impossible for him to accomplish alone, not to mention doing it for nothing with his own money. It was really touching and admirable.
"Ding Zhiping is not a person in the painting world, but she wrote a book called "Yibin Calligraphers and Painters". She is also not a fan of Liyuan. She actually followed the example of Zhong Sicheng in the Yuan Dynasty and wrote "Ghost Book", which is a book for Yibin and those living in Yibin. Biographies of Sichuan opera performers and Peking opera performers have even expanded to include numerous "Gu Qu Zhou Lang" in the drama, singing and dancing circles, acrobatic circles and even all walks of life. This is a very meaningful biography in traditional Chinese culture. It should have been completed by a group of specialized agencies, but Ding Zhiping did her part and completed an arduous and huge memory project on her own." (Chen Guofu's words)
The Sichuan Provincial Archives has collected several of Ding Zhiping's works. Historical data and evaluation: "This is not only a supplement to the historical data of Yibin City for nearly a century, but also further enriches the collection of data in the Provincial Archives."