Some people may say that there are many writers who have written seven books, but none of them are very powerful. However, if all his seven books are about the same place-Xiangxi, there are about 60 articles in one book, that is to say, more than 400 essays only describe the same scenery and tell the same custom, you must ask, besides saying that he has a good writing skills, how many times has he walked on that land and seen that scenery, and how much does he like the mountains and rivers in Xiangxi?
I don't know
It is said that whose youth is not confused, I think teacher Fan Cheng's youth is not confused. Xiangxi is the western part of Hunan, a village in the deep mountains and forests. The countryside can only attract people from cities, and of course it can only attract people for a few days. Too many rural people want to go to the city and hope that their younger generation will jump out of the farm.
Teacher Fan Cheng was born in the countryside, a poor peasant boy, and he had to rely on the only way out-to study and go to the agricultural gate. There were not many college graduates in the 1980s, and even fewer rural graduates. Only one college graduate decided to go to the countryside when he could go to the metropolis, and that is Fan Cheng.
What is the reason for a teenager to raise his hand and splash ink, turn the direction of youth and go straight to Xiangxi without hesitation? Literature! Teacher Fan Cheng said in the postscript: I was influenced by Mr. Shen Congwen's works and set foot on Xiangxi with a literary dream. I refused to listen to any dissuasion and stubbornly went to Xiangxi.
At first, a literary man was stupid and stubborn. Charming and frankness are the temperament endowed by later words.
27 years, admire! Teacher Fan Cheng has a literary mind, the best Chinese New Year, and black hair covered with frost. He stayed in the mountains for 27 years. Non-hometown has become hometown, like a fish in a river, and a river is a green mountain. For 27 years, he measured the ups and downs of Ge You with his own breath. Young persistence turns into deep and mellow love like a mountain. The cherished dream blooms in the ink fragrance that stretches like water. So, there is a seventh book.
I don't read teacher Fan Cheng's first six works, but just read the newly published book "Xiangxi under the Diaojiao Building".
It has been seven or eight days since I received this book, with more than 300 pages, and the cover is elegant and concise. I go to work during the day and can only read words at night, and the reading speed is slow, so I only read a few pages. I like to read the preface or preface, the table of contents first, then the postscript, and then read from the first article without cutting it out. However, I have changed the habit of watching Xiangxi under the diaojiao building. I read the last few books in advance, because they are all about Xiangxi specialty snacks. People who are delicious tend to value literature more than others.
What are the characteristics and customs of mountains, waters, cities, housing, food and travel in western Hunan? The first article in the book, entitled "Xiangxi under the Diaojiao Building", tells you one by one.
hill
Xiangxi is mountainous.
It is located in the east of Wuling Mountains in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, like a group of huge horses, running from the south of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the vast plain in the east. The tall and straight peaks along the way are the heads of a fine horse. The winding mountains are like the back of a fine horse.
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If the mountains in Xiangxi are regarded as a person's face, then the houses in Xiangxi-Diaojiaolou Group are people's eyes.
Water.
On the bank of the stream, there are always layers of diaojiao buildings. These houses are backed by green hills and face clear water. It is because there is water and it is convenient for life that a group of diaojiao buildings have gathered and invited the mountain people to integrate.
City.
Above the clear water of Tuojiang River, rows of seemingly loose but exquisite diaojiao buildings are better than Qionglou Yuyu.
Go home.
During the winter slack season, the setting sun shines on the diaojiao building, and I see Tujia girls and Miao girls in twos and threes, each with a wooden stool, sitting on the rafters of the diaojiao building, embroidering, playing with flowers, making cloth shoes and collecting insoles. Like sparrows, they kept talking, and from time to time gave a hearty and cheerful laugh, as if to lift the hanging eucalyptus. ...
Eat it.
It's Chinese New Year, so kill pigs to make Ciba. The lawn of the diaojiao building is surrounded by adults and children. Relatives and friends, who helped watch the fun, all got together.
All right.
Water is the source of life. In front of the diaojiao building is a stream. Not far away, there are ferries and docks.
Pick a few words at random. At first, Teacher Fan Cheng spread the beauty of Xiangxi to people outside the mountain with eight pages of words such as meticulous painting and ink painting. No matter which scenery and angle, it is inseparable from the small diaojiao building, which has flourished from generation to generation.
Skip the thick 300 pages and smell the aroma of food, which is very appetizing. I am from Hunan, too. I really didn't know there was such strange food in the world. Tell me what I feel I have learned. I will try it in a long vacation.
Social dinner. The main ingredient is glutinous rice, which is also my favorite food. Soak, wash, filter, boil and filter. Dice the bacon, drain the oil, stir-fry with shallots and Artemisia, then mix in glutinous rice and steam with salt. Think about it. Everything is delicious. The craft is not difficult, but we don't seem to grow Artemisia here. It's okay. It should taste good without one thing. Teacher Fan Cheng said that after eating three bowls for the first time, I will have two more bowls.
Bacon, rice noodles, monkey peaches and cantaloupes written in the book are all acceptable. We haven't tasted Xiangxi, and we also have it in eastern Hunan. However, I have never heard of Ewing and Bao Gu Ba. Teacher Fan Cheng described the batching process in detail and vividly, but most people still can't do it. Why?
Do you think that after watching Xiangxi under the Diaojiao Building, you will become a Xiangxi Tong and Xiangxi guy like Teacher Fan Cheng? 27 days and 27 years are worlds apart. He read Xiangxi thousands of times under the diaojiao building. Prose, you are watering with emotion. His handwriting has its own characteristics, which is undoubtedly worth reading. The yearning for that magical land nurtured by words can be set off by the power of these enthusiastic words.
As Mr. Zhou Zhenhua said in the preface of the book: It can be seen that he has read a lot of books and walked a lot, and his heart and diligence have enabled him to gain a lot of words with academic and literary value. It is awe and loyalty to literature.
Teacher Fan Cheng is a loyal and respectable person. He lives in Changsha now. I am a writer with little writing experience. We never met, but we missed two opportunities to meet. It's too long to go to Luanzhou, Hebei Province for the first time. I want to go with him, but he just can't spare the time, but in order to take care of him, he didn't forget to introduce me to another Hunan teacher. On the contrary, the second time, he urged me to go with him, saying that time was not long, so go, but I couldn't leave without going. Before reading this book, I read some of his essays, which are elegant, low-key and knowledgeable.
Although Teacher Fan Cheng said that he had changed from a young student in the prime of life to a writer with gray hair (that's because he laughed at himself for being old, tall and elegant, and only in his fifties), although he has written seven collections of essays for Xiangxi, his writing road is still very long, and I look forward to his next one. Moreover, I believe that even if he no longer writes about Xiangxi, his words will inevitably be branded with Xiangxi, or shuttle, or looming. Because Xiangxi has been branded into his life.