Because I like writing, I like to make friends with people with the same hobbies. When chatting with friends, I heard Yao the most, saying that he is the most famous poet in Longdong area and a well-known writer at home and abroad. He has published more than 40 books and is now the chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Out of admiration for my teacher, I really want to find an opportunity to learn writing skills from him. I happened to meet a painter colleague, who is a friend of my teacher. Knowing that I like literature, he took me to see the teacher. The teacher is nearly sixty years old and very approachable. When he heard that I liked literature, he talked with me enthusiastically. Finally, he gave me some of his books.
I read the teacher's works carefully one by one, and I was deeply attracted by his words. To tell the truth, I have read many books, but there are not many words that are close to people's hearts like this. He can be said to be an all-round writer. His novels, essays, essays and poems all have their own characteristics. What * * * has in common is a strong local flavor.
The teacher was born and raised in Longdong Yellow Land. He integrated the profoundness and simplicity of the yellow land into the text and wrote one local literature after another.
The yellow land raised him and he can't forget it. He vividly described the flowers, trees, bricks, tiles, mountains and water in the yellow soil in his collection of poems "The River Without Crying": "Jinghe River" is a classic river, which has brought ripples of 5,000 years to today; Describe the helplessness of Yuan Shang cultivators in the face of dry weather: "The cultivators are sitting in the dust", burying their hearts in the soil and sticking their heads out of the thousand layers of dust; Facing the sky, struggling desperately, crying desperately, thirsty ... every sentence, every word, is saturated with a yellow land child's love for his hometown and his cry for poverty. He hopes that everyone in his hometown can get rich and live a happy life.
In his collection of essays "Night Rain in Weizhou", he painted an amazing original scene of the local world with the same primary colors of life as the yellow land. We can clearly see from the article that the barren yellow land endows these children with rich spiritual world. From the history of Nu Wa's making people out of soil, let us remember that our life cannot be separated from soil. We are all born in the soil, and the soil is the guarantee of our lives. He used historical stories to let people know more about Longdong's rich and long history: it is the source of the development of China's painting culture, acupuncture culture, matriarchal society and China's Taoist culture, and it is a historical and cultural name of China.
His eyes are sharp. He organically combines history with the present, vividly describes historical figures, dissects their successes and failures in an orderly way, and connects them with social reality, so that readers can learn a lot of knowledge and the truth of being a man in the process of reading. From Wang Yun's eyeball economy, Si Mazhao's view of purpose: from Meng Huo's overlord to Wei Yan's ingenuity, each article is carefully analyzed, showing the morphological and psychological changes of the characters incisively and vividly.
He is a child of the Yellow Land, and his roots are in Longdong. He couldn't forget the folks who were born and raised like him, so he put all his love into the text, recorded the rough and bold, simple and kind children on the yellow land with his notes, and the lifestyle and attitude of life passed down from generation to generation on this thick land, so that people who read it could understand the customs and customs of the west. His pen is very clever, just like his thoughts, which not only eulogizes the good side, but also boldly writes the dark side of society he sees to attract everyone's attention. Paying attention to the disadvantaged groups has always been the mainstream of his writing, and it is also necessary for an excellent writer. In his essay "Water Town", he vividly described the present situation of water town. Those villagers who live in hot water because of lack of water never wash their faces or bathe. Only when it rains, because if you don't wash it for a long time, the lice on your body are as big as rice grains. I don't know what color the children's faces are, because there is little water in the traffic jam. Children there go to school less, so they go out to work to earn money at an early age. The whole article used five or six thousand words to describe the life of Shuicun and its people in detail. The language is a local dialect, which shows the readers vivid scenes. Readers can't help crying when reading, which also encourages more enthusiastic people to join the team to help Shuicun get rid of poverty.
The mountains in Longdong are broad, the soil in Longdong is heavy, and the people in Longdong are as open-minded as mountains and as broad and simple as soil. Teacher Yao walked between the mountains and rivers in Longdong and buried all the pain in his heart. He is like a pine tree on the top of Kongtong Mountain. For decades, he has been guarding the pure land of literature in an unknown dungeon, bowing his head to explore deeper literature.
He wrote in his prose "365 days": "At this moment, it is always on the road, and 365 days is a year's mileage. Every year, life has the bud of spring, the enthusiasm of summer, the maturity of autumn and the calmness of winter. It is ups and downs, lightning and thunder, ice and snow, frost and fog paving, red and blue brocade, white and black night and day, always changing on the road at this time. Years are always accompanied by twists and turns, always accompanied by flatness and remoteness, but in front of us is a day-to-day transition. Who can have no pulse of life, a ghost or a fairy? But you can't leave the heavy body and let the soul go alone. Everything in King's Landing is the world, and the endless interest-free road is just a fragment of life. Life is the road, and the road is the process of life. Only the process is more important than the beginning and the result. The beginning is life and the end is death. Birth and death often confuse the beginning and the result, but the process is a kind of existence, 365 days! " Only by seeing through the true meaning of life can there be such rational words. Life is a road, everyone's destination and starting point are the same, but the process of walking is different, and strong people have stepped out of their glory.
For a writer, he writes in many contradictions between thoughts and emotions. On the one hand, he wants to discover the difference between reality and the past; on the other hand, he wants people to remember the ancient local traditions. This is what a serious thinker has to face. The unity and harmony between exploration and nature is the main theme of his prose, with vivid local customs flashing in his works and the blood of regional culture flowing everywhere. A series of essays, such as Thanks to the Poor, Scavengers and There are No Ugly Flowers in the World, all show characters and attitudes towards life, which is closely related to his deep understanding of those nature and characters and his deeper exploration of the surrounding things.
In this money-oriented and materialistic society, there are too few works of pure literature and few words that can truly reflect local culture. In the face of today's diversified life concepts and the pursuit of vision, many writers just choose what kind of words to write to cater to our eyes, without realizing their responsibilities at all, so that fast food literature now occupies the mainstream of the literary market. In fact, the thinking that writers have to face is a very complicated project. Under this premise, how to protect the literature with the theme of local culture is a problem worthy of attention. It is commendable that Mr. Yao can always stick to the pure land of local literature. His thoughts are not only the land with rich historical and cultural background in Longdong where he lives, but also the native land of China.
Teacher Yao's artistic style is combined with local traditions and regional culture. His prose is generally long, and his real narrative is mixed with his own feelings. His articles are generally written by himself, naturally extending his thinking and writing his feelings. Most of the articles written are emotional. This writing state is inseparable from his profound understanding of local traditions and his admiration for regional culture. Because of this, his article is ordinary at first glance, but after careful reading, it is thought-provoking and worth pondering and learning.
Longdong Mountain is rich in water and thick, and there is also a literary master, Mr. Yao, who deserves our respect and study. As a scholar, he is rooted in this land. After decades of literature, I have written millions of words, and the sweat I have paid is unimaginable to ordinary people. As a student who worships him, a few strokes can't write more essence in the teacher's words, but I sincerely hope that Mr. Yao will dig deeper into the local theme and sincerely wish the teacher a broader literary road!