Xue Ran: A clay writer walking on the field
At Qijiang's "2012 Mid-Autumn Pastoral Style Poetry Meeting", Qijiang native writer Xue Ran's "Missing Hometown" was written by Xue Ran. The poetry session added a touch of homesickness and was well received by the audience. Became the subject of on-site interviews by reporters from Chongqing Daily, Chongqing Times and other media. Xueran said: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, reciting poems and expressing emotions can not only arouse people's emotional identification with traditional festivals, but also allow more people to celebrate a cultural festival."
01 Blackboard News Achievements Poet
Xue Ran, whose real name is Zhang Xuecheng, started writing poetry in the 1980s and is now a well-known local writer. "I write poetry purely out of emotion. I never deliberately write for the sake of writing." In 1984, Xueran became an art teacher at the Songzao Mining Bureau Children's School. In addition to teaching, Xueran In addition, we also need to take care of running the school's blackboard newspaper. The school has six blackboard newspapers, and the content is changed every two weeks. These are all tedious tasks. In order to run the blackboard newspaper successfully in the shortest possible time, he used a large number of poems as the content of the blackboard newspaper. For this reason, he spent most of his spare time looking for content in blackboard newspapers, from children's songs to children's poems to modern poetry. In the process of searching for poems, he actually fell in love with poetry, and later subscribed to the "Poetry Magazine" ", "Xingxing Poetry Magazine" and other magazines. He read poetry and felt it. He also wrote poetry.
"At that time, I wrote a lot of poems, which were all neatly copied into a notebook, with illustrations, and they were poetic and picturesque." Once, Xueran read about a local poetry competition in "Stars Poetry Magazine" At that time, he excitedly selected two poems and sent them to the editorial department. Although these two poems did not win the prize, they were included in the book as entries. This small success made Xue Ran excited for a long time and gave him confidence. Later, he selected a few poems and submitted them to poetry newspapers and periodicals. Miracles continued to happen, and his poems were adopted by newspapers and periodicals again and again. In 1989, his poem "Your Birthday" was included in the then best-selling "Youth Poetry Almanac of Young Poets", and more than 10 poetry anthologies including "Chinese Campus Poetry Selection" and "Youth Poetry Selection" included his poems. work.
02 Writing made him a thinker
Everyone in the Songzao Mining Area knows that there is a poet in Zidi School. Because he can write poems, the Mining Area Propaganda Department has included him in the news Report correspondent, he was also assigned writing tasks every month. In order to complete the task, Xue Ran calmed down and studied news writing. The first newsletter he wrote was "Poignant Words After Returning from the Disaster".
In October 1993, a boy from the Songzao mining area was trafficked by traffickers to a remote mountain village in Henan Province when he was 5 years old. Six years later, he miraculously returned. The family conducted three interviews and wrote a long newsletter "Poignant Words After Returning from the Tragedy". At that time, "Songzao Mining News", "Chongqing Evening News", and "China Coal News" successively published the article.
When he first started writing communications reports, he was very successful. This was the first time he published a manuscript of more than 3,000 words in a national newspaper. This success further stimulated his enthusiasm for writing. In 1993 alone, he wrote long-form newsletters such as "Motorcycle Taxi Scanning in Mountain City", "The Bride is Only Thirteen Years Old", "Thirteen-Year-Old Murderer", "Roadside Artist", etc., and appeared in "Reporters Write about the World" , "Sichuan Workers' Daily", "China Social News" and other national newspapers and periodicals. Seeing the manuscript he wrote published in newspapers and periodicals gave him a sense of accomplishment and an urge to write. Today, he has published more than a thousand articles with more than 400,000 words in nearly 100 newspapers and periodicals across the country, covering economic life, education, clothing and beauty, etc. Writing has turned him into a thinker.
03 Use novels to reflect society
“Writing news requires in-depth field interviews, because through interviews I see and understand more social issues.” Xueran said: “These It is far from enough to reflect social phenomena through news reports.” So Xue Ran started writing novels. The original intention of writing novels is also to reflect more comprehensively the social problems that need to be solved. Xueran wrote a novel "Li Shang" that reflects the current situation of left-behind children in rural areas. This novel was called by the media as "China's first full-length novel based on the current situation of left-behind children in rural areas" and "a revelation of the current situation of left-behind children in rural areas." The novel "Record" reflects the living conditions of left-behind children in rural areas from multiple angles, with a large time span, many stories, and the fate of the characters is magnificent. In the novel, Xueran expressed his views and methods of caring for and solving left-behind children in rural areas. The novel was well received by readers and the literary community as soon as it was published.
In August 2004, Xueran worked as a reporter for the "Qijiang Daily". During the interview, he came into contact with many volunteers working in Qijiang in the west and was moved by what the volunteers in the west had done. For this reason, Xue Ran wrote the novel "The Fiery Era of the Post-80s", which became China's first novel describing the life of volunteers in western China. Mr. Bai Ye, a famous writer and literary critic, said when evaluating the novel: "This work connects the pursuit of life and love with the needs and ideals of the country and the nation. It has great contemporary and popular significance, and goes beyond Generally a very personal work. Looking at it from behind, there is a higher ideal pursuit. This is a good work, it represents an era and a piece of history. "Must-read book for the first employee reading month activity in Jiangsu Province".
Qijiang is the hometown of peasant printmaking. In order to comprehensively display the development process of peasant printmaking and the spirit of peasant printmakers inheriting and developing folk art, Xueran spent five years carefully creating the novel "Printmaking Love" ", after the book was published, it was called "Qijiang's literary business card" and "Qijiang's development history of peasant printmaking" by netizens. Since 2004, Xueran has written and published 10 novels. Some people say that Xueran is a clay writer walking on the ridges of the fields.
04 Persistent pursuit will never stop
From a teacher to a poet, and then from a reporter to a writer. "From unintentional planting, to Liu Chengyin, and then to hard work and persistence, it is a struggle process, rather than a tempering experience. The happiness of life is actually obtained through constant pursuit." Xueran said : "The reason why I use Xue Ran as my pen name is to express this kind of mental journey. Burning in the snow requires a lot of energy and courage. I have this kind of courage, but I don't have this kind of energy, so I just Be able to persevere and use the time that others spend playing poker and mahjong to study and write, gathering energy and accumulating time.”
Xue Ran is a successful writer, but he is very low-key and never writes. Zhang Yang always does what he likes to do in obscurity. In Qijiang, many people have read his novels, but not many people know that Xueran is reporter Zhang from Qijiang Daily and that Xueran lives in Qijiang. Xueran said: "I will not deliberately pursue fame and fortune. That would be very tiring. Let nature take its course, and everything will be happy. A writer should use his main energy in his works. Human life is very short, and I personally think that limited time should be spent on it. Live your life and devote yourself to the career you like. In addition to loving yourself, you should also care for others and pay attention to society. My ability is to use literary works to pay attention to society and let people get inspiration or warning from my literary works. "
When Xue Ran signs letters to readers, the most common sentence he writes is: "Persistent pursuit may not necessarily lead to success, but giving up will definitely lead to failure." He said this sentence is actually also used for Encouraging yourself is also the motto of your life. For more than 20 years, he has used this sentence to encourage himself to continue literary creation. "Those who have a will may not always be able to achieve something, but as long as they persevere and work hard, they will definitely achieve something." Xueran said that his persistent pursuit of literary creation will not stop.
Source: Tianya Forum