Do you know Jiang Youquan, the president of the Chinese Couplet Society? Maybe you don't know him, but there is a person you will know sooner or later. He is Tong Wei, Sansui County, Qiandongnan Prefecture. As long as you have heard that a couplet has 32,628 words and a prose has 51,268 words, you will know him.
(Tong Wei was born in 1975 in a farmer's family in Sansui County. He dropped out of school in 1988 before graduating from junior high school due to family poverty. What is different from other children is that after he left school, he still took books and "gnawed" them every day. "When he went to herd cattle on the hillside, he had a book in his hand; when he went up the mountain to do farm work, he also had a book in his bag... When he was free, he took out his notebook and sat down at his desk to write, which made his family and neighbors find it strange. , asked him why he still had to do "homework" when he didn't read any books. Tong Wei smiled and didn't answer. It was not until later that he received many literary journals and royalties for publishing his works that his family and neighbors were like a dream. Fang Xing.
Later, Tong Wei left his hometown to work, but no matter where he went, he kept writing and published a large number of literary works. After working to earn money, he went out at his own expense. He visited the great mountains and rivers of his motherland and wrote many poems and prose works.
In the early autumn of 1995, Tong Wei traveled again, starting from Chongqing and heading eastward along the Yangtze River, finally arriving in Jiangsu. He was inspired by the surging waves of the Yangtze River, the strange pines and rocks on both sides, and the smoke on the river. From then on, he decided to create a long couplet with ten thousand characters to praise the great mountains and rivers of the motherland and display the rich history and culture. Since there were too few materials, Tong Wei traveled with a creative heart. In the past 16 years, he has visited the Yellow River, the Inner Mongolia prairie, Mount Emei, Huangshan, Mount Tai, and the Bohai Sea. Everywhere he went, in addition to taking photos, he also took the initiative to visit local people. , in order to understand the local history, customs, legends and legends
In addition to traveling around, Tong Wei also read "Shang Xia Five Thousand Years", "Historical Records", "Zuo Zhuan Spring and Autumn Period", and "24 Histories". He read historical classics and mastered a lot of historical knowledge. In 2003, he finished the long couplet, but after reading it carefully, he felt that the text was rough. When he had time, he revised it many times. It can be said that it was meticulously crafted. In November 2010, he felt satisfied.
The finalized couplets totaled 32,628 words. The first and second couplets had the same number of words, 16,314 words each. When printed on 16-karat ordinary printing paper, there were actually 32,628 words in total. More than 100 pages. The first couplet describes the scenic spots and beautiful scenery of the motherland, and is intended to praise the great mountains and rivers; the second couplet describes Chinese history and character allusions, from the creation of Pangu to modern times, making people feel the vicissitudes of history." Tong Wei. Said that after the Changlian was completed, he submitted an application to the Guinness China Records Headquarters in Luoyang, Henan Province on December 8, 2012.
The Guinness China Records Headquarters made the certification on March 17, 2012. Decision: Tong Wei's "Ten Thousand Character Couplet" is the world's longest couplet in 5,000 years, and a certificate was issued to Tong Wei on May 14, 2012.
)--The above is excerpted from the article "A young man from Sansui County created a "10,000-character couplet" to break the world record" from Jinqian News
Then Tong Wei completed the longest prose "Searching" with 51,268 words in 2013. Ancient Legends"