Creation background: 1966 The founding of New China was a climax of Chinese novel creation and publication. Over the past ten years, a large number of works have been published, of which dozens have a wide influence and are extremely popular. These works adhere to the principle of socialist realism, eulogize the arduous struggle and vigorous spirit of our people in different historical periods, such as the Agrarian Revolutionary War, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and socialist construction, represent the highest achievement of China's novel creation in that period, and occupy an extremely important position in the history of contemporary literature in China. They have influenced several generations of readers with their unique charm, and have gone through the elutriation of time, which has been passed down to this day.
The author Yang Mo was born in a declining bureaucratic landlord family in Beijing. He once taught in Dingxian County, Hebei Province, and later worked as a tutor and bookstore clerk in Beijing. During this period, he contacted Marxism-Leninism and joined the * * * Production Party. This personal life experience has a great influence on her novel creation. Song of Youth, with the historical period from September 18th to December 9th as the background and the student movement as the main line, successfully shaped the typical image of Lin Daojing, a revolutionary youth who woke up and grew up in 1930s.
Editorial appreciation of this novel
Song of Youth is a vivid description of a little intellectual, Lin Daojing, who never succumbed to fate, rebelled against his family and society, and finally plunged into the tide of the times and embarked on the tortuous "suffering course" of the revolutionary road. It vividly shows the historical features of the student revolutionary movement in China and the mental features of all kinds of intellectuals in the specific historical period of "September 18th"-"December 9th" (1931935), thus extracting a revolutionary ideological theme: all intellectuals can only associate their personal future with the destiny of the country and the nation.
Because the author is good at portraying characters in the sharp and fierce struggle vortex, expressing their own personality characteristics through different characters' different reflections on the same thing, skillfully combining the appearance description and psychological description of characters, describing and revealing the inner world of characters through the details with personality characteristics, and combining the changes of characters' personality with the changes of characters' destiny, through all these efforts, it not only makes Lin Daojing's image vivid, real and touching, but also makes other characters in his works, such as Lu Jiachuan, Jiang Hua and so on. Although these images have more or less typological traces, they can still show the writer's profound artistic skills in shaping characters. The mental outlook of all kinds of characters has been displayed, which makes the novel contain broad and rich connotation of the times.
Song of Youth not only reflects the changes of the times, but also refines the ideological theme of the revolution through the description of Lin Daojing's personal fate, encounter and destination, as well as the description of various young intellectuals at that time.
In terms of artistic features, the whole work is magnificent in structure and complicated in plot. When dealing with characters, the author avoids simple and one-sided treatment, but goes deep into the inner world of the protagonist with delicate brushstrokes, truly portrays the psychology of the characters and comprehensively grasps the multiple aspects of the characters, thus having strong artistic appeal.
People are most likely to recall the past when they are in pain.
Charming love turns into a gorgeous rainbow, and the beautiful colors gradually fade with time. Lin Daojing and Yu Yongze, two young people, were slowly awakened from their hallucinations by the whip of reality.
When she walks, she is still so dull. She walked behind the porter with her head down without saying a word. Later, she turned a corner and walked to a hill. When the endless sea suddenly appeared between the blue sky and the green Yuan Ye, the dull steps of female students stopped. She looked at the sea, very surprised, and her bright eyes showed joy and excitement. "oh! Oh! " She hit two haha in a row, and her steps were stuck on the ground. "I saw it for the first time-how beautiful!"
She looked greedily at the rippling calm sea and forgot to walk.
Her heart was burning with tears in her eyes, and she stood alone outside the temple gate for a long time. The bright moon rose, and the moonlight shone through the trees like gauze on the beautiful face of the orphan girl. She suddenly fell on the stone tablet in front of the temple and cried in a low voice.
Lin Daojing cried and fell into memories at the same time-how could she come to this unaccompanied place alone? Why does she wander alone in the Woods by the sea on this lonely night? Why did she leave her parents and hometown and wander in this strange place? Why, why did she cry so sadly? ……
The moon moved quietly to the south, and the cool sea breeze gently brushed her short hair, gradually awakening her dizzy mind. So she looked up, looked at the silent forest, looked at the ancient temple with closed doors, and stood up slowly.
The Artistic Achievement of Song of Youth
Mainly in the characterization, he is good at highlighting the personality characteristics of the characters, showing the mental journey of the characters, and depicting the psychological activities of the characters very delicately and truly; The structure of the novel is rigorous and complete, and many characters, complex events and diverse life scenes run through the life experiences of intellectuals such as Lin Daojing and become an organic artistic whole. The language of the novel is fluent, concise, true and natural. Song of Youth is unique in that it was a rare work with intellectuals as the main description object at that time. Inherited the May 4th Enlightenment literary tradition. The novel is based on revolutionary history, but it tells the love story of a young woman. The shortcomings of the novel Song of Youth After Lin Daojing joined the Party, his personality lacked further development. The shaping of other characters is relatively dull; Due to the single-line development of the expression and structure of China's traditional novels, the narrative and description angles are short of changes.