Alai was born in Malkang City, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The identity card is marked Tibetan, but it is not pure Tibetan descent, but mixed-race. Because he has lived in a place inhabited by Tibetans for a long time, and the subject matter of his writing also depends on the history and real life of Tibetans, he should be defined as a Tibetan writer who writes in Chinese. China is a country with multi-ethnic writers, and multi-culture promotes the integration of all ethnic groups and the prosperity of literature. As a mixed-race writer, I like to write about strangers in strange environments, which has nothing to do with the writer's own race. I just want to know that in a certain corner of the earth, there are some people living with certain culture and customs. It has nothing to do with the country or the nation. These strange cultures often fascinate me. It can be seen that writing must be different, from subject matter to language, it should be unfamiliar and have its own unique side. Only by doing this can writers from all ages stand out. For example, Faulkner, Marquez, Mo Yan and Jia Pingwa, in contrast, mean that writers should have their own hometown and their own literary territory.
Alai's literary hometown is in northwest Sichuan. When he was 30 years old, he published two books, Old Blood and Mosuo River. When they were published, he looked forward to them every day. But when he got the parcel and opened the book, he suddenly found that he didn't want to read any more. He felt empty in his heart and felt that he had not written well. Ah Lai said: "Literature and art are meaningless if they are not first-class works." This also determined the trend and quality of Alai's later works, and also made his position in China's literary world.
In today's society, people are impetuous and few people can realize this. Some people publish a book locally, repeating others and themselves over and over again, regardless of whether readers are interested in reading it or not. Such publications, at best, create more text rubbish for the society. A few days ago, a well-known writer wrote in a circle of friends that he refused to give books to others except writers of a certain level. Because works without quality are equivalent to consuming other people's lives. This should arouse the writer's vigilance and understand why he writes, and what is the ultimate purpose and significance of writing.
Realizing this problem, Alai took up his camera bag and continued to walk in his hometown, doing some field trips and drawing nutrition from the characters. The road in the stockade is not easy to walk, and the traffic is closed. Go wherever you can only go every day. In Guanzhai, a Tusi village in Songgang, Marcand, Sichuan, there is a saying that Jia Rong has eighteen Tusi, because Jia Rong has eighteen Tusi and two watchtowers. The watchtower is not only an important fighting fortification in the cold weapon era, but also has feng shui significance. When many old people in the stockade were still there, Ah Lai went to look for the history of these Tusi families. Wherever he went, Alai first went to the county records, went to the archives to find historical materials, and then went to the folks to find legends. In this way, Loy, with his interest in local history, almost studied the history of eighteen Tusi families in Jia Rong, and then wrote the famous novel The Dust Settled. Two years later, the dust settled and he won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Award. Alai was also elected as the chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association.
Suffering is a catalyst for one's growth, and Alai is no exception. Ah Lai says his hometown is very good, but he doesn't want to leave himself here. My concept of hometown was only formed in recent years, and I didn't like the place where I lived since I was a child. Like Alai, because my father is a foreigner, my father's hometown was always written in my file before I worked. In my life dictionary, I once lost my hometown. /kloc-left home at the age of 0/4 and spent the rest of his life wandering. After my parents died, I now look back at my hometown and have the concept of hometown. After graduating from junior high school, Alai went to repair Songgang Hydropower Station, where his fate took a turning point. 1977, college entrance examination resumed. He missed the registration time and got the chance to take the exam. Although I was not admitted to the ideal geology school (to be farther away from home), I was admitted to the local normal school. After graduation, I taught in a mountain primary school and had the opportunity to get close contact with literature. Through the publication of a poem, he changed his destiny.
Loy quietly introduced his hometown and its influence on him. Under his calm appearance, I saw a stubborn heart and an interesting soul. Since 2007, he began to photograph plants and gradually became a habit. Walking in the alpine grassland at an altitude of 1900 meters to more than 4,600 meters, you can't do without good health, but you need perseverance more. What supports Alai is the love of literature.
Loy doesn't need to conceive to write his own novel, or he is immersed in the state that the novel needs. Therefore, the writer's walking is also to cultivate a state for his own creation and make himself a character in the novel. In addition, you should learn to restrain writing. Don't just want to write, just like a seed buried in the soil, let it grow slowly. Come out again after a while, and then you will be depressed. When it is really overwhelmed, if you don't write, it will naturally flow out.
From the film, I learned a common sense to distinguish the altitude. First of all, it depends on how high the forest can grow, then how high the meadow and shallow grass can grow, and then the stone beach is up, close to the boundary of life. Maybe it's because I have lived by the sea for a long time. My lung capacity is not enough. When I reached about 2000 meters, I felt altitude sickness. This is also the reason why I yearn for the plateau, but I dare not try. It is precisely because of this that I am interested in the works of plateau writers. Ah, novels are the process of exploring possibilities. People have many possibilities, but in real life, they can only make one choice. In novels, we can live into all kinds of ourselves. Perhaps this is the secret that novelists like to create. Where the body can't reach, it can be expressed in words. But I still like the state of writing while walking.