It is advanced to convey the youth experience in the form of poetry, but the narrative style that shows this experience incisively and vividly is the youth novel at that time. "Youth" originally refers to spring, when the vegetation is lush. What about "Songs of the South"? "Big move" says: "Youth fades, but the sun shines only". In Du Fu's poems, "youth" and "I sing loudly and drink deeply, and teenagers accompany me to return home" also refer to spring. From nature refers to youth to human youth, that is, refers to human youth. Youth novels happened in the 1950s, which is not only a reflection of getting rid of the old cloth in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but also a description of the youthful appearance of the ancient Chinese nation. At the same time, it is also an expression of the writer's youthful mentality in this particular era, which has its own forms of expression.
Echoing the poetic circles with youthful intentions at that time, Wang Meng's novel Long Live Youth also begins with a preface: "All the days, all the days have come,/Let me weave for you with the golden thread of youth,/and a happy wreath. /"A simple day is also a changeable day. /Everything in the wide world surprises us. /Always cheerful, never indifferent. /Tears, laughter and deep thought are all the first time. " Lyrical brushwork is widely used in novel creation, which makes some chapters and paragraphs closer to poetry and prose, which is a more obvious stylistic feature of Long Live Youth. From the traditional point of view, the author who was under 20 at that time was more like a lyric poet. Because of his love for life, this feeling of being strongly attracted and moved by life, I went to literature. The novel gives people a deep impression, but it is not a carefully constructed story paragraph, but the author's emotion of "loving life" gushes out again and again. The author wrote his lyrical times into a song praising life.
The characters in Long Live the Youth are behind the great social changes and transformations produced by the revolution. What unfolds before their eyes is the new green of life after the revolution; It is the wish of a nation to heal the wounds of war and build a better future. Whether or not it contains the factor of replacing reality with ideals, for these naive intellectual youth, revolution is the scavenger of the dark and dirty life they hate, and it is a clean stream to drive away filth. "At 1953, I have already felt that it is difficult for this generation of young people to reproduce repeatedly. I want to show them and describe them. " -the author's words just show the special meaning of the post-revolutionary life background.