Modern Mao Dun s Praise for Poplar;
Poplar is really unusual, I praise poplar!
The car is driving on the endless plateau, and what jumps into your field of vision is a large yellow-green carpet. Yellow is soil, virgin land, and the shell of the Loess Plateau successfully accumulated by great natural forces hundreds of thousands of years ago; What about green? It is the result of human labor defeating nature, and it is a wheat field.
The breeze blows gently, turning up green waves-at this time, you will really admire the word "wheat wave" created by the ancients. If it is not a wonderful hand, it is indeed the essence of language.
Yellow and green dominate, boundless and magnanimous. At this time, if you are not reminded by the distant peaks side by side (judging by the naked eye, these peaks are at your feet), you will forget that the car is driving on the plateau. At this time, the feelings that come to your mind may be "majestic", "great" and so on.
At the same time, however, your eyes may feel a little tired. You close your eyes to the "grandeur" or "greatness" of the moment, but another smell lurks in your mind-"monotony". Yeah, right? A little monotonous, isn't it?
However, in an instant, if you suddenly look up and see a row of trees far ahead-no, even just three or five, one standing proudly like a sentry, what would you feel sleepy? I let out a cry of surprise.
That's poplar, a common tree in northwest China, but it's really not an ordinary tree.
It is a tree that strives for the upper reaches, with straight stems and branches. What about its stem? Generally, the height of the handle seems to be artificial, and there are no side branches within ten feet. All its branches are upward, close together, as if artificial, and have become a bundle, and there is no possibility of escaping sideways.
Its broad leaves are also upward one by one, and there are almost no oblique leaves, let alone upside down; Its skin is smooth and silvery, with a slight blue color.
This is a tree that stands tenaciously despite the oppression of heavy snow in the north. Even if it is only as thick as the bowl mouth, it will strive to develop upwards, reaching a height of 20 feet, towering and unyielding, facing the northwest wind.
This is the poplar, a common tree in the northwest, but it is by no means an ordinary tree!
It has no swaying posture and no crooked branches. Maybe you should say it's not beautiful. If beauty means "swaying" or "running sideways", then poplar is not a good woman on the tree. But it is stalwart, honest, simple and earnest, and it is not lacking in tenderness, not to mention tenacity and honest and frank. It's a man in a tree!
When you walk on the plateau where the snow is melting, you see such a tree or a row of poplars standing proudly on the flat land. Do you think a tree is just a tree? Don't you think it is simple, serious, strong and unyielding, at least it symbolizes the farmers in the north.
Don't you think there are strong and unyielding sentries standing proudly guarding their hometown like this poplar tree in the vast land behind enemy lines? Don't you think further, this poplar tree, with dense branches and leaves, is now a symbol of the spirit and will to write the history of new China with blood in the North China Plain?
Poplar is not an ordinary tree. It is common and neglected in the northwest, just like farmers in the north; It has a strong vitality, and it can't be broken or oppressed, just like farmers in the north.
I praise the poplar because it not only symbolizes the farmers in the north, but also symbolizes the indispensable simplicity, strength and enterprising spirit in our national liberation struggle today.
Let those who look down on the people, look down on the people and stubbornly retrogress praise the noble nanmu (which is also straightforward) and despise this extremely ordinary and easy-to-grow poplar, but I will praise the poplar loudly!
Extended data writing background:
This article was written in the most difficult period of China people War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Because the die-hards of the Kuomintang in China are passive in resisting Japan and active in opposing * * *, the anti-Japanese national united front is on the verge of splitting, and the China * * * production party shoulders the arduous War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. 1940 In May, Mao Dun left Xinjiang and returned to the mainland, and was invited by Comrade Zhu De to Yan 'an.
During my lecture in Yan 'an, I personally observed the fighting life of the soldiers and civilians in the liberated areas, and saw the spirit of the anti-Japanese army and civilians fighting in unity, which left a deep impression. After the Southern Anhui Incident, the author expressed his love and praise for the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in the north by praising the poplars on the northwest plateau.
About the author:
Mao Dun (1896~ 198 1), formerly known as Shen Dehong, was born in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, and was a modern writer in China. 19 16 graduated from Peking University preparatory class.
After 19 16, he served as editor-in-chief of Shanghai Commercial Press, editor-in-chief of Novel Monthly, editor-in-chief of Republic of China Daily and one of the founders of Literature Research Association. 1928 went to Japan, 1930 returned to China and joined the Left-wing Writers' League.
After the founding of New China, he served as Minister of Culture and Chairman of Chinese Writers Association. His major works are the novel Midnight, the novella Eclipse (trilogy), the short stories Spring Silkworm and Lin Jiapu.