——Preface to "Carving the World" Hainan With a strange feeling, I almost finished reading the original novel "Carving the World" presented by Yang Yang in one sitting.From that moment on, the smell of wood began to permeate the air one by one. As the words moved forward, Yang Yang, the speaker of the mysterious witch land, used a voice from southern Yunnan to recite a story that was once pursued by our reading fantasies. A kind of text image began to appear.Yang Yang is a writing friend I met in the early 21st century. He lives at the foot of Xiushan Mountain in Tonghai. He created a study in a small county town in southern Yunnan, and thus created a writing labyrinth. Every time I pass through southern Yunnan, I have to pass Yang Yang's bookstore, and I can't help but walk in.Many years ago, Yang Yang told us the story of a "wooden saint". Perhaps, since then, Yang Yang has already fabricated the structure of a novel.In the silent tempering of time, suddenly, an original novel is displayed in front of you, as if you have cut off the author's creation process, and the time that has been omitted has been hidden. At that time, I had a premonition that Yang Yang, who lived in a secret realm on the edge of words, had used his works to bring me, as well as you readers, a kind of shock and joy of reading: this is a novel that transcends the meaning of reality. The work, which brings together almost all the words in the mysterious witchland, thus revealing the secular history and art history of an artist who lived in a distant century that is unknown to everyone.For this reason, the secrets of a lifetime shrouded in the mist of time are unraveled, allowing us to appreciate and breathe the color and fragrance of time that weaves together like morning dew.

I let go of all the miscellaneous things, and after reading this work wholeheartedly, I began to pay tribute to this writer in southern Yunnan from the bottom of my heart. His book is undoubtedly a bitter and arduous journey. It can only be penetrated to the end with the magic that the writer has tampered with.When Gao Shimei, a small carpenter in southern Yunnan, was rising in the images he was reading, a thin layer of mist in Yunnan’s spring had begun to permeate, and twists and turns in the layers of wet fog, like a long-standing wooden carving of four halls A door has been opened, and with the mutual reflection of the dark luster, I began to be shrouded in a long time.In this way, the pleasure of reading has come, as if it has entered a dusk in June 1870, that is the beginning of the story, that is a town of Nirang where a woodcarving artist comes and goes, and a disaster is happening there, it is the A small place, which also belongs to the cholera of human life, shows a huge game of life. Therefore, Nilang Town on the southern edge-a simple but great artist has been seen by time.

Time, only the great and endless mystery of time, can allow us to see Gao Shimei's bright eyes at this moment, in another century far away from the small town of Nilang. He must escape from cholera As a boy, he had to bypass cholera, walk out of a small world, and use the existence of life to prove the longest smelting in the future, so he survived and walked out of Nilang Town.I read every carefully planned detail in the novel, because I was born and lived in Yunnan, so I can smell a kind of human magic with the taste of words, which is the temple where the mystery of time is melted, so Xiao Xiao Carpenter Gao Shimei walked towards the temple, getting closer and closer to us.

Gao Shimei was placed in an inescapable fate by Yang Yang, that is, stretching out her hands from beginning to end, touching the words of all things in the world, it may be the wings of birds sweeping through layers of barriers, or it may be God bestowed on him A joy of sight.Despite this, Gao Shimei cannot avoid a kind of suffering in the same world, so, along with Gao Shimei's artistic career, it always comes from reality, and it is unpredictable again and again. This may be human nature, or it may be magic.A creative writer should present a rational magic before us, and endow this magic with poetic and metaphysical meaning.In this novel, through the private life of a forgotten little carpenter in the southern part of Yunnan, China, we can travel deep into Yang Yang's vast magical kingdom. Inside, among the layers of barriers made by thorns, We will meet the special and charming geographical environment in southern Yunnan. Those paths, melons and fruits, and the moonlight rising in the dark night all emit a voice that only our souls are called by; In the long touch of beauty, he is brought by his charming fingers again and again to a kind of spiritual sanctuary, in which all sufferings have been expressed as joy and a state where the body has been completely purified.

In it, in the face of a great magic, reading suddenly revived the little carpenter in the 19th century with unprecedented power, and Gao Shimei's body appeared in the strange picture, and then his soul appeared.When the body is tempered by all things in the world, the soul suddenly jumps out and comes to meet us.Obviously, in order to write this work, Yang Yang has prepared a lot of materials to describe a magic, for example, in the book, the relationship between fabrics, its weaving, is like a ceremony when praying to God; for example, from all around All the sounds in the air lead us to a melting place of life; for example, in the irresistible changes of fate, all the mysteries of life and death descend, changing our reality; for example, the swaying pine branches, after Suddenly there was silence, and then, there was burning...