Chapter 29 postscript

After the work was published in the first issue of "Contemporary" this year, thanks to the enthusiastic concern of readers and teachers and friends in the capital's literary and art circles, they gave me a lot of encouragement and encouragement.While I am grateful, I also feel very guilty.Looking forward to the emergence of more works reflecting contemporary rural life is probably the reason why readers from many provinces and cities wrote to me-but I don’t know that I am just a straggler on the literary front.Some readers wrote to wish the author happiness, as if worrying about some hidden danger for me.These are really warm-hearted comrades and sisters.

What is the situation in the countryside? The livelihood, shelter, food and clothing of the 800 million people are very important to our country.Especially the current rural areas are undergoing profound changes in the economic management system. The vast land of 9.6 million square kilometers, frigid, temperate, subtropical, tropical, plains, plateaus, mountains, hills, rice, dry grain, melons and fruits, forests Vegetation, no longer carry out production activities according to one model, and no longer engage in unfavorable farming seasons and unfavorable geographical conditions. "Standardized operations" is really a great progress in our society.Before the new situation, isn't it also beneficial to review the lessons of the past and look forward to the good times that have come?

I remember that in the past few years, I myself had a rather "standardized" mind, dealing with people in the world, writing and narrating, always looking forward and backward, and being cautious, lest the slightest omission would violate the plethora of precepts and cause disasters.It was the ideological line of the Third Plenary Session of the Party that liberated me and gave me the ability to understand life and the "courage" to analyze society and life.However, my "courage" under the guidance of the "four persistence" principles is still very limited compared with writers of the same generation and readers.I am a countryman from the south, living far away from the rivers and lakes. I have both the simple and hardworking side of the countryman-forgive me for boasting here; I also have the clumsy and dull side of the countryman-forgive me for lying here.Last year, I had the honor to participate in the fifth session of the Chinese Writers Association's Literature Workshop, and got along with a group of young and middle-aged writers from all over the country day and night.Xueyou is talented, and Jinghua paper is expensive. I saw the gap between myself and these outstanding students.Although I started learning to write in the late 1950s and published short essays in 1962, my starting point was very low and I was tainted with whitewashing.

The literary paleness of life. After the fall of the "Gang of Four", our party and country have entered a new historical period, and our socialist literature and art have opened a new page.The speed of development and the intensity of change seem like a world away.A large number of young and middle-aged writers inherited the tradition of realism pioneered by the older generation of writers, faced the complex society and life, and wrote many brilliant and inspiring works.The new era puts forward new literary requirements.As far as I am concerned, in the face of this new literary requirement, there are not only the problems of re-understanding and analyzing life, but also the problems of artistic accomplishment and means of expression.So I explored, trying to include and condense the people and things in the southern countryside that I have been familiar with for more than 20 years into one work, embodying the political situation in the pictures of customs and folk customs, using the fate of the characters to interpret the changes in the life of the town, and striving to Write about the color and mood of life in the southern countryside.In this way, it was born.

Out of love for me, some friends pointed out that my exercises were written too realistically.The truth of literature is of course not the original pictures taken of life, it is the crystallization that is screened and refined by the author's thoughts, feelings, and artistic concepts.Of course, sometimes literature's true description of social life can make people shy and sad.I think that in our specific historical era today, shyness is a rather valuable emotion and a manifestation of self-esteem.It can become a spiritual appeal to say goodbye to the mistakes of the past, so as to remember those daunting lessons, shed the burden of tradition, and strive for the revitalization of China and the realization of the "four modernizations".Also, it can also serve as a lesson for our next generation.

It is a new attempt on my creative path.both try, It is inevitable that it will be naive and will be accompanied by some fallacies.Fortunately, Lu Xun's former teacher said: "It's just that it's naive, and it's just this side that I hope for."This is my masturbation and my self-encouragement. Taking this opportunity to publish the booklet, I would like to express my sincerity to the senior writers and editors who have supported and cared for the writing and revision of this manuscript, to all the readers who encouraged me, and to the collectors of folk songs in my hometown. thanks.I hope that in the grand gathering of spring, this work can be like a weak heather bamboo, leaning over the bamboo fence of the literary garden full of flowers, blooming a shy but affectionate smile.

Gu Hua Beijing, May 7, 1981