Chapter 154 Willow's Legacy

Compared with some writers with voluminous works, Liu Qing's works may not be enough for us.However, if one tael of gold and silver is compared with a catty of copper and iron, what is its value? Yes, this serious realist writer, in his literary activities throughout his life, even if he created something as big as a palm, he tried his best to carve it carefully with his unique artistic carving knife, avoiding a kind of craftsman-like manufacturing as much as possible.As for his unfinished epic "The History of Entrepreneurship", it consumed almost a third of his entire life.Although this monumental structure will never be complete again, nor is it perfect in its ready-made parts, it will still be cherished by present and future generations.Just as we stand in front of the temple in Athens now, although we can no longer see a complete miracle, the broken corridors and columns alone are enough to amaze people.

Liu Qing is such a kind of person: he always dissolves the citizenship and the artist's great poetic feeling together.As an artist, he is always like a burning flame and a turbulent water.He tried his best to let people hear his own voice clearly in the chorus; he deliberately tried to make himself stand out from the average person.But in daily life, he strictly regards himself as an ordinary citizen, and tries his best not to lose the feeling of an ordinary person.He has lived in the countryside like a farmer for many years and has done a lot of specific work like an ordinary grassroots cadre.It is precisely because of this that he can reproduce such a complex life so realistically in "The History of Entrepreneurship"-in this work, every tiny ripple we see seems to be a wrinkle in life itself.

After all, real life and deliberately staged life will be distinguished by people.If an artist is detached from the vast and deep life, even if he is talented, he can only produce some exquisitely dressed handicrafts; and the artistic flowers with fragrance and dew can only be cultivated on the land of life.This is the lifelong belief of the artist Liu Qing.For today's writers, we may not all be able to adopt the exact same method as Liu Qing did back then, but the tenacious and extraordinary pursuit of the late writer should be respected and learned by each of us. The writer resolutely left the bustling big city back then, and lived in a courtyard house rebuilt from a ruined temple in Huangfu Village. His eyes scanned everyone and everything around him trivially, and on the other hand, he projected his eyes to the wider world. world.With a microscope in one hand, he was observing life in Huangfu Village and its surroundings, and with a telescope in the other hand, he was looking beyond Zhongnan Mountain.Therefore, his works not only show the lifelike details of life, but also reflect the epic grandeur in general.Only a few geniuses can unite these two aspects.When we read "The History of Entrepreneurship", we often feel that the whole period of life shown in the work is like a long and wide river flowing in front of us; and in this long and turbulent river, if we stop in any bay, we will feel that You will find that there is also a world - and each place has a unique scenery.The scene like the conversation between Liang Da and his son Shenglu in the house in the twenty-fifth chapter of the second part of "The History of Entrepreneurship" makes people feel like following the old man suffering from asthma and secretly using the family's window paper Tongue licked, what he saw while standing outside their house holding his breath.

As a profound thinker and an extraordinary novel artist, Liu Qing's main talent is to divert and gather these small streams of life into the broad riverbed of the overall structure of his works; to make these seemingly ordinary Life is suddenly filled with a huge and surging capacity of thought and history.Undoubtedly, this writer shows with all his creative activities that he is not only satisfied with a familiar and thorough understanding of the life around him; he also casts his eyes on the wider world and the entire history of human development In order to put the fine slices of life that you have obtained on the curtain of a vast society and far-reaching history to check its true value and significance.He was by no means a man who was only obsessed with the little stories of life.If this is the case, he may only leave us some excellent sketches, instead of hanging a huge oil painting like "The History of Entrepreneurship" in the gallery of our country's contemporary literature.

Those who have never met Liu Qing have heard rumors that the writer is dressed in double-breasted clothes and a melon cap. He is simply a real farmer, or a clock repairer in a small town.Yes, that's what he looks like.However, such a Liu Qing will soon become another Liu Qing: wearing a suit, a pair of pedantic gold-rimmed glasses, and talking with foreigners in fluent English.About domestic and foreign politics, economy, nationality, history, culture, geography, almost all aspects of the world are within the field of vision of this seemingly peasant writer; An insight that makes you feel new and unique.On the walls of the apartments he changed several places in his later years, there were no other decorations, only a map of China and a map of the world were often hung.From time to time he would walk up to the map and snap his bony fingers to a place in China or a foreign country he was talking about.Sometimes he will point to the map and tell you half a day about the history and current situation of British or French agriculture, the situation of wheat planting in Canada and so on.At this time, you will feel that he is not a writer, but an expert of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.When he was writing "The History of Entrepreneurship", he also wrote a paper on changing the agricultural management methods in the mountainous areas of northern Shaanxi.In his thesis, he quoted a large number of foreign agricultural materials, which surprised some famous agricultural experts.It is this vastness of vision and breadth of learning that a writer has, coupled with his penetrating knowledge of life, that give his work an epic quality.His works can never be simply described as "yam eggs".

Liu Qing's creative activities tell us that if we are only satisfied with the small circle of life we ​​know, or simply hide in our inner world to create, we will not have much success.We can't compare with him, but we should learn from him, and try to keep our eyes not only in the small world of life and acquaintance. The outstanding realist writer Liu Qing left us five years ago.But the writer has undoubtedly left us a legacy.He lived passionately in our turbulent times, he busily created, and, like any human being, he had his faults and mistakes.But the wealth created by his life's hard work is extremely precious to people today and to people in the future.As juniors, we accept his gift with gratitude.