Chapter 171 I saw Tao Yuanming

Tao Yuanming is the poet I first became acquainted with, and I have the deepest impression on him.The reason is that when I first learned to like poetry, my grandfather read some poems by Tao Yuanming to me.Tao Yuanming was his favorite poet.He collected many poems of Tao Yuanming, wrote them into short banners, and hung them everywhere.I also read it while eating and before going to bed. From his poems and from my grandfather's mouth, I also know that he is an old man with backbone, wit and knowledge.When I was a little older, I read his "Ode to Leisure Love" again, and I felt that I knew a little more about his character, but in my imagination, I couldn't catch his real image vaguely.

A few days ago, I read the novel "Tao Yuanming Wrote an 'Elegy'" written by Comrade Chen Xianghe in the November 1961 issue of "People's Literature", and I was very excited, just like reading a novel about Tao Yuanming. As happy as the movie! Recently, the writing of historical novels is highly advocated, and historical novels should be written. Our young friends are not familiar with, or even unfamiliar with, many characters and events in our history. This is an extremely pity.I often think, in the thousands of years of our motherland's history, how many respectable and lovely characters have appeared, and how many words can be used for reference. If these characters and words have not come to the eyes of young people, If they enter the minds of young people and play an encouraging and stimulating role, these characters will be in vain, and these words will be in vain. How can we make historical figures vividly come to the eyes of young people? The role of historical fiction.

In order to write a good historical novel, you must master and be familiar with many things, for example, the life experience, personality, hobbies of the character you describe, his family, his friends, as well as the customs and habits, daily life and diet of the time and place. There must be considerable research, otherwise the joke of the Song version of "Kangxi Dictionary" will be published. At the same time, and above all else, the person or event you describe must have aroused in you a violent emotion, love or hatred, this passion, plus the Gathering all the background you know about this person creates a vivid picture in your mind.At this time, the protagonist in your novel stands up from this picture, just like Zhuge Kongming stood up from it shaking his feather fan. What was not fully utilized in "Three Kingdoms".

Trying to recall short stories in history, I suddenly remembered a passage in "Shi Shuo": The second son is playing with nails, so there is no rush.Rong said the messenger said: "If the crime ends in the body, the second son may not be at all?" Xu Jin, the son, said: "My lord, do you see that under the overturned nest, there are still eggs?" Xun also received it. There are a lot of articles in these six or seven crosses!Starting from the tiniest point, the children know that "under the cover of the nest, there will be eggs." They may dig out the bird's nest, which can be written in a paragraph, but what is the "nail-cutting show"?How to play?As for why Kong Rong was accepted, so that the family was wiped out?In the midst of "fear at home and abroad", why are two eight or nine-year-old children "unpretentious"?There are even more questions to be investigated.Historical novels should be written, but historical novels are not easy to write. From this, I appreciate the benefits of the novel "Tao Yuanming Wrote an 'Elegy'".

Spike Xiaozha". )