Chapter 32 1982 "Black Steed"

Genre: Novella Author: Zhang Chengzhi Content introduction: A man's mental journey of leaving his hometown and returning to his hometown and a poignant love story reflect the Mongolian nation's self-decision in the collision of old and new concepts, as well as the struggle and cry of the ideal generation in the grassland. The protagonist in "The River in the North" is an older educated youth who has returned to the city. In order to get rid of his fate, he is preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, which is the unpopular geography.The book lightly writes about the hazy love, about the gap between mediocre life and ideals, about life's bluntness of passion, and about the strength drawn from the river in the north.

In "Assassination in Western Province", in the desolate west, there is a small village named Yikeyang.On a certain day in history, Ma Hualong, the leader of the rebel army, was executed here by Ling Chi. Before his death, he faced the executioner's sharp knife and predicted that someone would avenge me in forty years.Many years later, a bloody killing really took place here. About the author: Zhang Chengzhi, Hui nationality, originally from Jinan City, Shandong Province, was born in Beijing in 1948. In 1967, he graduated from the High School Attached to Tsinghua University and went to Ujimqin Banner in Inner Mongolia to join the team for 4 years. In 1975, he majored in archaeology in the Department of History of Peking University. In 1978, he was admitted to the Department of Ethnic History and Language of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He graduated with a master's degree in 1981. He mainly researched the history of northern ethnic groups.Zhang Chengzhi is a young writer and scholar. He has achieved certain results in the research work of Mongolian history and northern ethnic history, and has also made great achievements in novel writing.His first works were the Mongolian poem "Being the Son of the People" and the short story "Why the Rider Sings", which won the 1978 National Excellent Short Story Award and the National Minority Literary Creation Honor Award.The novels published since then include the novella "Alek Football", which won the first "October" Literary Award and the National Minority Literary Creation Award.It won the 1981-1982 National Excellent Novella Award, and "Spring" won the 1983 Beijing Literature Award. "The River in the North" won the 1983-1984 National Excellent Novella Award. In 1987, the novel "Golden Ranch" was published.

Evaluation: As soon as it was published, it infected readers with its unique artistic charm, and won the 1981-1982 National Excellent Novella Award.The novel takes the vast and magnificent prairie as the background, takes an ancient folk song as the main line, describes the growth process of the Mongolian youth Baiyin Baolig, and describes the tragic love between him and Suomia.With a soothing rhythm and graceful brushwork, the novel reproduces the customs and human feelings of the grassland people.It extols the virtues of kindness, simplicity and hard work of the grassland people. It is not only the title of this novel, but also the title of an ancient folk song. This folk song tells a love story, just like the story of our novel, but the author is not just telling us this story , but the brush strokes go deep into the deep layer of the dignified cultural accumulation of the grassland nation, so that the work has a profound sense of historical depth and a profound sense of reality.

Character creation: The protagonist Baiyinbaolig is a Mongolian youth who pursues civilization and progress. His pursuit reflects the Mongolian people's pursuit of a better life.Grandma and Somiya are the symbols of hardworking, kind and simple Mongolian people.However, their ignorant understanding of some traditions and acceptance of fate can also be seen that the accumulation of traditions is deeply imprinted on them. The ancient awareness of the joy of creation and life in the ancient grassland culture and modern civilization have occurred here. crash. Facing this strong collision, the protagonist feels depressed, wandering, and disappointed.He left angrily. Nine years later, after being cultivated by modern civilization.His heart is always drawn by the melancholy and graceful ancient nation of "Black Steed", and he often has germinations that he can't explain clearly.what is it then?The author has such a passage in the article: "I gradually feel that those overly passionate and distant endings, the unsettling sentimentality in this world, the simple and simple tragic stories; and the deep and sincere love are just some Relying on or framework. Or, it is just the color and tone that the spirituality relies on to make music. But the real soul in the ancient song is much more hidden and complicated. It is it, given to our ancestors and ancestors from generation to generation. We feel it deeply, but we will never allow us to fully appreciate it.” The protagonist seems to feel that these are the foundation of his national culture, the deep accumulation of national culture, which is the ancient life of the grassland.The protagonist is clearly aware of this, but in the depths of his feelings, he is still deeply attached to this land, because it is the land where he was born and raised; he still loves this land deeply, because it is his land. root.

At the end of the work, I wrote: "I rolled off the saddle and threw my body into the lush green grass. I quietly kissed the bitter grass, and kissed the footprints and traces of Somia and me. Passionate love, this is where I will never forget the beautiful red clouds and the prairie where my relatives live.” As a typical Chinese mentality novel, the work is not limited by the boundaries of time and space, but Flow power line with character consciousness. (At the same time, pay attention to the internal logic of plot development), showing various plots along the psychological flow of characters and the trajectory of thought development, so that the work presents a beating but continuous overall effect, which enhances the artistic appeal.The author describes the magnificent and gorgeous prairie scenery with prose-style brushwork, so that the works have both a strong prairie flavor and a powerful and deep musical beauty.It is soul-stirring to read and has a strong artistic effect.

Artistic features: It is Zhang Chengzhi's representative work. As soon as it was published, it infected readers with its unique artistic charm, and won the 1981-1982 National Excellent Novella Award in one fell swoop. The novel tells the story of Mongolian youth Baiyinbaolig riding a black steed looking for his former lover Somia.Baiyinbaolig was fostered by his grandmother Eji when he was a child, and he and Suomiya were raised by his grandmother together.Their childhood sweethearts had a natural and pure love.When Baiyinbaolige grew up and went out to study, Somia was bullied by wicked people.Baiyin Baoliger couldn't stand Suomiya and grandma's resignation to this matter, and left angrily.Nine years later, when Baiyinbaolig returned to the grassland, her grandmother had passed away, and Suomiya also married far away.Baiyinbaolig rode the black steed that he and Suomiya raised back then to look for Suomiya's whereabouts.

Although the story is relatively simple, it contains complex emotional experience, and only by immersing in it can you taste the samadhi.At the same time, the author uses a unique artistic perspective and writing techniques in the novel, which makes the novel have a high aesthetic value. language and structure language feature The language of Zhang Chengzhi's articles has its own pattern, with a vigorous, vigorous, heroic, and stubborn cultural temperament.In the process of reading, you can really feel this.The reason why his writing has such artistic characteristics is that he is accustomed to using long sentences in his articles, with abundant and strong emotions; at the same time, he is good at outlining the innermost feelings of characters and vividly depicting their emotions.

1. A large number of long sentences are used: the author uses a lot of long sentences in the novel, which makes the language highlight the gorgeous, strong, lyrical texture and rich colors.In the song, we can feel the Mongolian song "Gangga? Ganga?Hara", the long sentences in the novel and this ancient song silently reflect each other, setting the tone of the novel together; at the same time, this language arrangement also controls the narrative and lyrical rhythm of the entire article, endowing the novel with a unique sense of music; What is important is that in the novel, the author depicts a vast and magnificent Inner Mongolia prairie for us, which is also the background of the whole novel.The sentence pattern of long sentences is like a long shot in a movie, which includes the magnificence, simplicity and simplicity of the grassland, and also provides readers with a broader spiritual vision.

2. Pay attention to the portrayal of characters' psychology: Cai Xiang, a famous critic, said: "Zhang Chengzhi is good at writing opinions. What he is committed to exploring is a writing method that can express the soul freely." This kind of psychological description: "The mood that has been accumulated in the hearts of the riders for too long has quietly risen. It lingers and turns into a melody, a taste that is endlessly expressive, endless, and simple, a kind of A unique spirituality. This spirituality has no sound, but it has a sense of music that seems to be destined-including low rhythms, life-like melodies, and green or blue colors.” For the author who once lived in the grassland , as a writer and a herdsman, he embodies the greatness and nobility of the grassland culture with a deep and stern style of writing, and expresses the hearts and emotions of the herdsmen delicately and truly.

Zhang Chengzhi poured the rigidity and boldness in his blood into the modern Chinese language with vigor and tenderness. He made the grassland expand and expand under meditation, and he made the laughter and pain of the people in the grassland truly reflected. structure The novel has a compact structure and multiple echoes. It can be seen that the author is unique in handling the structure of the novel, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: 1. The continuity of the story line, with the horse as the theme, but has nothing to do with the horse.This is a story about people.However, in the novel, the black steed becomes the clue of the story, connecting characters and plots together to form a coherent system.In the novel, there are two black horses.

(1) The real black steed It is written in the novel that on a snowy night, a black foal was born among grandma Erji’s horse herd. The two protagonists in the story——Baiyinbaolig when he was a boy and Suomiya when he was a girl The childhood sweetheart feelings that arise from taking care of the pony.The little pony grew up day by day, and the love between the two deepened day by day.However, after the two experienced unfortunate blows and painful separation, when the grown-up Baiyin Baolige returned to the old grassland, trying to find the trace of his former lover, the means of transportation he got turned out to be the old one. He and Somia fed the big black steed, and the unexpected reappearance of the black steed made the memory of the protagonist connect with reality, and made the storyline more dramatic. (2) The black horse in the song of Inner Mongolia When the young hero and heroine happily fed the little black horse, grandma Eji couldn't help singing the ancient song "Ganga?Hara", to the effect: a story about a brother riding a beautiful black steed trekking a long distance across the vast grasslands to find his sister.But after going through all kinds of twists and turns, the rider brother couldn't find his long-lost sister.This beautiful and moving ancient song turned out to be a prophecy and became a metaphor for the future fate of the hero and heroine.The ancient song "Gang Ga?"Hala" is the author's foreshadowing. With the development of the novel's plot, the sharp conflict between the beautiful ideal and the cruel reality, the modern love tragedy echoes the ancient ballad. The coincidence and echo of the previous two make the real black steed and the "black steed" in the ancient song a double clue in the form and content of the novel.With the real black horse as the scripture and the "black horse" in ancient songs as the weft, the author weaves a beautiful and sad love story for us. 2. Sequential diversity The novel does not adopt a single narrative method, but a large number of interludes are mixed in the overall narration process.These interludes either come from the protagonist's noumenal memories, or from other people's descriptions.Such an arrangement by the author makes the novel break through the limitation of time and space, and closely combines related plots and contents, thus producing a unique artistic effect: first, the organization of the storyline is more meticulous; Keep strengthening. In terms of handling, the author's technique is also very ingenious. There is no sense of bluntness at the connection between reality and memory, reality and other people's narration, and it appears natural and smooth. In short, the structure of the whole novel can be regarded as: the beginning of the writing is extraordinary, the writing is not chaotic, and the writing is powerful.The author's wisdom in coordinating the layout and the ability to control the whole article are implied in the transition from beginning to end. Character image and expression method Baiyinbao League The protagonist Baiyin Baoliger grew up in the commune when he was a child. He was stubborn by nature and his father had no time to take care of him, so he was raised by Grandma Eji on the grassland.In the process of living with her grandmother and her granddaughter Suomia, Baiyin Baoliger got used to and fell in love with life on the grassland, and became a progressive young man who loves working and reading.At the same time, his pure love with Somia made him full of yearning and longing for a better life in the future.At this time, Baiyinbao League is active and optimistic.But when he learned that Somiya was bullied, he felt extremely angry.And the attitude of grandma and Somiya towards this matter made him even more unacceptable. "Somia, who became pregnant after being raped, was hostile to Baiyinbao League in order to protect her unborn child, and her grandmother's separation and strangeness towards Baiyinbao League all showed the different relationship between the subject and the grassland. Just like As Baiyinbaolig once realized, this is not his fairy-tale home, and the grassland does not follow the instructions of his imagination." ① He felt alienated by the grassland.At this time, Baiyinbao League is disappointed, sad and lonely.Many years later, Baiyin Baoliger completed his university studies and returned to the grassland, trying to find Suomia and his previous life, but along the way, he learned that his grandma had passed away long ago, and Suomia had also married far away. .His heart was full of regret, guilt and pain. When expressing the character image of Baiyin Baolig, the author uses the first-person narrative method.Although at the beginning of the novel, the protagonist enters the scene from the third person, this is only a method of sketching.Afterwards, the author changed his style of writing and used the first person to narrate Baiyinbao League.This has two advantages: one is that it facilitates the development of the plot, especially those reminiscent plots; the other is that it facilitates the expression of the character's heart, making the character's image more real and full of tension. somia The pure and kind Somia when she was a girl, the Somia who endured the humiliation after being bullied in life, the affectionate Somia as a mother, and the strong life of a shepherd's wife, these images are superimposed one by one , has become the image of a beautiful, kind, tenacious and tenacious prairie woman who bravely faces suffering, is willing to be ordinary in life, and is full of sincerity and love in love.She allows us to feel the existence of beauty in the depths of life through her image!The beauty of human nature and nature, as well as the great maternal love!The hardships of life forged the sublimation of her character, and her perseverance and kindness made her life glow with a strange brilliance.But at the same time, we can also see that the traditional grassland culture has left a deep imprint on her. Before Baiyinbaolige left the grassland, Suomiya was described through Baiyinbaoli's first-person perspective. This direct method of expression fully portrays the character's image and inner quality.And when Baiyinbaolig returned to the grassland, he never found the real Suomiya in his search, and he could only vaguely know Suomiya's nine-year experience from other people's mouths.Although it is an indirect description, the image of Somiya has gained a three-dimensional sense because different people stand in different perspectives. It is impossible to achieve a "seamless" connection between various narratives. What we get from other people's narrations are only some fragments of Somia's life, and we cannot know her complete life experience and mental journey.How she buried her grandma alone, how she chose to marry far away, how she missed Baiyin Baoliger silently, how she told her daughter Qiqige that they had a relative named "Bapa"... None of these things are described in the novel, so A large number of blank spaces are formed, which give readers a rich imagination space. In the readers' imagination, Suomia's character image is more plump and perfect, exuding the brilliance of humanity. artistic effect rhythm of words The ancient Mongolian song "Gangga?Hara controls the narrative and lyrical rhythms, giving the novel its unique musicality.The author uses a large number of long sentence patterns to tell an incomplete and beautiful love. In the deep and long context, it arouses endless thinking and taste. This long and slow rhythm is matched with the vast and magnificent prairie background, with the simple life of the herdsmen and the rich hearts of the characters, realizing the blend of emotion and scenery. "Artistic conception is the crystallization of emotion and scenery." ②In the rhythm of the author's words, we feel a different artistic conception. incomplete plot 1. Imperfect love: The beginning of the story is harmonious and beautiful, with the kind white-haired Eji, the happy childhood Baiyin Baolige and Suomia, and the beautiful little pony Ganga?Hara, this is a beautiful and peaceful picture of grassland life.Baiyin Baolige and Suomi fell in love with each other when they were young, but the beautiful love that was within reach disappeared because of the intrusion of a villain. When the beautiful love was broken, Baiyin Baolige left the grassland to search for modern civilization, and Suomiya endured a hard life alone.A beautiful flower of love withers before it blooms. Isn't it always easy to make a decision when you are young, and then regret it when you are mature?And some things, once lost, can never be gained again.Is it only in this kind of loss that people can realize some of the true meaning of life?Between the cruel reality and the beautiful ideal of love, there is often a spark of the soul. 2. Imperfect search: After completing nine years of study, Baiyin Baolige returned to the grassland to look for Suomia with regret. He approached his lover step by step, but in the end he still missed. From the results point of view, this search is not perfect.However, in the process of searching, he kept inquiring about Suomia's whereabouts, and also kept learning about Suomia's experience in the past nine years. He felt Suomia's hardship and greatness, and also realized the cultural value of the grassland .The footsteps of pursuit helped Baiyin Baolige complete a spiritual journey.He didn't meet his former lover, but he gained a mature personality and a rich heart. character's humanity "The reason why some literary works can impress readers and arouse people's aesthetic reactions is because there is a common ground based on human nature between the writer and the readers." ③The novel is full of various conflicts, conflicts between good and evil , the conflict between modernity and tradition, the conflict between true love and misunderstanding... In these conflicts, we see the truth of human nature and the unique cultural value of the grassland. 1. Cherishing life: In the book, we seem to be able to touch some ideologies about the grassland.Grandma and Suomia bear the imprint of traditional grassland culture, and these ideologies are also reflected in them, such as: cherishing life. Grandma Erji can use her own milk to feed the livestock that are waiting to be fed. The cherishment of life occupies an important position in the value system of the grassland.Even when Baiyinbaolig learned that Suomia had been bullied, and he took a knife to avenge the villain, grandma stopped him and said, "Why, child, is it worth killing for this matter?" The cherishment of life, from another perspective, can also be interpreted as: the greatness of maternal love.Originating from the instinct of maternal love, she cannot abandon her own flesh and blood for love. Although she is so small, she is life after all.So Somia endured the shame of being bullied and the pain of Baiyinbaoliger's misunderstanding, to raise Qiqige, a thin child, and to bear the fate arrangement on her own shoulders. 2. The preciousness of love: "Whether in China or abroad, the most humane theme is love." ④ In this novel, we also see beautiful love. Although life is filthy, love itself is still lose its purity.Love after experiencing the hardships of life is more pure and clear.This kind of love is not as sweet as it is before, but it can be called the most true and kindest emotion in the world! Life is rough and love is fragile.But the rough life still has the beauty of humanity, just like the beauty of Somia, and there are still nostalgia and dreams in the fragility of love.When Baiyinbaolig heard "Bapa" from Suomia's daughter Qiqige, his heart should be shocked.After the separation, their love may gradually fade, but the nostalgia and persistence make the lost love an unbearable burden in life. Grassland culture A great writer must integrate his personal life experience into his works, and a great work must also reflect the writer's spiritual enlightenment.Behind the text, we can experience the author's pious fascination with grassland culture. "He raised the spiritual factor to the value standard, and made it have the ultimate meaning... Successfully expressed the noble spiritual image of human beings in folk discourse." ⑤ Just like the article said: "In order to pursue the so-called modern civilization, I betrayed the steppe, and in the end I still have nothing." The author also has this passage: "I gradually feel that those overly passionate and distant endings, those once-in-a-lifetime sentimentality, that simple tragic story, and that deep and sincere love are just some support or framework. , or in other words, are just the colors and tones that the spirituality relies on to be musicalized. But the real soul inside the ancient songs is much more hidden and complex. It is it, which has been engraved on our ancestors and us from generation to generation. Feel it, but never let us have the possibility to fully appreciate it." What the author and the protagonist feel is the heritage of grassland national culture and the deep accumulation of national culture.In the depths of his feelings, he is still deeply attached to this piece of grass, because that is the mother who gave birth to him and raised him, and that is his root.At the end of the article, I wrote: "I rolled off the saddle and threw my body into the green and dense grass. I quietly kissed the bitter grass, and kissed the spot where Somia and I were left. Footsteps and blazing love, I will never forget the beautiful red clouds and the prairie where my loved ones live." People living in the grassland always have a persistent feeling for their homeland. The peace of mind that the grassland brings to them is a beautiful dream in their hearts.In their hearts, the prairie is the mother who gives them everything. The love for their mother is a torrent rooted deep in their hearts, and it is the greatest love and love in the world.