Chapter 60 Reshape the national soul in the epic

Liu Xingyu A tacit understanding exists not only between men and women in love, but also between readers and good books.A true heart-to-heart person doesn't need to be introduced by anyone, and will naturally fall in love at first sight, without the need for others to chatter.Zhang Zhenglong's books, in particular, have become a brand. Over the past twenty years, people have always been full of respect for his books and full of expectations for his unwritten works.His books not only do not disappoint, but often exceed people's imagination. This is an impetuous era, some people even say it is the era of reading pictures.Not only are people who read books impetuous, but also those who write books become impetuous.Some people have new books almost every year, and they are chased by readers and publishers, and they lose themselves while running.

At this time, you can hardly imagine that a person will do more than ten years of preparation work for a book, and will go all over the country like digging for treasures to find those survivors of the Anti-Japanese War era; you can hardly imagine that he works fifteen hours a day For the above, it took nine months just to read the materials; you can hardly imagine that he declined all activities and concentrated on writing on the theme of the Anti-Japanese War... Zhang Zhenglong did these things that are incredible to others. Ten years of sharpening a sword is a phrase that people use to praise people who concentrate on creating a work, but such words are common, but such things are rarely encountered.Such a huge project, if people like me do it, ten people would have to work on it for ten years, but it took Zhang Zhenglong nearly twenty years to complete this project alone.

In this impetuous age, it is awe-inspiring for a person to dive down to carve an epic work and see the hustle and bustle of the outside world like clouds in the sky. But some people will also be confused, what is the spirit of the Anti-League?What is the point of putting so much effort into writing about the war years nearly seventy years ago? We are all familiar with the Anti-Alliance League. In the textbooks in the early years and in the later TV series, we all seem to know those respectable people. Throughout the 20th century, it was full of chaos and gunpowder, and various heroes appeared.But the waves of the years have been washed away several times, and there are only a few that really stay in people's hearts.But no matter how harsh people are, they will admit that Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, and Zhao Yiman who appeared in the Northeast are all well-deserved heroes.They would rather die than surrender in the face of a powerful enemy, and they regard death as home. Even the enemy has to admire them.

But history, especially Chinese history, many things we think we know, but we don’t really know. Sometimes, the truth of history may be the opposite of what you know.There are some things we think we know, but we really don't know anything more than a drop in the bucket.It takes effort to know what is true, but it takes courage to speak out what is known.Many people are reluctant to put in the effort of in-depth understanding, and lack the courage to speak out the truth.And these two are exactly Zhang Zhenglong's strengths. The vast majority of Chinese people know Zhang Zhenglong because of the long reportage "Snow White and Blood Red" about the three-year liberation war in Northeast China. That book has been pirated for 20 years. It seems that no book has been pirated for such a long time. Expect.It is not objective to say that this is only because he "rectified" Lin Biao.You don't need a book to rectify the name, sometimes a document or a sentence from a big person can solve the problem.For a book to be favored by people for a long time and to arouse people's long-term interest in reading, it must be that the book itself has a unique charm.

This work can be said to be the second peak of his creation. From the perspective of history, this peak is more dangerous and beautiful than the previous peak.The historical information is richer and, of course, heavier. Although we have seen the Anti-Japanese War in textbooks and TV dramas, we would not be able to imagine his hardships if it weren’t for this book: who can imagine that without food, soldiers have to find undigested food in cow dung; Who can imagine that when camping in winter, the flesh on the feet will freeze off; who can imagine that in the winter, in the severe cold of minus 30 to 40 degrees, holes are exposed in the clothes you wear.We often regard the Red Army's climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands as the most difficult situation. After reading this book, we know that the Anti-Japanese League is in such a difficult situation almost all the time.There are many things that film and television cannot express, and it exceeds human imagination and limits.Even under such conditions, the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Union are still indomitable and would rather die than submit. This is the spirit of the Anti-Union.With this spirit, we will stand upright in the face of any strong enemy and difficulty.

Originally, reading such a book about war should be exciting, but after reading this book, I felt an indescribable pain.Can you not be sad?Many of our people did not die under Japanese bullets, but were betrayed by traitors; many of us did not die on the battlefield against the enemy, but died in mutual killing.What is even more tragic is that some heroes of the Anti-Union League were all-powerful on the battlefield, frightened the enemy, and survived the years of narrow escape, but they were forced to commit suicide during the unprecedented ten-year catastrophe. I remembered a sentence I read when I was a child, the Chinese are always brave to fight privately but shy away from public enmity.This is really a sigh.In the words of Zhang Zhenglong, we can no longer torment ourselves.

Speaking of these, let us pay tribute to the martyrs, but also blush at the inferiority of our nation. Speaking of our nation, there were originally many good things, but somehow they were lost like quicksand. We lost some things, but we didn’t know what we lost.Maybe it's sincerity, maybe it's blood, maybe it's integrity, maybe it's unyielding, the whole nation seems to have lost its soul. Someone should tell people about these things that are lost, someone should tell us how precious things are and try to get them back as best we can. Our nation needs someone to find the lost soul, and if we can't find it, we should reshape it.People without great love can't think of finding it, and people without great power have no ability to reshape.And Zhang Zhenglong is just such a person with great love and great ability.

This book, I call her an epic work, is because here, we will see the hardships of the year, the bestiality of the Japanese invaders, the cruelty of internal struggles, and all kinds of people. face.Let us not repeat the same mistakes, improve ourselves in reading, and reshape the distorted soul. This, perhaps, is the meaning of this book. September 18, 2008