Demonstrate the penetrating power beyond time and space——On the value of "red literary classics"
【New Era · New Creation · New Literary Theory】
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in an important speech at the opening ceremony of the Tenth National Congress of the Chinese Federation of Literature and the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association that the reason why classics can become classics inevitably contains timeless beauty, eternal sentiment, and mighty spirit. The classics contain a profoundly flowing spiritual world and a fresh and full of authentic life through thematic content, character creation, emotional construction, artistic conception creation, language rhetoric, etc. It contains the connotation of history, culture and humanity, and has the penetration of ideas Power, aesthetic insight, and creativity in form can only become works that will not become outdated. This is a high degree of condensing on the characteristics and value of classic works, and also points out the direction for creating literary and artistic works in the new era.
In the sequence of our literary classics, a part belongs to the red literary classics. What is "red literature classic"? According to the definition of "common thoughts are classics and long numbers are classics", the red literature classics are the works that have been passed down through the historical accumulation of heavy waves and sands and the time-honored time selection, and are designed to inherit the red spiritual genes, and are the most representative. , Exemplary and authoritative works. These works have the spiritual appeal and thought leadership through time and space, and can always bloom new glory, release new energy and show new charm under the conditions of the new era.
Realism can be carried forward and expanded
The "red classic" realism creation position has a mirror meaning for contemporary literary writing, that is, how literary writing is closely related to major events in history and real life, and participates in the historical process of the national and national cohesion in a spiritual way.
With "Three Reds and One Creation, Green Hills and Forests" (respectively "Red Sun", "Red Rock", "Red Flag Spectrum", "History of Entrepreneurship", "Song of Youth", "Great Change in Mountain Township", "Defending Yan'an" and "Linhai Snowfield") The classic red novels represented, focusing on a series of major events in Chinese society from the late Qing Dynasty to the mid-20th century, with a magnificent epic pattern and magnificent spiritual momentum, reproduce the Chinese people's resistance to the enemy and defend the insults and establish the people from multiple angles and all directions. The magnificent revolutionary process of a democratic government and the construction of a new socialist countryside has hooked the historical development logic of the Chinese nation in the dilemma of breaking the old and creating new ideas, seeking change and strengthening, and constantly innovating.
For example, the heroine Lin Daojing in Yang Mo's "Song of Youth" first launched personal resistance against feudal authoritarian families and dark societies, and then invested in the torrent of the times and embarked on a revolutionary path. The work describes the historical picture of the entire society from the "September 18" to the "One Two · Nine", especially the spiritual outlook of the intellectuals, extracting the intellectuals only into the torrent of the times Only when combined with the national destiny of the country and the people's revolutionary cause can the ideological themes of a bright future and beautiful youth be realized.
Nowadays, some excellent novels have both inherited and innovated the realism spirit of the "red classic". For example, Liang Xiaosheng's "World of the World" pays tribute to the ideals, dignity and glory of the civilians with realism feelings that pay attention to the times and the lives and survival of ordinary people. The work connects the major changes in Chinese society in the past 50 years by expressing the ups and downs of the struggle of more than a dozen civilian children from a civilian area in a northern city. It not only writes about the hardships and hardships of their lives, but also writes about the spiritual style of their dreams and hard work. Although their personalities and fortunes are different, they always abide by the ethics of hard work and perseverance, self-respect, self-respect, integrity, kindness, friendship and helpfulness. "Human World" marks a new height in the creation of realist novels with its criss-cross complex structure, ups and downs of storyline, simple everyday civilian perspective, and earthy and warm language.
Rich gallery of heroes
The "red classic" promotes the ideological orientation of heroism and has a leading significance in the current literary creation, that is, how literary writing wonderfully explains the meaningful connection between the individual life and the country, the people, and the era, in order to promote the Chinese children. "The Worrying Country" "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood" patriotism and heroism.
The image of the heroic Communists loyal to the revolutionary beliefs, selflessly devoted to the country for the people, and steadfast in the face of the enemy ’s butcher, shaped by the "Red Classics", those who shoulder the responsibility of defending the country and the state, and put the safety of the civilian population In the heart, facing the image of the heroic soldiers of the People's Liberation Army who faced the fierce sword mountain and bloody sacrifices, flying the passion of life and shining the Chinese soul, added a new brilliance to the contemporary literary hero galleries. These works not only have the aesthetic function of literature, but also have profound cultural significance for portraying national expressions, shaping national personality, demonstrating national strength, and promoting national spirit.
The writing of heroism is an eternal theme of literature, and it has been constantly exploited in the new era. For example, the old writer Xu Huaizhong's "Legend of the Wind", with the dimensions of war, human nature, human relations, and love intertwined, detaining the people and things that entered the fierce battle of Dabie Mountain under the background of the war of liberation, the war scenes and lively blood The richness of human nature intersects with each other, vividly and vividly portraying the loyalty of the PLA ’s finger soldiers ’revolutionary beliefs, the courage and perseverance of the fighting will and the romantic flying of innocent love.
In the future, we should use superb artistic standards and rich aesthetic appeal to create more vivid, more specific, more delicate, and more vivid hero images in all walks of life, and portray the "red lineage" inherited by red genes.
Artistic skills are integrated
The valuable artistic experience provided by the "Red Classics" has a positive enlightenment to the current literary creation, that is, how the literary writing organically integrates the East and the West, tradition and modernity, conservation and innovation, solidity and ethereality, clarity and obscurity, purity and miscellaneous art Thinking and aesthetic style, construct a literary symbol with a distinctive recognition of national culture.
To be realistic, in terms of today's aesthetic vision, some "red classics" do have certain limitations in terms of thematic expression, character shaping, and application of artistic techniques, but their unique ideological emotions and aesthetic methods of the Chinese nation Basically follow, inherit and innovate the essence of Chinese excellent literary tradition and folk culture, the integration of various creative methods and art forms, as well as the richness and neatness in the use of modern Chinese language and characters, it is worth conscientiously summing up learning to achieve creative transformation And innovative development.
For example, Qu Bo's "Lin Haixueyuan", because of its legendary and romantic style, is known as "new Chinese martial arts novel". Although the work adopts a single-line narrative method, the story volume is rich and tortuous. Numerous time, space, venues, and events are constantly woven in and worn out. It can be described as twists and turns, bizarre peaks, and the plots are interlocked and step by step. The links between the front and the back are tight and the level is clear. Most of the positive and negative characters are vivid and expressive, and their grounding skills are also skillful.
Excellent literary works have unique ingenuity in the art structure, from the creation of text structure, the narration of the storyline to the expression of cultural meaning, from the choice of narrative methods, the weaving of expression techniques to the use of language and words. Highlights. Chen Yan's novel "The Protagonist" tells a "Chinese story" written in the present but has a profound meaning. By describing the heroine's growth process from the apprentice Yi Qing'e who learned the art from Qin Qiang to the famous protagonist, Qin'e's growth process is shown. The play and the rise and fall of a play in the past half century have risen and fallen. The author has recovered the hope of eternal life in the details of the marriage life of the characters in the vicissitudes of social life, in the transition of the times, and gathered the power of adult sex towards goodness. When Yi Qing'e finally became a well-deserved protagonist in Qin Qiang's famous dramas, she also truly controlled her destiny in her own hands and became the "protagonist" in her life. The storyline of the whole work is full of vivid twists and turns, the characters are three-dimensional and full, the regional customs are fresh and rich, and the dialects are vivid and vivid, reflecting the author's familiarity with life and the narrative.
History cannot be forgotten, and the spiritual wealth of the "red classic" cannot be abandoned. The soul of the nation is transformed by the text and cast by the text. Facing the future, our writers need to use the pen as the flag, stand on the ground, look up at the stars, and use the pen as the plow, take roots and deepen the era, with a solid ideological texture, a strong artistic melody, a deep epic style and The fresh aesthetic charm casts soul for the Chinese nation's bacon.
(Author: Li Ye Ping, the Department of Shandong Normal University professor)