The prose version of "The World" expresses the warmth of the world again (in the book and outside the book)
Liu Changyu
"Little People Walk Through the Great Era" (published by the Oriental Publishing Center in March 2022) is the latest collection of essays by Liang Xiaosheng, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Following the masterpiece "The World", Liang Xiaosheng once again focused on the daily life of ordinary people. With his soulful brush and ink, he vividly portrayed the joys and sorrows of all living beings in the great era.
The 30 sincere and delicate works truly reproduce the fate of many "little people" in the prosperous era.
Although these ordinary people come from all walks of life, have different social divisions, different values, and different life ideals, they all have a sincere and kind heart.
They love life and have hope and longing for this beautiful world.
These rational yet warm and realistic works not only record the writer's experience, thinking and perception, but also record the bitterness and sweetness of these characters, showing Liang Xiaosheng's consistent conscience and responsibility, his consistent care for human beings, Reflection on history and compassion for the people.
Liang Xiaosheng, known as the "Civilian Spokesperson", since graduating from the Chinese Department of Fudan University in 1977, has successively created "This is a Magical Land", "There's a Blizzard Tonight", "Humanity and Life of the Chinese", "The World" and so on. A series of blockbuster works.
These works with a "beam style" style are deeply loved by people because they pay close attention to reality and eagerly write about the fate of the people at the bottom.
As a collection of essays, this book has consistently continued Liang Xiaosheng's wise and profound writing interests.
Focusing on the reality of people's livelihood, not forgetting compassion for the bottom, while conveying the power of upward goodness, it also presents the warmth of the world one by one.
The "Tomorrow of an Overtime Youth" in the article not only describes the aggressiveness of the "Beijing drifters", but also euphemistically criticizes their way of "betting on tomorrow with youth".
In the book, the overtime youth represented by Zhang Hong, in order to repay the kindness of their parents, Zhou Ji's own brothers and sisters often work overtime in order to obtain more performance awards and year-end awards.
Although they got high salaries as they wished, their frequent overtime also damaged their own bodies... Through this story, Liang Xiaosheng raised the question of how contemporary young people should choose between high salaries and health.
"Impression of Wang Mama" tells about the great love and kindness of the good mother Wang.
The mother Wang in the book is usually very frugal. In addition to doing farming, she also picks up garbage everywhere to sell money. She always doesn’t want to burden her children. She finally went to the city with her son, and shouted that the tea in the mountains was not picked. To go back to the countryside.
When Liang Xiaosheng and friends rushed to the countryside to see her, the old man selflessly handed over the 500 yuan gift that Liang Xiaosheng gave her to the poor households in the village.
It is truly admirable for Chinese women to give up their small family and take care of everyone.
The Glassmaker and His Son tells the true love story of a friend and his father.
The whole text revolves around the loss of a diamond on a glass knife, and enthusiastically praises the generosity and generosity of his father.
Although the diamond could not be recovered, the glassmaker kept on self-reflecting, so he got rid of his irritable temper and understood what true generosity is. The relationship between father and son has also become very harmonious.
In the ordinary little things, the brilliance of human nature is revealed, and it is also a testimony to the greatness of father's love.
Reading these simple and vivid stories, I can't help but feel more joy and admiration for the era we live in.
Liang Xiaosheng is like this, good at extracting material from hot real life.
Whether it is a magnificent novel creation or a sincere and full prose writing, he can focus on the object of writing and aim at the most common and ordinary common people.
Looking up, he and these kind and docile "little people" share the same breath and destiny, appreciate the swaying and colorful life, and feel the distant and vast life.
With the keenness of a literati, in the resonance of the same frequency, he carefully captures their frowns and smiles, and pays close attention to their joys and sorrows.
With the profoundness of a philosopher, he has insight into the changes of the times and narrates the eternal family and country stories in his heart.
Although, compared with "The World", "Little People Walk Through the Great Era" is still not about vertical and horizontal, and the fate of the characters can hardly be described as ups and downs; but from the perspective of micro-sociology, it depicts the warmth and love of the times meticulously and meticulously. Romance, and forcefully depicts the persistence and hardships of the "little people" of the big era.
This kind of small and medium-sized narrative is a powerful manifestation of Liang Xiaosheng's original intention of "Acura era, Acura people".
In a sense, this book is more like a non-fiction version of "The World", with those warmths that we can empathize with; those warm and moving ones that linger in our arms for a long time.
Let us do it and cherish it, give a deep salute to these little people and the great era they have gone through, and give a sincere tribute to us...
Netizens comment on Liang Xiaosheng's "Little People Walk Through the Great Era"
Eyes Meimei: It really is "the prose of the big era, the historical records of the little people", this book is so emotional and so difficult to live in, it floats on the paper and conveys some real voices from the bottom. I hope this kind of book can be moved." There will be more new books on "Ordinary People".
●Wulingyuan 501: The book "Little People Going Through the Great Era" is a tribute to all the little people who have experienced the hardships of the world and still work hard to live!
Countless ordinary, ordinary little people make up this world of mixed flavors.
These little people are all around us. They are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, our compatriots, and our community with a shared future.
We live in the human world, and we look at others and take care of ourselves. We empathize not only with the joys and sorrows of the little characters in the works, but also in each of our own lives, which are also full of ups and downs, joys and sorrows.
As the theme song of the annual hit drama "The World" sings: We, like seeds, will be sunny all our lives!
In this soil, everything grows!
●Eternal Skywalker: The booklet "Little People Walk Through the Great Era" was read and selected from Mr. Liang Xiaosheng's works of millions of words.
The joys and sorrows of the little people condense the magnificent era, and under the shadow of the times is the life of the little people.
This is a great motif, and all the texts are full of sympathy for the humble and full of compassion for the people who are in the torrent of the times.
Reading these words, you can see that the dust in the deepest part of life has been beaten heavily, swirling and fluttering in the sun, glittering noble, unable to fall for a long time, melancholy and sad.