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　　Curiosity and fascination with secrets are common to all people. People are willing to see how those works that truly reveal secrets can spy into the interior of life and their own hearts, and gain comfort and inspiration from them.

Luo Weizhang's latest novel, "The Hidden History", takes "hidden" as the name and uses "history" as an analogy to describe the unspeakable but real emotions and feelings that lie beneath the surface of ordinary people's daily life, and to those hidden or ignored consciousness and emotions. Psychology, to be perspective and reveal, straight to the hidden corners of people's inner world.

　　In April 2022, "The Hidden History" was launched by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House, which won the Jury Award of the first Phoenix Literature Award (with Li Jingze, Wu Yiqin, Liang Hongying, Bi Feiyu, Su Tong and other famous domestic critics and writers as judges). Original Literature Award), which is another long masterpiece by Luo Weizhang in recent years that has been well received by the literary circles.

　　Hidden History is extremely readable.

The novel uses a structure full of suspense to tell an unknown accidental event in the village. The tension of the narrative and the condensed language are like frame by frame movie pictures gradually flashing and advancing, making people unconsciously hold their breath and follow the protagonist step by step. Enter the dark and vast world of consciousness.

　　This is a daydream in the real world—there are countless holes in Laojun Mountain, but he entered the one above the cool water well; it is normal to find a hole in the mountains, but he has to let himself go into it, Drilling deeper and deeper, until I saw something - like a fate, waiting for him there, teasing him, and watching him.

The protagonist, Gui Pingchang, never thought that he was just trying to dig up the green Ophiopogon japonicus, but was entangled by a long-hidden secret.

In the eyes of outsiders, he has a paranoia and lost his soul. No one knows that he is keeping a secret. This secret is related to his heart disease, Gou Jun, a "wicked man" who went to work in Africa, his wife Chen Guoxiu, and him. A lifetime of fear and cowardice.

He fell into a bottomless abyss.

　　The novel uses bizarre illusions to connect the two parallel time and space of reality and psychology, traces the secret history of the mind hidden by ordinary people in daily life, explores the banal evil and unspeakable suffering in the depths of human nature, and erects a mirror to let people See yourself and others in it, and see clearly the most hidden emotions in human nature, those that have been forgotten, ignored and even tried to deny.

This deep exploration of psychology is one of the very distinctive features of Luo Weizhang's novels: "My writing is more persistent in exploring people's inner world, so some readers and critics say that I am a psychologist. I like this In other words, this is reflected in many of my novels, and "The Hidden History" is undoubtedly the most thorough."

　　"The Hidden History" presents a new quality in the way of writing.

The integration of thriller and suspense techniques is not the greatest innovation for this novel. Writing ordinary daily life and living situations with exaggerated and distorted reality constitutes the brilliance and transcendence of this novel.

The fear, humility, and sadness of the little people accumulate in their hearts, because a sudden event burst silently. This is actually a reminder to people to pay attention to their hearts, to be vigilant about the pursuit of the so-called "normal", and to encourage people to pursue a higher quality of life.

　　The novel integrates decades of years and gradually deserted villages into the hearts of the characters, and turns a simple event into a vivid silhouette in the tide of the times, so it becomes rich and colorful, profound and meaningful, and has endless aftertastes, just like in our lives, There was a drumbeat that resounded through the heavens and the earth, the drumbeat stopped, but it was still incessant.

　　In addition to relying on the author's strong writing power and charming narrative, it also stems from the author's passion for inquiring about human nature.

The works burst out with the spark of philosophy of psychology from time to time. Different from the rational analysis and guidance used in psychology, novels often flow out the philosophical thoughts of life naturally in the stories. How thoughtful and effective.

　　There are many moving things in the story of "The Hidden History". The dignity and longing of ordinary people, the warmth and continuity of human nature, shimmer in the branches of the story.

We will see a pair of desperate mandarin ducks singing ballads that belong to two people in poverty and despair; see Aunt Zhang, the oldest and most compassionate in the village, who hid an earth-shattering love until her death; see Luo Weizhang's "Sound History" The eccentric Yang Lang in ", as always, collects the voice of the village and awakens people's memories from the abyss of time... They all stubbornly guard their secrets, in order to defend their lives, in order to be able to live.

A life with secrets will become dark and narrow, but "some secrets, if you keep them in your heart, are just a light."