China News Service, Guangzhou, September 25th (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) Writer Cai Chongda brought his new book "Fate" to the Guangzhou Book Shopping Center on the 24th, and shared with readers the "Symphony of Destiny" of the 99-year-old female "A Tai" in the book .

This is a novel written by Cai Chongda in eight years after the non-fiction work "Skin", which sold 4 million copies.

　　"Fate" takes the life story of 99-year-old Atai as the main line, connecting the life stories, destiny choices and the ups and downs of the times in several generations of coastal towns in southern Fujian.

The Tai in the novel is the grandmother of Cai Chongda's mother.

　　A story of one's life, an ode to the destiny of all

　　A Tai, who was born in a small fishing village in Fujian, was predicted to die at the age of 15 with "no children, no grandchildren and no children".

In order to rewrite this fate, she made all the efforts a woman can do, including giving birth to children, adopting children, fighting against the difficult and impermanent life, and composing her life into a "symphony of destiny".

Cai Chongda said that this is the story of A Tai getting along with destiny, reconciling, and finally "giving birth" to destiny.

　　Sharing the scene of the event, Cai Chongda said that this work started three years ago, and it was also an answer to many propositions encountered in his life at that time - hometown and distance, ideal and reality, etc.

"Hometown contains many precious life orders and spiritual orders, which will bring us firm strength."

　　"Understanding China", secretary-general of the Academy of Arts and poet Eurasian commented that this is another interpretation of Cai Chongda's "living to death".

"If I read this book in my youth, maybe my many choices and efforts will be more relieved and brave." He said with emotion.

　　Cai Chongda believes that never underestimate the power of an old man.

Elderly people who have passed their old age like A Tai, they have "wandered" their own destiny, and they can also accompany their descendants to "wander" through their destiny.

　　In Cai Chongda's view, literature has a very important power, which is to "respond to loneliness".

When you can't understand yourself, you can't express yourself, and you can't make others understand you, literature can help you know yourself, communicate with others, and let people accompany and hug each other.

　　In the novel, Atai, Amei, Yang Wanliu... all of them move forward firmly in the torrent of fate.

"I also hope that this book can accompany everyone to live well." Cai Chongda said to the readers present.

Healing the present with the stories of the past is perhaps the most deafening echo of the symphony of destiny.

　　Mobilize the thousands of troops of words, leading to the sincerity of the heart

　　After the debut novel "Skin", the novel "Destiny" only met readers after eight years.

Cai Chongda said bluntly that the process of creating "Destiny" was indeed not easy.

　　In the 160,000-word "Fate", the opening chapter accounts for about 7,000 words, but Cai Chongda wrote a full 27 versions, each of which has nearly 10,000 words.

Talking about such a difficult start, Cai Chongda said frankly that it is not easy for the heavy river that drives this fate to flow.

"Destiny is not about me telling you stories, but about each of us."

　　He compares the creation of novels to building a building. Different from traditional novels, the steel and concrete that builds the building of "Destiny" are not contradictions, but emotional nodes and propositions of people's hearts, connecting dozens of life problems with human commonality. .

"A novel does not need to entertain readers with stories, but to call out the inexpressible sincerity in the deepest part of the human heart."

　　"This is a book about the 'bottom'." In the preface to Destiny, Li Jingze, a literary critic, vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and secretary of the secretariat, wrote that Destiny is ultimately about the root, patient , The story of thousands of turns is a long journey - toward our roots, toward our spiritual hometown and distance.

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