Far people: Write ancestral hall, open the side of Shenzhen ｜ Shenzhen Hong Kong Book Review · Writing in Shenzhen

Looking for the villages once in this city in Guangming District, Shenzhen, the elderly in the village, the old buildings and the stories behind them, looking for the unique local customs of this soil and soil, trying to from the clan sources of those natives, the old and old old and old. Building, traditional customs, characteristic cuisine finding roots. In the journey to find the memory of the city, the distant people obviously go further. The story of the temple that he interviewed, recorded, and wrote can be regarded as the history of Shenzhen's precipitation, and it can also be used as a side of Shenzhen culture. In this issue of "Writing in Shenzhen" column, we walked into the Shenzhen memory of the distant people together and read his "new city old thing".

Author: Yuanren

Seven years in Guangming, published nineteen works

Statistics, in the seven years of moving to Shenzhen Guangming District, I published nineteen personal works. There are three more out in the second half of this year. That is, by the end of this year, all of my current works were published after going to Shenzhen. This number surprised me myself. At least it shows that the seven years of Shenzhen are the seven years of hard work. There is room for writing calm writing to make me have a kind of sincere gratitude to Shenzhen. If I have been staying in Changsha as a magazine editor, it is hard to say that publishing can reach this number. Although I know, the number is not proud. China is more diligent than me. There are more writers who have higher quality than me, but after all, they are me in me The fruit harvested in Shenzhen.

From the perspective of the summary of the title "Writing in Shenzhen", in these twenty -one works, there are three novels, one collection of short medium stories, six historical figures, two poems, and the rest are essays. It's right. So it is easy to see that I have the most devoted effort to essays over the years. In my feelings and experience, essays are the most suitable for middle -aged writers. The ancients said "Book of Books", explaining that the writer wrote a book, not to edit the story, but to "Li Shu". "Said the text" clearly wrote, "Say, interpretation." My understanding is to reflect and express the author's speech interpretation of life and the world through "speaking". If this core is lacking, the writer's book will not have much reading value.

▲ Far people: Born in Changsha, Hunan in 1970. Member of Chinese Writers Association. There are more than a thousand works such as poetry, novels, comments, prose, etc. are scattered in "People's Literature", "Chinese Writers", "Huacheng", "End of Pen", "End of the World", "Literature and Art" and decades of decades. There are 25 personal works such as long -term novels, short -term novels, historical monographs, prose collection, comments, art essays, character biography, and poetry collection. (Volume 3) "Reading of Contemporary Chinese Ecological Literature" (Volume 20). He has won dozens of poetry awards such as Hunan Province's Top Ten Book Awards in Hunan Province in 2015, the 2nd Guangdong Provincial Young Literature Award and Gold Award, 2021 "The Star" walked into the first prize of Yuechi Nongjia Essays "and other dozens of poetry awards. Essence

▲ Part of the works.

It was this that made me feel sorrowful. Especially in Shenzhen.

Shenzhen is an unacceptable material city, and it is also a first -class modern city that recognizes Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. People in Shenzhen will inevitably fall into busyness. I am really busy, busy in reading, busy writing. I really want to leave myself as much as possible to myself as much as possible today, and write a little more understanding of life as much as possible, and to understand the phenomenon that I feel and witness as much as possible in Shenzhen Literary response. It is my goal and the goal of writing itself. As for whether it can be done, it is not the final say, readers will give judgment and answer. I never dare to despise readers. Writers are individuals and readers are groups. The experience and sight of the group are always much stronger than the individual.

So, I always tell myself that you should treat each text very seriously. This is not an era when readers can be fooled by the author. When an author feels that he can flicker the reader, he is not far from the reader's abandonment of him.

Also emphasize that the books published after I arrived in Shenzhen were not related to Shenzhen. Except for a long novel "Autumn Pen River" published in "Chinese Writers" and Shenzhen, other three ministers I published from the novels of the novels of the publishing houses from the publishing house. None of them are from Shenzhen.

The historical sediment of light is heavy

The first book related to Shenzhen and I was "Looking for Light Memory · New City Old Things". In addition to me, this book has the text of the other three authors, so it is not my personal work. But for me, this book opened a entrance that allowed me to enter "Shenzhen Writing". It must be acknowledged that at that time I just arrived in Shenzhen, and I had a superficial understanding of the Guangming District. I have to use a lot of ready -made materials to face the topic at the time in the writing process. Today, a few years later, my understanding of Guangming has a personal experience, and naturally I have new ideas and practices.

"Looking for Light Memory: New Town Old Things"

Shenzhen Newspaper Group Press

November 2017

For example, it is located in northwestern Shenzhen. For many years, it has been regarded as "Shenzhen's Siberia" without being valued, and has not joined the construction speed of Shenzhen in the 1990s. But the advantage of not joining is to keep the light preserved a large number of ancient streets and surnames ancestral halls. This is also the most incredible point when I first arrived in the light. I felt that I had reached a small town of urban -rural and rural areas in the 1980s, and I couldn't even believe it was part of Shenzhen. After all, I went to Shenzhen many years ago and appreciated the economic and material level here. Facing the light that is disconnected from the entire Shenzhen, I accidentally discovered that Shenzhen is not a pure material city. No matter how outsiders think that Shenzhen is the desert of culture, in my eyes, the historical sedimentation of light is heavy. This is the true feelings that I can't understand if I don't personally enter. The light belongs to Shenzhen, so the thickness of the light is the thickness of Shenzhen, the history of light also belongs to the history of Shenzhen, and the precipitation of light is of course the precipitation of Shenzhen.

To break the Chen Jian of Shenzhen and foreign provinces for Shenzhen is the cultural desert, we must come up with a proof that Shenzhen does not lack cultural heritage. If it is expressed in novels, it can be used to make a grand narrative with a long body, but the essence of the novel contains fiction. The fictional persuasion is definitely not enough, so I still use my favorite essay. My theme is the light of the surname. Today, the ancestral hall is not very concerned about it, but its internal is closely linked to the long history of China. I chose the ancestral hall, that is, I chose a history to face.

Entering the root of life from the ancestral hall

This time, I did not search for some text materials as a few years ago. My experience of the information is that they are worthy of trust and too much trustworthy. So I embarked on the road of interviews with each shrine. This is a way to make writing down -to -earth. Many things do not hear it in person, it is likely to go astray by mistake. Many people do not get real first -hand information without going on.

In the interview day after day, I met Zeng Qinglun, Zeng Yaohua, Zeng Wangfa, Zeng Guoxiang, Zhou Qixiang, Zhou Licheng, Lao Chen, Chen Meixiao, Mai Rongxiang, etc. Some people in all industries are government officials, some are folk researchers, some are the guardians of the shrine, and some are community volunteers. They have different identities and different ages, but they have a deep understanding of their ancestral halls corresponding to their surnames. Especially many details, it is difficult to appear in the data. For example, when I interviewed Mr. Zeng Qinglun, who interviewed Zeng's ancestral hall, he was surprised that his research results made in folklore. Even if these achievements have not been widely spread and recognized, it does not mean that his research is worthless. When talking to Mr. Zeng Qinglun, he could instantly appreciate his respect for Zeng's Ancestral Hall. This is a manifestation of knowing the root of your life and life. I was particularly unforgettable that when he accidentally said that Wen Tianxiang's mother was the Zeng clan, I was shocked. Because last year, I wrote and published a monograph on "Wen Tianxiang" in accordance with the Chinese Book Company. I thought that I had finguished Wen Tianxiang, but I ignored the origin of his mother Zeng. Therefore, these interviews are really the accumulation of knowledge and the opening of the field of vision. It is also the opening of Shenzhen.

Everyone who was interviewed gave me a different knowledge experience. I did find that knowledge is not just how many books you read and how many words you have, but whether there are some in -depth and discovery in life. This is the focus of a writer to demand. I named this book "Time Ancestral Hall". What surprised me was that after sending some interview pictures to send a circle of friends, many Shenzhen friends told me the ancestral location in other districts in Shenzhen, and I told them that my plan was to interview and write in a district and one area. This book is specifically written in light. From its beginning, my plan is to walk through Shenzhen and finish the shrine in Shenzhen one by one. It is not only writing the ancestral hall, but also the writing of Shenzhen history.

So I have only one simple purpose of writing this set of books, that is, tell everyone that Shenzhen has history.

In the end, this "Time Ancestral Hall" has completed the typesetting in Huacheng Publishing House, and the editor said that it will be officially published this fall. I rarely promote similarly before book publishing. This text is an exception, because it is a monograph I wrote for Shenzhen, and it is the starting point of the "shrine series" book in this plan. From today to tomorrow, it is the way to do it step by step.

Source ｜ Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Zhangwei

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