Urban Literature: True Love depicts a beautiful home with livable and livable

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Urban literature focuses on urban construction, residents' lives, and people in the city, and records the booming Chinese society with the city as the viewfinder.

The story of urban strugglers is embedded in the vivid portrayal of urban life opportunities and challenges, potential and sharpening, transcending personal narrative and universal emotional power.

The unique space -time experience, changing narrative perspective, the use of the language full of regional characteristics, as well as poetic and scattered cultural techniques, etc., to varying degrees of enrichment of urban writing.

City is an important carrier of modern life. Since the reform and opening up, my country has experienced the largest and fastest urbanization process in the world, and has achieved worldwide attention. In the new era, the process of urbanization accelerates, and cities that are harmonious and livable, vibrant, and distinctive are satisfied with the people's growing needs of the people's increasingly growth, and also attracts the attention of literary creators.

Following the pace of urban development, urban literature has become an important component of literature in the new era. Urban literature focuses on urban construction, residents' lives, and people in the city. The content of the content is colorful, the creative methods are becoming more and more diverse, the number of works has continued to increase, and the new forms and new forms of the new media are continuously explored. Recording the booming Chinese society, its creative transformation and innovative development experience is worth a summary.

Inherit the urban context of "remember to live in nostalgia"

Different history, geography, and humanities have created different cities, and also shaped their characteristic cultural character. Writing urban history and culture has become an important extent of urban literature.

Digging historical heritage, city literature leaves the precious memory of the city. Unlike the relatively quiet life of the countryside, the city is always related to busyness, efficiency, and changes. The city changes have profound historical and cultural imprints. In recent years, a group of literary works have focused on historical and cultural cities, and have described the history of the city with a long -sized pen and a thousand years of perspective. Qiu Huadong's "Biography of Beijing" from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the modernization of Beijing in the 21st century. While describing the urban style of different historical periods, he deeply considered urban culture. The author always blends the city's urban evolution with the inner world of people, and as a present, travels through the streets and alleys to find urban cultural business cards. Ye Zhaoyan's "The Biography of Nanjing" also upholds a broad historical perspective. From 2111 AD, he wrote to the Million Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to cross the river and go back to a "small tree saplings" in Fuling more than 1800 years ago. Tree.

Behind the culture of life, behind the urban culture is a life history of a lively people. Liang Xiaosheng's novels such as "The World", Wang Anyi's "Examination Gong Ji", Jin Yucheng's "Flowers", etc., condensed the history of urban life in the stories of ordinary families, causing readers to resonate. "The World" is based on the trajectory of Zhou Bingkun's life, telling the development and changes of Chinese society in the past 50 years, facing the magnificent process of reform and opening up, and writing the glory and dreams of ordinary people. "Flower Flowers" pays attention to the lives of Shanghai in Shanghai. On the genre, the novels of the Chinese classical chapter return to their novels are super long, and they are described as the living conditions of Shanghai residents in different ages after the founding of the New China with delicate brushstrokes, and convey the atmosphere of the times with the rich daily life.

Paying attention to the impact of urban cultural character on people has become a unique perspective of urban literature. The cultural character of a city is formed in history, nourishing people who work and live here. The delicate elegance of Jiangnan cities and the rough and boldness of the northern cities have brought unique texture to urban literature and provide a unique perspective for character description. In Chi Zijian's "Fireworks Man", the protagonist Liu Jianguo's question of his identity was also the question of Harbin's city character. Liu Jianguo's strong fireworks and the ups and downs he experienced reflected the tough urban cultural connotation of "Ice City" Harbin. In order to describe the young writers Shuang Xuetao, Banyu, and Zheng Zhi, who describes the visionary of Shenyang, they jointly focus on the Tiexi District of Shenyang City, transform the creator's spiritual hometown into mature and stable literary images, tell the story of the father's dedication, and build the northeast to build the northeast The artistic image of the old industrial base.

Tell the touching story of urban strugglers

Literature pays attention to the relationship between people and the world, and urban literature is no exception. It is committed to expressing the diverse daily life of the city. The diversification and openness of urban lifestyles provides broad expression space for literary narrative. Urban literature uses the brushstrokes and shaping the strokes of the struggle, which not only presents the five colors of urban life, and the glorious and moving, but also describes the extraordinary struggle of ordinary people and the spiritual power of the good.

In the new era, urban literature has stepped out of the dark glory of Western urban literature, highlighting the true, goodness and beauty. Writer Xu Zichen advocated that the novel returned to the most basic and simple position, and completed the fundamental aspects of the novel -language, story, structure, meaning, and sincere artistic expression. His city writing is based on the heart architecture of the story and the sincerity of emotions. "Wangcheng Ruhai" is an ordinary person who is running around Beijing. Among them, there are returnees to international students, as well as nanny and courier. These ordinary people, "Ten thousand people are like the sea", are all realizing the value of life in different ways and moving towards the future. In the collection of short stories, "The Story of the West Suburb in Beijing", the author has traveled into the city with a brushwork of warm care, and the characters are explored into the characters, writing their hopes and struggle, warmth and strength. The busy urban life did not reduce their fighting spirit, and the hard work of work could not stop their enthusiasm for life. Such a city writing has deep empathy.

In the two -way interaction between people and the city, shape the typical figures and write the spirit of the activity era. Liu Ting's "He Xiuzhu's Life Battle" portrays a contemporary female image that is unconvinced. He Xiuzhu was born in the countryside and struggled in the city. She reflects the experience and heart of contemporary Chinese women's urban and rural flow. The sharpening of her life made her more brave and changed her destiny with courage and wisdom. The protagonist of Zhang Ling's "Three Cities" is Gu Mingdi, a post -80s young man. He jumped out of a comfortable post, from Shanghai to Beijing, and then went south to Guangzhou. Under the tempering of different workplace life such as newspapers, universities, and Internet companies, it grew into one Young and emotional youth. This is a typical image of the newcomer of the times, restlessness, dare to adventure, and full of idealism. The stories of these cities are embedded in the vast social pictures, becoming a vivid portrayal of urban life opportunities and challenges, potential and grinding, surpassing personal narratives and have universal emotional power. Drawing the new style of Chinese cities

The pace of urban construction in my country has continued to accelerate the fiery reality, and summons the recording of report literature. He Jianming's "Pudong Epic" reflects the great feat of reform and opening up with Pudong Story, and depicts the magnificent modernization process of China. In vivid and smooth text, the author records the bits and pieces of urban development, construction and management, and give rational thinking and literary observations to urban development. Some works do not write cities directly, but the writing objects are closely related to urban construction. For example, "China Power: High Speed ​​Rail is changing China", "National Business Card: China High -speed Railway Development Documentary", "Centennial Dream Road: The Construction of the Jingzhang High -speed Railway" records the construction of high -speed rail, praise the country's heavy weapon, show the new weather of urban interconnection; Li Di "Heroes: The Story of the Shenzhen Police" will be turned to ordinary heroes in urban development.

In the era of digitalization, new media has become a new carrier of urban literature. Many online literature works are based on industrialization and urbanization, describing urban life with young expressions and web senses. "The Great Power Heavy Industry", "There are trees in the south", "The Suns Like Me", "Love Like Star", etc., inject new vitality into urban literature in the areas of industry, emerging technology, and urban emotions. In the urban workplace network novels, there are "Ode to Joy" who pay attention to the life of white -collar workers, as well as "Hello Firefighters" with the "Most Beautiful Rebellion" firefighters, and "For the Restricted Life, please give me more advice" describing the medical career. Wait. Many works are adapted into film and television dramas as "mother -based", which is well known and recognized by the public.

The city is a beautiful home that is suitable for livable. The development of urban development with Chinese characteristics provides broad writing space for urban literature in the new era. Today, when urban governance is becoming more and more scientific, refined, and intelligent, we look forward to more urban literary works keeping closely with the times, using the story of the city to condense the struggle forces, showing "the people's city is built, the people's city is the people" The era of the times.

Author: Zhang Hongsheng, Professor of Communication University of China, Dean of Graduate School

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