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Ma Shitu "Ye Tan Shi Ji"

The "Breaking the City" published by the first issue of "Contemporary" in 1979 is the opening work of Mr. Ma Shitu's "Ye Tan Ten Ji". The series started brewing during the underground work in Kunming in 1941. At that time, the plan was set to use the description form of ten poor sciences in the Leng Yimen to take turns to put up the dragon gate array. "A batch of drafts and outlines, including. After the writing plan was interrupted for some reason, he did not forget it, and he was encouraged by Wei Junyi and others during the period. At the end of the 1970s, Mr. Ma Shitu accidentally revealed the old manuscript, and wrote the name "Break the City" after the modification, and was published by the "Contemporary" magazine. With the warmth of the literary and readers, he successively completed the rest, and was launched by People's Literature Press in 1982. The writing of "Ye Tan Shi Ji" lasted forty years before and after, making a legend of the endless literary world. Among them, "The Studio" was moved to the screen under the name "Xiangma County Mayor", and was later adapted from Jiang Wen as the movie "Let the Bullets Fly", which once again caused a sensation. In 2020, Mr. Ma Shitu, who was 106 years old, launched the "Night Tan Continuation" at the People's Literature Publishing House, which completed the agreement with President Wei Junyi that year. He also used the book as a book of the 85th literary career.

"Contemporary", "Broken City" illustration, Wang Linyou painted

"Ye Tan Shi Ji" is a masterpiece of Ma Shitu, the first edition of the 1983 of the People's Literature Publishing House. The content is the gate of Sichuan in the 1940s. Ten officials who are frustrated and boring in ten official careers in the last century, in a way of putting the "Longmen Array", in turns to tell the various adventures they have experienced. "Breaking the City", "Reimbursement", "The Stolen Officer", "Marrying", "Ban Nister", "Shen He Ji", "Avengers", "Guan Hua Ji", "Buy Niu Ji", "Military Training".

The 104 -year -old Mr. Ma Shitu still reads a agreement with Wei Junyi, the former editor -in -chief of the People's Literature Publishing House: After "Tan Tan Shi Ji", he continued to create "Night Tan Literature". Based on the rich experience of a century of life as the background, he worked hard and wrote "Night Tan Continuation" at the age of 106. As a sequel to "Tan Ten Ji", the original example: Sichuan people tell the story of Sichuan in Sichuan dialect. The content is the time of more than a dozen scholars in Sichuan. It is still based on the dialects unique to the Sichuan people, the humorous and humorous talk, the gossip of Sichuan's vulgar folk customs and strange and weird things. The book won the title of "China Good Book" in 2020.

This work is a national form. This so -called ethnic form does not refer to the "and listen to the decomposition" and the rhyme of the charm, nor does it refer to a large number of dialects (of course, it is also a bit); There are suspense and people who can't put it up. The descriptions are extremely concise and small in form ... There are several new plots in the book related to the underground party activities (such as "Breaking the City" and "Dear" ")) It was also collected in the struggle of blood and fire. In his pen, these materials have become a novel of "laughing and scolding are all articles". It looks easy, in fact, the author has been vigorously here, and its meticulous portrayal shows the characteristics of contemporary people.

This unique work may not (or even certainly not) a general trend of contemporary creation. But I think readers will welcome it. It has "Chinese style and Chinese style" for the masses.

——Wei Junyi "Reading" Ye Tan Ten Ji> Essays "

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The novel of more than 300,000 words in "Ye Tan Shi Ji" started from the first word of "Breaking the City" in 1942 to the end of the last word of "Kick Notes" in the autumn of 1982. Ten years, that is to say, it is almost half a century. After spending so long to write, it must be a masterpiece. Didn’t you write for decades? Cao Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions" was not fixed after he "read ten years, added and deleted five times"?

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