? Ba Longfeng's novel Clouds Over the Qinling Mountains (published by Xi 'an Jiaotong University Press, 2065438+March 2004) is an eye-catching historical novel, which is well written. This may be related to the identity of the screenwriter. This novel has a strong sense of picture. He told us a legendary and touching story about War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression from a brand-new historical perspective. Chapter-by-chapter narration makes passionate love and hate slowly flash from the author's cold and old brushstrokes, just like showing a historical film about the world, which makes people applaud.
Clouds crossing the Qinling Mountains tell us the true story that happened at the foot of the Qinling Mountains from 1935 to 1945. The author uses the narrative skills of polyphonic novels, takes time as the main line, reproduces the picture of the ten-year cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in a historical and factual way, and connects the historical fragments of the decade in a vertical and horizontal way. With the help of grand narrative mode, from the Northern Expedition to the Long March of the Red Army, from Japanese aggression to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and from the Zhang mutiny to the spy war in China, the broad background of text narrative is outlined, which gives us a spiritual "crossing".
? Clouds Over the Qinling Mountains broke the dull narrative style of historical novels in the past, and the author skillfully incorporated some fashionable elements in contemporary life into it, blurting out new online words such as "God", "Goddess", "Woman Man", "Rookie", "Local tyrant", "Milk tea", "Alexander" and "Wonderful Flower", which not only narrowed the distance. Moreover, it reveals that the author did not isolate historical events when creating novels, but integrated with the examination and examination with contemporary consciousness, showing the realism of historical narration accumulated in the author's mind and realizing the sudden change of aesthetic torrent of text narration. Especially when describing the complex emotional entanglements of Qinling, Zhou Xinbo and Zhong Yifei, the author did not fall into the "strange circle" of traditional love triangle narration, but skillfully set suspense, started with the detailed narration, devoted more pen and ink to the description of the three characters, and refined the story by using the method of scattered perspective. Through the narration of their different roles and identity changes, the suspense is separated layer by layer, and the seemingly chaotic storyline is unfolded in an orderly way. What's more, such a narrative is carried out in the contradiction between brotherly love and love conflict. From "Brothers' Love Robbery" to "Feelings for Home and Country" and then to "Be Loved by Children", the author talked about it, which made people immersed and deeply moved. Moreover, by telling the different changes of characters' identities, the author promotes the continuous development of the story, and deduces a youth elegy of three young people with the staggered narrative rhythm of "wife", "sister-in-law", "comrade-in-arms" and "lover", as an aesthetic interpretation of love, affection and war, showing the profound contradictions among them and pushing the understanding of war and people to a deeper level. At the same time, in the struggle between emotion and benefit, a dialogue between human nature and desire was launched, thus highlighting the true nature of human nature and realizing the "win-win" between freehand brushwork and writing.
Not only that, Yunheng Qinling is also the product of the intersection and integration of history and folk culture. The extensive use and introduction of folk customs, Guanlong dialect, Longdong folk songs, Shaanxi opera, shadow play, Wan Wan Qiang and other folk elements in the text can be seen everywhere, which not only makes us appreciate the unique and different humanistic charm of the northwest, but also broadens the cultural connotation of the text and enhances the discourse power of the novel in folk narrative. For example, when the author tells the stories of "The Mourning of Chang 'an" and "Millennium Ancient City", there are a lot of descriptions and descriptions of the cultural landscape and history and culture of Xi 'an Ancient City. Through the careful writing of Xi 'an's ancient buildings, schools, teahouses, hospitals, pharmacies and eating habits, the complex past scenes of Xi 'an ancient city are sketched on paper by the author, which makes people very happy to read. This kind of writing is not only an important part of text narration, but also presents the diversified dimensions of folk narration. As the saying goes, "one side is earth, the other side is human", just like the characters in the author's works are very regional. When telling the heroic deeds of 800 Guanzhong men who bravely jumped the Yellow River, the author vividly portrayed the natural endowment of bloody Fang Gang. As we all know, Guanzhong area is a cultural center where Confucianism prevails, the concept of son preference is advocated and the way of benevolence and righteousness is followed. In this paper, the sons and daughters of Guanzhong, represented by the Qinling brothers, show the heroic qualities of Chinese sons and daughters in the face of national justice. Aren't they historical trend figures born in such a traditional cultural atmosphere? The author extends his keen tentacles to the cultural psychology of the characters and grasps the core spirit of the characters, which is a commendable narrative art. Of course, this mixed narrative method undoubtedly adds the folk value of the novel to a certain extent, making it possible to interpret the novel from multiple angles.
A good novel should not only have a delicate story structure, but also have vivid characters. Without good characters, there is no good novel. The truest feeling I got after reading Yunling is that the characters in the novel are vivid and lifelike. Reading the text carefully, we can easily find that there are a group of complex and multifaceted characters in Ba Longfeng's works. They have no single personality and the same "face", but each has its own characteristics and strengths. Whether it is the brave and witty Qinling Mountains or the beautiful and fickle Zhong Yifei; Whether it is Zhou Xinbo, who attaches great importance to feelings and righteousness, or Jiro, who is insidious and cunning; Whether it is a cold-faced beauty's Suowa or a pure girl's week, they are not single "puppet" characters, but fleshy and multifaceted characters. Qinling Mountain, for example, is a typical representative of people's love and hate. On the one hand, the Qinling Mountains in the novel have excellent qualities of wit, courage and responsibility. In the process of fighting the Japanese spy "Chrysanthemum Knife", people still remember his outstanding performance of both wisdom and courage. However, the author did not over-beautify the characters, and carved a "Gao Daquan" Qinling Mountain for us. When the author described that Qinling and her brother Zhou Xinbo faced the same girl Zhong Yifei, she made Qinling unequivocally expose her mean and selfish narrow side and restored Qinling in our life. Of course, this also reveals the author's unique narrative arrangement. The author put the most precious love and affection in life together and let them collide with each other, so as to stimulate readers' deep thinking. In addition, another character with distinctive personality in the article is an exotic beauty, Szczynskova, who not only has a beautiful and affectionate heart, but also a ruthless killer. On the one hand, her gentleness towards Zhou Xinbo shows the feminine beauty of women; On the other hand, she is also a cynical and cunning villain who takes part in accidental amusement. This double-sided or even multi-faceted narrative makes the characters more real, realistic and modern. Of course, there are many successful characters portrayed in the novel like this, such as Jia Daozheng, Qin Ying, Sun Fugui, Zhu Maiwa, etc., all of which are the organic combination of the "group images" of successful characters carefully shaped by the author, from which we can see the author's skillful and superb storytelling ability. Moreover, in the narrative process, multiple clues appear alternately, which makes the text full of tension and narrative freely, highlighting the story of the text.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the language in the novel seems dull, but it is not. After careful chewing, we can easily find that Ba Longfeng's language is humorous. Narrating in this language not only dispels readers' aesthetic fatigue, but also helps this epic to appear in front of us in disorder.
In a word, Yunling is a masterpiece with multiple cultural connotations, with a unique and profound theme, which highlights the author's rational thinking on history and life and embodies the value orientation of metaphorical reality. Reading "Clouds Crossing the Qinling Mountains", we can be pleasantly surprised to see that the same love and hate, the rise and fall of the same country, is interpreted by the author with a unique flavor. The historical story shown in Qinling Mountain not only shows the character of China, but also shows the great spirit of China. (End)