Gu Hua

Gu Hua

Gu Hua, formerly known as Luo Hongyu, was born on June 20, 1942, male, from Jiahe, Hunan Province. He is a film writer, writer and former vice chairman of Hunan Writers' Association.

Character experience

He graduated from Chenzhou Agricultural College in the winter of 1961.

In 1962, she published her first short story Xing Mei. In the following 10 years, Lu wrote some short and medium stories, most of which reflected new people and new things in rural areas.

In the autumn of 1975, he joined Chenzhou song and dance troupe as a writer.

After 1978, he had a deeper understanding of real life and became more and more mature in art. After the publication of the novel Furong Town, it attracted great attention in the literary and art circles and won the first Mao Dun Literature Award. Hu Yuyin, an ordinary working woman in a mountain village of Hunan Province, made her fortune through labor and suffered many unfortunate life experiences. The work reflects the historical process of social change in rural China and deeply exposes the disaster brought by the extreme "left" trend of thought to the people. The short story "a wooden house full of ivy" also criticizes the extreme "left" line and won the 1981 national Short Story Award.

He joined the Chinese writers' Association in 1980 and went to Beijing in the same year to study in the Literature Institute.

In 1985, he was elected director of the Chinese writers' Association and vice chairman of Hunan Writers' Association.

His works are good at describing Hunan customs. He has published more than 30 works and won 11 literary awards. The main works have been translated into more than 10 languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Japanese and Italian. Some of them have been adapted into films, TV plays, plays or operas. He is now vice chairman of Hunan Branch of China Writers Association.

After graduating from agricultural college in 1962, Gu Hua, as an agricultural worker and rural technician, lived for 14 years beside a small town in Wuling mountain area. He worked, sought knowledge and food, and was involuntarily involved in all kinds of sports. Remote ancient mountain town, lush forest area, four seasons scenery, simple folk customs, stone street, old camphor tree, Diaojiaolou, red and white festive, crowing and barking. There is a kind of simple attraction and historical cordiality to Guhua.

The long-term common life with the peasants formed the deep foundation of Gu Hua's creation, and it was also the most valuable thing he got. Ancient Chinese have a wide range of interests in reading, including ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, elegant and popular literature, literature, history and philosophy. Gu Hua began to study writing in the late 1950s, published short stories in 1962, and went to the literature workshop of the China Writers Association in March 1980. In 1985, he was elected director of the Chinese writers' Association and vice chairman of Hunan Writers' Association. Now living in Canada.

Gu Hua's works are good at describing the local customs of Hunan, mainly including the novels Wuthering mountains and rivers and Furong Town, the collection of medium and short stories such as wooden house full of ivy, golden leaf Mulian, etiquette and custom, sister village, futuling and Zhennv, among which Furong Town won the first Maodun literature award. "A hut full of ivy" won the national excellent short story award.

Personal works

Wuthering of mountains and rivers (novel) 1976, song of Mangchuan of Hunan people (collection of short stories) 1978, Hunan people

Furong Town (novel) 1981, Humanities

Ivy covered wooden house (short stories) 1983, Humanities

Jin Ye Mu Lian (short stories) 1983, Fujian people's Republic of China

Ancient Chinese short stories, 1983, Hunan people's Republic of China

Etiquette and custom (collection of short stories) 1983, Federation of literary and Art Circles

On the other side of the earth

Jiejiezhai (short stories) 1984, Huacheng

Guhua novellas, 1985, Hunan people's Republic of China

Selected ancient Chinese novels, 1985, Sichuan literature and art

Gu Hua's award winning novels collection, Huacheng, 1985

Gu Hua at the scene

Futuling (novellas) 1986, Zhongyuan farmers publishing house

From childhood to film (Anthology of essays) 1986, the masses

Highlights of novel creation, 1986, people's Republic of Jiangxi, China

Zhenjiang novels (1987)

Legend of wujieshan (Novella) 1987, Shanghai Literature and art, my trip to the Federal Republic of Germany (prose collection) 1987, Federation of literary and Art Circles

Comments on works

Ivy covered wooden house

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First of all, we can clearly find that this article also belongs to the era background of scar literature. Through the description of the life experiences of many common people in the "Cultural Revolution", it profoundly reveals the poison of the "Cultural Revolution" to the common people and the torture and destruction of the intellectuals' body.

Pan Qingqing, the protagonist of the novel, said, "she grew up in the mountains and married a man. Even she came to a place as far away as the forest farm only once." before Li Xingfu came to lvmaokeng, such an ordinary housewife only knew that she was satisfied with her real life. But after Li Xingfu came, she was inspired by foreign knowledge and new things It began to change slowly. Both mentally and emotionally, after a struggle, she decided to resist and ask Li Xingfu to help her buy a radio and a round mirror. In the end, after her husband doubted her and abandoned her, she decided to work with Li Xingfu. She is full of novelty in her new life, but she is afraid of foreign things. On the contrary, she comforts herself with Ah Q spirit, which is exactly the reason for her tragic life. But in the end, she can resist everything she is afraid of, which is a little fortunate.

Wang Mutong, pan Qingqing's husband, an illiterate and rude man, admitted that he was happy during the cultural revolution. This also reflects the great influence of the "Cultural Revolution" on Farmers' ideology, and intellectuals are the objects of suppression. As for Li Xingfu's idea of setting fire, he refused to accept it because of his selfishness. He unreasonably opposed all the right ideas. When he found that his wife and children were changing, he just wanted to suppress it rudely. Subjectively assuming that they are his, they will use force to solve problems, and let the green hair pit, which is not easy to be active, return to the silence. Later, he foolishly wanted to express his will to join the party with a blood letter. This was a barbaric and vulgar practice, but at that time it was considered sincere. In the end, it's ironic to abandon pan Qingqing, make up lies, gain the trust of leaders, and start a new life in a new place.

Li Xingfu, an intellectual youth poisoned by the cultural revolution, used his influence to drive the changes of Pan Qingqing and her two children when he first arrived at lvmaokeng, making lvmaokeng full of vitality. But when Wang Mutong came forward to stop him, he became timid again, and his atmosphere did not dare to say a word. This is the typical image of intellectuals who eat soft and fear hard, which also shows his helplessness. The fact that his opinions were denied further revealed that the Cultural Revolution was not only a physical torture, but also a spiritual devastation for intellectuals.

Furong Town

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This is a novel reflecting the social life style of Contemporary Southern rural areas. Taking the joys and sorrows of "sister Furong" Hu Yuyin as the main line, the work describes the social changes in Hunan rural areas from 1963 to 1979: the period of rural economic recovery, the period of the "four Qing" movement, the period of the "Cultural Revolution" and around the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It exposes the harm of left leaning thoughts and praises the victory of the line of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The novel portrays Hu Yuyin, Qin Shutian, Gu Yanshan, Li mangeng, Li Guoxiang, Wang qiuxun and other flesh and blood full-bodied characters, which vividly displays the rise and fall of rural economy, the changes of political situation, the nature and alienation of human nature, and exudes a strong earthy atmosphere.

Famous sayings

Literature is not only the author's thinking and exploration of the social life he experiences, but also a form of "self answer" to the life he knows. Of course, this kind of understanding, thinking and exploration are constantly advancing and developing. ——Gu Hua

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