a landscape of lakes and mountains(hú guāng shān sè)

a landscape of lakes and mountains

The scenery of lakes and mountains is a novel by Zhou Daxin. Taking Danjiangkou reservoir, the largest reservoir in Asia, as the site, the novel describes the unyielding experience of a rural woman who once worked in Beijing, struggling with fate and pursuing a better life.

In 2008, Hu Guang Shan se won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award. On September 23, 2019, the novel was selected into the collection of 70 novels in 70 years of new China.

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The scenery of lakes and mountains tells a fable about human desire through the experience of Chu wennuan and Kuang Kaitian from poverty to wealth. Chu wennuan, who worked in Beijing and returned home, had nothing. She refused the proposal of the village director's younger brother and boldly married Kuang Kaitian, a poor boy in the village. At the beginning, they worked hard to pay off the debt of selling fake herbicides. Archaeological expert Tan Laobo's attention to the great wall of Chu made Nuan aware of the arrival of fortune. Without paying off their debts, they began to build houses, and under the encouragement of money, they expanded the scale of Chu Diju again and again, and established the south water beauty tourism company. In order to make tourists stay in chuwangzhuang for a few more days and earn more money from the tourists, they have to "blow" the Lingyan temple and the enchanted area in the middle of the lake without any teacher, and specially hire people to block the path leading to the great wall of Chu to collect tickets and attract tourists on the east bank. Encouraged by Xue Chuanxin, Kaitian co invested in shangxinyuan and defeated Zhan Shideng as the village director. Wennuan's desire for material and power also reached its peak. However, the desire developed out of control and brought misfortune to them: Kaitian and Nuan Nuan, who were excessively obsessed with money and power, divorced, and clever and capable Nuan Nuan could not control the situation of moral corruption after the prosperity of chuwangzhuang. Finally, Kaitian, who was inflated by selfish desire, was taken away by the police because of his acquiescence in the illegal operation of shangxinyuan.

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Creative background

Background in response to the changing reality of Chinese society after China's reform and opening up, a large number of literary works that positively wrote about the current subject of rural society emerged in the 1980s, and reached an unprecedented height with its three-dimensional and diversified presentation of social life, resulting in a large number of epic works. However, great changes have taken place before and after the new century. In the face of the aggressive process of urbanization, under the joint action of capital, power, system and other factors, the subject characteristics of rural society present unprecedented complexity. Compared with the complex social and historical content of rural society in this period, the literature narrative with the evolving rural life as the main body But gradually fell into a serious crisis, the ability of comprehensive and in-depth presentation of real life is weakening. It is in such a background that the author completed his work. Zhou Daxin visited his hometown in the summer of 2004. Accompanied by his hometown leaders and literary friends, he saw the great wall of Chu on Jiuchong mountain. He had thought that the great wall of Chu was only one kilometer long. Who knows, it was so long that it could not see the end. It wound across many mountains. It was so large and magnificent. After thousands of years of wind and rain, there was still more than one person high. The foundation of the house and the training ground were still there. It was really amazing. You can imagine how majestic it was. Later, he went to Xiangyan temple in Xichuan and danjianghu Lake (Danjiangkou reservoir). He walked along the lake for a long time, and went to the farmer's house and villagers to do some housework. He lamented that today's farmers are really different from those in the past. They all know what they can grow to sell more money. They are new farmers under the tide of market economy. After seeing this scene in his hometown, the author wants to create it for his hometown.

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"The scenery of lakes and mountains" is divided into "qianjuan" and "kunjuan", with the structure of "water, wood, fire, metal and earth" of Yin Yang and five elements. "The theory of yin and Yang is the explanation of the origin of the universe, the theory of five elements is the explanation of the structure of the universe. Taking this as the structure, the novel predicts the relationship and fate of the characters, and implies that all things grow and decline, and each other is complementary." The author uses Yin Yang and five elements to express the relationship and fate of characters, and each line of the five elements does not correspond to a certain role or a certain fate. "The author is more willing to imply the chaos and impermanence of life." "The mystery of fate" has always been the author's thinking. The heroine wennuan in the novel has been running on the road of life to find her own happiness, but what she got is far from what she expected, which makes people have to examine the road under her feet and the corners of those roads. Maybe the mystery of the ending is hidden. She had already started working in the city, and her mother's illness made her return to her hometown. Although she chose marriage according to her own wishes, she gradually found that the honest young men she was optimistic about could not avoid deterioration under the temptation of material desire and power. What wennuan didn't expect was that when she wanted to use the local tourism resources to get the village out of poverty, she brought endless disasters to the whole village. Zhou Daxin uses the five elements to string up stories, which implies that the fate of the characters is just like what is said in Chinese tradition: "Yin and Yang and the five elements are complementary." The novel is unique and profound in the expression of male power. Village head Zhan Shideng made use of his power to create difficulties. In Chinese society, even the power in the countryside is infinite, and there is collusion everywhere. Zhan Shideng almost killed himself, retaliated by all means, and almost gave no life. On this point, the author describes the difficulties of ordinary farmers to get rich by hard work, and also describes the normal side of China's contemporary reform and opening up to enliven the market economy. As long as we write about the market economy in contemporary novels, there is no lack of collusion between power and money. Few people seriously write about how ordinary workers get rich. At present, there are still many people in China who are rich by their intelligence and diligence. The author wrote this aspect objectively. Although there is a strong color of idealism here, the author never gives up exposing the power of the countryside. Kuang Kaitian was once simple and kind and loved Nuan Nuan. Once he became the head of the village and had power in his hands, Kuang Kaitian began to deteriorate. Kuang Kaitian always resents Zhan Shideng's insulting his wife. He hates both Zhan Shideng and Nuan Nuan. Zhan Shideng later lost power, penniless, poor and sick, open the field, let people carry him with a stretcher, and let him go to see the man buy his daughter's spring. This is the way of farmers, one report for another. Narrow mindedness, selfishness, inferiority and conceit, the character of these peasants has been thoroughly exposed in the author's works. The novel is also unique in that it describes the process of farmers' spontaneous move towards market economy and the new opportunities and challenges brought by capital intervention in rural areas, especially the new series of contradictions formed by the entry of greater capital into rural areas, the new combination of capital and power, which is the combination of Xue Chuanxin and open field. Zhan Shideng, the old rural power, did not seize the opportunity of the market economy of reform and opening up. He was doomed to failure, but Nuan Nuan seized it, and she succeeded. However, Kuang Kaitian has taken the road of combining power and capital, which also brings new problems. The work discusses the deeper problems in this aspect, and also puts forward the thinking for the next step of rural China. This is actually a miniature of China's current economic reform. The combination of power and capital will produce huge energy, and the power of the people can balance this energy. Of course, the novel also writes another side, which is a common problem in contemporary villages and towns, and the economic impact on families. Too poor is a kind of impact on family ethics. The yearning for wealth will make the family collapse. After getting rich, family ethics will also face the test. Husband and wife can share weal and woe, but they can't share weal and woe. This shows that with the rapid economic development, Chinese society is facing the crisis of humanistic quality and spiritual character of the whole society. In Huguang shanse, a novel with strict structure and full of sadness and warmth, Zhou Daxin, with his unique understanding of Chinese rural life, not only describes the great changes and contemporary flavor of rural surface life, but also finds the firmness of the deep structure of Chinese rural and the difficulty of transformation. Therefore, this is a civilian writer's close and embrace to the villages in the Central Plains, an idealist's heartfelt desire and expectation for rural reform, and a writer's poetic prayer and desire for today after penetrating history.

Artistic technique

Language features narrative language features simple, popular but superficial language "warm, this night for a long time did not sleep Will you scold me for losing the face of the Chu family? " The language expresses gender differences. This extremely simple and straightforward narrative language, without any cover up, truly captures women's inherent psychological thinking and language, and describes all the real psychological activities of a rural girl on the eve of marriage. Warm language warm wisdom, kindness and loftiness are expressed through her unique language. Language rhythm refers to the rhythm of language caused by the combination of the length, height, weight, quickness, intermittence and timbre. It can form a musical beauty of language, and thus has the function of expression. Generally, the rapid and bright rhythm often reflects the excitement or joy, while the slow and low rhythm expresses the depression or sadness. A string of questions, tense and orderly language rhythm and deep layers vividly reveal the edge of a "military strategist" with decision-making ability. "Warm stop him Kaitian clenched his warm hand From the small to the big, the author will be a new rural woman with ideas, vision and innovative spirit

Chinese PinYin : hú guāng shān sè