Zou, a native of Liquan, Shaanxi Province, is from party member. 1966 graduated from normal school. He has served as a primary school teacher and county cultural librarian in Liquan County, and a professional creator, director and presidium member of Shaanxi Branch of Chinese Writers Association. 1972 began to publish works. He is the author of the novel Psychological Exploration of Love, short story collections Nostalgia and Oh, Pony, and novella collection Heart, why are you wandering? With "Oh Pony" and "The Branch Secretary Step Down to Sing Opera", he won the 7th and 8th National Excellent Short Story Awards in succession and jumped into the national literary world in one fell swoop.
Chinese name: Zou.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Liquan, Shaanxi
Date of birth: 1946
Date of death: 1993 65438+ 10/6.
Occupation: writer
Graduation school: Ganxian Normal School, Shaanxi Province.
Representative works: Oh, Pony, The Branch Secretary Step Down to Sing a Drama, etc.
brief introduction
Shaanxi liquan people. 1946/kloc-0 was born in Qiandong Town, Liquan County, Shaanxi Province on February 6th. Party member, CPC. 1968 graduated from Ganxian Normal School in Shaanxi Province. He has served as a primary school teacher, county cultural librarian, professional creator, director of Shaanxi Branch of Chinese Writers Association and member of the presidium. His works began to be published in 197 1, and his debut novel Liu Donghu was published in Shaanxi Daily. He is the author of the novel Psychological Exploration of Love, short story collections Nostalgia and Oh, Pony, and novella collection Heart, why are you wandering?
Zou won the 7th and 8th National Excellent Short Story Awards in succession with "Oh Pony" and "The Branch Secretary Step Down to Sing Opera", and jumped to the national literary world in one fell swoop.
Zou, the son of a farmer, takes the expression of the joys and sorrows of farmers in China, the pursuit of ideals and the changes of rural life in China as his creative theme. He abandoned some people in the literary circle of our time who pretended to be elegant, leisurely and flashy, and publicly declared that "photographing the life of dirt is my unshakable creative goal", and he was willing to wave flags and shout for hundreds of millions of farmers who accounted for more than 80% of the population. With all his creations, he recorded the development and spiritual course of China farmers in the socialist transformation in the past 20 years under the leadership of the Party.
The death of a character
Burning in the purgatory of literature-recalling Zou
It can be said that1992 165438+1October 17 and199365438+16 are the troubled days of Shaanxi literary world. Just a month later, two literary heroes, Lu Yao and Zou, passed away one after another, and the literary world was filled with sorrow for a time. For that unforgettable memory, Zhang Ping, a Xianyang writer, carefully wrote a documentary novel "Life Burning Years-A Famous Writer Zou Documentary" with a length of 6.5438+0.8 million words. By tracing Zou's life course, mental journey and creative process, this paper provides a reference about literature and life, an inspiration about the relationship between literature and life, and a reflection on the living state of literature and writers for the latecomers who still insist on trudging on the literary journey today with informative materials and unpretentious writing. On the title page of the book, there is the author's words: "Along the river of life, tracing back to the lost years, we are looking for the footprints of the famous writer Zou and the dreams of the past. Although it is a page that is difficult to uncover, it is a vivid and chewy life story compiled with full blood and bitterness. "
This book once again makes readers cry and makes the literary world think deeply. After reading this book, famous literary figures such as Yan Gang, Lei Tao, Chen, Wang Fu and Jing Fu all thought Zou was a dutiful son and praised him all his life. The loess in his works faces the "father" and the "father" faces the loess, which reveals the traditional virtues of farmers in China from the inheritance of blood relationship. There are tears in laughter, sadness and anger in feelings, and his tone, together with his death, is tragic. He only lived to be 46. Burning Years describes the burning process of Zou's whole creation and life, which makes people angry and touching. Zou's value lies not only in his position in the literary world with millions of words, but also in his turning literature into a state of life. In the long river of literature, he created a life style with personality and moral brilliance, and literature became a spiritual support at every stage of his life, which made him experience the tempering of reason and emotion, the tempering of choice and being chosen at many crossroads of his life, thus making a philosophical interpretation of the relationship between literature and life. When we read his insight that "for art, we can't say that life has everything, but without life, artistic creation is gone", we can easily see that for a writer, his distress is the distress of life cognition; His confusion is the confusion of the depth of life; And his glory is the glory of cultivating, refining and enhancing life. This is simply a kind of pain beyond self, a kind of suffering and a kind of rehabilitation. Zou ranks among the dazzling stars in China's contemporary literary world with an article Land. No matter from which point of view, this should arouse the deep thoughts of writers who are in the era of online reading, under the conditions of market economy, in the era of increasingly prosperous literature, and in the environment where literature is dazzled by various ideological trends. Yang Huanting, a critic, believes that Zou's works are based on the yellow land in Guanzhong, which hides and reflects the consciousness of attaching importance to agriculture, being pro-agriculture, mourning for agriculture and mourning for agriculture. This is not only the instinct of life, but also the inheritance of China's traditional excellent cultural realism. At the end of his life, he wrote "No regrets". Although he died nine times, he had no regrets, but it was not only the tenacious position of life, but also the struggle and cry for the unfortunate living conditions of intellectuals. Therefore, in essence, Zou is a writer who inherits the traditional humanistic spirit, accepts the call of reality and explores on the road of realism.
To some extent, Zou's life track from a farmer to a writer is the abbreviation of the life state that many writers in Shaanxi persist in pursuing literature in their unremitting efforts. As Mr. Chen said: "We mourn Zou, in essence, we are mourning a spirit. This spirit is a deep love for the yellow land and indigenous people; This spirit is the persistent pursuit of literature, and I will not regret it until I die; This spirit will be immortal in the name of Zou. "
(Li Xianghong)
Writing characteristics
The distinctive characteristics of the times and the inner passion for life constitute the main theme of Zou's novel creation. Shortly after the downfall of the Gang of Four, he wrote excellent works praising the victory of the party and the people, such as Zhang Jiefang, Captain of the Task Force, and Land. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, he pulled himself together even more. He paid close attention to the historic rural reality, and wrote several short stories, such as Cold Baby in Guanzhong, Food Problem, Nostalgia, Mourning, Dou Lili and Iron Gate, in an effort to show the vitality and hope brought by the reform to the rural areas of China, enthusiastically eulogize and show the new mental outlook of rural reformers. In recent years, his creation has entered a deeper psychological level, with great changes in society, culture and psychology in the tide of commodity economy at multiple levels, angles and directions. He constantly explores and strives for innovation, constantly draws nutrition from the familiar land under his feet in art, and endows it with new performances, thus becoming a local writer with distinctive personality and relevant Chinese flavor. Vilen's life scene, customs and vicissitudes of life make his works have a simple and fresh poetry of pastoral life; However, the hard work and traditional consciousness of migrant workers have collided with the new wave, which makes his works feel as heavy as loess. These constitute the unique cognitive value of Zou's novels and the fresh, bright and profound aesthetic value of Guanzhong Woye. He is the son of a farmer and a writer of the people.
Introduction of works
loess
My father was an ordinary farmer, who worked all his life and died silently, like a handful of loess. The loess has grown crops, but it has not been noticed by many people. This is the situation of most older farmers in China.
He died of pulmonary heart disease. This is one of the diseases that seriously threaten the health of working people. In normal times, farmers in China don't take the initiative to go to the hospital for physical examination, but they are ill in bed and drag their feet. My father went to Nanshan to transport grain and walk on the ice in the eighteenth year of the Republic of China. When he came back, he froze off ten toenails and planted the root of the disease. Since then, I have coughed for half a throat and haven't seen a doctor. It was not until a few months before my death that I went to the hospital to have my first electrocardiogram. For example, the doctor said: "The machine has been running for a lifetime, and the main engine is worn out, which is too short of maintenance!" In order to save money, take "Xinmai Ning", a very expensive medicine. He asked, "How much is a bottle?" I was silent for a long time when I heard that there was still more than three yuan. Later I said, "I don't care if I don't buy medicine." I stopped taking the medicine secretly while I was away. He must have calculated that a bottle of medicine costs nearly 20 Jin of salt, and the daughters-in-law have to be busy for several days.
He has known about labor all his life. The heavy work bent his back. I don't know how much wealth I have created, but I can't bear to spend a penny. Once I gave him two yuan pocket money to buy delicious food, and he still took it with him six months later. During his serious illness, he appeared to be delirious, chanting "Did you feed the pigs", "Put the hoe away" and "Harvest the wheat when it is yellow" and so on. When he died, he wept silently and missed the world-the world he sweated for but still not rich.
My father cares about nothing but all kinds of national affairs, which can be said to be poor in spirit. If the rich are given and the poor are deprived, then he is deprived: in the past, he was deprived of the opportunity to receive cultural education because of poverty, and later he continued to receive various political education, but finally he did not understand. But he obviously didn't regret it, because he had a job, so he filled all the shortcomings. Those who are capable worry the wise, while those who are not capable want nothing, but still want something-to pray that the world will not be chaotic and have a stable day.
He's gone now. I've worked on the loess all my life, and finally I've returned to it. Loess is broad and inclusive, regardless of good and evil, and finally can accommodate everyone.
I was kneeling in the mud to see him off. I once thought that it was not easy for him to live to 77 years old; And there are too few old people around us who can live to be seventy or eighty years old. It's not that the old man doesn't want to live, nor is it that his children are unfilial. It's really because of the poor living standard. Then, it is the most filial way to develop production as soon as possible, improve people's lives and let children leave the elderly at home for a period of time. It's no use crying. It's no use crying. The dead are gone, and the living have to struggle.
When the generals and * * * die, there will be countless eulogies, because they have made great achievements. An ordinary worker died, and we planted this handful of loess in the hope that the world could accommodate it.
Oh, stallion
Title: Oh, stallion.
Author: Zou.
ISBNNo。 :7-5354-0006-X
Price: RMB 65,438 +0.40.
Release location: Wuhan
Publishing House: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Release date: 1987.2
Number of pages: 295 pages
Format: 19cm