Poyang Lake literature is profound and has a long history.
As early as 1600 years ago, Tao Yuanming, the favorite son of Poyang Lake in Jin Dynasty, lived on the shore of Poyang Lake in Lushan Mountain, where the famous Xiushui Mountain had a decisive influence on his achievements in the literary world. Under the influence of Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun, Hui Yuan, Lu, Li Bai and Wang Anshi have created many works related to Poyang Lake for thousands of years, which is of far-reaching significance to the formation of Poyang Lake local literature.
Jiangxi Poyang Lake writers have had a far-reaching influence on the formation of Poyang Lake literary characteristics. According to the statistics of critic Xia Hanning, in the Song Dynasty, for example, there were more than 8,900 poets recorded by * *, including 778 poets from Jiangxi, more than 330 poets recorded by * * and its supplement, and 165 poets from Jiangxi, * *. In Poyang Lake area, among the three counties and cities with the largest number of writers in Jiangxi, Poyang Lake area accounts for two, with 857 writers, accounting for 63. 15% of the literary family in the province. The Last Rhyme of Poyang Lake, edited by Dong Jin, contains hundreds of excellent poems, which is a rare and precious heritage.
It can be seen that the writers of Poyang Lake literature in past dynasties have formed the embryonic form of literature with special local color, which has laid a solid historical foundation for Poyang Lake literature. The creative practice of contemporary writers and poets has greatly developed the literary style of Poyang Lake, which obviously shows the strong trend of its genre.
Since the founding of New China 60 years ago, a number of works with the literary characteristics of Poyang Lake have been harvested. According to extremely incomplete statistics, the film and television literature works include Bi's romance on lushan mountain, His Homesickness Trilogy and Zhang Haitao and Shi Jun's Flowers and Stars. Dong Jin's Love in Poyang Lake, Li Zhichuan's Paibang, Zhao Qing's Poyang Lake Art Film Series, and many published film and television scripts; Novels include Drifting Village by Li Zhichuan, Sedan Chair Music by Jiang Tao and Fairy Tale Village of Three Sisters in Poyang by Zhang Yiying. Short stories and mini-novels include Li Zhichuan's black sails * White Sail series, Chen Yonglin's On the Way to School, Remember a Dog named Ali, Dong Jin's Legend of Lushan Mountain, Wang Pinghui's Cave in the Lake, Yang Xiping's Tributary of the Lake and Chen Yulong's short stories. Prose collections include Liu Jinsheng's New Exploration of Life, Chen's Return to Poyang Lake, Zhao Qing's Girl Selling Ganoderma lucidum, Xiong Shulong's Series Prose of Poyang Lake, and essays by writers such as Song, Song, Song, Song and Song Dynasties. The collection of poems includes Yang Guofan's Poems, Dong Jin's Poems by Xue, and albums by more than 0/00 poets. Academic papers include Yang Shuzi's Cheers for Poyang Lake Literature, Zi Jun's Series Papers on Poyang Lake Literature Schools, and Dong Jin's On Poyang Lake Literature Schools.
To sum up, starting from Xie Tao, we can fully feel that a large number of talents with similar styles in Poyang Lake are consciously or unconsciously combined on a red line, which is the Poyang Lake complex with strong national and local characteristics and writers' creative personality.
The Roots and Sources of Jiangxi School Culture
What is a literary genre?
In short, it is a group formed by writers with similar literary opinions and artistic styles consciously or unconsciously in a certain historical time and space. There are many schools of Peking Opera and Yue Opera, especially the trend of Poyang Lake School: due to the convergence of literary styles, the school of literature is formed.
Generally speaking, local literature is local literature, or local literature, not genre. To become a literary genre, local literature needs to be regional, collective, individual and contemporary at the same time. Schools, big or small, must form a group and need many people to participate, but schools emphasize "individuality", that is, these works not only have the characteristics of general literature, but also have their own literary styles different from general literary works and other schools in literary form and language expression, so they can be unique in the whole country.
Because literary creation is a personal mental work, this unique literary style is often reflected in one or two or several writers. The symbol of the formation of a literary genre mainly depends on whether it has produced influential leading figures in the country. Without such representative writers and works, "genre" can only be a wish and will not be recognized by the world.
Literary schools are often formed in a certain era and historical background. For example, "Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics" is a special literary phenomenon formed in a specific historical environment. Because literary schools are all literary tendencies shared by some people in a certain historical period and certain environment, this "school" often has the characteristics of the times.
In most cases, "literary genre" is a literary phenomenon summarized by literary critics, which is called "school of * *". However, when some literary workers realize the formation law of literary genre, they will work in the same direction according to its "law", which will achieve twice the result with half the effort.
So what genre is Poyang Lake literature?
She should be a group that has the same opinion and understanding of Poyang Lake literature, and is keen to express its literary characteristics and creative personality in creative practice, that is, the nationality of Poyang Lake literature, and consciously combine with writers and artists with local color characteristics and * * *. This group is only a vertical approximation in the past historical time and space. Because they live in different times, it is impossible to become a group with the same interests in the same time and space. Therefore, their artistic characteristics and creative personality can only gradually evolve into a genre trend with the characteristics of Poyang Lake literature in the long history. Although it is not enough to form a literary school, it is the "root" and "source" of Poyang Lake literature, which is her fine tradition.
Poyang lake school
Independent creation and all-round development
From 65438 to 0986, a group of Jiangxi local literary workers established Poyang Lake Poetry Society and Literature Society, and they founded the first literary newspaper in Poyang Lake. 2004 is a historic year for Poyang Lake literature. This year, with the attention and support of provincial, prefectural and county leaders, the literary workers in Poyang Lake area United and established the Poyang Lake Literature Research Association. This year, 18 issue of Poyang Lake Newspaper was published, with a total word count of about 500,000. In addition, the Poyang Lake Literature Collection was published. This year, the first Poyang Lake Literature Forum was held in duchang county, and it was decided to hold it in every county in Poyang Lake District in turn every year. In 2005, it was held in Xinjian County, in 2006, in Nanchang County, in 2007 in Poyang County and in 2008 in Jinxian County. This situation shows that the literary workers in Poyang Lake area have formed a "joint force" with their independent creative activities, which has laid a good foundation for the formation of Poyang Lake literary school. Among the signs of the above four literary schools, there are three conditions: regionality, collectivity and times.
But for a literary school, the most important condition should also be whether there are representative writers and representative works with certain influence in the whole country. Because representative writers and representative works can reflect the basic characteristics of a certain genre, critics and literary historians study a certain literary genre. Generally speaking, they only study these representative writers and representative works.
Today, with the development of history, the creative team of local writers in Poyang Lake has consciously or unconsciously paid attention to this kind of national and local characteristics of Poyang Lake in their creative practice, and realized that only by expressing our national and local characteristics in literary creation can we write fine works and win honor for the Chinese nation in the world. Because these problems have * * * knowledge, this group of writers have the same direction of struggle under the banner of Poyang Lake literary genre, forming an unorganized but enthusiastic horizontal combination group of Poyang Lake literary creation. Under the background that a group of writers with the same time and space are aiming at the same goal, we naturally put forward the idea of "pursuing national and local characteristics and advocating the orderly formation of literary schools in Poyang Lake", which has a profound historical origin and realistic social foundation, which is not only the inevitable result of the accumulation of more than 600 years from Tao Yuanming to now, but also the result of the long-term influence of Poyang Lake landscape on local writers, and also the requirement of the development of material civilization in today's society for spiritual civilization construction.
Of course, the artistic style of works with local characteristics of Poyang Lake gradually accumulated in the long river of history can only be a prototype at present, which is not enough to form a literary genre, and the task of completing the proposition of "genre" has historically fallen into the contemporary era.
Nowadays, Poyang Lake literature has produced some influential writers and works all over the country, the most important of which is Moro's novel Six Sorrow, and Xue's poems in the Eastern Jin Dynasty also have some influence at home and abroad.
However, the final determination of the value of any work, no matter how it was reflected at that time after its publication, often takes some time to test. If it has stood the test, but it is not isolated, and it is the flag and representative of the platform of Poyang Lake Literature, then it can also be called the representative writer and representative work of Poyang Lake Literature, and further let the world know that there is another creative group of Poyang Lake Literature in the world.
Poyang lake literature
The wind is blowing, but the climate has not yet fully formed.
What is style?
Style should refer to the artistic characteristics and creative personality of a writer in his creation. Personal style is formed under the premise of different national, local and personal characteristics. The literary style of Poyang Lake has a good tradition, that is, it has been recognized, inherited, innovated and developed by contemporary local writers since Xie Tao's initiative and after more than a thousand years of historical precipitation. From the embryonic form of history to the trend of forming a unique genre, this trend of literary genre with national and local characteristics exists objectively and has strong vitality and vitality.
Everyone knows that Xie Tao is the originator of pastoral poetry, Tao Yuanming is a local writer, and Xie Lingyun is a visiting poet in Poyang Lake. They have had a far-reaching influence on the characteristic tendency of Poyang Lake's writing style, laid the foundation stone for the creation of Poyang Lake's writing style and the orderly formation of its schools, set the tone, opened the way and described the style. Along with Xie Tao's footsteps, famous literati such as Wang Bo, Li Bai, Bai Juyi and Ouyang Xiu in Tang and Song Dynasties stopped at Lushan Mountain in Poyang Lake. Their works are natural and pure, close to life, profound and fresh, which well explains the style and characteristics of Poyang Lake literature.
However, for thousands of years, it is rare to see a real swan song about Poyang Lake. Didn't Poyang Lake breed such people? No. Jiangxi is known as "outstanding people", and there have always been many literati, talented people and elites. Such as Tao Gong, Huang Gu and Wang Anshi. But unfortunately, even Tao Yuanming, the grandfather of this pastoral poet who grew up drinking Poyang Lake, has never seen his masterpiece about Poyang Lake spread around the world. Later, Mr. Huang Tingjian, the grandfather of Jiangxi Poetry School, and Chen, a master of modern literature, have never lost their masterpieces about Poyang Lake. Even sporadic descriptions of Poyang Lake, such as Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting and Su Shi's Crossing Duchang, are not enough to reflect the unique charm of Poyang Lake as a whole. Therefore, predecessors did this, and later generations followed suit. Until today, there are very few masterpieces with Poyang Lake as the theme.
In this way, although Poyang Lake, thousands of miles away, ranks first among the five lakes and has profound cultural heritage, it suffers from nobody's interest. As a carrier, it expresses an emotion to it in the form of literature. This has caused its literary achievements to be far less than that of Dongting Lake, which is "a misty valley with clouds and dreams, but a pity for Yueyang City". Needless to say, it is also possible that Poyang Lake has always brought disasters to people living in this land, so it has deceived some wise people in appearance, so the above-mentioned situation has appeared. Only in this way, people generally ignore its existence.
But it can't be said that Poyang Lake literature has been completely forgotten by the world. In the early 1980s, in order to cooperate with the tourism development of Poyang Lake, promote the economic take-off and accelerate the orientation of local writing style, a group of children of Poyang Lake clearly put forward the slogan "Poyang Lake Literature" and advocated the orderly formation of Poyang Lake writing style. In the process of practicing this proposition, Poyang Lake Poetry Society, Poyang Lake Literature Society and Poyang Lake Literature Newspaper were established. In the past twenty years, the poetry club has developed into a society with hundreds of members and created thousands of poems. Literary Society developed into a creative research society, which spread to more than 20 counties and cities along the lake and Nanchang, the provincial capital; The literary newspaper Poyang Lake has been published for forty-five issues since it was founded in 1986. Comrade Qian Changzhao and Comrade He Jingzhi wrote inscriptions for the newspaper. Bo Yun, a literary magazine founded in Nanchang, also received rave reviews after its publication.
Similarly, we are glad to see that from the birth of 1986 Poyang Lake Poetry Society and Literature Society to the development of Poetry Society and Literature Research Society, a large number of literary works and poets with Poyang Lake literary characteristics have emerged. It can be expected that in the process of the formation of Poyang Lake literary school, the "Poyang Lake Poetry School" will be formed in advance. Compared with the beginning of the formation of Jiangxi Poetry School, this poetry school has a wider number of people, more works, better quality and great momentum, which deserves the pride of contemporary people. In terms of poetry creation, according to Zi Jun, a famous critic in Beijing, Jiangxi has its own representative poets and representative works. He suggested that the Propaganda Department of Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee organize Nanchang University and Jiangxi Normal University to support research and form a climate. What are the characteristics of the writing style of Poyang Lake? Mr. Dong Jin said: "The scenery is beautiful, beautiful, and the inner feelings are contained in it. Share weal and woe, the meaning of whispering; Sad, sad, sad. Truth, goodness and beauty should be respected, and falsehood, evil and ugliness should also be criticized. All poets have their own styles and spare no effort to advocate Poyang Lake School. It aims to be natural and pure, close to life, profound and profound, and fresh in love words. Although it expresses personal feelings, it also contains the voice of the ego. " Therefore, I think Poyang Lake literature has a unique aesthetic artistic value, that is, all its works are written in a natural and pure way, fresh and elegant, with concise words, rich connotations, elegant and natural, full of passion, flowing and bold, romantic and informal, suffering and depression, penetrating life, implicit and sincere, writing landscapes and attracting attention. Its representative writers have their own performances consciously or unconsciously, but they don't have both, but they have * in general purpose. It seems that a trend of Poyang Lake literary writers with the same time and space has gradually formed. What I have summed up is a basic state: Poyang Lake literature can only follow the narrative to form a genre.
Comrade Chen put it well in the preface of Jiangxi Literature History: "Our contemporary literature has not yet appeared dazzling light similar to that of the Song Dynasty, and the overall artistic quality of our writers is not optimistic. The two are actually mutually causal. " Comrade Chen's point of view is in line with the reality of Jiangxi literary world and Poyang Lake literary creation team. Without the improvement of the overall artistic quality, as Lenin said, "Mont Blanc will not exist in the grassland, but only in the Alps." Only with the dazzling scenery of one school after another will the overall artistic quality of our writers be greatly improved and great writers and works will appear.
The overall quality of writers engaged in Poyang Lake literature is still "not optimistic". When we summarize and discuss the literary schools of Poyang Lake, we must fully and calmly see this point. However, the school of Poyang Lake literature is an important and brand-new academic subject, and it is difficult to find useful information.
Secondly, the failure to form representative works and writers recognized and familiar by the society is also one of the basic reasons why Poyang Lake literature failed to form a genre. We must realize that only the unique literature with national characteristics and the artistic style with local characteristics and creative personality can make China literature go to the world, because only the missing works that others don't have will be welcomed by the world.
Therefore, we must sum up the unique historical experience of China national literature. For example, consciously explore the combination of the artistic style of Poyang Lake literature and the writer's creative personality to form a literary genre topic. We should hold high the banner of advocating the genre of Poyang Lake. Only in this way can we shoulder the historical responsibility entrusted by the times and make China national literature stand on its own feet in the world literature. Exploring and studying Poyang Lake literature is one of the best choices. It is an important part of China literature and a microcosm of China literature.
Who can promise "Poyang Lake Literature"
future
The establishment of Poyang Lake Literature and Culture Creation Research Association is of epoch-making significance to the development of Poyang Lake literature. People have great expectations for it, but these are not enough. To form a genre, we must start from many aspects:
First, run literary newspapers and periodicals well, provide a platform for works and serve as a base for popularizing literature.
Nowadays, Poyang Lake Newspaper and Poyang Lake Rhyme Magazine are gardens for literary lovers to publish their works, learn and exchange their writing experience. Such local literary newspapers and periodicals can not only show the literary creation of the region, but also be the cradle of writers. Perhaps some literary lovers will get a boost and exercise from here, embark on the road of writers and create excellent works with national influence.
Poyang Lake Newspaper is a literary tabloid with a strong mass base, which bears the foundation of literature popularization and has no foundation of a large number of local writers. Of course, under certain conditions, there may be individuals who become excellent writers through personal struggle, but although these individual writers can win glory for their hometown, it is impossible to form a literary school by relying solely on them. For example, Zhou Libo and Ding Ling are both from Hunan, and they did not form a literary school because of their appearance. In this sense, we can't ignore the solid work of literature popularization.
Second, support the creative activities of writers with a certain foundation.
Some people have literary talent, dedication to literature and gained some creative experience. If they have a good creative plan, it is suggested that the relevant units give full understanding, support and practical help as far as possible. Writers are engaged in arduous and complicated labor, and literary works are spiritual products. Support for them can be based on their specific needs, such as creating conditions for them to participate in life, giving them enough creative time, caring about their lives and so on. As a writer, we should try our best to create as many works as possible, especially those handed down from generation to generation.
Third, specialized institutions established by relying on literary forms.
Although the Poyang Lake Literature and Culture Creation Research Association has more than 20 years of historical experience, it has always been people-oriented and has not yet formed an organized organization. If we can form an institution that falls into the government's planning, provide corresponding convenience in material and economy, and get the cooperation of Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone, literary creation can enter the hinterland of Poyang Lake conveniently and quickly.
At the same time, the agency can regularly formulate special programs to study and discuss how to develop Poyang Lake literary creation; And expand the road of film and television creation, and strive to shoot excellent articles in Poyang Lake into film and television works; Review the achievements of the previous year's creative works every year, and participate in the awards; At the same time, a special Poyang Lake literature website will be established to let more young people know and try to create.