Excerpts from Hongyan’s Good Words, Good Sentences and Good Paragraphs:

1. At the station exit, they encountered strict inspection. Although Sister Jiang took out her ID, the military police still checked The luggage volume surprised Sister Jiang. It was clear that this county was completely shrouded in a particularly serious white terror. If the driver had not protected them along the way, they might have had an accident as soon as they arrived at their destination.

2. Walk forward for a while and see a little more clearly. There are several wooden cages hanging on the high tower. Ah, isn't this just hanging your head in public? Sister Jiang was startled and took a few steps. After a closer look, she found that the wooden cage contained bloody human heads!

3. For a moment, he seemed to see the shadow of that ingenious machine, just like a small pedal lithography press. …Yes, that’s it! But when he stretched out his pencil to the drawing paper and his eyes moved to the white paper, the phantom of the machine became blurry and even empty.

4. Xu Pengfei didn't want to think too much about this. He threw aside the documents in his hand and restrained his thoughts. He didn't believe that Yan Zui was smarter than him. In the fight against the Communist Party, even the cunning and cunning Yan Zui may not have a guaranteed chance of victory. What troubled him was not only Yan Zui's constraints, but more importantly, the flexibility and alertness of the Communist Party's activities today, which made him unable to find any useful clues.

5. Outside, there was the same noise and roar as usual. These sounds guided him and made him move into an interrogation room. The interrogation room was filled with smoke and the air was very polluted. He caught a glimpse of a man in his thirties tied up on the tiger bench. There was a pot of fire next to him, and several people were stretching a smoking iron to the chest of the interrogated person.

Appreciation:

Hongyan, originally meaning red rock, is hard; Hongyan is also a place name, in Chongqing, a small place, but in Qianqian In the hearts of millions of Communists, Hongyan, like Jinggangshan, Yan'an, and Xibaipo, is a mirror that reflects faith and loyalty, and is the spiritual home. The establishment of the Hongyan spirit was indispensable to the novel "Red Rock".

The novel "Red Rock" was published in 1961 and was based on the revolutionary memoir "Eternal Life in the Fire" by Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan. Both Luo and Yang were Communist Party members who devoted themselves to the revolutionary struggle before the liberation of Chongqing.

After their unfortunate arrest, they witnessed the unyielding and heroic sacrifice of many Communists in the "China-US Cooperation Institute" concentration camp, especially in Zhazidong and Baigongguan. He also experienced the test of life and death. The loyalty, righteousness, and willingness of the Communists to die rather than surrender are like a fire burning in the chest, prompting the author to write this novel with passion.

As a revolutionary novel in the traditional sense, "Red Rock" does not directly describe the war scenes of bullets and blood, but due to the special background of the novel, distinctive characters, rigorous structure and layout, the story The plots are intertwined, and the novel immediately aroused widespread praise after its publication, becoming a pioneering work in the history of New China literature.

Extended information:

The authors of "Red Rock", Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, were arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries in 1948 and imprisoned in the "China-US Special Technology Cooperation Institute" concentration camp in Chongqing. inside. Together with the heroes in the novel, they experienced thrilling struggles in life.

After the founding of New China, in order to "tell future generations about the struggle here", they successively wrote reportages such as "Holy Flowers", "Sister Jiang", "Little Carrot Head" and revolutionary memoirs "In the Fire" eternal life".

Then, based on these works that depict real people and real events, they were processed, refined and artistically summarized to create the novel "Red Rock". From preparation to completion, it took ten years and more than three million words of manuscript were written. It was completely reworked three times and revised five or six times.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hongyan