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As a well-known writer throughout the country, one of Liang Heng’s most important and prominent influences is that his works have been selected into textbooks for universities, middle schools and primary schools over the years. The largest number and a very wide audience. Since the 1980s, more than 60 of his works have been selected into textbooks and teaching materials for universities, middle schools and primary schools all over the country. For example, "Jinci", "Summer Feeling", "Beauty spanning a hundred years", "Photographing the Railings", etc. are all familiar to teachers and students and have broad and long-lasting influence. He is well-deserved to be hired as the general consultant of the People's Education Publishing House's textbooks.

Liang Heng’s unique business card is that he is a famous writer in the news industry and a news master among the writers.

Liang Heng’s creative path and his career complement each other. In 1978, he became a grassroots reporter for Guangming Daily. Two years later, he won the National Good News Award for his article "The Story of a Farmer and Pig Raising Expert". Later, he won the "Youth Literature Award" and the "Zhao Shuli Literature Award" for his reportage "The Road Should Go This Way". And just when he was winning awards frequently in the journalism industry, his essay "Jinci" published in Guangming Daily in 1982 was even more eye-catching and received rave reviews. In the year it was published, "Jinci" was selected into middle school Chinese textbooks and has been in use for thirty-six years. In May 2019, the Taiyuan Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau officially carved a stone monument for "Jinci" at the entrance of Jinci Park. It is a classic and will last forever.

Liang Heng had a high starting point in creation and became famous quickly, which is eye-catching. This is something he has accumulated over many years of painstaking preparation. His innate love and talent for literature, his keen and in-depth observation and thinking about life, and his solid and tenacious exploration and practice gave him a unique advantage in the field of writing. From then on, he crossed the horizon of his life and stepped onto the starting line of his career. He continued to forge ahead and prospered all the way.

The rich achievements in prose writing are the cornerstone of Liang Heng's fame and career, and the focus and center of his creation. Looking at his prose works, we can sort out three major parts of Liang Heng's prose works at several different creative stages, each with their own characteristics and achievements. It can also be said that they are three creative fields where he sows seeds at the right time and cultivates them with all his strength. The flowers bloom in different ways and the harvest is abundant.

In the early 1980s, Liang Heng entered the literary world with his landscape-themed prose creation. He focuses on refining the text and presenting the artistic conception. He strives to achieve sophisticated writing when writing, which can be recited and recited, and images can be described like poetry or painting, so that the mountains and rivers he writes have rhythm and the vegetation has spirit. The exquisite writing skills and solid literary accomplishments he cultivated for many years made his pursuit come true. The landscape prose and many other descriptive articles he published are all unique in their beautiful and concise writing style and simple and elegant style. In 1986, Liang Heng published his first collection of essays, "Summer Feelings and Autumn Thoughts", which is a collection of his works in this creative stage. Among them, "Jinci", "Xiagan", "Hukou Waterfall" and "Three Greens in the Northwest" and other chapters are still regarded as fine works and model essays by many readers, and are widely disseminated and praised.

Continuously setting new high starting points for his works is Liang Heng’s pursuit throughout his creation. In the late 1980s, he proposed three levels of the beauty of prose in his creative talks: "the beauty of description, the beauty of artistic conception, and the beauty of philosophy." Among them, the beauty of philosophy is his higher-level understanding and requirement for prose creation. "Philosophical beauty" emphasizes the author's deep thinking and novel and unique understanding of the scene or thing depicted, which is the key to improving the depth of thought and content of an article.

Reading through Liang Heng’s masterpieces in each of his thick collections, we can truly and concretely feel that the comprehensive beauty of description, artistic conception, and philosophy has become a foundation rooted in the field of his works. A trait and identity. The light of thought and wisdom always shines with the beauty of his articles...

"Mother Stone", "Wuhou Temple: One Thousand Seven Hundred Years of Meditation", "There is a flying spirit in the stone" "The Eagle" and "Wudang Mountain, the Excellence of Man and God"... Reading Bi Yanjuan makes people immersed in the beauty of human nature and philosophy for a long time. There are also "Pingliang Fu", "Guang'an Truth Treasure Cauldron" and "Tianxing Bridge, there is a beautiful place on the other side of the bridge"... With their exquisite words and profound connotations, they are engraved on the stele and will remain in the world forever. There is a flood of good articles, and there are too many to mention. It is precisely because of Liang Heng's efforts and persistence that every time he writes his articles, they must be high-quality, which has formed the majority of readers' understanding and definition of Liang Heng's prose - beautiful prose.

Although there is no standard definition of beautiful writing, it can always make readers intuitively feel the excitement of their souls, and thus invariably produce sincere love and beauty.

In March 2016, "People's Daily" published Liang Heng's essays "Where is Nostalgia" and "Nantan Spring". The pure beauty of mountains and rivers, the poignancy of nostalgia, and the kindness and beauty of human nature are like warm springs that reach people's hearts in his paintings. For a time, talking about nostalgia, recalling nostalgia, and singing about nostalgia became a hot topic among people. In June 2018, "People's Daily" celebrated its 70th anniversary and launched a "Selected Works of the 70th Anniversary", and Liang Heng alone had three articles selected. Among the prose anthologies, "Where Is Nostalgia" ranks among them as an unquestionably beautiful essay.

Beautiful prose is a large-capacity, wide-ranging, and ever-evolving important component in Liang Heng’s prose works. So far, every new work he has done must be included in this list. It can be said that beautiful prose is a general term for almost all of Liang Heng's prose works. It is the unique highlight of his articles and a flourishing, vast and fertile garden in his prose creation.

In his creative philosophy, Liang Heng emphasized that articles should be written for beauty and thought. If he focused on highlighting the beauty of scenery or things when creating beautiful articles, then from the mid-1990s, when he entered the new field of character prose, he focused on exploring the ideas of the article. Depth is the main theme, and truly practical articles are written for thoughts.

With the growth of life experience and deeper thinking and understanding of social life, a powerful ideological energy and professional ability are becoming increasingly abundant and full in Liang Heng’s heart, and they merge into an invisible The huge driving force allowed him to take a new path in his prose creation and set a higher benchmark.

Introduction to Liang Heng in 1996. After six years of preparation, Liang Heng completed Qu Qiubai's prose "Looking for a Crossing, Looking for a Crossing, Where to Find". This article deeply shocked and moved almost every reader with its profound connotation, impressive courage and emotional narration. The article was quickly selected into middle school textbooks, and was later engraved on a huge stone, standing in front of the Qu Qiubai Memorial Hall in Changzhou. More than twenty years have passed, and countless people still stop in front of the inscription...even history will meditate here.

In 1998, Liang Heng's "Zhou Enlai" was published. For a time, the article spread widely and became famous both north and south, arousing enthusiastic responses and attention from readers. Both academic circles and ordinary people were deeply impressed and moved by this unique article in memory of the Prime Minister. After reading this article, many people could not suppress their true feelings and shed tears... The relatives of the Prime Minister said excitedly that this is The most authentic, in-depth and affectionate article written about a Prime Minister that they have ever seen. The poems and essays written about Premier Zhou can be said to be as vast as mountains and seas, but "Zhou Enlai" stands out alone. Because Liang Heng spent nearly twenty years polishing and forging this work. As a talented and well-accumulated famous writer, he often spends decades sinking into the sea of ??history and painstakingly preparing an article. Only by digging out materials that others have not written, can he extract his own unique insights and reasoning. , and then put pen to paper. "If his words are not surprising, he will never stop, and if his articles are not new, he will not make any moves." This is his consistent creative attitude and self-requirement.

In February 2013, "People's Daily" published a full page of Liang Heng's masterpiece "Article Everyone ***". This is by far the most comprehensive, authoritative and influential summary of the art of *** articles and a review that has risen to a theoretical level. It is also a representative work of Liang Heng's red classic prose. The article has rich and informative content, wonderful and vivid examples, and easy-to-understand explanations that are fascinating.

Liang Heng has always advocated that prose writing should write about "big events, big feelings, and big principles." When we walk through the long stories and long journeys of those political greats and historical celebrities written by Liang Heng, we seem to see Qu Qiubai looking for a ferry, Zhou Enlai who has a lot of things, Peng Dehuai who died twice, and the people on the dirt road in the small courtyard. ** And Madame Curie, who is still beautiful after a hundred years, Xin Qiji who took pictures of the railings, Lin Zexu, the guilty hero... are walking towards us. They may be galloping in the territory of political turmoil, or they may be frozen in the sky of history, but they can all give us encouragement, enlightenment and guidance with the power of their spirit and the light of their personality.

This is the great success and profound value of Liang Heng’s character prose.

Among Liang Heng's most important publications, there is a special set of books "Popular Romance of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" that is particularly eye-catching.

In the late 1980s, he discovered during interviews that many students were afraid of learning mathematics, physics and chemistry, so he determined to write an easy book for them. With many years of experience as a journalist in the science and education circles, he quickly found an ingenious form, which was to use traditional chapter-like novels to show the stories behind the mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge in textbooks. He first tried publishing a few articles in a popular science magazine. The response was so strong that the editorial department kept urging him to publish. He worked hard and completed three episodes of "Popular Romance of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" with nearly 400,000 words in three years. This set of books was personally prefaced by ***, the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The famous writer Wang Zengqi called it "a masterpiece of mathematics, physics and chemistry." As soon as this book came out, it was widely welcomed and loved by students and parents, and soon won the first prize for national popular science works. Not only is it a best-seller in the mainland, there are also many versions released in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Over the past thirty years, "Popular Romance of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" has been reprinted more than thirty times, with a circulation of six to seven million copies. It is still the best-seller among Liang Heng's works. He vividly said that this book is like wrapping difficult mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge with a thin layer of literary sugar-coating, making learning easy and interesting.

Constantly exploring and exploring new fields in his career, and conducting multi-disciplinary and cross-sector exploration and practice are Liang Heng’s unique talents and pursuits. In 1987, he left the journalism industry and worked at the National Press and Publication Administration. Later he served as deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily. Journalism has always been his specialty. In Liang Heng’s newly published four-part news series, “Reporters’ Notes”, “Judges’ Notes”, “Director’s Notes” and “Editor-in-Chief’s Notes”, which contain nearly one million words, there are news, communications, reviews, reportage, essays, essays, and A serious and profound theoretical article, which is the crystallization of his lifelong journalism experience. His insights have become guiding principles in the field of journalism. Many famous quotes are circulated in the industry, and some are hung on the walls of the newsroom as industry standards.

Liang Heng once pioneered creative concepts in literary theory such as "Three Layers and Five Secrets", "Big Events, Big Feelings, and Dali" and "Articles are written for beauty and thought." In the field of journalism, his theories such as "Liang's Definition of News", "Four Attributes of Newspapers", "12 Differences between News and Literature", "Four Points of Intersection and Unification of News and Politics" have become well-known in the journalism world. The theoretical conclusion of *** consciousness.

These important achievements and achievements of Liang Heng have made him a celebrity in the journalism world, but he is low-key, sober and indifferent. In December 2018, his speech at the "Fan Jingyi Journalism Award" moved everyone in the audience and made many media people shed tears. He said: "... Behind every celebrity, there is a pair of invisible news hands, and there is a news group... The portraits of the heroes on the Lingxiao Pavilion, regardless of who painted them... Journalism is the most responsible and most important thing. It is a profession that requires hardship and is also the most risky... People who are willing to be cowards in normal times and take action when the country is in trouble are called journalists." This is Liang Heng’s summary of journalists and his own career.

Cold comes and summer comes, spring passes and autumn comes, the cycle of nature begins again and again. There is no reincarnation in life, only the way forward. In the year of retirement, Liang Heng relieved himself of the burden of daily work, but took on a more important mission. He began the third stage of prose creation with the theme of "Humanistic Forest" and "Humanistic Ancient Tree". Innately, there is an extraordinary yearning and closeness to nature, mountains, rivers and trees rooted in the genes of his life. The memories of childhood are of the happy time in the mountains and countryside when the vegetation is lush and green, surrounded by green trees and covered with thick shade; and the literary path of his youth began by recording those walks among the mountains and rivers with pen... "Northwest" "Three Greens", "Three Greens", "I Think of You When I See Green", "Green Mountains Are Everlasting", "Shadows Under the Poplar Trees"... Read these interviews with people like Liang Heng, which were written more than 30 years ago, and you will know just by looking at the title of the article , "green" has long penetrated and infiltrated into the background of his creations, and he and trees have an ever-present and long-lasting love...

Huge energy must come from long-term accumulation, and The accumulated energy will definitely find the right time to erupt. In 2012, when Liang Heng had a conversation with a leader of the State Forestry Administration at a meeting, he learned that the current forestry system only conducts biological management of trees, regardless of cultural research on the trees. Liang Hengyi’s strong interest and long-term accumulation of professional knowledge about forest trees, and his rich reserve of historical and cultural knowledge, especially the long-standing “tree complex” that has been hidden in his heart, made Liang Hengyi embark on the first humanistic forest culture without hesitation and write about humanistic ancient trees. path of development.

He used a succinct declaration to establish the value of humanistic forests: "In the eyes of loggers, an ancient tree is a pile of wood storage; in the eyes of scientists, an ancient tree is a storage of wood. Meteorological database; in the eyes of tourists, an ancient tree is a picture of a landscape; but in my opinion, an ancient tree is a history book." Tree positioning: "The selected ancient trees must be historical milestones from a vertical perspective, and local coordinates from a horizontal perspective." Such a grand proposition and strict requirements have great influence on Liang Heng's creation. It is undoubtedly a new challenge. He can only devote himself to fulfilling his mission. From then on, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to finding trees, looking at trees, visiting trees, and writing about trees.

Spring and autumn have always gone hand in hand with hard work. Humanistic forestry and humanistic ancient trees are a brand-new discipline and field pioneered by Liang Heng. There are no reference materials that can be directly used for reference, and there are no ready-made professional materials available. Everything is started from scratch. For six full years, he traveled all over the country, visited thousands of trees, immersed himself in the deep sea of ??historical data, focused on the information of trees, and worked hard on his desk, thinking hard, carefully polishing every word. His thoughts and actions were almost entirely occupied by "trees".

In August 2018, at a grand new book launch conference in Shanghai, a beautifully bound collection of essays "China on the Treetops" immediately attracted people's attention. It attracted special attention, and all the sample books he brought were sold out. Soon after, it was listed as one of the top ten best books of the year by the Commercial Press. Two months after its publication, the book was sold out and reprinted. This book represents another one of Liang Heng's. A new work at the peak of prose writing, with unique subject matter, rich content, novel perspective, and rich cultural connotations. What is particularly unique is that each article in the book is combined with the tree species written about, and is accompanied by exquisite drawings and illustrations. Professional text introduction. While reading the work, I was attracted by the vivid content and concise and exquisite description. I was also deeply impressed by the author's rich, in-depth and particularly professional knowledge of flowers, plants and trees. ", successfully interprets and embodies the creative concept of humanistic forest and humanistic ancient trees. It is a unique masterpiece that perfectly combines literature with scientific and humanistic knowledge.

Open the title page of the book and you will see. A nationwide distribution map of 22 ancient trees is displayed in front of us. Each of them has its own extraordinary history. In the vicissitudes of life and the changes of the years, the ups and downs, great sufferings, great joys and sorrows that they have personally witnessed or experienced are deeply stored in their own memories. The roots and growth rings have become eternal memories that record history. When we listen to the long story of the three thousand-year-old ginkgo tree in "The Old Ginkgo Tree of Huabiao", we carefully observe the thousand-year-old locust tree in "Death and Life". The past events exposed in the hard knots... I can't help but be deeply impressed that one tree can carry so many important historical figures and historical events. The ancient tree is truly a living history book. < /p>

Whether it is the more than 400-year-old willow tree that was torn and split by the "global earthquake" in "A Hundred Years of Willows", or the century-old locust tree in an abandoned iron pot in the courtyard of Baiyun Temple in Shangqiu, Henan, All of them demonstrate the amazing power of nature and the power of life. An earthquake disaster that is rare in human history moved mountains and rivers, but could not move a single willow tree; a single grain was carried by a bird. The fallen seeds grew into an extremely strong giant tree in an iron pot. The lush green branches and green leaves of Zhenliu and the thick roots clustered in the iron pot are the green medals and gifts given to the ancient trees by nature. They have another kind of humanistic significance.

There is also the Zuogong willow tree that has left its name forever at the intersection of modern history, and the Shenggong banyan tree that has been overlooking the sea for 150 years... They have all witnessed scenes recorded. The heroic past in history also tells the world about the rise and fall of a hundred years of honor and disgrace... Every ancient humanistic tree is a living coordinate standing on the road of history. They are the only lives on earth that can talk to mankind.

Readers may pay more attention to the prose works of "China in the Treetops" and when we read Liang Heng's academic article "Reconstructing the Cultural Relationship between Man and the Forest" seriously and deeply. Thesis, you can have a deeper understanding of his deep thinking and lofty goals in creating humanistic forestry and writing about humanistic ancient trees. He proposed: “Humans are animals with spiritual activities, and spiritual and cultural activities will also directly affect nature. Therefore, ecology should include the cultural state of existence composed of humans and nature. Only by observing and explaining ecology from a cultural perspective, and understanding ecology from the cultural relationship between humans, trees, and nature, can we have a complete ecological view."

As an influential cultural scholar, Liang Heng's new concept of humanistic ecology has raised the concept of protecting nature to a new commanding height. The search for and dialogue with ancient cultural trees is to strengthen the relationship between people and trees and to increase people's attention and care for trees. Only when people give trees a better living space and a more prosperous future can people and trees better depend on each other. This will be the blessing of trees and the welfare of mankind.

When he started his career more than 40 years ago, he was on the road almost all year round. When journalists work at the grassroots level, they are busy running news; when they start writing, they write about landscapes, people and events. Which piece of material is not an encounter on the road? The preparation for writing biographies requires several field visits over the years for research... Now, he has chosen to embark on a more rugged, arduous, and endless road of searching for ancient humanistic trees... "On the road" has become Understand Liang Heng’s habits and normalcy in work and life. It is the mission and destiny that accompanies his joys and sorrows, and his life. And his words flowed out like a tidal wave from the tip of his walking pen...

In the late autumn of 2018, Liang Heng went to Binchuan County, Yunnan to look for ancient cultural trees. Unexpectedly, I saw the place where Xu Xiake wrote his last travelogue more than 300 years ago. Liang Heng's excitement and emotion were self-evident when he unexpectedly met such a famous person whom he had admired for so long. He had studied Xu Xiake's life information, works, and diaries in detail, and he had already developed a mutual respect and cherishment like a close friend. So he wrote the prose "Xu Xiake's Jungle" in one breath. Following Liang Heng's brushstrokes, you will be able to appreciate how Xu Xiake used his superhuman will to inspect and record the mountains, lakes, seas, and topography of many areas in the north and south. , sacrificed his family and sacrificed his life, and tirelessly walked, trudged, and climbed... The author's writing is filled with sincere admiration and yearning for Xu Xiake's character and talent... He wrote about Xu Xiake, "He studied landscapes while traveling, and wrote articles in the great "On the ground and between mountains and rivers": "He is not a natural individual, but a social person. His walking has also become a cultural thread"...

Read what Liang Heng wrote about Xu Xiake. In this affectionate and touching account, we clearly feel that the author is actually writing about himself. They are messengers carrying the same mission in different eras. In order to record the beauty of nature and protect the home where people live together, they spent their lives walking to write and create. They wrote beauty and fraternity on the earth with the same sincerity.

In "Xu Xiake's Jungle", Liang Heng wrote the ending in a poetic and romantic way with profound implications: When he was about to bid farewell to the jungle forever, and was about to bid farewell to this world, he wrote that he was bald. He waved the brush and threw it into the mountain stream. He wanted to hear the echo of life... The brush turned into an orchid in the empty valley, leaning on the cliff, blooming faintly with its fragrance for thousands of years. People call it "Xu Xiake's Travels".

After finishing the work, Liang Heng wrote a poem for Xu Xiake. The last sentence goes: "When the world has settled down, thousands of volumes of articles will be left to posterity."

For a writer who has been walking and writing all his life, it is enough to comfort his life and the world.

We take this verse as the conclusion of this article, and also send it to Liang Heng.

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Liang Heng’s works have been published in more than one hundred editions. This is part of the published book.