Qinling Chronicles
by Jia Pingwa
About This Novel
"Records of the Qinling Mountains" is Jia Pingwa's new work. Different from the long-form "Shanben", "Records of the Qinling Mountains" adopts the form of short notes. It starts from ancient times and focuses on small details. It records the mountains, rivers, people and events of the Qinling Mountains in a micro-historical way, and writes about its chaotic majesty. , Grand and subtle, written about its birds and beasts, and realistic worries. It has the two free and mixed attributes of "ambitious people" and "ambitious monsters" in notebook novels. At the same time, it has a distinctive Jia style. It can be said to be Jia's Classic of Mountains and Seas, Jia's Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio, and even more so, Jia's "Historical Records of the Qinling Mountains". In addition to the main body of "Qinling Records", there are 17 new chapters of "Taibai Mountain" written by the author in 1990, and six essays written around 2000 as "external compilations". These two parts are intrinsically related to the main body of "Qinling Records". As a writer rooted in the rich soil of Shaanxi and even the northwest, the author has been writing about the Qinling Mountains for decades, first focusing on Shangzhou in the Qinling Mountains, and then zooming in on the entire Qinling Mountains. This 150,000-word Qinling Chronicles can be said to be the author's accumulated years of life experience, and he has written "the details of life and the flavor of life deep in the mountains."
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These insights in "Qinling Chronicles" come from the author's life insights over the past seventy years. There are no fancy rhetoric in these sentences. All the words seem to grow out of the soil, unpretentious but full of sincerity and spirituality. In the Qinling Mountains, the author experienced what it was like for a bird to fly into the woods, and what it was like for a piece of grass to grow in a ravine. He regarded those peaks as the tall and majestic air, and the pools as the gathering of cool and moist air, and the patches of woods that appeared on the hillside or in the depressions could make him stare at them for a long time. As the author himself said: "He writes about the mountains and rivers of the Qinling Mountains, people and things, without daring to be lazy, perfunctory, frivolous or smooth, and strives to write every sentence in Chinese characters well." "Qinling Chronicles" is such a work that uses simple and powerful words to tell distant and modern stories, which is very interesting to read. The book tells nearly sixty stories of the Qinling Mountains in the form of notebook novels. Readers can see: a loyal dog that can understand people's words; a cave where spring water flows out when an eminent monk enters; a honey locust tree whose leaves shed tears when a person cries; a fool who can write poetry; a clerk who can enter other people's dreams... These stories lead readers to break through the cramped and cramped reality and enter a chaotic, majestic, powerful and open realm, allowing readers to generate interest and imagination in traditional texts, and feel like reading contemporary "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". "The Story of the Qinling Mountains" can be described as "one person's Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "one person's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" that the writer has been immersed in for many years and accumulated for half his life. Note novels have existed since ancient times. Lu Xun once roughly divided this genre, which has more complex contents and freer writing methods, into two types: "Zhiren" and "Zhiguai". "Qinling Chronicles" has both. The writing looks like a record of actual interviews, and the narrative tends to be whimsical. During the micro-reading, we can vaguely see the traces of the changing circumstances of life, the filtering and clarification of customs, as well as the details of life and living conditions deep in the mountains. Corresponding to the chaotic majesty and boundless vastness of the Qinling Mountains, in the new book, Jia Pingwa, who is seventy and does whatever he wants without going beyond the rules, breaks the boundaries of style, inherits the tradition of Chinese classical texts, and is unique in his writing style.
Heishun has a very powerful bone setting technique, but he does not accept any medical fees from others. He only wants the patients to give him and the monk a meal and a night's stay.
Those who have studied geography must have heard of the Qinling Mountains. This is the dividing point between the north and the south of my country. The Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River are located in the Qinling Mountains. Many people live nearby.
Flowering bamboo is not a good thing, it means that its life has come to an end, and it also hints at the monk's final fate. As expected, the monk passed away in a few days.
I really like Q, and I think of Jia Qianqian when I'm reading.
I'm speechless. I don't know if the Internet has memory. Anyway, I can't forget it.
I thought these were historical legends, but the times recorded in them are all modern!
Who would have thought that what happened in the Qinling Mountains in the 1990s and early this century would read like ancient legends? After reading it over and over, I feel that the people living in the Qinling Mountains seem to be isolated from the world and have no knowledge. The occasional scholar has no contact with the people there. They are buried in nature and have no human touch. It makes people wonder if what is written in this book is really happening now?
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Qinling - Comment on "Qinling"
These insights in "Qinling Chronicles" come from the author's life insights over the past seventy years. There are no fancy rhetoric in these sentences. All the words seem to grow out of the soil, unpretentious but full of sincerity and spirituality. In the Qinling Mountains, the author experienced what it was like for a bird to fly into the woods, and what it was like for a piece of grass to grow in a ravine. He regarded those peaks as the tall and majestic air, and the pools as the gathering of cool and moist air, and the patches of woods that appeared on the hillside or in the depressions could make him stare at them for a long time. As the author himself said: "He writes about the mountains and rivers of the Qinling Mountains, people and things, without daring to be lazy, perfunctory, frivolous or smooth, and strives to write every sentence in Chinese characters well." "Qinling Chronicles" is such a work that uses simple and powerful words to tell distant and modern stories, which is very interesting to read. The book tells nearly sixty stories of the Qinling Mountains in the form of notebook novels. Readers can see: a loyal dog that can understand people's words; a cave where spring water flows out when an eminent monk enters; a honey locust tree whose leaves shed tears when a person cries; a fool who can write poetry; a clerk who can enter other people's dreams... These stories lead readers to break through the cramped and cramped reality and enter a chaotic, majestic, powerful and open realm, allowing readers to generate interest and imagination in traditional texts, and feel like reading contemporary "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". "The Story of the Qinling Mountains" can be described as "one person's Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "one person's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" that the writer has been immersed in for many years and accumulated for half his life. Note novels have existed since ancient times. Lu Xun once roughly divided this genre, which has more complex contents and freer writing methods, into two types: "Zhiren" and "Zhiguai". "Qinling Chronicles" has both. The writing looks like a record of actual interviews, and the narrative tends to be whimsical. During the micro-reading, we can vaguely see the traces of the changing circumstances of life, the filtering and clarification of customs, as well as the details of life and living conditions deep in the mountains. Corresponding to the chaotic majesty and boundless vastness of the Qinling Mountains, in the new book, Jia Pingwa, who is seventy and does whatever he wants without going beyond the rules, breaks the boundaries of style, inherits the tradition of Chinese classical texts, and is unique in his writing style.
Heishun has a very powerful bone setting technique, but he does not accept any medical fees from others. He only wants the patients to give him and the monk a meal and a night's stay.
Those who have studied geography must have heard of the Qinling Mountains. This is the dividing point between the north and the south of my country. The Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River are located in the Qinling Mountains. Many people live nearby.
Flowering bamboo is not a good thing, it means that its life has come to an end, and it also hints at the monk's final fate. As expected, the monk passed away in a few days.
I really like Q, and I think of Jia Qianqian when I'm reading.
I'm speechless. I don't know if the Internet has memory. Anyway, I can't forget it.
I thought these were historical legends, but the times recorded in them are all modern!
Who would have thought that what happened in the Qinling Mountains in the 1990s and early this century would read like ancient legends? After reading it over and over, I feel that the people living in the Qinling Mountains seem to be isolated from the world and have no knowledge. The occasional scholar has no contact with the people there. They are buried in nature and have no human touch. It makes people wonder if what is written in this book is really happening now?
