2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Music of Mustard Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng “Remembering the Power of Guanyin” “Writer” Issue 3, 2019
3. Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming” Cinema “People’s Literature” Issue 7, 2019Babaylan
4. Chi Zijian “Steamed Horse Boots” “Zhongshan” Issue 1, 2019
5. Du Lan “Mihuo” “People’s Literature” Issue 11, 2019
6, Huang JinCinema‘s “Late Youth” “Tianya” Issue 6, 2019
7, Ningre “Train” “Harvest” Issue 5, 2019
8, Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop” “HarvestBabaylan” Issue 3, 2019
9, Ye Zhaoyan “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Youth Writer” Issue 7, 2019
10, Zhang Huiwen “Angel” “Literary Port” Issue 7, 2019
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Emma “Must Seed Inn”
A Flower of Chivalrous Ideal
This is a novel with a novel narrative that blends traditional martial arts stories with modern social life, trying to reconstruct a transcendent chivalrous new world in the secular world. The strongest feeling when I first read this novel is that it is “fresh and lovely”. Xiao Wan, the owner of Mustard Inn, can be called an ideal flower full of chivalrous spirits blooming among secular sentient beings.
The novel fully establishes the character Xiao Wan in this cross-narrative between reality on the shore and the high shore. She is an “escaper” with a sense of life and pain in urban life, and is also a “bystander” of the restless and uneasy soul in our current social life. The novel has a smooth and lofty style, and has the “literary beauty and the truth of thought”, which ultimately points to the issue of human soul exile and placement.
■Xu Fuwei
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Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”
The post-80s writer brings a new experience
If the increasingly bizarre situation has caused the heroine’s inner belief to collapse, when she wants to get rid of her “life that makes her “shaking”, she can only destroy herself in a simple and cruel way.
Survival state, as the creative theme of literature, is never easy, but it is precisely because a good work has a transcendent cognitive and guiding role that this theme has become the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
This novel by Chen Chongzheng brings us surprises. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative style, as well as his in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, he disassembled and reassembled real life, opening up a channel of inspiration for readers.
■Wen Huan
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Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people in the small town
The young Chen Goodbye is well-known in the literary world for a series of “county town novels”.
He is still a young man at present, but he has stretched his brushstrokes ahead of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the young people who were good at in the squeeze of material survival as the specific background and details grid of characters who grew up further, and emerged from his livelihood, just like a strong spider who also had to look into the sky during the rainy season – “The Circus is Coming” so he showed a strange spirit, and we got a good novel with “It’s about to” as the driving force of time and space construction.
Not only that, the intertextuality between “circus” and people in small towns is another profound meaning in the novel. Can imagined stories really transcend specific life? The original thing that is “not to be said” is Cinema. What is the meaning of the novel trying to “speak”? The difference between the spirit of young people and the enthusiasm of middle-aged people is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to use this to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that they once had.
■CinemaShi Zhanjun
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Chi Zijian’s “Steamed Horse Boots”
Value in the Life Genealogy
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In the short space, Chi Zijian incorporates many elements such as history and reality, war and humanity, animals and humanity, and writes the desolation of history and the warmth of humanity. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s beautiful and calm pen remains her unique softness and consideration even when showing the coldness and cruelty in a hostile environment. Whether it is wolf nature, human nature, or death href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks, whether it is survival, they maintain an immortal value in the genealogy of life.
The novel adopts the “narration” method to allow the legend of the fathers to slowly unfold in the vision of “I”. It is the spirit of modern novels that makes such old stories of the Anti-Japanese United Nations shine with new literary brillianceBabaylan.
■Wang Gan
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Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
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Du Lan’s short story “The Mihuo” first caught me with a unique language style. There is no doubt that she belongs to the Mongolian people – sheep walking in the wind and snow, “Gale-Gale-” is earth-shaking. However, the author was born in 1999, which made me connect the language of the work with the Internet. Among them, discourses like “Youths are passionate about games” are full of colors of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet and the long-lasting Mongolian people’s long tuneLanguage, interacting to create a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is premiering with fables. A baby appeared in the ram’s belly, a paradoxical and weird ominous sign, so the “prairie faded” and the world suddenly changed; “I was shocked…” A series of mysterious and strange suspense symbols emerged in the middle of the real world. The indescribable symbols and pictures constitute the charming allegorical characteristics of the work.
■Jiang Bing
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The Elegy of Longing for Change
Huang Jinshu’s narrative has wild imagination and distinct style, stirring up the mystery and vastness of the waves in the South China Sea. His short story “The Late Youth” integrates time, history, memory and identity, which is thought-provoking. Although that mysterious young man has the ability to curb the flow of time, he still cannot catch up with the Babaylan time threshold at a major historical turning point in Komiks. This extreme juxtaposition reflects the insignificant coldness of an individual in the face of the torrent of history.
Magic is both an unfulfilled hope and an elegy for a desire to change, presenting us with a unique fable of modernity. The late youth, that is, the unfinished youth, is not only an inquiry of cultural identity by the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also a revelation and breakthrough of the incompleteness of modern Chinese literature worldwide.
■Wei Wei
Would rather “Train”
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Thinkers would rather be good at literary exploration. The novel uses the wildness of the former teenagers to lead readers to take the whistling train, and together captures the broken shadows of the years from Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station, and captures the quietness and lost innocence of Xiaoqin’s growth center.
Deep in history and human nature, in the residential compound and the story space outside the capital, the sound of the train whistle turns into the sound of time in the novel, running towards the youth with a bang, gradually becoming the ideal light of the novel, and also creating the author’s new historical narrative.
The narrative of the works is concise and spiritual, resolute and rhythmic; the novel is rough and warm, desolate and clear.
■Zhang Yanling
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Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop”
Speculation why he couldn’t extricate himself
“Maybe I changed my faith after leaving that city. “This is the first sentence of the novel “The Father on the Rooftop”. It is precisely because of this sentence that I value this novel. Especially the word “faith”, although slightly abrupt and introductory, it implies some differences in this work.
After reading, it was found that this was indeed a novel with profound connotation, a novel that touched the world of faith and the inner world. The novel constantly reproduced the ups and downs and fluctuations of the father who committed suicide by jumping off the building and committing suicide in his life. We also learned about the bravery, righteousness, passion, stubbornness and frustration of his father. The most memorable scene is the details of his notes.
Stripping off the surface narrative, we have a glimpse of his father’s soul, and we also know that he is or has encountered a spiritual danger. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan The most we want to know is undoubtedly what he can’t extricate himself?
So, do we know? No, we can only guess. And this returns to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
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Ye Zhaoyan’s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
The unique artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a well-prepared artistic fight with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”, which was also quite challenging.The writing adventure is that he wants to write short stories that are “completely different” from others.
Incredible that this short story with less than 10,000 words is written with the ups and downs of life grievances and irresistible human entanglements of a pair of twin sisters, full of destiny and tragedy.
The novel has a complete structure from the big picture, and the details are rich and vivid. The characters have a fullness that is about to emerge. It not only greatly expands the artistic space of short stories that reflects history and reality, but also deeply conveys the tremor, despair and helplessness deep in the characters’ souls.
The story tells the story contains sadness and alienation in indifference. The unique small and big, light and heavy artistic dialectics of short stories can be realized.
■Gu Guangmei
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Cinema Zhang Huiwen’s “Angel”
Search for inner comfort
The Angel is a delicate work full of sentimental feelings. Around my father’s funeral, “I” who returned from a foreign land, with a desire to find the warmth of happy growth and blood ties, and tried to relive the love with the “angel” in my heart when I was young.
However, when he walked through this once familiar “small place”, he found that all comfort became a hard, profit-oriented reality, and all admiration and longing turned into simple carnal joy. The emotions between people are constantly alienating, but the calculation of each other’s interests has become a daily routine. They form a close isomorphic relationship with the cold and mud-covered streets of their hometown, so that the returning wanderers can no longer find inner comfort.
If we think that “Angel” is a simple nostalgic work that conveys the author’s questioning the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, it seems that it is not bad. But I prefer to regard it as a fable, because every time we return to our hometown, we always preset countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and we will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang