Special topic: Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan
Topic: Heroes of Earthquake Relief
Xinhuanet Beijing, June 14 (Reporter Liao Yi) "We should record this earth-shaking earthquake relief struggle in the form of literature, and show the unity and strength of heroic Chinese sons and daughters in the face of crisis and tell the world." Within more than a week after the Wenchuan earthquake, the Chinese Writers Association organized four China writers’ earthquake relief interview groups, including more than 50 writers and poets, to go to Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi and other hardest hit areas to experience life and interview and create. Day and night in the front line, writers and poets were all shocked by the heroes and touching stories that emerged in the earthquake relief, inspired by the national spirit highlighted in this disaster, poured their passion into the pen and wrote a lot of works containing the true feelings of writers, which touched countless readers, brought strong spiritual shock to the people of the whole country and great spiritual strength to overcome the difficulties together.
On the front line of disaster, China writers are with the people.
At the scene of earthquake relief, there are unyielding cadres and masses, people’s soldiers who put people’s interests above everything else, angels in white, who is committed to saving lives, volunteers at home and abroad who are silently dedicated, journalists who record history, and writers and poets who engrave national suffering and spirit.
Gao Hongbo, He Jianming, Huang Yazhou, Xu Jian, Li Mingsheng, Fang Min … Well-known writers and poets braved the threat of aftershocks and went deep into the disaster-stricken areas such as Dujiangyan, Mianyang, Deyang, Guangyuan, Wenchuan, Beichuan, Anxian, Qingchuan, Mianzhu, Shifang and Pengzhou in Sichuan Province, and interviewed the victims. Writers and poets such as Chen Jiangong, Chen Qirong, Xie Keqiang, Yang Ke, Tian He, Xu Kun, Jiang Wei, Wang Peng, Lengmeng, Sun Jingyan, etc., who went deep into the disaster-stricken areas in Gansu and Shaanxi, cordially visited the local victims and donated money to the local disaster-stricken rural areas and Hope Primary School …
In these shocking scenes, in those moving places, China writers are dancing. Among the writers who participated in the interview, the oldest is 71-year-old Sichuan woman writer Li Linying, and the youngest is Beijing writer Chun Shu and Hebei writer Chen Weijun born in the 1980s. In this way, several generations of China writers and poets have been close to the motherland, a painful land, and comforted their traumatized hometown with their feelings.
"This is a rare spiritual and emotional impact; The creative experience of this interview has made me mature. " Several young writers said.
Share the disaster, let the creation consciously pay attention to the people’s livelihood.
"Wenchuan, Wenchuan/At this moment, you make the whole Republic sleepless/sleepless nights/how many people can’t sleep! /So, the President of the Republic issued an order/the Prime Minister of the Republic took the lead/the Republic army marched in the rain/the Republic accompanied Wenchuan to tide over the difficulties! /Race death with speed/People’s safety is higher than the sky! "
"Today, I bow my head, not to cry/just to kiss the broken land/just to search between the heart and the ruins again/to find the crying of the baby/to find the breathing of the old people/to suck the blood from their wounds/to give birth to the miracle of the next life."
In a field tent, in successive aftershocks, under the bright or dark lights, first-line writers and poets wrote these hot poems with passion.
Xu Jian, a military writer, said: "This interview in the earthquake zone has made me more and more consciously return to the position of civilians, taking the whole life as a thought, taking universal values as a banner, and paying more attention to my parents, brothers and sisters." Writer Jiang Wei said: "In this disaster, the party and the people share the same fate, which fully embodies the relationship between fish and water, which has laid the most solid foundation for us to overcome the disaster." Xuanwu, a young writer, said: "Words present power, and civilization is passed down by such a power."
Whether it’s a writer who goes to the front line to interview the earthquake relief, or a writer and poet who is far behind, blood is boiling at the same time and passion is burning for the same goal! Many writers and poets have picked up pen and paper to sing for the great national spirit shown in the great disaster.
The work of blood is in harmony with the land and people.
"The combination of literature and songs is timely." This is fully reflected in the first-line creation of China writers and poets in earthquake relief.
Poems to Wenchuan, Carrying a Wife, Mourning: In the Name of the Republic, Angels on the Ruins, Life and Death, China at 14: 28, Flag Flying in the Highland of Life, A Child’s Salute, Let’s Share This Moment … These hot songs from the hearts of China writers and poets are sung through newspapers, radio and television. The earth-shaking truth has moved countless readers.
At the same time, He Jianming’s Report from Longmenshan, Unyielding Ridge, Qiushanshan’s Breakthrough from the Despair, Tracking: Long Baoping’s Rescue, Jiang Wei’s A Small Town that Surprised Us, Xu Jian’s Mourn of Abundance, Wang Peng’s Feeling New in Destruction, YongXian Quan’s Longnan Diary and Xuanwu’s Dangerous Situation.
There are many poets and writers who express their feelings in other literary styles. For example, Chen Jiangong and Wang Song created the essays Life and Death Game and Monitor respectively, Xie Keqiang created lyrics such as party member Commando and The People’s Liberation Army’s kindness is greater than the sky, and Chen Weijun created the Yue Opera "There is no way ahead" and the Beijing Opera "Chinese sons and daughters are grateful for each other".
The fiery front line of disaster relief has aroused the surging creative enthusiasm of writers and poets. Poets Huang Yazhou and Shang Zejun published poetry anthologies "China is so shocked" and "National Mourning: Poems about Wenchuan" respectively, all of which are first-line works in the disaster area. The Chinese Writers’ Association quickly organized the editing and publication of two poetry collections, Symphony of the Heart with a Feeling of the Earth and the Earth, and China: Shocking May.
"I strongly feel the power of literature, which keeps me awake at night and shocks me all the time, as well as warmth, strength and confidence, so that I can’t wait to go to the disaster area to fight with the people there and share the burden." This is a message from netizens to writers and poets in China.
Jin Binghua, Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers’ Association, said that there are too many people and things in earthquake relief that need writers to express and eulogize. The Chinese Writers’ Association will continue to organize writers to interview and create in the disaster areas, artistically reflecting the heroic achievements of the people in the disaster areas in rebuilding their material and spiritual homes under the leadership of the party and the government, and there will be more good works dedicated to the people of the whole country. The reporter understands that the Chinese Writers’ Association is organizing efforts to carefully edit and publish the anthology of poems, reportage and essays on earthquake relief, and will give them to the disaster-stricken areas to better inspire the fighting spirit of compatriots in the disaster-stricken areas and the people of the whole country.
Editor: Zhang Renhe