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” “People’s Literature” Issue 7, 2019
4. Chi Zijian “Steamed Horse Boots” “Zhongshan” Issue 1, 2019
5. Du Lan “Mihuo” “People’s Literature” Issue 1, 2019
6. Huang Jin BabaylanTravel “Late Youth” “Tianya” Issue 6, 2019
7. Ning Ke “Train” “Harvest” Issue 5, 2019
8. Shao Li “Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” 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
1
Emma “Must Seed Inn”
A flower of chivalrous ideals
This is a novel with a novel narrative, integrating traditional martial arts stories with modern social life, trying to reconstruct a new world of chivalrous 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 regarded as 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. CinemaShe is an “escaper” of urban life with a sense of life and pain, and is also a “bystander” of our current Cinema‘s restless and uneasy souls in our current social life. The novel has a ease of writing, a lofty style, and has “the beauty of literature and the truth of thought”, which ultimately points to the issue of human soul exile and placement.
■Xu Fuwei
2
Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”
A new experience for writers born in the 1980s
If the increasingly bizarre situation has caused the heroine’s inner belief to collapse. When she wants to get rid of her “shaking life”, she can only destroy herself with a simple and cruel way.
Survival state, as the theme of literary creation, will never be relaxed, but it is precisely because of the transcendent recognition that a good work plays. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks‘s knowledge and guidance role is irreplaceable, which makes this theme the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
Chen Chongzheng’s novel brings us surprises. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative methods, and through 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.
■Wenhuan
3
Chan Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people in a 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 extended his brushstrokes to the front of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the youth he was good at in the past in the squeeze of material survival as a grid of specific backgrounds and details for the characters who grew up further, and emerged from his livelihood, just like a tenacious spider who also looked at the sky during the rainy season – “Circus is Coming” So we have a strange spirit, and we get a good novel with “coming soon” 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? It is originally necessary to be “indiscriminate”, what is the meaning of the novel’s attempt to “speak”? The difference with the spirit of young people is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to use this to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that has existed.
■Shi Zhanjun
4
Chi Zijian “Steamed Horse Boots”
The value of the life genealogy is immortal
As an excellent writer who has been in the literary world for many years, Chi Zijian seems to have few short stories in recent years. The short story of “Steamed Horse Boots” is a bit of a meaning of accumulation.
In the short space, Chi Zijian incorporates many elements such as history and reality, war and human nature, animals and humanity, and writes the desolation of history and the warmth of human nature. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s beautiful and calm brushstrokes show the coldness of the hostile environmentBabaylan and cruelty still maintain her unique softness and consideration. Whether it is wolf nature, human nature, death, or survival, they all maintain immortal value in the genealogy of life.
The novel adopts the “narration from a distance” method to allow the legend of the father 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 brilliance.
■Wang Gan
5
Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
Cultural palette and BabaylanMongolian Narrative
Du Lan’s short story “Mihuo” first caught me with a unique language style. None href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>CinemaAsk that she belongs to the Mongolian people – sheep walking in the wind and snow, “Ga Le-Ga Le-” is earth-shaking. However, the author was born in 1999, which made me connect the language of the work with the Internet. Discourses like “Youths are keen on games” are colored by the color of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet tribe and the long-lasting language of the Mongolian tribe interact to form a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is preceded by fables. A baby appeared in the ram’s belly, a weird ominous sign, so the “prairie faded” and the world changed drastically; “CinemaI was shocked…” A series of mysterious KomiksThe strange suspense symbols are prominent in the real world. The symbols and pictures that cannot be explained clearly constitute the charming allegorical characteristics of the work.
■Jiang Bing
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Huang Jinshu’s “Late Youth”
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 “Late Youth” href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksYouth” combines time, history, memory and identity, which is thought-provoking. Although the mysterious young man has the ability to curb the flow of time, he still cannot catch up with the threshold of time for the great revolution of history. This extreme juxtaposition reflects the insignificance of individuals in the face of the torrent of history.
Magic is both an unrealized hope and an elegy for a desire to change, presenting us a strange fable of modernity. Late young people, that is, unfinished youth, are not only an inquiry of cultural identity by the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also an incomplete modern Chinese literature worldwide. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanA reveal and breakout.
■Wei Wei
7
NingCinemaKen “Train”
Shadows of the Year The Voice of Time
Thinkers would rather be good at literary exploration. The novel uses the wildness of the past teenagers to lead readers on the whistling train, and together they capture the broken shadows of the years from Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station, and capture the clarity of the soul of Xiaoqins in the center of their growth and the lost innocence of their innocence.
In the depths of history and human nature, in the residential courtyard and BeijingIn the story space outside the city, the sound of the train whistle turns into the sound of time in the novel. When it runs towards the youth, it gradually becomes the ideal light of the novel, and it also creates the author’s new historical narrative.
The narrative of the works is concise and spiritual, resolute and rhythmic; the novel is rough and warm, and it is cool and clear.
■Zhang Yanling
8
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 “Father on the Rooftop”. It is precisely because of the sentence Babaylan that I value this novel. Especially the word “faith”, although slightly abrupt and introductory, it implies some differences in this work. After reading it, I found that this Cinema is indeed a novel with profound connotations, a novel that touches the world of faith and inner self. The novel constantly reproduces the ups and downs and fluctuations experienced by his father who committed suicide by jumping off a building. We have also learned about the bravery, righteousness, passion, stubbornness and frustration of his father. The most memorable scene is the details of his notes.
Stripping the surface narrative, we have a glimpse of the father’s soul and knowing that he is or has encountered a spiritual crisis. What we want to know most is undoubtedly why he can’t extricate himself?
So, do we know? No, we can only speculate. And this returns to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
9
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”, and it was also a challenging writing adventure, that is, he wanted to write a short story that was “completely different” from others.
What is incredible is that this short story, less than 10,000 words, writes the ups and downs of life grievances and irresistible human entanglements of a pair of twin sisters, and is full of fate and tragedy.
The novel is complete from the big picture, and the details are rich and vivid from the small picture. The characters have a fullness that is about to emerge. It not only greatly expands the artistic space of the short story that reflects history and reality, but also spreads it in depth. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan achieves the trembling, despair and helplessness deep in the characters’ souls.
The story is told indifferently, and the story is filled with sadness and concern in alienation. The artistic dialectics of small and big, light and heavy, unique to short stories can be realized.
■ Gu Guangmei
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Zhang Huiwen’s “Angel”
Search for inner comfort
“Angelic” is a delicate work full of sentimental feelings. Around her father’s funeral, the “I” who returned from a foreign land, with a desire to find the warmth of happy growth and blood ties, and trying to relive the “HeavenCinema makes love.
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, while the calculation of interests between each other becomes a daily routine. They form a close isomorphic relationship with the cold and mud-covered streets of their hometown, so that the return wanderers can no longer find inner comfort.
If we think “Angel” is a href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema‘s simple nostalgic work conveys the author’s questioning the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, which seems to be okay. But I prefer to regard it as a fable, because we return every time BabaylanThe hometown always presets countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and they will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang