Author's brief introduction Wei Wei, a native of Zhengzhou, Henan Province,1920+1June was born in a poor family in a city. His original name was Hong Jie, and he used to be Shanyang, a contemporary poet, a famous prose writer and novelist. When I was a child and a teenager, I studied in a "civilian primary school" and a humble rural normal school. I began to get in touch with literary works and became interested in reading. 1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he went to Shanxi to join the Eighth Route Army, then transferred to Yan 'an, joined the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and went to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region after graduation to do propaganda work in the army. He used to be the propaganda officer, propaganda section chief and political commissar of the Communist Youth League. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he did not leave the army. He has served as deputy editor-in-chief of Literature and Art of the People's Liberation Army, deputy director of the workshop of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, deputy director of the Literature and Art Department of the General Political Department, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Military Region, and minister of culture of the Beijing Military Political Department. 1939 to 1949, mainly engaged in poetry creation. He has written and published poems such as Fruit, Wake them up, Songs of Good Couples, Scenery at Dawn, Sending Zhangjiakou to the Front, among which 19. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he devoted himself to the creation of essays and novels. He went to North Korea three times from 1950 to 1958, and wrote essays that established his literary position, such as Who is the cutest person and the warrior and the motherland, Day and night on the south bank of the Han River, Let your youth be more beautiful, young man, and affectionate farewell. 1952 co-authored the novella Storm in the Sky with Bai Ai * * *, 1956 co-authored the film novel Red Storm with Qian Xiaohui. 1963 participated in the commentary writing of the large-scale music and dance epic "Dongfanghong". From 1959 to 1978, it took 22 years to write the famous novel Orient, which showed the heroic war life in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea with epic brushwork, enthusiasm and profound openness, and thus won the first "Mao Dun Literature Prize" in China in 1982.
In September, in the most beautiful and charming season of Jizhong Plain, Guo Xiang returned to his hometown of Fenghuang Fort after a long absence. Since 13, the landlord Xie Xiangzhai was killed in a difficult situation, and the condor escaped. Guo Xiang returned to his hometown for the first time, from the barefoot little Gazi to the battle-hardened company commander of the People's Liberation Army. So, Guo Xiang was both sad and excited. After the turmoil and disaster of war, today's Fort Phoenix makes Guo Xiang feel both familiar and unfamiliar. The ancient Fort Phoenix is slowly coming out of the shadow of war and starting a new young life with * * * and China. Guo Xiang deeply knows that today's peace is hard-won, and this fruit embodies the blood of thousands of his comrades-in-arms in Qian Qian, Qian Qian, and also the blood of his father. His gray-haired mother told him that his honest father changed his father because of the revolution, and he died tragically under the butcher's knife of the reactionary forces on the eve of the victory of the revolution. However, before the victory gained with life and blood was consolidated, it was threatened by a new threat-American imperialism launched a war of aggression against the DPRK, which spread to the China side of the Yalu River; At the same time, the reactionary and dark forces in China are slowly raising their heads in cooperation with this unjust war in an attempt to confuse and shake the revolutionary masses and shake the revolutionary achievements. From my mother and Aunt Yang, the "revolutionary mother", I know that the landlord Xie has started a public counterattack. Although this counterattack was suppressed by Aunt Yang and others, Xie's arrogance showed the seriousness and complexity of the new struggle in his hometown. Aunt Yang's firm and optimistic revolutionary belief once again inspired Guo Xiang's fighting spirit. When he learned the news that American troops landed in Incheon and crossed the 38th parallel, he keenly felt the seriousness of the situation and decided to return to the team early. Aunt Yang's daughter, Yang Xue, accompanied him home. Yang Xue and Guo Xiang are partners who grew up together, and they set each other off from childhood. Later, Guo Xiang fled his hometown to participate in the revolution, and Yang Xue was also sent to the team by Aunt Yang, just in the same army as Guo Xiang. As a partner and brother, Guo Xiang witnessed how Yang Xue grew from a little girl with a ponytail to a passionate, lively, simple and generous female warrior. I don't know when he found out that he fell in love with Yang Xue, but because of shyness, he lost many opportunities to express himself. It was not until one day that Yang Xuelai told him that he had fallen in love with someone that he woke up from a rude awakening and knew that his battalion commander had won the love of Yang Xue first. As a comrade and subordinate, he knew Lu Xirong's character and quality well, but he couldn't tell Yang Xue these feelings, and he was caught in a deep contradiction. Liu Xirong was deeply dissatisfied with Guo Xiang's return with Yang Xue. When his request for Yang Xue to get married at once was rejected, he thought that Guo Xiang had cheated him, so he was jealous. Shortly after Guo Xiang returned to the team, the troops were ordered to go to the Korean battlefield from the northwest. Because our army unexpectedly went to the DPRK to participate in the war and took the initiative to attack, it quickly won the first battle after entering the DPRK, and then gained a firm foothold in the vast area of northern Korea. However, the team led by Guo Xiang did not achieve great results. The first encounter was defeated by Lu Xirong's timidity and disobedience. But Lu Xirong cleverly covered up his mistakes. Despite this, the overall fighting spirit of the troops is still high. In World War I, the enemy completely controlled the air superiority, and the enemy planes bombarded me indiscriminately. Seeing that the troops were passively beaten, Guo Xiang was very angry and decided to overwhelm the enemy with momentum, so he ignored Lu Xirong's orders and fought against the enemy plane alone, eventually forcing the enemy plane to retreat. Guo Xiang's move greatly boosted morale, but was reprimanded by Lv Xirong who was afraid of enemy planes. After discussion by the Party Committee, Guo Xiang's courageous behavior was fully affirmed. The head of the regiment and the political commissar extended Guo Xiang's experience to the whole regiment, and finally set a record of shooting down enemy planes with light weapons, overwhelming the enemy in momentum. The second stage of the campaign began immediately. In the Battle of Goshawk Ridge, the Red Company led by Guo Xiang fought fiercely, and its position turned into a sea of fire. Guo Xiang led his men resolutely not to retreat half a step. At the last moment when the ammunition was exhausted, he rushed to the enemy with artillery fire, which blocked the enemy's attack and saved his position. But in this battle, Lu Xirong became a shameful loser, and his behavior was finally exposed and dealt with by the party discipline and state law. Guo Xiang was admitted to the hospital because of severe burns. Under the careful care of Yang Xue, Xu Fang and others, he recovered quickly. At the same time, Yang Xue also knew Liu Xirong's shameful performance and behavior in the battle, and shed sad tears in front of sympathetic Guo Xiang. After Guo Xiang's heroic deeds quickly spread throughout the whole army, Xu Fang secretly admired him. When she knew that Guo Xiang was still deeply in love with Yang Xue, she had a deeper understanding of his qualities. After Guo Xiang recovered from his leg injury, he quickly rushed back to the battlefield and took part in the battles of Wu Yunling and Baiyunling. In the Battle of Wu Yunling, he led less than a class of soldiers to the last minute, jumped off the cliff after the bomb ran out and was rescued by Korean women. After contact with the Korean People's Army, he finally found the army. Adhering to the battle of Baiyunling Tunnel is an integral part of our military's strategic defense after winning five consecutive offensive battles. Guo Xiang has lost all positions on the Baiyun Mountain, and our army has been passively beaten, with heavy casualties, and accepted the task of leading tunnel defense. With rich combat experience, firm combat belief and flexible combat skills, he quickly gained the trust of the soldiers of all troops in the tunnel. Under his leadership, he resisted tens of thousands of enemy attacks with less than two companies. In the counterattack, his right leg was seriously injured by the enemy's bomb, but he was determined not to leave the line of fire. When the troops were blocked, he sat on a stretcher and continued to command the battle at the forefront. His spirit gave great encouragement to the soldiers and rushed to the enemy position in one fell swoop. Due to the serious injury, the leader decided to let him go back to China for treatment. While Guo Xiang led soldiers to kill the enemy heroically at the front, Yang Xue gave his young life to protect the wounded and the lives of the Korean people. After Yang Xue's death, Aunt Yang immediately sent Yang Xue's younger brother, Yang Chun, who had just turned 16, to the front. Yang Xue's sacrifice and Aunt Yang's great behavior shocked Guo Xiang even more. It was with longing for Yang Xue, love for the revolutionary mother, and deeper hatred for the enemy that I took part in the tunnel warfare in Baiyunling. Guo Xiang was filled with emotion when he thought that he was about to return to China, but his relatives had been buried in a foreign land. He made a special trip to visit the cemetery in Yang Xue, bid farewell to his partner and comrade-in-arms who were buried underground, and boarded the train back home. On the way, he heard the news of the truce. The Korean War ended with victory in the East. Guo Xiang returned to his hometown once again. People in his hometown greeted the hero's return with great solemnity, but his leg was completely disabled. When he was appointed as the county party secretary, he also accepted Xu Fang's love. He suddenly found that their love was so deep and firm. Xu Fang gave up his life in Beijing and came to Guo Xiang, a plain in central Hebei. They started a new life of building their homes together.
Oriental Appreciation undoubtedly marks the highest achievement of Wei Wei's literary creation. In terms of stylistic expression, the enthusiasm of poetry and the beauty of prose are calm, and an organic way is found here. Narration and description have become a positive and beautiful subject behavior, and the language level of the text has begun to show an elastic and beating texture. More importantly, in the breadth and depth of thought, it not only constitutes the unity and coverage of all previous works, but also is a natural and reasonable development and transcendence. It allows us to see the complete ideological system derived from the ideological fragments of these classic works, such as Scenery at Dawn and Who is the cutest Man. This ideological system shows a very beautiful and lucky prospect for the literary life of the orientals. Therefore, it is important that Oriental not only breaks through the self-tradition in the history of personal creation, but also enriches and develops the whole contemporary literary tradition of China before 1980s. This is mainly manifested in the shaping and understanding of the image of "Oriental" in the works. It is generally believed that the main merit of Oriental is that it is a picture scroll, which shows the heroic war to resist US aggression and aid Korea and defend the country in an all-round and heroic way, which is natural. "Oriental" is really about war and the inevitability of war victory. But this is only a superficial phenomenon. Judging from the author's creative conception, creative process and the internal logic of his works, expressing war is not an end in itself, but a form and means. In fact, there is no simple occupation and occupation, aggression and war of aggression. All wars are not ends in themselves. Essentially, it is a contest of ideas and a conflict of values. The essence of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is the confrontation between the two ideological camps, the confrontation between the young oriental socialist cultural spirit and the western capitalist cultural spirit. It is this meaningful encounter between the East and the West that gives the author a profound opportunity to think, and makes him begin to transcend the bloody battle on the battlefield and pay attention to the background after the battlefield. At the same time, it also enabled him to break through the concrete and realistic way of thinking, brewing and constructing a broad and profound oriental image, which is broad-minded, gentle and strong, heroic and selfless, indestructible, with invincible dignity and spirit. This is a brand-new human personality image. She represents the most advanced world outlook and the most outstanding ideological trend in the world, and has the most natural and essential beliefs of human beings. Based on this understanding, "Oriental" not only wrote the frontal battlefield, but also pulled into the central Hebei plain in the real world. It not only shows the smoke and blood shadow of the battle, but also highlights the invisible engagement between the two wills; It not only describes the fighting personality, but also shows a rich and varied emotional, moral and psychological world-an oriental personality world. Therefore, we have seen an unusually rich pedigree of people. If we make a rough statistics, the total number and types of this group of images may exceed all novels about revolutionary war after the founding of the People's Republic of China: Guo Xiang, Deng Jun, Zhou Fu, Yang Xue, Aunt Yang, Hongchuan, Fan, Dafa, Liu Dashun, Qiao Dahang, Armani, Jinyintuo, Lu Xirong and Xie Chuan. There are "revolutionary mothers" and ordinary revolutionary farmers; There are North Korean generals and soldiers, mothers of the People's Army, and innocent and lively children; There are degenerates of the proletariat, typical landlords and soldiers influenced by the spirit of "humanistic democracy" in the west. Behind everyone here, there is a rich and complex world, their inevitable psychological and political background, and a series of concrete and vivid stories. The success of this group of images makes the image and meaning of the "East" fully and smoothly expressed, so as not to make such a creation with such clear motives and strong intentions become a boring and naked sermon. In addition, the success of Oriental once again proves an eternal artistic creation law and an ancient but forever young artistic experience: excellent creation is always rooted in social and spiritual life, and life is the most fundamental source of literary creation. There is no metaphysical creation, and there is no imaginative creation. If a writer is not always in a state of open experience and grabbing materials, his artistic life will become a dead tree. Almost all the stories and characters in the Orient have "archetypes" of life. The author Wei Wei has never given up the state of artistic experience. His rich materials about war and rural life are like an underground spring, which makes him inexhaustible. Reading the East, even in the last chapter, we all have a sense of balance, which keeps reading in a fresh and unfamiliar state. Of course, it goes without saying that "Oriental" was produced in the most desolate era of China's literary life, and it cannot but bear the imprint of that era, but only in some small and weak aspects, which is completely understandable.