Introduction: The hero of the novel The Dark Horse is a beautiful and outstanding dark horse. He grew up in a noble family, well-trained, gentle, intelligent and witty. His master likes him very much. But the good times didn't last long, and the owner's family changed, so the dark horse had to be sold. He has been sold many times in a row, and has met all kinds of people: drunkards who drink too much and take it out on horses, taxi drivers who whip at every turn, barbarians who don't take animals seriously, good families who treat animals as friends, and have tasted the joys and sorrows of the world. Finally, I am lucky to have a good home. The works reveal the inner world of the horse, and also depict human society as a horse looking on coldly. Dark Horse tells a beautiful story with vivid language through his own eyes, which makes everyone who reads the story feel that animals are human beings, and animals will treat us as we treat them ... Dark Horse, like all classic novels, has been popular all over the world for more than 65,438+000 years, and has been made into movies for a long time.
Zhang Chengzhi's Dark Horse
As soon as Dark Horse was published, it infected readers with its unique artistic charm, and won the national excellent novella award of 198 1 ~ 1982. With the vast and magnificent prairie as the background and an ancient folk song "Dark Horse" as the main line, the novel describes the growth process of Mongolian youth Bai Yinbaolige and his love tragedy with Somia. The novel reproduces the customs of the grassland people with slow rhythm and beautiful brushwork. Praise the virtues of kindness, simplicity and hard work of the grassland people.
Dark horse is not only the title of this novel, but also the title of an ancient folk song. This folk song tells a love story, just like the story of our novel, but the author doesn't just tell us this story, but goes deep into the dignified cultural accumulation of the grassland people, which makes the work have a deep sense of historical depth and reality. The protagonist Bai Yinbaolige is a Mongolian youth who pursues civilization and progress, and his pursuit embodies the Mongolian people's pursuit of a better life. Grandma and Somia are symbols of hardworking, kind and simple Mongolian people. However, their ignorance and resigned acceptance of some traditions show that the accumulation of traditions is deeply imprinted on them, and the ancient creative consciousness and life fun in ancient grassland culture collide with modern civilization here. In the face of such a strong collision, the hero feels depressed, hesitant and disappointed. He ran away angrily. Nine years later, influenced by modern civilization. He is always attracted by the dark and beautiful ancient nation "dark horse" in his heart, and often has an indescribable germination. What is this? The author has such a passage in the article: "I gradually feel that those too passionate and distant endings are sad stories that are difficult to sew in this world and simple tragic stories; Also, that kind of deep and passionate love is just some support or framework. In other words, spirituality depends only on color and timbre, but the real soul in that ancient song is much more complicated to hide. It impressed our ancestors and our generations, but never let us fully appreciate it. " The hero seems to feel that these are the inner details and profound accumulation of his national culture and the ancient life of the grassland. The hero clearly realizes this, but he is deeply attached to this land in the depths of his feelings, because it is the land where he was born and raised; He still loves this land deeply because it is his root. At the end of the work, I wrote: "I got off the saddle and plunged into the lush green grass." I quietly kissed this bitter grass, which left my footprints and passionate love with Somalia. There is a beautiful Xia Hong there, which I will never forget, and there is also a prairie that has continued the life of my loved ones. " As a typical novel of China's mentality, the work is not bound by the boundaries of time and space, but driven by the stream of consciousness of the characters. (At the same time, pay attention to the internal logic of plot development), show all kinds of plots along the track of psychological flow and ideological development of characters, so that the works show a beating but continuous overall effect and enhance artistic appeal. The author describes the magnificent grassland scenery with the style of prose, which makes the works have both rich grassland flavor and powerful and deep musical beauty. It is thrilling to read and has a strong artistic effect.
The ancient song "Dark Horse"
Black Horse, also known as Ganggahala, is a long-tune folk song that spreads in the north of Xilin Gol League in Inner Mongolia and Sukhbaatar Province in Mongolia. It is generally translated as "Black Horse" in China. However, this translation does not accurately express the meaning of the song title. Gangga, Mongolian means shiny black (that is, shiny); Hala, it's black. The title of the song doesn't mention horse, but Mongolians all know what it refers to. Although it is named after a dark horse, this song tells a sad love story: my beautiful and easy-running black horse is tied to the door and on the elm car; My kind-hearted sister married to that distant place outside the mountain. I walked through a well called Harley, where there was no bucket or sink. I passed two tents as "Eller", and there was no sister I missed at home. Find a shepherd to inquire about the news, he said, I heard that she transported sheep dung; Ask a cowherd for information. He said he heard that she had gone to collect cow dung. I looked up at the vast fields, with her shadow on the ridge, covered with echoes. The black horse pranced on the mountain ridge, and the familiar graceful figure was not her! Writer Zhang Chengzhi took this ancient song as a clue to create a novella "Dark Horse". The author said through the mouth of the protagonist Bai Yinbao Lige, "I never thought that after a long time, I actually repeated this ancient song myself instead of singing it." It can be seen how much the creator was inspired by this song in the process of creation. The outline of the novel is like this. Baiyinbaolige lost his mother when he was young, and his father had no time to raise him, so he entrusted him to the old Eji (mother's meaning) on the Bergen grassland to raise him; The girl Somia (meaning the new bud of spring) is an orphan and was adopted by the old Eji for the same reason. Eji has no relatives and raised his two children as his own. The two children grow up gradually, and Eji hopes that they will become lifelong companions, but the ambitious Bai Yinbao Lige is bent on studying abroad and becoming a veterinarian in the future. Bai Yin was told that he would go to Sumu (township) to attend a veterinary training class, which was exactly what he expected. Sonia sent Bai Yin to the training class and took a truck carrying wool. Because the cab was full, two people were sitting in the pile of wool in the box. The truck leaves at night, and the cold wind in late autumn is biting. The two young men clung to each other until dawn appeared on the horizon. Under the witness of Zhao Xia, the two vowed to be husband and wife and love each other forever, and agreed to go home and get married after the training class. Bai Yin returned to Burrigan Grassland, and something unexpected happened. He found that Sonia always avoided him and looked at Bai Yin with strange eyes. At a young people's party, Baiyinbaolige learned that Somia was pregnant with the child of the well-known villain Huang Maoxila. Baiyinbaolige's spirit almost collapsed. Under the great blow, he decided to run away. Nine years later, he graduated from Baiyinbaolige University and became a technician in the Animal Husbandry Department of the autonomous region. The 27-year-old Baiyinbaolige returned to his hometown Bole dry grassland because of the investigation of grassland animal husbandry. He decided to look for his Somia, and by this time, Somia had married in a foreign land on the shores of Lake Nogainaul. After the death of the old Eji, Somia took the child (before she gave birth to the child of Huangmaoxila, she was named Zige (meaning beautiful little flower). )) live hard. The driver Dawacang pitied their mother and son and married Somia, who gave birth to three sons for Dawacang. The family lived a poor and quiet life in Nogainaul. Ziggy is an extremely thin little girl, and her stepfather is not very kind to her. In order to give her little heart a little comfort and expectation, Somia lied that Ziggy's father was Baiyinbaolige, and told Ziggy that her father would come to them one day on a dark horse named Gangahara. As soon as the two met, Baiyinbaolige acquiesced in this white lie. His style really attached himself to Baiyinbaolige as a father ... At the end of the novel, Baiyinbaolige left Nogainur on a black horse and sang this long-tune ancient song Ganggahala (meaning dark horse). "When my long tune and all the music finally passed away quietly, I got off the saddle, dismounted and plunged into the lush green grass. I kissed this bitter grassland quietly, and kissed this land that left my footprints and passionate love with Somalia. There was a beautiful sunrise, which I will never forget. A grassland extended the life of my relatives. I cried quietly, just like the shepherd riding a dark horse in the old song. "