When writing that article, Yan Ling had just celebrated her 40th birthday. She wrote: "Forty years of spring breeze and autumn rain, when the old man is tired, he will be less crazy, less struggling and less resentful." ..... You believe in honesty and understanding, and that human beings can communicate and understand each other. Although there is unbearable helplessness and compromise at the age of 30, your heart is clear and strong. "When talking about young women writers in Guangxi, such as Yingchuan, Ling Jie and Ji Chen, she said with deep affection:" The 30-year-old women in the works are them, you and us, and they are women in real life. They recorded the growth of women. They are emotional, sad, fragile and strong; They are spiritual and intelligent, so they are beautiful and glorious. After the age of 40, they will also write down burnout, peace, serenity and natural glow. "In my opinion, a woman who lives a wonderful life by herself and so sincerely loves the wonderful life of other women is undoubtedly an atmospheric woman, a woman full of love and sincerity, because her heart has enough width and depth.
As we all know, it is not easy to run a magazine with personality, and it is even more difficult for a woman to run a magazine with personality. I don't know what kind of magazine was the predecessor of Southern Literature. I remember it rose by 1996. At that time, many magazines were besieged, and literary criticism publications were few and far between. However, Southern Literary World broke into the literary world from a distant border with its youthful face, strong author face and sharp writing style, which was shocking. In particular, its vivid thinking, forward-looking attitude, tolerant mind and steady and fast pace make us have to cast awe on its editor-in-chief. Southern Literary World is famous for its "cutting-edge style", which can be said to have certain demonstration significance for the development and reform of China literary periodicals struggling to survive in a difficult environment. For example, in 200 1, the southern literary circle cooperated with Guangxi Normal University Press in an all-round way, and the "powerful combination" of "one of the most influential literary gardens in China" and "one of the important publishing bases of liberal arts in China" made the publication of papers and works integrated and three-dimensional. While editing Southern Literary World, Zhang Yanling also edited and published influential literary works such as Southern Criticism Book and Southern Criticism Discourse. Among them, Chen Xiaoming's Boundless Challenge also won the latest Lu Xun Literature Award and the Outstanding Literary Theory Criticism Award. The "Outstanding Paper Award of Southern Literature of the Year" for six consecutive years is also considered by experts as "an important award in China's literary criticism". The publication of these works and the selection of awards combine the cutting-edge and profoundness of academics in a systematic and large-scale way. Besides being busy editing, Zhang Yanling also wrote many unique essays and comments with sincere, delicate and gentle brushwork. Her collection of essays, Silent World, is one of eight essays on women scholars' culture, and won the second China Women's Literature Award. This shore and the other shore is one of the literary works of intellectual women published by Henan Literature and Art Publishing House. Like other female critics in the series, writing prose as a critic naturally has a different vision from others. In other words, this writing is often a reflection of wisdom itself, which is quite intellectual, talented and individual in the prose writing of today's intellectual women. I heard the beat and rhythm of the soul in her plain narrative. Most of her essays describe and discuss the fate of women, showing her deep thinking about people, society, nature and culture, and integrating her own thoughts. Prose such as Chaoyun, Chaoyun, Looking at the Tianya, Yale Duxiu, This shore, the other shore are leisurely and elegant, which not only closely follows the inner thoughts of the characters, but also draws the hearts of readers. After reading it, it often makes people think deeply, and it has also been selected into many outstanding prose anthologies of the year. Whether she runs a magazine or writes an article, she completely "puts herself in". If running a magazine is "someone inside", writing articles, especially essays, is "a woman inside"
Among these words, what moved me most was a sentence about the extraordinary love relationship between Gorbachev and Raisa in Into the Sun: "He understands that a real man will appreciate a woman who appreciates him as much as a woman appreciates him; She also knows that a real woman will care about a tolerant man as much as a man cares about her. Maybe they were hurt, but they swept away the fallen leaves with love. They often make each other laugh. They are equal, they are happy. Yes, in this ordinary world, even a great man, as long as he is in good health, will pounce on mortal love and joy with his bright and happy mind. " This naturally reminds people of Yan Ling and her husband Yi Feng, a happy literary couple who have worked hard together for many years, trying to cultivate a "literary province" in this "remote area" of Guangxi. Their perfect combination, especially their meticulous care for literary friends and young writers, is enviable and respectable. Zhang Yanling's comments are also unique. They combine sensibility and spirituality, and in their sincere and cordial speeches, they leap from the edge of their thoughts from time to time. Reading her comments is like listening to the intimate communication between her and the author, and there is rarely a feeling of separation and hardness. It is in Zhang Yanling's criticism of People's Land, which is full of deep sympathy and wise consciousness, that we feel that literary criticism has crossed the fog of theory and the barrier of knowledge, and formed a great penetrating power that directly reaches the inner truth and essence of literature.
Passion, passion, romance; Grateful, moved, grateful heart, these are the words that Yanling often talks about, and they are also the reasons why she is often missed. I remember when I was in Nanning at the end of 2006, Yan Ling pointed to a kapok tree and said, "When kapok blooms, it is especially big and red, just like Shu Ting wrote in To Oak, like a torch." It's a pity that I can't see kapok in full bloom, but when I think of kapok in full bloom, I think of Yanling under the tree and the silent oak tree beside her.
Impression: Shao's Good Wood in the South.