In the article "Tell Readers" in the last episode of Yanshan Nighttalk, Comrade Deng Tuo once said in a joking tone that he was "pulled on the horse" when he wrote the night talk. The person who pulled him onto the horse here refers to the editorial comrades of Beijing Evening News. 196110 in October, the editorial department of the Evening News told Comrade Deng Tuo that he hoped he could open a column and write a series of articles for the Evening News. After consideration, out of concern for readers, Comrade Deng Tuo agreed to the requirements of Evening News in mid-March. The name of the column, considering the characteristics of Beijing and the characteristics of the evening paper, is called Yanshan Nighttalk. He explained: "Yanshan is a major mountain range in Beijing; Night talk is talking at night. " The author signed Ma Nancun, and he explained: This is the homonym of Malan Village, a small village near Chengnanzhuang, Fuping County, Hebei Province. He said: "Malan Village was the seat of Jinchaji Daily during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period, and I have always missed it."
Comrade Deng Tuo has said many times: "I wrote Yanshan Nighttalk, which is about what I saw, heard and felt. If it's just what you see and hear, it's just a tape recorder; You must feel something before you can become your own thing and become a thoughtful thing. " He always puts his thoughts on the problem in front of the readers, and he feels it, speaks with substance and has strong pertinence.
As a political commentator, under the call of the CPC Central Committee at that time to "vigorously investigate and study" and "conscientiously sum up experience", Comrade Deng Tuo's "Yanshan Nighttalk" had to touch on some shortcomings in political thought and social life at that time, especially the manifestations of left-leaning thoughts, such as subjectivism, fraud, demanding orders, boasting and empty talk. This kind of article accounts for most of Yanshan Nighttalk and constitutes the main style of Yanshan Nighttalk.
At that time, the press and literary and art circles called the articles in the Evening News column of Yanshan Nighttalk as intellectual prose. Knowledge is indeed an important feature of Yanshan night talk. Reading Yanshan Nighttalk is like entering a vast spiritual world and knowledge world, where wisdom shines everywhere. The author dabbles in such a wide range of fields as philosophy and history, historical anecdotes, astronomy and geography, culture and art, agriculture and mulberry medicine, military chess, human customs, birds, animals, insects and fish, etc. And it is really all-encompassing. Reading "Yanshan Nighttalk" makes people feel that human knowledge is infinite, especially when we see that our motherland has a civilization history of four or five thousand years, how many incisive thoughts and experiences of our predecessors are worth inheriting and carrying forward! This can greatly stimulate our enthusiasm for learning and national pride.