Sun Li is a famous novelist. He wrote about the anti-Japanese struggle of rural people in central Hebei. His works have a strong local flavor in the central Hebei plain, and have a fresh, sincere, natural and beautiful style in art. His works are known as "poetic novels".
Lotus Lake tells the story that people in Baiyangdian area in central Hebei actively participated in the Anti-Japanese War. In the works, the author successfully created a group image of rural women represented by aquatic sister-in-law. These women are industrious, simple and kind, know the general situation and take care of the overall situation, and they are a new generation who grew up in a specific war era. Aquatic sister-in-law is a typical woman with the most ink and wash works. She is hardworking and capable, weaving reed mats, and in a short time, "it is woven into a large piece"; She is virtuous, gentle, respects the old and loves the young, and considerate of her husband. She has the traditional virtues of working women in China. Although Mrs Shui Sheng loves her husband and family, she is not narrow-minded. She can understand the general situation, take care of the overall situation, and know how to deal with the relationship between patriotism and family. When she learned that her husband had signed up for the army, although she was distressed and attached, she quickly agreed and prepared luggage for her husband. The women in Baiyangdian are not only hardworking, capable and knowledgeable, but also enthusiastic, optimistic and strong. A few days after the men arrived in the army, Mrs. Shui and several young women made excuses to visit them. They have deep and sincere love for their husbands. Of course, they are optimistic. When they didn't meet their relatives, they were "a little disappointed and sad" at first, but "they always thought of happy things" and "soon, they started talking and laughing again". These emotional and joking women were not timid or soft when they met enemy ships. They tactfully rocked the boat into the Lotus Lake and made up their minds to "if the enemy catches up" and never surrender, "jumping into the water to die", showing a firm and calm spirit of death. These women who have been baptized by war have made a new leap in their spiritual realm after returning to their villages. They quickly learned to shoot, picked up guns and set up their own team. "In winter, when they fish with ice, they board the ice boat one by one like meteors and look back and forth. When the enemy besieged a hundred hectares of reed pond, they took their children to fight and went in and out of the reed sea. "
The growth of women such as aquatic sister-in-law shows the great changes of the people in central Hebei in the national self-defense war from one side. The author praised the revolutionary fighting spirit and patriotism of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in central Hebei under the leadership of the party by shaping the female group image represented by Sister-in-law.
The reason why Sun Li's novels have the reputation of "poetic novels" is mainly because no matter who writes, remembers and writes scenes, they are always full of poetic feelings. Lotus Lake is such a poetic work.
First of all, Lotus Lake pays great attention to revealing the beauty of human feelings and humanity in writing people, thus giving the work a lyrical beauty. Of course, a central task of the novel is to write people. The success of Lotus Lake lies in successfully shaping a group of women represented by aquatic sister-in-law. But the author of Lotus Lake has his own characteristics. The author describes people not with ordinary kung fu, but with scenes, characters' language, actions and details that can best express the beauty of human nature and human feelings, accurately and vividly depict the inner world of characters and highlight their valuable qualities. The works describe how Shuisao and other women organize troops, practice martial arts, cooperate with the main force against the enemy and other scenes and plots, which are outlined with thick lines, while the details, manners, words and scenes that can best express Shuisao and other women's deep emotional world are described in detail. For example, the scene of aquatic sister-in-law saying goodbye to her husband is wonderful. Late at night, Shuishui came back and told his wife, "I will go to the big army tomorrow." Hearing this sudden news, the aquatic sister-in-law who loves her husband doesn't know what to say at the moment. Her fingers trembled, thinking that Mei Wei had cut her hand, and she put a finger in her mouth and sucked it. This detail is very vivid. The two actions of "shock" and "sucking" accurately show the complicated heart of a wife who loves her husband and can't bear to be separated from him, but at the same time tries her best to restrain her feelings. Then, the work continues to write the expression and language of the characters: "Women bow their heads and say,' You are always positive'". This short passage seems to have praised her husband, but also reluctant to blame, and at the same time it seems to reveal the self-esteem of the characters who are unwilling to lag behind. "Head Down" accurately conveys the unique mentality of the characters at this time. Then, after the husband comforted him, "that woman stopped talking." The silence at this moment also accurately conveys the complex mentality of aquatic sister-in-law that is both painful and depressed at this moment, and has the artistic effect of "telling more in silence than they do in their voices".
Secondly, pay attention to the lyricism of the scenery. For example, the description of aquatic sister-in-law "making a banquet under the moon" at the beginning of the work makes the scenery very poetic: "This woman makes a banquet. Soon under her body, it was woven into a big piece. She seems to be sitting on a piece of snow and white clouds. She sometimes looks at the lake, which is also a silvery white world. There is a thin transparent fog on the water, and when the wind blows, it carries fresh lotus leaves and lotus fragrance. " This kind of description is very poetic, which makes the characters like fairies, isomorphic with the bright moon, breeze, silvery white water, transparent fog and clear lotus fragrance, and becomes the realm of wonderful poetry; At the same time, this kind of scenery echoes the characters with human beauty, which sets off the spiritual beauty of the characters effectively. Moreover, when the work was written to ambush in the Lotus Lake, there was also a scene description: "The dense layers of seemingly endless lotus leaves spread out against the sun, just like an iron wall. The pink lotus arrow sticks out high. It's the sentry watching Baiyangdian! " The description of this scene, through wonderful metaphors, makes the scene affectionate and well expresses the author's deep affection for the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.
Thirdly, Lotus Lake is also very distinctive in structure, and its structure is simple and flexible. As far as the overall structure is concerned, the works try to avoid connecting the story lines in a straightforward way, but adopt the structure of connecting "life segments" into a whole. From the entry of the water army into the customs, with the development of the water army's sister-in-law as a clue, through a series of typical pictures full of life interest, such as husband and wife farewell, visiting relatives, being in distress in the lake, ambushing the enemy, rising up against Japan, etc., the characters are portrayed and the theme is expressed. And this series of life pictures, some detailed, such as "farewell to husband and wife"; Some abbreviations, such as "ambush the enemy". In this way, the works are dense, meticulous and decent, and have a poetic rhythm beauty.