Furong town: Do you still remember that time?

In 1981, the literary magazine October published Gu Hua's novel furong town. After the novel came out, it immediately caused a strong sensation in the whole country and became a best-selling work that was circulated by people for a while. The following year, furong town won the first Mao Dun Literature Award with a high vote. Such a work with a national reputation can't escape the eyes of film literary editors. Shortly after the news that furong town won the prize, several film studios announced that they would adapt it. But it's easier said than done, which is not an easy task. Adapting such a work is not only a test of the writer's literary accomplishment and writing skill, but also a touchstone for the writer's historical view, political view and artistic view. Whether he can accurately understand and evaluate the "Cultural Revolution" from a historical and rational height and how he will grasp all kinds of characters in the original work remains to be seen. Xie Jin, who is known as a bookworm, will certainly not ignore such a masterpiece. However, in the process of reading furong town repeatedly, Xie Jin did not shed a tear.

According to what he said at that time, this work brought him not only spiritual and emotional shock, but also a kind of self-reflection and questioning. The reason is simple. Xie Jin saw his own shadow in this work. Hu Yuyin, Qin Shutian, Li Guoxiang, Wang Qiu Forgive, Li Mangeng, Five Claws Spicy ... In the depths of these characters' souls, Xie Jin saw all his own past. He said, "When I read a novel, the things that hindered our progress, our development and the progress of history in the past, the price our people paid for it, and the many detours and lessons we have gone through all rolled out in my mind at once.