Li Yin's Old Story of Yongzhou is a kind of original ecology, original ecology memory and original ecology emotional writing. The good thing about The Old Story of Yongzhou is the word "old". Li Yin wrote "old" as "old", just like restoring cultural relics. Old Yongzhou, old times, old society, old life, old folk customs, old people and old temperament are all old-fashioned, and the word "old" exudes the same fragrance and charm as the old wine cellar. Li Yin's words did not flow from the pen tube, but from the emotional blood vessels, not printed from the computer, but spit out from the ribbon of memory. She wrote to the North Gate of Yongzhou: "Apart from carrying the burden of selling rice, there are also rural women who pick a urine bucket and put some eggs or fish in the basket, sometimes handfuls of edamame and Mi Dou. Pick a city and sell it, and then pick a car full of mud to go back, or buy some popups for the children, or go back with a fire. These women have to walk at least seven, eight or ten miles and carry a load of urine to water the side dishes. Some are lactating women who don't go back for lunch all morning, and their clothes are wet with milk. Sometimes when I see someone else's child (a few months old), I say to help her eat some milk. Some children are too scared to eat. She had to hide on the ground and squeeze, shoulder her own urine burden and hurry back, thinking that the child was crying at home. " Such words made us hiss. In the past, women in Yongzhou and China were hardworking, intelligent, tenacious and kind, which made us be caring and attentive. As the saying goes, people are sons of bitches. Our mother will always fill us with respect and nostalgia.

Li Yin's original ecological writing can be compared with contemporary cultural prose, literati prose, expert prose and scholar prose. The former is simple, everything makes people talk to things themselves, which makes people and things flourish, just like letting rice and sorghum ferment their own wine and let readers feel and taste it themselves. The latter is good at phrasing words and sentences, quoting classics, cutting things and teaching readers. They seem to be mentors for readers all over the world. I think it is the representative of the former and the representative of the latter. Yu, whose stage name is dim and world-renowned, is the most outstanding essayist in contemporary China. Is an old lady with a low education, while Yu is a scholar in "Talented Persons and Beautiful Women". A great scholar has attainments, while an old lady has temperament. As long as the temperament is true, you can write prose and write beautiful prose. If the "cultural journey" is intensive cultivation and intensive processing, then the "old story of Yongzhou" is the natural original ecology.

Li Yin is a master of writing "things". The "things" in Yongzhou's old stories are particularly rich, true and emotional. The author has great affection for his grandparents, and the days he spent at his grandparents' home are as beautiful as fairy tales. Even her grandmother's death is beautiful: her grandmother is getting older and older, and her grandmother is dead. It was very noisy in the room. Four girls were crying, four daughters-in-law were crying, and the granddaughter and daughter-in-law were crying. Crying and noise overshadowed everything. Only uncles are too busy to cry, and uncles are as busy as a bee. My uncle went to buddhist nun to ask the monk to recite the scriptures to my grandmother. My second uncle opened my grandfather's barn in the hall and asked someone to take out a load of millet to push rice. My uncle brought some Yang Guang and two helpers to lengshuitan Town to buy money paper, candles and incense. Don't customize the paper house where grandma lives. Fourth Uncle stayed at home and presided over killing pigs and chickens, fishing in the pond, digging taro in the field, cutting vegetables in the garden and so on. A funeral is still lively and warm in the memory of childhood, and the author describes it in detail. However, grandpa's later funeral was a different scene: the year before grandpa died, it was a year of drought, and the seedlings in the field were dying. The people in the village set up a waterwheel by the river to save the saplings. There is not much water in this river. In order to grab the water, the laborers don't get off the waterwheel all day, and they send meals to the water truck at home. Four uncles, four aunts and two uncles were exhausted after the bus ran. Soon after, my uncle died, which means that Li Jialian fell down. Three of the four sons in the family died at once. Grandpa was sad and anxious, and suddenly he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. At this time, the Li family, from the original prosperity to a crushing defeat. Grandpa died, and all four daughters came back. Uncle presided over the funeral alone, and no guests were invited. Grandma's funeral is full of colors, and grandpa's funeral is very rough. The rise and fall of the family and the change of the world are all in the comparison of the two funerals. What Li Yin writes always pushes feelings, and feelings push things. Things and feelings, feelings and things are interdependent and rich in meaning. Li Yin asked us to treat "things" with special respect and love, a life word that often hangs on our lips.

The Old Story of Yongzhou is an extremely vivid genre painting in a small town in the south of China in the 1930s. This painting is both beautiful and ugly. The beauty of mountains and rivers, the beauty of customs, the poverty of the people, the suffering of all sentient beings and the difficulties of the times are all the contents of this genre painting. And all kinds of people, all kinds of human nature, is the most brilliant point of this book, reflected in relatives and neighbors.

Relatives and neighbors left a very deep and vivid impression in the author's memory, and the author wrote this deep and vivid in a very delicate way. She wrote all over the girl: "The girl is only two years older than me. That summer, my grandmother and I went back to our hometown to collect old-age rent. She's glad to see me back. She ran to the cave alone, pulled out a handful of hair roots, washed them in the mud pond and sent them to grandma's house to eat me. She was sweating and covered in mud and smiled at me. I've never eaten that kind of grass root. She let me chew it in my mouth. The water is sweet. I chewed in my mouth for a long time before I felt a little sweet. I said to my little sister,' It's a little sweet.' She smiled smugly. Grandma gave her two spiced candy, which was brought by Yongzhou. She tasted a little and kept it like a treasure. "The little girl in the country is so poor that she can only entertain her cousin from the city who came from the grass roots. Some people say that the Chinese nation is a country of etiquette, and this grassroots detail from the grassroots level is enough to make us respect the word etiquette. Li Yin said of Bo Er Niang: "Bo Er Niang is not only an expert, but also the most ruthless. She is also a good weaver and spinner. There is no money to buy kerosene in China. She can spin thin and uniform yarn by inserting a stick of incense into the spinning wheel at night. She always spins until midnight. "The great virtues of traditional rural women, such as diligence and housekeeping, diligence and thrift, ingenuity and so on, are vividly on the paper.

Li Yin's characters are more meticulous than meticulous brushwork, freehand brushwork than ink painting and vivid than oil painting. Please look at Mr. Wednesday: Mr. Wednesday is a very picky person and an eccentric old Chinese doctor. Most people are afraid to see him. If the patient asks him, "Doctor, what can I eat and what can't I eat?" He got angry and said, "Kill the pig! Kill the cow and eat it! " The patient was startled. He added: "Of course, if you are sick, you can only eat vegetarian dishes, but you can't eat greasy meat." Please look at Aunt Tuanzi: Aunt Tuanzi is ugly with a big black copper face. His eyes are small, his mouth is wide, and the root of his neck is too short, as if his skull were on his shoulders. The whole person is round and bulging, like sorghum dumplings squeezed by hand. Aunt Tuanzi especially likes raising pigs. She said to my mother, "I see those clean and fat pigs every day, just like I am full of girls." They are so cute and comfortable. " Please look at the prostitute: Waihe Street outside Xiaoxiang Gate, where there are several low-level kiln shops that patronize. At night, those kiln sisters ran to the street to solicit customers, especially when they heard the clanging copper coins of passers-by or the lace in their bags, and they were desperate to chase them. Catch up with that man until he disappears. Please look at Zhao laoniang: she is as light as if she has no weight. Sometimes she will come to you unconsciously. Look at the blind man all over the river: he touches other people's hair with his hand, touches it with his hand and shaves it one by one. After shaving, he touched all the heads to find out where there was hair and shaved again. Blind ginger, a pair of barefoot in summer, a pair of rotten rubber shoes in winter. Pants are always rolled up very high in winter and summer. Because I can't see, my feet are high when I walk. Sometimes the road is uneven, and some low-lying places are flooded. When he stepped on it, dirty water splashed everywhere, but his pants were always dry and he could walk on. Please see Zhou Laoxuan: Zhou Laoxuan lives at No.5 Xiaoxiang Street. There is a big stone in front of his house. He stands there looking at the street every afternoon. If a beautiful woman passes by, he stares at the man from the place where the woman came to the street, and only when the woman is out of the city gate and can no longer be seen, does he look back, and his mouth seems to be still swallowing saliva and pondering. All the women in the street call him an old bastard and an old rascal. He also comes out to watch in winter. The north wind blowing from the hole in the city gate blew to the place where he was standing. Although he was wearing a fur robe and a melon hat, it was still cold standing at the door. The wind often blows up his fur robe, and he still stands there with his hands in his sleeves. Please look at Jiang: I went to see Jiang when the Red Army hacked him to death. Big local tyrant is an old man with white hair and beard. When he was arrested and chopped off his skull, he even brazenly said, "Please shoot! Please shoot! " Nobody paid attention to him. A man with a big knife in his hand cut his skull on the ground. His beard and hair were all white.

In addition to Yongzhou natives, Li Yin also wrote about Westernization in her next autobiography, describing the scenes when she met Xu Guangping, Tian Han, Guo Moruo, Fu Lei and other cultural celebrities when she fled to Shanghai. Her descriptions of these cultural celebrities are also very simple and vivid. For example, she wrote that Guo Moruo and Fu met at the founding ceremony of a publishing house: Guo Moruo, who also wore a gray robe, but wore a coat, a thick suede hat and a cane in his hand. As soon as he came in, the room suddenly became more active He talks a lot as if he were reciting a poem. His emotional words blurted out. His wife also came, a middle-aged man with a lot of money. Fu Lei signed his name, sat on the sofa smoking and drinking tea, and never said anything on his own initiative. When someone mentioned him, he just smiled or, uh-huh, twice. He always silently outputs his life's hard work. Those voluminous books, one after another, notebook computers one after another ... between movement and static, vividly wrote the essence, spirit and verve of the two cultural masters.

Obviously, I quoted a little more, which is actually the charm of the original text. Of course, the artistic achievements and literary contributions of the characters in Li Yin's works lie not only in the vividness of the characters, but also in the in-depth display of their personalities and destinies. For example, an old man who is loyal to benevolence and righteousness, an old woman who can only curse "smelly wife" at most, a Mi Gui who loves tofu for a lifetime, a young woman Shi who loves tofu, a sincere love between a widow Luo and an old bachelor Chen, and Lei, Pi Laoniang, Boss Cai, etc. are all vivid and touching. Their fate, their experiences and the times they lived in all made us deeply feel and sigh. Li Yin wrote them, revealing the warmth and sympathy of human nature. The old story of Yongzhou tells us that people in Yongzhou and China used to live like that, people and human beings used to live like that, times and fashions used to present like that, and things and the world used to be like that!