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There is a kind of national temperament called perseverance

——Read Yu Zhixian and Lian Yue’s long historical novel "Going to Nanyang"

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When I read Yu Zhixian and Lian Yue's long historical novel "Going to Nanyang", I felt a surge of hot national emotion in my chest. By the time I finished reading the book, this emotion was almost like a surging tide. Needless to say, it was the perseverance of the characters in the book that aroused my excitement. It is this latent power of perseverance that inspires the "Southern Sea" group in the book to survive tenaciously and keep making progress in all kinds of dangerous environments and difficulties. This is such a valuable temperament.

As we all know, the Chinese nation is a farming nation. The biggest characteristic of the farming people is that they like to stick to their homeland, stick to one-third of an acre of land, stick to the warm bed of their wives and children, and like to live a peaceful life of being kind to others and not fighting against the world. To be a wanderer who leaves his hometown or even goes to a foreign country to go to the new world and work hard to open up, it undoubtedly requires great courage to bear the pain of letting go. However, in this extraordinary period of history, the common people are like ants and weeds. Do you have a choice? Just as the back cover text written by the editor of "Going to Nanyang" says: "At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the court was corrupt, the country was humiliated and lost its power, wars were raging, the country was impoverished and the family was impoverished. In the vast country of China, there was no place for the people to live, and they had to find a way to survive. "Going to Nanyang..." As one of the three most famous population migrations in my country's modern history, "Going to Nanyang" was undoubtedly more arduous and arduous than "Breaking through Guandong" and "Going to Xikou".

If historical novels follow history, they will be boring. Yu Zhixian and Lian Yue, the authors of the book "Navigation to Nanyang", naturally would not make such a stupid mistake. Moreover, they are master screenwriters and storytellers. They know how to visualize and typicalize the history of "Navigation to Nanyang". ization, dramatization. As a result, there is the feud and entanglement between the corrupt officials representing the Tao family and the hard-working overseas Chinese representing the Jian family; there is the Romeo and Juliet-style tragic love affair between the hero and heroine Jian Zhaoqing and Tao Shuyan; He Niu Kuang Qiuju endured humiliation in the face of adversity; the jealousy between the rich young man Tang Atai and the poor boy Peng Xiazai... all of this was cleverly arranged by the author to intersect and evolve in the time tunnel of the historical event of "Navigation to Nanyang".

Of course, these are not enough to reflect the unique historical environment of "Sent to Nanyang". As a result, there are various reasons, coincidences, and helplessness among the people at all levels of the "going to Nanyang". All the people at all levels of the "going to Nanyang" are without exception locked up in a "pig cage" in a "condensed" manner. "Piggy Cabin", they endured the tragic life and death disaster of "crossing the ocean" in fear of being thrown into the sea at any time; thus, the miserable hell-like mines under the rule of colonial capitalists Brown and Charles, the mines Tragedies of mining accidents occurred from time to time in the country, as well as the various struggles and cruel torture and oppression caused by them; thus, there was despair and hopelessness about the future, the uncertainty of life and death, and the homesickness that was heartbreaking and painful. The plot; thus, the Jian brothers worked hard to start a business but were repeatedly suppressed, intimidated, intimidated, and even faced life and death tests; thus, there was... And all this, for the lonely and helpless wanderer in a foreign country overseas, if Without the support of perseverance and quality of will, there is no way you can survive the various hardships that hang your life by a thread.

The novel is structured in this way, which is already very exciting and easy to read, but the author is not satisfied with this. They want to give it a deeper historical meaning and ideological connotation. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a large number of Chinese immigrated to Nanyang. This was the period when Western capital was exported and expanded its colonization in Nanyang. This period was a period of dire straits when China was forced to semi-colonize and the country was impoverished and the people were impoverished. Therefore, the "piglets" in the novel "Going to Nanyang" are only the "artistic" representatives of tens of millions of Chinese workers. They embody the "bitter history of Chinese workers intertwined with blood and tears" during that very historical period, and they bear the "heart-stirring Spring and Autumn Family". National Dream”. Thus, the Jian brothers started their business in Nanyang, which was full of hardships and dangers, as well as their various efforts and desperate struggles to support the domestic revolution and run schools and rejuvenate the country.

In this way, the various sufferings and humiliations suffered by the "piglets" in the book "Navigation to Nanyang" have been perfectly reproduced historically and artistically interpreted. The Chinese who "went to Southeast Asia" became the main force in local economic development despite the dangers and hardships. They not only changed their own destiny and that of their families, but also wanted to participate in the revitalization of their country. At the same time, because of their diligence and hard work, they have completely changed the backward economic situation of the host country. This is indeed a historical fact. Even the British Governor of the Straits Settlements, John Swedenham, admitted that the prosperity of the Malay Peninsula was “all caused by the overseas Chinese.” “Their talents and labor made the Malay Peninsula what it is today.” The government and its people are grateful beyond words for such diligent and law-abiding overseas Chinese." Only perseverance can we achieve such great achievements in the face of all kinds of hardships and even desperate situations - the only colonial history chapter in human history created by tens of millions of Chinese workers that only seeks to survive and develop the local economy without plundering!

Perseverance, for readers, has become an indestructible national temperament.

And this is exactly what the full-length historical novel "Going to Nanyang" aims at literary expression and artistic expression and conveys it to readers!