TV series "My Altay" has attracted increasing attention since it was first broadcast on CCTV on May 7. Netizens are hotly discussing the magnificent mountains and rivers in northern Xinjiang and the pastoral picture of life in the border pastoral areas. On the evening of May 13, Li Juan, the original author of the play, made her first appearance on CCTV after it was broadcast. She gave a live conversation in the open air at a ranch in Altay, talking about writing and her life.
She said that her writing has been misunderstood as a simple description of style. Her words may bypass some realities and focus on showing beautiful things, but doing so is not hiding anything, nor is it writing through a filter. She understands that her writing reflects people's situations and attitudes in her own way, and the characters she writes are not perfect. It may be that the looseness of the expression gives readers an illusion.
bypasses some realities and is not deceiving.
Live broadcast, with Li Juan on the right and well-known host Wei Bingxin on the left.
When the interlocutor, well-known media host Wei Bingxin asked Li Juan whether her writing brought a kind of When looking at the filter sense of pastoral songs, Li Juan said: "I wrote out many beautiful things. I thought about it carefully. It is not that I really want to create something to make others envious, but this thing. It touched me, I was so shocked, so I wanted to write it out and share it with others. This is what my initial writing looked like,” she said, “Maybe I bypassed some of the reality, which is ugly. There are actually a lot of things, but those things are not worth mentioning. They really can’t bring any benefit to the readers except to ruin the scenery. Writing in this way does not mean that I write in a deceptive way, but to focus on showing the beautiful things. My way. You want to say that I only write about good things, but that’s not true. Look at the characters I write, there are no perfect characters. Everyone has their shortcomings, even the most annoying people, no matter how annoying they are. They all have a lovely side or valuable qualities.”
Reporters noticed that in the TV series “My Altay”, after Wenxiu returned to the commissary in the pastoral area from Urumqi, she was blocked by the herders who wanted to borrow money, so she submitted her article to the magazine and waited. Come and reply, and gradually integrate into the local pastoral life through bumps and bumps. Due to the death of his brother, the male protagonist Ba Tai returns to his home in the pastoral area from his beloved county racecourse. He has to face the problems of inheriting the family business and the remarriage of his sister-in-law. The two young people face the cultural conflict between modern urban life and traditional pastoral customs. The play is not limited to showing the beautiful natural scenery of northern Xinjiang, but uses the conflict between modernity and tradition, ideals and reality as the main thread throughout the play.
Li Juan's original work is prose without story structure. The main creator of the drama added character lines that are more suitable for the expression of the drama while maintaining the spiritual temperament of the original work. The play is based on the author Li Juan, and ultimately creates the growth story of the heroines Li Wenxiu and Batai. The series retains many key scenes described by Li Juan, such as the transition to the summer pasture, which were directly taken from the Kazakh pastures in Xinjiang, completely presenting the unparalleled beauty of the summer pasture described by Li Juan in the original work.
The question also arises from this. Are Li Juan's works beautifying frontier life through filters? In the live conversation, Li Juan had further explanations. She said that she used to be a very ordinary person, a person with a please personality, which was a kind of protection for her weak self. Even though he is obviously in pain, he still smiles; even though he is obviously embarrassed, he still pretends not to care. "There is no other way to protect yourself. This is the last layer of armor. It's not that this kind of writing has a filter, this thing is hiding something, but this is also another kind of reality. When you are very weak, It is difficult to be a unique person. You have to pretend to be like others in order to gain a sense of security. At this time, the safest way is to disappear into the crowd. "
Driving from Urumqi to Hainan
Talk. In the live chat with Li Juan
, Li Juan said: "As I get older, I feel that I have become stronger and more confident. When many people lament that there were better times in the past, I feel that the present is better than the past."
She said that this kind of self-confidence may be related to financial independence. Now she does not need to spend too much money or eat too much. This is already a good life. Financial independence allows her to solve a lot of worries.
She changed the subject and said: "But in fact, after these worries are solved, you will not be able to help but think about it, and new problems will come again. Man is a bottomless pit, and there is no real satisfaction. "
Li Juan spent a long time in Xinjiang and Sichuan during her childhood. After dropping out of high school, she gradually began to create. As for the reason for dropping out, she described that it was because she could not find cheat sheets before the English test and was worried that she would not do well in the test and would be scolded. So she went back to the dormitory, packed up her luggage and left. During the conversation with
, Li Juan said that things were not that simple and she couldn't find the cheat sheet. That was the last straw for her. It was just a chance. She had always dropped out of school to concentrate. The idea of writing. Her mother was having a hard time at the time. The school had to pay a 90 yuan examination fee, so she took a bus to the small village where her mother lived and waited for a long time to ask for the money. Then her mother said to her, "Here." The teacher told her to wait for a while before handing it in. At that time, she collapsed. If she had to say this to the teacher in front of the whole class, she was already a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, so she felt that there was no need to go to school. Yeah, plus my previous determination, I felt that going to school was too much of a delay in writing, so I quickly packed up and left, leaving a letter to my Chinese teacher before I left.
Today, Li Juan lives a semi-reclusive life, far away from the hustle and bustle in a secular sense. Life. She doesn’t force herself to write, and she no longer pays attention to the publishing editors who push her for manuscripts. Live streaming, walking cats, doing handicrafts, and driving alone fill her life with these and part-time jobs. People's daily lives are far apart.
During the conversation, Li Juan mentioned that her recent self-driving trip from Urumqi to Hainan was not as free and easy as the legend said. She left her house in Urumqi to her mother, and there were many personal things in the house. I had to collect them all, and there was a shipping fee for shipping. Some of the items were fragile. I drove to Hainan with more than a dozen boxes. “It’s not that I like driving by myself. I went there with a mission. I’m stingy. Nature determines to do such a thing. Of course, I was very happy along the way. I went to so many strange places and met so many strange and beautiful people. If I have the chance, I will drive myself like this again, but if I don’t have the chance, I don’t seem to be particularly yearning for it.
interlocutor Wei Bingxin told Li Juan that netizens want to know what her daily life is like now. Li Juan said that whenever something happens on a certain day, such as someone asking to see her, she will She was extremely nervous and frightened. She felt that it was a big deal, which made her feel very painful, even though she felt that this feeling was not right. “Maybe it’s just the current life, a person’s life, that can amplify some emotions and feelings. , this is abnormal, and we should always be wary of this. "
She said that she would live broadcast on her mobile phone every now and then to talk to everyone, allowing herself to enter a relatively noisy world; sometimes she would also talk to her neighbors to avoid deterioration of her language function; she would also walk her cat. , one or two hours at a time.
Text/Wuhan Evening News reporter Wan Jianhui
Editor/Cui Wei
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