Jimu News reporter Xu Ying
intern Chen Jingyi
Can the essay collection be adapted into a TV series? Writer Li Juan's "My Altay" became a hit after being adapted into an 8-episode TV series!
Li Juan described herself on the "Li Juan of Altay" Douyin account as "a patient with the syndrome of being unable to stop herself when she usually doesn't speak", "doesn't make reports, doesn't lecture, doesn't like to sign autographs" and "live broadcast is almost the only way to socialize."
How did "My Altay" come out? Is the original author satisfied with the work? Recently, Li Juan had an open-air live conversation with a Phoenix.com host at a ranch in Altay, which clarified the doubts of many book fans.
Li Juan's words bring readers to a simple, natural and inaccessible world.
Li Juan is an alternative among writers. She is known as "Wild Li Juan, a born writer". She dropped out of high school and worked as a seamstress. , he also worked everywhere to survive. Because he loves writing and insists on recording the people and things that touch him in life, he has won the love of many readers. Her collection of essays "The Distant Sunflower" won the 7th Lu Xun Literary Prose Award. The collection of essays "My Altay" is Li Juan's earlier work.
Book cover of the essay collection "My Altay"
Jimu News reporter saw that the essay collection "My Altay" retains the same attractive beginning as the TV series - "In the past few days, the temperature has dropped to more than 40 below zero. degrees Celsius, heavy snow blocked the windows, and I was the only one in the house. On a sunny and windless day, I spent half a day digging a passage through the heavy snow to lead from the door to the courtyard. Then I continued to dig out from the courtyard gate, but after digging for two or three meters, I ran out of energy. So, in the long and cold days of winter, there was no trace of footprints that could lead to my home in the silence surrounded by heavy snow. I feel very warm when I look through the words of these years over and over again - it is how I wrote and wrote slowly that I became who I am now. "
Li Juan's words bring readers to a simple, natural and inaccessible place. world. Perhaps because she has not experienced a systematic literary education, her writing is unfettered and has a wild, natural beauty.
Li Juan said that she was writing about someone she longed to be.
The collection of essays "My Altay" describes the daily life of Li Juan, her mother and her elderly grandmother who migrated and moved with the herdsmen: opening a grocery store, working as a tailor, and going to the mountains. Picking fungus... They live in the Gobi, grasslands, forests, and snow-capped mountains, neighbors with horses and herdsmen.
In the live conversation, the host asked Li Juan, the prose "My Altay" has novelistic vivid characters and plots. Did you have the consciousness to write it like a novel? Li Juan said that she wanted to write it into something that others would like to read, perhaps because of her natural pleasing personality, just like a child who wants to be loved by others, but she cannot do it arrogantly, arrogantly, and heartily. Expression, but every time I write a sentence, I think about whether others will like it when they read it. "I admit that this is not good. It may damage a lot of things about me, damage some of my wisdom, and damage my self-esteem. But when I write, I rely on this kind of thing because it is what I communicate with others. One way."
Screenshot of the TV series "My Altay"
Li Juan admitted that her feelings towards works like "My Altay" are very complicated. Sometimes I hate myself and books like "My Altay" and "Altay's Corner" because they are so cleverly written. Li Juan said that she was writing about the version of herself she longed to be. The details she wrote were actually very short-lived and accidental, not the normal state of life. However, when she experienced those things, she felt a very strong sense of happiness and satisfaction in her heart. Feeling, so I long for this to be the norm, and will try my best to exaggerate, amplify, and extend it in the text. However, many years later, when I look back on those years, these things are just a drop in the ocean. It is not the true self. The true self is boring and boring. Much sadder. Li Juan said that writing allows you to see things with other eyes, think from another perspective, and tolerate everything.
"The city has the innocence of the city, and the pasture has the innocence of the pasture."
Many people felt very healed after watching the pastoral life in "My Altay". Although the herdsmen live in poverty and hardship, they have no pressure or involution.
Li Juan, who has lived in both the city and the ranch, said when talking about this topic, "The city has the innocence of the city, and the ranch has the innocence of the ranch." The geographical environment and climate of the pasture are relatively harsh, the land is relatively barren, and it is relatively remote. If people want to survive at this time, they must help each other. One person cannot survive, and must rely on the strength of everyone, so the relationship between people at this time is very close. Yes, but people don’t have to worry about these in the city and the world of steel and concrete. Everyone can just do their part and there is no need to maintain such human relationships. So in this sense, the city It’s not that people have lost some kind of innocence, it’s that they feel more secure. When it rains heavily, he doesn't have to worry about the house leaking. When the wind blows, he doesn't have to worry about the roof blowing away. This sense of security will make them independent. People living in cities may not be satisfied with the status quo and yearn for this kind of pastoral life, but how many of them really pursue pastoral life? Staying in the city is actually a choice that weighs the pros and cons.
"The countryside has the freedom of the countryside, and the city has the freedom of the city. There is no need to blindly pursue a life far away. Don't think that as long as you change the environment, your life will change everything about you. In fact, it is not." Li Juan said.
(Source: Jimu News)
