I want the novel Dawn in the Ancient City, a fairy tale of the ancient city.

Zhumen gray wall. Golden Gate Nail. Shishi. Tie the horse stone. Shangmashi

The magnificent Children's Palace. The little princess like a fairy and her silvery laughter.

And that humble porcelain plate, I don't know why, was buried underground and turned into a glittering gold plate.

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This is the scene described by writer Ma Guangfu at the beginning of his novel Dawn of the Ancient City.

However, don't think this is a fairy tale. In fact, it is a novel, a novel with a faint fairy tale color. It tells a story that happened in Beiping on the eve of the birth of New China, a fairy tale interpreted in the smoke of war.

The hero of the novel is a group of students who are still in primary school. Among them are the fairy tale "Luogu City" by the Princess of Qing Dynasty. Du's parents are bank clerk Feng Shuanzi, the grandson of an old school worker, and the daughter and son of a Kuomintang spy.

These children from different classes and families have different understandings of social life.

With the guidance and help of the progressive teacher Tang Gong, most of them fought bravely and tactfully against the Kuomintang reactionaries. Especially when they discovered the underground tunnels of Kuomintang reactionaries and the evil plot to blow up the Forbidden City, they defeated the enemy's plot with wisdom and courage, and made contributions to protecting this ancient civilized city with a long history and making it completely return to the people's arms.

With the background of writing novels at that time and the content of novels in that story, the political significance of novels goes without saying. However, it goes without saying that whether a novel can be read depends on the reader's acceptance and recognition. Whether a novel is good or not depends not only on whether it has positive social significance, but also on whether it has a standing person, a delicate and unique structure and a beautiful and personalized language. Looking at Dawn of the Ancient City comprehensively by these standards, it should be said that it is a novel with good political and readability, and it is an easy-to-read and durable novel.

I say this because:

Several characters in the novel have very distinct personality characteristics. Fiction is to create characters. There is no successful novel without describing successful characters. The most memorable thing about Dawn of the Ancient City is the beautiful fairy tale of Princess Palace. The novel depicts the image of fairy tales from three levels. First of all, it describes her basic character. This beautiful little girl, like a fairy daughter, is kind-hearted, upright and considerate. Although her leg was injured and disabled, she didn't feel inferior and didn't depend on others. Instead, she thought of others everywhere and communicated with others with love. The second is to write about her growth process. Due to the decline of family background and the divorce of parents, the fairy-tale innocent soul has cast a shadow, and she matured earlier than her peers. She saw the integrity and kindness of Tang Gong's teacher, the positive progress of Luo Gucheng and other students, and the cruelty, meanness and filth of Kuomintang spies. Her young mind is gradually filled with admiration and admiration for * * * producers and revolutionaries, hatred and hatred for Kuomintang reactionaries, gradually getting rid of her melancholy and isolation, blending with her classmates and eager to do something beneficial to the revolution. The third is to write about her spiritual sublimation.

The heroic sacrifice of Tang Gong's teacher, the self-immolation of his mother and the instantaneous destruction of his family further tempered the character and sublimated the spirit of fairy tales. With wit and courage, she and her classmates bravely fought against the Kuomintang reactionaries. One is to sneak into the armory, steal silent pistol, who was restructured by Kuomintang reactionaries to assassinate cadres of the * * * production party, and cut the wires and fuses ready to start and detonate explosives in the back tunnel, thus protecting the safety of the Forbidden City. In this way, fairy tales completed the first transformation of life journey, and entered the revolutionary ranks from the status of Princess Wang Fu. This change is very reasonable and natural, which makes people feel true and credible after reading it. The author also describes and depicts the ancient city of Luo, nursery rhymes and ancient Jianyang, all of which have achieved good results.

The novel combines prose brushwork, which adds a bit of aesthetic artistic conception and charm to the novel and a little fairy tale color. When the students boarded the Chaoyangmen wall and set off firecrackers, the novel described it like this:

"Jingshan in the distance, Baita.

Bell hug in the distance, drum tower.

Charming dusk, poetic. Xiao's voice came not far away ... "

What a beautiful picture of the sunset flute playing, it makes people's spirit seem to be temporarily away from the troubled times, and they can clearly feel the sadness from the flute. Write a fairy tale when a person wants to climb the wall and can't get up, the novel writes:

"She sighed.

Sunset in the blue sky and beautiful sunset ...

She looked helplessly at her legs.

A flock of white pigeons are flying in the sky. The pigeon whistle lingers in the empty air-conditioned sky ... the pigeon flies away. The farther you fly,

Disappeared bit by bit ...

Smoke is curing upward from kitchen chimneys. All is silent. Fairy tales raise purple bamboo flutes and blow sad flute songs. ...

The beautiful picture endows this passage with ethereal and profound artistic conception, which accurately shows the melancholy mood of pigeon-like longing for freedom in fairy tales at this time, which greatly enhances the appeal of the text.

The reader orientation of this novel is very accurate. This novel is written for teenagers. Teenagers are in the growth period with active thoughts and wide interests, and like literary works with novel and lively forms and healthy contents. In the novel, the author not only pays attention to using various artistic techniques to attract readers' interest in reading, but also pays attention to entertaining. He never indoctrinates teenagers with the truth of being a man with a straight face, but puts the truth of being a man in the story so that readers can experience and feel it personally in reading. Wang Xiaoyong set off firecrackers and injured his classmate Feng Shuanzi. He wanted to lose money to Feng Shuanzi, but his parents refused to give money, so he stole a pistol from his father who worked in garrison headquarters, Beiping, Kuomintang. Later, he and his classmates gave it to Tang Gong as a birthday present. According to the truth, the gun was stolen from the Kuomintang spy, which is useful for our party's underground struggle. At least we should affirm this practice and encourage Wang Xiaoyong. However, the head of our underground party doesn't think so. He thinks that Wang Xiaoyong is "a child", "a student" and "actually did something wrong". He said: "You can't confuse this kind of thing with the struggle between the two parties in China." The premise that children steal from home, no matter where, can't be said to be right. "He also said:

"How can a teacher see that his students are doing something wrong instead of pointing out and encouraging him?" Finally, the Tang Palace apologized to Wang Xiaoyong, explained the truth to him, told him to admit his mistake to his family, and took his hand back. Apart from organizational safety, this is more from the perspective of children's healthy growth, which is the basic truth of educating children to know honesty and protecting their virginity and purity. This description is not only credible, but also full of human feelings, which makes people learn the truth of being a man in reading. Compared with other similar works, this is both an attraction and an improvement.

The faint fairy tale color between the lines of the novel is also one of the reasons why the novel is readable. The author, Mr. Ma Guangfu, wrote in the postscript that the novel, formerly known as Fairy Tales of the Ancient City, is a novel with a touch of children's words. For fear of being mistaken for a fairy tale, it was later renamed the ancient city Dawn. In fact, this kind of "a little color of children's talk" only casts a faint mystery on the novel and enhances its readability. For example, the beginning of the novel, the description of the beautiful and mysterious little princess in the children's palace, the description of the environment in many places in the novel and the use of novel language all have this effect. At the end of the novel, the new China was founded, and fairy tales and the ancient city of Luo came to the square under construction. She buried the key to the darkroom at home and the key to the warehouse of the gun repair shop in the foundation of the Monument to the People's Heroes. That string of keys records the rise and fall of a palace and the growth of fairy tales, which is not only a symbol of the past times, but also a symbol of fairy tales and student revolutionary struggles. With the uncontrollable inner excitement and everyone's attention, the legs that have been disabled for a long time in fairy tales seem to inject new vitality into life. "Suddenly, the fairy tale slowly stood up from the wheelchair ..." A burial, a new life, this is not just a simple miracle of metabolism and life, and the meaning contained in it will only be truly understood after reading this novel.

In recent years, children's novels are rarely published, and few writers can insist on writing for children. This work created by Mr. Ma Guangfu is a rare and successful children's novel in recent years.

Successful novels can not only attract readers, but also attract the attention of film and television circles. The unforgettable years described in the novel and the spirit of people yearning for the light and fighting for it moved TV producers. CCTV has produced 20 episodes of TV series of the same name adapted from Dawn of the Ancient City, directed by the famous director Zhang Jinzhan. At present, the filming has been completed and will meet the audience in a few days.

The Beijing Film Studio affiliated to China Film Group Corporation also produced a feature film "Goodbye, Ours 1948" adapted from "Dawn of the Ancient City", which has been produced and screened at the China University Students Art Festival, with good response. Guan Hu, the director of this film and the sixth generation director of Beijing Film Group, believes that novel themes and touching stories are the basis for the film to produce good social and economic benefits. If it is produced and broadcast at the same time as a TV series, it will not only influence each other but also have a complementary effect, which will have a greater impact on society.

This phenomenon that books, movies and television are launched at the same time, put into society, enter the market and provide them to readers and audiences is rare in China's literary and artistic activities.

Of course, the novel also has some shortcomings: although the story is smooth, it lacks ups and downs and suspense. Compared with the little hero, the adults in the novel, especially the positive and negative characters such as Tang Gong and Xi Bokang, are still a little stiff. But as far as the whole novel is concerned, this is obviously a flaw. From the perspective of combining politics and artistry, the novel describes the struggle between the two parties in China on the eve of the founding of New China, using a variety of artistic techniques to describe specific characters from a specific angle, organically combining revolutionary traditional education with teaching young people living in a happy life today. This is indeed an excellent and successful literary work.