Liu Liu's "King Kong of Fire"

Liu Liu (1914-1977), formerly known as Liu Qigeng, was born in Zunzuzhuang Village, Hejian County, Hebei Province. The author of the famous novel The Fire of Golden Steel. 1937 joined the revolution, 1938 joined the China * * * production party. In the revolutionary ranks, he has served as the reconnaissance chief of the fifth detachment of the Jinchaji Military Region and the staff officer of the Military Command. He has served as the captain of the Jinchaji Military and Political School, the military instructor of the Political Department of the Military Region, the military instructor, political instructor and battalion commander of Bethune School in the Military Region. Later, he worked in the Anti-Japanese Drama Club in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region and participated in the adaptation of Peking Opera Shi Kefa, Suzhou City and Li Zicheng. After the liberation of the whole country, he went to work in Baoding, and served as secretary of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, minister of creation, director of Baoding Cultural Center and director of the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of Hebei Provincial Party Committee. He used to be the director of the editorial department of Drama Frontline, engaged in literary and artistic creation, and wrote narrative poems, short stories, drum sets, one-act plays and so on. 1958, the novel Fire and Gold was published, which was welcomed and praised by readers. 1964, he wrote his first novel, Red Bud, which was also well received.

Liu Liu likes folk art, watching wild Taiwanese opera, listening to books in the greenhouse, playing drums and so on. 1932 joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteers, 1937 joined the Eighth Route Army after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. He has served as the reconnaissance chief of the fifth detachment of the Jinchaji Military Region, the staff officer of the Military Command, the captain of the Jinchaji Military and Political School, the military instructor of the Political Department of the Military Region, and the military instructor of the Bethune School of the Military Region. Later, he became an actor in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region and adapted Beijing opera. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as secretary and creative minister of Baoding Federation of Literary and Art Circles, director of the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of Hebei Provincial Party Committee, director of the editorial department of Drama Front, and cadre of Hebei Literature and Art School. He is the author of the novel "The Fire of Golden Steel" and the long ballad "Red Lei".

★ Fire Melts Gold and Steel-Liu Liu and His Festival of "Fire Melts Gold and Steel"? Your website] Hebei Daily reporter Ren 1958, a novel just published shocked the literary and art circles. People in the fifties and sixties still remember the nicknames they gave their classmates when they were children, and they can't forget that they used to lie in front of the electric box and listen to stories with relish-Xiaofei bought medicine, Shi Xin was desperate, and Ding played with a broadsword. Later, with the popularity of film and television dramas, more young people began to understand that period of history, and what kind of person Liu Liu, the hero of .................................................................................................................................................., was, and what kind of legendary experience did he have? Is his hero real or fictional? Where is the lower reaches of the Hutuo River where wars are raging and heroes come forth in large numbers? ..... On the 60th anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, with these questions, the reporter visited the writer's family, colleagues, friends, hometown and the place where the fighting took place.

★ Tracing the Hutuo River "I want to let future generations know through this book that there was such a cruel war, such a heroic people and such a great party." -Liu Liu "Father is a revolutionary first, then a writer." Meihua is the eldest daughter of Liu Liu, while Lihua and Jianhua rank second and third respectively. "My father once participated in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and later destroyed the Second Prison of Peiping with the underground party, and then joined the * * * Production Party." In the hearts of Liu sisters, father is a real hero. "Someone asked me," The Fire of Golden Steel "is also written by myself? No. My own experience is not worth writing. " On July 22nd, in an old house in Liu Meihua's house, the reporter saw the "Report on the Creation of Fire and Gold and Steel" written by Liu Liu together with the novel manuscript. 1943, the second hero gathering was held in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region. "At that time, I served at the conference and was with the heroes." "When I met the heroes, my own experience in my mind has nowhere to retreat. It is always the shadow of the heroes who swam and flew. How's it going? They are like pig iron thrown into the furnace and refined into steel ... Since then, I have printed their images in my heart ... It is like a seed of writing in my heart, and I can't help but let it grow. " July 28th. Hejian city Hounian Zu Cun Zun Zu Zhuang Xiang Hutuo River downstream. "The war of liberation, Liu Liu came back. Oh! At that time he had sideburns and rode a red horse. " Liu Liu's uncle, 78-year-old Liu Xuewen, squinted and held his head high, as if he saw his nephew back again. When Liu Liu returned to his hometown, he did two things: one was to marry Xu Guangchun, who had been a primary school teacher since childhood, and the other was to continue to collect novel materials and let the "seeds" in his heart sprout and blossom. After the "July 7th Incident", Hejian people fought hard with the Japanese invaders, and the anti-Japanese war in Nianzu Village became a microcosm of that period of history. "1942, the Japanese' May Day Sweeping' was carried out, and the Japanese turrets and bunkers in the village were densely covered. The * * * production party could not survive and went underground. On June 28th of the lunar calendar, a tragedy happened in this village. When I rode into the village that day, I was driving ducks with my father. As soon as I stood up straight, a bullet flew over my scalp! I turned and ran ... "Liu Shufeng, 69, and Zhao Bowen, 72, were witnesses to the Japanese atrocities. "The battle that day was too tragic! At that time, the Eighth Route Army soldiers stood on the houses, and some of them did not even change their uniforms. At first, the devils shot at the sorghum field on the edge of the village, but later they surrounded them. They stabbed everyone, and someone died. Now there are bayonet marks on my big urn! There were heavy casualties on both sides at that time. When the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed out, the Japanese bullets made sorghum move. Then a soldier came back and said to me, look at this hat! I see, that brim is full of bullet holes? " At that time, there was a land temple in the west of the village, where the devils set up mortars and machine guns to shoot at the village. It was summer and the grass was so green. After the battle, everything was burned! Is there blood everywhere in the room? "After the devils entered the village, they called the people to the stronghold in the north of the village and began to search who was the Eighth Route Army. They look at their hands one by one, and whoever doesn't have cocoons will be the eighth route. At that time, an uncle's brother in Liu Liu was only in his twenties. Because he didn't have a cocoon in his hand, he was killed by the devil on the spot. " ..... There is a running ditch in the northeast of Hounianzu Village, like a green basin, holding up a shallow water. In the western highlands, there are our eternal soldiers. Buried a grave, set up a monument, Zhao Bowen's father "buried for a whole day". Inscription: Spirit shines through the ages. 1942 On June 28th of the lunar calendar, the Eighth Route Army served as the 72nd martyr of the Hoda detachment. Liu Liu said in the report: "Why write Jizhong alone?" ? One is "this is my hometown where I grew up" and the other is "this anti-Japanese base area has great political, military and economic significance". "Those heroes are' gold' and' steel' tempered by fire." ★ Flow Complex "From the moment I joined the Party, I never left the Party for a day." -Liu Liu "My father has a vivid memory of life during the war years, and he is often moved by the scenes. It was a snowy day when I was seven years old. It was very cold and windy. At that time, my father hung a big blanket on the window and said,' Once, the team of the armed forces was scattered by the enemy, and they ran to their hometown's house, sat on the hot kang and ate the white bread baked in their hometown. It was so big-'He gestured as he said it, showing that life at that time left a deep mark on him. Liu Jianhua has been with her father for a long time. She said that her father always talked about how his comrades died and rarely talked about himself. That memory is unforgettable for Liu Liu. "I can't restrain my feelings, I want to write." 1958, the novel "The Fire of Golden Steel" finally met the readers. "... no matter in the street or in the hinterland, as long as there is a radio or a big speaker, ordinary people listen to' Xiaofei buys medicine' with their ears upright. In this way, in the fifties and sixties of last century, Firegold Steel was printed in millions. "Huang Yi, editor of China Youth Publishing House, devoted himself to the publication of this novel, which was quoted in his memoir What I Know. Liu Liu and Fire and Steel were household names for a while, but he still had unfinished complex. 1959, Liu Liu prepared to write the second volume, and at the same time conceived a new novel "Red Bud". However, after three years of natural disasters, Liu Liu's health began to deteriorate. The first 200,000-word book "Red Bud" was just published, and the Cultural Revolution began. Liu Liu entered the cadre school, and the fire of Jin Gang was also criticized. Liu Liu in the late Cultural Revolution never forgot to finish the second part of Fire and Gold and Red Bud, but fate didn't give him time. 1977 Before the Spring Festival, Liu Liu's legendary life came to an end. ...

Interpretation of articles, analysis of characters;

Popular Novels Covered by Ideology —— Re-interpretation of The Fire King Kong

Author: Li Hui Lai Guixiang published in Shiyan Technology magazine >; Volume 19, No.4, 2006

In 1950s and 1960s, a number of revolutionary popular novels, such as Lin Yuan, King Kong in Fire, Flying Tigers and Armed Behind the Enemy, appeared. The book attracts readers with bizarre plots and sharp conflicts. According to the statistics of the book market at that time, as readers wish, this kind of "popular works" can generally sell more than 100 thousand copies, and the excellent ones are not limited to these. Some of them have to be reprinted in various places, and the total number is more than150,000 copies. " Some of these novels are still popular with contemporary readers.

This paper intends to reinterpret one of the typical novels, King Kong of Fire, and analyze the popularity of this kind of popular novels under the cover of ideology from three aspects: the theme mode of its martial arts novels, the structure and plot of legendary novels and the distribution of characters in romantic novels.

First, the theme mode of martial arts novels

A careful investigation will reveal that there is a deep relationship between Fire King Kong and traditional martial arts novels. From the legends of the Tang and Song Dynasties to the martial arts works in Hong Kong and Taiwan today, we can find five theme modes: chivalry, revenge, treasure-grabbing, demonization and hegemony. In King Kong of Fire, we can see the shadow of the theme pattern of chivalry, revenge and demonization.

Martial arts novels must be chivalrous. The chivalrous man here not only refers to his extraordinary skills, but also includes various chivalrous spirits such as helping others, being fair and brave, being honest and trustworthy, and being generous. "Ranger" can be said to be the purpose of the protagonist's survival. The revolutionaries Tian Geng, Qi Ying, Shi Xin, Ding and Sun Dingbang in The Fire King Kong are a group of revolutionary knights. Their revolutionary purpose is to destroy the Japanese devils and traitors and let all the people live and work in peace and contentment. With their wisdom and courage, they bully the weak, uphold justice and defend the country, which coincides with the will of "Xia" in martial arts novels to take charge of the world and save the people.

"Revenge" has become the basic theme mode of martial arts novels. Usually starting with the protagonist's revenge, the surviving protagonist embarked on a long road of revenge. There are also many revenge stories in the Fire King Kong. In the process of revenge, family hatred rose to class hatred and national hatred. Ding, the monitor of the cavalry regiment, was born in a poor family. His father was hanged by the landlord and killed alive, while his mother committed suicide by jumping into a well. Then he defected to his uncle, but they were killed by Japanese and puppet troops, and he himself suffered from being suspected as a producer of * * *. Full of hatred, he finally took part in the revolution and followed the party to avenge his family. But he didn't take revenge on his family as the sole purpose, but wanted to eradicate the landlords who oppressed the peasants through revolution and avenge all his brothers and sisters in the world. In the novel, Aunt Tian died tragically under the Japanese butcher's knife in order to cover her adopted son, Japanese soldier Yifu. Therefore, Takeo Yoshio changed his previous stubborn idea and fought side by side with the Eighth Route Army, vowing to fight to the death with Japan. Diao, the little leader of the puppet army, was insulted by a Japanese officer, and he hanged himself. His sickly father also died of depression. He wanted to find a high-iron man to avenge the Japanese army that night. Later, after being persuaded by the revolutionary leaders, the class consciousness was improved, and the Japanese devils' heinous crimes were recognized, and finally they surrendered to the * * * production party. He first released the revolutionary army trapped in the underground hole, and then waited for an opportunity to lead the troops to defect and fight bravely with the Japanese army.

The theme mode of demon reduction is also reflected in "King Kong of Fire". Martial arts novels often depict adulterers and villains symbolically as demons by exaggerated means. These people kill people like hemp and do all kinds of evil. But often they have superb martial arts, and it is difficult for ordinary people to surrender. The just knight who plays the leading role will eventually go through hardships and practice peerless martial arts, thus eradicating these demons. In the novel, the pig-headed squad leader of the Japanese invaders, the donkey-headed gentleman and the high-speed rail followers of the puppet troops are all ugly, and their hearts are like snakes and scorpions, worthy of the name. They kill people like hemp, do all kinds of evil, and harm the whole town people; But they are well-equipped and powerful, and can be eliminated in a short time. Evil can't be suppressed in the end, and it is finally eliminated by revolutionary knights and the masses.

Second, the structure and plot of the legendary novel

From the point of view of Fire King Kong, it has many structural features of legendary novels, such as the "chapter by chapter" structural arrangement, the narrative mode of two flowers, one for each table, and the narrative angle of the third person omniscient and omnipotent. The novel * * * is divided into thirty chapters, with two sentences and seven words in each chapter. At the end of each poem, there are words like "exactly, it can be said, it seems that there is a poem to praise", which leads to two or four sentences at the end of the poem and summarizes the time. Storyteller's words often appear in novels, such as: ladies and gentlemen! Do you think Shi Xin threw that Grenade just now? No. The man said, why are these puppet troops dressed so casually? Cut the gossip. Besides, the whole novel is like an all-knowing storyteller telling readers a long anti-Japanese story full of magical imagination. A Popular Novel Covered by Ideology —— Re-interpretation of The Fire King Kong, Journal of Shiyan Institute of Technology, No.4, 2006, 19

Literary historians once said that legendary novels are "bizarre and full of drama." (2) (P200) This kind of novels often set stories in big stories and connect with each other. Fire King Kong has similar plot characteristics. The main story of the novel is that from the end of an anti-mopping-up, the history of the Eighth Route Army platoon leader was updated, covering the transfer of the main force. He was seriously injured in Xiaolizhuang and was rescued by the people. He and Qi Ying, a district cadre, Sun Dingbang, a village cadre, and Ding, the monitor of the Eighth Route Army, formed a new fighting collective. They gradually matured in the battle, United and led the surrounding villagers, and successfully fought against the Japanese invaders again and again in a difficult environment. In this big story, many thrilling stories have been strung together: grabbing a gun with nothing and breaking through with a person in history; Ding bluffed with a broadsword, and six people narrowly stopped the arrested woman; Three warriors sneaked into the enemy's lair, and the daughters rushed out of the cage; Three militia fighting on the beach, blind the enemy's legs and eyes; Full of vigor, ambush soldiers, destroy roads, and the storm of ordinary people is back. These wonderful stories can be edited into legendary stories.

The chapter of Xiaofei buying medicine in the novel is the most wonderful. Scholar-like Xiao Fei went to the heavily guarded enemy hinterland alone to buy medicine for Shi Xin's healing, and met the traitor He Dana and his son on the way. With wit, he tied the father and son back, seized the bicycle and a new version of the spy card printed with the words "local snake attack team" and successfully entered the enemy-occupied area; Then he pretended that the staff of a hospital bought medicines wholesale and was chased because he had no money to pay. Then bravely passed five levels and cut six generals, and rushed out of the tight encirclement. This kind of soul-stirring, readers also pinched a sweat for it! These legendary plots once filled many teenagers who just entered adolescence with revolutionary enthusiasm and fantasy and worshipped legendary heroes.

Third, the distribution of characters in romance novels.

Romance novels in our country, such as the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the popular Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties and the popular Romance of Yangjiafu, all appeared in an era when ethnic contradictions and class contradictions were very acute and complicated. These representative works show the struggle between loyal and treacherous officials under the background of foreign invasion. Foreign enemies (invaders), emperors, orthodox heroes (loyal ministers), villains (treacherous court officials) and comic heroes contain and conflict with each other. The story in "King Kong of Fire" also happened in a period when ethnic contradictions and class contradictions were very acute and complicated, and there were similar "five elements" distribution: orthodox heroes (party leaders), comic heroes (ignorant heroes), people's middle figures, puppet bandits and Japanese aggressors. There are complex contradictions between different roles, such as positive and negative, rigidity and flexibility, primary and secondary, and harmony between Zhuang and Zhuang. There is a wonderful relationship between them.

Orthodox heroes are the pillars of novel construction, and their characters lack change from beginning to end. For example, Tian Geng, secretary of the county party committee, is calm and far-sighted, Jin, the female district chief, is solid and brave, Xiao Fei, the scout, is chivalrous and brave, and the health worker is careful and tenacious, which is the case from the moment they enter the readers. In the novel, Qi Ying is a cartoon orthodox hero who grew up in the battle.

Comic hero is the reader's favorite type. This novel has created comic heroes like Ding, Zhu and Zhu. Ding has jy's reckless, straightforward, fair and lovely personality. Lu Yu's historical update still doesn't understand that it almost killed its comrades; When he found out that Li Lin, the female health worker who had worked so hard to get back, was actually the daughter of the feuding landlord He Dana, he immediately shouted that she was blind and reached for the knife in her hand to kill someone. However, in the battle with two other comrades to rescue more than 50 women, he showed caution.

There are often contradictions and differences of opinion between the two types of heroes, but they always cooperate sincerely. In the seventh novel, Sun Zhengbang, the village party secretary, wrote about his prejudice against the militia. He thinks that although Li Jinkui, the leader of the militia, is party member, he is stubborn, and other militia are not party member, so he is politically unreliable and cannot be entrusted with an important task. After Qi Ying's persuasion, he corrected this prejudice. When writing to the party members for the eighth time to discuss how to deal with Xie Wenhua and He Dana, the impatient Li Jinkui stared at Sun Zhengbang and said, "What? Grass chicken! " Tired of shaking his head, he rushed to Qi Ying and said, "What are you doing just shaking your head? You are our backbone, why don't you make up your mind? " Obviously showing dissatisfaction with orthodox heroes. The contradiction between orthodox heroes and comic heroes is the traditional content in romantic novels. It is this contradiction of unity of opposites that makes them undertake their respective functions. Just as Song Jiang, Yue Fei and other heroes in traditional romance novels play an educational role, jy and Cheng play an entertaining role. Tian Geng, Jin, Ding He in "King Kong of Fire" bear the functions of education and entertainment respectively, which are loved by the mainstream class and the public.

In the novel, Captain Pig's Head and Donkey Taijun are typical foreign enemies, while Gao Tie 'er and He Dana are villains. These two kinds of people are ugly and evil. Although they are clever, they are stupid and incompetent compared with heroes, and they are often teased by heroes. Because of fear and taking credit, the Japanese lied about the war situation, so that in the end, the Japanese mobilized a Japanese United, a pseudo-police brigade, a pseudo-security army brigade, two cavalry squadrons, two motorcycle squadrons, heavy machine guns, light mortars, chemical soldiers who released poison gas, and two small tanks blocked the town. The only person really surrounded was Shi Xin, who was seriously injured and unarmed. In the end, with wit and courage, the historical update single-handedly launched a thousand troops and broke through the encirclement alone, making foreign enemies more stupid and ridiculous. The cooperation between the Japanese army and the puppet troops has ulterior motives and uses each other. This cooperative relationship is vividly demonstrated in the tenth episode of the novel "Inquiring about the disputed information of the enemy and puppet" and the fourteenth episode "Let the enemy and puppet gather in a small fire".

The contradiction between Japanese troops, puppet troops and revolutionary heroes is the main line of the novel, which runs through the whole text. The final result was that the counter-offensive was completely eliminated, the puppet troops were disarmed, the enemy watchtowers were burned and the roads were destroyed.

The middle character is the object that heroes and enemies compete for, and has a stake in the other four types of characters. Xie Wenhua in the novel is a middle figure that cannot be ignored. Xie Wenhua, nicknamed spindle. He leads a quiet life. People say he has seventy-two hearts and ninety-six axes. For example, in chapter 11, he describes that he searched the Eighth Route Army with traitors He Dana and He. As a result, He Dana found that it was none other than He Dana's daughter who was hiding in the cave. He and his son were dumbfounded at once. At this time, the traitor high-speed rail people asked what was going on outside, so they turned to He Danei's "dumb fans" as a cover to coax the high-speed rail people into doubt, which saved the tense situation. Xie Wenhua's improvisation can kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, why did he solve the problem with his father and son, and he didn't offend the traitors; On the other hand, he also protected the Eighth Route Army and the masses in underground caves. Xie Wenhua, a middleman, is fluent in five elements and eight skills. While he was in contact with He Dane, he was also in contact with traitors and the Japanese army, and he was qualified to speak in Qiaotou Town controlled by the Japanese army. And help * * * producers to provide some information and help, sometimes out of helplessness, sometimes out of conscience. His whereabouts implicate all kinds of people and classes, making the whole novel more detailed in structure and more coherent in plot.

Written in the 1950s, "King Kong of Fire" must be a narrative literary work "based on the revolutionary history since modern times, reappearing the inevitability and correctness of the new-democratic revolution led by the China * * * production party, and popularizing and publicizing the historical knowledge and basic concepts of the China * * production party" [3] (p74). But as can be seen from the above interpretation, "King Kong of Fire" is also ". [4] Under the cover of ideology, it fully embodies the characteristics of popular novels and becomes the masterpiece of popular novels under the cover of ideology.

Evaluation:

Fire King Kong, stand on the earth! The hero's hymn spread all over the country!

In order to strengthen the revolutionary tradition and national spirit education for young students, and stimulate patriotic enthusiasm and national pride, the great achievements of China * * * Production Party in different periods such as the Long March, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and reform and opening up were displayed. Under the organization, I watched the movie "King Kong of Fire" with deep affection. This is a classic film, gripping and touching. When reinforcements approached the highland and the picture of American soldiers approaching Wang Cheng appeared on the movie screen, Wang Cheng fought hand-to-hand with the enemy who climbed the highland. Finally, Wang Cheng bid farewell to the rear, resolutely dropped his walkie-talkie and jumped to the summit with a detonator. In the majestic singing, I photographed the panoramic view of the sun shining from the thick clouds and Wang Cheng standing on the mountain with an explosion tube in his hand. The camera zoomed in, followed by the enemy's crawling team, and turned to Wang Cheng to open the close-up of the explosion tube, looking angrily at the close-up of the enemy and overlooking the enemy's panic. Under the blue sky background of billowing smoke, the camera caught a panoramic view of Wang Cheng jumping behind enemy lines. With an explosion, the wind and smoke rolled, the pine and cypress stood upright, and the picture shook from the bloody position to the majestic mountains. After Wang Cheng's sacrifice, Wang Fang and the Art Troupe sang an affectionate and heroic ode for a hero, which realized the memory and admiration of the hero on the screen and fully demonstrated the tenacity and courage of the producer of * * *. The fiery King Kong, which has inspired generations of young people, reminds me of the immortal monument that recorded the beloved Premier Zhou, the famous doctor Bethune who loved science and pursued light all his life, and the rural cadres who led the masses out of poverty and became rich ... They left infinite thoughts and sustenance for the people and wrote a hymn of life. Looking at the black-and-white movie screen, the revolutionary martyrs seem to reappear, and history seems to go backwards. "The' Dajiang Song' turned east and west, and this group of families helped the poor. After ten years of breaking the wall, it is difficult to reward the hero for jumping into the sea. " Ordinary people, without rhetoric, wrote magnificent chapters with their own lives. The film has come to an end, and our cause needs us to struggle. I also understand the reasons why the Chinese nation exists and grows. It is precisely because our generation of young people with a sense of responsibility for the times are struggling in the front line and mastering the rudder of historical ships. We are a great and cohesive nation, which is an inexhaustible motive force for the ship to move forward! "People must have a noble spirit if they want to live a valuable life. Patriotism is not an empty slogan, but a real action. A person without national consciousness will become a rootless wandering soul. "

Wave the red flag to Chaoyang, don't forget that China is hometown.

What is terrible is that the gunshots are flying all over the sky, the tears are painful, and the wounds are green blood and yellow sand.

Iron courage and ambition twist Kun, fire king kong protects the family.

Today, young people are full of ambition. They are riding the wind and waves.