一位独特“艺人”的自叙

The Autobiographic Note of A Special“Artist”

他不算是手工艺人,没有一件手工制品,然而他用一双布满老茧的手,握一支吸满狼烟和血泪的笔,书写了一段闪耀但被尘封的历史,一曲壮烈而几乎被遗忘的悲歌。

He is not a craftsman nor has he made a handicraft.Yet,he,with a pen filled with the flames of war,blood and tears in his hand with calluses on the palm,has written a bril- liant but dust-covered history and has com- posed a magnificent but almost-forgotten sad song.His name is Duan Peidong,a farmer writer with only primary schooling. Stirred and encouraged by his own experiences,the true stories he had wit- nessed or heard and the facts he had found out while traveling personally to various battle- fields ...