This may be a fate in the dark. Ma Jun, a writer from Xiji, Ningxia, with the pen name Liu Kexing, became the youngest winner of the 13th National Ethnic Minority Literature Creation Horse Award with his essay collection "Green and White Stone Steps". He, who has been unable to walk since childhood due to illness, and his father both took a plane for the first time. They spent a whole day traveling from Xiji, Ningxia to Nanning, Guangxi. Watching Ma Jun climb onto the podium in a wheelchair, his father exclaimed, "I took a big step forward." In the video played at the award ceremony, the shadow of Ma Jun reflected on the wall stood up from the wheelchair and strode forward. I captured my inner world, "Ma Jun said." The seeds of truth, goodness, and beauty in this world grow into food, allowing the child sitting in a wheelchair to grow up slowly... This child is willing to spend their whole life sowing truth, goodness, beauty, and love. "The stage lights shone brightly, and the young man in the wheelchair smiled confidently. On the evening of November 16th, the "2024 Chinese Literature Festival · Steed Award Night" jointly hosted by the Chinese Writers Association, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was held in Nanning City. The scene at the award ceremony deeply moved the audience present. The footnotes of literature stir the land of Guangxi. The literary festival takes the strengthening of the sense of community of the Chinese nation as its main theme, and creates a "literary festival" with novel styles and breaking through boundaries to create a widely participated "literary festival" for readers, showcasing a beautiful picture of high-quality development of ethnic literature in the new era. Since its establishment in 1981, the National Ethnic Minority Literature Creation Steed Award has been selected 13 times, with a total of 759 works and 49 translators winning awards, making great contributions to the prosperity of ethnic literature creation. This time, a total of 25 works and 5 translators won awards, including 6 novels, short stories, reportage, poetry, prose, translation, etc. The works cover topics such as poverty alleviation, comprehensive rural revitalization, and technological innovation, combining the "big picture of the country" and "small things of the people", demonstrating diverse characteristics and a sense of unity. Awards are like an alarm clock, reminding you to keep writing Ma Boyong's award-winning book "The Great Doctor" is based on the theme of Huashan Hospital in Shanghai. He admitted that finishing a long novel is like running a marathon. "Running is testing our physical limits, while writing is exploring our mental frontiers. The rich and colorful national life scene, the splendid and colorful national era atmosphere, and the broad and noble national spirit image are presented. Peng Xueming, director of the Creative Department of the China Writers Association, who served as a judge, believes that this year's "Junma Award" showcases the fruitful achievements of telling national and Chinese stories in a literary style, and forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation. A big river meanders through the Tarim Basin, giving birth to the vitality of the desert oasis and nourishing Asher's "By the Ana River". 'Ana' means' mother 'in Uyghur language. When I was reading a collection of folk stories, I found that the Ana River is the ancient name of the Tarim River At that moment, Asher suddenly felt an emotional connection with his hometown and history. The book 'Along the Ana River' depicts the entrepreneurial history of border construction, with a clear quality of life and strong spiritual strength. Asher grew up on a farm by the Tarim River from a young age, and spent five to six years preparing for his creation. Through reading and interviewing, he accumulated a large amount of information on agriculture, water conservancy, education, and other fields. He "rooted himself in the scene of life, 'cut into every small gap, and truly became a student of life and the people." This work was selected for the "New Era Literature Climbing Plan" of the Chinese Writers Association. Climbing is the eternal posture of a writer, "Asher said. When she was creating, she" began to subconsciously shift her perspective from her personal memory to the broader life and history of her hometown, focusing on the relationship between land, people, and the times. "Through the integration of collective memory and personal memory, she wrote history, striving to achieve a narrative that is both subtle and grand. In this process, the concept of the Chinese nation sharing weal and woe, honor and disgrace, life and death, and destiny is more naturally integrated into the writing Asher said. All rivers share the same origin and head towards the vast sea. Among the award-winning works, many are related to rivers, such as the Tarim River, Li River, Yalu River... The splendid and diverse literature flows like rivers and streams, nourishing the shared spiritual home of the Chinese nation. A book and a village: "The world is so big, but you are the only one who makes me dream and hold onto the only word in my heart: village." At dawn, Taipan Village woke up to the crowing of chickens. The "village" in the heart of writer Yao Yao comes from a basketball game in a Miao village deep in the mountains of Guizhou. In the summer of 2022, Taipan Village in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, became popular due to a basketball game. Yao Yao has come here multiple times because her work unit provides targeted assistance to Taipan Township. The first secretary stationed in the village, a wealth expert, a returning entrepreneur, and a rural commentator... He has had countless close encounters with people and events in Taipan Village, uncovering the cultural code behind the popularity and popularity of the "village BA". His award-winning reportage, "Village BA": A Window to Observe Chinese path to modernization ", describes the new changes of the people of Taipan Village after overcoming poverty, and shows a beautiful picture of the overall revitalization of the countryside. The 'small' of Taipan Village carries the 'big' of this era At the award ceremony, Yao Yao was dressed in ethnic costumes, with particularly exquisite Dong embroidery on her cuffs. He stated that as an experiencer and attendee, one must take a more proactive attitude and a broader historical perspective, deeply immerse oneself in the hot scene, and "search for the light hidden deep in the village in the reality rich in the characteristics of the times, and tell the world the beautiful story of the flourishing development of Chinese rural areas". Countryside is an eternal treasure trove of themes and a source of inspiration. Only by rooting themselves in life and dedicating themselves to creation can writers continue to unleash the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity. Representatives of award-winning writers have deep feelings about this. The most beloved land or cradle in life After writer Fan Yiping returned to his dream village in Shangling, Guangxi, the story of "Shangling Lover" flooded his mind like an explosion. "My hometown gave me inspiration, and I also nourished my hometown through literature; On the vast land of our motherland, two distant places are like this, 'heart to heart' through literature Translator Aibu comes from the northwest, and he translated the 12th "Junma Award" novel "Village Notes". The story takes place in Guangxi, and "through literature, we embrace each other more closely"; Over the years, the "Junma Award" has continuously explored the works of writers, the "New Era Mountain and Township Transformation Creation Plan" and the "New Era Literature Climbing Plan" have been diverse, and activities such as the "People's Marking Action" have been spread across borders. The function of literature in uniting people's hearts, inspiring emotions, and conveying values has become increasingly prominent. As the theme of this grand ceremony is: the golden steed leaps out of the river of light and shadow, on a new journey to promote the high-quality development of literature in the new era, 'the people's land literature has no boundaries'. (New Society)