Rubber Forest Documentary: Ice Valley Autobiography

"Rubber Forest Documentary: Ice Valley Autobiography" begins with "my father and mother" and the depths of the rubber forest, and ends with grief and leaving the oak forest. It is written from the eve of the Pacific War to the eve of the Thatched Crop Incident, spanning forty-four years.

The author describes his youth spent migrating from one rubber plantation to another, and his quarter-century career managing it. It was a turbulent era, when "towns lacked character and the countryside was still undeveloped." The glimpses of difficult life in the book serve as both personal micro-histories and the collective memory of many—"everyone reaching out their tentacles of hope toward the future."

The author also extended his tentacles to literature, seeking spiritual comfort, and wrote down his literary memories of interacting with literary friends and his pursuit of creation.

Binggu describes himself: "I have spent most of my life as a farmer wandering around, and my literary career has followed my wanderings."

Professor Zhang Jinzhong wrote a preface recommending the book: "Looking back on the past, only by writing, only by writing, can we face the memory of the autobiographical subject and recall the scars caused by the big history behind the small history.

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His original name was Lin Chengxing. He was born in Kuala Kangsar, Perak in 1940. He graduated from Chong Hwa High School. He has served as a manager of rubber, cocoa and oil palm plantations. He is a member of the Malaysian Writers Association, the Asian Chinese Writers Association and the World Chinese Writers Association.

He has published nearly twenty works of new poetry and essays, and his works have been included in more than fifty anthologies at home and abroad, including the important "A Reader on the History of Malaysian Chinese Prose", "A Selection of Contemporary Malaysian Chinese Prose", "A Series of Malaysian Chinese Literature", "A Series of Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese Literature", and "A Century of Chinese Literature Selections: Malaysian Chinese Volume".

Many of his essays have been selected as textbooks for primary and secondary schools, as well as independent Chinese schools, and most of his works are based on natural scenery.

In 2012, he won the 13th ASEAN Chinese Literature Award, the Chong Hwa Alma Mater Centennial Outstanding Alumni Award in 2013, and the poetry selection award in the Nanyang Technological University Essay Competition in 1971. In 2020, he was hired as a resident writer at Sungai Petani Sin Min Independent High School. In 2021, he won the Forty-Year-Old Spirit Award.

He is currently the director of review for the Guangxi series of books under the Guangxi Association. He has served as president of Palm Publishing House and chairman of the Penang, Kedah and Perlis Joint Committee of the Writers Association (currently executive consultant).

Entering the Rubber Forest, Leaving the Rubber Forest—— Preface to "Rubber Forest Documentary: Ice Valley Autobiography"◎Zhang Jinzhong9

Chapter 1 : History of Guangxi People Migrating South
01 A Brief History of Chinese Immigration 16
02 Guangxi immigration wave17
03 The origin of Bagui 18

Chapter 2 My Father and Mother
01 Rongxian Landscape Culture and Yang Guifei 20
02 From Rong County to Diandongchong 23
03 Father left his hometown27
04 The Appearance of Mother 30

Chapter 3 <br>Longpo's Years of Hard Work
01 Kampung Sarung, my birthplace 34
02 Corn Cake and White Rice 37

Chapter 4 : The Smell of Tobacco in the Hut
01 Trapping wild boars and mother's cured meat 42
02 Tobacco Planting and Smoke Screen Weaving 49

Chapter 5 : The Dark Years of World War II
01 Lime Rice from the War Era 56
02 Gu Kabing under the eaves 60
03 False Alarm Night 65

Chapter 6 <br>The joys and sorrows that flowed away at the foot of the mountain
01 Terror at the Well 70
02 The small river in front of the cave 72
03 The sack that fell from the cliff 75
04 Double-headed train rushing into the jungle 77
05 Big Cat Footprints Psycho 83

Chapter 7 <br>The Pillar of the Family
01 Scarecrow by the Field 86
02 The joys and sorrows of drying grain and pounding rice
03 Shadows of Mother and Child in Headlights 97
04 Jujube Tree and Wild Hawthorn 102
05 From Fishing to Amusement Park 105
06 Running around under the meter card system 109
07 Leaflet Distribution and Shooting Incident 111

Chapter 8 : The Rise and Fall of a Small Town Ferry
01 Fenghua 116 from rubber mother trees
02 I cut out my first bucket of rubber 119
03 Take a boat to the small town of Kuala Kangsar 121
04 The connection with the grocery store No. 7 125
05 Hajib's Double-Decker Steamboat and Fruit Trees 128
06 Street Performers at the Square 132

Chapter 9 <br>Snawa Days
01 Finally found a safe haven 136
02 Moxibustion scar on the elder sister's forehead 139
03 The Innkeeper's Road of No Return 144
04 Flying Stones on the Way Home from School 148

Chapter 10 : A Cage Surrounded by Caltrops
01 Crowds in front of the gate 156
02 The Story from Textbook to Teacher 159
03 Su Qing and his father's hunched figure 162
04 People's Cinema Lying Down to Watch Movies 166
05 Childhood Fun: Stills of Kite Spinning Top 169
06 The setting sun outside the fence 173

Chapter 11 : Wandering on the outskirts of town
01 Knocking on the door of Chong Hwa Primary School 176
02 Turtle Dove, Fire Dove and Land Mandarin Duck 182
03 Circus and Cantonese Teochew Opera 186
04 Wushu and Lion Dance Troupe 190

Chapter 12 : Ten Years of Wind and Rain on the Mountaintop
01 Mother Creates a Second Home 196
02 My Literary Enlightenment 199
03 From Sui Zhai Poet to Jin Lisheng 203
04 Female writer Yang Shaling's novella "Prosperous Dream" 208
05 Literary Visitors to the Humble Room 211
06 Love Grows Tentacles 214

Chapter 13 <br>The beginning of leaving home
01 The brother-sister relationship between mother and uncle 220
02 Graduation bells and farewell songs 223
03 Pangkor Island Tour 225

Chapter 14 <br>Entering the Systematic Plantation
01 Understanding Kuala Bursa and Kuala Bursa 228
02 The Dusk of Sungai Lang New Village 231
03 Green Banana Wind at Pier 5 233
04 Shuangxi River, a hotbed for frogs 236
05 The embarrassment of the first day of work 239
06 Stinging insects under the light of the small building 242
07 First Smell of Opium 246

Chapter 15 <br>Beginning to write a documentary about the plantation
01 "Random Notes on the Plantation" under the Kerosene Lamp 250
02 Attended the "Singapore and Malaysia Young Authors Picnic" in Taiping 252
03 First meeting with Nong Mian in Dabaiyao (Su Qingqiang) 255

Chapter 16 Liangyuan and Julin Haitian Bookstore
01 Haitian and Haitian Bookstore Haitian Series 260
02 Visiting the Sultan’s Birthday Casino with Him 264

Chapter 17 <br>The Belated Event of Life
01 Sister's Wedding 268
02 Blind Date 270
03 Encountering a Beautiful Lotus 274
04 Burning Another Love 278
05 Wedding, finally waited for this day 282

Chapter 18 : Images of Rubber Plantations on the Bend River Bank
01 Natural resources for drinking water from plantations 290
02 The Sorrow and Joy of the Bend River 294

Chapter 19 <br>Mynah birds make noise on the red mud road
01 Loud Ankle Bell 302
02 Ordinary People Under the Coconut Trees 304

Chapter 20 : Organizing the Palm Society and Publishing a Series of Books
01 The Poor Boy’s Literary Dream 308
02 "Post-Palm Books" in the Twilight 313

Chapter 21 <br>Celebrations in Indian Temples
01 Weather on the Day of Paying Grain 316
02 Charming Coconut Flower Wine 318
03 Walking on the Fire Road to Fulfill a Vow 322
04 Goddess Outing Night 325
05 Plantation and Open-air Cinema 327

Chapter 22 <br>Father's Death
01 Celebrating Father’s Birthday 330
02 Finally let go of everything and left 332

Chapter 23 Attending the Asian Chinese/World Chinese Conference
01 Attended the First Asian Chinese Conference 336
02 Reconstructing the Battle of Guningtou 338
03 Folk Culture and Specialties 340

Chapter 24 The Third Migration
01 Colorectal cancer targets "Auntie" 344
02 Vision of Mother's Funeral 346
03 The distance between the building and the fruit tree is 350

Chapter 25 : The Secret Behind the Shotgun License
01 Quotes with the Interior Ministry Detective 356
02 The Manor in the Deep Forest of Nineteen Monuments 361
03 Detective's Warm Tentacles 365
04 Aiming at the "Flying Pigeon" in the sky 370

Chapter 26 : The Story of the Civet
01 Night Hunting and Video 376
02 Civet Cat's Value 381
03 Visiting the agricultural entertainment program 385
The End Rhyme of "Rubber Forest Records" 387

Searching for Lost Footprints——Postscript to "Rubber Forest Documentary——Ice Valley Autobiography"◎Ice Valley 391