《午夜的鞍子》是张承志离开草原近二十年后写就的一篇散文。草原是张承志走向人生的重要起点,也是他后来走向文学,追忆人生的重要原点。我们知道,张承志发表的第一篇小说就叫《骑手为什么歌唱母亲》,从那之后,植根于这一记忆的写作不绝如缕。一个作家的文学写作,总是和他早年的生命记忆有着千丝万缕的联系,有的记忆从很早开始,还会长久、深刻地影响着作家的写作,张承志就是这样一 Midnight’s Saddle is an essay written by Zhang Chengzhi nearly two decades after he left grassland. Prairie is an important starting point of Zhang Chengzhi’s life, but also later he went to literature, an important source of recalling life. We know that the first novel published by Zhang Chengzhi was “why the rider sings his mother,” and since then the writing rooted in this memory has been inexhaustible. A writer’s literary writing is always inextricably linked with his early memory of life. Some memories from a very early age will affect the writer’s writing for a long time and profoundly.