1980 My literary era

The day before the third Yanbing Literature Award Ceremony, March 28, 1991, was the 40th anniversary of the founding of the National Literature Publishing House.

Even before the Chinese New Year, the Chinese Literature Society was already preparing for this event.

On the afternoon of March 30, the National Literature Publishing House held a grand "Tea Party for the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the National Literature Publishing House" at the Yanjing Hotel.

In front of the rostrum of the venue, there were flower baskets presented by Balao, Chinese Writers Association, People's Publishing House, Writers Publishing House and other individuals and units. Around the venue, hanging hangings were tributes by famous writers and artists such as Balao and Mr. Wan. There are more than 90 paintings, calligraphy works and inscriptions written for this social celebration.

For today’s tea party, the Chinese Literature Society invited many leaders who are still alive after retirement, meritorious editors, elders in the literary world, and many writers that the Chinese Literature Society has trained over the years. The scale was even more grand than yesterday’s Yanbing Literature Award award ceremony.

Many of the guests attending the conference attended yesterday's Yan Bing Literature Award award ceremony.

When the president, Cheng Wuchun, expressed his gratitude to the guests on behalf of all the comrades of the society, many people's eyes were far away on Lin Weimin, who was sitting in the row with the leaders of the Chinese Literature Society. Among the group of white-haired people, his face was The young face full of collagen is particularly eye-catching.

Mr. Wan sat next to Lin Weimin. He noticed the many eyes focused on Lin Weimin and whispered to him: "It seems that everyone is very concerned about this controversy!"

"Just watch the fun, who doesn't like it!" Lin Weimin said.

After Cheng Wuchun thanked the guests on the stage, he began to report on some of the efforts and achievements made by the Chinese Literature Society in publishing over the past forty years, while the teachers and students continued to chat in low voices.

This kind of formal occasion is very boring. There is no way to speak freely. You have to stand on the stage and speak, or sit down and listen to the speech.

As the tea party came to an end, the atmosphere finally relaxed and acquaintances began to walk around and chat.

Among the hundreds of guests, retired leaders of the Chinese Literature Society and meritorious editors accounted for a proportion. These people gathered together to chat. There was also a wave of people headed by the previous and current leaders of the Chinese Literature Society, and there were also many people around them.

These two groups of people have one thing in common: they are rarely under seventy years old, and they are all highly respected in the Chinese literary world.

Another wave of people gathered around Lin Weimin. After careful identification, the average age of this group of people was much younger than the other two waves, and there were almost no people over fifty years old.

And they are all young and middle-aged writers who have become famous in the domestic literary world in recent years. The works of these people account for almost half of the classic works in the domestic literary world in recent years.

Lu Yao, who just won the third Yan Bing Literature Award yesterday, Cheng Zhongshi, who has firmly secured the fourth Yan Bing Literature Award, Wang Shuo, who has sold hundreds of thousands of collections of his anthology and was the first in China to receive royalties, and a pioneering literary general. Hua, Su Tong, Jiang Zilong, the founder of reform literature...

The interested person glanced at it casually and couldn't help but be a little speechless.

The stars shine!

The representative works of this group of writers are almost all published through "Contemporary", and the editor of many of them is Lin Weimin.

Seeing this group of people chatting enthusiastically with Lin Weimin as the center, many people on the periphery sighed.

These will be the mainstays of the Chinese literary world in the next thirty years!

Some people unconsciously thought of the grievances between Lin Weimin and Liu Feiyu. The grievances between the two were nothing new in the domestic literary world.

When Lin Weimin's "Lover" was published, Liu Feiyu shouted for beatings and killing. When he heard that Lin Weimin had been suspended from his job for several months, Lin Weimin wrote a book "The Thief of Officials" to criticize the group of critics led by Liu Feiyu. All over.

This time, Lin Weimin did not win the Yanbing Literature Award, but Liu Feiyu, who was a judge, won the award. Due to their previous grudges, the two of them were completely at odds.

But the strange thing is that the Literary and Art Association, one of the parties to the conflict, is the guest of the Chinese Literature Society today.

This is the circle. No matter how big the contradictions are, fighting without breaking up is the foundation.

But through the scenes we saw today, it is not difficult for everyone to see that in this conflict, neither the Cultural Association nor Liu Feiyu could do anything to stop Lin Weimin.

In terms of my job, I am the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Literature Society in my early thirties. This kind of thing only happened in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

If he works for another thirty years, even if he stays where he is, how many disciples and disciples will the Chinese literary world have?

In terms of writing achievements, both the quantity and quality of his works have reached the top level in the Chinese literary world.

Two Yanbing Literature Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Naoki Award, and the Goncourt Literary Award in France. Among domestic writers, it seems that no one has won so many overseas literary awards. Yes, and it spans east and west.

In terms of social reputation, Lin Weimin has won heavyweight awards overseas not only in the field of literature, but also in the field of drama. The public's recognition of him is ridiculously high.

In addition, he has been enthusiastic about public welfare in recent years and has made many donations to the Chinese Literature Foundation and the China Youth Education and Development Foundation. He is regarded as the first philanthropic person in the Chinese literary world.

Looking back eight years ago, when Liu Feiyu first attacked Lin Weimin, he was just a newly emerging young writer in the domestic literary world, an ordinary editor of the Chinese Literature Society, and he was alone.

Now eight years have passed, and various positions, titles, and awards have been added to the list. Except for qualifications, Liu Feiyu has almost no chance of winning against Shang Lin Weimin, which makes people lament the fickleness of the world.

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the waves in front die on the beach.

This time Liu Feiyu won the Yanbing Literature Prize, but what he lost was the reputation he had built in the domestic literary circle for decades. It was really not worth the loss.

Although Lin Weimin was also affected by the conflict this time, he hit Liu Feiyu and the jury at the critical moment, and the denunciation and criticism of him from the outside world seemed insignificant.

From the perspective of a bystander, although Lin Weimin lost the award in this conflict, he completely defeated Liu Feiyu.

The tea party ended in a harmonious and harmonious atmosphere, and the guests left one after another.

After today's tea party, "New Literature Historical Materials" and "Contemporary" under the Chinese Literature Society will publish relevant commemorative articles.

The guests had almost left, but Lu Yao, Yu Hua, Wang Shuo and others didn't want to leave and took Lin Weimin to eat.

It was rare to see such a lively scene today. They had a lively sex life, how could it end so hastily?

A group of people had a lively meal before dispersing.

The lively social celebrations were over, and the debate about the Yanbing Literature Award was still continuing. Lin Weimin no longer cared much about this matter, and focused all his energy on work and writing.

During this time, most of the novel has been written, and it is estimated that it will be finished in a few days.

In early April, Jin Yong's collection of works was printed and has been sent to bookstores and post offices across the country.

Less than a week later, Lin Weimin appeared at the Yanjing Hotel again, accompanied by an old man wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

As soon as the two men appeared, the cameras of the reporters present immediately started flashing. Of course, the reporters were not directed at Lin Weimin, but at the old man beside him.

Today, the Chinese Literature Society held a press conference for the publication of a collection of Jin Yong's works. More than 30 media, large and small, came to the scene. The reporters saw the excitement surrounding Jin Yong and kept clicking their cameras.

Jin Yong is the protagonist today. During the question-and-answer session, the reporters in the audience scrambled to be the first. When the press conference was over, the group of reporters directly surrounded Jin Yong, and they seemed to refuse to let him leave unless he accepted an interview.

Jin Yong, accompanied by Lin Weimin, accepted a group interview for more than half an hour. He finally broke away from the reporters and was taken into a small room for a private interview.

Dozens of media came to today's press conference, but only a few heavyweight media were eligible for independent interviews.

There are not only newspapers such as People's Daily and China Youth Daily, but also television media such as CCTV and Yanjing TV.

Last time, Liang Fengyi's massive work launch was supported by relevant departments, but this time Jin Yong's collection launch relied more on his own influence.

From the creation of the first martial arts novel "Book of Swordsman" in the 1950s to the completion of "The Deer and the Cauldron" in the 1970s, Jin Yong's martial arts novels created a myth in the history of Chinese popular literature and greatly expanded the scope of martial arts novels. The boundaries and influence of this popular literary classification.

Beginning in the 1970s, Jin Yong's martial arts novels were introduced to the mainland on a small scale. By the 1980s, thanks to the leadership's love for Jin Yong's martial arts novels, his works were completely released in the mainland and became a leisure entertainment for countless Chinese people. essential reading.

Especially after the mid-1980s, TVB's martial arts TV series adapted from Jin Yong's works were introduced to the mainland and became popular all over the country. This further boosted Jin Yong's popularity and the influence of his martial arts novels, making Jin Yong a well-known martial arts novel in China. Everyone.

Let me just say one thing: a considerable part of the works written by many mainland martial arts novel writers in the 1980s and 1990s were based on Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

Not to mention those fake ones, Jintong, Jin Kang, Jin Yongxin, Jin Yongju, Jin Yongxu and other fake famous authors have created a series such as "The Golden Eagle of the Divine Arrow", "The Prequel of the Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Witches". "The Continuation of Sword Enmity", "The Martial Arts Fool", "The Great Hero Feng Qingyang", "Nine Yins and Nine Yangs", "The Eight Legends of the Dragon" and other works.

In addition, the pen names and book titles have nothing to do with Jin Yong, but the content follows Jin Yong's works. Such fake works are usually sequels to Jin Yong's original works, imitating Jin Yong's writing style to tell new stories. According to later generations, they should belong to the category of fan fiction.

One of the more typical ones is "The Legend of Dragons and Snakes" by Canglangke. It seems that the author's name and the title of the book have nothing to do with Jin Yong's martial arts novels. In fact, it is the sequel to "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon", and "The Remnant Dream of the Universe" is about "The Heavenly Dragon". "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" by Yan Boke, which is the sequel to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and so on.

Among the above counterfeit works of Jin Yong, there are many excellent works, which are also welcomed by the majority of readers of martial arts novels. Readers sometimes know that these are counterfeit works, but they still can’t bear to see stories related to Jin Yong’s martial arts novels. Live to buy and read.

It is no exaggeration to say that the name "Jin Yong" supported half of the mainland's martial arts novels in the 1980s and 1990s, and also gained a readership measured in hundreds of millions.

After a whole day of interviews, Jin Yong looked tired but a little excited.

As a landlord, Lin Weimin has been staying with Jin Yong today. Jin Yong couldn't help but said to him: "Mr. Lin, there is nothing wrong with entrusting my novel to your Chinese Literature Society!"