Back to 80: My Literary Life

"I went to Pengcheng once and had dinner with a few friends. One of them was also engaged in real estate development. When talking about this, others envied the big money made in real estate now, but he sighed and said who knows the difficulty?"

"To engage in real estate, we must acquire land, right? Farmland is easy to say, but the most feared thing is something like urban villages. It is very difficult to do. If it is too low, the people will not agree. If it is too high, you can't stand it. If you delay it any longer, the project will fail. You have to take other shady means..."

Zhao Hongjun talked about a lot of things he saw and heard, and Song Tangtang was shocked.

Finally, there was a silence in the room.

After a while, Fang Minghua patted Zhao Hongjun on the shoulder: "Actually, it's good now. There is no end to the money. We just need to do a good job in book publishing and film and television production."

"I think so too. Let's create more spiritual food for society, hehe."

Zhao Hongjun, who came back from Haikou, rushed to Shanghai within a few days and found a suitable place in Pudong New Area to build the Shengshi Book Publishing Building.

Song Tangtang took the staff of Shengshi Film and Television to go in and out of the Planning Commission, Urban and Rural Construction Bureau, Land Bureau and other departments in Xijing, preparing to build a photography base belonging to Shengshi Film and Television near the Nanjiao TV Tower.

Fang Minghua was not idle either, and he would rush to Yanjing soon. The seminar of his novel "The Piano in a Factory" would be held in Yanjing.

"The Piano in a Factory" was jointly published by Shengshi Books and Hainan Publishing House a month ago, and was grandly launched as the fourth work in the "Rag Tiger Series".

According to Su Bin's publicity plan. In addition to holding book signing activities in Yanjing and Xijing, another highlight is to hold a work seminar in Yanjing.

In this era, famous writers always hold a work seminar after publishing books, invite a group of literary critics to comment on them, and then issue several press releases in various media to expand the popularity and influence of their works.

The first two works of the "Rag Tiger" book series created by Shengshi Books, "White Deer Plain" and "Wasteland", held work seminars respectively.

Especially Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain", the delegates at the meeting believed that "this is an epoch-making masterpiece." The president of the People's Literature Publishing House, Chen Zaochun, who attended the meeting, is an expert in Lu Xun research. He praised the novel and once wrote an article in the People's Daily to analyze the content and writing skills of the book.

Although some erotic descriptions in the book caused controversy among some people, they did not become popular, but instead accelerated the book's out-of-stock, which made Shengshi Books and Chen Zhongshi breathe a sigh of relief.

The seminar on the work "The Piano in a Factory" was held in the China Modern Literature Museum.

At this time, the Modern Literature Museum had not yet moved to Chaoyang Qu Shaoyaoju, but was still in the west courtyard of Wanshou Temple on the West Third Ring Road.

Wanshou Temple seems desolate, but it is actually a bit literary. There is an ancient road in the east, and there are several ancient tablets left beside the ancient road, and the handwriting has become blurred. The newly built Chinese Theater in the north is very beautiful, and there are always some programs performed in the theater at night.

When Fang Minghua arrived, Su Bin of Shengshi Books, as the organizer, had already arrived. There were quite a few people invited, including He Zhenbang, a professor at Lu Xun Academy of Literature and a famous literary critic, Lei Da, writer Wang Meng, and Li Jun, the then director of the Modern Literature Museum.

Li Jun is also a famous screenwriter and writer. His novel "The Yellow River Flows East" won the second Mao Dun Prize.

Of course, there are also reporters.

Su Bin invited reporters from the People's Daily, which is the largest official newspaper in China, which shows the importance of this seminar.

The meeting lasted for a day. At the meeting, the delegates evaluated the novel from different angles, praising it for describing real life with postmodern writing techniques, and believed that it was a rare masterpiece reflecting current social life.

In terms of narrative structure, the novel adopts a dual-thread narrative technique, revolving around the two sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract images of "piano" and "chimney", gradually deepening individual wishes into an elegy for the industrial age.

This narrative technique not only breaks the convention, but also shows the social changes and personal destiny of the industrial age through the interweaving of the explicit clue of "piano" and the implicit clue of "chimney".

In the afternoon, the discussion was basically over, and the atmosphere in the conference room became lively. Everyone started to gossip in groups of three or two.

The so-called gossip was basically related to literature. When everyone talked about some works in the literary world in the past two years, He Zhenbang was heard saying with a smile.

"Today, I attended the seminar on Minghua's "The Piano in a Factory". Some time ago, I also attended the seminar on Jia Pingwa and Gao Jianqun's new book. Last year, I also attended the seminar on "White Deer Plain" written by Chen Zhongshi. I was very busy."

"I'm talking about Minghua. You Qin people are coming in with great momentum. Why are you all writing novels? My goodness, are you going to march east?"

At this time, Wang Meng interrupted: "Professor He, if we talk about the eastward expedition, this should be the second time for Qin people. I remember that around 1987, Minghua published "Crossing Guandong", Jia Pingwa wrote "Impulsive", and Lu Yao was even more powerful. He wrote "Ordinary World", which was jokingly called "Qin Army's Eastward Expedition" in the literary world."

"This time it's more powerful, with more people. I guess they are not only marching eastward, but also preparing to trample the six kingdoms."

Everyone laughed when they heard it.

Indeed, after entering the 1990s, Qin writers have emerged as a new force. Last year, Chen Zhongshi shocked the literary world with "White Deer Plain". Later, Qin writers published many novels one after another:

Jia Pingwa's "Abandoned Capital", Jing Fu's "Eight Miles of Love", Cheng Hai's "Love of Destiny", Gao Jianqun's "The Last Huns", and the last one was Fang Minghua's "The Steel Piano", which caused a sensation in the literary world.

Of course Fang Minghua had to be humble after hearing this, and he was very happy in his heart. Unfortunately, Lu Yao was missing this time, and he was still writing the "Crash" at home.

Everyone was chatting casually in a lively atmosphere, but as we were talking and listening intently, one of the participants took note of the conversation.

Her name is Han Xiaohui, she is a newspaper editor and a well-known prose writer, and she also has the identity of a reporter for "Guangming Daily"!

After the meeting, "People's Daily" reported the news of yesterday's seminar in the "Literary Theory" section on the third day.

Of course Han Xiaohui saw it and the writing was quite good, but she felt that something was missing.

Fang Minghua's "The Piano of Steel" is indeed well written, but there are also many excellent works by writers from Qin Province in the past two years, right?

She remembered that in 1987, three writers from Qin Province published three works. Although the number was relatively small, both of them won the Mao Dun Literature Award.

This time it was even more intense, six books were published in one go!

Who knows how many contradictory literature awards will appear in the future, as well as the newly established World Chinese Literature Award? !