I'm by no means a softie

Human beings are endowed with seven emotions, respond to things, feel things and express aspirations, is it natural? - "Wen Xin Diao Long"

People have seven emotions and six desires, and when stimulated by external objects, they will have certain reactions. It is natural for the heart to feel something and chant.

To put it simply, writing novels is to express one's own feelings, and reading novels is to find resonance with one's own feelings.

This is the ‘comfort’ that Yu Hua talks about. Li Peifeng agrees that the cool thing about online articles is that they are a kind of ‘comfort’. YY, it’s so comforting.

But he believed there was some deeper meaning to literature...

In fact, these meanings are the problems of contemporary literature.

Almost everyone in the literary world is well aware of this, especially those who study contemporary literature, but they are unwilling to explain the problem because it will offend others, and asking for the bottom of it will make the leaders lose face, and it will also make contemporary literature unclear.

It is worthless, and the status of those engaged in contemporary literature research has also been damaged.

As a graduate student at Beihua Normal University, Li Peifeng can be considered a member of the literary world as well as an Internet writer. He is a little grasshopper who doesn’t care whether the contemporary literary world is damaged or not. He wrote two articles on contemporary literature in his early graduate school days.

critical essay.

In the paper, Mr. Li expressed his thoughts. In his opinion, the biggest problem in contemporary literature is that these old traditional writers have a somewhat too single understanding of the meaning of literature.

There is no way around it. They grew up in the environment they grew up in in the past few decades, surrounded by enemies, a nation that endured humiliation, a tumultuous and unpredictable era, which had a huge impact on their worldview.

As a result, their interpretations of literary meanings and story backgrounds tend to be similar.

Even if negative things such as guilt, heaviness, and suffering are the oldest problems of mankind, literary works cannot avoid them. But everyone knows that where there is darkness, there must be light, and black and white exist in the world at the same time. But for light

The description of one side seems to have become a shortcoming of contemporary writers.

They do a good job when dealing with the darkness of human nature, but they are very poor when dealing with the brilliance of human nature, such as "hope, happiness, love, ideals, beliefs" and other elements.

Perhaps these contemporary writers don't bother to write at all, feeling that these elements are not on the table, so they should use gloom and despair as the main tone, use pens as a tool to resist all injustices, expose the darkness of society, the bad nature of human nature, and expose the ugliness.

It can be displayed in front of people, causing deep thought and reflection, so as to achieve the purpose of transforming society.

This is actually no problem. Mr. Lu Xun, who sits at the top of modern cultural history, did just that. But the problem is that contemporary writers do not have Lu Xun’s writing skills, profound thoughts, and fearless optimistic fighting spirit.

They even lack the attitude of saving the country and the people with their pens and the mentality of standing with the people at the bottom.

Naturally, it is impossible to write an article like Lu Xun, who was in a desperate situation but still persisted in being saved despite no hope, and could arouse the people of the country to fight against feudalism, patriotism and save the nation.

Most of them only have prejudice and resentment in their hearts, so what they write is naturally filled with resentment, and the form of expression is very problematic. It can be described with terms such as distortion and twisting.

If we were to be more specific, we could use the "rough" writing style of these contemporary writers to describe their books. It would be like: they have been neglected by tradition and politics for too long, with a sense of imbalance of values ​​and a lack of confidence because they have just become good friends.

A low self-esteem old chick...

When a contemporary literary leader received the award, he made a speech and said, "Literature is meaningless." After a few years, he finally couldn't help but tell his true feelings: "I have always had a prejudice that literary works should not whitewash reality. Literature and art are

It's time to expose the darkness.

It sounds like this sentence is very pitiful and merciful, but in fact it is prejudice and lacks historical and scientific knowledge. A speech by a certain librarian is suitable to answer his sentence:

"For revolutionary writers and artists, the objects of exposure can only be the invaders, exploiters, oppressors and the bad influence they have left on the people, but not the masses of the people. The masses of the people also have shortcomings, and these shortcomings should be used

To overcome the criticism and self-criticism within the people, and carrying out this kind of criticism and self-criticism is also one of the most important tasks of literature and art. But this should not be said to be "exposing the people". For the people, it is basically a matter of educating and improving them

This is a problem. Only counter-revolutionary writers and artists can describe the people as 'naturally stupid' and the revolutionary masses as 'authoritarian thugs'."

"It is necessary to criticize the shortcomings of the people, but it must be done from the standpoint of the people and with the enthusiasm to protect and educate the people. If you treat your colleagues as enemies, you are putting yourself in the shoes of others.

Already."

Li Peifeng believes that they cannot be summed up simply by their stance, but can only be said to be the impact of multiple factors.

To this end, Li Peifeng published several essays to criticize and analyze. Zhao Qingge was her mentor and of course knew what he was thinking, so she wanted to discuss this topic further. However, before that, she used some other topics to pave the way.

"Teacher Yu is right, and classmate Li is right. This level of tacit understanding makes me doubt whether you have communicated in private... Peifeng, do you want to change your tutor?"

"No idea at all!"

Yu Hua held up her chin and smiled: "It's possible, I'm recruiting doctoral students."

Li Peifeng laughed and did not talk about studying for a Ph.D. Instead, he said, "I have been reading your books since I was a child." Then he talked about Yu Hua's works one after another and praised them, thus changing the topic.

"Strictly speaking, I started reading your books from "Blood Plum Blossoms". I remember that I was just in the first grade of junior high school. There were many books on my dad's bookshelf, but most of them were serious literature, or philosophy and social sciences.

As a child, I was not interested in these academic books. I preferred popular martial arts novels at the time, but my dad didn’t have them on his bookshelf. Later, I accidentally searched and searched, and saw this book "Blood Plum Blossoms".

The title of the book attracted me right away, and I looked at the text again, including Taoist Priest Qingyun, Rouge Girl, and Black Needle Hero. I thought I had found the right book, this is what I want!"

"After reading it, I realized that I had been deceived. This was not a martial arts novel at all. It was a story about the impermanence of fate and how life is vain and desolate through the lens of martial arts. You can imagine how disappointing this was to a twelve-year-old child.

Big blow, this is simply a scam!”

"After that, I mentally labeled the author of Yu Hua as 'buying dog meat with a sheep's head' and vowed never to read his books again. Not long after, I discovered "Xu Sanguan Selling Dog Meat" in a Chinese textbook.

Excerpts from "Blood Chronicle". Hey, there's nothing we can do about it..."

Li Peifeng used a tone as relaxed and humorous as possible to talk about his experience of reading Yu Hua's works since he was a child. Of course, some artistic processing was indispensable, such as from resisting reading to actively looking for Yu Hua's books to read. This paragraph was processed. He

It is to make this experience as twists and turns and interesting as possible.

Finally, Li Peifeng mentioned a sentence written in Yu Hua's book.

"Human life is only once, but in writing and recalling, not only can life be repeated infinitely, but also the way of survival can be chosen. Therefore, reading and recalling is tantamount to living again, which can fill the regrets of life... I felt at that time

This sentence is so well written and so wise, and it has had a great impact on developing my reading habits."

"I have even forgotten this sentence. Which book is this from?"

After Li Peifeng finished speaking, Yu Hua joked a few words. After Zhao Qingge asked, he also flattered him: "I also loved reading martial arts novels when I was young. I sent you "Sword and Law" the day before yesterday.

After reading all the manuscripts, I kind of regained the feeling of reading martial arts novels. Well, in recent years, I have also read online articles, but I always have to wait for updates. Sometimes I forget after reading them, so in the online articles

Yours is the book with the most words that I have read, and as soon as I read it I felt very eager to read it. I didn’t eat, drink or sleep, I just wanted to read on.”

"But after reading the martial arts novel, I just felt excited and energetic. After reading "Sword and Law", it was a different experience. It was very fresh and surprising. It was a bit like... It was a bit like the first time I tasted chocolate. It tasted very good.

It’s strange, very bitter, very fragrant, and the aftertaste is very sweet, I still want to eat it.”

"And at first I read it as a popular novel, but after thinking about it carefully in the past two days, I feel that your book has made some breakthroughs in the integration of online literature and tradition. Regarding religion, philosophy,

Issues such as politics, race, etc. are all covered in the book, but the manuscript you sent me is not finished yet, so I’m not sure, so I want to hear your own words..."

Then, Li Peifeng began to explain the psychological journey of his creation, and the two really began to discuss literature. Zhao Qingge did not interrupt much, and only occasionally asked questions along with them.

About half an hour later, the conversation between Li Peifeng and Yu Hua slowed down. Zhao Qingge opened his mouth and affirmed Yu Hua's ideas. He clearly believed that "Sword and Law" had indeed achieved some breakthroughs, and at the same time raised the original questions.

That is, traditional literature has not changed yet. What is Yu Hua’s view?

Her expression was calm and composed, but her words were sharp:

"When Internet writers have been able to create excellent commercial value for their works, they then use it to shock people's minds and romantically write stories that have a mysterious dream and fantasy color to express strong emotions and make people feel sad.

It’s amazing to take photos and feel immersed in the scene.”

"When Internet writers set the background of their books as the universe, aliens, and alien planes, when the Internet articles contain war, immortality, will, gods, original sin, devils, the collision of different races and ideas between humans and non-humans... and so on.

content, traditional writers are still describing the people and things of the last century..."

"Perhaps in order to cater to the public and attract people's attention, online articles are too mysterious and illusory, empty of imagination and lack of literature. But contemporary traditional literature, doesn't it seem a bit stingy, overly realistic, reminiscing and detached?

Is it popular?"

Zhao Qingge really dares to say it, and she really thinks so. She is the one who most recognizes the concept that contemporary literature is dead, otherwise she would not have given up traditional contemporary literature and turned to Internet literature.

Literary critic Zhao Qingge is fearless!

And facing Yu Hua, who was slightly stunned, she continued to speak.

"I feel that this excessive recollection has caused our literature to fall into a dilemma of style and look disgraced. We rarely have literature that contemplates philosophy and human nature, and focuses too much on describing various problems of past reality. This is certainly true, but failure to explore current problems, failure to imagine the future without imagination, and failure to delve deeply into the complexity of human nature and the human spiritual world will make literature lack the depth it should have... Teacher Yu, you What do you think?"

The three of them had raised this question before, but Li Peifeng and Yu Hua did not expect that Zhao Qingge would ask it so straightforwardly, without allowing any evasion.

Li Peifeng glanced at the excited expression of Shen Liao in the audience, and thought to himself, you asked someone to ask my question for me. Apart from the fact that Lao Zhao did not say the words "contemporary literature is dead", what he meant was Same thing.

Other audience members in the audience were also perked up by Zhao Qingge's words. There were whispers among the classmates, and several professors from the School of Liberal Arts frowned slightly.

Zhao Qingge's words touched the hearts of many people, but also lifted the fig leaf of many people.

"Dean Chen, didn't Professor Zhao review the manuscript of this lecture for you?"

An old professor from the School of Liberal Arts sounded slightly dissatisfied.

Chen Shucheng shook his head: "How can there be any manuscript for this kind of lecture? I just talk about whatever comes to mind after establishing the theme."

Another professor euphemistically said: "Professor Zhao should be more cautious when facing a lecture given by all teachers and students in the school. Do you need to find someone to come on stage to remind her?"

"It's just normal literary discussions and literary criticism, and there are no out-of-the-ordinary topics. Is there anything you can remind me?"

Some professors with the same field of online literature as Zhao Qingge spoke out, while others who remained neutral advised: "Listen again, it is just an academic lecture for the school. As long as it is about literature, you can talk about it. There is nothing that cannot be talked about."

At this point, the professors in the front row fell into silence. Chen Shucheng looked at the three people on the stage intently, thinking that Zhao Qingge was going to pave the way for his students...no, to build momentum for his boyfriend.

Oh, the fusion of traditional Internet literature has allowed her to find a model that she can set... She wants to use Yu Hua's power to push Li Peifeng and Internet literature to the top. It's really a great relationship between teachers and students!

"This issue is actually a commonplace."

After the initial daze, Yu Hua quickly came to his senses and said with a smile: "Writers' imaginations cannot keep up with the current status of magical realism. This is a worldwide problem. Not only domestically, but also abroad. The reality is too absurd. , you can never catch up with it, I am jealous of reality! We always say that literature is higher than reality, but that is a lie and it is simply impossible."

"As for online novels like "Sword and Law", which fictionalize a weird world, although its background is not the real world, I think its core is actually no different from realistic novels. Realistic novels take the broad road, while weird novels take the narrow road. Yes, whether it is weird novels or absurd novels, there is no distinction between them. The purpose is to reach reality. Of course, the road is very safe. If you walk fast, there are security guards watching on the roadside."

"If you take the trail, you may get lost, it may take a long detour, it may be more tactful, more interesting to look at, and more worthy of consideration, but you must keep a low profile..."

Yu Hua looked at Li Peifeng and smiled and said: "As the old saying goes, wealth should not be revealed, so you should be more concealed when walking on a small road, otherwise you will easily encounter robbers. I think you did a good job in this regard, and you were quite restrained."

Then, Yu Hua elaborated on avant-garde literature, and then related his age from avant-garde literature: "I was a avant-garde writer a long time ago, but that was a long time ago, and I am now sixty-two years old. If you ask us to

It is a bit inappropriate for a group of people to be pioneers. Ages matter at any age. Now I will be more gentle and realistic... As for the future, it belongs to all the young people sitting here."

"Pa bang bang~"

Warm applause broke out, and Zhao Qingge and Li Peifeng also applauded from the audience. After six or seven seconds, the applause gradually subsided.

The topic of the lecture changed again and again, switching between heavy and light, going through intense and then returning to soothing.

More than an hour passed in a blink of an eye. Zhao Qingge controlled the rhythm throughout the whole process. When he saw the time, he started the question and answer session.

Because he learned the lesson from Li Peifeng's last lecture, this time the host Zhao Qingge was responsible for identifying who would answer. For those good-looking girls, no matter how they stood up and raised their hands, Lao Zhao also chose to ignore it, and more often

Let the boys answer.

Most of the questions were innocuous. In addition to involving the two people's works, some asked whether Yu Hua was writing a new book, and some asked how to study for a Ph.D. under him. Some asked whether Li Peifeng had encountered any problems in his online writing career.

What are the frustrations, and where should I start if I want to write online articles?

The two exchanged fluent answers. Seeing that the time was approaching nine o'clock, Zhao Qingge chose the last boy wearing glasses to be the questioner.

"I'm asking this question to Teacher Yu and Renjian Yiliangfeng. It's very simple. How much is each of your royalties each year?"

"Wow~~"

The audience exclaimed, followed by a burst of laughter. Obviously, everyone wanted to know.

A bit tricky!

Yu Hua and Li Peifeng looked at each other silently, and the two of them tacitly agreed that this was probably the most difficult question in this lecture, and Zhao Qingge's question was nothing...

Why?

Yu Hua has just said it; wealth should not be revealed in vain!

One of them is a teacher in the school, and the other is a student in the school. If the royalties are told truthfully on this occasion, it will cause some unnecessary trouble in the school.

Yu Hua once asked her friends the same question, and they always chose to answer in a roundabout way: I live by "Living".

This sentence has also become a hot meme...

"You first." Yu Hua smiled politely.

Li Peifeng also humbly said: "You are the elder, you answer first."

Yu Hua laughed: "I am an elder, I will let you answer first."

Oops, damn it! Are you relying on your old age to show off your old age?

Li Peifeng took the microphone and was a little embarrassed. However, after being stuck for two seconds, the boy took the microphone and smiled: "I hope both of you can answer truthfully, especially Senior Li Peifeng. I saw you turned on the phone this morning."

The Mercedes-Benz Big G comes from the community!”

"Ah~~"

"Xu~~~~"

"Scumbag!!"

This time the audience was shouting, and Li Peifeng explained calmly: "I want to clarify here, that car was given to me by someone else, not bought by me, and the car has not been left with me.

Under the name... As for the royalties, my royalties last year were around two to three million after tax. This year is not over yet, so I don’t know.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Yu Hua. The audience was shouting something about avoiding the important and taking the easy. It was so cunning. Li Peifeng simply pretended not to hear.

"You may not believe it, but I don't know my royalties either."

Yu Hua even opened his eyes and told lies: "I have two cards, one for salary and one for manuscript fee. The salary card is in my hand, but the manuscript fee card is in my wife's hand... eh, this

You reminded me to ask her when I get home how much my annual royalties are."

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